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Please, don't hate.

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Your ignorance of names and people doesn't make you an expert. I don't know any black people named Tyyrone either. What would you be saying if he used then name Shaniqua instead? I've never met anyone name Shaniqua. Would you be claiming no gender or race is attached to that name?

Hopefully all those morons who are ""rollin coal" will be sterile so they can't pass on their defective genes to another generation.

I wonder if his name will take hold the way Streisand's did...

delauter
"The act committed when one person threatens to sue another for using the first person's name without authorization.
  Delautering is the next level and more general form of scientologying, which is suing or threatening to sue for calling Scientology bogus."

Don't worry, the tWinklevoss twins are starting a bitcoin ETF. If you can't trust them (and wall street), who can you trust? The Twinkdex(tm) -- which is not an index of twinks -- is based on bitcoin prices at MtGox^W Bitstamp^W uhh, well reputable bitcoin exchanges.

This is part of it (you give up a *lot* of constitutional protections while in uniform), but there is another, far more important reason: Every member of a given military branch is fully expected to be capable of fighting. The Marines have a saying "Every Marine is a rifleman", and it holds true for every branch (even as a USAF electronics/avionics technician, I was still trained to use, strip, assemble and clean an M-16, and I had to maintain a minimum proficiency of marksmanship with it.)

This has its roots in one aspect of combat - a salient of enemy soldiers breaking through the front. Even as late as the Battle of The Bulge (WWII), rear-echelon troops such as cooks and mechanics had to quickly stop what they were doing and start shooting back. Most of them sucked at it, but without the combat training they did get? They would have been even easier pickings, and likely would have allowed Germany to prolong the war for years longer than it had lasted.

I see no problems with requiring a basic level of combat ability and readiness. It instills a sense of physical fitness, a level of discipline (a slob generally cannot run 5 miles, aim a weapon worth a damn, etc), and gives them at least some modicum of stature with their fellow soldiers (who would otherwise consider them to be far, far worse than a POG. We give each other crap as it is, but at least everyone knows that everyone else had at least some level of martial training.)

Certainly not about English, because it would mean that a majority of English speaking population would usually talk mostly using words from a closely related language - that would be what, Frisian? - with English accent and grammar.

It does not have to be "closely related" — you just need to have a sizable chunk of population fluent in it. Over the years Americans, for example, have borrowed plenty from Yidish ("potz", "schmuck", "boychik"), Russian ("da"), Italian ("capish?").

Centuries ago, when the good Cardinal was establishing Académie française, he did it to fight for the purity of the language — would anyone had bothered, if the phenomenon you are disputing did not, in fact, exist?

It doesn't work for Russian at all, Russians don't usually mix their language

That's because today's Russians rarely know another languages, while all other peoples from the (thankfully — USSR) know Russian fairly well. 200 years ago Russian elite spoke French a lot — entire pages of "War and World" consists of dialogs in the language. Various French words were borrowed ("tuzhurka", "amicachon"). Before then — during Peter I, came Dutch words like "galstuk" and "zontik", which Ukrainian also borrowed, but from different direction: "kravatka" (cravat) and "parasolka" (parasol).

English has a similar dominance today and words like "router", "avatar", "account", "website" are already firmly in Russian vernacular.

Living in the US today, most Russian-speakers easily slip into English and back in their speech — sometimes in mid-sentence. I'm sure, you can notice the same in Germany. And not just Russians — riding the train every morning I sometimes hear a person talking on the phone in a completely foreign (to me) language suddenly speaking into English for a few phrases and then go back. It takes a conscientious effort to keep oneself talking in one language and most people don't bother.

Given that all Ukrainians grew up knowing Russian (even if against their will), it is not at all surprising, that the speech of most of them is "polluted" by it, just like the speech of those emigrants is polluted by the local languages.

Finally, even without the influence of languages of the neighbors, Russians are just as capable of ruining their own speech as anybody else: most, for example, confuse the verbs "dress" (odevat') and "put on" (nadevat').

But, despite all that, a Russian announcing his language, does not get snide responses about him probably not knowing it very well...

No, clearly he is referring to them working from their yatch -- which probably makes more sense anyway.

I hate to break the news to you, but these so-called "Millenials" you keep ranting about do not exist. And if they existed, theyd' all be 14 years old.

I hate to break it to you but the group called the "Millennials" are not called that because they were born at the beginning of this millennium but because they were born at the end of the last one. Generally that means from early/mid 1980's to 2000.

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http://www.livescience.com/38061-millennials-generation-y.html
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How the fuck does a robot evolve jack shit? Do they mean they had a software simulation or something? Every link just keeps breaking it down as "well, we have evolving robots, deal with it," and then moves on.

I recommend that you RTFA.

