Like when people label me a "racist" because I belong to the local Tea Party. "But I'm not racist." "You belong to the TP - you're racist." "My girlfriend's black."
"You lie!" "No really here's her photo. See?" "Lie lie lie!" "Oh for Christ's sake - forget it."
Oh and also America's K-12 system could be fixed it, like Europe, the students were free to attend ANY public school they wished instead of being stuck in a one-choice monopoly.
i.e. If a student is attending an inner-city school that is crumbling, he/she could go attend the better public suburban school located ~10 miles down the road. I will never understand current policy that forces poor people to be trapped in a shitty school, instead of allowing them the freedom of choice to attend a better public school at zero cost. What? Is our school system now run by the Comcast Monopoly??? ("No choice for you!")
>>>What's wrong with being a front for collectivist indoctrination?
I hacked your bank account and redistributed the wealth to Boystown, YMCA, United Way, and a few other charities (plus 700 dollars to myself to pay for my internet - it's a "need" after all - everyone should have 25 Mbit broadband).
Hope you don't mind. Did I do a good job Collectivist Prof?
>>>I'm in Canada and I pay $900/semester + book costs
False. You are right you are paying $900/semester now, but then you will get a job and you will pay the remaining $80,000 or so in the form of weekly taxation. So in the end, you're paying the same amount as I did in the States...... just spread out over the next 60 years.
It's just the same as I got "free" K-12 education, but now I have to pay ~$6000 a year in school taxes. I am paying-off the education I received several decades ago. It was never free - just a deferred charge. Like buying a sofa at a store with deferred payment. It's free now; but I pay next year.
BTW: Were you really so naive as to not realize this? (Education is not free; it's simply paid later) If so maybe your education was not that great after all.
I've had people tell me the Devaluation of money (inflation) is good, because it discourages hording in the ground or under beds. Instead it forces people to invest their money, to preserve its wealth, and boost the economy.
What he SHOULD have said is that it encourages people to get scammed by the wealthy bankers. Also what do I give a rats-ass about boosting the economy? If the economy permanently froze at current levels (and my dollar held its value), I'd be okay with that. Must we always keep grabbing for more and more wealth? Is our only goal in life to keep making the economy more expansive?
Depends on the school. Mine makes money from football, but the money then gets sucked-up by all the other less popular sports like soccer, field hockey, gymnastics, and so on.
Where sports is REALLY a waste is at the High School level. Yeah I know people need exercise, but that's what gym is for. You don't need all those extra afterschool (and expensive) sports teams.
>>>[she expected] Dell employees would actually respect customer confidentiality.
So you go Dell for laptop help, and instead they steal your nude photos and upload them to the world wide web. No wonder Dell's now rated the worst computer company
So if you want to take-down a company, all you need to do is get yourself and a few hundred friends to star war-dialing the company, so they will waste precious time (and money) answering the bogus calls at the Service Center
So was that sufficiently "ranty" for the liberals that hate corporations? Maybe we ought to line the Dell CEO up against the wall and shoot him too..... as was done to that Eastern European communist president
>>>What is it exactly that she expected. What an utter dunce.
How many jobs have you been fired from? None? Well it should have been ALL of them if you think it's okay to STEAL your customer's photos and post them on a public website.
I hope this Dell tech gets shticanned, and I hope the woman sues Dell and wins a couple million dollars to treach tha fucking Megacorp sa lessonabotu scredwing cutosmrs up the assw
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GF8ckuign corporautibsn andntherrn fuckigftn PSSSING on customer.s
I ahgtr them
I think for him the shock is that Sun was not *as* disorganized as the new Oracle (which bought him out).
Quote: "In the Sun Solaris group, meetings moved right along and no time was wasted. In the Sun Cloud group, it depended on who ran the meeting. Under the new Oracle management, every f'ing meeting is a waste of time."
The Ubuntu laptop would end-up being more expensive (no subsidies from desktop adware or MSN). You're better off buying a cheaper, subsidized laptop with Windoze, and then wiping it with Ubuntu Linux.
I have a friend who works for Oracle. He's constantly bitching about them and their disorganization. He's trying to find someplace else to work, even if it's the Evil Microsoft. Wow. Must be really bad, if he's willing to do that!
>>>unknown factors or persons are causing performance and uptime problems with Google properties within the China firewall. You can choose to define it as a "hiccup" but that's a bit of a leap
(ahem) Some unknown factor or persons are causing performance and uptime issues with my Verizon internet and phone service. Why we were without service for 2 whole days! I suspect the chinese..... er, I mean the american government. Or maybe it's that dude Hister that Nostradamus talked about.
