I feel certain that most Apple developers would rather stick needles in their eyes than use Visual Studio.
If Jobs tells them that Microsoft is the new ally in the war against Google, the Fanbois will immediately start singing Microsoft's praises and buying Zunes to match their iPods.
There is more than one way to fight back. You chose your intellect. It's no less fighting back than my hands and feet were.
This one particular self-hating homosexual (hence, his aversion to you using an nearby shower) may have chosen to leave you alone but another one may have intensified his attack or just started victimizing someone else. You did the right thing for yourself in that situation. My situation was different.
Let me paint you a picture. In the mid 1980s my school district chose to phase out the Jr. High School and we had 7-12 in the same school. 12 year olds in the same school as 17 & 18 year olds. Shit flows down hill. The Seniors would pick on the Freshmen, the Freshmen would pick on the underclassmen. Some underclassmen would pick on their peers that they thought were weaker. I was the fat, nerdy, black kid in my grade. The first 4 months or so of my 7th grade year I was one of the weaker kids. One day, I decided that I wouldn't take it anymore. There was a fellow 7th grader who thought it would be funny to paint my shirt in art class. I snapped, I went after him. He ran and got the teacher in between us. I went back to my desk and simmered. I realized that if I did nothing, it would only encourage him to continue and perhaps paint me (figuratively) as a target for others. After class, I was the first one out the door and I stood there and waited for him. When he walked out, I punched him directly in the mouth and walked away. I was, rightly, suspended for this. While I was in in-school suspension for that fight a 9th grader decided that I was going to be his target for abuse. He found out how poorly he chose. When we were leaving one of our scheduled bathroom breaks he pushed me. He pushed me hard enough that my glasses fell off and one of the lenses shattered on the floor. I pulled back my fist and punched as hard as I could at the big peach-colored blur in front of me.
There were two more fights that I got into that year, one of which I won and the other I lost. Even the fight that I lost was a moral victory. People saw that it didn't matter if you were bigger than me, stronger than me or a better fighter than me; if you tried to abuse me, you were going to find yourself in a fight.
There's no better way to ensure peace than to prepare for war.
My parents were extremely religious Christians. They also understood how the social dynamics of public school worked. I was encouraged to defend myself. I remember one occasion where a bully attempted to goad my into a fight by pushing me as I walked home from the bus stop. I didn't hit him, I pushed him back. Well we ended up spending about five fruitless minutes taking turns pushing each other. After the other kids realized they neither of us would throw the first punch, they all went home. When the audience was gone, he lost interest and left. I happened to mention it to my parents during dinner and they didn't understand why I didn't interpret his push as an assault. I remember my step-father's words to this day "If he pushes you again, push him back. With your fist." The next day I went to school ready for him. He ignored me and I never had another problem from him. The fact that I carried that new found confidence with me must have been enough to convince him to steer clear of me.
Stargoat, you are a dangerous person if you think a single harassing blow to the back of the head and beating a person unconscious are equivalent actions.
Let a few random strangers punch you in the back of the head and we'll see how serious a threat to your well being you think it is.
If you are assaulted, even by someone whom you believe is not capable of causing you serious harm, you have every right to defend yourself. Yes, to beat him or her into unconsciousness if that's what it will take to bring the assault to an end.
1) That diesel truck can be powered by biodiesel or electricity, depending on the range required (electricity is easy under 100 miles)
1.a Biodiesel requires combustion too. IOW, it produces CO2 just like regular diesel. I suppose you have less secondary pollutants like sulfur but that's not what Cap and Tax addresses.
1.b Commercial delivery in electric vehicles just isn't going to be practical for quite some time.
2) ComEd in Northern IL provides me with low carbon nuclear energy (for 7 cents/kwh), not coal.
2.a If we could get more plants built without the Green Gestapo fighting against it, we could take a lot of coal plants offline, but that's not the case.
2.b You still have the fuel for this plant being mined and delivered with petrochemical burning vehicles.
Give me answers and solutions. Not whining.
The answer is for you (collectively, not individually) to leave me alone. The solution is to stop using junk-science and cooked data to justify an unnecessary intrusion into every aspect of my life.
Bill Gates? If you need to put a name to the phenomenon, Michael Dell could more credibly be claimed to have pushed down the price of computers. But Gates? What the fuck is wrong with you?
It makes a lot more sense to tax a negative externality than it does to tax something we want more of like income.
All commerce in the western world can be directly linked to CO2. Taxing CO2 will lead directly to a negative economic impact for everyone. How does all of your organically grown produce get to the store? On a diesel truck. How do you power your high efficiency appliances? With electricity that comes from burning coal.
