How sad it is that psychoactive chemicals like this and LSD, which have been well demonstrated to have profoundly positive psychological effects (under responsible use) still cannot be used by responsible, grown adults? They can be the key to truly overcoming the psychological demons seem to be the human condition, and unlocked our true potential as self-aware, well-adjusted human beings.
The propensity to get in a 4000 lb. weapon, and go on a killing spree (aka driving) is too large. And, yes, I realize alcohol is the same way, but at least we have a roadside test with relatively accurate results for that.
Beyond that, I personally have no problem with legalizing all the things. I just don't want to be on the road with people blasted 20 different ways.
Whether it's great for physical products or not, everyone is doing it.
firmware updates for entertainment systems
ecu firmware updates.
Shoot, I have an '08 Ford F250 that's a "job 2" truck. There were 3 "jobs" under the '08 model year with running changes. Sometimes rather major like moving from a frame-mounted, user replaceable, transmission filter to an in-pan filter.
That they have, hands down, the best marketing people in the biz at their disposal. Only apple could repackage a stale turd, sell it as a "better life experience," while denigrating the competition. It's genius if you can pick up on it. There's, obviously, plenty of dumbshits who can't.
And the shit thing is, even after all that progress, they still have to put up with you
Yup, they do. And they should be thankful for it. On the scale of grievances women have to put up with, a few guys like me who don't immediately resort to white-knighting the fuck out of every female because she happened to blessed by the goddess with a vagina at birth is so incredibly minor, that it falls well below the irritation men have to deal with by not being allowed to be actual men for fear that it might make women uncomfortable. But this goes without saying as there's no ideology that surmises that siding with men might grant you sexual favors from women. Which is the key mantra of the white knight.
You may be innocent, but what have you done to stop it? It's one thing to stick your head in the sand and go "lalala I'm not involved" - it's another thing to actively ignore it when you see it around you
Wait, what? It's now my fucking job to police every hetero social interaction in my vacinity to make sure that no feelbad is being created for a female? Ok, if it's my job where's my paycheck? No paycheck? Then what in the sphaghetti monster's flying green fuck would possess me to do such a thing, and why the hell are you shaming me for not already doing it?
Look, I'm actively fighting this problem (and it is a problem, nobody is saying otherwise), with you. So why are you so quick to group me with the monkeys in our society?
Because you think your female leashholders give a shit about you. They don't. When there's no males around, they despise you for your lapdog willingness to throw your entire gender under the bus just as much as they pretend to despise these """"rape culture""" participants.
Guys care about female physical beauty. All you're doing with this post is demonizing traditional masculinity (boys discussing boy things in a boy enviornment - tech) for the sake of protect females from badfeels. Stop.
We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/pakistan-pregnant-woman-killed/)
Are you kidding me with this shit? "We" live in a world? No...no you don't. Nor do I. "We" live in a bubble where the worst thing that has happened to you is after invading the boys club you had to "laugh at stupid sexist shit to be one of the boys." Please stop kidding yourself that your life and your world even touches that pakistani lady's.
And this is one of my major gripes with modern western women: There is actual REAL BAD SHIT happening to women in this world. However, it's not happening in any 1st world country, but ya'll want to talk about patriarchy, the boy's club, and the horriblenogoodverybadthings you have to put up with when in reality you are the SAFEST, LEAST OPPRESSED, MOST ENTITLED group of females to ever grace this planet.
Telling people who feel like Elliot Rodger that they're not a victim. This will help because 1) they'll believe it, and 2) believing it will solve their issues with reality.
Or perhaps not.
Perhaps it will simply fuel their hatred even more, because now they're even having the reality of their emotions denied, as if they're somehow defective in that respect too.
Assigning victims and victimizers here is completely irrelevant to finding out what's actually wrong with this situation, and how to fix it.
Nothing would have helped him. He was CONVINCED that women were a certain way, and that they wanted certain things from men. Certain things he possessed. What made him furious is that he was COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG, and this is quite obvious in his fury at the men getting what he wanted from women that didn't offer those women any of the things he was certain they wanted - and he was willing to offer. He was unwilling to see the reality of how people actually are because his entire ego was based on the pretty lies that most of society has told us about how people "should be." At best, getting him to see the truth would have pushed him to suicide.
How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it?
Forever, because there is no such thing. Only by using the ever-expanding militant-feminist definition of rape which currently stands at "anything, at all, ever, that makes me in the slightest bit uncomfortable" can we possibly believe there's actually a culture of rape. What we ACTUALLY have is a culture of socailly retarded males and females, and culture of feminists preying on the socially retarded females and making them believe that they're entitled to waltz through never being made to feel uncomfortable, ever. This is patently untrue, and no amount of slut-walks can ever create a utopia where a woman - even a man - can leave a ladeeda life.
