I agree with you that in a system of party politics you ought to vote for the party not the man.
I completely disagree with the rest of your post. You couldn't be further from the truth with your simplistic lumping everybody into two groups, and your assertion that one is good and the other is evil. I can't believe you can equate social democrats, communists and fascists as one and the same. They are not. Read a little wider than Ayn Rand.
Exactly right. I'm invoking Godwin's Law on this thread, but here goes; historians gave up "debating" Holocaust Deniers about the holocaust years ago because they realised the futility of it. By showing up to the debate they gave a small amount of credibility to the deniers. Even if they won the debate, they still lost.
The traffic lights thing is poor design. I heard that in Australia the green light has some blue mixed in so it looks different to the red one for red/green colourblind. I don't know if there's any truth to that statement because I'm not colourblind myself, but it is what I heard.
I agree with you apart from the conspiracy theory of making the government happy. The Mail distracts their readership from the big issues facing the world to keep their readers happy. The two minutes' hate towards foreigners, pedos, terrorists, whatever is the perfect distraction from depressing big issues. After they're finished frothing at the mouth they can go back to their boring middle class lives.
Your headline is almost right. Fucking without protection leads to increased STIs. Australian research shows that young people are having about the same amount of promiscuous sex but use condoms much less frequently than previous generations (there might have been a slight increase in casual sex but I don't remember). Sleeping around + no condom = infection. Don't be a fool, wrap your tool!
The person you replied to wasn't talking about playing sports. I doubt the GP would have a problem with playing sport. Participating in sport requires you to develop good qualities e.g. the discipline required to get fit and improve your skills, actual teamwork and communication skills.
The GP was talking about spectator sports. And I think he was right. Fans of a team - the hardcore ones who go to every game and watch re-runs on DVD - are living vicariously through their team. It doesn't require any investment other than their time and dollars and provides them with a false sense of achievement if their team does win.
This has nothing to do with the system or R18+ video games. RTFA. Atkinson moved to the back bench to let younger blood take over and to spend more time with his family.
When Douglas Adams had the fact that 6*9=42 works in base 13 pointed out to him he supposedly replied, "I might be a sad person, but I'm not so sad that I make math jokes in base 13."
It's pretty screwed up that you got up-modded for encouraging police brutality. I think the remote kill switch in the vehicle is the much better option.
Are you telling us that you couldn't apply to run as an independent and have your name put on the list of candidates in your area at the next election? Of course, having your name on a ballot doesn't guarantee that you'll receive any votes.
I think posters supporting Pink Floyd realise that they had this contract for the right reason - artistic integrity. It wasn't primarily a grab for money. There's no EULA saying what you can and can't do with one of their albums once you've bought it.
I hate it when they only show part of a work of art on a news website or in the paper. A winning entry in a photo competition was cropped in the news article I read on it. Seeing the entire thing completely changed the impact/meaning of the photo.
I suspect the artists also dislike having their works tampered with to fit some arbitrary format instead of being shown the way they intended.
The part I hate most about VB.NET syntax is how backwards it feels.
Dim foo as Integer
My mind works in the following order: "I need an int variable. What do I call it? foo would be a good name." In C#.NET or any other language with C style syntax I can type in the same order that I think:
int foo;
The same pattern is repeated in method declarations with parameters and the return value. Also why do I have to specify ByVal on every single argument? Why not just make it the default like C#?
I think the verbosity is also an issue. Due to the verbosity of VB.NET a function with more than about 2 parameters will either flow off the screen, or require you to split the definition over several lines. In C#.NET it all fits on one line and is just as obvious what is going on.
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I agree with you that in a system of party politics you ought to vote for the party not the man.
I completely disagree with the rest of your post. You couldn't be further from the truth with your simplistic lumping everybody into two groups, and your assertion that one is good and the other is evil. I can't believe you can equate social democrats, communists and fascists as one and the same. They are not. Read a little wider than Ayn Rand.
