"Just using proper English would confuse the fuck out of most Americans"
FTFY
And, I'm more serious than you probably think. I can sit in any public place, and listen to a group of young kids (you know, young kids - twenties and thirties) talking, and not understand a word they've said. Buncha little pricks learned NOTHING in school!
Dump the WIFI-g, dude. You're obsolete. You want WIFI-n. Oh - wait - they've already done that, haven't they? Crap, let's go with WIFI-y. I think it has a nice ring to it!;^)
You missed another obvious explanation. The government wants you to BELIEVE that you are beholden to them for your security. Note all the press releases, in which one official or another brags about the measures his agency has taken to protect you. They WANT you to feel dependent on the government.
You could look at welfare for a similar situation. Welfare has it's place - that is, no one should ever starve in any civilized country. But, today, welfare benefits come pretty close to what the lower middle class makes as a take home wage. Again, the government WANTS you to be dependent. The opinions of the dependent are malleable - or at least more malleable than the opinions of the independent.
Uh-huh. Which only goes to show that people who use the cell phone to plot against the government are idiots. There are a lot of more secure methods of communication - some of them right on the internet. Of course, NOTHING is completely immune to being intercepted. It would be a bitch if the government intercepted the keys you sent for your buddy to decrypt all those files hidden in the picture of Obama admiring the Lincoln memorial, LOL
Dude - the Indians aren't stealing our jobs. The fucking government is GIVING AWAY our jobs. Perhaps you're aware that there is a "minimum wage" in the US? Oddly, it has never applied to everyone, equally. Go ahead - see if you can figure out just who is exempt from the law. If there's any "stealing" of jobs happening, it's done by the South Americans. The jobs that the Indians are doing have been GIVEN to them.
More than merely troubling, I would say. From TFA:
In Merrill's case, although the letter's gag order "was totally clear that they were saying that I couldn't speak to a lawyer" about it, he immediately contacted his personal attorney, and together they went to the ACLU in New York, which agreed to represent him.
"My gut feeling is I'm an American," Merrill said, in an interview with Threat Level on Tuesday. "I always have a right to an attorney. There's no such thing as you can't talk to your attorney.
Ha! Some of us have actually butchered our own meat. Deer, pig, and cows, not to mention loads of small game and fish. Butchering isn't a lost art out in the sticks.
And, yes, I like my beef medium rare to rare. I don't want the blood to actually dribble down my chin - but I most definitely want it JUICY!!
Good link. I was sitting here thinking about all the tool using animals I've ever heard of. That page pretty much covers them. And, of course, primates pretty much lead the list. There was a story in the last couple years about a band of primates discovering a newer, better way to catch termites from a termite mound. I think they frayed the bit of straw or stick, giving the termites more area to grab hold of. The chimp got more termite chow for the same effort with the improved stick. The interesting bit was, they taught another band how to do the same thing.
Man may be the most prolific tool user, but he certainly isn't unique.
Personally, I love the new OSS. What I don't love, is the pain in the ass procedure to get it installed. I'm no guru, but I'm no dummy either. It took me about 3 hours to get OSS4 installed. Yeah, it was GREAT - but it was just to much sweat. Every once in a while, I do another search for a distro that ships with OSS4 instead of PA/ALSA. No luck so far.
Uhhhh - what is your date of birth? Check out my nick for my year of birth. You had better be - oh - at least ten years older than I am. To really be plausible, you better be 15 years older than me. I was sitting in a 3rd grade classroom when JFK was shot - hardly old enough to be stalking political targets.
"A 19-year-old man from a Toronto suburb has pleaded guilty to careless driving"
I'm not sure about newspeak. Is there a tripleplusstupid? Speeding on a residential street is stupid. Bragging online was stupid. PLEADING GUILTY was the tripleplus part of it. Had I been stupid enough to pull the first two stupidities, I certainly wouldn't have admitted to a judge that it were so.
"Your Honor, I wasn't going half as fast as I claimed - I was just bragging for all those dilrods on the forum! Hell, man, I'm AFRAID to go fast!"
