On top of postal service being delegated in the Constitution, private companies can't compete with USPS... and they don't want to. Dipshits like you are too stupid to understand that. Every time conservatives have "privatized" something, the costs to taxpayers goes up in the form of subsidies, and the benefits go down. Now, if you hate this country.... like you seem to... and are literally too damn stupid to understand how things work, then i suppose that's ok. Problem is, for all your whining like a little bitch about this country, all you really are is a hypocrite. You complain about this country, yet you gain (and ue) benefits EVERY SINGLE DAY that you have purely BECAUSE OF THIS COUNTRY.
This. A 4oz package i ship to someone next door to me (or anywhere in the US) costs me $2.66 (with a commercial discount). A 4oz package from China (to anywhere in the US) costs the Chinese company.17 cents.
For these dipshits complaining us "leftists" should be on board with everyone paying their fair share but aren't... it's not that we don't think that, it's just that we seem to have a better idea of what the problem is than shit-for-brain idiots who only listen to grab-them-by-the-pussy-Trump.
He doesn't have concerns over it's monopoly level of power... he has concerns that the owner publicly says Trumps an idiot. https://slate.com/business/201...
The problem is Trump is a think skinned little twat that acts like a toddler with diapers full of shit; his supporters aren't much better.
They charge the same discount rate that every other business gets, and in fact, if they did have a special rate for just Amazon, it'd be against court rulings... just look at the Gamefly lawsuit. You rightists need to pull your head out of your ass and live in reality, as well as stop talking about things you don't know shit about; stupidity ain't pretty.
For all the BS going on in this thread, and as far off topic as it's gotten, the idea that it cannot work period! is just wrong. Give me a Scottish engineer, a spanner, and 4 hou...er...20 hours, and it'll be up and running. I know, i know... you don't have 20 hours.... so it'll be done in 4.
...and yet every experiment to verify Relativity has shown Einstein to have been correct, whether it was 4 years after, or 100 years after publishing. Your stupid fucking electric universe bullshit requires Relativity to be wrong, yet everything points to Einstein being right.
So, you missed the part right there in where i said "censorship isn't the way to go." I get it, you're too fucking stupid to read.... once again a dipshit to prove my point.
...and while the black woman is chanting black power to rise up from discrimination, those white men are chanting white power to oppress everyone else even through genocide if need be. Again, you're trying to compare to different things. I get it.... in mind numbing stupid alt-right fantasy land, it's the poor white man who's always the victim. Stupidity is truly an endless resource.
https://xkcd.com/1357/
People with any form of intelligence are getting tired of stupid asshats like you thinking your lies and ignorance mean a damn thing. When you wonder why the world is going to shit.... look in the mirror; that's why.
There's a bunch of whiny rightwing asshats on slashdot that routinely mod down any posts that show the fantasy land they live in doesn't come close to reality.
I know what an analogy is...it's a comparison of two things which are similar to make a point. However, these two things don't share the similarities needed to make your point, and in fact, are exactly opposite in the area you needed them to be similar in to make it an analogy. You yourself said it... one is regulated, the other is not.
Now, you can argue that both should be, or both shouldn't be... but as an analogy, you and the OP fail miserably to make one.
Which shows the problem with most conservative thinking... turning a complex nuanced problem into a 5 second soundbite only shows that you don't understand what the fuck is going on.... and dipshits who marked you as "insightful" are as stupid as your comment.
While a business can refuse to serve anyone, they are not allowed to discriminate against certain groups. These bakers who refuse to make wedding cakes are not simply refusing to serve someone, they intentionally go out of their way to make sure the people (and everyone else) know that they're intentionally discriminating against a class of people that it's illegal to.
That is not the same as Youtube censoring some video's for content, and it takes an incredibly stupid person to think that it... and when someone makes such a stupid statement, it only reinforced that absurd notion in people who are too stupid to understand what's actually going on. That is the same as these dipshits who post conspiracy theory bullshit.
You're right... reality should be what dictates what's true and false, but some people are just too fucking stupid to live in reality. Censorship isn't the way to go, and showing people what reality is only works on people who still understand reality is not equal to their ignorant, uneducated opinions. Stupid can't be cured it seems, because stupid is strong (and it's perfectly happy to be stupid).... and the anti-intellectual right wing fascists of today prove that pretty much every single time they open their mouths, or put fingers to keyboards.
