In a way though, it makes sense. Sure, you look at it as a "little mistake" if they miss a qual by a few seconds. But there's lots of missions they would operate in where "little mistake" means a school gets bombed instead of a target's mansion, or the correct wire isn't cut in time...
I think those who want to export American democracy are in the minority, at least in the elements of the country that doesn't watch FOX News. I understand that it's pretty much impossible to be isolationist anymore but I am generally of the opinion that we should stay out of the affairs of other countries.
So the same goes for Christians, whose favourite book calls for genocide for pretty much any reason...
Yes, this is true. Both books are similar in this regard, although the timing is switched. (The bible starts out all angry and violent and mellows out, while the Quran is the reverse.)
My disrespect for Christians is generally equal to Muslims, however...
Hint: Most Muslims, like most Christians, don't believe their favourite book is actually 100% true.
Oh, you mean that little "apostasy" thing that will get you beheaded in some hardcore Muslim countries?
The (uncomfortable) truth is that while both Islam and Christianity are similar in many regards, there is also a major cultural difference. America is a very, very heavily Christian nation and yet you don't see us beheading atheists or homosexuals (although there are certainly some people who want to, I'm sure.) Yet take a look at a country where the majority is Muslim, and things are noticeably... different.
The other important bit is people say "I believe in this, but only parts of it". That says to me that they are a hypocrite in that they selectively believe in what is considered to be the "Word of God". It's an all-or-nothing thing - if you can't honestly affirm that the entire thing is divine, then you call a portion of the book in question. If a portion of the book is called into question as to its divinity, who's to say the rest isn't divinely inspired? (Of course, any thinking man or woman who actually takes the time to read their culture's holy book of choice will readily find that they are none too comfortable with it. After all, the best way to get someone to abandon a religion is to have them read that religion's holy book.)
Are you kidding me? If Megaupload gets out of this, they're going to have tons of free publicity. "We fought the American government... and won!" Dotcom can paint himself as a rebel thumbing his nose at the most powerful country in the world and getting away with it.
I wouldn't exactly call modding this one Troll a fair moderation. Sure it might be a bit "conspiracy theory"-ish, but the conspiracy is that the government acts at the behest of corporations to the detriment of its citizens. One of the rare cases where a conspiracy theory is mostly true, and It's not exactly a big secret anymore.
This is the main reason that the proliferation of contractors is so rampant in the government and the business world overall today. They're an expendable device. Contract employee gets hurt? Contractor's problem. Contractor damages something? Contractor's insurance company takes care of it. Oh no, the contractor caused millions of damage? Oh well, close up shop and start a similar company under a different name.
As for your Muslim co-workers, they may not be worried about getting shipped off the Gitmo, but ask them if they have been mistreated by racists and bigots over the last 10 years.
2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.
2:192 But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
When you willingly believe in shit like this, you automatically lose all credibility with me. You say that you are immediately accepting of hateful beliefs, and you either do it without thinking or, even worse, do it consciously.
I don't advocate assaulting or discriminating against people because they are Muslim, but I absolutely understand why it's done.
You had your own concentration camps for the Japanese
Hold it right there.
Yes, we had internment camps. I know "concentration camps" is a proper term, but this is unfortunately one of those words that only really has one meaning in the public conscious - a camp wherein industrialized murder and subsequent elimination of undesirables take place.
Our government (which we as Americans are responsible for) may have locked up the Japanese, stolen their property, and made the majority of them practically destitute after the war - but we didn't herd them into large gas chambers, kill them, and cremate the corpses. I'm not saying what we did is right, but I am saying it's very different and I ask that you please be careful with your wording.
We haven't believed in the right of gun ownership since George Washington sent in the troops to quell the Whiskey Rebellion.
You live in a city, huh?
I do too, but speak for yourself on whether or not we believe in the right of gun ownership. I very much believe in the right, and thanks to recent Supreme Court rulings (which struck down banning ownership of guns as unconstitutional) even if you live in a hippie bastion like San Francisco you can legally own and purchase a firearm.
However, just because you can get one doesn't mean they make it easy or cheap. NJ, for instance, typically takes six months to clear all of your paperwork - they drag their feet on purpose. But if you go out into any rural area, firearms are way, way more common.
I digress, it's not even about rural or city, it's about the attitude of people. Look at Pennsylvania with their halfway decent firearm laws. You could be in the center of the biggest city in the state and see someone open-carrying.
