since i imagine this user is the most lunatic i will ever come across, i should ask here:
as a newbie scum commie, I can't find a way of ignoring posts by specific users.
Can anyone point me to a way of starting an ignore list.
It would be good not to waste bandwidth and screen space with the Fevered Founding Father Fundamentalism of this complete and utter loony.
(I wonder if jmorris's goal is to get left of centre people to waste their mod points on him?)
Why is the United States government giving money to Nissan? Shouldn't the Japanese government do that and not the U. S. taxpayer?
They are getting money because they are trying to produce a car that might help the US reduce its dependence on dangerous, foreign, terror-funding oil.
They are getting money because they might employ you, and many other US citizens.
They are in a better position to employ you and others than 2 of the 3 major American car manufacturers because they are not shite.
Surely you don't think they are taking the money back to Tokyo to spend on kimonos?
If we had a budget surplus, this wouldn't be such an issue.....scrutinized vigorously.
It sounds like you believe that the benefits of work like this cannot possibly outweight the costs.
Is that what you think?
It strikes me as very likely indeed that benefits will outweigh costs
What I consider very unlikely is that Citizens Against Government Waste have a genuine belief that this research will not be useful. They are simply shouting loudly about a research project that many ignorant and prejudiced people (for example, those who get their news from Fox) will hate by reflex.
Glad to see that the US has a big surplus in the budget that we can afford to fund this stuff.
Gubmint no good, gubmint no good, gubmint no good.
You and anyone who moderates you up are seriously poor thinkers.
Condoms are used to stop sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. They have costs to the population, and they are certainly greater than $400,000.
Also increased sales of condoms are good for business. I presume you believe that would be "a good thing"?
It must be because The Market (blessings and peace be upon its holy name and works) says so.
Please learn to use your brain. Or at least realise that you are talking to adults who can see through your disingenuous talking points.
If your country has socialized medicine; then I'm guessing that people go OUTSIDE the system (or even the country) to get the best care possible.
perhaps those with very large amounts of money might do so.
I would remind you that the best health care available to any individual is the best one they can afford.
The existence of allegedly superior healthcare in the US is of no use to someone with my level of income. And my level of income is much closer to the median than any multibillionaire.
I put it to you that a randomly selected US citizen has more chance of not being able to get care at all than a randomly selected UK one.
To sum up, I get better healthcare than a US citizen with no insurance (good enough vs almost nothing, maybe what you can put on your credit card); and Steve Jobs and Richard Branson get the same level (both get the best that anyone can buy.)
In this respect I conclude that the UK is better.
Rich UK citizens pay to avoid waiting, just as rich people in the UK, US, Canada, Japan, and everywhere pay for (what they perceive as, and they might be right) better education for their children.
The existence of private education is no argument for the abolition of "socialist" education. Thay can both exist, and always will outside of a dictatorship.
The US political right uses its red menace scare tactics for health but not education. Why?
I think it's because even your own citizens would laugh at you if you tried it.
When you play a console game, do you finish it on easy mode and then go up through the difficulties or just go to the hardest? I always think you get more time for your money if you start at the bottom.
Anyone else's views?
as someone on boingboing pointed out, can we assume that this breaks terms of service for quite a lot of groups / websites?
are they genuinely fishing for stuff to exclude applications from consideration? Or just looking for an excuse to fire you later because you didn't disclose all of your online activities?
perhaps trying to avoid employer liability for stuff you say "in secret". They ask you for it so they can vet you, and you hid stuff from em; so they are not liable?
right on brother.
Except she did not assert superiority.
It struck me as an odd thing to say, but her statement did not assert superiority.
The university professor (?) who raised the issue of differences between men and women shouldn't have been hounded from his job. In much the same way that this single sentence (whose context I have not read) shouldn't preclude this judge from nomination.
Moving along, how about that highly suspicious way she pronounces her family name?
Shouldn't she be calling herself Jane Smith if she wants a job in a nice clean white protestant country?
Well, my last dinner at Outback was significantly overpriced, in a noisy &poorly decorated restaurant, and with too-large servings of mediocre food.
And with no decent beer.
How was yours?
good point. but they were dealing with a "hacker", or that was their excuse for a power trip.