Hmm... see, when i went, a 2-year was an associates, a 4-year was a BS or BA, then it went graduate with MS, then PHD. I've just never seen 4-year that wasn't a bachelors.... but then that was 30 or so years ago for me. Even tech colleges have 4 year bachelors degrees (or had....a long time ago...).
And, the only difference between a college and a university was how many graduate programs it had (or something like that.... the "college" i went to became a "university" a couple years after i graduated, and i still don't know what they changed other than the name).
That line in the intro still just sounds oddly wrong.
For respondents with only a four-year college degree or less, 28 percent were worried about AI taking their job; for people with at least a bachelor degree, that figure was 15 percent.
Isn't a bachelors a 4 year degree? I mean, it used to be... did something change when i wasn't looking? "Only a four-year degree" is the exact same thing as "at least a bachelor degree."
You also have no understanding of what a scientific theory is. And no, creationism isn't reasonable; it's complete made up bullshit, designed for really stupid people, by people who want to be in power and need followers.
You can be as stupid as you want to be, but it means nothing other than you're stupid. You have no understanding of science, and you seem to think that because you're stupider than fuck, that other people are as well. Some are, most aren't. I honestly don't understand why people who choose to be stupid as shit think their intentionally ignorant, uneducated opinion is even remotely valuable. Hint: they're not. You supposedly have a brain... use it for once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here's another piece of advice: if you hate science, yet just have to post on science related threads, be prepared to be called a fucking idiot.... because that's what your creationist bullshit makes you sound like.
Trotting out the irreducible complexity bullshit is the first sure sign you don't have an understanding that change happens over time, it's not a nothing to everything in one step.
It takes a few minutes to get started, but here's a (very) basic vid on abiogenesis.
They don't break down, but your suggesting they do simply shows that you're not a biologist and you don't have an understanding of the material (nor are you actually willing to learn it). Your entire argument against abiogenesis is nothing more than an argument from ignorance. Between that and your falling back on irreducible complexity, it's obvious that your starting point is your belief that the science will always be wrong regardless of any evidence.... so my guess is you're a creationist trying to sound reasonable.
I gave up on Apples after all the trouble i had getting my IIe to do anything remotely worthwhile compared to the (new at that time) pc's. Useful software for the Apple was non-existent.
I gave up on Mac's after i found i could drop data onto a floppy (3.5), and 10 minutes later the same computer couldn't even read the floppy anymore. One of our IT guys said "of course, floppies are notoriously temperamental and go bad all the time." And i get it, those floppies (3.5) i used back in 1986 for some WP files on a 3.1 PC are completely crap now.... oh wait, they actually still work (which yes, is a little bit surprising considering the abuse they've taken from my less than perfect storage of them).
...and yet, still better than the self-centered sociopaths that are their opposites. If you think treating everyone as equals, and treating them well is a bad thing... you're truly a fucked in the head sociopath.
Blades not really an anti-hero though, is he? Sure, he's half vampire, but he's never indulged that side of himself. If it's purely the "revenge" angle, that would lump Batman in as an anti-hero as well. I always give the movies a grain of salt... and Blade was never one that i read back when it came out, so i suppose his comic origin might place him as such... i just don't remember it well enough.
...and here i heard you like long and black down your throat.
Social Justice Warriors think everyone should be treated equal and well.... the opposite of that is a worthless fucking self centered sociopath that cares for no one but themselves.
Considering his opinion is they aren't even good enough for daytime tv, let alone their 100 mil budgets... the only answer really is: they get those budgets because they bring in a whole fucking lot more than that in revenue. Not his taste, fine; too stupid to understand something so basic about business.... well, he can be as stupid as he wants, but his stupid opinion doesn't mean Marvels not making a shitton of profit, and because of that, they'll keep making movies.
If we find alien life existing around another star 50ly from us (through messaging, or even just chemical signatures), i imagine few people would be overwhelmed by that. on the other hand, if we discover alien life because we wake up one morning to hundreds of 100 mile long spaceships with a full invasion going on, i'm expecting people would probably freak out... at least a little. It's all about context.
The LGM's (little green men) we don't have to worry about, it's the LGM's (large green motherfuckers) we do.
On a slightly more serious note, a selfie of the entire planet at that distance probably wouldn't be a bad thing to help remind people of how pretty insignificant our species, and even our planet, is in the grand scheme of the universe. The first one seemed to help some people, although there's a lot of others it could help now if they'd only pull their heads out of their backsides.
