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Google Maps is able to provide constant map updates because they're constantly harvesting data from you, which they then sell to marketers to make money. Standalone GPSes like Garmin's don't send data about you back to the mothership, so they can only make money from product sales. A map update more or less negates a new product sale, so they have to make up that lost revenue somehow. So you either have to pay for map updates, or pay extra to get a unit with lifetime map updates.

Remember: If you're getting it for free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

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Now I can't help wonder if someone could figure out which genes that causes the human brain to be so extremely developed, then breed raccoons with those genes.

Excellent!

He clearly stated that the notes he published contained no classified information

As for classified notes, he was the head of the FBI. Of course he made classified notes.

[facepalm]

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Once people mocked black who were slaves but that's no longer socially acceptable. Expect for the US south, the rest of the world only gave up slavery when they were no longer financially dependent on it.

Today we make "Bacon" jokes and it's a meme laugh at pigs who are about to go off to make it. One day will we eat lab meat and cringe at the time when people killed and ate animals and mocked them too? http://weknowmemes.com/2013/04...

You might want to look at the LBJ quote regarding certain minority voting DNC for the next 200 years.

You might want to look it up yourself.

It's widely discredited, and there's a matching quote in the reverse sentiment. Namely that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a Generation.

So which is it? Well, I will quote Abe Lincoln, and say, you should not believe everything you read on the Internet just because it has a picture next to a quote.

Or in this case, because somebody printed it in a book. I get it, you want to take a side. It's exactly what you want to believe. It makes you feel better at night.

Take a look at who ran on the GOP vs DNC for the ticket this year, four old white people vs a diverse group of 17, black, white and hispanic. But the GOP is racist!

Good idea, use the list of Presidential candidates to completely understand the political parties, man, your analysis is so deep and probing it can't possibly be questioned.

Why don' t you just pass around the chain letter where Charles Guiteau and John Wilikes Booth are both called liberals? Trow in a slice of whining about Robert Byrd, while never mentioning Strom Thurmond to make it really apparent.

I honestly don't get it, do Fauxbitarians like you fail to realize you're actually sucking the partisan teat, or are you just false-flagging to make your professed side look bad?

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References:
Biden "The middle class has been buried in the last 4 years." Oh yeah? And how does Obamacare help the middle class? It only increases the gap, those so rich that health insurance is unaffected, and those so poor they get free healthcare anyway from the government are also unaffected, the only group hit is the struggling middle class, whose ranks are thinning and being forced unto government aid welfare, the first step toward full welfare. A strong middle class is essential in the practical realization of the first thesis of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. Equal in practice means a dominant middle class, and absence of that, a week and powerless middle class, is a de facto inequality, nobility/serf, slave/owner world, no matter what the law books say in theory, the reality is starkly different with the widening gap between the rich and poor, the haves and have nots.

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George Carlin (before shot with ice bullet): They don't care about you

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Here's an example of that:
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Yeah, large, mass-extinction asteroids are only a problem every 70 million years.

By that logic, why even bother worrying about AGW, since even by the worst predictions it won't have any horrible effects for the next 100 years or so. So just sit back, relax, and enjoy life! .... there's nothing that could possibly happen that Earth wouldn't completely recover from in a couple million years.

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Just fake it man. You'll blend right in.

A picture is worth more than a thousand words: A brief history of gods

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Exactly.
Doctors don't know what they are doing, they are poking around in the dark. They play a lot of educated guessing games, and statistics, but they have no guarantees. Unlike a car technician, who can make a claim that he thoroughly understands cars, and he can fix any car and any car problem, I have yet to see a doctor who can make such a claim about people. The human body is just waaaay too complicated. Simply accounting for all the enzymes, and predicting their behavior in a disease excreted environment is waaaay beyond their abilities. Even if they can compute on a supercomputer the quantum mechanical behavior of enzymes in chemical reactions while accounting for he complicated snake-venom like antibodies diseases excrete, there is still the role of the nervous system in immune reactions, and predicting its functioning is beyond their abilities. Doctors cannot predict my thoughts. What am I thinking now, and what will I be thinking 2 minutes from now. Unless you can perfectly guess these things from present measurements like blood pressure, heart rate monitors, and EEG and EKG, you have not proven to me you can predict what mood I will be in 2 minutes from now, or how my body will react to a disease, because my thoughts affects my mood and my mood affects my adrenalin levels and such which in turn affect my bodies reaction to a disease. I'm free to think anything I want, and I'm free to control my mood that way, and have a say in how my body reacts to a disease in a way you cannot predict, so you cannot say how my body and immune system will react to a disease, whether it will self cure itself just fine, but should I take your vaccine I might die. You have no clue, you play educated guessing games as a doctor, and cite statistics, but you have no guarantees for individual cases. A way to guarantee it would be like this http://weknowmemes.com/wp-cont... Dr Riviera's If I kill you you don't pay guarantee. That means any person ending up dead even after the hospital tried treating them should get their money back. All dead cancer patients, etc. Which doctor can come up with such a money back guarantee? In a, if you don't reach 150 years old under my care, I'll pay you or your heirs all the money back? It does not work like that. You hire doctors as hopefully better experts for advice and treatment, but ultimately you are responsible for your own health, you are in charge of your own health, not some doctor, or some government.