In fact I bet there was a power trip aspect, and maybe a little of "nipping things in the bud"?
"The police let a hacker keep his equipment after a previous incident and now 2 years later he broke into the CIA...." makes a good story.
Mostly power trip, I suspect.
from a quick read of the TFAs it seems that there was a grudge-holding roommate (maybe the one he outed?) who did his best to grossly exaggerate the "hacker" aspect to the police. Ah the joys of petty arguments..
Why couldn't they just punch each other a couple of times?
or get new roommates?
It strikes me that Apple must be planning on entering the ebook reader market.
Or is there already something like that in the app store?(I don't have an iPhone.)
An app that can usefully access and search Project Gutenberg would be brilliant, but it might make any future Apple ebook reader seem less "insanely great" so they are looking for reasons to not sell it.
That my two pence worth anyway.
the reason I referred to Schlosser's mentioning of almond flavouring is QuantumG's dismissal of Schlosser's arguments "because he is a hippie". Schlosser himself brings up the example in order to demonstrate that there needs to be careful thought about what we put into our food supply.
QuantumG's dismissal was extremely misleading. Schlosser is very aware that not all food additives are bad. However, he points out that they are often added for reasons that don't help anyone except the manufacturer's bottom line. Not the consumer, and not the workers who produce the food.
Schlosser, far from being a "hey man everything science does is bad" type, has written a very good book. It is most certainly not a PETA member's/Burning Man attendee's bible.
As for me, I have no idea about the safety or otherwise flavourings of any kind.
yes, but (to be grossly stereotypical for a sentence or two) we are talking about people who are too lazy to cook their own food. Or maybe they are too stupid to realise the benefits. 10 extra minutes in the kitchen is 10 fewer minutes in front of the telly, after all
In the UK home cooking is now pretty much a hobby for affluent people. It really is seen as a hobby.
I think it's quite common to get through school here without a single cookery class. I certainly did. (I only took an interest in cooking once I was at uni.) IMHO that is collosally bad curriculum design. Good for manufacturers of convenience food though.
Don't let the truth get in the way of your fervent belief that the EU is a bunch corrupt filthy, socialist pigs who simply cannot let the holy market do its wondrous work.
They offered a discount if customers promised not to use competitor's products.
Seems to me like a perversion of market purity. They should be cast into the flames to be purged, no?
You used the word hippie to imply that Schlosser's concerns are at best misguided, and the rest of your post was intended to discredit his arguments.
Please don't be so disingenuous
IIRC Schlosser does point out the weakness of "natural is always better" thinking, he gives the example of almond flavouring. The natural flavour contains very small amounts of cyanide, the artificial one doesn't. However the natural flavour commands a higher price because it is "natural" and therefore better.
The point about the artificial ingredients in fast food is that they are there to minimise the costs of production, thus allowing companies to drive down prices. They do this because their customers are very, very price sensitive. Many people, including myself, believe that this demand for the lowest possible priced food is misguided and leads us to eat unnecessarily large quantities of unhealthy food. Thus making many of us unhealthy, and probably costing us more in the long run.
Trains are only faster than a car under the conditions that
1: you live near a station and
2: want to travel near to another station,
3: without having to change between lines or other modes of transport.
a: taking a train is usually cheaper than purchasing a car.
b: it is certainly faster than a car if you travel at peak time.
c: cars are only fast for non-local journeys if you live near a highway/motorway/freeway
d: you don't have to search for a non-free parking space when you reach the end of your train journey.
to sum up: swings, roundabouts.
As far as I know, there is very little public transport in the US, so why don't you try some. It might turn out to be useful.
Apple's CEO is on the board of a major content provider.
I'd say that's another reason to think they might not sell a way to control transmission in the app store.
Yes I know that we can torrent stuff that is entirely legal, but that isn't Big Content's view, is it?
Good point, but not quite as much of a disaster as you might think.
At least in Britain (and Japan actually), people are very loyal to one newspaper.
If you buy the Telegraph you don't buy the Mirror etc. etc.
It does save you throwing out all those old papers too.
Biggest problem is that you have to front all the money.
The reason I think ebook readers will remain niche products (certainly when compared to mp3 players) is that there is no way (that isn't spectacularly labour intensive and quite pricey)of putting books you already own onto them.
