Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
It's because the other side believes might makes right, and like to burn down black churches.
Sure. Ask James Damore about that.
All he had to do to invoke the SJW/"progressive" wrath was to quote actual scientific research debunking the idea of a discrimination-based "pay gap" between men and women.
Anndddd the biggest non-sequitur goes to you dear sir. One each underwent is your reward. But you can bring your reward to the entire internet. How?
You forgot to add Global warming denial, Obama's Birth certificate, Intelligent design faked moon landing and Chemtrails to your argument.
Seriously, if your goal is to be laughed at, you have succeeded beyond most people's ability.
As Ghandi said, the world has a problem, and nuclear tipped missiles are the cure for it.
Clearly we need to replace passwords with a chip or mark or tattoo in the palms of the hands and on the foreheads / retinas, etc. Then we need to make sure that people can't buy or sell without taking these marks on themselves. Naturally cash will have to be eliminated. This way we can control and identify what the people spend their money on and we can use this information to further oppress and bind them down into abject bondage and suffering. Yep, that's the ticket. No more anonymity, all must bow down and accept the will of Evil. Every citizen a slave.
I had no idea that Pat Robertson was on Slashdot! You forgot the part where God will fix this problem if we just get rid of all the "homos".
PS and I've seen arguments that renewables can't supply much of our energy because of bad forecasts like these. We knew those arguments were wrong and now with renewables making up large percentages of energy usage in many countries we've been proven right. Both wind and solar can each provide as much energy as the world uses.
Oh boy, is the coal brigade ever going to swarm all over you!
But yer not wrong. Obviously the coal and increasingly the petrochemical industries are finding useful idiots who are stuck in the 1960's with regards to their understanding of energy production.
Meanwhile I can see the wind turbines not too far away providing enough power that they are moving beyond just peaking. And the solar installs are popping up everywhere, with many eschewing the grid period.
We can see solar installations in Alaska, previously cited as a useless place for solar, but it turns out they can save a lot of money and safety factor by saving the diesel fuel for winter when the sun don't shine. Kinda weird looking at circular solar arrays though.
People can go to Harbor Freight and buy solar panels. A 100 watt one is $149.00 at the moment.
Solar systems are now about $3.17 per installed watt to start with. That's a 10 percent drop from 2016. http://news.energysage.com/how... That makes a 10 KiloWatt system cost around $22K.
And if you aren't building in a place already served by mains power, you might be surprised how much installing the mains power will set you back. Old commie FDR's Rural Electrification Project isn't around any more, so you pay for the poles, the wires, and the transformers and installation of each out of your own pocket
Times change, and we don't use steam locomotives to get around any more, or DC mains, and outside of the Amish, horse drawn buggies are used for entertainment.
Now the unemployed coal miners that we are supposedly going to put back to work mining coal, a Government assisted project worthy of old commie FDR - howbow we set the lads up with work involving production of newer energy sources and the equipment involved with it? The rest of the world moves forward while many of us seem dead set on heading back to the late 1940's.
Is it just me, or does it seem like allegedly should have another d in it?
Got me! With my talent of making spelling mistakes, I looked it up because I thought I might have had it wrong
Clearly, if your offense is of the type inclusive of the termchild abuse you will be judged more harshly.
Fair? Maybe not, but we have to believe in something.
We'll see how it works out. I'm willing to say innocent until proven guilty, but the kid under 10 allegation does tend to naturally repulse me, as likely most people. Anyhow, this guy had other charges as well, although the attempted murder charge was dropped.
True, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but that doesn't mean we can't comment on it.
Perhaps this would soothe your angst:
The alleged list of alleged felony charges includes alleged assault with a alleged deadly weapon, alleged child abuse, alleged lewd act upon a alleged child and alleged oral copulation of a alleged person under 10.
It's only for non-urgent operations. The powers that be in the merrie old land of England just want these people to wait until their condition worsens to the point where it becomes urgent. Then its all good.
Sigh.... "Speaking American" is a reference to Republican intellectual leader Saraah Palin, calling for immigrants to "speak American" https://www.inquisitr.com/2399...