Look at that!!! Hey I can sound just as paranoid as you!!!
No seriously: It IS just a hiccup. Not a consprira-nut. Just a programming error. Like Apple's iPhone bars.
The American who said that, Thomas Jefferson, did so in response to why Virginia's Official State Religion should be abolished, and the VA Constitution amended to allow freedom of worship. He'd probably say exactly the same about China's Official State Religion(s), and why the Chinese people should not be persecuted if they worship in a manner the state does not approve.
>>>Corporations, PACs, trusts, and unions are all abstract concepts; they're all made of individuals, and it is the individuals who actually do anything.
False dichotomy. Banning the former from running ads/exercising free speech does NOT prevent the latter from running ads/exercising free speech. Microsoft Corporation might not be allowed to say "Vote Democrat in November," but that doesn't stop the 1 million or so employees from saying it. The right to run electoral advertising should only apply to registered voters. i.e. People not things like corporations or trees or rocks.
>>>liberty is the same thing as license, and that freedom is the equivalent of licentiousness.
If I'm sitting here downloading porn or smoking weed, which harms nobody but myself, there's simply NO justification to outlaw me from doing the practice. i.e. Take your Bible, your morality, and stuff it.
Yes it is. 42,000 die every year on highways. 420,000 over the last decade. 24.2 million have died just from getting old. In other words the number that died on 9/11 was only 0.01% of the total American deaths since Bush got elected. We spend over a trillion dollars just to "avenge" that small 0.01%??? What makes that small number matter so much more than the other 99.99% dead?
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Like when people label me a "racist" because I belong to the local Tea Party.
"But I'm not racist."
"You belong to the TP - you're racist."
"My girlfriend's black."
"You lie!"
"No really here's her photo. See?"
"Lie lie lie!"
"Oh for Christ's sake - forget it."
ST vs. Amiga
Mac vs. Amiga
Mac vs. IBM PC
Windows vs. Linux
Republicans vs. Democrats
Racists (R) vs. Racists (D)
Oh and also America's K-12 system could be fixed it, like Europe, the students were free to attend ANY public school they wished instead of being stuck in a one-choice monopoly.
i.e. If a student is attending an inner-city school that is crumbling, he/she could go attend the better public suburban school located ~10 miles down the road. I will never understand current policy that forces poor people to be trapped in a shitty school, instead of allowing them the freedom of choice to attend a better public school at zero cost. What? Is our school system now run by the Comcast Monopoly??? ("No choice for you!")
>>>What's wrong with being a front for collectivist indoctrination?
I hacked your bank account and redistributed the wealth to Boystown, YMCA, United Way, and a few other charities (plus 700 dollars to myself to pay for my internet - it's a "need" after all - everyone should have 25 Mbit broadband).
Hope you don't mind. Did I do a good job Collectivist Prof?
Damn you and your logic. I'll just pretend I didn't hear that the US has ~25% of the world's best universities by turning-up Rachel Maddow extra loud.
Ahhh.
Better. Yes, yes Rachel the US is the most background nation in the world. And the colleges suck. You preach it girl!
>>>I'm in Canada and I pay $900/semester + book costs
False. You are right you are paying $900/semester now, but then you will get a job and you will pay the remaining $80,000 or so in the form of weekly taxation. So in the end, you're paying the same amount as I did in the States...... just spread out over the next 60 years.
It's just the same as I got "free" K-12 education, but now I have to pay ~$6000 a year in school taxes. I am paying-off the education I received several decades ago. It was never free - just a deferred charge. Like buying a sofa at a store with deferred payment. It's free now; but I pay next year.
BTW: Were you really so naive as to not realize this? (Education is not free; it's simply paid later)
If so maybe your education was not that great after all.
EU citizens don't come here. They've got better education at home (or so they claim).
I've had people tell me the Devaluation of money (inflation) is good, because it discourages hording in the ground or under beds. Instead it forces people to invest their money, to preserve its wealth, and boost the economy.
What he SHOULD have said is that it encourages people to get scammed by the wealthy bankers. Also what do I give a rats-ass about boosting the economy? If the economy permanently froze at current levels (and my dollar held its value), I'd be okay with that. Must we always keep grabbing for more and more wealth? Is our only goal in life to keep making the economy more expansive?
I hope not.
Depends on the school. Mine makes money from football, but the money then gets sucked-up by all the other less popular sports like soccer, field hockey, gymnastics, and so on.
