Crime and Punishment is a fantastic book.
If you want something to put you to sleep, try a math book (not saying math is uninteresting, merely that READING a math theory book is mind-numbing).
Really? I'd love to know what you think "pedophile" is a metaphor for.
Also, honor roll doesn't mean you're a "good" student. Most schools honor roll levels are so low that as long as you put out a mild level of effort and have an IQ over 50, you'll get on the honor roll.
No, the line is pretty obvious - when a kid blatantly lies about a serious crime in order to get a teacher into trouble merely because the kid is a shit student, the kid needs to be expelled.
Exactly - based off the biased summary I was thinking "Yet another instance of schools being assholes" - until I read the post. Kids are well aware that even so much as calling a teacher a pedophile or rapist without proof can not only get them fired and barred from teaching ever again, but can also lead to jail time.
It's not about the number of people supporting your cause, it's about if the people currently in the government will allow a peaceful change that removes them from power.
I'm talking about how the colonists tried to peacefully and legally address their grievances, to which the King said "Fuck off". You should try peaceful talks first - when that fails, it's time to fuck people up. I have to hand it to the French - for all their failings, they at least got that point right.
You're falsely assuming that we have control over who runs and / or wins. But if they did, what's to stop them? Honestly - what guarantee do we have that the police / military will let a massive political change take place that they don't support? None.
I also never, ever minimize, I just keep everything maximized and alt-tab.
If you only have a few things, sure. However, once you get past say six programs, it starts taking way longer to alt-tab than it's worth. I'm not telling you what to do; just confused by why you prefer doing things the hard way.
No, it doesn't. You forget that those nice people taking away our rights have the blind loyalty of the police and military to support them - at best, they'll lock you up if you try to defend your freedom. Most likely, they're just gonna kill you.
Yes, you have the right to be spied on and have your every movement and action monitored. You have the right to have your children arrested for climbing a tree (if you don't recall, it was on slashdot a year or two ago, where three 12 year olds were arrested for climbing a tree and inadvertently damaging the bark in the process). You have the right to be forced to be financially responsible for other people. The list goes on.
I'm completely with you on the whole "The US is crap with a psychotic government" issue. The problem is, the rest of the world is worse. If there were a better country to move to, I'd gladly let the TSA fondle my balls before I say "Fuck off America, I'm free!" as I board the plane.
I use Windows 7 and never, ever use that. In fact, it pisses me off that a good 10% of the time when you're just re-arranging windows, it wants to maximize something instead. I'd be interested in knowing why you like the click and drag over clicking a min/max button, which means taking a good 300% more time to maximize a window.
Not hating on Muslims isn't politically correct, its accurate
See, this shit, right here is exactly what I'm talking about. No one said anything about "hating". All I mentioned was the apologists like you who want to blame those "evil whites / christians" instead of accepting the documented facts that many years of Muslim aggression lead to Europeans fight back. Now I know you'll say "I'm not blaming them, I'm saying they're both to blame" - it's still the same thing because you refuse to accept that Muslims did X bad thing and it resulted in Y.
The problem with your source is that it confirms what the OP said. From EB - "Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by Western Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion."
Thank you for proving two things - 1) that the OP was telling the truth about Muslims provoking the Crusades and 2) that you're not too bright and have no clue what you're talking about, merely parroting what the TV tells you to say.
It's bothered me since long before Wikipedia existed that people believe the urban legend that Europeans started the Crusades to convert Muslims. However, the politically correct devotion to Muslims makes it almost a crime to point out that the Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression.
You've said that judging people on their ability and not ass kissing ability is being a "dickhead". It's called being a mature and responsible adult, but that damages your ability to get a job due to lack of skills, so you throw a fit about it. Secondly, taking 30 seconds to make some suckup remark is not "making connections" - it's childish brown nosing and nothing more. The fact that you waste so much effort defending it instead of just gaining useful skills is rather pathetic.