That takes into account some sort of disaster fucking up Earth, but it doesn't take into account the point whereby it becomes uninhabitable due to way, way too many people.
You know, you actually brought up something I've wondered about for a while and wanted to pose to my fellow comment jockeys.
Okay, so, eventually our sun will burn out. It will either go nova or just kinda go "splat" and the planets will freeze over like popsicles. Meanwhile (as far as we know), everything is moving further away from everything else. The void between places in increasing.
I think our ideal as a society would be to live in that void. To be able to create and sustain an artificial planet as close to forever as possible. I hope that if we manage to make it as a race long enough before the sun burns out we'll be able to accomplish such a feat.
Is there no easy tool that exists that will essentially do this for you? Why isn't there an application that automatically handles all of the PGP stuff on your computer so you don't even have to think about it?
I have never supported Susan Collins for other issues.
But I have to ask why the OP decided to belittle the Senator's formal educational credentials? This seems like a distraction for the real question here
Yes, that's a common tactic in politics for inserting bias and/or influencing someone's opinion in a non-obvious way.
"While some say CmdrTaco shows a clear Communist bias and favoritism towards Red China, I personally think that these rumors are false."
Watch, the study gets done and finds out that the scanners have almost no harmful radiation on the inside but fires loads of it outside in all directions and hits those who opt out.
Additionally, Apple is very brand conscious. If people start boycotting and picketing Apple Stores, the protest could actually work. The other manufacturers like Lenovo and Dell and Microsoft have some retail presence, but nothing like Apple.
Plus it gives the other manufacturers an economic incentive to employ Americans in American facilities.
"DELL: computers built in America, by Americans, for Americans." i.e. "Hey, Apple employs a bunch of foreigners! Sounds awfully un-American, don't it?"
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In a way though, it makes sense. Sure, you look at it as a "little mistake" if they miss a qual by a few seconds. But there's lots of missions they would operate in where "little mistake" means a school gets bombed instead of a target's mansion, or the correct wire isn't cut in time...
...most employees are *already* worn out before the day is over.
I think those who want to export American democracy are in the minority, at least in the elements of the country that doesn't watch FOX News. I understand that it's pretty much impossible to be isolationist anymore but I am generally of the opinion that we should stay out of the affairs of other countries.
There's quite the nice pet store in that area too, but for some reason they don't accept customer returns anymore.
So the same goes for Christians, whose favourite book calls for genocide for pretty much any reason...
Yes, this is true. Both books are similar in this regard, although the timing is switched. (The bible starts out all angry and violent and mellows out, while the Quran is the reverse.)
My disrespect for Christians is generally equal to Muslims, however...
Hint: Most Muslims, like most Christians, don't believe their favourite book is actually 100% true.
Oh, you mean that little "apostasy" thing that will get you beheaded in some hardcore Muslim countries?
The (uncomfortable) truth is that while both Islam and Christianity are similar in many regards, there is also a major cultural difference. America is a very, very heavily Christian nation and yet you don't see us beheading atheists or homosexuals (although there are certainly some people who want to, I'm sure.) Yet take a look at a country where the majority is Muslim, and things are noticeably... different.
The other important bit is people say "I believe in this, but only parts of it". That says to me that they are a hypocrite in that they selectively believe in what is considered to be the "Word of God". It's an all-or-nothing thing - if you can't honestly affirm that the entire thing is divine, then you call a portion of the book in question. If a portion of the book is called into question as to its divinity, who's to say the rest isn't divinely inspired? (Of course, any thinking man or woman who actually takes the time to read their culture's holy book of choice will readily find that they are none too comfortable with it. After all, the best way to get someone to abandon a religion is to have them read that religion's holy book.)
I don't think we're there yet and I honestly hope we never will be.
Gitmo makes me very uneasy in this regard. It's small, but that doesn't make it any less evil.
Are you kidding me? If Megaupload gets out of this, they're going to have tons of free publicity. "We fought the American government... and won!" Dotcom can paint himself as a rebel thumbing his nose at the most powerful country in the world and getting away with it.
I wouldn't exactly call modding this one Troll a fair moderation. Sure it might be a bit "conspiracy theory"-ish, but the conspiracy is that the government acts at the behest of corporations to the detriment of its citizens. One of the rare cases where a conspiracy theory is mostly true, and It's not exactly a big secret anymore.
