Honestly, what did you guys expect? Apple is an image based company and the image they portray is "hip". Currently in the largest population centers its hip to be super liberal.
Pssst..... everyone, it isn't "libtards against guns" - its liability. Sweet Jeebuz in a smartcar, when an emoticon becomes a second amendment flashpoint, perhaps it isn't the "libtards" that have a really big problem.
However there is being liberal than there is being crazy liberal.
The type of liberal where any idea that falls under the conservative category must be stopped.
Changing from a real gun to a water gun changes the meaning of the message.
Okay - you are correct, but also missing one important point. Liability. It isn't that difficult to get shot and killed here, whether it is from stand your ground laws, or traffic stops. Or from just pissing someone off. So in this land of litigation, it is well within the possibility that someone might see a pistol emoticon, decide they are under threat from the sender, and dispatch them with extreme prejudice.
And while a court case is likely to exonerate the killer, the resulting civil suits might find the jury willing to extract from the deep pockets of Apple, a monetary compensation for the dead person's family.
It's a weird place we live in, and don't for a minute think that my bizzare scenario won't ever play out. And from what I have seen, conservatives use the court systems with as much panache as do liberals.
People are going to have different opinions and to many people a gun isn't an image of violence. But a tool and a symbol of freedom. To change that image to a water pistol is infringing on free speech.
That is a little far fetched. It ends up arguing for the inclusion of every possible emoticon in order to avoid infringing free speech. Does this mean the producers of emoticons must include little KKK hoods? Besides, nothing is stopping a person who really wants to show their love for a pistol from including a little picture of one with every text.
Seems like being conservative is being rather over-sensitive about everything.
Having watched the RNC, this is accurate. It is fear, and it is illustrated by people losing their shit over this silly and stupid thing. This entire thread show it.
It's an emoji, a think you are supposed to hate anyway because those damn kids and their phones, and Apple took a position you disagree with. No need to get all indignant about it.
Of course they need to get indignant about it. My more crypto-conservative friends are always indignant, and they just need to find things to express their indignance. Dunno if indignance is a word or not, but it fits.
I tend to send texts to the perpetually outraged set with inappropriate emoticons, just to confuse them. Then again, many of them don't use texts because you know, its stuff those damn kids use.
Plenty to dislike about Trump. But why keep making stuff up?
Yeah, libtards and commies and socialists just make shit up, all out of whole cloth. Trump is just constantly being misinterpreted/
Well, since I have a loyalist sucking at the Don's teat, I want you to explain exactly why the Veterns of Froeign Wars are in that group of people making shit up. Tell me EXACTLY what Trump said, and tell me EXACTLY why it was misinterpreted? Was it a joke about a Gold Star Mother? Hey that's pretty funny. Or was it the liberal media tricking him? Inquiring minds want to know.
Do you accept the challenge? Use words, not just respout people are making shit up pussy way out.
And in case you try th eecuse that I'm making this shit up, here is the link for you to astroturf. http://www.vfw.org/News-and-Ev...
Here are their words. Fortunately Your man is on of th only people who needs constant reinterpretation. These are well chosen words that need no astroturfing.
TO RIDICULE A GOLD STAR MOTHER IS OUT-OF-BOUNDS
August 01, 2016
WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has a history of lashing out after being attacked, but to ridicule a Gold Star Mother is out-of-bounds, said the new national commander of the near 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliary.
“Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” said Brian Duffy, of Louisville, Ky., who was elected July 27 to lead the nation’s oldest and largest major war veterans organization.
“There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed,” he said. “Giving one’s life to nation is the greatest sacrifice, followed closely by all Gold Star families, who have a right to make their voices heard.”
I'm really looking forward to your defense of Trump here.
I never said it was an excellent thing, I merely point out that when Apple does a thing, it's OK, when Microsoft is doing it it's evil. Double standard... [yet, it's probably the same hipster who vote Democrat, so I'm not surprised...]
It is pretty striking when it changes but after a few minutes my eyes adjust and I don't even notice it. It does seem to help, haven't had any problems sleeping after I started using it.
It can no doubt have different effects with different people. I have never been one to need 8 hours a night, andAfter trying it, it made no difference. Not too surprising because I didn't get 8 a night even before computers were prevalent.
