Good old Marc Morano. He was a representative for the most dishonest of blowhard radio "entertainers," Rush Limbaugh. He posted the false allegations from the Swift-Boat folks against John Kerry. He lied about activities in an AIDS research fundraising dance party. He popularized "Climategate," to falsely show a global scientific conspiracy, and he published private email addresses of climate scientists to harass them.
With that record of honesty and integrity, why WOULDN'T we trust his word over the climate scientists of the world?
Granted Common Core has some faults, for sure, but at least it is an attempt by someone to do something.
Very frequently, doing the wrong thing is much worse than doing nothing. They might be doing something, but doing something is not in itself a praise-worthy goal.
$51.1 billion? (I'll switch to 55 billion for 2015 numbers since they're close enough and 2015 numbers are what everyone uses now) You'd have to be crazy if you think it's going to be that low. The current estimate (Feb 2015) is for $68 billion for Phase 1, the Central Valley segment.
[2]: Back in the "don't copy that floppy" days, we were promised by software publishers that prices for games and applications were high due to piracy. Now with consoles having a 0% piracy rate, if one factors all the DLC needed to play an average console game, the price has gone up by 2 to 10 times. They couldn't have lied to us, could they?
While there could be a few bad actors, Most of the DLC I've seen is an extra for an already-complete game, a game with plenty of content.
Also keep this in mind. In the mid-1980s, most games cost around $40. That's nearly $90 in 2015 dollars. Game prices have FALLEN drastically in the last 30 years.
Because I've done it in Europe for years. This isn't a new mode of travel.
Europe is Europe. In America, tempting targets get subjected to security theater to deter terrorism. Currently, passenger rail is not a tempting target... but if it was..
And the routes are fucked. Traffic from Sacramento to SF is completely absurd, but if you want to high speed rail your way to SF, you'll need to swing all the way down to Merced or Fresno.
If you want a good high-speed rail from SF south LA, then a northeast trip up to Sacramento is a pretty big detour.
The estimated cost more than doubled within a few years of the bond and our rates of inflation have been extremely low. It's not inflation. The costs were intentionally underreported (or at best, naively reported) so that the bond measure would pass and that California would get locked into the plan.
I think the game had more to do with Peyton Manning's documented inability to excel in cold playoff games rather than the Patriots' underinflated balls.
I think it's top down from the coach. Belichick is the living embodiment of the middle finger. Brilliant guy, but his IDGAFs are through the roof.
I thought the South Park episode that lambasted Belichick years ago was spot-on. Among other things, Cartman claimed that Belichick could get away with cheating by never admitting that he knew he was cheating. Instead, he used the weasel words "I misinterpreted the rules" (Belichick's real words).
From the Wikipedia episode summary: "He then teaches his class numerous cheating techniques, explaining that as long as they succeed, no one will judge them. Cartman cites New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick's success after cheating in the Spygate football scandal. [...] When the kids begin to doubt Cartman's methods, he again points to Bill Belichick, implying that after he decided to win a game "for real", he ended up losing (to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII). The kids are encouraged by this, and all receive perfect scores (by cheating). The class honors "Mr. Cartmenez" for teaching them "The White People Method", and he is universally praised."
I'm happy with my S5 at the moment, though given Samsung's S6-changes, it'll probably be my last Samsung Galaxy. I'm certainly open to getting a different phone in the future, and the rootability of it will be a factor.
As long as they are disconnected from the network, that's fine.
I'm not sure I've seen an X-Ray machine in years that was NOT on the office/hospital's LAN. My dentist's x-ray computer runs an ancient, ancient version of Windows (I haven't seen it boot up, but you can tell just from the widget design) . It immediately forwards X-ray results to their central records.
The reason you were accused of hyperbole is that you made sweeping statements that imply your experience is everyone's experience, or at least the common user experience. I'll help you out:
iTunes DOES NOT SYNC MUSIC.
iTunes syncs music just fine for most people. Is there a bug? Probably, but it affects you and some others, but no where close to the majority of iPhone users. iTunes is great on the Mac and shit on the PC, that's no surprise. But if the problem was as widespread as you're describing, people would be rioting in the street. Forget what's happening in Baltimore, it would be like the last scene in Fight Club.
However, over time every OS has security vulnerabilities discovered. The support model for Android updates for said vulnerabilities, as currently done by either device makers or carriers, is broken, IMO.
But I need those security vulnerabilities.
