What about it? That was still well inside the Earth's atmosphere! He didn't push the envelope of the Earth's sphere and it was a freaking movie about space travel decades after moon travel was possible! Why couldn't he have filmed it IN LUNAR ORBIT?!?
Why do foodies always assume everyone else cares about food as much as they do? If I had infinite amounts of money and time, I might not eat fast food ever again, maybe. But I don't and I'd rather eat at McDs than spend more time and money on stuff that my body is just going to turn into literal shit anyway.
If you spend unnecessary time and money on a vacation to Europe on FOOD, you're doing it wrong.
Implying people cannot passively follow celebrity gossip AND be useful members of society? That's nonsense.
Plus the real pernicious democracy-destroying distractions aren't from the Kardashians, they're from other reality TV stars occasionally residing in the white house. Enabled by a firmly anti-democratic electoral system that was left in place from the founding days.
Social Media really hasn't been a net benefit to society at all.
If you're going to make unqualified statements like that, I'm going to need some quantification. I'm open to that possibility, but "Kids these days with their twitter and facebook is no dang good, and the Chinese are brainwashing them!!!" isn't very compelling.
If fake posters encourages skepticism about what you're being told, that could be useful. No news source is without bias, you're crazy if you think the alternative to Chinese posters trying to shape opinion is completely different from everyone watching the nightly news in the US during the cold war or any other war. Actually could be better: you can talk back to propaganda online in a way you can't with the tee vee propaganda.
Being on HBO does that too. At least I assume, I've never had an HBO subscription so I've never watched John Oliver. With his stance on net neutrality, climate change, and a bunch of other issues that put him at odds with the special interests running the country into the ground, I'm not sure why we're making fun of his accent.
I disagree. Trump's association with it adds nearly 100% certainty. Just like if you're not sure if a patient is going to survive an operation, giving them a liter of cyanide introduces a lot of certainty.
99.99% of "poor people" are "poor" due to irresponsible behavior.
Quite the opposite.
I don't know what the current number is but 4 years ago Google had almost 12,000 people in their Mountain View headquarters. That's almost one-sixth of the entire population of the city, from just one company, in an area that's not equipped to handle that many people. Fuck that.
The bay area has been absurdly overpriced single unit zoning for decades. If they don't like it, they could have started building up. Homeowners, as they always do, said "no, That'll reduce my property value and increase congestion unles we build up the BART and I don't want that either." The whole "I got mine, FU" blows back on them? Great. I hope they build the ugliest prefab houses and it halves the home values in the area.
"Hey, we got an article about math and biology... Hmm... what about this image? Or This? No, what the fuck am I talking about? That's math! Biology isn't math! Biology is slimy and fuzzy, not math! Definitely go with a decades old picture of Ebola using EM which is nearly 100 years old. Yup, definitely, math is useful to biology in that engineers and physicists build toys like electron microscopes for biologists to get slime all over."
For the record, I'm firmly in the category of biologists who do slimy squishy stuff and have computers and engineers do all the mathy stuff for me... but... still man, stereotypes aren't good even if I am that stereotype...
Seriously, this is a fucking corporation. "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
If you were confused about what it's "colors" were, it's colored red with the blood of the people they'd harvest kidneys from if they thought they could get away with it and make more money doing it. Much like EVERY FUCKING OTHER SUFFICIENTLY LARGE CORPORATION EVER. This is not shaming Netflix. Netflix is neither good nor bad compared to any other corporation. They simply have zero ethics beyond "make money" just like any other corporation. Ever.
If they're on "your side" then yes, they are pandering to keep you as a customer. Accept their help! Demand other corporations pander to you too! Don't ask if they are doing it to be their friend, they're not! The alternative is not some other friendly good corporation comes along who is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, it's you fighting a battle without giants on your side.
True. With "unlimited" I feel the need to be downloading all the time. "I don't care about this movie, but I don't have anything else to download and I'll be dammned if I don't use all the services I've paid for!"
Apple has billions in cash on their balance sheet which could be invested in ways that would create jobs
You mean like cloning Steve Jobs? I dunno if Cook would be interested in that.
On a more serious note, can we stop pretending that doing everything we can to create jobs is the ultimate good any patriotic american can strive for? Climate change and experimenting with how much the administration can bend the constitution are far more important than making busy work for a few hundred more engineers. He's not a hypocrite, he just doesn't think "jobsjobsjobsjobsjobs" is the ultimate priority. And as someone who is currently looking for a job, I have to agree with him. Far more urgent for me sure, but making more jobs can't be the top priority.