If I get 5 a night, I'm fine. I fall asleep when I'm tired, wake up refreshed after five, and i'd probably strees if I bouthg the latest " If you don't get 8 hours, you are killing yourself" FUD.
But I have no doubt there are lot of people who do need the straight 8.
If what is written further below, so can you here. But I get it, it's easy to puke on Microsoft. You wouldn't sadden all the Apple fanboys around here...
Actually, the toughest part is the tapdance you have to to to tell us that it is an excellent thing when microsoft does it, but stupid hipster shit when Apple does. Chill if you will
By the way, if getting around it is as easy in W10 as it is in OSX, it's a non issue for either.
I tried out f.lux on my mac, and it was a real pain in the backside.It was more like something nagging me to get off the computer and go to bed and darkening the hell out of the screen eventually. Ugly yellow orange color to the screen as the nagging started I tried messing with the settings, but the best setting for the program is "off"
As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.
We sometimes have trouble adapting down here.
Problem is, you go into a store, you're not certain where the card needs to go, does it go in the chip reader slot or do you swipe it in the traditional slot? so you have to ask. Then you hope you get the right answer, because Bobby or Becky is chatting with another cashier. I've waited over a minute, then sometimes the machine gives a bong noise that sounds like a rejection. So did it take it? Wait some more time to find out it took it. Then you sign - which doesn't seem like a terribly secure thing. Someone could steal my card, and purchase things with it pretty easily, given that the signature readers seem to accept anything.
I've had a few occasions where we had to manually run the card as well.
So time consuming, confusing as to where you are supposed to put your card, and not at all secure. Sounds like a fine system
Only everyone who has been re-interpreting what he said. Only the people who make up new things that he said and put it in quotes, as if he actually said the stuff they just made up. Only the people who are so smitten with the guy that they will accept anything that he says, and if he says something that is obviously bad, they have to Astroturf him. You interpreted what he said as a joke.
The only thing that needs commentary is the smack-down the Hillary camp deserves for acting like their supporters are so dumb that they'd actually fall for the absurd faux-outrage and phony "he asked the Russians to hack" narrative.
Seriously, nice deflection try. I'm no supporter of Mrs Clinton, but I can tell you that if I had an employee with a clearance that said that publicly, he would be gone immediately. You are willing to have Trump say whatever he want to say, and if it is outrageous, you'll be the agressive apologetic, " It's only a joke, and then try to pin it on the enemy - who is rapidly becoming everyone.
There's nobody that could have mis-interpreted that lame bit of humor as anything other than what it was.
You are obviously wrong.
The only people who took it any other way are PRETENDING to think that, or didn't actually hear the words, and are swallowing their liberal friends' cheesy memes rather than the facts.
I've heard the words, I've posted the words. I'm not a Democrat, and the words have said to me that he is encouraging Russia to hack us, with minimal to no interpretation. Sorry, but you can't demand that we adhere to your interpretation of what he actually said. Because if everything a person says has to be interpreted, you really don't have control of the interpretations now do you?
Sorry, but security violations are criminal offenses.
Seriously? You have the citations for any security violation being a criminal offense?
But the "lock her up" mentality is maybe a bit extreme.
It isn't just "lock her up, as Al Baldasaro, an advisor to Trump's campaign said, “Anyone that commits treason should be shot,” “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason. She put people in danger. When people take confidential material off a server, you’re sharing information with the enemy. That’s treason.”
Then again, I suppose this is just another thing that needs massaged until it doesn't say what it said, And I'm not certain that it is a good tactic for Trump to take at the moment.
Now if I might bring up another case of White House level shennagins as a comparison, let us take the Iran Contra mess.
In the 1980's direct intentional circumvention of the law was being practiced out of the White House. Oliver North was working on deals to have Isreal sell weapons to Iran, and have proceeds go to the Contras in Venezuela . In return, the Iranians were going to talk to terrorists in Lebanon who were holding some American citizens hostage. This complicated scheme was indeed selling weapons to an avowed enemy of the United States, and was indeed siphoning off proceeds to the Contras, an act prohibited by the Boland Amendment.
Details are the Iranians got some 1000 TOW missiles and other weapons and parts.
The cover was that Isreal would sell them the parts, then we'd replace them,
Things went along swimmingly, until a airlift of weapons were gunned down in Nicaragua.