Yes, I have to say that I would. You're obviously serious with your question, and I'm giving a serious answer. My family is nearly as wasteful as American families get. The wife indulges her kids because she thinks they are entitled to whatever they want, and she can buy. It would be EASY to tell them that there are no more entitlements. It would be a bit tough to tell them that they have to go hungry. It would be hell to let them die. But, given that we KNEW the earth was going to be destroyed, or at least made uninhabitable within x number of years, yes, I would let the immediate family die, so that one or more of the grandchildren could escape the earth.
Hypotheticals are hard to prove - but I do have a little bit of experience with tough decisions. Performing triage in the field, before any ambulances or other aid arrives is good training for hard decisions.
Only when you break the laws big time. Petty thieves are often fined more than these guys are paying. Small minded vandals pay more. Tax cheats pay more. If you want a good deal when you go to court, you have to steal millions, or billions. A few thousands make you a nobody.
So - you want to be a caveman? Problem is, once the sun gets to hot to live with on the surface, you can't come back out. You're stuck there. And, how many plants and animals are you going to have underground? Especially when the sun starts to boil off the atmosphere. Of course, when the atmosphere goes, so do the oceans. And, of course, that hasn't addressed the MOST LIKELY cause of humanity's demise. One big fucking rock hitting the earth could break it in half, or turn it into another asteroid belt.
Good luck with your plan, Captain Caveman. I won't be backing it.
"Besides, you can't blow up the Earth without an Illudium PU-32 Explosive Space Modulator."
No need for funky fancy toys, when you're sitting higher up the gravity well than your target. From Mars, you don't even have to throw the rocks hard, or fast. Just point them, with the minimal boost necessary to intercept the earth in it's orbit - and wait. What would a rock with a circumference of ten miles do to New York, or London, or Moscow, or Hong Kong? Hell - let's launch 100 rocks that size, targeting each of the earth's 100 largest cities.
If anyone survives, it will be the nomads out in the desert.
No good, my friend. You are thinking, which is more than most people do. But, people will STILL think in the short term. Precious few people think 4 years into the future today. Double their lifespans, you MIGHT get them to think four years ahead. MAYBE. Most likely, they won't be able to think any further into the future than "Wonder if I can get laid tonight?" It's human nature. Sucks, don't it?
"Why would I want to have my tax dollars on this."
Who gives a rat's ass where it gets YOU? How 'bout your DNA? How 'bout my DNA?
One fucking rock, coming out of nowhere, can obliterate the earth. That's all it takes. Forget the Mayan doomsday calendar, forget the Biblical doomsdayers, forget all the freak seers and predictors. Just look at (relatively) hard evidence from earth's geological history. Rocks fall on the earth, every day. Some get pretty big. Rarely a HUGE mother falls. As the millenia pass, the chances of the MOAR (you saw the Mother of All Bombs?) coming in just increases. We have one asteroid belt - nothing says there can't be two.
Sorry, but I've preached on this same subject before - here and elsewhere. Shit happens. Imagine if all human DNA had been on that "unsinkable" Titanic. In effect, that's what we have today. All human DNA is on one single ship - the earth.
If it meant that our grandchildren can go to the stars, I'd let 90% of this generation starve to death.
The generation that isn't willing to sacrifice for the next generations isn't worth saving anyway. Kinda like the United States and it's huge ass national debt.
Uhhhhh - "absorb" the genes? I'm no geneticist - in fact, I didn't even LIKE high school biology. But, I know that living organisms don't just "absorb" DNA. Digesting doesn't count as absorption.
The plants have been cross bred, and the resulting seedlings carry the gene.
Alright, Bob - please elucidate. What exactly is an attenuation problem, if it's not related to the antenna? Where to all the dB come from? How are they "attenuated"? I'm not a real genius when it comes to radio propagation - but I've messed with a few radios. Some powerful, some not so powerful. Everything ALWAYS comes back to the antenna. I can hook up a 1000 watt kicker to a radio, and do nothing more than get some wires hot if I have a shitty antenna. With an exceptionally good antenna, I can take a cheap, nearly worthless citizen's band radio, and talk halfway across the country.