BTW, you post qualifies as evolutionary selection pressure against mouth-breathing and drooling. Cuz you deserve to be bitch-slapped for culpable stupidity.

Just a reminder, he did not steal anything, he copied it, you pigopolists never give up. To steal the content he would have to destroy the original and thus deny the 10 of thousands private for profit military defence contractors one of the tens of thousands of copies. Anyone real who wants a copy probably has a complete set by now, simply in exchange for something that can slide right through without question by the three letter agencies, preferential access to foreign government contracts. As for patriotism, your thinking of blind patriotism http://www.urbandictionary.com..., no, fuck that. Loyalty to one's fellow citizen often means not being blindly patriotic to ones country, often the wishes of the people and the actions of politicians can be at complete divergence and hence requires loyalty to ones's fellow citizens over the countries governing body.

9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
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1. Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage, pickled eggs, and Vietnamese chili garlic sauce. To better enhance the pleasure of this whole process, defecation should be performed in the Return of the Jedi wastebasket for added pleasure.
2. Wipe ass with witch hazel, which soothes horrific burns. (Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda certifies that his lips, raw like beaten flank steak from nearly continuous analingus with dogs, are greatly soothed by witch hazel.)
3. Prime anus with anal ease. (Now Cherry Flavored for those butthole lick-o-phillic amongst you - very popular with 99% of the Slashdotting public!)
4. Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline and/or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your Yoda Doll , Yoda Shampoo bottle or Yoda soap-on-a-rope and liberally apply the lubricants to the Doll/Shampoo/Soap-on-a-rope.
5. Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
6. Make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish Yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because the retrieval mechanism is built in.
7. Pucker and relax your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to prepare for what is to come.
8. Slowly rest yourself onto your Yoda figurine. Be careful, he's probably bigger than the dicks normally being shoved up your ass!
9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't select the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that cheap-ass discount bin hardware works 'just as well' as the quality and premium hardware because you can't afford the real stuff. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for World of Warcraft. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful Star Wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a Yoda voice and saying, use the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.

All in a days

Welcome to twenty years ago. Please try to use the internet's "search" capabilities. Thanks.

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Just because a word is in use, doesn't make it appropriate for every circumstance. "that's a hella cool bitcoin mining rig ya got there, bra." is one thing, but discussing the relative merits of asteroid mining is another, IMHO.

It's all about context. You are familiar with the concept of context, yes?

Welcome to twenty years ago. Please try to use the internet's "search" capabilities. Thanks.

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Here you go: Elephant Low Freq Defense

For those who don't get it, Layne Cobain.

'cuz there's no rockstar like a dead rockstar.

Maybe finally we will get Mockolate®!

If you don't like it, you can take it up with the fact that I'm 6'3 and have done roofing, likely can prevent you from removing any of my technology and it would be at your own peril.

"bouncer"

1)The big fat guy standing in front of the doorway of stripclubs. He doesn't want any trouble, but if you hit him, he has every right to pummel you to mush.
They also guard doorways to celebrity parties. The rich guy bouncers are less round and more built, and can easily throw you out of a bulletproof window, but can't overturn cars.

2) A bouncer is the first face you see when entering a bar, pub, or night club. They tend to be large and muscular. their job is to make sure that the bar is safe for the customers and bar staff alike. If you act like an asshole, chances are you will wake up in an ally in a pool of your own blood with serious head trauma.

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I'm intrigued by the idea of LiveCode, but are you serious about its built-in language being called "Grundle"?

I can't go to my boss and suggest the use of LiveCode if it has a name like that. For anyone who doesn't know, grundle refers to the area between a man's anus and scrotum.

The Coq Proof Assistant project has a similar problem. This software would be seriously useful at work, but we can't be sitting in meetings with passersby hearing us saying what they hear as cock (as in a long, thick, throbbing penis) for hours on end. We also can't go to customers and say stuff that they'd hear like, "Don't worry, our cock has verified it."

I'm intrigued by the idea of LiveCode, but are you serious about its built-in language being called "Grundle"?

I can't go to my boss and suggest the use of LiveCode if it has a name like that. For anyone who doesn't know, grundle refers to the area between a man's anus and scrotum.

The Coq Proof Assistant project has a similar problem. This software would be seriously useful at work, but we can't be sitting in meetings with passersby hearing us saying what they hear as cock (as in a long, thick, throbbing penis) for hours on end. We also can't go to customers and say stuff that they'd hear like, "Don't worry, our cock has verified it."

I did read that as hornophobic.

Let me help you consult a more up-to-date dictionary.

As a consolation prize, you get to mow PopeRatzo's lawn, since I live in a flat and don't have one.