As the wheels were falling off, Oliver North, and his secretary, Fawn Hall, started shredding documents specifically in order to eliminate the evidence of the illegal activities. Hall was caught smuggling classified documents under her clothing.
In the end, Hall recieved immunity, North had his conviction overturned on a technicality, and Poindexter who was convicted, was pardoned by Bush 1, and Reagan invoked not recalling or it's equivalent at least 124 times during testimony..
So if a bucket list of intentional illegal criminal activity resulted in essentially nothing, then it gets pretty hard to get spun up ofer what amounts to a security violation.
Unless the political intent is to just make it seem like treason. Whic sorta pales in comparison to the documented shenanigans that went on before to no avail. There is that.
Takes a lot of spin to turn "If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!" to 'hack please'. First off, that nasty present tense.
And it takes a person who is willing to outright fucking lie and do it unashamedly to reformat what Trump said, the put quotations around it.
Here, and please feel free to interject more lies because I find it incredibly entertaining and illustrative is the direct quote, that is referenced by multitudes of videos:
"it would be interesting to see — I will tell you this — Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That’ll be next."
Wow, you see, I put that in quotes because that is what he said. What you put in quotes wasn't, and you can lie all you want, but in the end, it proves at long last that you and the other sycophants have no shame.
It didn't say it was funny. But what it wasn't was a "call for the Russians to hack blah blah blah." Which you know.
I don't know any such thing. Why is is that it takes interpretation for anything the guy says? I watched and listened, and he said that Russia would probably be mightily rewarded for releasing emails to the public. There was no need for me to interpret it.
I wonder, if after your man is elected president, he'll need a head interpreter to cover for his obvious lack of communication skills, which apparently make him say things he really doesn't mean?
Sure, but also because no reasonable prosecutor would dare press charges against Killary.
Because what happened rose to the level of a security violation, not a criminal case.
And that's why there were no criminal charges. Your obvious hatred for the women makes you and your brethren look at anything she does with bile colored glasses, and in the end works against you.
Because you really don't want to throw people in jail for security violations, you don't want to go too far in criminalizing what happened in Benghazi! because then you have to look at the much greater degree of carnage in the first 7 years of this century.
And that's the reason why the grownups need to have the conversations, not the kids on the playground. Because unless you are really careful, you end up wrecking your own side.
Plenty to dislike about Trump. But why keep making stuff up? He didn't call for Russia to hack Clinton's email. He made a very tired joke (it's been made here and elsewhere for weeks) about maybe the Russians, if they can find her email in the stuff they already have, could turn it over to our FBI, who couldn't find most of what she deleted. Go after him for his abundant riches of nonsense, but don't make crap up. Makes this site look sillier than usual.
Its such a pity that the lad needs an interpreter, don't you think? Spouting off like the Oracle at Delphi, then the sycophants have to write many passages about what heactually said.
Which was: "But it would be interesting to see — I will tell you this — Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That’ll be next."
Without any interpretive tap dance, that's a person telling another head of state that there will be a huge reward for obtaining and releasing possibly classified material to the public.
But its such a shame, that a person who presumably is a straight talker needs so many people to restate and massage what he says, to make it seem like he didn't say what the words said at face value.
There are things you just don't say, like telling a foreign country to find classified emails on our countries systems and releasing them to the public for a mighty reward, or walking into a Victoria's Secret store, and asking if they have any of their stuff in children's sizes.
Dark matter is not an explanation, it's a placeholder. What we've observed is a gravitational pull we can't explain, to which there are three possible explanations:
Thank SwanClipper the Great someone here who understands!
It gets frustrating that every time we find something new, people trot out the old "So there's the dark matter!" As if finding our Oort cloud explains the anomalies over the whole universe. Or these low luminescence galaxies for that matter. As I've said before, I wish "it' had never been named "dark matter".
All theories about astrophysics are WRONG, the only question is to what degree, so before you rattle off some bullshit about 90% of the mass being missing, go back to the beginning of these sentence and stop trying to tell me what you 'know' and start talking about science where you have evidence to prove something. Lack of evidence doesn't prove anything other than you have an incomplete picture.
Can we see your CV, or do you get your physics from the bible?
Now quit being an asshole and let the adults talk. Discussion and thinking and mathematics is how this stuff is done, not acting like a rude little child, dear rude little child.
