My friend is a human male of legal age to do whatever he chooses so long as it's legal, thusly it's not my job to keep track of him, which is the point of my whole rant there that you apparently missed.
Seeing as how none of those things are illegal, prove that I have done anything wrong in any way, and because I own said truck, whatever I do with it and wherever I put it (so long as it's legal) is no problem, it's entirely possible that I may do any number of those or weirder things, and I shouldn't have to explain any of them.
Unexplained actions don't convict someone - or shouldn't, at least - and if they did, then his wife is just as guilty for going missing (if she's still alive).
In my truck you'll find a copy of the Satanic Bible, 1984, and Catcher in the Rye (Harry Potter too, but that's because I'm reading it to my son). Not only that but there's a fairly large spot of my friend's blood that I can't get out from when he stepped on a nail and it went through his shoe, and the passenger lock has fallen off (almost as if someone was trying to hastily escape from my truck). I keep a sleeping bag and blanket in my truck - it's Iowa, what're you gonna do in a blizzard? I'm a loner with a quirky sense of humor.
I think we've just proved that I can be convicted of first degree murder if my friend turns up missing.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. Last I knew you had to prove that he planned to kill someone with a first degree murder charge. If you can't prove she's dead, and nobody saw her die, and there's no evidence that she's anywhere other than where he says, you can't convict a person of first degree murder.
Can you imagine what would happen if this guy was black?
Don't worry too much about sgt_doom, his sole purpose in life is to get on here and comment on anything that is even remotely political (they must have kicked him off the real political sites because his tinfoil hate was too dull), repeating the same combination of accusations of drugs, ignorance, or stupidity, and then parroting something about the same 4 voting machines that were somehow hooked up to Dick Cheney's iPhone so he can rig elections. Serious, go read his past comments.
You'll save yourself a lot of time if you just put him as a foe and give foes a -1, then his petty comments (very few of which actually get moderated up, you'd think he'd take a hint) get put below your threshold.
This is something that anti-virus company should have been doing themselves CONSTANTLY anyway, and it's only now that someone is doing something they should have been doing all along that they decide to wipe the tomato off their face?
The line between anti-virus and adware/spyware/malware scanner is blurring so much now anyway that they're seemingly just upset over having to do more work. Basically they're just up-selling bloatware now, and scaring grandmothers and soccer mom's into thinking they need a software firewall, virus scanner, email scanner and internet filter is the only way they're getting money right now.
So they've done Miami Vice, mobsters, LA street gangs, and now Russian mobsters. What's next?
Uh, Cowboy Neal? Not even Cowboy Neal wants to do Cowboy Neal. I vote for Code Pink, Al Sharpton, or violence in video games. There's so much content to use on any of those topics that they could probably squeeze three or four more games out of them before EA buys Rockstar up.
But... when Clinton said that Iraq had those weapons, he knew it was true because Bush Sr. and Reagan gave Saddam those weapons to fight Iran, and Chemical Ali had used a couple on some towns. When Bush Jr said it, those weapons had probably already been moved. So, while you're probably very correct about the wag the dog idea, I don't think parroting incorrect slogans is the way I'd describe it. If anything, I was making up my own incorrect slogan. While I do appreciate the fact that you think it's slogan-worthy, I will have to take offense at the parroting portion =)
The point, which I think you may have missed, was in my response to someone talking about Clinton perjurying himself, as if that's some real big deal in the grand scheme of things. Again, my point was that I'd rather have a President who lied under oath about a really stupid matter than to have one lie during a state of the union address (or just get his black general friend to do it for him to the UN) about a very important matter that got over 4000 Americans killed in Iraq, just shy of 500 killed in Afghanistan (which added together is the population of my home town, and my little town has had one twenty-year-old die there), around 30,000 Americans wounded officially (though many sites put it much higher), and moderate estimates putting about 30,000 Iraqis dead as a result of our escapades over there.
Blowjob and lying or Operation Iraqi Freedom... you tell me, then accuse me of parroting again. You can go back in the archives and get all the Clinton stuff you want (and I'd recommend the stuff that Black Hawk Down was based on), but it still won't come close to the fuckup Bush has wrought on the world. Give me a blue dress with a cum stain any day, because I'd rather that then see another teenager die a thousand miles from home.
Unless you're Scooter Libby. That was just for shock value, the Libby thing was pretty much crap.
But honestly, here's how that sounds in my head when you say things like that:
Bush lied and people died... but they were mostly our teen to twenty-year-old boys and girls in the sandbox, not to mention the tens of thousands that are coming back without arms, legs, or worse.
Clinton lied, babies died because for a while there we couldn't think of a blowjob without Linda Tripp's face. Then Viagra was invented.
You are exactly right, it was perjury... but I'd rather have that, even with Linda Tripp's face etched into my psyche, than to hobble/kill a generation.