Air quality has improved since the days of L.A. being famous for its smog. Maybe not directly the cause of catalytic converters, but it's very probable that it is due to taking the problem of air pollution seriously and implementing many steps to try and put a curb on it.
I don't know if they still do it today, but back in the 80s car makers would produce limited runs of certain vehicles for California emissions requirements. It's not just the catalytic converters that were responsible, it was the fact that California had so many cars on the road in densely packed urban areas and had to implement stricter rules to control the pollution.
Engines run hotter because you can get more efficient combustion of the fuel at higher temperatures, the problem is that higher combustion temperatures lead to greater oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust. 30 years ago, bigger and heavier cars than the ones we drive today had nearly the exact same average mpg. Back then, engines burned hotter but produced more smog producing oxides of nitrogen. It's very complicated to get as much power and fuel economy as you can without spewing too many harmful emissions. That's why we have EGR, ECM and O2 sensors. It requires continuous monitoring and adjustment to maintain that balance.
Now, I am not responsible for people turning to Glenn Beck, any more than Sean Hannity is responsible for turning me to Stephen Colbert.
Not you as an individual, but people who share your political leanings.
The spirit of your post contains a powder burn of truth. A touch, I do confess it. Yeah, I'm a disaffected and therefore somewhat effete progressive. Maybe I do spend too much time on useless palliative care on myself, and wallowing in limp rage while watching Democracy Now.
It's a difficult lesson to learn. I do not always live by example. There are a lot of people out there who just don't really give a damn about anything political, if you represent your side poorly you can and will drive some of them to the other side.
These creeps need to be dragged into the streets whipped into their sense, then educated and sent to work in a coal mine before they corrupt the entire nation with their ignorance and ill formed beliefs.
Gee, round up people who disagree with you and put them into re-education camps. Somehow, I think this has been tried before. It didn't work then either.
The problem is the 30% of otherwise kind, intelligent, educated people who because of some flaw in their heads find themselves thinking things like: "Hmmm, that Glenn Beck fella makes some good points."
The question that you should be asking is what is it about you that sends these otherwise kind, intelligent, educated people to Glenn Beck in the first place.
and just pray to a god who doesn't exist that power ends up in the hands of better people.
If you abolish software patents, it makes it very difficult for companies to realistically spend millions on development of new concepts and ideas when someone can then just take the ground breaking UI or process etc.
Even without software patents, you'd still have copyright. The company's actual work would still be protected while allowing someone else to be inspired by them to create something else that's new and innovative.
Parent was explicitly comparing the two. You, clearly, didn't understand the comparison. I could explain it to you, but I doubt that it would do much good.
Unsupported assertion, assumption of unstated activity, and, just because I've heard this little spiel before and know who you're talking about, ad-hominem and straw-man.
There's no assumption involved. It's historically documented fact. Uncomfortable for you, to be sure, but perfectly accurate.
Man, what's with conservatives and being unable to debate a point?
If you can only perceive things as conservative/liberal; to you, I would seem like a conservative. When dealing with people like you, it's the term that I use as well because it's the closest thing to what I am that you can understand. That's all beside the point. There is a difference between the "Jesus camp" people and the "social justice" people, but it's not the one you think it is.
Wait, believing that the earth is 6000 years old and the Rapture is right around the corner is the same as believing that social safety nets promote a stable society?
No, it's certainly not the same. If you believe that providing social safety nets is really what modern leftism is about, you are considerably worse than the people who believe in the young earth, literal 6 day creation and imminent rapture.
While they put their faith in books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago by people that they can't possibly identify, you put your faith in people who, during your lifetime, have shown themselves to be liars, hypocrites and/or murderers.
I have all kinds of keys. I have keys to four automobiles, three homes, locking gas caps, gun safes, padlocks, handcuffs and a bunch of other shit. How do I protect them all? I put them in my fucking pocket. Was it really necessary to ask this?
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These guys can kiss the baby.
LK
I feel certain that most Apple developers would rather stick needles in their eyes than use Visual Studio.
If Jobs tells them that Microsoft is the new ally in the war against Google, the Fanbois will immediately start singing Microsoft's praises and buying Zunes to match their iPods.
LK
There is more than one way to fight back. You chose your intellect. It's no less fighting back than my hands and feet were.
This one particular self-hating homosexual (hence, his aversion to you using an nearby shower) may have chosen to leave you alone but another one may have intensified his attack or just started victimizing someone else. You did the right thing for yourself in that situation. My situation was different.
