It is hard to blame someone for feeling frustrated after running up a massive debt pursuing a career that from the earliest age via every message system possible has been told they must get a higher education and a professional job, otherwise you end up as a menial labourer, with no real hope of a future and it's your fault that you are exploited by the rich and greedy and an uncaring government and, by a whole bunch of stuck up arse holes who do have professional jobs and think menial works should be treated like shit on minimum wage and be thankful for it.
Well, maybe you can't blame them completely. Maybe their parents and society at large has sent that message without the emphasis that it is only a first step that needs to be mixed with a lot of hard work in order to succeed. No matter how you spread the blame however, it doesn't change the fact that these people are just flat out lazy.
It sounds like even though you've had some crap jobs in the past you've worked hard at those jobs and have striven for self improvement. This little girl on the other hand, like so many entitled brats her age, has slid by on good enough and trying just hard enough to pass, without putting in the real time and dedication it takes to make something of yourself.
No matter what your education level, you will never move out of your shit entry level job, be it sucking grease traps or working the IT helpdesk, unless you put some freakin effort into improving yourself and start striving for more than being average.
It has also led to the systematic demonisation of the working class
The chavscum this is aimed at are shirking class, not working class. Some of them are third generation dole bludgers, and most have never done an honest day's work in their lives.
Could someone please translate this post into English for me?
The guy taking the picture through exposed X ray films... without knowing anything about those specific films, I'd guess that they wouldn't be doing anything to block UV rays. Does anyone know if they actually do?
I think that might have been artistic and not an attempt to increase safety.
To a collector, my car with very few modifications is worth a whole lot more than a car made to emulate it.
What kind of collector would buy any GM car made after the mid 1970s?
-jcr
My 1995 Trans-Am was the best car I ever owned. I sold it in 2005 with 150,000 miles on it. The current owner has placed over 40,000 of his own miles on it and the car has never needed any major repairs, aside from the usual stuff. It was also way more fun to drive than my current 2006 Mustang GT.
Given that god is undefinable and unknowable, and that its existence cannot be proven...
Sorry to reply to 2 of your posts but to help you understand that not every non-believer is an atheist, see Ignosticism which describes my position to some extent.
As I was saying in another post: Atheists DO NOT believe in god. This does not require faith.
Keep in mid that Atheism can mean two different things which are actually quite different. From Wikipedia: Atheism can be either the rejection of theism, or the position that deities do not exist.
There is a big difference between non belief and active disbelief. The latter position that deities do not exist does require faith, it requires faith that you as an individual are correct and in fact have the answer to an unknowable question. This type of atheist pisses me off because they are no better than the theists that they loathe. They are overrun with arrogance and pride.
I don't believe in god but I also know that I am at least partially or maybe completely wrong because like I said, it is unknowable. I also have no problem with people that believe in god, I just can't tolerate anyone that is so sure that their answer is the only true answer.
Most theists and atheists alike would jump to calling me an agnostic simply because they have a need to fit me into a neat little category. However, even though I don't believe in god while also not ruling out the possibility of a god, I am not agnostic because I do take a stand and have a position on the issue which is very simple: Everyone is wrong!
Seriously, I'm so sick of people complaining about idle or even Slashdot in general. If you don't like it fuck off and go somewhere else. I for one click on idle links when they seem funny so I can get a break from serious news for a bit.
I mean come on, how pathetic do you have to be to go out of your way to click a link, read a summary and post a comment to something you profess that you will automatically hate anyway.
No kidding. I've been on a plane before that has hit very rough turbulence and seen a few people who didn't bother to put on their seatbelt rise about 2-3 feet in the air before crashing beck to the seat below them. Not to mention takeoff and landing acceleration are just a little above that of subway cars.
Yeah, I don't think the cameras have anything to do with him not being robbed. The criminals just found out the place was run by Jack Bauer and they all collectively pissed their pants and ran away screaming.
Okay, I should have said she was tired of having to walk to the back of the bus. My point is still valid. She had no intentions of battling through a court trial or starting a revolution. Sometimes, revolutions happen by accident.
The machine cranks out 1 piece per day, a maximum of 365 pieces per year. At that rate, how many years does it take to recoup the cost of the machine, with at least $500 worth of solar panels?
And of course anything that doesn't bring a profit isn't worth doing.
This machine doesn't make furniture, it churns out 1 piece of sunlight created functional art a day, which could easily sell for way more than the price of the machine. I'm not saying I would pay for it, but value is in the eye of the beholder.