Yes, almost all of us know that most Americans speak either English or Spanish. American is not a language except to idiots. So massive whooshies to y'all.
This is just another example of why I don't trust Facebook and do not have an account with them.
You never signed up for an account with them. That doesn't mean that there isn't a nice fat DB entry with your name and all the information they can gather. Did you sign up for Equifax?
Install noscript and look at the scripts it's blocking. Look, em up to see who's collecting the data. Facebook is tracking you even if you've never had an account there.
Well, if you run your network like a college campus, you probably wouldn't know if you're being hacked.
So... let's put it that way, when you're blind, you can't see the elephant standing in front of you as long as he doesn't step on your foot.
I'd be a little worried though if I was a present employee. The cultural differences between the two areas, college campus and defense contractor are pretty extreme. And it may be presumed that they have people of the college campus mindset at present. So when do they start lining up the employees for the polygraph tests?
É uma atitude realmente imbecil achar que todo mundo que te critica ou que discorda de você só pode ser o "malvado inimigo" não é à toa que todo mundo anda querendo varrer os EUA do mapa.
Stupid? of course it is stupid. But it is stupid replies to stupid, which is always richly deserved. Pizzagate? Stupid. "But her emails!" ? muito e stúpido
It is an earned response to the trolls, and if a post appears to be a Russian troll, it gets the treatment. It won't always be correct of course. Fox News has cultivated a group of Americans that eventually went so batshit crazy over the Kenyan terror baby president that when Putin rolls up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a T-14, they will cheer like no tomorrow. But they hate the USA, anyone who doesn't agree with their crypto-politics, and function as useful idiots for the division efforts
And it appears that you will be quite pleased as well when we meet our end. The old admonition applies however. Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it.
No doubt that something our countries share, the huge fires - you can be happy that some Americans were killed, meanwhile I offer my sympathy for the poor people in Portugal who died in their cars while trying to escape the fires. That is no way to die - horrível.
Yes, that's really exactly it. The "suits" have no idea how the day to day business is run. My company recently offered early retirement for 55 and older - and lost a huge amount of talent that left the company reeling for a couple of years.
There is a certain contempt that a lot of people have for people who are not doing what they do. Many suits are convinced that the only difficult work in the world is performed by an MBA. Many accountants are hopelessly caught up in the Excel spreadsheets, and have absolutely no idea of human knowledge and psychology.
So every job in the company is legal theft according to the suits, who are upset that such stupid people are even allowed to draw a paycheck, bolstered by the accountants insistance that those stupid and overly expensive older employees can be replaced by fresh young college graduates who know so much more.
Then the confirmation bias sets in as the inexperienced noobs flounder around.
In Soviet America, everything is illegal. You are always watched, always under suspicion, always already guilty. Please report to your nearest Gulag camp for a lifetime of state sanctioned forced sodomy. Thank you for your compliance. Good bless America, death to the Russians, and fuck you plebs that's why.
You ignored that talk we had about your Krokidil use didn't you, Anatoly?
I cringe when I see the videos of people being dusted with that stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... And there is a video of San Antonia Texas being swamped with DDT in some kind or weird attempt to combat Polio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Which disease is spread mostly by fecal matter, not bugs.
A nasty poison that has a weird cult following, of it's mythical status. I wonder if these folk would like to go back to using Paris Green, a mixture of Copper II acetate and lead arsenide?
We obviously are tied to our insecticides at this point, but a story about a friend of mine might serve as a warning A great and otherwise brilliant guy, he was a fan of DDT, and was pissed by "those liberals" that got it banned. He used Seven, and sprayed his fruit trees and garden every year with it, and didn't use any protective gear, he just wore a shirt and pants and shoes. Amazing the trees got pollinated, because Sevin is hell on bees. I told him that pesticide toxicity doesn't know politics, and he guffawed at that. He told me the only effect it had on him was "some diarrhea", but that was gone a day or two later.
Well, Sevin is a broad spectrum insecticide, a carbamate that targets nerves and muscle tissues. Today, he has a hella case of Parkinsonism, and is a shell of his former self. They don't even want you de-tasseling corn for the better part of a month after using that, and he was essentially showering in the stuff. That really sucks.
