Damn...I never seem to have mod points when I really want them.
I can understand why people who know nothing about computers would install 10 and be happy. I have simply never been able to grasp why anybody who has even a little knowledge about what 10 is actually doing, and the implications, would allow it on anything they use for their actual needs.
Sometimes 875 horsepower and a whole bunch of bells and whistles isn't enough. Here's one more reason why farmers might want to send John Deere a Deere John letter.
Could we make it unambiguously legal to shoot these things as long as they aren't actually in flight, then enact legislation requiring them to look like George Bush Junior and Tony Blair?
Apparently even identical twins, maybe even identical twin babies, would fail this test. I'm so glad there's nobody out there who could fool a guy I've know literally since we were infants into walking right up to the wrong person before realizing he'd made a mistake.
I suspect they're unaware that actual humans (and probably most animals) don't necessarily use the same criteria to judge whether somebody is familiar to them.
Very impressive. You can't even stick with your own logic. Obviously you don't understand technology even a little bit, as demonstrated by your failure to grasp how trivially easy it is to assemble information using computers.
Go back to your fingers and toes for arithmetical operations. Anything more would be beyond you.
Poor li'l guy. Tech has eaten you, digested you and shit you out, and you don't have a clue any of it happened.
To use your own silly analogy: Are you seriously unaware that the government now has the capability to look at the address on the outside of the package, then match it up with data concerning what you've bought recently that would fit in the package, where and when you mailed it, and the religion, sexual orientation and profession of the addressee?
You haven't yet grasped that this is a bit of a game-changer? Seriously?
I'll simply do a little research and go with the company that has, in my opinion, done the least harm to First World work forces. There's not that much difference between drives in quality and price. Also, I got over that pernicious "everybody's some degree of evil so you might as well do nothing" argument years ago. On fait c'q'on peut.
And I don't play games on my computers, so I don't need bleeding-edge tech.
I use two computers regularly. I have two others that I employ occasionally, and am gradually being made the steward of quite a lot of others at work. I have another computer under construction. One of those boxes has a Seagate boot drive and a Seagate data drive. They have performed well.
I don't believe for one minute that Seagate's cuts will result in anything even close to the quality of those two drives I have not experienced the quality programs some have, and until this moment, I would have disputed them).
So I have now taken Seagate off my list of potential hardware suppliers. Then can take a long, hard suck on my...whatever.
"What if the aliens end up being forced to work in factories, making shoes up to 18 hours a day?"
Perhaps the aliens have been programmed to love being slaves, and they will be transported to religious ecstasy by the knowledge that the fruits of their labour will be sold in Walmart to people who would rather save a couple of bucks than pay an extra dollar or two to provide a jobs for their fellow Americans.
When Einstein came up with Relativity, there was no way to falsify it, so it wasn't real science. But just about everybody who understood Relativity also understood that it wouldn't always be that way...tools would come along that could either prove it or disprove it.
We're talking about a couple of centuries in the future, right? Surely by then, it would be possible for a person to change their sexual orientation the way we change a shirt. So Sulu starts off gay, decides he doesn't like it, and takes some trivially easy treatment to become heterosexual.
Who knows, maybe he had to hide his new un-gayness from judgmental friends. Either way, he'd be in serious tribble.
Sorry, but you're 100% wrong. Mainstream news media have unfailingly supported the corporate viewpoint for years. The trend started when TV news brought the Vietnam War into America's living rooms, and the so-called "Silent Majority" turned on the corporate money machine and forced an end to that war. That would not be allowed to happen again. Concentration of ownership ensued, and we now have only a handful of major voices left...and they're all singing from the same songbook.
Anybody who believes ground-level journalists have any control over what they're allowed to report is utterly naive.
Beautiful straw man you've built yourself, there! Congratulations.
The people I know who believe Assange, Snowden and Manning did a great service for their country (and many others) generally believe going after political figures for stuff like this in the US is a mug's game. If they couldn't do better than a "no contest" plea against Spiro Agnew, they'll never get anybody.
You're right about skill sets, but Atkinson was being modest. I've seen him interviewed, and he was anything but boring. And just a little FYI: Top Gear was a bit more scripted than it seemed. It wouldn't have been a big stretch to provide lines for Atkinson, if he actually needed them.
Here's an example of Atkinson chatting with Jay Leno...about cars, among other things. He seems relaxed and easy-going, and amusing rather than drop-dead hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With Atkinson, I think they could even have gone beyond just trying to clone Clarkson, May and Hammond. They could have gone for a completely different dynamic and had a reasonable chance of making it work.
The bonus is that then, with any luck, we'd have had TWO great shows to watch.
"Little choice" but to fire Clarkson? That's hilarious. A child-molesting pervert hunted on BBC premises for close to half a century, claiming nearly 600 victims. Their upper management claimed they had no idea.
And yet, Jimmy Savile spent half a century raping his way through nearly 600 children while the Beeb's management feigned ignorance of his depredations.
Are you really so simple-minded you don't understand how having others in your community who are employed and paying taxes actually benefits you more than having them out of work and consuming your tax dollars?
And yes, in cases Walmart, it actually is really easy to tell where the money is going.
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Now, now...play nicely. Don't go upsetting the sheeple.
Damn...I never seem to have mod points when I really want them.
I can understand why people who know nothing about computers would install 10 and be happy. I have simply never been able to grasp why anybody who has even a little knowledge about what 10 is actually doing, and the implications, would allow it on anything they use for their actual needs.
Here's something you just might be able to understand: Go fuck yourself with a rusty pipe, moron. If you die of it, the world's average IQ will go up.