I don't know if this is the same for the rest of the country, but in Texas public schools seemed to be created for the CURRENT overflow in existing schools. Of note that, especially in the Houston area, residence creation is still blowing and going.
So what results is a school is planned to be built for the, say, 3000 student overflow in surrounding schools. Then 4 years later when the doors open...there's 6000 kids going to that school necessitating temporary buildings from day one. Someone needs to hire a damn mathematician to, oh I don't know, trend the population growth or some fancy-pantsy thing?
You post is based on assumptions you hold about her, you really don't know the woman, or her true ideals. How about we have a wait and see approach before condemning the young lady, hmm...
Neither do you, but you're more than willing to state that "she seems to be an intelligent young woman." What's so different about your assumptions?
I'm a centrist who is not a Hillary fan.. but explain to me how a drone-striking surveillance state black man (which is the way racist see him, not half white) with a borderline racist attorney general got reelected?
Hillary is going to run, and from what I'm seeing on the Republican front with respect to candidates she's going to win.
I'm a bit maudlin about the best both sides have to offer; I'm all out of outrage.
This isn't about ludditism. This is about what year is it? We can fly the planes on biofuels, but we should replace all air within a nation with high-speed rail. Which we should fucking have already, because what year is it? We should be running our planes on biofuels already, because what year is it?
We've had solar panels since the 1970s and they could repay their energy investment in seven years back then. Now it's three. What year is it?
Repeating an italicized catch phrase doesn't make a cohesive argument. What it makes...is shitty mainstream hip-hop music.
You understand the complaint is that they BOUGHT the congress, so they could have the tax code changed so they could legally shift their share of tax responsibility to others? So, while yes you are technically correct, you, and they, are so morally bankrupt I can't understand how you can live with yourself.
Oh snap, moral bankruptcy. Go for the throat! Except for the fact that neither taxation nor bankruptcy have anything to do with morality. Nor is morality universal should you decide that paying taxes are part of your morality. Thusly, your call to moral superiority, basically just makes you look like a crazed liberal going super-saiyan in order to hide the fact that their arguments have zero basis in logic or reality. You're much more comfortable derailing a debate, and forcing conservatives to defend their morality instead of the issue at hand.
Congratulations on being a stereotypical mouthpiece for stupid liberal soundbites, and being a party to the destruction of the western way of life.
You're absolutely right. And the root of the problem is..................401k-like investment vehicles. The stock market has become the de-facto, government-seal-of-approval vehicle for retirement savings which has had the negative effects of
1. overvalueing the entire market as everyone clamors to buy stocks, but because there's a limited supply, demand pushes their price (though not their value) higher
2. corporations who focus on stock price vs cash reserves, cash flow, or any other useful metrics of corporate health. Stock price is up? Good! Who cares if we had to shutteran entire division, and revenue dropped 20%.
I don't, no. Compared to other large-scale human endeavors decently funded universal public school districts receiving strong societal support are among the most efficient institutions known to man.
But compared to for-profit charter "schools"? Public schools - even the really bad ones - are havens of efficiency and good results.
You've got to be fucking shitting me. Compulsory education in this country is nothing more than tax-funded babysitting, and marxist indoctrination. If that's a model for efficiency...western society is even more screwed than the crazy alt-right blogs predict.
Since buildings are what educate children and motivate them to be invested in academics? It's easy to criticize someone for spending money on people who try to diagnose a problem as opposed to "just fixing" it. Guess what: order is important -- you need to understand the problem *before* fixing it. I'm sure like all big problems it seems obvious -- but it's not. That's why there are no examples of people consistently fixing educational failure. Critique away. But you're not actually helping.
Couple that with the fact that the actual problem with education is way, way, far to un-PC to even speak of in a whisper...and the totality of the federal budget isn't enough to actual get to a solution. Any money spent in this regard might as well be flushed down the toilet.
I can patently say it won't matter either way. The additional tax revenue won't go to education, it won't repair the state's shitty roads, it won't help anyone. It will be pissed away into the pockets of crony contractors who don't seem to accomplish ANYTHING, in classic Oklahoma style.
Everyone wants them to open source the server code, but that's unlikely. They're EA. Would everyone be happy with a server binary? Seems like a middle-ground option..
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but I did fix a kernel panic in a gentoo install at a racetrack (road course) over the weekend.
