So let's see if I've got this straight: Three million MORE Americans voted for Clinton than Trump. But because of an arcane institution invented to protect slave-owners, a few old white men living in all-white, middle-American parasite states that take more money from the federal government than they give back get to determine who is president.
Yet you claim "PC bullshit" is the reason.
And Americans have the nerve to call their country "the greatest democracy in the world". ROFL!
So assuming their legal argument is sound (and it's certainly better than I expected), if I were to request that they edit out just a few irrelevant seconds, and maybe that annoying copyright notice, we're good to go?
Surely this alone is cause for the man to be shot down like a dog!
Had it been known that even a Third World policeman of low rank carried such a primitive, hideously obsolete device, I am certain every Apple fanboi in the Free World would have joined me in calling for his death by slow torture.
Such extreme gaucherie calls for a level of punishment that will deter others from committing this kind of appalling tech faux pas!
I'm happy that you've learned how to cut and paste definitions. This represents a real breakthrough for you! And I'm sure your employer will allow you to package fewer garbage bags and enjoy a little "you time" on the computer. It is, after all, the holiday season.
Commenting about your palpable lack of a three-figure IQ isn't boasting about my IQ. Perhaps you should read up a bit about Dunning-Kruger yourself. Try a place that doesn't use words like "metacognitive", so maybe you'll have a fighting chance of understanding what you're trying to read.
Or perhaps you could just try to improve your reading skills to Grade 5 level. That might work, too.:-)
You're one of those two-figure folks who believe when you throw something up in the air, "supporting evidence" is needed to confirm that it will fall back to Earth.
Communist China knows Trump will roll over and turn a blind eye while they steal all the technology they can get their hands on. If Tesla sets up any kind of manufacturing facility over there, it will be so riddled with surveillance equipment and "employees" who check in with the Party before they clock in at work that there won't be any proprietary tech left to steal after the first few months.
Trump won't go up against the Commies. He's a bully, not a warrior.
That's what actually drove me away. I simply couldn't be bothered. Apparently a lot of people agreed, because the number of people using Firefox has crashed since they decided productivity-oriented people needed to spend time reconfiguring a basic internet tool every few weeks instead of just...using it.
I did the sucky thing by just sidestepping the whole problem...I switched to Pale Moon. They just quit supporting XP, though, so my oldest computer will have to move over to Opera.
Isn't that the browser a lot of people used to use before the developers decided to wreck just about everything they liked in order to turn it into some kind of inferior imitation of Chrome?
On one hand, we have the F-35, which would have to increase its reliability by about 300% just to be called a "trailer queen". Software problems they're admitting include, "shortfalls in electronic warfare, electronic attack, shortfalls in the performance of distributed aperture system and other issues that are classifiedâ. Who knows how bad the situation really is.
And now we're going to have Microsoft provide tech support for that (occasionally) flying bucket of pure fail?
The jokes just write themselves. This is going to be a three ring, slapstick, dollar-sucking shitshow for the ages.
There's a whole list of valid reasons why we're not inundated with neurosurgeons. Yours is well down that lis. The main reason is that many, many children with the intellectual capacity to become neurosurgeons never get the chance, because they can't afford the schooling.
If you've ever sat on a committee charged with the responsibility of awarding a scholarship (I have), you realize very quickly there are thousands of worthy candidates who won't get the money, and that most of them will wind up without access to post-secondary education, or access only to low-end courses that won't lead to any kind of doctorate or medical degree.
True about the inversion, mostly. That's why LA was so bad in the 60's. But even if citizens in red states care about clean air, their bought-and-paid-for legislators don't. Look at the water situation in Flint. People should be in jail over that, but dick all is happening, thanks to Republicans in control of the state.
Thanks to existing treaties, China has no economic need to roll out its green energy sector at the moment. When the effects of Climate Change get so obvious and scary that trading blocks like the EU ban imports from countries that are still pumping out massive quantities of greenhouse gases, they'll be ready to make a quick, easy transition to renewable-based generation. And they'll eat America's lunch.
Actually, it's ridiculously easy to "fuck with people when they've got weapons". Look at the number of Americans who get shot every year by friends, relatives, toddlers, dogs (yes, dogs) and just about anything else that can somehow manage to pull a trigger. The people fucking with you are the people making millions of the Americans' childish fascination with guns. And you love it.
You nailed it. These days, most of the raw stupidity is on the right, but by no means all of it. And that wasn't always the case, either.
The difference is that this time, there's a lot of fossil fuel dollars supporting the denier side. It's ironic, since they're always claiming scientists are getting all kinds of grant money. Apparently it doesn't count that any climate scientist who abandoned their ethics could be rich beyond their wildest dreams if they backed the denier agenda.
I've got lots to say about Climate Change. However, I'm past wasting my time saying it to people who kept claiming there was "no scientific evidence" smoking causes cancer and their willing dupes. There is literally no point in wasting my time on them.
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Thanks for that. Obviously I can't give you mod points, but I'd have given you "Informative", if it were possible.
So let's see if I've got this straight: Three million MORE Americans voted for Clinton than Trump. But because of an arcane institution invented to protect slave-owners, a few old white men living in all-white, middle-American parasite states that take more money from the federal government than they give back get to determine who is president.
Yet you claim "PC bullshit" is the reason.
And Americans have the nerve to call their country "the greatest democracy in the world". ROFL!
So assuming their legal argument is sound (and it's certainly better than I expected), if I were to request that they edit out just a few irrelevant seconds, and maybe that annoying copyright notice, we're good to go?