This is the main reason that the proliferation of contractors is so rampant in the government and the business world overall today. They're an expendable device. Contract employee gets hurt? Contractor's problem. Contractor damages something? Contractor's insurance company takes care of it. Oh no, the contractor caused millions of damage? Oh well, close up shop and start a similar company under a different name.
Are you kidding? Without a place to store all of that inane drivel, some of those people might eventually end up here.
I've already heard more than enough about people's morning dumps in various first posts over the years.
As for your Muslim co-workers, they may not be worried about getting shipped off the Gitmo, but ask them if they have been mistreated by racists and bigots over the last 10 years.
2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.
2:192 But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
When you willingly believe in shit like this, you automatically lose all credibility with me. You say that you are immediately accepting of hateful beliefs, and you either do it without thinking or, even worse, do it consciously.
I don't advocate assaulting or discriminating against people because they are Muslim, but I absolutely understand why it's done.
You had your own concentration camps for the Japanese
Hold it right there.
Yes, we had internment camps. I know "concentration camps" is a proper term, but this is unfortunately one of those words that only really has one meaning in the public conscious - a camp wherein industrialized murder and subsequent elimination of undesirables take place.
Our government (which we as Americans are responsible for) may have locked up the Japanese, stolen their property, and made the majority of them practically destitute after the war - but we didn't herd them into large gas chambers, kill them, and cremate the corpses. I'm not saying what we did is right, but I am saying it's very different and I ask that you please be careful with your wording.
a business model that no longer works.
It works just fine when you have the Congress and Senate in your pocket to write absurd laws that favor your industry.
Sir, you are a gentlemen and a scholar.
We haven't believed in the right of gun ownership since George Washington sent in the troops to quell the Whiskey Rebellion.
You live in a city, huh?
I do too, but speak for yourself on whether or not we believe in the right of gun ownership. I very much believe in the right, and thanks to recent Supreme Court rulings (which struck down banning ownership of guns as unconstitutional) even if you live in a hippie bastion like San Francisco you can legally own and purchase a firearm.
However, just because you can get one doesn't mean they make it easy or cheap. NJ, for instance, typically takes six months to clear all of your paperwork - they drag their feet on purpose. But if you go out into any rural area, firearms are way, way more common.
I digress, it's not even about rural or city, it's about the attitude of people. Look at Pennsylvania with their halfway decent firearm laws. You could be in the center of the biggest city in the state and see someone open-carrying.
Well for starters, I don't think any Foxconn workers have to worry about being shanked in the lunch line or raped in the showers.
Prison populations will overflow as thousands of criminals turn themselves in.
That takes into account some sort of disaster fucking up Earth, but it doesn't take into account the point whereby it becomes uninhabitable due to way, way too many people.
You know, you actually brought up something I've wondered about for a while and wanted to pose to my fellow comment jockeys.
Okay, so, eventually our sun will burn out. It will either go nova or just kinda go "splat" and the planets will freeze over like popsicles. Meanwhile (as far as we know), everything is moving further away from everything else. The void between places in increasing.
I think our ideal as a society would be to live in that void. To be able to create and sustain an artificial planet as close to forever as possible. I hope that if we manage to make it as a race long enough before the sun burns out we'll be able to accomplish such a feat.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Don't put all your eggs in one basket?"
whoa! that's deep.
Newt said the same thing about his last intern.
*swings an invisible golf club*
Hi-yoooooooooo!
Is there no easy tool that exists that will essentially do this for you? Why isn't there an application that automatically handles all of the PGP stuff on your computer so you don't even have to think about it?
I have never supported Susan Collins for other issues.
But I have to ask why the OP decided to belittle the Senator's formal educational credentials? This seems like a distraction for the real question here
Yes, that's a common tactic in politics for inserting bias and/or influencing someone's opinion in a non-obvious way.
"While some say CmdrTaco shows a clear Communist bias and favoritism towards Red China, I personally think that these rumors are false."
Watch, the study gets done and finds out that the scanners have almost no harmful radiation on the inside but fires loads of it outside in all directions and hits those who opt out.
Additionally, Apple is very brand conscious. If people start boycotting and picketing Apple Stores, the protest could actually work. The other manufacturers like Lenovo and Dell and Microsoft have some retail presence, but nothing like Apple.
Plus it gives the other manufacturers an economic incentive to employ Americans in American facilities.
"DELL: computers built in America, by Americans, for Americans." i.e. "Hey, Apple employs a bunch of foreigners! Sounds awfully un-American, don't it?"