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On top of postal service being delegated in the Constitution, private companies can't compete with USPS... and they don't want to. Dipshits like you are too stupid to understand that. Every time conservatives have "privatized" something, the costs to taxpayers goes up in the form of subsidies, and the benefits go down. Now, if you hate this country.... like you seem to... and are literally too damn stupid to understand how things work, then i suppose that's ok. Problem is, for all your whining like a little bitch about this country, all you really are is a hypocrite. You complain about this country, yet you gain (and ue) benefits EVERY SINGLE DAY that you have purely BECAUSE OF THIS COUNTRY.
This. A 4oz package i ship to someone next door to me (or anywhere in the US) costs me $2.66 (with a commercial discount). A 4oz package from China (to anywhere in the US) costs the Chinese company .17 cents.
For these dipshits complaining us "leftists" should be on board with everyone paying their fair share but aren't... it's not that we don't think that, it's just that we seem to have a better idea of what the problem is than shit-for-brain idiots who only listen to grab-them-by-the-pussy-Trump.
He doesn't have concerns over it's monopoly level of power... he has concerns that the owner publicly says Trumps an idiot. https://slate.com/business/201...
The problem is Trump is a think skinned little twat that acts like a toddler with diapers full of shit; his supporters aren't much better.
They charge the same discount rate that every other business gets, and in fact, if they did have a special rate for just Amazon, it'd be against court rulings... just look at the Gamefly lawsuit. You rightists need to pull your head out of your ass and live in reality, as well as stop talking about things you don't know shit about; stupidity ain't pretty.
For all the BS going on in this thread, and as far off topic as it's gotten, the idea that it cannot work period! is just wrong. Give me a Scottish engineer, a spanner, and 4 hou...er...20 hours, and it'll be up and running. I know, i know... you don't have 20 hours.... so it'll be done in 4.
...and yet every experiment to verify Relativity has shown Einstein to have been correct, whether it was 4 years after, or 100 years after publishing. Your stupid fucking electric universe bullshit requires Relativity to be wrong, yet everything points to Einstein being right.
Your pseudoscience cult is just fucking stupid.
So, you missed the part right there in where i said "censorship isn't the way to go." I get it, you're too fucking stupid to read.... once again a dipshit to prove my point.
...and while the black woman is chanting black power to rise up from discrimination, those white men are chanting white power to oppress everyone else even through genocide if need be. Again, you're trying to compare to different things. I get it.... in mind numbing stupid alt-right fantasy land, it's the poor white man who's always the victim. Stupidity is truly an endless resource.
https://xkcd.com/1357/
People with any form of intelligence are getting tired of stupid asshats like you thinking your lies and ignorance mean a damn thing. When you wonder why the world is going to shit.... look in the mirror; that's why.
There's a bunch of whiny rightwing asshats on slashdot that routinely mod down any posts that show the fantasy land they live in doesn't come close to reality.
I know what an analogy is...it's a comparison of two things which are similar to make a point. However, these two things don't share the similarities needed to make your point, and in fact, are exactly opposite in the area you needed them to be similar in to make it an analogy. You yourself said it... one is regulated, the other is not.
Now, you can argue that both should be, or both shouldn't be... but as an analogy, you and the OP fail miserably to make one.
Which shows the problem with most conservative thinking... turning a complex nuanced problem into a 5 second soundbite only shows that you don't understand what the fuck is going on.... and dipshits who marked you as "insightful" are as stupid as your comment.
... and when someone makes such a stupid statement, it only reinforced that absurd notion in people who are too stupid to understand what's actually going on. That is the same as these dipshits who post conspiracy theory bullshit.
While a business can refuse to serve anyone, they are not allowed to discriminate against certain groups. These bakers who refuse to make wedding cakes are not simply refusing to serve someone, they intentionally go out of their way to make sure the people (and everyone else) know that they're intentionally discriminating against a class of people that it's illegal to.
That is not the same as Youtube censoring some video's for content, and it takes an incredibly stupid person to think that it
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Censorship is still the wrong approach, because stupid people will still be stupid, and will continue to fuck up things because of their stupidity.
You're right... reality should be what dictates what's true and false, but some people are just too fucking stupid to live in reality. Censorship isn't the way to go, and showing people what reality is only works on people who still understand reality is not equal to their ignorant, uneducated opinions. Stupid can't be cured it seems, because stupid is strong (and it's perfectly happy to be stupid).... and the anti-intellectual right wing fascists of today prove that pretty much every single time they open their mouths, or put fingers to keyboards.