Sometimes 875 horsepower and a whole bunch of bells and whistles isn't enough. Here's one more reason why farmers might want to send John Deere a Deere John letter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLQhvruimfs
Could we make it unambiguously legal to shoot these things as long as they aren't actually in flight, then enact legislation requiring them to look like George Bush Junior and Tony Blair?
Apparently even identical twins, maybe even identical twin babies, would fail this test. I'm so glad there's nobody out there who could fool a guy I've know literally since we were infants into walking right up to the wrong person before realizing he'd made a mistake.
I suspect they're unaware that actual humans (and probably most animals) don't necessarily use the same criteria to judge whether somebody is familiar to them.
Very impressive. You can't even stick with your own logic. Obviously you don't understand technology even a little bit, as demonstrated by your failure to grasp how trivially easy it is to assemble information using computers.
Go back to your fingers and toes for arithmetical operations. Anything more would be beyond you.
Poor li'l guy. Tech has eaten you, digested you and shit you out, and you don't have a clue any of it happened.
Sigh... (facepalm)
To use your own silly analogy: Are you seriously unaware that the government now has the capability to look at the address on the outside of the package, then match it up with data concerning what you've bought recently that would fit in the package, where and when you mailed it, and the religion, sexual orientation and profession of the addressee?
You haven't yet grasped that this is a bit of a game-changer? Seriously?
I'll simply do a little research and go with the company that has, in my opinion, done the least harm to First World work forces. There's not that much difference between drives in quality and price. Also, I got over that pernicious "everybody's some degree of evil so you might as well do nothing" argument years ago. On fait c'q'on peut.
And I don't play games on my computers, so I don't need bleeding-edge tech.
Thank you for that information. I guess maybe I've been a bit lucky.
I use two computers regularly. I have two others that I employ occasionally, and am gradually being made the steward of quite a lot of others at work. I have another computer under construction. One of those boxes has a Seagate boot drive and a Seagate data drive. They have performed well.
I don't believe for one minute that Seagate's cuts will result in anything even close to the quality of those two drives I have not experienced the quality programs some have, and until this moment, I would have disputed them). So I have now taken Seagate off my list of potential hardware suppliers. Then can take a long, hard suck on my...whatever.
Please try to be useful for once in your life and suck a bunch of cocks.
"What if the aliens end up being forced to work in factories, making shoes up to 18 hours a day?"
Perhaps the aliens have been programmed to love being slaves, and they will be transported to religious ecstasy by the knowledge that the fruits of their labour will be sold in Walmart to people who would rather save a couple of bucks than pay an extra dollar or two to provide a jobs for their fellow Americans.
When Einstein came up with Relativity, there was no way to falsify it, so it wasn't real science. But just about everybody who understood Relativity also understood that it wouldn't always be that way...tools would come along that could either prove it or disprove it.
We're talking about a couple of centuries in the future, right? Surely by then, it would be possible for a person to change their sexual orientation the way we change a shirt. So Sulu starts off gay, decides he doesn't like it, and takes some trivially easy treatment to become heterosexual.
Who knows, maybe he had to hide his new un-gayness from judgmental friends. Either way, he'd be in serious tribble.
Sorry, but you're 100% wrong. Mainstream news media have unfailingly supported the corporate viewpoint for years. The trend started when TV news brought the Vietnam War into America's living rooms, and the so-called "Silent Majority" turned on the corporate money machine and forced an end to that war. That would not be allowed to happen again. Concentration of ownership ensued, and we now have only a handful of major voices left...and they're all singing from the same songbook.
Anybody who believes ground-level journalists have any control over what they're allowed to report is utterly naive.
Beautiful straw man you've built yourself, there! Congratulations.
The people I know who believe Assange, Snowden and Manning did a great service for their country (and many others) generally believe going after political figures for stuff like this in the US is a mug's game. If they couldn't do better than a "no contest" plea against Spiro Agnew, they'll never get anybody.
Hmmm. Justice Department legal experts, or some loser with a tinfoil hat and an axe to grind...whose opinion is more credible?
Tough choice.
You're right about skill sets, but Atkinson was being modest. I've seen him interviewed, and he was anything but boring. And just a little FYI: Top Gear was a bit more scripted than it seemed. It wouldn't have been a big stretch to provide lines for Atkinson, if he actually needed them.
Here's an example of Atkinson chatting with Jay Leno...about cars, among other things. He seems relaxed and easy-going, and amusing rather than drop-dead hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
With Atkinson, I think they could even have gone beyond just trying to clone Clarkson, May and Hammond. They could have gone for a completely different dynamic and had a reasonable chance of making it work.
The bonus is that then, with any luck, we'd have had TWO great shows to watch.
Excellent idea! Leno's another guy who can talk cars all day long, and make it interesting.
If I had mod points, I'd give you one. I suspect not many people here know that Rowan Atkinson is a hard-core car fanatic who knows his subject.
If they managed to sign him up, I'd certainly start watching again.
"Little choice" but to fire Clarkson? That's hilarious. A child-molesting pervert hunted on BBC premises for close to half a century, claiming nearly 600 victims. Their upper management claimed they had no idea.
So yes, they had a choice.
And yet, Jimmy Savile spent half a century raping his way through nearly 600 children while the Beeb's management feigned ignorance of his depredations.
Are you really so simple-minded you don't understand how having others in your community who are employed and paying taxes actually benefits you more than having them out of work and consuming your tax dollars?
And yes, in cases Walmart, it actually is really easy to tell where the money is going.