I mean FUCK it. Can you lick the boots of the G-men any more vigorously than parroting their redbaiting poison?
I lick no one's boots, Mikhail. I do however understand computers and the internet.
So if by some chance I had anything to put on a computer that I didn't want someone to see, it would be on a computer that never saw the internet and have no nic. It would have the exterior USB ports all destroyed except those I absolutely need, they would be securely fastened. It would be in a Faraday cage inside a locked room inside a locked cabinet when not in use If anyone wanted to use this device, I would do the entry for them, as no one would be allowed to touch the computer except me.
there is no possible way to make a computer on the internet secure - that is all, Mikhail, no amount of your invective will change that.
Hey, let's have some fun Mikhail - Write something really really bad about Putin for us.
Not really an option in many cases. Nothing against linux but many users have to use Windows for one reason or another. Once you are on the platform you have to deal with Microsoft but I'd be reluctant to involve additional security vendors if I don't absolutely have to.
Well then you have to take as much shit as Microsoft feels like giving you. My sympathy is you have no opetion other than Microsoft. That's like an abusive marriage where teh abused partner won't leave because he or she feels they have no choice.
Ya, but people see youngsters on TV shows like Mr. Robot and MacGyver who seemingly know everything and can do anything on/with a computer and think that an actual thing.
Oh gawd, the weird "children will teach the parents" BS. You see so much of this social engineering on television, even movies. The child is invariably more emotionally mature, and much smarter than the parent, espscially the father, and the whole attitude persists throughout their childhood and education. I have one adult child I'm working with right now who is trying to educate me on something he has 1 years experience with, and I have 15 now. Demanding to implement all the ideas I tried long ago when I didn't know any better. My problem is I want to step in, but my boss says let him fall on his ass and get a little humility. The boss is right, but dammit, Gromit!
Who are these mythical "older workforce" people that refused to stay current? I know exactly one guy like that. I sure have kept up, and I started in the 70's on batch FORTRAN.
Exactly. After retirement, I was called back into work on an emergency hire to do all the things the smart new folks just out of college couldn't do. And it wasn't old school stuff.
The young folk especially, fresh out of college, with ultra high self esteem, ready to move to management in a month because they knew the straight dope, and were going to change the world after righteously wresting it from teh cold dead hands of thos old folks who they were much better than.
And then they found out that they didn't know half of what they did. And then it go weird. They started treating the older people like servants. A typical response would be to try to slough off work onto me when they didn't know how to do it. One young woman I caught pawning work off to me, and I caught her busy with her social media all day. You would thiing they understood how easy it is to find out what you are doing on teh intertoobz. Told her I assigned the work, and if she didn't know how she had to learn quickly. Fortunately or unfortunately, she took the Millenial exit eventually, quitting with no new job, and moving in with grandma. But this has been the case with most of them, coming in, expecting to turn the world upside down, than crashing and burning after learning that the world no longer revolved around them. GenX'ers only have the normal good employee to bad employee ratio. They were fine. To the point where I recommended 40 and up for hires.
The real reason why any ageism exists is because the suits want to pay an entry level employee less money and create an artificial profit until you have to hire the olde fartes back.
Never stopped these days to think about how much the United States are the actual threat for everyone, judging by their current acts? Brazil, for example, is at this very moment being destroyed by an illegitimate government controlled behind the scenes by US corporations and politicians, not russsians.
That's Hillary, Obama and Clinton doing that. Didn't you read that in her emails there Boris? And Pizzagate is real, you bastards!!!!
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
It's because the other side believes might makes right, and like to burn down black churches.
Sure. Ask James Damore about that.
All he had to do to invoke the SJW/"progressive" wrath was to quote actual scientific research debunking the idea of a discrimination-based "pay gap" between men and women.
Anndddd the biggest non-sequitur goes to you dear sir. One each underwent is your reward. But you can bring your reward to the entire internet. How? You forgot to add Global warming denial, Obama's Birth certificate, Intelligent design faked moon landing and Chemtrails to your argument.
