If your definition is correct, why are the results of every "left wing" government less liberty, greater inequality and more division?
This is why it's almost impossible to have political conversations involving Americans these days. Before you can even start, you first have to face the legions of cultural myths that Americans take as gospel that just have absolutely nothing to do with reality.
Please, nobody is better at ignoring hard evidence than the left. Bad as all politicians are, right wing ones are still a lot less scaring than our new overlords from the left.
Wow. I'm always amazed at how much bullshit and projection rightwingers can compress into such small sentences. It's a sort of awesome literary feat, how you can fit so many completely false world views into so few words. It would be very difficult to write conservative characters with the same convincing density of completely wrong opinions.
No, his description of conservatives is entirely accurate. It's easy to find examples of conservatives glorifying ignorance on most web forums. If you think such people don't exist, then you're indulging in the same kind of deluded, wishful thinking that you're accusing in others.
That's because Republicans are just like Lucy with her football. Don't know why Democrats keep playing that game. They keep expecting a different outcome, just like Charlie Brown.
No, his entire post is based on our history within our lifetimes and all of his claims are easily verified.
Your post, however, was nothing but links to right-wing spew sites that are currently occupied with the business of rewriting their own movement's history because that history is repellent to a growing number of voters. That's not a trend that's going to change as the only people left still swallowing the shit you're shoveling are dying off and not being replaced.
Anytime someone disses the Beatles all they're doing is revealing they have no sensitivity whatsoever to what makes music great.
I'd bet my life that people will still be listening to the Beatles in a 100 years. They'll be listening to very little of the mass-marketed crap that passes for music today.
And there will always be new Beatles fans, just because the music is that good. I have a nine year old son and half a dozen teenage cousins. Every one of them thinks the Beatles rock, because they hear their music for the first time and think "Oh my god, these are good songs compared to what I'm hearing on the radio".
I think the generation coming up is going to be a lot more sophisticated about music and they won't be as taken in by hip hop poseurs, American Idol wannabes, and pretty teenage dancers masquerading as musicians. They seem to be a lot more resistant to advertising bullshit than the current crop of young adults.
I'm not certain they even needed a warrant. I've heard from people before that you absolutely do not want to fuck with the fire department. They have even broader authority to enter a house than the police if they suspect a fire hazard. But I couldn't tell you for sure if that is true. Because I don't fuck with the fire department.
I did something you didn't. I read the fucking article.
Firefighters found more than 1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement Tuesday afternoon, after they responded to an unrelated fire in an air conditioner on the second floor of the home.
Vessels of chemicals were all over the furniture and the floor, authorities said. The ensuing investigation involved a state hazardous materials team, fire and police officials, health officials, environmental officials and code enforcement officials. The Deebs were told to stay in a hotel while the slew of officials investigated and emptied the basement.
There was a fire, and he had a shitload of chemicals improperly stored in a residential neighbourhood. Can you connect the dots, Mr. Libertarian Crusader?
I'm sure if this was your neighbour and his next "accident" managed to burn your house down, you'd be the first one filing a lawsuit against the man plus any authorities that knew about this situation but did nothing to rectify it. Something tells me your high-flying rhetoric would be immediately forgotten, assuming your were lucky enough to survive the experience. Self-styled "Libertarians" are always people who want to evade responsibility for following any reasonable rule themselves, but immediately scream "there oughta be a law!" when they suffer the consequences of an encounter with someone was self-centred and childish as they are.
I found out all I wanted to know from Amazon -- the book is 960 pages long. The guy still doesn't have an editor with the balls to say no. Until he finds one, I can't get too excited about a new Neal Stephenson novel.
Snow Crash was great. Cryptonomicon would have been great if he'd cut at least 300 pages of fluff. I didn't even bother with the Baroque books.
You can install AVG without Link Scanner if you make a shortcut to the AVG install, and then right-click, select properties, and then add this to the filename in the target field:
Then just run your modified shortcut every time you want to install AVG on a machine. This way it won't nag you with the "you are not protected" exclamation mark for not installing Link Scanner, either.
This will be good enough for any people you support who are used to AVG and don't want to switch to another AV product. I agree with others that AVG has probably jumped the shark with version 8, though.
I'm using one of those, too. I agree with everything you say. I've had several friends generously offer to trade me their new keyboards for this one.
It's got just the right amount of feedback as you hit the keys, but it's not unnecessarily loud. Why would someone want an overly loud keyboard? That sounds like a design flaw to me, not a point of pride.
And you're so right about the arrow keys and 3x2 block. The old layouts had it right with three pairs of functionally related keys -- insert/delete, home/end, and page up/page down. Why muck that up by rearranging them?
Several times I've heard on here that Bell throttles torrents but I don't know what the full situation is. Can anyone explain?