As for my career? I do great in interviews because I *GASP* actually have skills and thus know what the fuck I'm talking about. I don't need to rely on tracking down the hiring manager and telling them how awesome they are and how I'd do their laundry, babysit their kids, etc to try to get them to like me. I get them to like me by doing a good job. Hence why one of my previous employers who had to cut my position due to the economy keeps contacting me because once they have more money coming in, they want to hire me back.
We all know the old phrase "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" - well it's kind of like that - those who can, do; those who can't, "network" to avoid being asked to actually "do".
On T-Mobile, I'd been waiting for an update from Android 1.6 to 2.2 (for an HTC myTouch 3G). They'd been saying it'd be out "just next month" since I bought it in 3/2010. The OTA update finally hit on 12/2010. Still no sign of 2.3 Froyo.
In particular, you have just referred to those of us who believe that interconnectedness within the industry as "ass kissers."
No, I referred to those of you who get jobs based on the "good old boy" system as opposed to being qualified as ass kissers. Any company run by arrogant pricks like you is a company not worth my time.
And why does judging based on skills instead of ass kissing ability mean someone's an asshole? Seems to me the only people who would say someone being judged on their talent is an asshole are those who rely on ass kissing to get ahead.
So going after a presenter, introduce yourself and genuinely and intelligently comment on his/her presentation (while exchanging credentials) is ass-kissing? Nice socials skills you got there buddy.
If you're doing it for the purpose of trying to get a contact "on the inside" to help you get hired, then yes, it absolutely is. If you went up, said hi, made an insightful comment just for the sake of making the comment, and then they were impressed and said "Hey, you seem bright - I'd like to talk to you more. Got a card?", then it's not ass kissing.
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I rip every DVD I buy to put on my own media server, am I now a criminal?
In the US, if you view or consume media in any way, shape, or form (paid for or unpaid for), you are a criminal. So yes, you are "now" a criminal.
I think a quote from Goldeneye sums up your post quite nicely - "Governments change. The lies stay the same."
Pretty soon just disagreeing with the government position will be a felony
We already have that - it's called The Patriot Act.
I think the island aspect of it seems pretty cool - I'd love to be able to be shipped off to a Eureka type island away from the majority of morons.
Crime and Punishment is a fantastic book. If you want something to put you to sleep, try a math book (not saying math is uninteresting, merely that READING a math theory book is mind-numbing).
Really? I'd love to know what you think "pedophile" is a metaphor for.
Also, honor roll doesn't mean you're a "good" student. Most schools honor roll levels are so low that as long as you put out a mild level of effort and have an IQ over 50, you'll get on the honor roll.
No, the line is pretty obvious - when a kid blatantly lies about a serious crime in order to get a teacher into trouble merely because the kid is a shit student, the kid needs to be expelled.
Exactly - based off the biased summary I was thinking "Yet another instance of schools being assholes" - until I read the post. Kids are well aware that even so much as calling a teacher a pedophile or rapist without proof can not only get them fired and barred from teaching ever again, but can also lead to jail time.
These kids are getting off very, very light.
*WOOSH*
It's not about the number of people supporting your cause, it's about if the people currently in the government will allow a peaceful change that removes them from power.
Except for the people who have no desire to download music and just get stuck paying $120 a year to subsidize everyone else.
I'm talking about how the colonists tried to peacefully and legally address their grievances, to which the King said "Fuck off". You should try peaceful talks first - when that fails, it's time to fuck people up. I have to hand it to the French - for all their failings, they at least got that point right.
You're falsely assuming that we have control over who runs and / or wins. But if they did, what's to stop them? Honestly - what guarantee do we have that the police / military will let a massive political change take place that they don't support? None.
I also never, ever minimize, I just keep everything maximized and alt-tab.
If you only have a few things, sure. However, once you get past say six programs, it starts taking way longer to alt-tab than it's worth. I'm not telling you what to do; just confused by why you prefer doing things the hard way.
You mean like how the US tried to vote itself freedom in the late 18th century? Remind me - how did that turn out?
No, it doesn't. You forget that those nice people taking away our rights have the blind loyalty of the police and military to support them - at best, they'll lock you up if you try to defend your freedom. Most likely, they're just gonna kill you.
