Does anyone else have this problem with/., when you push the 'reply' it shows the page with the text area that is one quarter of the width of the page? I am too lazy to check the CSS, but is this happening for everyone here right now, or is it settings dependent and on case by case basis?/. - we don't really need more/. One is enough for everyone.
- I don't think this means what you think this means.
Willing individuals against willing machines? I doubt any retail investors is willing to trade against machines, but they don't have a choice if they want to trade at all.
Wall street firms are my hero. The shit they do is so cool, it the pristine ice of Titan is like hot lava in comparison. They hack the entire political system, turn it completely against itself, use the fact that the banks are Federally insured to their advantage so that bank customers never bother to check, who the hell are they giving their money to. They hack the Government, install the Fed, get Free Money, hack some more, get the country off the gold standard, become huge beyond anyone's imagination, hack some more, create a bunch of moral hazards by making sure government also insures mortgages, at this point the last hack is the most beautiful though: have the right people slipped into the government positions to pay the banks for failing in the hugest ways and make hundreds of billions of dollars getting bailed out AFTER they lose everyone's money. They are FORCED by the hacked government to take the cash and everyone is asking them to 'please take the money'. They have hacked the society completely to make it believe that this is how things should be done: fiat money, fed, printing, borrowing, insuring by government, regulations to kill off competition, globalization, high frequency trading, more insurance by government, moral hazard, bail out cash, too big to fail, and the next hack will be the most amazing yet, when the t-bills and bonds are being sold off and the dollars printed to buy back all of them while these guys will make so much money, something into quadrillions, when they get back the bets against all of those bonds and t-bills and government securities and the entire world begs them at their knees to PLEASE, PLEASE take it ALL just so that tomorrow the day will be approximately the same as yesterday. And they will graciously take it all.
Oh, BP is responsible for SO MUCH MORE than that. That company used to be known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, it drilled in Iran for decades before they got rid of the Shah. In 1951, when Iran finally had a democratically elected government, which decided to follow the wishes of the people and to nationalize the Oil fields and then provide APOC with a contract, which it hated, APOC went crying to UK and US politicians, and then the Democratically Elected Government of Iran was removed through a coup and APOC was once again free to do as it pleased, it got almost the contract that it wanted, it was less though, because there was just too much pressure from the people of Iran, who I think hated the guts of APOC.
APOC renamed to BP at that time probably as a way to whitewash its image, you know: Accenture (formerly known as Anderson Consulting) did the same after Enron.
BP is a very old and I would say evil entity, what I mean is that the processes in the company are such that from the outside the results of its work look evil.
Rachel Maddow has shown an interview named BP's haste lays waste to Gulf waters with a whistleblower from BP who explained that just a little before the disaster a BP manager told Transocean manager to do the work of putting in the corks into the well faster, so that the pumping of oil could be done faster. Aparently the Transocean manager was against it and they had an argument and BP won.
So it's mostly BP's fault, but I think still Transocean should not have complied with this clear violation of the procedure.
well, the words are redefined by power on purpose. Everything is a terrorist plot (like drawing little stick figures on a homework paper) now and anyone can be accused of being a pedophile etc.
I suggest combining the tags together, what's the difference at this point? So let's already call everyone who does anything a pedophile terrorist and be done with it. Put a fence around the country and don't allow anyone to be let out. Problem solved once and for all.
Wonderful, can they apply it to irony as well, because I am fucking tired of people constantly proclaiming that someone's informative statement is 'ironic'?
I already posted a similar comment, but just in case:
Swear words come out of sexual context and in animals sex is really about power.
The most dominating male gets the female, sometimes gets other smaller males, if you know what I mean.
But the point is that it is about someone dominating someone else. For the one who is being dominated it brings shame (if it is an uninvited situation in any case) and shame is related to fear.
Thus swearing brings up the context of domination and shame and fear.
Thus in all languages many words that have to do with sex end up being swear words.
However it is even more interesting. In France (and many other countries with Monarchs) the Kings would often not care and urinate right in front of others and they couldn't do anything about it, it is as if they were shown who is the boss.
In fact, Kings in France had some castles that did not have washrooms indoors, so they would come to a castle, stay there as long as there was still space to take a shit somewhere or to piss somewhere and then once it becomes unlivable they would leave and the 'slaves' would start cleaning up.