Seriously, if your goal is to be laughed at, you have succeeded beyond most people's ability. As Ghandi said, the world has a problem, and nuclear tipped missiles are the cure for it.
Clearly we need to replace passwords with a chip or mark or tattoo in the palms of the hands and on the foreheads / retinas, etc. Then we need to make sure that people can't buy or sell without taking these marks on themselves. Naturally cash will have to be eliminated. This way we can control and identify what the people spend their money on and we can use this information to further oppress and bind them down into abject bondage and suffering. Yep, that's the ticket. No more anonymity, all must bow down and accept the will of Evil. Every citizen a slave.
I had no idea that Pat Robertson was on Slashdot! You forgot the part where God will fix this problem if we just get rid of all the "homos".
Its cute when you say nonsense like that. Doesn't make it true, but cute nonetheless.
1950's calld, and wants to give you a fistbump.
PS and I've seen arguments that renewables can't supply much of our energy because of bad forecasts like these. We knew those arguments were wrong and now with renewables making up large percentages of energy usage in many countries we've been proven right. Both wind and solar can each provide as much energy as the world uses.
Oh boy, is the coal brigade ever going to swarm all over you!
But yer not wrong. Obviously the coal and increasingly the petrochemical industries are finding useful idiots who are stuck in the 1960's with regards to their understanding of energy production.
Meanwhile I can see the wind turbines not too far away providing enough power that they are moving beyond just peaking. And the solar installs are popping up everywhere, with many eschewing the grid period.
We can see solar installations in Alaska, previously cited as a useless place for solar, but it turns out they can save a lot of money and safety factor by saving the diesel fuel for winter when the sun don't shine. Kinda weird looking at circular solar arrays though.
People can go to Harbor Freight and buy solar panels. A 100 watt one is $149.00 at the moment.
Solar systems are now about $3.17 per installed watt to start with. That's a 10 percent drop from 2016. http://news.energysage.com/how... That makes a 10 KiloWatt system cost around $22K.
And if you aren't building in a place already served by mains power, you might be surprised how much installing the mains power will set you back. Old commie FDR's Rural Electrification Project isn't around any more, so you pay for the poles, the wires, and the transformers and installation of each out of your own pocket
Times change, and we don't use steam locomotives to get around any more, or DC mains, and outside of the Amish, horse drawn buggies are used for entertainment.
Now the unemployed coal miners that we are supposedly going to put back to work mining coal, a Government assisted project worthy of old commie FDR - howbow we set the lads up with work involving production of newer energy sources and the equipment involved with it? The rest of the world moves forward while many of us seem dead set on heading back to the late 1940's.
Is it just me, or does it seem like allegedly should have another d in it?
Got me! With my talent of making spelling mistakes, I looked it up because I thought I might have had it wrong
Clearly, if your offense is of the type inclusive of the term child abuse you will be judged more harshly.
Fair? Maybe not, but we have to believe in something.
We'll see how it works out. I'm willing to say innocent until proven guilty, but the kid under 10 allegation does tend to naturally repulse me, as likely most people. Anyhow, this guy had other charges as well, although the attempted murder charge was dropped.
How so? Did he get convicted with no trial?
True, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but that doesn't mean we can't comment on it. Perhaps this would soothe your angst:
The alleged list of alleged felony charges includes alleged assault with a alleged deadly weapon, alleged child abuse, alleged lewd act upon a alleged child and alleged oral copulation of a alleged person under 10.
allegedly
howbow da?
It's only for non-urgent operations. The powers that be in the merrie old land of England just want these people to wait until their condition worsens to the point where it becomes urgent. Then its all good.
It's like no English I've ever seen.
Sigh.... "Speaking American" is a reference to Republican intellectual leader Saraah Palin, calling for immigrants to "speak American" https://www.inquisitr.com/2399...
Yes, almost all of us know that most Americans speak either English or Spanish. American is not a language except to idiots. So massive whooshies to y'all.
This is just another example of why I don't trust Facebook and do not have an account with them.
You never signed up for an account with them. That doesn't mean that there isn't a nice fat DB entry with your name and all the information they can gather. Did you sign up for Equifax?