How sad it is that psychoactive chemicals like this and LSD, which have been well demonstrated to have profoundly positive psychological effects (under responsible use) still cannot be used by responsible, grown adults? They can be the key to truly overcoming the psychological demons seem to be the human condition, and unlocked our true potential as self-aware, well-adjusted human beings.
The propensity to get in a 4000 lb. weapon, and go on a killing spree (aka driving) is too large. And, yes, I realize alcohol is the same way, but at least we have a roadside test with relatively accurate results for that. Beyond that, I personally have no problem with legalizing all the things. I just don't want to be on the road with people blasted 20 different ways.
Whether it's great for physical products or not, everyone is doing it. firmware updates for entertainment systems ecu firmware updates. Shoot, I have an '08 Ford F250 that's a "job 2" truck. There were 3 "jobs" under the '08 model year with running changes. Sometimes rather major like moving from a frame-mounted, user replaceable, transmission filter to an in-pan filter.
That they have, hands down, the best marketing people in the biz at their disposal. Only apple could repackage a stale turd, sell it as a "better life experience," while denigrating the competition. It's genius if you can pick up on it. There's, obviously, plenty of dumbshits who can't.
And the shit thing is, even after all that progress, they still have to put up with you
Yup, they do. And they should be thankful for it. On the scale of grievances women have to put up with, a few guys like me who don't immediately resort to white-knighting the fuck out of every female because she happened to blessed by the goddess with a vagina at birth is so incredibly minor, that it falls well below the irritation men have to deal with by not being allowed to be actual men for fear that it might make women uncomfortable. But this goes without saying as there's no ideology that surmises that siding with men might grant you sexual favors from women. Which is the key mantra of the white knight.
You may be innocent, but what have you done to stop it? It's one thing to stick your head in the sand and go "lalala I'm not involved" - it's another thing to actively ignore it when you see it around you
Wait, what? It's now my fucking job to police every hetero social interaction in my vacinity to make sure that no feelbad is being created for a female? Ok, if it's my job where's my paycheck? No paycheck? Then what in the sphaghetti monster's flying green fuck would possess me to do such a thing, and why the hell are you shaming me for not already doing it?
Look, I'm actively fighting this problem (and it is a problem, nobody is saying otherwise), with you. So why are you so quick to group me with the monkeys in our society?
Because you think your female leashholders give a shit about you. They don't. When there's no males around, they despise you for your lapdog willingness to throw your entire gender under the bus just as much as they pretend to despise these """"rape culture""" participants.
Guys care about female physical beauty. All you're doing with this post is demonizing traditional masculinity (boys discussing boy things in a boy enviornment - tech) for the sake of protect females from badfeels. Stop.
We live in a world where literally yesterday a woman was stoned to death by her family for failing to live her life they way they wanted. (http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/pakistan-pregnant-woman-killed/)
Are you kidding me with this shit? "We" live in a world? No...no you don't. Nor do I. "We" live in a bubble where the worst thing that has happened to you is after invading the boys club you had to "laugh at stupid sexist shit to be one of the boys." Please stop kidding yourself that your life and your world even touches that pakistani lady's. And this is one of my major gripes with modern western women: There is actual REAL BAD SHIT happening to women in this world. However, it's not happening in any 1st world country, but ya'll want to talk about patriarchy, the boy's club, and the horriblenogoodverybadthings you have to put up with when in reality you are the SAFEST, LEAST OPPRESSED, MOST ENTITLED group of females to ever grace this planet.
Telling people who feel like Elliot Rodger that they're not a victim. This will help because 1) they'll believe it, and 2) believing it will solve their issues with reality. Or perhaps not. Perhaps it will simply fuel their hatred even more, because now they're even having the reality of their emotions denied, as if they're somehow defective in that respect too. Assigning victims and victimizers here is completely irrelevant to finding out what's actually wrong with this situation, and how to fix it.
Nothing would have helped him. He was CONVINCED that women were a certain way, and that they wanted certain things from men. Certain things he possessed. What made him furious is that he was COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG, and this is quite obvious in his fury at the men getting what he wanted from women that didn't offer those women any of the things he was certain they wanted - and he was willing to offer. He was unwilling to see the reality of how people actually are because his entire ego was based on the pretty lies that most of society has told us about how people "should be." At best, getting him to see the truth would have pushed him to suicide.
How much longer are we going to be in denial that there's a thing called "rape culture" and we ought to do something about it?
Forever, because there is no such thing. Only by using the ever-expanding militant-feminist definition of rape which currently stands at "anything, at all, ever, that makes me in the slightest bit uncomfortable" can we possibly believe there's actually a culture of rape. What we ACTUALLY have is a culture of socailly retarded males and females, and culture of feminists preying on the socially retarded females and making them believe that they're entitled to waltz through never being made to feel uncomfortable, ever. This is patently untrue, and no amount of slut-walks can ever create a utopia where a woman - even a man - can leave a ladeeda life.