Let me paint you a picture. In the mid 1980s my school district chose to phase out the Jr. High School and we had 7-12 in the same school. 12 year olds in the same school as 17 & 18 year olds. Shit flows down hill. The Seniors would pick on the Freshmen, the Freshmen would pick on the underclassmen. Some underclassmen would pick on their peers that they thought were weaker. I was the fat, nerdy, black kid in my grade. The first 4 months or so of my 7th grade year I was one of the weaker kids. One day, I decided that I wouldn't take it anymore. There was a fellow 7th grader who thought it would be funny to paint my shirt in art class. I snapped, I went after him. He ran and got the teacher in between us. I went back to my desk and simmered. I realized that if I did nothing, it would only encourage him to continue and perhaps paint me (figuratively) as a target for others. After class, I was the first one out the door and I stood there and waited for him. When he walked out, I punched him directly in the mouth and walked away. I was, rightly, suspended for this. While I was in in-school suspension for that fight a 9th grader decided that I was going to be his target for abuse. He found out how poorly he chose. When we were leaving one of our scheduled bathroom breaks he pushed me. He pushed me hard enough that my glasses fell off and one of the lenses shattered on the floor. I pulled back my fist and punched as hard as I could at the big peach-colored blur in front of me.
There were two more fights that I got into that year, one of which I won and the other I lost. Even the fight that I lost was a moral victory. People saw that it didn't matter if you were bigger than me, stronger than me or a better fighter than me; if you tried to abuse me, you were going to find yourself in a fight.
There's no better way to ensure peace than to prepare for war.
LK
My parents were extremely religious Christians. They also understood how the social dynamics of public school worked. I was encouraged to defend myself. I remember one occasion where a bully attempted to goad my into a fight by pushing me as I walked home from the bus stop. I didn't hit him, I pushed him back. Well we ended up spending about five fruitless minutes taking turns pushing each other. After the other kids realized they neither of us would throw the first punch, they all went home. When the audience was gone, he lost interest and left. I happened to mention it to my parents during dinner and they didn't understand why I didn't interpret his push as an assault. I remember my step-father's words to this day "If he pushes you again, push him back. With your fist." The next day I went to school ready for him. He ignored me and I never had another problem from him. The fact that I carried that new found confidence with me must have been enough to convince him to steer clear of me.
LK
Stargoat, you are a dangerous person if you think a single harassing blow to the back of the head and beating a person unconscious are equivalent actions.
Let a few random strangers punch you in the back of the head and we'll see how serious a threat to your well being you think it is.
LK
If you are assaulted, even by someone whom you believe is not capable of causing you serious harm, you have every right to defend yourself. Yes, to beat him or her into unconsciousness if that's what it will take to bring the assault to an end.
LK
I'm annoyed that some self-important pricks talk even louder on their cell phones just so other people can see how important they think they are.
LK
You're aware biodiesel is a closed loop system, correct?
Only if all of the machinery used in its production is run on it.
The solution is for people to start paying for what previously has been an unaccounted-for externality: the damage their energy sources cause.
I reject your "solution", there first must be a problem.
LK
1) That diesel truck can be powered by biodiesel or electricity, depending on the range required (electricity is easy under 100 miles)
1.a Biodiesel requires combustion too. IOW, it produces CO2 just like regular diesel. I suppose you have less secondary pollutants like sulfur but that's not what Cap and Tax addresses.
1.b Commercial delivery in electric vehicles just isn't going to be practical for quite some time.
2) ComEd in Northern IL provides me with low carbon nuclear energy (for 7 cents/kwh), not coal.
2.a If we could get more plants built without the Green Gestapo fighting against it, we could take a lot of coal plants offline, but that's not the case.
2.b You still have the fuel for this plant being mined and delivered with petrochemical burning vehicles.
Give me answers and solutions. Not whining.
The answer is for you (collectively, not individually) to leave me alone. The solution is to stop using junk-science and cooked data to justify an unnecessary intrusion into every aspect of my life.
LK
Bill Gates? If you need to put a name to the phenomenon, Michael Dell could more credibly be claimed to have pushed down the price of computers. But Gates? What the fuck is wrong with you?
LK
Yes, he buys offsets from a company that he owns a considerable interest in.
LK
It makes a lot more sense to tax a negative externality than it does to tax something we want more of like income.
All commerce in the western world can be directly linked to CO2. Taxing CO2 will lead directly to a negative economic impact for everyone. How does all of your organically grown produce get to the store? On a diesel truck. How do you power your high efficiency appliances? With electricity that comes from burning coal.