Install noscript and look at the scripts it's blocking. Look, em up to see who's collecting the data. Facebook is tracking you even if you've never had an account there.
Who hasn't taped over the cam on his laptop?
That's the only way I can get wimmin to join me on Chatrbate! Otherwise, I scare them.........
Well, if you run your network like a college campus, you probably wouldn't know if you're being hacked.
So ... let's put it that way, when you're blind, you can't see the elephant standing in front of you as long as he doesn't step on your foot.
I'd be a little worried though if I was a present employee. The cultural differences between the two areas, college campus and defense contractor are pretty extreme. And it may be presumed that they have people of the college campus mindset at present. So when do they start lining up the employees for the polygraph tests?
É uma atitude realmente imbecil achar que todo mundo que te critica ou que discorda de você só pode ser o "malvado inimigo" não é à toa que todo mundo anda querendo varrer os EUA do mapa.
Stupid? of course it is stupid. But it is stupid replies to stupid, which is always richly deserved. Pizzagate? Stupid. "But her emails!" ? muito e stúpido
It is an earned response to the trolls, and if a post appears to be a Russian troll, it gets the treatment. It won't always be correct of course. Fox News has cultivated a group of Americans that eventually went so batshit crazy over the Kenyan terror baby president that when Putin rolls up to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a T-14, they will cheer like no tomorrow. But they hate the USA, anyone who doesn't agree with their crypto-politics, and function as useful idiots for the division efforts
And it appears that you will be quite pleased as well when we meet our end. The old admonition applies however. Be careful what you wish for - you just might get it.
No doubt that something our countries share, the huge fires - you can be happy that some Americans were killed, meanwhile I offer my sympathy for the poor people in Portugal who died in their cars while trying to escape the fires. That is no way to die - horrível.
What's with you people and the obscure Russian slang?
You want the serious version, or more abuse? 8^)
Go Wolverines!
Eat more Possum!
Yes, that's really exactly it. The "suits" have no idea how the day to day business is run. My company recently offered early retirement for 55 and older - and lost a huge amount of talent that left the company reeling for a couple of years.
There is a certain contempt that a lot of people have for people who are not doing what they do. Many suits are convinced that the only difficult work in the world is performed by an MBA. Many accountants are hopelessly caught up in the Excel spreadsheets, and have absolutely no idea of human knowledge and psychology.
So every job in the company is legal theft according to the suits, who are upset that such stupid people are even allowed to draw a paycheck, bolstered by the accountants insistance that those stupid and overly expensive older employees can be replaced by fresh young college graduates who know so much more.
Then the confirmation bias sets in as the inexperienced noobs flounder around.
Sounds like you failed as a parent.
Sounds like you failed reading comprehension, me hearty.
American, wot language that
Hook line and sinker!
In Soviet America, everything is illegal. You are always watched, always under suspicion, always already guilty. Please report to your nearest Gulag camp for a lifetime of state sanctioned forced sodomy. Thank you for your compliance. Good bless America, death to the Russians, and fuck you plebs that's why.
You ignored that talk we had about your Krokidil use didn't you, Anatoly?
DDT also accumulated in the food chain. And is super dangerous for humans in the end ...
DDT is basically a variation of Dioxin(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I cringe when I see the videos of people being dusted with that stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... And there is a video of San Antonia Texas being swamped with DDT in some kind or weird attempt to combat Polio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Which disease is spread mostly by fecal matter, not bugs.
A nasty poison that has a weird cult following, of it's mythical status. I wonder if these folk would like to go back to using Paris Green, a mixture of Copper II acetate and lead arsenide?
We obviously are tied to our insecticides at this point, but a story about a friend of mine might serve as a warning A great and otherwise brilliant guy, he was a fan of DDT, and was pissed by "those liberals" that got it banned. He used Seven, and sprayed his fruit trees and garden every year with it, and didn't use any protective gear, he just wore a shirt and pants and shoes. Amazing the trees got pollinated, because Sevin is hell on bees. I told him that pesticide toxicity doesn't know politics, and he guffawed at that. He told me the only effect it had on him was "some diarrhea", but that was gone a day or two later.