There is no way I would own an mp3 player without being able to do that with music. I can only see this being, at best, as popular as a portable video player.
If I could put all the books I own now onto a kindle/ebook/papyrus, I'd already have bought one.
I do hope we aren't all sleepwalking into being resold the same content again
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since i imagine this user is the most lunatic i will ever come across, i should ask here:
as a newbie scum commie, I can't find a way of ignoring posts by specific users.
Can anyone point me to a way of starting an ignore list.
It would be good not to waste bandwidth and screen space with the Fevered Founding Father Fundamentalism of this complete and utter loony.
(I wonder if jmorris's goal is to get left of centre people to waste their mod points on him?)
Why is the United States government giving money to Nissan? Shouldn't the Japanese government do that and not the U. S. taxpayer?
They are getting money because they are trying to produce a car that might help the US reduce its dependence on dangerous, foreign, terror-funding oil.
They are getting money because they might employ you, and many other US citizens.
They are in a better position to employ you and others than 2 of the 3 major American car manufacturers because they are not shite.
Surely you don't think they are taking the money back to Tokyo to spend on kimonos?
It sounds like you believe that the benefits of work like this cannot possibly outweight the costs. Is that what you think? It strikes me as very likely indeed that benefits will outweigh costs
What I consider very unlikely is that Citizens Against Government Waste have a genuine belief that this research will not be useful. They are simply shouting loudly about a research project that many ignorant and prejudiced people (for example, those who get their news from Fox) will hate by reflex.
you need another +1 informative, but I don't have any points. Sorry.
Gubmint no good, gubmint no good, gubmint no good.
You and anyone who moderates you up are seriously poor thinkers.
Condoms are used to stop sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies. They have costs to the population, and they are certainly greater than $400,000.
Also increased sales of condoms are good for business.
I presume you believe that would be "a good thing"?
It must be because The Market (blessings and peace be upon its holy name and works) says so.
Please learn to use your brain. Or at least realise that you are talking to adults who can see through your disingenuous talking points.
perhaps those with very large amounts of money might do so.
I would remind you that the best health care available to any individual is the best one they can afford.
The existence of allegedly superior healthcare in the US is of no use to someone with my level of income. And my level of income is much closer to the median than any multibillionaire.
I put it to you that a randomly selected US citizen has more chance of not being able to get care at all than a randomly selected UK one.
To sum up, I get better healthcare than a US citizen with no insurance (good enough vs almost nothing, maybe what you can put on your credit card); and Steve Jobs and Richard Branson get the same level (both get the best that anyone can buy.)
In this respect I conclude that the UK is better.
Rich UK citizens pay to avoid waiting, just as rich people in the UK, US, Canada, Japan, and everywhere pay for (what they perceive as, and they might be right) better education for their children. The existence of private education is no argument for the abolition of "socialist" education. Thay can both exist, and always will outside of a dictatorship.
The US political right uses its red menace scare tactics for health but not education. Why?
I think it's because even your own citizens would laugh at you if you tried it.
When you play a console game, do you finish it on easy mode and then go up through the difficulties or just go to the hardest? I always think you get more time for your money if you start at the bottom. Anyone else's views?
are they genuinely fishing for stuff to exclude applications from consideration? Or just looking for an excuse to fire you later because you didn't disclose all of your online activities?
perhaps trying to avoid employer liability for stuff you say "in secret". They ask you for it so they can vet you, and you hid stuff from em; so they are not liable?
The university professor (?) who raised the issue of differences between men and women shouldn't have been hounded from his job. In much the same way that this single sentence (whose context I have not read) shouldn't preclude this judge from nomination.
Moving along, how about that highly suspicious way she pronounces her family name? Shouldn't she be calling herself Jane Smith if she wants a job in a nice clean white protestant country?
"Why do you hate America?"(TM) so much that you want to leave?
Well, my last dinner at Outback was significantly overpriced, in a noisy &poorly decorated restaurant, and with too-large servings of mediocre food. And with no decent beer. How was yours?
good point. but they were dealing with a "hacker", or that was their excuse for a power trip. In fact I bet there was a power trip aspect, and maybe a little of "nipping things in the bud"? "The police let a hacker keep his equipment after a previous incident and now 2 years later he broke into the CIA...." makes a good story. Mostly power trip, I suspect.
from a quick read of the TFAs it seems that there was a grudge-holding roommate (maybe the one he outed?) who did his best to grossly exaggerate the "hacker" aspect to the police. Ah the joys of petty arguments.. Why couldn't they just punch each other a couple of times? or get new roommates?