Oh please, like the administration gives two shits about what the laws say or that our Senate could think about falling forward onto a bill that will pass and make a difference. This is has colossal fail written all over it, and the Dems can just blame the Reps when it doesn't pass. Someone get Kennedy a martini and a bridge so we can see if we can leave the right body in the river this time. And yeah, before you get all up on my nuts about that, I know that's not the right one. They're like the Baldwins; nobody really keeps track anymore because nobody cares. If either of our branches of government had a pair they would have done something to keep Bush from driving the stagecoach into the desert years ago, or, at the very least, airlifted him out once we realized we lied to get there....not like this country needs anymore lawsuits anyway, and THIS one seemed justified. Fail./soapbox
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Was it worth 3 replies to prove that you're a dickhole, or couldn't you just have kept it as part of your self-righteous, nerdling mystique and let us ponder the possibility of it?
I knew Famke when she was named Frank. The surgeries and hormones did very well with everything except his face. Good ol' Frank Janssen, always good for a laugh. After the sex change, he was the first person to be accused of having a "butter face"
No no, you see, he was proving that you can't predict mistakes before they happen. If someone could, why would they allow him to agree with himself? He's... taking one for the team, if you will.
That's simple, he was modded down because he spoke ill of Apple (iTunes). He may as well have called Ron Paul malware, said an "in soviet russia", or said that Microsoft had a good idea, because the same thing would have happened. I like to get those all out of the way in the same post when I know I have to violate a Slashdot bi-law.
Or he could be displaying humor, creating a juxtaposition between a misused, smart-sounding phrase he heard on the streets with a fictional rule. I do appreciate the pseudo vote of confidence (he's trying to sound smart again with pseudo!) =)
Really? The phrase in question ends in a reference to a fictional mandate for our species to follow, and you cry out against the rest of the sentence? What class do you have to have or status do you have to achieve to miss that aspect of the sentence?
And this is why I simply adore Slashdot. One week you've got people discussing different parts of astro physics using nouns that have people's names in front of them, then you got an article for some dumbass who dressed up as a Wii remote and called himself a superhero, and then you get articles like this, where people throw words around that I can pretend I understand and say things like, "Oh, that's interesting," and, "I never thought of it that way before."
The MS brick strongly violates people's expectations in a way that can burn the house down.
Especially since it's been out for nearly three years, sold over 18 million units worldwide, and this is the absolute first case of any damage what-so-ever being reported... and this one is reported as not being Microsoft's fault.
That's it, take it off the market. People aren't smart enough to read the manual, heed the warnings, obey common logic, or be allowed to handle shiny things!
I just assumed they were AC'ing it so their overrated mod doesn't disappear. We'd hate for that to happen in the new article we posted, now wouldn't we?
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My friend is a human male of legal age to do whatever he chooses so long as it's legal, thusly it's not my job to keep track of him, which is the point of my whole rant there that you apparently missed.
Seeing as how none of those things are illegal, prove that I have done anything wrong in any way, and because I own said truck, whatever I do with it and wherever I put it (so long as it's legal) is no problem, it's entirely possible that I may do any number of those or weirder things, and I shouldn't have to explain any of them.
Unexplained actions don't convict someone - or shouldn't, at least - and if they did, then his wife is just as guilty for going missing (if she's still alive).
Sure... either that or you make it easier to convict innocent people. You say "potato", I say "beyond a reasonable doubt."
You're the type of guy that would reply to Jonathan Swift by giving him recipe ideas, aren't ya?
In my truck you'll find a copy of the Satanic Bible, 1984, and Catcher in the Rye (Harry Potter too, but that's because I'm reading it to my son). Not only that but there's a fairly large spot of my friend's blood that I can't get out from when he stepped on a nail and it went through his shoe, and the passenger lock has fallen off (almost as if someone was trying to hastily escape from my truck). I keep a sleeping bag and blanket in my truck - it's Iowa, what're you gonna do in a blizzard? I'm a loner with a quirky sense of humor.
I think we've just proved that I can be convicted of first degree murder if my friend turns up missing.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. Last I knew you had to prove that he planned to kill someone with a first degree murder charge. If you can't prove she's dead, and nobody saw her die, and there's no evidence that she's anywhere other than where he says, you can't convict a person of first degree murder.
Can you imagine what would happen if this guy was black?
Don't worry too much about sgt_doom, his sole purpose in life is to get on here and comment on anything that is even remotely political (they must have kicked him off the real political sites because his tinfoil hate was too dull), repeating the same combination of accusations of drugs, ignorance, or stupidity, and then parroting something about the same 4 voting machines that were somehow hooked up to Dick Cheney's iPhone so he can rig elections. Serious, go read his past comments.
You'll save yourself a lot of time if you just put him as a foe and give foes a -1, then his petty comments (very few of which actually get moderated up, you'd think he'd take a hint) get put below your threshold.
EX-ACT-LY!
This is something that anti-virus company should have been doing themselves CONSTANTLY anyway, and it's only now that someone is doing something they should have been doing all along that they decide to wipe the tomato off their face?
The line between anti-virus and adware/spyware/malware scanner is blurring so much now anyway that they're seemingly just upset over having to do more work. Basically they're just up-selling bloatware now, and scaring grandmothers and soccer mom's into thinking they need a software firewall, virus scanner, email scanner and internet filter is the only way they're getting money right now.