You're absoutely right: it's the activists at the center of GamerGate who are trolling. The essence of trolling is making statements that make you seem reasonable but that you know will get other people angry, and that is exactly what they are doing.

Actually, a subclass of troll is the concern troll . Here is a wonderful illustration of that from Wu in a HuffPost interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then we need a bit of clarity on the Hobo Power scale.

In before SJW brigade comes in demanding everyone involved apologized.

wow, you anti-SJW people really got your knickers in a bunch don't you. Leave it to America to came up with stirring anger against social justice, and use it pro-actively as a straw-man in any debate.

Hmm. That seemed shallow and not well-thought-out. The common usage of "SJW" is pejorative by definition. From Urban Dictionary:

"SJW: Social Justice Warrior. A pejorative term for an individual who repeatedly and vehemently engages in arguments on social justice on the Internet, often in a shallow or not well-thought-out way, for the purpose of raising their own personal reputation."

bo-ku is a perfectly cromulent word.

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Please include some reference to a proper scientific name when mentioning some class of object like Mountain Dew.

A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And, when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we all know, kills brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers. The buffalo theory is concrete proof that getting drunk is good for your intelligence http://www.urbandictionary.com...

Funny then how so many left wingers are so quick to spout ad hominem, vitriolic attacks. They must have small penises too! Maybe BOTH sides do! Perhaps it's time for a third party without all the hidebound rigid quasi-religious dogma and hatred!

You mean the BBC Party?

Sounds like Jengaphobia to me.

You're using a western mindset.

He's some impoverished guy in India desperate to make a few rupees from someone who, in his eyes, is very wealthy.

Well, that's NMFP ... he knows damned well that what he's doing is illegal, and would have no sympathy for me if I fell victim. He is certainly aware of the fact that he's not offering me a useful service. You couldn't possibly train someone to do that scam without explaining it to them.

So, he may well have convinced himself that there's no harm if he scams us a little.

But, I don't actually give a crap about his feelings.

If what he's doing is so noble and justified, call someone in India, see if they are interested.

From me, he gets a big "fuck off".

If he's expecting me to say "oh, gee, the poor cute little Indian is just trying to make a buck", he's sadly mistaken, and should expect the kind of animosity he gets.

...the bozone layer grows faster.

The trading of totally irrelevant statements for flopping! There was no ad hominem, just as there was no claim that Apple invented phones or MP3 players. Now, do you have an actual response to the actual topic, Apple being ahead or behind on raw technical features .

A gigantic set of the population is no longer even used to the concept of wearing a watch, because they have their phone. This device doesn't replace their phone. What exactly is the reason to have this as well, as opposed to pulling your phone out of your pocket?

You're thinking about it wrong: People wear watches because they are in fashion, not because wearing a watch is a necessary thing to do.

I noticed that they showed several different styles of watches -- that means every fashionista will have to buy several. Ker-ching $$$$$$

Soon when people say that going after a particular scientist because of their views on climate change is a witch hunt, it will ACTUALLY be a witch hunt. Burn her!

Hopefully it will be of the Monty Python variety... Science! http://www.urbandictionary.com...!

I had vaguely known there was some other historical use, but like cretin , imbecile and moron, it's become a common derogatory word. I suspect that it is a regional thing. English speaking nations all have their unique slang terms after all.

The derogatory meaning associated with nimrod appears to be an exclusively American slang .

I find it highly amusing that this form of usage likely originates from Bugs Bunny cartoons!

I do have some vague feeling that I heard it used in the way you describe once several decades ago, but I'd hardly say that such a meaning is "well recognized".

If you check the Urban Dictionary page for "Nimrod", I'd say that it appears to be pretty well recognized. According to one entry, the usage dates to a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Elmer Fudd is referred to as such.

I can't say it's universally common among the entire English-speaking world, but where I grew up (East Coast US in the 70s/80s) it was a common synonym for 'dimwit'.

This person has no courage to engage the actual authors of ideas ... do it to his face ... you should be making these arguments to HIM, not me. Why are you "arguing" with me about this? If you want to refute him, then refute him, in public where other people can see. ... If you think you really can refute Latour, then go do it ... If you had the courage of your convictions, you would argue with the proper people about this ... his little group also does have physicists in it ... Why don't you present your argument to Latour? ... Latour and friends have had an open challenge out there for more than a year now -- I think closer to two -- asking for anyone who can formally refute his main thesis, which was briefly explained in his rebuttal of Spencer. So far nobody has. Why is that? If you can, why aren't you? Why are you here, trying to argue with me instead? But we both know why, don't we? I'm only asking so that any other people who might read this will ask themselves. Go make these same arguments to Latour and his friends ... why aren't you asking the author of the whole thing, rather than me? [Jane Q. Public]

Again, I wouldn't talk with Dr. Latour's friends in his little PSI Slayer group for the same reason I wouldn't talk with Super Adventure Club members if they existed.