Amazing! Dark matter is just regular matter that was dimmer than other galaxies according to you! Where's your nobel prize?
My point obviously was that dark matter was supposed to be some undetectable substance when it turns out our sensitivity just wasn't high enough. more 'regular matter' exists.
Dark matter is a placeholder, not necessarily matter at all. It is a placeholder for physicists to shelve anomalies so we can continue work to find out what and why.
Yes - physicists know that a certain amount of the anomalous effects are indeed actual matter that we haven't seen yet. But confusing the unfortunately named term "dark matter" for actual matter doesn't help. I prefer the less sophisticated but more accurate term - "Weird shit."
It's even more funny when Russia complains it's being bullied while at the same time announcing how it might use nuclear weapons on its neighbors or how it's ramping up its military spending as well as increasing its cyber operations against its neighbors.
I wonder how much of this is a shot over the bow, for when one of our presidential candidates invited and approved of Russia and other countries to hack us.
Well let's see. Higher efficiency, less expensive, easier to obtain, and peripherally, better storage, better tracking , better inverters. Or are you tryinng to say that today's solar technology sprung fully formed like Venus from the ocean?
Or what? You figure that the solar cells that Edmond Becquerel built in 1839 are the exact equivalent to those built today?
If you don't think that solar cells have come a long way, then tell just what the holy jeebuz on a harley you think is progress.
... and thus, another (somewhat) funny joke dies, by being mercilessly reduced to an uninteresting math problem. Congratulations, Slashdot pedants, you've bagged another one! All those people who doubted your word-problems-solving skills will doubt you no more!
At least half of Slashdot users have no sense of humor.
Slashdot Mirror
Honestly, what did you guys expect? Apple is an image based company and the image they portray is "hip". Currently in the largest population centers its hip to be super liberal.
Yeah, they're taking a bold stance against guns, except when guns make them money.
Pssst..... everyone, it isn't "libtards against guns" - its liability. Sweet Jeebuz in a smartcar, when an emoticon becomes a second amendment flashpoint, perhaps it isn't the "libtards" that have a really big problem.
However there is being liberal than there is being crazy liberal.
The type of liberal where any idea that falls under the conservative category must be stopped.
Changing from a real gun to a water gun changes the meaning of the message.
Okay - you are correct, but also missing one important point. Liability. It isn't that difficult to get shot and killed here, whether it is from stand your ground laws, or traffic stops. Or from just pissing someone off. So in this land of litigation, it is well within the possibility that someone might see a pistol emoticon, decide they are under threat from the sender, and dispatch them with extreme prejudice.
And while a court case is likely to exonerate the killer, the resulting civil suits might find the jury willing to extract from the deep pockets of Apple, a monetary compensation for the dead person's family.
It's a weird place we live in, and don't for a minute think that my bizzare scenario won't ever play out. And from what I have seen, conservatives use the court systems with as much panache as do liberals.
People are going to have different opinions and to many people a gun isn't an image of violence. But a tool and a symbol of freedom. To change that image to a water pistol is infringing on free speech.
That is a little far fetched. It ends up arguing for the inclusion of every possible emoticon in order to avoid infringing free speech. Does this mean the producers of emoticons must include little KKK hoods? Besides, nothing is stopping a person who really wants to show their love for a pistol from including a little picture of one with every text.
Seems like being conservative is being rather over-sensitive about everything.
Having watched the RNC, this is accurate. It is fear, and it is illustrated by people losing their shit over this silly and stupid thing. This entire thread show it.
It's an emoji, a think you are supposed to hate anyway because those damn kids and their phones, and Apple took a position you disagree with. No need to get all indignant about it.
Of course they need to get indignant about it. My more crypto-conservative friends are always indignant, and they just need to find things to express their indignance. Dunno if indignance is a word or not, but it fits.
I tend to send texts to the perpetually outraged set with inappropriate emoticons, just to confuse them. Then again, many of them don't use texts because you know, its stuff those damn kids use.
Plenty to dislike about Trump. But why keep making stuff up?
Yeah, libtards and commies and socialists just make shit up, all out of whole cloth. Trump is just constantly being misinterpreted/
Well, since I have a loyalist sucking at the Don's teat, I want you to explain exactly why the Veterns of Froeign Wars are in that group of people making shit up. Tell me EXACTLY what Trump said, and tell me EXACTLY why it was misinterpreted? Was it a joke about a Gold Star Mother? Hey that's pretty funny. Or was it the liberal media tricking him? Inquiring minds want to know.