So what results is a school is planned to be built for the, say, 3000 student overflow in surrounding schools. Then 4 years later when the doors open...there's 6000 kids going to that school necessitating temporary buildings from day one. Someone needs to hire a damn mathematician to, oh I don't know, trend the population growth or some fancy-pantsy thing?
You post is based on assumptions you hold about her, you really don't know the woman, or her true ideals. How about we have a wait and see approach before condemning the young lady, hmm...
Neither do you, but you're more than willing to state that "she seems to be an intelligent young woman." What's so different about your assumptions?
I'm a centrist who is not a Hillary fan.. but explain to me how a drone-striking surveillance state black man (which is the way racist see him, not half white) with a borderline racist attorney general got reelected? Hillary is going to run, and from what I'm seeing on the Republican front with respect to candidates she's going to win. I'm a bit maudlin about the best both sides have to offer; I'm all out of outrage.
I'm saddened to say I agree with you.
We're currently steeped in a very, very divisive society
One could go so far as to say that society has already shit the bed, and what we're actually in is a heavily-policed anarchy.
That definition is rather pedantic. A luddite is someone who refuses to embrace the progress of technology and change.
This isn't about ludditism. This is about what year is it? We can fly the planes on biofuels, but we should replace all air within a nation with high-speed rail. Which we should fucking have already, because what year is it? We should be running our planes on biofuels already, because what year is it? We've had solar panels since the 1970s and they could repay their energy investment in seven years back then. Now it's three. What year is it?
Repeating an italicized catch phrase doesn't make a cohesive argument. What it makes...is shitty mainstream hip-hop music.
the laws will go away soon enough
In the grand scheme of things, laws rarely - and I mean rarely - go away.
Never buy a car from GM. A company that practices this type of policy can not have my confidence in any way.
So all of them. Hope you work from home!
You understand the complaint is that they BOUGHT the congress, so they could have the tax code changed so they could legally shift their share of tax responsibility to others? So, while yes you are technically correct, you, and they, are so morally bankrupt I can't understand how you can live with yourself.
Oh snap, moral bankruptcy. Go for the throat! Except for the fact that neither taxation nor bankruptcy have anything to do with morality. Nor is morality universal should you decide that paying taxes are part of your morality. Thusly, your call to moral superiority, basically just makes you look like a crazed liberal going super-saiyan in order to hide the fact that their arguments have zero basis in logic or reality. You're much more comfortable derailing a debate, and forcing conservatives to defend their morality instead of the issue at hand.
Congratulations on being a stereotypical mouthpiece for stupid liberal soundbites, and being a party to the destruction of the western way of life.
1. overvalueing the entire market as everyone clamors to buy stocks, but because there's a limited supply, demand pushes their price (though not their value) higher
2. corporations who focus on stock price vs cash reserves, cash flow, or any other useful metrics of corporate health. Stock price is up? Good! Who cares if we had to shutteran entire division, and revenue dropped 20%.
I don't, no. Compared to other large-scale human endeavors decently funded universal public school districts receiving strong societal support are among the most efficient institutions known to man. But compared to for-profit charter "schools"? Public schools - even the really bad ones - are havens of efficiency and good results.
You've got to be fucking shitting me. Compulsory education in this country is nothing more than tax-funded babysitting, and marxist indoctrination. If that's a model for efficiency...western society is even more screwed than the crazy alt-right blogs predict.
Please tell me this was sarcasm..
Since buildings are what educate children and motivate them to be invested in academics? It's easy to criticize someone for spending money on people who try to diagnose a problem as opposed to "just fixing" it. Guess what: order is important -- you need to understand the problem *before* fixing it. I'm sure like all big problems it seems obvious -- but it's not. That's why there are no examples of people consistently fixing educational failure. Critique away. But you're not actually helping.
Couple that with the fact that the actual problem with education is way, way, far to un-PC to even speak of in a whisper...and the totality of the federal budget isn't enough to actual get to a solution. Any money spent in this regard might as well be flushed down the toilet.
I can patently say it won't matter either way. The additional tax revenue won't go to education, it won't repair the state's shitty roads, it won't help anyone. It will be pissed away into the pockets of crony contractors who don't seem to accomplish ANYTHING, in classic Oklahoma style.
Everyone wants them to open source the server code, but that's unlikely. They're EA. Would everyone be happy with a server binary? Seems like a middle-ground option..