It strikes me that Apple must be planning on entering the ebook reader market. Or is there already something like that in the app store?(I don't have an iPhone.) An app that can usefully access and search Project Gutenberg would be brilliant, but it might make any future Apple ebook reader seem less "insanely great" so they are looking for reasons to not sell it. That my two pence worth anyway.
the reason I referred to Schlosser's mentioning of almond flavouring is QuantumG's dismissal of Schlosser's arguments "because he is a hippie". Schlosser himself brings up the example in order to demonstrate that there needs to be careful thought about what we put into our food supply.
QuantumG's dismissal was extremely misleading. Schlosser is very aware that not all food additives are bad. However, he points out that they are often added for reasons that don't help anyone except the manufacturer's bottom line. Not the consumer, and not the workers who produce the food.
Schlosser, far from being a "hey man everything science does is bad" type, has written a very good book. It is most certainly not a PETA member's/Burning Man attendee's bible.
As for me, I have no idea about the safety or otherwise flavourings of any kind.
yes, but (to be grossly stereotypical for a sentence or two) we are talking about people who are too lazy to cook their own food. Or maybe they are too stupid to realise the benefits. 10 extra minutes in the kitchen is 10 fewer minutes in front of the telly, after all
In the UK home cooking is now pretty much a hobby for affluent people. It really is seen as a hobby.
I think it's quite common to get through school here without a single cookery class. I certainly did. (I only took an interest in cooking once I was at uni.) IMHO that is collosally bad curriculum design. Good for manufacturers of convenience food though.
They offered a discount if customers promised not to use competitor's products.
Seems to me like a perversion of market purity. They should be cast into the flames to be purged, no?
No sir,
You used the word hippie to imply that Schlosser's concerns are at best misguided, and the rest of your post was intended to discredit his arguments.
Please don't be so disingenuous
IIRC Schlosser does point out the weakness of "natural is always better" thinking, he gives the example of almond flavouring. The natural flavour contains very small amounts of cyanide, the artificial one doesn't. However the natural flavour commands a higher price because it is "natural" and therefore better.
The point about the artificial ingredients in fast food is that they are there to minimise the costs of production, thus allowing companies to drive down prices. They do this because their customers are very, very price sensitive. Many people, including myself, believe that this demand for the lowest possible priced food is misguided and leads us to eat unnecessarily large quantities of unhealthy food. Thus making many of us unhealthy, and probably costing us more in the long run.
This is particularly bad in the USA because (rightly or wrongly) there is very little safety net for the unemployed.
Also (wrongly, I would argue), no job usually means no health insurance for you or your children.
a: taking a train is usually cheaper than purchasing a car.
b: it is certainly faster than a car if you travel at peak time.
c: cars are only fast for non-local journeys if you live near a highway/motorway/freeway
d: you don't have to search for a non-free parking space when you reach the end of your train journey.
to sum up: swings, roundabouts.
As far as I know, there is very little public transport in the US, so why don't you try some. It might turn out to be useful.
Apple's CEO is on the board of a major content provider. I'd say that's another reason to think they might not sell a way to control transmission in the app store. Yes I know that we can torrent stuff that is entirely legal, but that isn't Big Content's view, is it?
you have a persecution complex, it seems to me sir. phew, what a loony
5 insightful?? maybe 5 mentally ill. dear Jmorris42, the 1950s called they want their hysteria back.
Good point, but not quite as much of a disaster as you might think. At least in Britain (and Japan actually), people are very loyal to one newspaper. If you buy the Telegraph you don't buy the Mirror etc. etc. It does save you throwing out all those old papers too. Biggest problem is that you have to front all the money.
There is no way I would own an mp3 player without being able to do that with music. I can only see this being, at best, as popular as a portable video player.
If I could put all the books I own now onto a kindle/ebook/papyrus, I'd already have bought one.
I do hope we aren't all sleepwalking into being resold the same content again