So anything that deals with display of power and can bring up fear and shame can become a taboo, and it's not just words, it can be gestures (flipping a birdy)
Why would it brick? Is it the third party stuff that can break it or are you talking about Apple's upgrades? I understand that if a phone is jail broken then you may want to avoid those, no?
You see, we are animals after all, mammals, and in the world of animals those with bigger dicks fuck more. It is true that the ones who are more dominant fuck more among the animals, it is also not such a big stretch to apply this to people, after all, if you have money and someone else does not, you have a pretty good chance of being considered a dominant one among the two of you.
So now understand, there are those who dominate and the dominated ones. Often the dominated are getting fucked and the dominating are fucking them (either literally or figuratively speaking.)
So that is why words that have to do with sex, like: bitch, cunt, fuck, cock whatever else, those words are used to express the dominating power of one over another. And since it is an unpleasant situation for the ones who are dominated (if it is not consensual anyway) it brings associations of shame.
It is all about shame. Shame is a very powerful fear factor. Shame and Fear are closely related.
By the way, English is actually a very poor language for expressing oneself this way, I am comparing to Russian, Ukrainian, German and English though, so I am not able to say where English stands exactly on the ladder among other languages, but compared to those ones it's very poor.
Suffices it to say that in Russian there are entire sub-languages created around only various 'bad' words that are normally unacceptable in polite society. I mean there are thousands of words for this.
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You are so wrong about the Russian one, it would be the one who marries the richest Oil Tycoon / Politician.
I love shooting different types of handguns at targets. My targets are NOT people! It's a great sport.
Does anyone else have this problem with /., when you push the 'reply' it shows the page with the text area that is one quarter of the width of the page? I am too lazy to check the CSS, but is this happening for everyone here right now, or is it settings dependent and on case by case basis? /. - we don't really need more /. One is enough for everyone.
When will people learn?
(in the same voice that Mel Gibson used to cry out 'Freedom' in the last minutes of Braveheart)
NEEEEVEEEEEEEEEERR
willing individuals
- I don't think this means what you think this means.
Willing individuals against willing machines? I doubt any retail investors is willing to trade against machines, but they don't have a choice if they want to trade at all.
Wall street firms are my hero. The shit they do is so cool, it the pristine ice of Titan is like hot lava in comparison. They hack the entire political system, turn it completely against itself, use the fact that the banks are Federally insured to their advantage so that bank customers never bother to check, who the hell are they giving their money to. They hack the Government, install the Fed, get Free Money, hack some more, get the country off the gold standard, become huge beyond anyone's imagination, hack some more, create a bunch of moral hazards by making sure government also insures mortgages, at this point the last hack is the most beautiful though: have the right people slipped into the government positions to pay the banks for failing in the hugest ways and make hundreds of billions of dollars getting bailed out AFTER they lose everyone's money. They are FORCED by the hacked government to take the cash and everyone is asking them to 'please take the money'. They have hacked the society completely to make it believe that this is how things should be done: fiat money, fed, printing, borrowing, insuring by government, regulations to kill off competition, globalization, high frequency trading, more insurance by government, moral hazard, bail out cash, too big to fail, and the next hack will be the most amazing yet, when the t-bills and bonds are being sold off and the dollars printed to buy back all of them while these guys will make so much money, something into quadrillions, when they get back the bets against all of those bonds and t-bills and government securities and the entire world begs them at their knees to PLEASE, PLEASE take it ALL just so that tomorrow the day will be approximately the same as yesterday. And they will graciously take it all.
Now that is a hack worthy of admiring.
It's a killer application.
simply put a bunch of gasbags in a DDOS configuration.
We may not understand the theory, but we'll sure love the applications!"
- Yeah, apparently the application suspends notquitewrong.com accounts. I think it's a winner.
Oh really? I think it makes perfect sense for someone to spy on your zoom levels to adjust the timing of the next event accordingly.
It is a problem for US though, honestly, in Germany I haven't seen a store that sells magazines that has no smut in it yet.
That's an excellent slogan, that 'news for nerfs, stiffs that mutter' has been overused I thinks.
If someone's dick ends up in your ass, would consider the possibility that it was an honest mistake?