I've got the Bell Sympatico Ultra DSL service (5 Mbps connection) in Ontario and I download torrents like crazy. It's not uncommon for me to get 200-300 K per second on a particular torrent. So what's going on here?
In the first Call of Duty, that didn't happen. So you could pick many different strategies to clean out an area. Starting with the first expansion pack, you started to get these endless waves of orc-like enemies that you could shoot until you ran out of ammo. Really damaged the immersion factor a lot. I hope someone figures that out for the next game in the series.
I won't claim to have played all recent first-person shooters, but I've played quite a few, and there were many things in Call of Duty 4 I've never seen before. Examples:
The AC-130 mission
The sinking ship mission
The sniping from a mile away mission, particularly since you had to carry around your wounded partner and "place" him before you could fight
The shocker at the end of the "shock and awe" mission. That knocked me on my ass.
The way bullets penetrate surfaces depending on the gun and material the target is hiding behind
The flash-bang grenades
The arcade mode after you finish the mission
The ending -- won't say anything more about that
There are many clone FPS games out there with no innovation. This one wasn't one of them.
And the stuff that was tried-and-true ground was done in a pretty spectacular manner, too. All in all, an excellent game, if too short.
Yes, they certainly have been downloaded. Most of them are sitting on my shelf in a DVD case.
My favourite place for comic downloads is zcultfm.com. Get yourself a membership there and check the "newest submissions" forum every day. You'll never lack for comics again.
Or, if you don't want to bother with that, just go to the bittorent site of your choice and type in "dcp" for "digital comics preservation". You'll see weekly packs of new releases there.
To read the nifty.cbr and.cbz formats, get a program called "cdisplay". cbr and cbz are just rars and zips of jpegs, so you can easily create your own "comic book" files of photographs if you choose and use cdisplay to read those, too. cbr and cbz are interchangable as far as cdisplay is concerned. It's really a pretty useful image viewing program.
Comparing these things to nukes really underestimates the power of a nuke. Consider the wikipedia entry on the Moab.
It's got a yield of 11 tons of TNT. That means the Hiroshima bomb, at approximately 15 kilotons, was about 1300 times stronger. And a Minuteman ICBM, at 1.2 megatons, is 109,000 times stronger. The Tsar Bomba weapon had a yield equal to about 40 Minutemen, or around 4.4 million Moabs.
I know there's additional factors when it comes to amount of destruction inflicted, but still, it's clear that these fuel-air devices are a drop in the ocean compared to a nuke.
The phrase "weapon of mass destruction" annoys me because it equates so many lesser things with nukes, which are, in my opinion, the only WMD, other than perhaps a really vicious plague weapon the likes of which we haven't yet seen.
But you personally won't do any of those things, will you? And you won't do any of the things the Greenpeace guy mentioned either. Hell, you don't even have the guts to log in and post under a pseudonym.
Bravery is for other people, right? Just like sacrifice and death abroad.
"Fortunately, if there are US christians who openly advocated violence against other countries in order to convert their population, they are not in positions of power."
Other than your commander-in-chief, who said that God directly told him to bring war to the Muslims. And your Lt. Gen. William G. 'Jerry' Boykin, who was put in charge of hunting down Osama himself, who said "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol." And your 100,000 strong, Christian mercenary group Blackwater, currently providing "security" in Iraq, and ready to also provide "security" in the USA in the event of "civil emergencies". And your various neocon celebrities who meet at prayer breakfasts, break bread, and discuss plans to increase the world wide body count of Muslims.
They went to war, lived through hell, watched their friends die, and then came back and told their own sons that if they didn't march in any war, any time, for any reason, whenever the government told them to, they would no longer be any sons of theirs. This willingness to see their children die for no reason just because they had to go to war themselves is what makes them the greatest generation. They ensured a steady stream of cannon fodder for America's wars. They enshrined the principle that to question your government is to be a traitor, and that it's every young man's duty to risk death in a foreign war. And if it wasn't for those two streams of thought in American society, we wouldn't have the glorious war in Iraq, would we? And the coming wars in Iran, Syria, and, hopefully, Pakistan, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia.
Because it's currently the Muslims that are invading countries and attempting to mold them into clones of their own nations, trying to get others to adopt their political, legal, and economic systems, right? It's those damn Muslims who have their soldiers' boots in other countries telling the people there how to live, isn't it?
And you're also clearly correct about Israel. It's obvious that the Muslim world does not care about what happens in Israel and Palestine so we should all just "stay the course" there. After all, there's no profit in changing any of our policies there.
I applaud you for your insight and acumen. Your +5 insightful modifier is fully deserved.