I need and demand root access on my phone, and a security vulnerability is the only way to get it. Newer Android releases don't have (yet) known vulnerabilities that will give an owner access to his own devices. I run a slightly-older version of Android 4 where I can use the Towelroot exploit to install su, but newer versions aren't vulnerable. Google ended up hiring the guy who wrote Towelroot to close their security problems, and he's done a fairly decent job.
So yeah, I walk around with a phone that's vulnerable to various problems, all because the fuckwits at Samsung and Google are so hostile to the idea of the owner of a device having control over it. I mitigate that by not storing anything personal/critical on it. If thieves get ahole of my Puzzle and Dragons saved game files or my party pictures that are public anyway, I'm fine with that. We all make tradeoffs. That is mine.
So you're ok with it if I poison you only a little bit?
Sure. We do that every day. You think the water you drink is absolutely pure H2O, nothing else in it? You think the organic potato in the ground doesn't have trace amounts of what we might consider poisons in larger doses? We consume up to 50 micrograms of arsenic a day, and some think that very small amounts are a required dietary element in many animals, but lots of arsenic is clearly a poison. Uranium is also naturally found in the soil and sea water.
There is nothing pure about life, nearly everything poisons "only a little bit."
Boy, you read waaaay into the parent's post and then come out swinging.
In fact, the side you lambaste as liberals, and how VERY telling that you think it's a swear word
Where did the grandparent use liberal as a swear word? Where did he even imply it? The closest might be the "Oddly enough one tends to benefit the strong and the majority group, while the other takes from it" line, but even that is hardly an attack.
That episode was one of several that hurt my brain. You'd have some fantastic writing and character development, and then you'd get an episode like Profit and Lace thrown in there. Or the Vanessa Williams guest-starring on Risa episode. The series could be fantastic, but it was also so amazingly uneven.
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Good old Marc Morano. He was a representative for the most dishonest of blowhard radio "entertainers," Rush Limbaugh. He posted the false allegations from the Swift-Boat folks against John Kerry. He lied about activities in an AIDS research fundraising dance party. He popularized "Climategate," to falsely show a global scientific conspiracy, and he published private email addresses of climate scientists to harass them.
With that record of honesty and integrity, why WOULDN'T we trust his word over the climate scientists of the world?
no, he said he likes to assault people or he gets grumpy, Jock sniff much?
Get back into the locker, nerd. No one said you could come out yet.
Granted Common Core has some faults, for sure, but at least it is an attempt by someone to do something.
Very frequently, doing the wrong thing is much worse than doing nothing.
They might be doing something, but doing something is not in itself a praise-worthy goal.
$51.1 billion? (I'll switch to 55 billion for 2015 numbers since they're close enough and 2015 numbers are what everyone uses now) You'd have to be crazy if you think it's going to be that low. The current estimate (Feb 2015) is for $68 billion for Phase 1, the Central Valley segment.
[2]: Back in the "don't copy that floppy" days, we were promised by software publishers that prices for games and applications were high due to piracy. Now with consoles having a 0% piracy rate, if one factors all the DLC needed to play an average console game, the price has gone up by 2 to 10 times. They couldn't have lied to us, could they?
While there could be a few bad actors, Most of the DLC I've seen is an extra for an already-complete game, a game with plenty of content.
Also keep this in mind. In the mid-1980s, most games cost around $40. That's nearly $90 in 2015 dollars.
Game prices have FALLEN drastically in the last 30 years.
Because I've done it in Europe for years. This isn't a new mode of travel.
Europe is Europe. In America, tempting targets get subjected to security theater to deter terrorism. Currently, passenger rail is not a tempting target... but if it was..
And the routes are fucked. Traffic from Sacramento to SF is completely absurd, but if you want to high speed rail your way to SF, you'll need to swing all the way down to Merced or Fresno.
If you want a good high-speed rail from SF south LA, then a northeast trip up to Sacramento is a pretty big detour.
The estimated cost more than doubled within a few years of the bond and our rates of inflation have been extremely low.
It's not inflation. The costs were intentionally underreported (or at best, naively reported) so that the bond measure would pass and that California would get locked into the plan.
You forgot the complimentary gluten free vegan pot brownies.
This isn't Ecotopia, no matter if some in California desire that nightmare scenario.
I think the game had more to do with Peyton Manning's documented inability to excel in cold playoff games rather than the Patriots' underinflated balls.
Thanks for your derision and condescension. You really added to the discussion, AC. Do you feel better than everyone now?
Rule 1: Blame the user, not the computer.
Clearly you neither work for the Patriots nor are you a New England fan.
I just don't get it.