Let's remember that your cell phone relies on radio waves, after all. I can put a variety of portable radio sets on a coffee table in an empty room, and have you walk around the radio. There will be points where the signal is "attenuated" as you walk past, and other points where the signal seems to be blocked as you walk by. It seems to me that Apple put THIS antenna exactly where the proximity of human flesh would damage reception the most.
"I used to adore (fill in name of individual or company)"
Hmmm. I'm glad you're over that. And, I hope you don't catch it again. Remember, every dumb sumbitch you MIGHT adore or idolize gets warts and pimples, farts, belches, and generally screws things up from time to time. Not only that, but the DUMBEST sumbitch you've ever wished that you hadn't met could have taught you SOMETHING, if you had only listened to him.
You make the same mistake repeatedly in your post. You ASSume that I'm a republican, and make repeated attempts to slash at me based on that ASSumption.
I'm obviously not a liberal or a progressive, but neither am I a neocon or a republican. Fact is, I voted for Obama. That vote was cast mostly because I thought McCain was a tool of the neoconservatives, and that the neocon crowd might persuade McCain to get the United States involved in yet another war somewhere. My vote was NOT a vote for the liberal party's agenda, but a vote against the corrupt neoconservative policies.
If you wish to address me, you'll have to stop addressing some imagined image of a repugnitard.
The funny thing about your "advice", is that I've been an avid reader all my life. Hey, I've got an idea. YOU READ. And, try to read outside of the liberal/progressive "preferred reading list" of indoctrination materials.
I'm still waiting for a nano-brew. All those little nano-borgs, working hard, just to make it exactly the way I like it. Isn't the potential of nanotechnology simply awesome?
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"Just using proper English would confuse the fuck out of most Americans"
FTFY
And, I'm more serious than you probably think. I can sit in any public place, and listen to a group of young kids (you know, young kids - twenties and thirties) talking, and not understand a word they've said. Buncha little pricks learned NOTHING in school!
Dump the WIFI-g, dude. You're obsolete. You want WIFI-n. Oh - wait - they've already done that, haven't they? Crap, let's go with WIFI-y. I think it has a nice ring to it! ;^)
You missed another obvious explanation. The government wants you to BELIEVE that you are beholden to them for your security. Note all the press releases, in which one official or another brags about the measures his agency has taken to protect you. They WANT you to feel dependent on the government.
You could look at welfare for a similar situation. Welfare has it's place - that is, no one should ever starve in any civilized country. But, today, welfare benefits come pretty close to what the lower middle class makes as a take home wage. Again, the government WANTS you to be dependent. The opinions of the dependent are malleable - or at least more malleable than the opinions of the independent.
Uh-huh. Which only goes to show that people who use the cell phone to plot against the government are idiots. There are a lot of more secure methods of communication - some of them right on the internet. Of course, NOTHING is completely immune to being intercepted. It would be a bitch if the government intercepted the keys you sent for your buddy to decrypt all those files hidden in the picture of Obama admiring the Lincoln memorial, LOL
Dude - the Indians aren't stealing our jobs. The fucking government is GIVING AWAY our jobs. Perhaps you're aware that there is a "minimum wage" in the US? Oddly, it has never applied to everyone, equally. Go ahead - see if you can figure out just who is exempt from the law. If there's any "stealing" of jobs happening, it's done by the South Americans. The jobs that the Indians are doing have been GIVEN to them.
More than merely troubling, I would say. From TFA:
In Merrill's case, although the letter's gag order "was totally clear that they were saying that I couldn't speak to a lawyer" about it, he immediately contacted his personal attorney, and together they went to the ACLU in New York, which agreed to represent him.
"My gut feeling is I'm an American," Merrill said, in an interview with Threat Level on Tuesday. "I always have a right to an attorney. There's no such thing as you can't talk to your attorney.
Ha! Some of us have actually butchered our own meat. Deer, pig, and cows, not to mention loads of small game and fish. Butchering isn't a lost art out in the sticks.