Obviously this is not something I can site statistics on or give overwhelming assurance on, however in my experience legalizing the drug would ensure more people of driving age would use it. There is a psychology behind substance legality which comes into play. For instance, I nor a good portion of my friends smoked pot in high school, however we all drank alcohol. The difference is one is illegal outright and the other is illegal until you are considered an adult by law. Frankly, the law can not define adulthood in the eyes of a teen and therefore most teens would be more likely to bend such a law, whereas they would not break an outright illegality. Granted, some teens don't give a fuck, but they already smoke pot anyways.
Personally, once I matured I realized that to me the law is flexible where my personal rights are concerned, at least the ones that effect no one else. Which is why I feel free to use banned substances but do not do things like driving while using said substances which would endanger others.
Your argument is not necessarily contrary to mine. PSAs talking about stoned driving are a way to help ensure responsible use, at least as much as drunk driving PSAs do. The fact is, if pot were legalized, you would probably see an initial jump in the number of people using marijuana, at least I would probably initially use it more than I do now, and whether you like it or not marijuana does impair judgment.
Many people that smoke pot don't have a problem with getting in a car and driving stoned because unless they happen to reek of the smell, they feel, and likely can, get away with it if pulled over. That doesn't mean that they are safe to drive because when you're not trying to focus your mind tends to wander greatly from any task at hand, including driving.
My point is that if an officer pulls over a driver for erratic driving, a stoned driver may be able to pull it together and explain away the driving because pot does not give off the telltale signs of intoxication such as alcohol does, but that does not mean the driver is not intoxicated and safe to drive.
And by the way, whomever modded my original post as flamebait, that's just childish.
Actually, I like to partake in the pleasures of cannabis every now and again and definitely believe it should be legal, however I agree wholeheartedly with the original poster on the dangers of marijuana intoxication and driving.
First off, as someone who does smoke marijuana, I can definitely attest to levels of intoxication that would prevent me from driving coherently, and do avoid such scenarios. Second, I have been involved in a major traffic collision when a driver intoxicated on marijuana pulled out in front of me causing me to t-bone him, totaling both cars. Luckily no one was severely injured.
So yes, marijuana should be legal, however there should be ways to ensure it's use is responsible and does not endanger others. And frankly, driving is the only dangerous thing I can currently think of because I'm surely not dangerous in any other way while high.
And would someone please mod the OP out of troll hell. His comment was neither inflammatory nor fallacious.
Says the guy who obviously hasn't yet had to face a serious health problem without coverage or with inadequate health insurance. I know, you shouldn't be made to suffer just because of the poor choices made by others to have genetic disorders, evil employers or the lack of foresight to grow older.
For example, I had ALL Leukemia. One week after I was diagnosed the daughter of my dad's co-worker was diagnosed with the exact same illness but caught it much earlier and had a much better prognosis than me.
We were both of similar age and health, but I had insurance and she didn't. I was immediately admitted to the hospital and received world class treatment (my hospital bills have totaled over $750,000), while the daughter was seen in the hospital for 2 days and sent home (i was in for over a month). She then had to fly 1000 miles across the country (which is not good when you have Leukemia) to find a hospital that would admit and treat her. However, chemo is expensive and they couldn't give her the latest and greatest drugs. Two weeks later, she was dead. She was 19.
Now, correlation is not causation and all that bullshit, but you can't tell me that she wouldn't have had a better chance of survival in Canada, France or any one of the many countries that offer universal health care. Hospitals and insurance companies sentence people to death everyday because they don't have the correct or enough coverage.
"It was a bug, yes, that's it. Some kind of unfortunate bug triggered the 19-step launch sequence,"
Nothing is that complicated when you have Clippy. "I see you are trying to launch a nuclear weapon. Would you like some help?"
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I used to take Ambien, but was lucky enough to not have any of those things happen to me while I was sleeping. I did however suffer another side effect, Sexsomnia. Not a bad way to wake up, having sex with someone, but after a few times my girlfriend just starting slapping me in the face to wake me up.
Also, none of my friends seemed to want to go camping with me.
Which is more perverted, the disgusting thoughts that I actually have in my head, or the fact that I want to record them so I can watch them again later?
Either way you're right, considering the thoughts I have, I definitely don't want to see what everyone else is thinking about.
I really can't think of any response more appropriate than this: you, sir, are a moron.
Try not to think, it will only cause your head to hurt.
Judging by the shallow depth of your wit, I will leave it to Samuel Clemens to respond; "In a battle of wits, it is poor sport to fight an unarmed man"
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That guys gonna be pissed he won't actually be able to live forever.
Undoing accidental down mod. Meant to mod funny.
Sure. Like Paris Hilton.
...of infrared blowjob fame.