Sweet!
"One recent study found that isolation increases the risk of heart disease by 29 percent and stroke by 32 percent...."
If all this is true, we Slashdotters are an endangered species. And I'd have to say the proportion who stroke is a lot closer to 100% than 32%.
And if that seven year mortality stat is right, it might be wise to dump any shares you have in Kleenex and Vaseline before the inevitable crash.
Surely this alone is cause for the man to be shot down like a dog!
Had it been known that even a Third World policeman of low rank carried such a primitive, hideously obsolete device, I am certain every Apple fanboi in the Free World would have joined me in calling for his death by slow torture.
Such extreme gaucherie calls for a level of punishment that will deter others from committing this kind of appalling tech faux pas!
I'm happy that you've learned how to cut and paste definitions. This represents a real breakthrough for you! And I'm sure your employer will allow you to package fewer garbage bags and enjoy a little "you time" on the computer. It is, after all, the holiday season.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Commenting about your palpable lack of a three-figure IQ isn't boasting about my IQ. Perhaps you should read up a bit about Dunning-Kruger yourself. Try a place that doesn't use words like "metacognitive", so maybe you'll have a fighting chance of understanding what you're trying to read.
Or perhaps you could just try to improve your reading skills to Grade 5 level. That might work, too. :-)
You're one of those two-figure folks who believe when you throw something up in the air, "supporting evidence" is needed to confirm that it will fall back to Earth.
Thanks for confirming.
Q: "Why do they call it PMS?"
A: "Mad Cow Disease was taken."
Call me when he actually does any of this. Talk is cheap.
We people with three-figure IQ's have this thing called "inductive reasoning". We use it to reach reasonable conclusions based on past performance.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/inductive-reasoning
You're welcome.
Is there anything else I can help you with?
Hilarious!
Communist China knows Trump will roll over and turn a blind eye while they steal all the technology they can get their hands on. If Tesla sets up any kind of manufacturing facility over there, it will be so riddled with surveillance equipment and "employees" who check in with the Party before they clock in at work that there won't be any proprietary tech left to steal after the first few months.
Trump won't go up against the Commies. He's a bully, not a warrior.
That's what actually drove me away. I simply couldn't be bothered. Apparently a lot of people agreed, because the number of people using Firefox has crashed since they decided productivity-oriented people needed to spend time reconfiguring a basic internet tool every few weeks instead of just...using it.
I did the sucky thing by just sidestepping the whole problem...I switched to Pale Moon. They just quit supporting XP, though, so my oldest computer will have to move over to Opera.
Isn't that the browser a lot of people used to use before the developers decided to wreck just about everything they liked in order to turn it into some kind of inferior imitation of Chrome?
On one hand, we have the F-35, which would have to increase its reliability by about 300% just to be called a "trailer queen". Software problems they're admitting include, "shortfalls in electronic warfare, electronic attack, shortfalls in the performance of distributed aperture system and other issues that are classifiedâ. Who knows how bad the situation really is.
And now we're going to have Microsoft provide tech support for that (occasionally) flying bucket of pure fail?
The jokes just write themselves. This is going to be a three ring, slapstick, dollar-sucking shitshow for the ages.
And we're going to have a ringside seat.
There's a whole list of valid reasons why we're not inundated with neurosurgeons. Yours is well down that lis. The main reason is that many, many children with the intellectual capacity to become neurosurgeons never get the chance, because they can't afford the schooling.
If you've ever sat on a committee charged with the responsibility of awarding a scholarship (I have), you realize very quickly there are thousands of worthy candidates who won't get the money, and that most of them will wind up without access to post-secondary education, or access only to low-end courses that won't lead to any kind of doctorate or medical degree.
The lasers...is it possible, just barely possible, that they were mounted on the heads of tiny sharks?
True about the inversion, mostly. That's why LA was so bad in the 60's. But even if citizens in red states care about clean air, their bought-and-paid-for legislators don't. Look at the water situation in Flint. People should be in jail over that, but dick all is happening, thanks to Republicans in control of the state.
Don't worry, folks. By the time Trump has finished dismantling the EPA, US cities will be as bad or worse.
Thanks to existing treaties, China has no economic need to roll out its green energy sector at the moment. When the effects of Climate Change get so obvious and scary that trading blocks like the EU ban imports from countries that are still pumping out massive quantities of greenhouse gases, they'll be ready to make a quick, easy transition to renewable-based generation. And they'll eat America's lunch.
Actually, it's ridiculously easy to "fuck with people when they've got weapons". Look at the number of Americans who get shot every year by friends, relatives, toddlers, dogs (yes, dogs) and just about anything else that can somehow manage to pull a trigger. The people fucking with you are the people making millions of the Americans' childish fascination with guns. And you love it.
You nailed it. These days, most of the raw stupidity is on the right, but by no means all of it. And that wasn't always the case, either.
The difference is that this time, there's a lot of fossil fuel dollars supporting the denier side. It's ironic, since they're always claiming scientists are getting all kinds of grant money. Apparently it doesn't count that any climate scientist who abandoned their ethics could be rich beyond their wildest dreams if they backed the denier agenda.
Toddlers kill more Americans every year than terrorists. Nobody needs to fuck with armed Americans. They fuck with themselves. ROFL.
I've got lots to say about Climate Change. However, I'm past wasting my time saying it to people who kept claiming there was "no scientific evidence" smoking causes cancer and their willing dupes. There is literally no point in wasting my time on them.