Plus, I don't have a crystal ball, but green energy and an economy that is bolstered by immigration are clearly more effective ways of creating jobs than apple throwing a bunch of money around wildly. I know it's popular in some circles to insist that anything the government does aside from cut taxes = jobs die, but that's simply a fairy tale told by chamber of commerce types (who themselves cut jobs whenever possible.)
If that's the plan, it's not working very well. You can buy plenty of phones unlocked CDMA. You can use them on verizon and several smaller ones, which is really not much different from GSM you can use on AT&T and several smaller ones.
I guess it's feasible that it keeps the big two from actually competing with each other, except with the high turnover rate of phones, I'm not sure people are trapped in one very long.
Maybe the product would have been wall units that connected via cell phone signals. Couldn't find information on how much copper ma bell or whoever had rolled out by the 40's. But I'm guessing a lot of places never would have had telephone lines. Wonder what that would have done for dialup internet service. Would we maybe have fast nation-wide wifi at the moment or would the internet be only in libraries and places that had expensive copper hookups?
Or wait! Maybe she KNEW yahoo would be run into the ground and THAT'S WHY SHE KEPT 63% MEN AS HER EMPLOYEES!!!
Seriously, this is one lawsuit alleging as part of it's claims that sexism might have been involved at a company that was still a majority men by far. I'm guessing she DID fire more men than women: that's to be expected when most of the workers are men. She also probably fired far far more white people than she did people of color! She's racist against white people too!
Why would we remove them exactly? Because you have less sympathy for the dead in those cases?
You put "bad guy" in quotes, but "justified shooting" should be too. There aren't movie villain "bad guys" running around who deserve getting shot by cops. From what I can tell (because cops make it difficult to get actual stats) is a whole lot of mentally disturbed people who would be getting treatment were it not for reagan republicans. And a whole lot of black men being shot because cops are just so afraid they'll have a gun that they shoot first.
Even if we did have King Joffreys running around, trial by peers is what we strive for. Not being gunned down in the street.
Justified shootings should by any way I can look at it count firmly in favor of gun control. If you're telling yourself they shouldn't count as preventable deaths of human beings, then you've gone over to the dark side already and I'm wasting my time here.
Suicides I dunno, it does appear from a quick googling that suicide rates are similar between heavily armed countries and countries that are more civilized. I'd wonder how many automobile deaths are suicides.
Finally, I'd point out that if the hype is to be believed about self-driving cars, auto deaths are going to fall. If the NRA crowd continues to oppose any action to bring down gun deaths in the country, gun deaths are going to continue to look like they're going up further in comparison. The pressure is going to keep building. Is that the best way to keep guns legal in the country? Because I think the anti-gun control side isn't thinking ten, twenty years in the future. I think the NRA supporting industries are focused on keeping sales high in the short term and don't give a fuck if pressure for gun control continues building up until the dam bursts and we overcorrect in favor of gun control. I have shotguns, enjoy hunting, and really enjoy erring on the side of freedom rather than safety. But the NRA is polarizing the issue and ensuring there will be a reckoning in the future by refusing to compromise. When that happens, I'll be on the side of "ban them all" if I'm forced to choose a side.
(Googles "marissa mayer net worth")... 430 million? That poor woman. Can we start a gofundme for her?
Separate note on how moronic your comment is: you think that a joke that she's going to use gmail now is going to cause her not to be hired, but not saving Yahoo isn't?
Considering how nonsensical the executive world is... I guess?
You do realize five years ago was 2012 and not 1995 right?
I suppose it's feasible she directed Yahoo to secretly make a time machine, then went back to the late nineties and said "Hey guys, I'm from the future, here's the winning plan:... do, like... nothing? Just coast for the next few decades."
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What about it? That was still well inside the Earth's atmosphere! He didn't push the envelope of the Earth's sphere and it was a freaking movie about space travel decades after moon travel was possible! Why couldn't he have filmed it IN LUNAR ORBIT?!?
Why do foodies always assume everyone else cares about food as much as they do? If I had infinite amounts of money and time, I might not eat fast food ever again, maybe. But I don't and I'd rather eat at McDs than spend more time and money on stuff that my body is just going to turn into literal shit anyway.
If you spend unnecessary time and money on a vacation to Europe on FOOD, you're doing it wrong.
Implying people cannot passively follow celebrity gossip AND be useful members of society? That's nonsense.