It is hard to blame someone for feeling frustrated after running up a massive debt pursuing a career that from the earliest age via every message system possible has been told they must get a higher education and a professional job, otherwise you end up as a menial labourer, with no real hope of a future and it's your fault that you are exploited by the rich and greedy and an uncaring government and, by a whole bunch of stuck up arse holes who do have professional jobs and think menial works should be treated like shit on minimum wage and be thankful for it.
Well, maybe you can't blame them completely. Maybe their parents and society at large has sent that message without the emphasis that it is only a first step that needs to be mixed with a lot of hard work in order to succeed. No matter how you spread the blame however, it doesn't change the fact that these people are just flat out lazy.
It sounds like even though you've had some crap jobs in the past you've worked hard at those jobs and have striven for self improvement. This little girl on the other hand, like so many entitled brats her age, has slid by on good enough and trying just hard enough to pass, without putting in the real time and dedication it takes to make something of yourself.
No matter what your education level, you will never move out of your shit entry level job, be it sucking grease traps or working the IT helpdesk, unless you put some freakin effort into improving yourself and start striving for more than being average.
The chavscum this is aimed at are shirking class, not working class. Some of them are third generation dole bludgers, and most have never done an honest day's work in their lives.
Could someone please translate this post into English for me?
The guy taking the picture through exposed X ray films... without knowing anything about those specific films, I'd guess that they wouldn't be doing anything to block UV rays. Does anyone know if they actually do?
I think that might have been artistic and not an attempt to increase safety.
To a collector, my car with very few modifications is worth a whole lot more than a car made to emulate it.
What kind of collector would buy any GM car made after the mid 1970s?
-jcr
My 1995 Trans-Am was the best car I ever owned. I sold it in 2005 with 150,000 miles on it. The current owner has placed over 40,000 of his own miles on it and the car has never needed any major repairs, aside from the usual stuff. It was also way more fun to drive than my current 2006 Mustang GT.
Given that god is undefinable and unknowable, and that its existence cannot be proven...
Sorry to reply to 2 of your posts but to help you understand that not every non-believer is an atheist, see Ignosticism which describes my position to some extent.
As I was saying in another post: Atheists DO NOT believe in god. This does not require faith.
Keep in mid that Atheism can mean two different things which are actually quite different. From Wikipedia:
Atheism can be either the rejection of theism, or the position that deities do not exist.
There is a big difference between non belief and active disbelief. The latter position that deities do not exist does require faith, it requires faith that you as an individual are correct and in fact have the answer to an unknowable question. This type of atheist pisses me off because they are no better than the theists that they loathe. They are overrun with arrogance and pride.
I don't believe in god but I also know that I am at least partially or maybe completely wrong because like I said, it is unknowable. I also have no problem with people that believe in god, I just can't tolerate anyone that is so sure that their answer is the only true answer.
Most theists and atheists alike would jump to calling me an agnostic simply because they have a need to fit me into a neat little category. However, even though I don't believe in god while also not ruling out the possibility of a god, I am not agnostic because I do take a stand and have a position on the issue which is very simple:
Everyone is wrong!
Seriously, I'm so sick of people complaining about idle or even Slashdot in general. If you don't like it fuck off and go somewhere else. I for one click on idle links when they seem funny so I can get a break from serious news for a bit.
I mean come on, how pathetic do you have to be to go out of your way to click a link, read a summary and post a comment to something you profess that you will automatically hate anyway.
No kidding. I've been on a plane before that has hit very rough turbulence and seen a few people who didn't bother to put on their seatbelt rise about 2-3 feet in the air before crashing beck to the seat below them. Not to mention takeoff and landing acceleration are just a little above that of subway cars.
"Jack Bauer Likes Surveillance Cameras." Well, duh.
Yeah, I don't think the cameras have anything to do with him not being robbed. The criminals just found out the place was run by Jack Bauer and they all collectively pissed their pants and ran away screaming.
Okay, I should have said she was tired of having to walk to the back of the bus. My point is still valid. She had no intentions of battling through a court trial or starting a revolution. Sometimes, revolutions happen by accident.
Rosa Parks intentionally broke the law because she was tired and didn't want to walk to the back of the bus.
I don't mean to play down the significance of what she did, I'm just saying that court was the farthest thing from her mind at the time.
The machine cranks out 1 piece per day, a maximum of 365 pieces per year. At that rate, how many years does it take to recoup the cost of the machine, with at least $500 worth of solar panels?
And of course anything that doesn't bring a profit isn't worth doing.
This machine doesn't make furniture, it churns out 1 piece of sunlight created functional art a day, which could easily sell for way more than the price of the machine. I'm not saying I would pay for it, but value is in the eye of the beholder.