Hmm... see, when i went, a 2-year was an associates, a 4-year was a BS or BA, then it went graduate with MS, then PHD. I've just never seen 4-year that wasn't a bachelors.... but then that was 30 or so years ago for me. Even tech colleges have 4 year bachelors degrees (or had....a long time ago...).
And, the only difference between a college and a university was how many graduate programs it had (or something like that.... the "college" i went to became a "university" a couple years after i graduated, and i still don't know what they changed other than the name).
That line in the intro still just sounds oddly wrong.
For respondents with only a four-year college degree or less, 28 percent were worried about AI taking their job; for people with at least a bachelor degree, that figure was 15 percent.
Isn't a bachelors a 4 year degree? I mean, it used to be... did something change when i wasn't looking? "Only a four-year degree" is the exact same thing as "at least a bachelor degree."
Yeh, i was actually thinking Judgement Day Date... then kinda had a brainfart.
I mean, seriously biased. The title should be: Freedom Fighters from the Future Engage in Skirmishes with Machines to Push Back Judgement Date.
You also have no understanding of what a scientific theory is. And no, creationism isn't reasonable; it's complete made up bullshit, designed for really stupid people, by people who want to be in power and need followers.
You can be as stupid as you want to be, but it means nothing other than you're stupid. You have no understanding of science, and you seem to think that because you're stupider than fuck, that other people are as well. Some are, most aren't. I honestly don't understand why people who choose to be stupid as shit think their intentionally ignorant, uneducated opinion is even remotely valuable. Hint: they're not. You supposedly have a brain... use it for once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here's another piece of advice: if you hate science, yet just have to post on science related threads, be prepared to be called a fucking idiot.... because that's what your creationist bullshit makes you sound like.
Trotting out the irreducible complexity bullshit is the first sure sign you don't have an understanding that change happens over time, it's not a nothing to everything in one step.
It takes a few minutes to get started, but here's a (very) basic vid on abiogenesis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And another https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They don't break down, but your suggesting they do simply shows that you're not a biologist and you don't have an understanding of the material (nor are you actually willing to learn it). Your entire argument against abiogenesis is nothing more than an argument from ignorance. Between that and your falling back on irreducible complexity, it's obvious that your starting point is your belief that the science will always be wrong regardless of any evidence.... so my guess is you're a creationist trying to sound reasonable.
You don't.
I gave up on Apples after all the trouble i had getting my IIe to do anything remotely worthwhile compared to the (new at that time) pc's. Useful software for the Apple was non-existent.
I gave up on Mac's after i found i could drop data onto a floppy (3.5), and 10 minutes later the same computer couldn't even read the floppy anymore. One of our IT guys said "of course, floppies are notoriously temperamental and go bad all the time." And i get it, those floppies (3.5) i used back in 1986 for some WP files on a 3.1 PC are completely crap now.... oh wait, they actually still work (which yes, is a little bit surprising considering the abuse they've taken from my less than perfect storage of them).
Apple/Mac... why bother spending more for less.
You people are awful.
Blades not really an anti-hero though, is he? Sure, he's half vampire, but he's never indulged that side of himself. If it's purely the "revenge" angle, that would lump Batman in as an anti-hero as well. I always give the movies a grain of salt... and Blade was never one that i read back when it came out, so i suppose his comic origin might place him as such... i just don't remember it well enough.
...and here i heard you like long and black down your throat.
Social Justice Warriors think everyone should be treated equal and well.... the opposite of that is a worthless fucking self centered sociopath that cares for no one but themselves.
Considering his opinion is they aren't even good enough for daytime tv, let alone their 100 mil budgets... the only answer really is: they get those budgets because they bring in a whole fucking lot more than that in revenue. Not his taste, fine; too stupid to understand something so basic about business.... well, he can be as stupid as he wants, but his stupid opinion doesn't mean Marvels not making a shitton of profit, and because of that, they'll keep making movies.
If we find alien life existing around another star 50ly from us (through messaging, or even just chemical signatures), i imagine few people would be overwhelmed by that. on the other hand, if we discover alien life because we wake up one morning to hundreds of 100 mile long spaceships with a full invasion going on, i'm expecting people would probably freak out... at least a little. It's all about context.
The LGM's (little green men) we don't have to worry about, it's the LGM's (large green motherfuckers) we do.
On a slightly more serious note, a selfie of the entire planet at that distance probably wouldn't be a bad thing to help remind people of how pretty insignificant our species, and even our planet, is in the grand scheme of the universe. The first one seemed to help some people, although there's a lot of others it could help now if they'd only pull their heads out of their backsides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...