Exactly right. I'm invoking Godwin's Law on this thread, but here goes; historians gave up "debating" Holocaust Deniers about the holocaust years ago because they realised the futility of it. By showing up to the debate they gave a small amount of credibility to the deniers. Even if they won the debate, they still lost.
Troll? Come on mods, I thought it was worthy of a funny...
The traffic lights thing is poor design. I heard that in Australia the green light has some blue mixed in so it looks different to the red one for red/green colourblind. I don't know if there's any truth to that statement because I'm not colourblind myself, but it is what I heard.
I agree with you apart from the conspiracy theory of making the government happy. The Mail distracts their readership from the big issues facing the world to keep their readers happy. The two minutes' hate towards foreigners, pedos, terrorists, whatever is the perfect distraction from depressing big issues. After they're finished frothing at the mouth they can go back to their boring middle class lives.
Your headline is almost right. Fucking without protection leads to increased STIs. Australian research shows that young people are having about the same amount of promiscuous sex but use condoms much less frequently than previous generations (there might have been a slight increase in casual sex but I don't remember). Sleeping around + no condom = infection. Don't be a fool, wrap your tool!
Your sig is relevant to the topic at hand.
Amazing! That's the same IP address as my luggage.
The person you replied to wasn't talking about playing sports. I doubt the GP would have a problem with playing sport. Participating in sport requires you to develop good qualities e.g. the discipline required to get fit and improve your skills, actual teamwork and communication skills.
The GP was talking about spectator sports. And I think he was right. Fans of a team - the hardcore ones who go to every game and watch re-runs on DVD - are living vicariously through their team. It doesn't require any investment other than their time and dollars and provides them with a false sense of achievement if their team does win.
Civ is not a casual game. Conquering the Roman Empire is serious business.
This has nothing to do with the system or R18+ video games. RTFA. Atkinson moved to the back bench to let younger blood take over and to spend more time with his family.
Whoosh!
Mod GP up please.
When Douglas Adams had the fact that 6*9=42 works in base 13 pointed out to him he supposedly replied, "I might be a sad person, but I'm not so sad that I make math jokes in base 13."
You do know that Tolkien's time is the 20th Century. Your pithy "amazing for their time" comment means they're still amazing today.
It's pretty screwed up that you got up-modded for encouraging police brutality. I think the remote kill switch in the vehicle is the much better option.
I haven't played FFXIII, but I do remember the "Sexy" voice announcer from UT2k4. Let's just say it makes kill streaks "interesting".
Herr Ramirez. Getten Sie zum Burger Town.
Mod parent up?
Are you telling us that you couldn't apply to run as an independent and have your name put on the list of candidates in your area at the next election? Of course, having your name on a ballot doesn't guarantee that you'll receive any votes.
Where's the "-1, Whoosh" mod for Parent and all the sibling posts who didn't get it?
In other news The Gimp is so named because it's pure punishment using it.
Someone lost weight too quickly.
Adding happiness, culture, a category of civics and victory conditions wasn't constructive?
I think posters supporting Pink Floyd realise that they had this contract for the right reason - artistic integrity. It wasn't primarily a grab for money. There's no EULA saying what you can and can't do with one of their albums once you've bought it.
I hate it when they only show part of a work of art on a news website or in the paper. A winning entry in a photo competition was cropped in the news article I read on it. Seeing the entire thing completely changed the impact/meaning of the photo.
I suspect the artists also dislike having their works tampered with to fit some arbitrary format instead of being shown the way they intended.
The part I hate most about VB.NET syntax is how backwards it feels.
Dim foo as Integer
My mind works in the following order: "I need an int variable. What do I call it? foo would be a good name." In C#.NET or any other language with C style syntax I can type in the same order that I think:
int foo;
The same pattern is repeated in method declarations with parameters and the return value. Also why do I have to specify ByVal on every single argument? Why not just make it the default like C#?
I think the verbosity is also an issue. Due to the verbosity of VB.NET a function with more than about 2 parameters will either flow off the screen, or require you to split the definition over several lines. In C#.NET it all fits on one line and is just as obvious what is going on.