I think it's top down from the coach. Belichick is the living embodiment of the middle finger. Brilliant guy, but his IDGAFs are through the roof.
I thought the South Park episode that lambasted Belichick years ago was spot-on. Among other things, Cartman claimed that Belichick could get away with cheating by never admitting that he knew he was cheating. Instead, he used the weasel words "I misinterpreted the rules" (Belichick's real words).
From the Wikipedia episode summary: "He then teaches his class numerous cheating techniques, explaining that as long as they succeed, no one will judge them. Cartman cites New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick's success after cheating in the Spygate football scandal. [...] When the kids begin to doubt Cartman's methods, he again points to Bill Belichick, implying that after he decided to win a game "for real", he ended up losing (to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII). The kids are encouraged by this, and all receive perfect scores (by cheating). The class honors "Mr. Cartmenez" for teaching them "The White People Method", and he is universally praised."
I'm happy with my S5 at the moment, though given Samsung's S6-changes, it'll probably be my last Samsung Galaxy. I'm certainly open to getting a different phone in the future, and the rootability of it will be a factor.
As long as they are disconnected from the network, that's fine.
I'm not sure I've seen an X-Ray machine in years that was NOT on the office/hospital's LAN. My dentist's x-ray computer runs an ancient, ancient version of Windows (I haven't seen it boot up, but you can tell just from the widget design) . It immediately forwards X-ray results to their central records.
The reason you were accused of hyperbole is that you made sweeping statements that imply your experience is everyone's experience, or at least the common user experience. I'll help you out:
iTunes DOES NOT SYNC MUSIC.
iTunes syncs music just fine for most people. Is there a bug? Probably, but it affects you and some others, but no where close to the majority of iPhone users. iTunes is great on the Mac and shit on the PC, that's no surprise. But if the problem was as widespread as you're describing, people would be rioting in the street. Forget what's happening in Baltimore, it would be like the last scene in Fight Club.
However, over time every OS has security vulnerabilities discovered. The support model for Android updates for said vulnerabilities, as currently done by either device makers or carriers, is broken, IMO.
But I need those security vulnerabilities.
I need and demand root access on my phone, and a security vulnerability is the only way to get it. Newer Android releases don't have (yet) known vulnerabilities that will give an owner access to his own devices. I run a slightly-older version of Android 4 where I can use the Towelroot exploit to install su, but newer versions aren't vulnerable. Google ended up hiring the guy who wrote Towelroot to close their security problems, and he's done a fairly decent job.
So yeah, I walk around with a phone that's vulnerable to various problems, all because the fuckwits at Samsung and Google are so hostile to the idea of the owner of a device having control over it. I mitigate that by not storing anything personal/critical on it. If thieves get ahole of my Puzzle and Dragons saved game files or my party pictures that are public anyway, I'm fine with that. We all make tradeoffs. That is mine.
So you're ok with it if I poison you only a little bit?
Sure. We do that every day. You think the water you drink is absolutely pure H2O, nothing else in it? You think the organic potato in the ground doesn't have trace amounts of what we might consider poisons in larger doses? We consume up to 50 micrograms of arsenic a day, and some think that very small amounts are a required dietary element in many animals, but lots of arsenic is clearly a poison. Uranium is also naturally found in the soil and sea water.
There is nothing pure about life, nearly everything poisons "only a little bit."
I don't know about GGP, but after growing up in the developing world, drinkable tap water was a novel concept for me.
That's why we call them shit countries. The first world should be held to a higher standard.
The founders of this nation were not conservatives. The conservatives were the ones supporting King George
That's a bit of revisionist history right there.
Boy, you read waaaay into the parent's post and then come out swinging.
In fact, the side you lambaste as liberals, and how VERY telling that you think it's a swear word
Where did the grandparent use liberal as a swear word? Where did he even imply it? The closest might be the "Oddly enough one tends to benefit the strong and the majority group, while the other takes from it" line, but even that is hardly an attack.
Not saying fracking doesn't make things worse, but there have been earthquakes in the Midwest for ages.
One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in U.S. History happened on the Madrid fault in Missouri.
Fuck off you pinko commie prick. It's more likely that the paper has questionable methods and/or conclusions.
Really? That's more likely?
That episode was one of several that hurt my brain. You'd have some fantastic writing and character development, and then you'd get an episode like Profit and Lace thrown in there. Or the Vanessa Williams guest-starring on Risa episode. The series could be fantastic, but it was also so amazingly uneven.
The feeling is unlikely to be mutual.
Depends on the section of Europe. France has long been leery of Muslims, and the UK is starting to move in that direction as well.