He questions why a silly article about GI Joe written by political zealots is on the front page and somehow you take from that the opportunity to tar him as a socialist? Which of course in American wingnut lingo is just a weasel word for "communist".
In your case your professors should be issuing refunds, not just apologies.
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And if you believe that, you'd score lowest of all. What's that make you, the mold on the sludge on the bottom of the coffee?
It's your kind of people that continues to fund the drug cartels in central and south america.
No, it's people who believe in drug prohibition who continue to fund drug cartels throughout the world. Are you such a person?
If your definition is correct, why are the results of every "left wing" government less liberty, greater inequality and more division?
This is why it's almost impossible to have political conversations involving Americans these days. Before you can even start, you first have to face the legions of cultural myths that Americans take as gospel that just have absolutely nothing to do with reality.
Please, nobody is better at ignoring hard evidence than the left. Bad as all politicians are, right wing ones are still a lot less scaring than our new overlords from the left.
Wow. I'm always amazed at how much bullshit and projection rightwingers can compress into such small sentences. It's a sort of awesome literary feat, how you can fit so many completely false world views into so few words. It would be very difficult to write conservative characters with the same convincing density of completely wrong opinions.
No, his description of conservatives is entirely accurate. It's easy to find examples of conservatives glorifying ignorance on most web forums. If you think such people don't exist, then you're indulging in the same kind of deluded, wishful thinking that you're accusing in others.
That's because Republicans are just like Lucy with her football. Don't know why Democrats keep playing that game. They keep expecting a different outcome, just like Charlie Brown.
Right Fucking On. Wish I had mod points for you.
No, his entire post is based on our history within our lifetimes and all of his claims are easily verified.
Your post, however, was nothing but links to right-wing spew sites that are currently occupied with the business of rewriting their own movement's history because that history is repellent to a growing number of voters. That's not a trend that's going to change as the only people left still swallowing the shit you're shoveling are dying off and not being replaced.
Anytime someone disses the Beatles all they're doing is revealing they have no sensitivity whatsoever to what makes music great.
I'd bet my life that people will still be listening to the Beatles in a 100 years. They'll be listening to very little of the mass-marketed crap that passes for music today.
And there will always be new Beatles fans, just because the music is that good. I have a nine year old son and half a dozen teenage cousins. Every one of them thinks the Beatles rock, because they hear their music for the first time and think "Oh my god, these are good songs compared to what I'm hearing on the radio".
I think the generation coming up is going to be a lot more sophisticated about music and they won't be as taken in by hip hop poseurs, American Idol wannabes, and pretty teenage dancers masquerading as musicians. They seem to be a lot more resistant to advertising bullshit than the current crop of young adults.
Must be because of better parenting :)
I'm not certain they even needed a warrant. I've heard from people before that you absolutely do not want to fuck with the fire department. They have even broader authority to enter a house than the police if they suspect a fire hazard. But I couldn't tell you for sure if that is true. Because I don't fuck with the fire department.
I did something you didn't. I read the fucking article.
There was a fire, and he had a shitload of chemicals improperly stored in a residential neighbourhood. Can you connect the dots, Mr. Libertarian Crusader?
I'm sure if this was your neighbour and his next "accident" managed to burn your house down, you'd be the first one filing a lawsuit against the man plus any authorities that knew about this situation but did nothing to rectify it. Something tells me your high-flying rhetoric would be immediately forgotten, assuming your were lucky enough to survive the experience. Self-styled "Libertarians" are always people who want to evade responsibility for following any reasonable rule themselves, but immediately scream "there oughta be a law!" when they suffer the consequences of an encounter with someone was self-centred and childish as they are.
I found out all I wanted to know from Amazon -- the book is 960 pages long. The guy still doesn't have an editor with the balls to say no. Until he finds one, I can't get too excited about a new Neal Stephenson novel.
Snow Crash was great. Cryptonomicon would have been great if he'd cut at least 300 pages of fluff. I didn't even bother with the Baroque books.
He's very self-indulgent as a writer.
You can install AVG without Link Scanner if you make a shortcut to the AVG install, and then right-click, select properties, and then add this to the filename in the target field:
/REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSurf /REMOVE_FEATURE fea_AVG_SafeSearch
Then just run your modified shortcut every time you want to install AVG on a machine. This way it won't nag you with the "you are not protected" exclamation mark for not installing Link Scanner, either.
This will be good enough for any people you support who are used to AVG and don't want to switch to another AV product. I agree with others that AVG has probably jumped the shark with version 8, though.
I'm using one of those, too. I agree with everything you say. I've had several friends generously offer to trade me their new keyboards for this one.
It's got just the right amount of feedback as you hit the keys, but it's not unnecessarily loud. Why would someone want an overly loud keyboard? That sounds like a design flaw to me, not a point of pride.