LK
Air quality has improved since the days of L.A. being famous for its smog. Maybe not directly the cause of catalytic converters, but it's very probable that it is due to taking the problem of air pollution seriously and implementing many steps to try and put a curb on it.
I don't know if they still do it today, but back in the 80s car makers would produce limited runs of certain vehicles for California emissions requirements. It's not just the catalytic converters that were responsible, it was the fact that California had so many cars on the road in densely packed urban areas and had to implement stricter rules to control the pollution.
LK
Engines run hotter because you can get more efficient combustion of the fuel at higher temperatures, the problem is that higher combustion temperatures lead to greater oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust. 30 years ago, bigger and heavier cars than the ones we drive today had nearly the exact same average mpg. Back then, engines burned hotter but produced more smog producing oxides of nitrogen. It's very complicated to get as much power and fuel economy as you can without spewing too many harmful emissions. That's why we have EGR, ECM and O2 sensors. It requires continuous monitoring and adjustment to maintain that balance.
LK
Now, I am not responsible for people turning to Glenn Beck, any more than Sean Hannity is responsible for turning me to Stephen Colbert.
Not you as an individual, but people who share your political leanings.
The spirit of your post contains a powder burn of truth. A touch, I do confess it. Yeah, I'm a disaffected and therefore somewhat effete progressive. Maybe I do spend too much time on useless palliative care on myself, and wallowing in limp rage while watching Democracy Now.
It's a difficult lesson to learn. I do not always live by example. There are a lot of people out there who just don't really give a damn about anything political, if you represent your side poorly you can and will drive some of them to the other side.
LK
OK. I'll concede the point with regards to China but the eventual dissolution of the USSR provides me with backup.
LK
Augment their reality with a can of bug spray and some boric acid.
LK
These creeps need to be dragged into the streets whipped into their sense, then educated and sent to work in a coal mine before they corrupt the entire nation with their ignorance and ill formed beliefs.
Gee, round up people who disagree with you and put them into re-education camps. Somehow, I think this has been tried before. It didn't work then either.
LK
The problem is the 30% of otherwise kind, intelligent, educated people who because of some flaw in their heads find themselves thinking things like: "Hmmm, that Glenn Beck fella makes some good points."
The question that you should be asking is what is it about you that sends these otherwise kind, intelligent, educated people to Glenn Beck in the first place.
Looks like we just found out.
LK
Is there even human history before porn?
No.
Look here.
For at least 40,000 years humans have been creating images of people having sex.
LK
If you abolish software patents, it makes it very difficult for companies to realistically spend millions on development of new concepts and ideas when someone can then just take the ground breaking UI or process etc.
Even without software patents, you'd still have copyright. The company's actual work would still be protected while allowing someone else to be inspired by them to create something else that's new and innovative.
LK
Unverifiable assertion, anecdote. Dismissed.
There, fixed for you.
Parent was explicitly comparing the two.
You, clearly, didn't understand the comparison. I could explain it to you, but I doubt that it would do much good.
Unsupported assertion, assumption of unstated activity, and, just because I've heard this little spiel before and know who you're talking about, ad-hominem and straw-man.
There's no assumption involved. It's historically documented fact. Uncomfortable for you, to be sure, but perfectly accurate.
Man, what's with conservatives and being unable to debate a point?
If you can only perceive things as conservative/liberal; to you, I would seem like a conservative. When dealing with people like you, it's the term that I use as well because it's the closest thing to what I am that you can understand. That's all beside the point. There is a difference between the "Jesus camp" people and the "social justice" people, but it's not the one you think it is.
LK
[Citation needed]
Not if you've been to college recently.
Wait, believing that the earth is 6000 years old and the Rapture is right around the corner is the same as believing that social safety nets promote a stable society?
No, it's certainly not the same. If you believe that providing social safety nets is really what modern leftism is about, you are considerably worse than the people who believe in the young earth, literal 6 day creation and imminent rapture.
While they put their faith in books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago by people that they can't possibly identify, you put your faith in people who, during your lifetime, have shown themselves to be liars, hypocrites and/or murderers.
LK
Come on, you mean to say that you've never been tempted to tell someone to shove their iPhone up their iAss?
That presupposes that they still have any iRoom left there.
LK
I have all kinds of keys. I have keys to four automobiles, three homes, locking gas caps, gun safes, padlocks, handcuffs and a bunch of other shit. How do I protect them all? I put them in my fucking pocket. Was it really necessary to ask this?
LK