Yes, you have the right to be spied on and have your every movement and action monitored. You have the right to have your children arrested for climbing a tree (if you don't recall, it was on slashdot a year or two ago, where three 12 year olds were arrested for climbing a tree and inadvertently damaging the bark in the process). You have the right to be forced to be financially responsible for other people. The list goes on.
I'm completely with you on the whole "The US is crap with a psychotic government" issue. The problem is, the rest of the world is worse. If there were a better country to move to, I'd gladly let the TSA fondle my balls before I say "Fuck off America, I'm free!" as I board the plane.
I use Windows 7 and never, ever use that. In fact, it pisses me off that a good 10% of the time when you're just re-arranging windows, it wants to maximize something instead. I'd be interested in knowing why you like the click and drag over clicking a min/max button, which means taking a good 300% more time to maximize a window.
Not hating on Muslims isn't politically correct, its accurate
See, this shit, right here is exactly what I'm talking about. No one said anything about "hating". All I mentioned was the apologists like you who want to blame those "evil whites / christians" instead of accepting the documented facts that many years of Muslim aggression lead to Europeans fight back. Now I know you'll say "I'm not blaming them, I'm saying they're both to blame" - it's still the same thing because you refuse to accept that Muslims did X bad thing and it resulted in Y.
The problem with your source is that it confirms what the OP said. From EB - "Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by Western Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion."
Thank you for proving two things - 1) that the OP was telling the truth about Muslims provoking the Crusades and 2) that you're not too bright and have no clue what you're talking about, merely parroting what the TV tells you to say.
It's bothered me since long before Wikipedia existed that people believe the urban legend that Europeans started the Crusades to convert Muslims. However, the politically correct devotion to Muslims makes it almost a crime to point out that the Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression.
You've said that judging people on their ability and not ass kissing ability is being a "dickhead". It's called being a mature and responsible adult, but that damages your ability to get a job due to lack of skills, so you throw a fit about it. Secondly, taking 30 seconds to make some suckup remark is not "making connections" - it's childish brown nosing and nothing more. The fact that you waste so much effort defending it instead of just gaining useful skills is rather pathetic.
As for my career? I do great in interviews because I *GASP* actually have skills and thus know what the fuck I'm talking about. I don't need to rely on tracking down the hiring manager and telling them how awesome they are and how I'd do their laundry, babysit their kids, etc to try to get them to like me. I get them to like me by doing a good job. Hence why one of my previous employers who had to cut my position due to the economy keeps contacting me because once they have more money coming in, they want to hire me back.
We all know the old phrase "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" - well it's kind of like that - those who can, do; those who can't, "network" to avoid being asked to actually "do".
On T-Mobile, I'd been waiting for an update from Android 1.6 to 2.2 (for an HTC myTouch 3G). They'd been saying it'd be out "just next month" since I bought it in 3/2010. The OTA update finally hit on 12/2010. Still no sign of 2.3 Froyo.
FYI, 2.2 IS Froyo.
In particular, you have just referred to those of us who believe that interconnectedness within the industry as "ass kissers."
No, I referred to those of you who get jobs based on the "good old boy" system as opposed to being qualified as ass kissers. Any company run by arrogant pricks like you is a company not worth my time.
And why does judging based on skills instead of ass kissing ability mean someone's an asshole? Seems to me the only people who would say someone being judged on their talent is an asshole are those who rely on ass kissing to get ahead.
Forgot to address this in my other comment:
So going after a presenter, introduce yourself and genuinely and intelligently comment on his/her presentation (while exchanging credentials) is ass-kissing? Nice socials skills you got there buddy.
If you're doing it for the purpose of trying to get a contact "on the inside" to help you get hired, then yes, it absolutely is. If you went up, said hi, made an insightful comment just for the sake of making the comment, and then they were impressed and said "Hey, you seem bright - I'd like to talk to you more. Got a card?", then it's not ass kissing.
It's more about intent than actual actions.