Well, Sevin is a broad spectrum insecticide, a carbamate that targets nerves and muscle tissues. Today, he has a hella case of Parkinsonism, and is a shell of his former self. They don't even want you de-tasseling corn for the better part of a month after using that, and he was essentially showering in the stuff. That really sucks.
It's just weird to have to do this in 2017, but:
'You're welcome, J Edgar Hoover.'
I mean FUCK it. Can you lick the boots of the G-men any more vigorously than parroting their redbaiting poison?
I lick no one's boots, Mikhail. I do however understand computers and the internet.
So if by some chance I had anything to put on a computer that I didn't want someone to see, it would be on a computer that never saw the internet and have no nic. It would have the exterior USB ports all destroyed except those I absolutely need, they would be securely fastened. It would be in a Faraday cage inside a locked room inside a locked cabinet when not in use If anyone wanted to use this device, I would do the entry for them, as no one would be allowed to touch the computer except me.
there is no possible way to make a computer on the internet secure - that is all, Mikhail, no amount of your invective will change that.
Hey, let's have some fun Mikhail - Write something really really bad about Putin for us.
Not really an option in many cases. Nothing against linux but many users have to use Windows for one reason or another. Once you are on the platform you have to deal with Microsoft but I'd be reluctant to involve additional security vendors if I don't absolutely have to.
Well then you have to take as much shit as Microsoft feels like giving you. My sympathy is you have no opetion other than Microsoft. That's like an abusive marriage where teh abused partner won't leave because he or she feels they have no choice.
No one comes out of college knowing everything.
Ya, but people see youngsters on TV shows like Mr. Robot and MacGyver who seemingly know everything and can do anything on/with a computer and think that an actual thing.
Oh gawd, the weird "children will teach the parents" BS. You see so much of this social engineering on television, even movies. The child is invariably more emotionally mature, and much smarter than the parent, espscially the father, and the whole attitude persists throughout their childhood and education. I have one adult child I'm working with right now who is trying to educate me on something he has 1 years experience with, and I have 15 now. Demanding to implement all the ideas I tried long ago when I didn't know any better. My problem is I want to step in, but my boss says let him fall on his ass and get a little humility. The boss is right, but dammit, Gromit!
Who are these mythical "older workforce" people that refused to stay current? I know exactly one guy like that. I sure have kept up, and I started in the 70's on batch FORTRAN.
Exactly. After retirement, I was called back into work on an emergency hire to do all the things the smart new folks just out of college couldn't do. And it wasn't old school stuff.
The young folk especially, fresh out of college, with ultra high self esteem, ready to move to management in a month because they knew the straight dope, and were going to change the world after righteously wresting it from teh cold dead hands of thos old folks who they were much better than.
And then they found out that they didn't know half of what they did. And then it go weird. They started treating the older people like servants. A typical response would be to try to slough off work onto me when they didn't know how to do it. One young woman I caught pawning work off to me, and I caught her busy with her social media all day. You would thiing they understood how easy it is to find out what you are doing on teh intertoobz. Told her I assigned the work, and if she didn't know how she had to learn quickly. Fortunately or unfortunately, she took the Millenial exit eventually, quitting with no new job, and moving in with grandma. But this has been the case with most of them, coming in, expecting to turn the world upside down, than crashing and burning after learning that the world no longer revolved around them. GenX'ers only have the normal good employee to bad employee ratio. They were fine. To the point where I recommended 40 and up for hires.
The real reason why any ageism exists is because the suits want to pay an entry level employee less money and create an artificial profit until you have to hire the olde fartes back.
Thanks again Ivan. Most appreciated.
He's actually a pretty decent fellow overall, letting us know about the real truth and all. I hope he gets many rubles.
Never stopped these days to think about how much the United States are the actual threat for everyone, judging by their current acts? Brazil, for example, is at this very moment being destroyed by an illegitimate government controlled behind the scenes by US corporations and politicians, not russsians.
That's Hillary, Obama and Clinton doing that. Didn't you read that in her emails there Boris? And Pizzagate is real, you bastards!!!!