But... when Clinton said that Iraq had those weapons, he knew it was true because Bush Sr. and Reagan gave Saddam those weapons to fight Iran, and Chemical Ali had used a couple on some towns. When Bush Jr said it, those weapons had probably already been moved. So, while you're probably very correct about the wag the dog idea, I don't think parroting incorrect slogans is the way I'd describe it. If anything, I was making up my own incorrect slogan. While I do appreciate the fact that you think it's slogan-worthy, I will have to take offense at the parroting portion =)
The point, which I think you may have missed, was in my response to someone talking about Clinton perjurying himself, as if that's some real big deal in the grand scheme of things. Again, my point was that I'd rather have a President who lied under oath about a really stupid matter than to have one lie during a state of the union address (or just get his black general friend to do it for him to the UN) about a very important matter that got over 4000 Americans killed in Iraq, just shy of 500 killed in Afghanistan (which added together is the population of my home town, and my little town has had one twenty-year-old die there), around 30,000 Americans wounded officially (though many sites put it much higher), and moderate estimates putting about 30,000 Iraqis dead as a result of our escapades over there.
Blowjob and lying or Operation Iraqi Freedom... you tell me, then accuse me of parroting again. You can go back in the archives and get all the Clinton stuff you want (and I'd recommend the stuff that Black Hawk Down was based on), but it still won't come close to the fuckup Bush has wrought on the world. Give me a blue dress with a cum stain any day, because I'd rather that then see another teenager die a thousand miles from home.
Unless you're Scooter Libby. That was just for shock value, the Libby thing was pretty much crap.
But honestly, here's how that sounds in my head when you say things like that:
Bush lied and people died... but they were mostly our teen to twenty-year-old boys and girls in the sandbox, not to mention the tens of thousands that are coming back without arms, legs, or worse.
Clinton lied, babies died because for a while there we couldn't think of a blowjob without Linda Tripp's face. Then Viagra was invented.
You are exactly right, it was perjury... but I'd rather have that, even with Linda Tripp's face etched into my psyche, than to hobble/kill a generation.
I think you give the Senate too much credit, my friend. I doubt they could work together to build a LEGO triangle.
Oh please, like the administration gives two shits about what the laws say or that our Senate could think about falling forward onto a bill that will pass and make a difference. This is has colossal fail written all over it, and the Dems can just blame the Reps when it doesn't pass. Someone get Kennedy a martini and a bridge so we can see if we can leave the right body in the river this time. And yeah, before you get all up on my nuts about that, I know that's not the right one. They're like the Baldwins; nobody really keeps track anymore because nobody cares. If either of our branches of government had a pair they would have done something to keep Bush from driving the stagecoach into the desert years ago, or, at the very least, airlifted him out once we realized we lied to get there. ...not like this country needs anymore lawsuits anyway, and THIS one seemed justified. Fail. /soapbox
Was it worth 3 replies to prove that you're a dickhole, or couldn't you just have kept it as part of your self-righteous, nerdling mystique and let us ponder the possibility of it?
I knew Famke when she was named Frank. The surgeries and hormones did very well with everything except his face. Good ol' Frank Janssen, always good for a laugh. After the sex change, he was the first person to be accused of having a "butter face"
No no, you see, he was proving that you can't predict mistakes before they happen. If someone could, why would they allow him to agree with himself? He's... taking one for the team, if you will.
That's simple, he was modded down because he spoke ill of Apple (iTunes). He may as well have called Ron Paul malware, said an "in soviet russia", or said that Microsoft had a good idea, because the same thing would have happened. I like to get those all out of the way in the same post when I know I have to violate a Slashdot bi-law.
Or he could be displaying humor, creating a juxtaposition between a misused, smart-sounding phrase he heard on the streets with a fictional rule. I do appreciate the pseudo vote of confidence (he's trying to sound smart again with pseudo!) =)
Really? The phrase in question ends in a reference to a fictional mandate for our species to follow, and you cry out against the rest of the sentence? What class do you have to have or status do you have to achieve to miss that aspect of the sentence?
You mean like The Bible? I agree, fictional rules probably have no influence on man at all.
And this is why I simply adore Slashdot. One week you've got people discussing different parts of astro physics using nouns that have people's names in front of them, then you got an article for some dumbass who dressed up as a Wii remote and called himself a superhero, and then you get articles like this, where people throw words around that I can pretend I understand and say things like, "Oh, that's interesting," and, "I never thought of it that way before."
Especially since it's been out for nearly three years, sold over 18 million units worldwide, and this is the absolute first case of any damage what-so-ever being reported... and this one is reported as not being Microsoft's fault.
That's it, take it off the market. People aren't smart enough to read the manual, heed the warnings, obey common logic, or be allowed to handle shiny things!
The possibilities are endless!
Actually... won't the motherland have them, and the fruits of their labor will be distributed "equally"?
omnom-eat.su
chucknorris-kill.su
insovietrussia-domainregister.su
I just assumed they were AC'ing it so their overrated mod doesn't disappear. We'd hate for that to happen in the new article we posted, now wouldn't we?