No, Anonymous Cowards are not your girlfriends.
and yet they changed the name.
Oh, BP is responsible for SO MUCH MORE than that. That company used to be known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, it drilled in Iran for decades before they got rid of the Shah. In 1951, when Iran finally had a democratically elected government, which decided to follow the wishes of the people and to nationalize the Oil fields and then provide APOC with a contract, which it hated, APOC went crying to UK and US politicians, and then the Democratically Elected Government of Iran was removed through a coup and APOC was once again free to do as it pleased, it got almost the contract that it wanted, it was less though, because there was just too much pressure from the people of Iran, who I think hated the guts of APOC.
APOC renamed to BP at that time probably as a way to whitewash its image, you know: Accenture (formerly known as Anderson Consulting) did the same after Enron.
BP is a very old and I would say evil entity, what I mean is that the processes in the company are such that from the outside the results of its work look evil.
Rachel Maddow has shown an interview named BP's haste lays waste to Gulf waters with a whistleblower from BP who explained that just a little before the disaster a BP manager told Transocean manager to do the work of putting in the corks into the well faster, so that the pumping of oil could be done faster. Aparently the Transocean manager was against it and they had an argument and BP won.
So it's mostly BP's fault, but I think still Transocean should not have complied with this clear violation of the procedure.
well, the words are redefined by power on purpose. Everything is a terrorist plot (like drawing little stick figures on a homework paper) now and anyone can be accused of being a pedophile etc.
I suggest combining the tags together, what's the difference at this point? So let's already call everyone who does anything a pedophile terrorist and be done with it. Put a fence around the country and don't allow anyone to be let out. Problem solved once and for all.
MMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Gaaaaalaaaaaxyyyyyyy
om nom nom nom
Wonderful, can they apply it to irony as well, because I am fucking tired of people constantly proclaiming that someone's informative statement is 'ironic'?
But sure, like that is ever going to happen.
I already posted a similar comment, but just in case:
Swear words come out of sexual context and in animals sex is really about power.
The most dominating male gets the female, sometimes gets other smaller males, if you know what I mean.
But the point is that it is about someone dominating someone else. For the one who is being dominated it brings shame (if it is an uninvited situation in any case) and shame is related to fear.
Thus swearing brings up the context of domination and shame and fear.
Thus in all languages many words that have to do with sex end up being swear words.
However it is even more interesting. In France (and many other countries with Monarchs) the Kings would often not care and urinate right in front of others and they couldn't do anything about it, it is as if they were shown who is the boss.
In fact, Kings in France had some castles that did not have washrooms indoors, so they would come to a castle, stay there as long as there was still space to take a shit somewhere or to piss somewhere and then once it becomes unlivable they would leave and the 'slaves' would start cleaning up.
So anything that deals with display of power and can bring up fear and shame can become a taboo, and it's not just words, it can be gestures (flipping a birdy)
Oh crap, so what is going to happen to my irritated google?
Why would it brick? Is it the third party stuff that can break it or are you talking about Apple's upgrades? I understand that if a phone is jail broken then you may want to avoid those, no?
It is about context.
You see, we are animals after all, mammals, and in the world of animals those with bigger dicks fuck more. It is true that the ones who are more dominant fuck more among the animals, it is also not such a big stretch to apply this to people, after all, if you have money and someone else does not, you have a pretty good chance of being considered a dominant one among the two of you.
So now understand, there are those who dominate and the dominated ones. Often the dominated are getting fucked and the dominating are fucking them (either literally or figuratively speaking.)
So that is why words that have to do with sex, like: bitch, cunt, fuck, cock whatever else, those words are used to express the dominating power of one over another. And since it is an unpleasant situation for the ones who are dominated (if it is not consensual anyway) it brings associations of shame.
It is all about shame. Shame is a very powerful fear factor. Shame and Fear are closely related.
By the way, English is actually a very poor language for expressing oneself this way, I am comparing to Russian, Ukrainian, German and English though, so I am not able to say where English stands exactly on the ladder among other languages, but compared to those ones it's very poor.
Suffices it to say that in Russian there are entire sub-languages created around only various 'bad' words that are normally unacceptable in polite society. I mean there are thousands of words for this.
Only if 'The Aristocrats' is playing.