And, yes, I like my beef medium rare to rare. I don't want the blood to actually dribble down my chin - but I most definitely want it JUICY!!
Good link. I was sitting here thinking about all the tool using animals I've ever heard of. That page pretty much covers them. And, of course, primates pretty much lead the list. There was a story in the last couple years about a band of primates discovering a newer, better way to catch termites from a termite mound. I think they frayed the bit of straw or stick, giving the termites more area to grab hold of. The chimp got more termite chow for the same effort with the improved stick. The interesting bit was, they taught another band how to do the same thing.
Man may be the most prolific tool user, but he certainly isn't unique.
Personally, I love the new OSS. What I don't love, is the pain in the ass procedure to get it installed. I'm no guru, but I'm no dummy either. It took me about 3 hours to get OSS4 installed. Yeah, it was GREAT - but it was just to much sweat. Every once in a while, I do another search for a distro that ships with OSS4 instead of PA/ALSA. No luck so far.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/list-of-distributions-that-have-oss4-in-their-repos-683617/
Uhhhh - what is your date of birth? Check out my nick for my year of birth. You had better be - oh - at least ten years older than I am. To really be plausible, you better be 15 years older than me. I was sitting in a 3rd grade classroom when JFK was shot - hardly old enough to be stalking political targets.
"A 19-year-old man from a Toronto suburb has pleaded guilty to careless driving"
I'm not sure about newspeak. Is there a tripleplusstupid? Speeding on a residential street is stupid. Bragging online was stupid. PLEADING GUILTY was the tripleplus part of it. Had I been stupid enough to pull the first two stupidities, I certainly wouldn't have admitted to a judge that it were so.
"Your Honor, I wasn't going half as fast as I claimed - I was just bragging for all those dilrods on the forum! Hell, man, I'm AFRAID to go fast!"
Definitely tripleplus.
Yes, I have to say that I would. You're obviously serious with your question, and I'm giving a serious answer. My family is nearly as wasteful as American families get. The wife indulges her kids because she thinks they are entitled to whatever they want, and she can buy. It would be EASY to tell them that there are no more entitlements. It would be a bit tough to tell them that they have to go hungry. It would be hell to let them die. But, given that we KNEW the earth was going to be destroyed, or at least made uninhabitable within x number of years, yes, I would let the immediate family die, so that one or more of the grandchildren could escape the earth.
Hypotheticals are hard to prove - but I do have a little bit of experience with tough decisions. Performing triage in the field, before any ambulances or other aid arrives is good training for hard decisions.
Only when you break the laws big time. Petty thieves are often fined more than these guys are paying. Small minded vandals pay more. Tax cheats pay more. If you want a good deal when you go to court, you have to steal millions, or billions. A few thousands make you a nobody.
If that is how you feel, then you are so much dead weight, dragging humanity down. Narcissism sucks.
So - you want to be a caveman? Problem is, once the sun gets to hot to live with on the surface, you can't come back out. You're stuck there. And, how many plants and animals are you going to have underground? Especially when the sun starts to boil off the atmosphere. Of course, when the atmosphere goes, so do the oceans. And, of course, that hasn't addressed the MOST LIKELY cause of humanity's demise. One big fucking rock hitting the earth could break it in half, or turn it into another asteroid belt.
Good luck with your plan, Captain Caveman. I won't be backing it.
"Besides, you can't blow up the Earth without an Illudium PU-32 Explosive Space Modulator."
No need for funky fancy toys, when you're sitting higher up the gravity well than your target. From Mars, you don't even have to throw the rocks hard, or fast. Just point them, with the minimal boost necessary to intercept the earth in it's orbit - and wait. What would a rock with a circumference of ten miles do to New York, or London, or Moscow, or Hong Kong? Hell - let's launch 100 rocks that size, targeting each of the earth's 100 largest cities.
If anyone survives, it will be the nomads out in the desert.