Plus the real pernicious democracy-destroying distractions aren't from the Kardashians, they're from other reality TV stars occasionally residing in the white house. Enabled by a firmly anti-democratic electoral system that was left in place from the founding days.
Social Media really hasn't been a net benefit to society at all.
If you're going to make unqualified statements like that, I'm going to need some quantification. I'm open to that possibility, but "Kids these days with their twitter and facebook is no dang good, and the Chinese are brainwashing them!!!" isn't very compelling.
If fake posters encourages skepticism about what you're being told, that could be useful. No news source is without bias, you're crazy if you think the alternative to Chinese posters trying to shape opinion is completely different from everyone watching the nightly news in the US during the cold war or any other war. Actually could be better: you can talk back to propaganda online in a way you can't with the tee vee propaganda.
Being on HBO does that too. At least I assume, I've never had an HBO subscription so I've never watched John Oliver. With his stance on net neutrality, climate change, and a bunch of other issues that put him at odds with the special interests running the country into the ground, I'm not sure why we're making fun of his accent.
I disagree. Trump's association with it adds nearly 100% certainty. Just like if you're not sure if a patient is going to survive an operation, giving them a liter of cyanide introduces a lot of certainty.
If you've ever been to a horrible awkward silly clown words metaphor circus, it's a little like that.
in fact, scientists are not actually stupid .
As a group, yes, generally. Individually? Well I'm a scientist and I'm still here, so...
Yes! If they acted irresponsibly they'd be running major corporations and getting paid millions to do it!
You got me, I appreciate the trolling, we need more positive trolls like that.
99.99% of "poor people" are "poor" due to irresponsible behavior.
Quite the opposite.
I don't know what the current number is but 4 years ago Google had almost 12,000 people in their Mountain View headquarters. That's almost one-sixth of the entire population of the city, from just one company, in an area that's not equipped to handle that many people. Fuck that.
The bay area has been absurdly overpriced single unit zoning for decades. If they don't like it, they could have started building up. Homeowners, as they always do, said "no, That'll reduce my property value and increase congestion unles we build up the BART and I don't want that either." The whole "I got mine, FU" blows back on them? Great. I hope they build the ugliest prefab houses and it halves the home values in the area.
Even the stock photo.
"Hey, we got an article about math and biology... Hmm... what about this image? Or This? No, what the fuck am I talking about? That's math! Biology isn't math! Biology is slimy and fuzzy, not math! Definitely go with a decades old picture of Ebola using EM which is nearly 100 years old. Yup, definitely, math is useful to biology in that engineers and physicists build toys like electron microscopes for biologists to get slime all over."
For the record, I'm firmly in the category of biologists who do slimy squishy stuff and have computers and engineers do all the mathy stuff for me... but... still man, stereotypes aren't good even if I am that stereotype...
WHO. THE. FUCK. CARES.
Seriously, this is a fucking corporation. "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
If you were confused about what it's "colors" were, it's colored red with the blood of the people they'd harvest kidneys from if they thought they could get away with it and make more money doing it. Much like EVERY FUCKING OTHER SUFFICIENTLY LARGE CORPORATION EVER. This is not shaming Netflix. Netflix is neither good nor bad compared to any other corporation. They simply have zero ethics beyond "make money" just like any other corporation. Ever.
If they're on "your side" then yes, they are pandering to keep you as a customer. Accept their help! Demand other corporations pander to you too! Don't ask if they are doing it to be their friend, they're not! The alternative is not some other friendly good corporation comes along who is doing it out of the goodness of their hearts, it's you fighting a battle without giants on your side.
True. With "unlimited" I feel the need to be downloading all the time. "I don't care about this movie, but I don't have anything else to download and I'll be dammned if I don't use all the services I've paid for!"
Caveman interkin3tic need to rest now...
Apple has billions in cash on their balance sheet which could be invested in ways that would create jobs
You mean like cloning Steve Jobs? I dunno if Cook would be interested in that.
On a more serious note, can we stop pretending that doing everything we can to create jobs is the ultimate good any patriotic american can strive for? Climate change and experimenting with how much the administration can bend the constitution are far more important than making busy work for a few hundred more engineers. He's not a hypocrite, he just doesn't think "jobsjobsjobsjobsjobs" is the ultimate priority. And as someone who is currently looking for a job, I have to agree with him. Far more urgent for me sure, but making more jobs can't be the top priority.