Obviously this is not something I can site statistics on or give overwhelming assurance on, however in my experience legalizing the drug would ensure more people of driving age would use it. There is a psychology behind substance legality which comes into play. For instance, I nor a good portion of my friends smoked pot in high school, however we all drank alcohol. The difference is one is illegal outright and the other is illegal until you are considered an adult by law. Frankly, the law can not define adulthood in the eyes of a teen and therefore most teens would be more likely to bend such a law, whereas they would not break an outright illegality. Granted, some teens don't give a fuck, but they already smoke pot anyways.
Personally, once I matured I realized that to me the law is flexible where my personal rights are concerned, at least the ones that effect no one else. Which is why I feel free to use banned substances but do not do things like driving while using said substances which would endanger others.
Your argument is not necessarily contrary to mine. PSAs talking about stoned driving are a way to help ensure responsible use, at least as much as drunk driving PSAs do. The fact is, if pot were legalized, you would probably see an initial jump in the number of people using marijuana, at least I would probably initially use it more than I do now, and whether you like it or not marijuana does impair judgment.
Many people that smoke pot don't have a problem with getting in a car and driving stoned because unless they happen to reek of the smell, they feel, and likely can, get away with it if pulled over. That doesn't mean that they are safe to drive because when you're not trying to focus your mind tends to wander greatly from any task at hand, including driving.
My point is that if an officer pulls over a driver for erratic driving, a stoned driver may be able to pull it together and explain away the driving because pot does not give off the telltale signs of intoxication such as alcohol does, but that does not mean the driver is not intoxicated and safe to drive.
And by the way, whomever modded my original post as flamebait, that's just childish.
Actually, I like to partake in the pleasures of cannabis every now and again and definitely believe it should be legal, however I agree wholeheartedly with the original poster on the dangers of marijuana intoxication and driving.
First off, as someone who does smoke marijuana, I can definitely attest to levels of intoxication that would prevent me from driving coherently, and do avoid such scenarios. Second, I have been involved in a major traffic collision when a driver intoxicated on marijuana pulled out in front of me causing me to t-bone him, totaling both cars. Luckily no one was severely injured.
So yes, marijuana should be legal, however there should be ways to ensure it's use is responsible and does not endanger others. And frankly, driving is the only dangerous thing I can currently think of because I'm surely not dangerous in any other way while high.
And would someone please mod the OP out of troll hell. His comment was neither inflammatory nor fallacious.
Says the guy who obviously hasn't yet had to face a serious health problem without coverage or with inadequate health insurance. I know, you shouldn't be made to suffer just because of the poor choices made by others to have genetic disorders, evil employers or the lack of foresight to grow older.
For example, I had ALL Leukemia. One week after I was diagnosed the daughter of my dad's co-worker was diagnosed with the exact same illness but caught it much earlier and had a much better prognosis than me.
We were both of similar age and health, but I had insurance and she didn't. I was immediately admitted to the hospital and received world class treatment (my hospital bills have totaled over $750,000), while the daughter was seen in the hospital for 2 days and sent home (i was in for over a month). She then had to fly 1000 miles across the country (which is not good when you have Leukemia) to find a hospital that would admit and treat her. However, chemo is expensive and they couldn't give her the latest and greatest drugs. Two weeks later, she was dead. She was 19.
Now, correlation is not causation and all that bullshit, but you can't tell me that she wouldn't have had a better chance of survival in Canada, France or any one of the many countries that offer universal health care. Hospitals and insurance companies sentence people to death everyday because they don't have the correct or enough coverage.
"It was a bug, yes, that's it. Some kind of unfortunate bug triggered the 19-step launch sequence,"
Nothing is that complicated when you have Clippy. "I see you are trying to launch a nuclear weapon. Would you like some help?"
I used to take Ambien, but was lucky enough to not have any of those things happen to me while I was sleeping. I did however suffer another side effect, Sexsomnia. Not a bad way to wake up, having sex with someone, but after a few times my girlfriend just starting slapping me in the face to wake me up.
Also, none of my friends seemed to want to go camping with me.
Which is more perverted, the disgusting thoughts that I actually have in my head, or the fact that I want to record them so I can watch them again later?
Either way you're right, considering the thoughts I have, I definitely don't want to see what everyone else is thinking about.
I'm guessing even the biggest engine you could fit in that wouldn't be able to even turn the wheels.
I guess someone forgot to tell them that.
you're doing it wrong
Have you been talking to my girlfriend?
I really can't think of any response more appropriate than this: you, sir, are a moron.
Try not to think, it will only cause your head to hurt.
Judging by the shallow depth of your wit, I will leave it to Samuel Clemens to respond; "In a battle of wits, it is poor sport to fight an unarmed man"