Inevitably it is some disease that does in every person at old age, but if doctors truly understood what they were doing, they could fix any disease and you'd have at least some people who made it to 150 years old, or 200, etc. Unless a doctor can guarantee to me that he knows what he's doing, I'm in charge of my body, not some doctor, or some government that relies on the opinion of doctors.

I'm not only the captain of my soul, or my mind, Timothy McVeigh Invictus style, but also the captain of my body, and not some government or some doctors. Under the constitution people have INDIVIDUAL rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and they are not subject to a overwhelming power CROWN or DICTATOR who can make life and death decisions at whim over them, Hitler style, such as genetic cleanups, or mass vaccinations, for the benefit of the herd. It is the herd, and each of its members that has sovereignty over themselves, and they limit government, and institute collective government only inasmuch as necessary, such as for military defense, or even public health issues, but every individual retains sovereignty over their body, and they should have the right to refuse forced injections even in the case of all juries and all appeal deciding against them, even in case they do have an actual, proven disease, such as Ebola (where test results can still be corrupt and faked by a corrupt system, (sometimes by a single author developing a fake test all test technicians believe), and because of thi

"the googly" is a term from English cricket, somewhat similar to the baseball knuckleball.

he was making a joke, jmmetry should be upvoted to shit as "Funny", and the rest of you should get downvoted for being all "whooshy"

source: I'm a 'murican with a sense of humor

I remember it morphing quite suddenly

Which means:
Obligatory non-XKCD!

But you also have to have good tests. And automated tests. I have had "agile" projects where the "testing" I was required to do consisted of basically making sure that when you SELECT * FROM EMPLOYEES, Oracle DB did, in fact, return the contents of the Employees table. Not that the records are in any way accurate, or entered correctly, or used properly, or make sense in the context of the application. Just that the database server is a database server. TESTED. APPROVED. I felt like this guy: http://weknowmemes.com/2011/12/identifying-wood-yep-its-wood/

And when I pointed out to the PM that this is dumb, and does not in any way validate the modules we've developed, I was told to shut up and do it because "this is what the client wants!" That project did not end well.

Futurama is brilliant, especially when pitted against the.brain dead "Ow my balls" class of reality of television.

The new seasons had excellent character growth and development. While the original series was great, it was childish and down right infantile at times, the movies were awkward like the teenage years, and the two new seasons were the beginning of a quality adult audience show. It is one of the ONLY animated shows on television at the moment that caters specifically to the 18-25 demographic, and it's smart too. Take the mathematical proof they created for the show. When was the last time any television show created a tangible real world theorem?

It seems the operators of the Panama Wormhole, Earth's Comedy Central channel for shipping, are making the same fateful mistake as the idiots at the Box Network.

These accusations remind me of the blue curtains. They were bad. Stereotypes commonly have bad traits. Doesn't mean that a character having those bad traits is a racist caricature. For example, a stereotype of Jews is that they are greedy, but that does not mean that a greedy villain is supposed to be a Jewish character. That's just stupid.

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Defense Attorney: I would like to present my client's Internet search history from that evening.

Eli Manning: I'd rather just confess to the murder!

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Agreed! They've got a lot to deal with!

Strongbow's fine for kids, it's got fruit in it...

Agreed! They've got a lot to deal with!

Your Mom's Dildo is ready!

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And then the dust devils will come and wipe it off ... you'd have better luck with the moon on that one. Please lets not have sponsorship, the last thing we want is the rover doing cursive loops hopping it will come to something interesting, or have everything named after a cheap product. I'd much rather they honor somebody worthy and let some geek draw questionable stuff.

So we stick with the broken Party system we have because something new might also not work.

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How about we keep trying, or dismantle the whole Party concept completely? That way we can come up with solutions (which includes "do nothing") based on their merits and not ideological purity.

Stop clubbing, baby seals: hey you baby seals! Stop going out dancing!

Citation

... it is a social network for ninjas!

You forgot ghosts and aliens.

If I see that orange guy

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I agree

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Why bother with MRI? We can just read the dog's diary.

http://weknowmemes.com/2012/01/lamar-smith-is-a-copyright-violator/ that man is ridiculous

Apple reportedly sent five employees to meet with five different Chinese environmental groups on Nov. 15, only to learn about several troubling environmental issues at as many as 22 different product parts suppliers.

Huh, that's odd, it was back in September when Apple outright rejected these claims. Perhaps Apple is free to conduct investigations with the passing of a certain misanthrope?

Good. No one knows what they are protesting anyway.

I liked this cartoon.