Plus, I don't have a crystal ball, but green energy and an economy that is bolstered by immigration are clearly more effective ways of creating jobs than apple throwing a bunch of money around wildly. I know it's popular in some circles to insist that anything the government does aside from cut taxes = jobs die, but that's simply a fairy tale told by chamber of commerce types (who themselves cut jobs whenever possible.)
If that's the plan, it's not working very well. You can buy plenty of phones unlocked CDMA. You can use them on verizon and several smaller ones, which is really not much different from GSM you can use on AT&T and several smaller ones.
Considering how pathetically few americans venture beyond our borders the fact that GSM rules internationally doesn't matter so much.
I guess it's feasible that it keeps the big two from actually competing with each other, except with the high turnover rate of phones, I'm not sure people are trapped in one very long.
Maybe the product would have been wall units that connected via cell phone signals. Couldn't find information on how much copper ma bell or whoever had rolled out by the 40's. But I'm guessing a lot of places never would have had telephone lines. Wonder what that would have done for dialup internet service. Would we maybe have fast nation-wide wifi at the moment or would the internet be only in libraries and places that had expensive copper hookups?
Yeah, the comments were shit and not worth reading, which one appeals to you?
"...read the comments below it that shoot it down." Did you actually type those words?
The top comment points out that locking people up in insane asylums isn't good either. I think we can maybe find a balance between the two extremes.
The other comments varied from "it's liberals fault" to "I knew a guy who got locked up" to "Nuh-uh!"
The lawsuit alleges much worse misconduct than that; I suggest you read it. Whether the lawsuit has merit, I don't know and I don't care.
You literally don't care whether the lawsuit has any merit, you're only focused on the accusation of sexism? Hmm....
I certainly think Mayer is a bigot and a sexist...
Sounds like it took quite a bit to convince you of that.
Claiming she was sexist against men doesn't seem borne out by the numbers.
Or wait! Maybe she KNEW yahoo would be run into the ground and THAT'S WHY SHE KEPT 63% MEN AS HER EMPLOYEES!!!
Seriously, this is one lawsuit alleging as part of it's claims that sexism might have been involved at a company that was still a majority men by far. I'm guessing she DID fire more men than women: that's to be expected when most of the workers are men. She also probably fired far far more white people than she did people of color! She's racist against white people too!
Why would we remove them exactly? Because you have less sympathy for the dead in those cases?
You put "bad guy" in quotes, but "justified shooting" should be too. There aren't movie villain "bad guys" running around who deserve getting shot by cops. From what I can tell (because cops make it difficult to get actual stats) is a whole lot of mentally disturbed people who would be getting treatment were it not for reagan republicans. And a whole lot of black men being shot because cops are just so afraid they'll have a gun that they shoot first.
Even if we did have King Joffreys running around, trial by peers is what we strive for. Not being gunned down in the street.
Justified shootings should by any way I can look at it count firmly in favor of gun control. If you're telling yourself they shouldn't count as preventable deaths of human beings, then you've gone over to the dark side already and I'm wasting my time here.
Suicides I dunno, it does appear from a quick googling that suicide rates are similar between heavily armed countries and countries that are more civilized. I'd wonder how many automobile deaths are suicides.
Finally, I'd point out that if the hype is to be believed about self-driving cars, auto deaths are going to fall. If the NRA crowd continues to oppose any action to bring down gun deaths in the country, gun deaths are going to continue to look like they're going up further in comparison. The pressure is going to keep building. Is that the best way to keep guns legal in the country? Because I think the anti-gun control side isn't thinking ten, twenty years in the future. I think the NRA supporting industries are focused on keeping sales high in the short term and don't give a fuck if pressure for gun control continues building up until the dam bursts and we overcorrect in favor of gun control. I have shotguns, enjoy hunting, and really enjoy erring on the side of freedom rather than safety. But the NRA is polarizing the issue and ensuring there will be a reckoning in the future by refusing to compromise. When that happens, I'll be on the side of "ban them all" if I'm forced to choose a side.
(Googles "marissa mayer net worth") ... 430 million? That poor woman. Can we start a gofundme for her?
Separate note on how moronic your comment is: you think that a joke that she's going to use gmail now is going to cause her not to be hired, but not saving Yahoo isn't?
Considering how nonsensical the executive world is... I guess?
You do realize five years ago was 2012 and not 1995 right?
... do, like... nothing? Just coast for the next few decades."
I suppose it's feasible she directed Yahoo to secretly make a time machine, then went back to the late nineties and said "Hey guys, I'm from the future, here's the winning plan:
Wat.
So if you're so convinced that no man deserves any type of success...
Okay buddy...