But perhaps a blunter approach is necessary. I don't want to comment at a pedophile's website or talk with Dr. Latour's child rapist friend. That seems even more unpleasant and unproductive than talking with Jane/Lonny Eachus.

Once again. A blackbody plate is heated by constant electrical power flowing in. Blackbody cold walls at 0F (T_c = 255K) also radiate power in. The heated plate at 150F (T_h = 339K) radiates power out. Using irradiance (power/m^2) simplifies the equation:

electricity + sigma*T_c^4 = sigma*T_h^4 (Eq. 1)

Suppose the chamber walls are suddenly warmed from T_c = 0F to 149F. What will happen to the heated plate if the electrical power heating the plate remains constant?

Note that this problem doesn't have multiple steps or confusing area changes. It's just one equation. T_c just increased and electricity is constant. Continuing to insist that T_h stays constant would just make it harder for posterity to believe Jane/Lonny Eachus is honestly confused, rather than deliberately spreading civilization-paralyzing misinformation.

If we increase the left hand side of Eq. 1, how could the right hand side not increase?

This person has no courage to engage the actual authors of ideas ... do it to his face ... you should be making these arguments to HIM, not me. Why are you "arguing" with me about this? If you want to refute him, then refute him, in public where other people can see. ... If you think you really can refute Latour, then go do it ... If you had the courage of your convictions, you would argue with the proper people about this ... his little group also does have physicists in it ... Why don't you present your argument to Latour? ... Latour and friends have had an open challenge out there for more than a year now -- I think closer to two -- asking for anyone who can formally refute his main thesis, which was briefly explained in his rebuttal of Spencer. So far nobody has. Why is that? If you can, why aren't you? Why are you here, trying to argue with me instead? But we both know why, don't we? I'm only asking so that any other people who might read this will ask themselves. Go make these same arguments to Latour and his friends ... [Jane Q. Public]

Slashdot is public, neutral ground. More importantly, I wouldn't talk with Dr. Latour's friends in his little PSI Slayer group for the same reason I wouldn't talk with Super Adventure Club members if they existed.

I'm the guy who never uses cruise control unless it's flat and empty for as far as the eye can see

I don't think you're atypical at all, but... why? CC guards against unintended acceleration, as well as unintended deceleration (a phenomenon I call "tidal lock" or "flocking" with the cars next to us, depending how nerdy my conversation partner is.) Unintentional acceleration risks a ticket, while unintentional deceleration causes traffic jams (not to mention adding time to your trip). With CC, I can spend less time monitoring my own speed and more time looking at the road. The fact that I had to acclimate to using the hand controls was a minor inconvenience for the benefits achieved.

FWIW, I live in a large metropolitan area with heavy traffic, and I'm not the guy anyone is waiting to pass -- at least not for more than a few seconds when I get over to let them be my rabbit.

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It's a *great word :-)

As for the author's intent I think they meant something a bit different...

And for those of you wondering, Z_Kelvin is clearly a douche bag.

There is a phrase that covers you "I'm alright jack" http://www.urbandictionary.com...!. I can assure you by far the majority of American workers get to negotiate fuck all and are lucky to get reasonable health coverage let alone anything else. So for them moving to any other modern democracy with universal health care, set protective employment conditions etc would make them far better off even when by far the majority of them are to ignorant to realise this. As for the minority, well, "I'm alright jack".

No, it's because BT doesn't like this.

innocuous things like urbandictionary.com

You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

If those filters blocked only porn and gore... instead, they block innocuous things like urbandictionary.com

> If anyone needs these cameras it is Ohio. Some the the worst drivers I have ever come across...

Said everyone everywhere.
Seriously, I've lived in 15+ states and in each state there were people saying exactly the same thing as you

Finally, a new definition for hobo power

Weather - The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )

Climate - The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period ( http://www.oxforddictionaries.... )

In exactly what way? I gather that shrug has to do with your general state of confusion.

Lets be blunt the Swedish farmer argument is the "I'm Alright Jack" argument http://www.urbandictionary.com...! with just a bit of dressing up.

Yep. I'm of Chinese descent and from my experience a higher proportion of Chinese are racist compared to say the "whites". Why'd you think we call you bunch gweilos? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Or the blacks http://www.urbandictionary.com...

Yes some whites do discriminate against the chinese, but in many US companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft - there are plenty of employees of chinese descent.

In contrast I won't be surprised if your friend's experience in Asus is true. And that's what I'd call "real" racism. Not this bullshit people accuse Facebook and Google of. Perhaps there are some people who are closet racists in Facebook or Google, but if they have any brains they'll keep it to themselves.