Do you accept the challenge? Use words, not just respout people are making shit up pussy way out. And in case you try th eecuse that I'm making this shit up, here is the link for you to astroturf. http://www.vfw.org/News-and-Ev... Here are their words. Fortunately Your man is on of th only people who needs constant reinterpretation. These are well chosen words that need no astroturfing.
TO RIDICULE A GOLD STAR MOTHER IS OUT-OF-BOUNDS
August 01, 2016
WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has a history of lashing out after being attacked, but to ridicule a Gold Star Mother is out-of-bounds, said the new national commander of the near 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliary. “Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” said Brian Duffy, of Louisville, Ky., who was elected July 27 to lead the nation’s oldest and largest major war veterans organization. “There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed,” he said. “Giving one’s life to nation is the greatest sacrifice, followed closely by all Gold Star families, who have a right to make their voices heard.”
I'm really looking forward to your defense of Trump here.
I never said it was an excellent thing, I merely point out that when Apple does a thing, it's OK, when Microsoft is doing it it's evil. Double standard... [yet, it's probably the same hipster who vote Democrat, so I'm not surprised...]
That is an excellent non sequitur you have there.
It is pretty striking when it changes but after a few minutes my eyes adjust and I don't even notice it. It does seem to help, haven't had any problems sleeping after I started using it.
It can no doubt have different effects with different people. I have never been one to need 8 hours a night, andAfter trying it, it made no difference. Not too surprising because I didn't get 8 a night even before computers were prevalent.
If I get 5 a night, I'm fine. I fall asleep when I'm tired, wake up refreshed after five, and i'd probably strees if I bouthg the latest " If you don't get 8 hours, you are killing yourself" FUD.
But I have no doubt there are lot of people who do need the straight 8.
f.lux (and redshift if you prefer F.LOSS on X11) is great until you're doing something color corrected and its f.ucked up your calibration.
And how! I forgot to mention I use Photoshop a lot, and made the mistake of using it with f.lux turned on.
you do know having her sit on your face at work can lead to accusations of sexism amd haressment at work?
Depends on whether you think Harass is one word or two.
If what is written further below, so can you here. But I get it, it's easy to puke on Microsoft. You wouldn't sadden all the Apple fanboys around here...
Actually, the toughest part is the tapdance you have to to to tell us that it is an excellent thing when microsoft does it, but stupid hipster shit when Apple does. Chill if you will
By the way, if getting around it is as easy in W10 as it is in OSX, it's a non issue for either.
I tried out f.lux on my mac, and it was a real pain in the backside.It was more like something nagging me to get off the computer and go to bed and darkening the hell out of the screen eventually. Ugly yellow orange color to the screen as the nagging started I tried messing with the settings, but the best setting for the program is "off"
And so what? What's the obsession here?
Well, Trump gave them permission to hack her.
As a Canadian I really don't get this. We've had chip and pin here for awhile, and while the initial adoption was a bit rough, it generally works fine.
We sometimes have trouble adapting down here.
Problem is, you go into a store, you're not certain where the card needs to go, does it go in the chip reader slot or do you swipe it in the traditional slot? so you have to ask. Then you hope you get the right answer, because Bobby or Becky is chatting with another cashier. I've waited over a minute, then sometimes the machine gives a bong noise that sounds like a rejection. So did it take it? Wait some more time to find out it took it. Then you sign - which doesn't seem like a terribly secure thing. Someone could steal my card, and purchase things with it pretty easily, given that the signature readers seem to accept anything.
I've had a few occasions where we had to manually run the card as well.
So time consuming, confusing as to where you are supposed to put your card, and not at all secure. Sounds like a fine system
Who needed an interpretation?
Only everyone who has been re-interpreting what he said. Only the people who make up new things that he said and put it in quotes, as if he actually said the stuff they just made up. Only the people who are so smitten with the guy that they will accept anything that he says, and if he says something that is obviously bad, they have to Astroturf him. You interpreted what he said as a joke.
The only thing that needs commentary is the smack-down the Hillary camp deserves for acting like their supporters are so dumb that they'd actually fall for the absurd faux-outrage and phony "he asked the Russians to hack" narrative.