Where sports is REALLY a waste is at the High School level. Yeah I know people need exercise, but that's what gym is for. You don't need all those extra afterschool (and expensive) sports teams.
>>>[she expected] Dell employees would actually respect customer confidentiality.
So you go Dell for laptop help, and instead they steal your nude photos and upload them to the world wide web. No wonder Dell's now rated the worst computer company
"Dude you're gettin' a Screwed by Dell!"
So if you want to take-down a company, all you need to do is get yourself and a few hundred friends to star war-dialing the company, so they will waste precious time (and money) answering the bogus calls at the Service Center
So was that sufficiently "ranty" for the liberals that hate corporations? Maybe we ought to line the Dell CEO up against the wall and shoot him too..... as was done to that Eastern European communist president
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7WTfJrozo#t=3m
>>>What is it exactly that she expected. What an utter dunce. How many jobs have you been fired from? None? Well it should have been ALL of them if you think it's okay to STEAL your customer's photos and post them on a public website. I hope this Dell tech gets shticanned, and I hope the woman sues Dell and wins a couple million dollars to treach tha fucking Megacorp sa lessonabotu scredwing cutosmrs up the assw \ GF8ckuign corporautibsn andntherrn fuckigftn PSSSING on customer.s I ahgtr them
>>>HP claimed that it was not struck by lightning, but instead someone had drenched it in soda
Do they hire monkeys for repairmen? I don't see how they could reach that kind of conclusion, if there's no soda present.
I think for him the shock is that Sun was not *as* disorganized as the new Oracle (which bought him out).
Quote: "In the Sun Solaris group, meetings moved right along and no time was wasted. In the Sun Cloud group, it depended on who ran the meeting. Under the new Oracle management, every f'ing meeting is a waste of time."
Why?
The Ubuntu laptop would end-up being more expensive (no subsidies from desktop adware or MSN). You're better off buying a cheaper, subsidized laptop with Windoze, and then wiping it with Ubuntu Linux.
I have a friend who works for Oracle. He's constantly bitching about them and their disorganization. He's trying to find someplace else to work, even if it's the Evil Microsoft. Wow. Must be really bad, if he's willing to do that!
>>>unknown factors or persons are causing performance and uptime problems with Google properties within the China firewall. You can choose to define it as a "hiccup" but that's a bit of a leap
(ahem) Some unknown factor or persons are causing performance and uptime issues with my Verizon internet and phone service. Why we were without service for 2 whole days! I suspect the chinese..... er, I mean the american government. Or maybe it's that dude Hister that Nostradamus talked about.
Look at that!!! Hey I can sound just as paranoid as you!!!
No seriously: It IS just a hiccup. Not a consprira-nut. Just a programming error. Like Apple's iPhone bars.
The American who said that, Thomas Jefferson, did so in response to why Virginia's Official State Religion should be abolished, and the VA Constitution amended to allow freedom of worship. He'd probably say exactly the same about China's Official State Religion(s), and why the Chinese people should not be persecuted if they worship in a manner the state does not approve.
You should warn people that you linked to a PDF you stupid jackass. (blocked for potential viruses)
>>>Try trillian.
Trisha McMillian? Yeah she was great. But not as much fun as Rachael Leigh Cook (the egg smashing girl).
>>>Big L Libertarians (i.e., LP) want their corporations to have the liberty of fucking me over
False. The Big L party would revoke corporate licenses (because they are unconstitutional), and corporations would cease to exist.
>>>Corporations, PACs, trusts, and unions are all abstract concepts; they're all made of individuals, and it is the individuals who actually do anything.
False dichotomy. Banning the former from running ads/exercising free speech does NOT prevent the latter from running ads/exercising free speech. Microsoft Corporation might not be allowed to say "Vote Democrat in November," but that doesn't stop the 1 million or so employees from saying it. The right to run electoral advertising should only apply to registered voters. i.e. People not things like corporations or trees or rocks.
>>>liberty is the same thing as license, and that freedom is the equivalent of licentiousness.
If I'm sitting here downloading porn or smoking weed, which harms nobody but myself, there's simply NO justification to outlaw me from doing the practice. i.e. Take your Bible, your morality, and stuff it.
>>>IMO, ~3000 deaths is not a trivial matter.
Yes it is. 42,000 die every year on highways. 420,000 over the last decade. 24.2 million have died just from getting old. In other words the number that died on 9/11 was only 0.01% of the total American deaths since Bush got elected. We spend over a trillion dollars just to "avenge" that small 0.01%??? What makes that small number matter so much more than the other 99.99% dead?
Illogical. Wasteful. Juvenile.