No good, my friend. You are thinking, which is more than most people do. But, people will STILL think in the short term. Precious few people think 4 years into the future today. Double their lifespans, you MIGHT get them to think four years ahead. MAYBE. Most likely, they won't be able to think any further into the future than "Wonder if I can get laid tonight?" It's human nature. Sucks, don't it?
"Why would I want to have my tax dollars on this."
Who gives a rat's ass where it gets YOU? How 'bout your DNA? How 'bout my DNA?
One fucking rock, coming out of nowhere, can obliterate the earth. That's all it takes. Forget the Mayan doomsday calendar, forget the Biblical doomsdayers, forget all the freak seers and predictors. Just look at (relatively) hard evidence from earth's geological history. Rocks fall on the earth, every day. Some get pretty big. Rarely a HUGE mother falls. As the millenia pass, the chances of the MOAR (you saw the Mother of All Bombs?) coming in just increases. We have one asteroid belt - nothing says there can't be two.
Sorry, but I've preached on this same subject before - here and elsewhere. Shit happens. Imagine if all human DNA had been on that "unsinkable" Titanic. In effect, that's what we have today. All human DNA is on one single ship - the earth.
If it meant that our grandchildren can go to the stars, I'd let 90% of this generation starve to death.
The generation that isn't willing to sacrifice for the next generations isn't worth saving anyway. Kinda like the United States and it's huge ass national debt.
Uhhhhh - "absorb" the genes? I'm no geneticist - in fact, I didn't even LIKE high school biology. But, I know that living organisms don't just "absorb" DNA. Digesting doesn't count as absorption.
The plants have been cross bred, and the resulting seedlings carry the gene.
Alright, Bob - please elucidate. What exactly is an attenuation problem, if it's not related to the antenna? Where to all the dB come from? How are they "attenuated"? I'm not a real genius when it comes to radio propagation - but I've messed with a few radios. Some powerful, some not so powerful. Everything ALWAYS comes back to the antenna. I can hook up a 1000 watt kicker to a radio, and do nothing more than get some wires hot if I have a shitty antenna. With an exceptionally good antenna, I can take a cheap, nearly worthless citizen's band radio, and talk halfway across the country.
Let's remember that your cell phone relies on radio waves, after all. I can put a variety of portable radio sets on a coffee table in an empty room, and have you walk around the radio. There will be points where the signal is "attenuated" as you walk past, and other points where the signal seems to be blocked as you walk by. It seems to me that Apple put THIS antenna exactly where the proximity of human flesh would damage reception the most.
"I used to adore (fill in name of individual or company)"
Hmmm. I'm glad you're over that. And, I hope you don't catch it again. Remember, every dumb sumbitch you MIGHT adore or idolize gets warts and pimples, farts, belches, and generally screws things up from time to time. Not only that, but the DUMBEST sumbitch you've ever wished that you hadn't met could have taught you SOMETHING, if you had only listened to him.
Not everyone has a terrarium. I captured these images from an article somewhere, sometime. Credits aren't mine, at all. ;^)
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/file001.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/file002.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/file000.jpg
http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/Technica.jpg
Obviously, you'll want to ensure that the terrarium is tightly closed between feedings!
You make the same mistake repeatedly in your post. You ASSume that I'm a republican, and make repeated attempts to slash at me based on that ASSumption.
I'm obviously not a liberal or a progressive, but neither am I a neocon or a republican. Fact is, I voted for Obama. That vote was cast mostly because I thought McCain was a tool of the neoconservatives, and that the neocon crowd might persuade McCain to get the United States involved in yet another war somewhere. My vote was NOT a vote for the liberal party's agenda, but a vote against the corrupt neoconservative policies.
If you wish to address me, you'll have to stop addressing some imagined image of a repugnitard.
The funny thing about your "advice", is that I've been an avid reader all my life. Hey, I've got an idea. YOU READ. And, try to read outside of the liberal/progressive "preferred reading list" of indoctrination materials.
I'm still waiting for a nano-brew. All those little nano-borgs, working hard, just to make it exactly the way I like it. Isn't the potential of nanotechnology simply awesome?