Seriously, nice deflection try. I'm no supporter of Mrs Clinton, but I can tell you that if I had an employee with a clearance that said that publicly, he would be gone immediately. You are willing to have Trump say whatever he want to say, and if it is outrageous, you'll be the agressive apologetic, " It's only a joke, and then try to pin it on the enemy - who is rapidly becoming everyone.
There's nobody that could have mis-interpreted that lame bit of humor as anything other than what it was.
You are obviously wrong.
The only people who took it any other way are PRETENDING to think that, or didn't actually hear the words, and are swallowing their liberal friends' cheesy memes rather than the facts.
I've heard the words, I've posted the words. I'm not a Democrat, and the words have said to me that he is encouraging Russia to hack us, with minimal to no interpretation. Sorry, but you can't demand that we adhere to your interpretation of what he actually said. Because if everything a person says has to be interpreted, you really don't have control of the interpretations now do you?
Sorry, but security violations are criminal offenses.
Seriously? You have the citations for any security violation being a criminal offense?
But the "lock her up" mentality is maybe a bit extreme.
It isn't just "lock her up, as Al Baldasaro, an advisor to Trump's campaign said, “Anyone that commits treason should be shot,” “I believe Hillary Clinton committed treason. She put people in danger. When people take confidential material off a server, you’re sharing information with the enemy. That’s treason.”
Then again, I suppose this is just another thing that needs massaged until it doesn't say what it said, And I'm not certain that it is a good tactic for Trump to take at the moment. Now if I might bring up another case of White House level shennagins as a comparison, let us take the Iran Contra mess.
In the 1980's direct intentional circumvention of the law was being practiced out of the White House. Oliver North was working on deals to have Isreal sell weapons to Iran, and have proceeds go to the Contras in Venezuela . In return, the Iranians were going to talk to terrorists in Lebanon who were holding some American citizens hostage. This complicated scheme was indeed selling weapons to an avowed enemy of the United States, and was indeed siphoning off proceeds to the Contras, an act prohibited by the Boland Amendment.
Details are the Iranians got some 1000 TOW missiles and other weapons and parts.
The cover was that Isreal would sell them the parts, then we'd replace them,
Things went along swimmingly, until a airlift of weapons were gunned down in Nicaragua.
As the wheels were falling off, Oliver North, and his secretary, Fawn Hall, started shredding documents specifically in order to eliminate the evidence of the illegal activities. Hall was caught smuggling classified documents under her clothing.
In the end, Hall recieved immunity, North had his conviction overturned on a technicality, and Poindexter who was convicted, was pardoned by Bush 1, and Reagan invoked not recalling or it's equivalent at least 124 times during testimony..
So if a bucket list of intentional illegal criminal activity resulted in essentially nothing, then it gets pretty hard to get spun up ofer what amounts to a security violation.
Unless the political intent is to just make it seem like treason. Whic sorta pales in comparison to the documented shenanigans that went on before to no avail. There is that.
Takes a lot of spin to turn "If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!" to 'hack please'. First off, that nasty present tense.
And it takes a person who is willing to outright fucking lie and do it unashamedly to reformat what Trump said, the put quotations around it.
Here, and please feel free to interject more lies because I find it incredibly entertaining and illustrative is the direct quote, that is referenced by multitudes of videos:
"it would be interesting to see — I will tell you this — Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That’ll be next."
Wow, you see, I put that in quotes because that is what he said. What you put in quotes wasn't, and you can lie all you want, but in the end, it proves at long last that you and the other sycophants have no shame.
It didn't say it was funny. But what it wasn't was a "call for the Russians to hack blah blah blah." Which you know.
I don't know any such thing. Why is is that it takes interpretation for anything the guy says? I watched and listened, and he said that Russia would probably be mightily rewarded for releasing emails to the public. There was no need for me to interpret it.
I wonder, if after your man is elected president, he'll need a head interpreter to cover for his obvious lack of communication skills, which apparently make him say things he really doesn't mean?
Sure, but also because no reasonable prosecutor would dare press charges against Killary.
Because what happened rose to the level of a security violation, not a criminal case.
And that's why there were no criminal charges. Your obvious hatred for the women makes you and your brethren look at anything she does with bile colored glasses, and in the end works against you.