And you're so right about the arrow keys and 3x2 block. The old layouts had it right with three pairs of functionally related keys -- insert/delete, home/end, and page up/page down. Why muck that up by rearranging them?
Several times I've heard on here that Bell throttles torrents but I don't know what the full situation is. Can anyone explain?
I've got the Bell Sympatico Ultra DSL service (5 Mbps connection) in Ontario and I download torrents like crazy. It's not uncommon for me to get 200-300 K per second on a particular torrent. So what's going on here?
In the first Call of Duty, that didn't happen. So you could pick many different strategies to clean out an area. Starting with the first expansion pack, you started to get these endless waves of orc-like enemies that you could shoot until you ran out of ammo. Really damaged the immersion factor a lot. I hope someone figures that out for the next game in the series.
There are many clone FPS games out there with no innovation. This one wasn't one of them.
And the stuff that was tried-and-true ground was done in a pretty spectacular manner, too. All in all, an excellent game, if too short.
Yes, they certainly have been downloaded. Most of them are sitting on my shelf in a DVD case.
.cbr and .cbz formats, get a program called "cdisplay". cbr and cbz are just rars and zips of jpegs, so you can easily create your own "comic book" files of photographs if you choose and use cdisplay to read those, too. cbr and cbz are interchangable as far as cdisplay is concerned. It's really a pretty useful image viewing program.
My favourite place for comic downloads is zcultfm.com. Get yourself a membership there and check the "newest submissions" forum every day. You'll never lack for comics again.
Or, if you don't want to bother with that, just go to the bittorent site of your choice and type in "dcp" for "digital comics preservation". You'll see weekly packs of new releases there.
To read the nifty
I stopped at one.
Glad I did.
Comparing these things to nukes really underestimates the power of a nuke. Consider the wikipedia entry on the Moab.
It's got a yield of 11 tons of TNT. That means the Hiroshima bomb, at approximately 15 kilotons, was about 1300 times stronger. And a Minuteman ICBM, at 1.2 megatons, is 109,000 times stronger. The Tsar Bomba weapon had a yield equal to about 40 Minutemen, or around 4.4 million Moabs.
I know there's additional factors when it comes to amount of destruction inflicted, but still, it's clear that these fuel-air devices are a drop in the ocean compared to a nuke.
The phrase "weapon of mass destruction" annoys me because it equates so many lesser things with nukes, which are, in my opinion, the only WMD, other than perhaps a really vicious plague weapon the likes of which we haven't yet seen.
But you personally won't do any of those things, will you? And you won't do any of the things the Greenpeace guy mentioned either. Hell, you don't even have the guts to log in and post under a pseudonym.
Bravery is for other people, right? Just like sacrifice and death abroad.
"Fortunately, if there are US christians who openly advocated violence against other countries in order to convert their population, they are not in positions of power."
Other than your commander-in-chief, who said that God directly told him to bring war to the Muslims. And your Lt. Gen. William G. 'Jerry' Boykin, who was put in charge of hunting down Osama himself, who said "I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol." And your 100,000 strong, Christian mercenary group Blackwater, currently providing "security" in Iraq, and ready to also provide "security" in the USA in the event of "civil emergencies". And your various neocon celebrities who meet at prayer breakfasts, break bread, and discuss plans to increase the world wide body count of Muslims.
Jesus would approve.
They went to war, lived through hell, watched their friends die, and then came back and told their own sons that if they didn't march in any war, any time, for any reason, whenever the government told them to, they would no longer be any sons of theirs. This willingness to see their children die for no reason just because they had to go to war themselves is what makes them the greatest generation. They ensured a steady stream of cannon fodder for America's wars. They enshrined the principle that to question your government is to be a traitor, and that it's every young man's duty to risk death in a foreign war. And if it wasn't for those two streams of thought in American society, we wouldn't have the glorious war in Iraq, would we? And the coming wars in Iran, Syria, and, hopefully, Pakistan, Sudan, and Saudi Arabia.
Because it's currently the Muslims that are invading countries and attempting to mold them into clones of their own nations, trying to get others to adopt their political, legal, and economic systems, right? It's those damn Muslims who have their soldiers' boots in other countries telling the people there how to live, isn't it?
And you're also clearly correct about Israel. It's obvious that the Muslim world does not care about what happens in Israel and Palestine so we should all just "stay the course" there. After all, there's no profit in changing any of our policies there.
I applaud you for your insight and acumen. Your +5 insightful modifier is fully deserved.
He questions why a silly article about GI Joe written by political zealots is on the front page and somehow you take from that the opportunity to tar him as a socialist? Which of course in American wingnut lingo is just a weasel word for "communist".
In your case your professors should be issuing refunds, not just apologies.