Because you really don't want to throw people in jail for security violations, you don't want to go too far in criminalizing what happened in Benghazi! because then you have to look at the much greater degree of carnage in the first 7 years of this century.
And that's the reason why the grownups need to have the conversations, not the kids on the playground. Because unless you are really careful, you end up wrecking your own side.
Plenty to dislike about Trump. But why keep making stuff up? He didn't call for Russia to hack Clinton's email. He made a very tired joke (it's been made here and elsewhere for weeks) about maybe the Russians, if they can find her email in the stuff they already have, could turn it over to our FBI, who couldn't find most of what she deleted. Go after him for his abundant riches of nonsense, but don't make crap up. Makes this site look sillier than usual.
Its such a pity that the lad needs an interpreter, don't you think? Spouting off like the Oracle at Delphi, then the sycophants have to write many passages about what heactually said.
Which was: "But it would be interesting to see — I will tell you this — Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. That’ll be next."
Without any interpretive tap dance, that's a person telling another head of state that there will be a huge reward for obtaining and releasing possibly classified material to the public.
But its such a shame, that a person who presumably is a straight talker needs so many people to restate and massage what he says, to make it seem like he didn't say what the words said at face value.
There are things you just don't say, like telling a foreign country to find classified emails on our countries systems and releasing them to the public for a mighty reward, or walking into a Victoria's Secret store, and asking if they have any of their stuff in children's sizes.
Dark matter is not an explanation, it's a placeholder. What we've observed is a gravitational pull we can't explain, to which there are three possible explanations:
Thank SwanClipper the Great someone here who understands!
It gets frustrating that every time we find something new, people trot out the old "So there's the dark matter!" As if finding our Oort cloud explains the anomalies over the whole universe. Or these low luminescence galaxies for that matter. As I've said before, I wish "it' had never been named "dark matter".
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All theories about astrophysics are WRONG, the only question is to what degree, so before you rattle off some bullshit about 90% of the mass being missing, go back to the beginning of these sentence and stop trying to tell me what you 'know' and start talking about science where you have evidence to prove something. Lack of evidence doesn't prove anything other than you have an incomplete picture.
Can we see your CV, or do you get your physics from the bible?
Now quit being an asshole and let the adults talk. Discussion and thinking and mathematics is how this stuff is done, not acting like a rude little child, dear rude little child.
Amazing! Dark matter is just regular matter that was dimmer than other galaxies according to you! Where's your nobel prize?
My point obviously was that dark matter was supposed to be some undetectable substance when it turns out our sensitivity just wasn't high enough. more 'regular matter' exists.
Dark matter is a placeholder, not necessarily matter at all. It is a placeholder for physicists to shelve anomalies so we can continue work to find out what and why.
Yes - physicists know that a certain amount of the anomalous effects are indeed actual matter that we haven't seen yet. But confusing the unfortunately named term "dark matter" for actual matter doesn't help. I prefer the less sophisticated but more accurate term - "Weird shit."
USA is a bully for a very long time.
It's even more funny when Russia complains it's being bullied while at the same time announcing how it might use nuclear weapons on its neighbors or how it's ramping up its military spending as well as increasing its cyber operations against its neighbors.
I wonder how much of this is a shot over the bow, for when one of our presidential candidates invited and approved of Russia and other countries to hack us.
Sec takes statements like that deadly seriously.
Solar has come far enough
What does that even mean?
What do you mean what does that mean?
Well let's see. Higher efficiency, less expensive, easier to obtain, and peripherally, better storage, better tracking , better inverters. Or are you tryinng to say that today's solar technology sprung fully formed like Venus from the ocean?
Or what? You figure that the solar cells that Edmond Becquerel built in 1839 are the exact equivalent to those built today?
If you don't think that solar cells have come a long way, then tell just what the holy jeebuz on a harley you think is progress.
Lemme guess, you want to go total nuc.
... and thus, another (somewhat) funny joke dies, by being mercilessly reduced to an uninteresting math problem. Congratulations, Slashdot pedants, you've bagged another one! All those people who doubted your word-problems-solving skills will doubt you no more!
At least half of Slashdot users have no sense of humor.
I thought Solaren was putting a space-based solar array up by 2016. Wait, we are 2016 and not a single bolt is up yet?
The problem was we didn't have enough tax cuts for the job creators.
Thanks O'Blama!