If you took your car in to get an oil change and your mechanic mucked it up, are you to blame for the damage?
Yes. Real men change their own oil. And real programmers recompile all their own programs from scratch, writing a new toolchain or even reverse-engineering closed-source binaries if necessary. Anything less is pure wussery.
For headline skimmers, this post would produced a completely inaccurate sense of what the article was all about... at length, the D.KOS are the ones who found out about this and are doing something something about it. That's good... but if you just read the headline, you'd come away thinking that D.KOS were the culprits instead.
Unless Kos is plural, since it's not the name of an ancient person, they'll need to add an apostrophe and an s. "Daily Kos's Pollster Made Up Numbers".
WTF does it have to do with being the name of an ancient person??
Probably somebody paying attention to Daily Kos' record. You show me the times and places they've been inaccurate. Note I didn't say biased, I said inaccurate. Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh make things up, they literally lie on air and in print, so throwing them together with Daily Kos, which at worst selectively covers stories that illustrate its world-view, is a troll-worthy attempt to muddy the waters for the benefit of right-wing hacks at the detriment of honest left-wing news outlets.
They are the ones who thought it was a good idea to "tea bag the white house" and "tea bag the liberal dems before the tea bag you!" ("Tea Partiers'" words, not mine)
In other words, they are a political group so out-of-touch with mainstream America that they fail to recognize commonplace sexual slang.
The agenda on DKos is Liberalism, pure and simple...If you want a politically left view point, then DKos is for you. If want a right, then its Limbaugh. If you want pure news with out a slant... well, I guess you're SOL.
So nobody with a point of view has any accuracy? Automatically?
A traitor scum liberal douchebag going-to-hell-athist communist nazi socialist jew from Canada (or something) as described by the incessant idiocy on the Right.
Because the one or two other people with the same tattoo totally outnumber the billions of other people with the same blank skin?
Do you know anyone with truly blank - as in featureless - skin?
No, not defined as such, but I know plenty of people with truly blank - as in truly devoid of ink - skin. If we're considering the uniqueness of all skin features in considering a tattoo's uniqueness, then it only really counts if you meet someone with the same tattoo who also has the same skin tone and patterns.
If it's something that you foresee down the road that you'll not be interested in and go "why did I ever do that, ugh that's so yesterday" it wasn't a very good idea.
Tattoos are far from permanent. You're spreading the same kind of FUD your mother use to spread. Just remember that the next time you go off on someone for distorting the truth.
You're right. Eventually, your body will decompose, and, Voila! No more tattoo.
I told you the answer to this waaaaaaay back at the beginning of this thread. The 10% will be the ones who both care enough to look for a disable switch, and are smart enough to find it. The 90% will either not care that someone can install things remotely, or not figure out how to disable said feature. Rather than dispute this reasoning, you just yelled at me that I didn't know how big the 90% is.
Even Bill and Ted knew the difference between Aristotle and Socrates.
Yeah, Socrates they brought back and Aristotle they didn't.
You're dumber than Bill and Ted.
Hey now, I'm sure if kdawson had spent a few hours stuffed in a phone booth with Socrates, he'd know the difference too. Let's at least give him credit for that.
It reminds me of the whole "Bible Code" fiasco. I'm of the opinion that if you want really to see a message in your soup, you will. But to everyone else, it's just another bowl of spaghetti-O's.
"There's a message in my alpha-bits! It says, 'oooOOooOOooo'..."
"Peter, those are Cheeios."
Once again, if 90% don't know how to do anything intelligent with their machine, by all means leave it in for that 90%. I'm just saying give an opt-out switch for the remaining 10%. This has nothing to do with whether your bandwidth is taking a hit from botnets. We all know botnets exist and that they wreak havoc on the internet. You seem to be arguing an issue that wasn't even part of the discussion.
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If you took your car in to get an oil change and your mechanic mucked it up, are you to blame for the damage?
Yes. Real men change their own oil. And real programmers recompile all their own programs from scratch, writing a new toolchain or even reverse-engineering closed-source binaries if necessary. Anything less is pure wussery.
For headline skimmers, this post would produced a completely inaccurate sense of what the article was all about... at length, the D.KOS are the ones who found out about this and are doing something something about it. That's good... but if you just read the headline, you'd come away thinking that D.KOS were the culprits instead.
Once again, it's the kdawson effect.
Unless Kos is plural, since it's not the name of an ancient person, they'll need to add an apostrophe and an s. "Daily Kos's Pollster Made Up Numbers".
WTF does it have to do with being the name of an ancient person??
Who marked the parent troll?
Probably somebody paying attention to Daily Kos' record. You show me the times and places they've been inaccurate. Note I didn't say biased, I said inaccurate. Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh make things up, they literally lie on air and in print, so throwing them together with Daily Kos, which at worst selectively covers stories that illustrate its world-view, is a troll-worthy attempt to muddy the waters for the benefit of right-wing hacks at the detriment of honest left-wing news outlets.
Obama is not a liberal, as many on the left have discovered to their consternation since the election.
...and as many others on the left knew long before the election.
They are the ones who thought it was a good idea to "tea bag the white house" and "tea bag the liberal dems before the tea bag you!" ("Tea Partiers'" words, not mine)
In other words, they are a political group so out-of-touch with mainstream America that they fail to recognize commonplace sexual slang.
The agenda on DKos is Liberalism, pure and simple...If you want a politically left view point, then DKos is for you. If want a right, then its Limbaugh. If you want pure news with out a slant... well, I guess you're SOL.
So nobody with a point of view has any accuracy? Automatically?
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A traitor scum liberal douchebag going-to-hell-athist communist nazi socialist jew from Canada (or something) as described by the incessant idiocy on the Right.
You forgot "gay unicorn-rapist".
...but you'll also find liberals complaining about Obama placing U.S. citizens on CIA hitlists - something you wont find from the teabaggers.
Isn't Obama going all Hitler-style on U.S. citizens all you hear from the teabaggers? Besides taxes, taxes, taxes, of course.
Because the one or two other people with the same tattoo totally outnumber the billions of other people with the same blank skin?
Do you know anyone with truly blank - as in featureless - skin?
No, not defined as such, but I know plenty of people with truly blank - as in truly devoid of ink - skin. If we're considering the uniqueness of all skin features in considering a tattoo's uniqueness, then it only really counts if you meet someone with the same tattoo who also has the same skin tone and patterns.
A ruler on your forearm!
I would say on your inner thigh...
So the next time I see a sun tattoo between a girls shoulder blades it is safe to ask "Can I see Uranus"?
It's always safe to ask that when you see a girl's sun tattoo, wherever it may be. Or if not safe, at least appropriate.
Because the one or two other people with the same tattoo totally outnumber the billions of other people with the same blank skin?
Tattoos aren't in and of themselves lame. People get all sort of lame tattoos, however....
Obligatory Red vs. Blue (which is a phrase you probably haven't heard in years)...
If it's something that you foresee down the road that you'll not be interested in and go "why did I ever do that, ugh that's so yesterday" it wasn't a very good idea.
I don't foresee that being a problem...
As a general rule, "don't get a Chinese tattoo unless you read Chinese fluently" also works quite well.
Great example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUlEwISD03o
And of course the classic Britney Spears attempt to get "mysterious" which ended up meaning "strange".
if he was going for a big cock on his forhead, maybe $60
Crap. I got completely ripped off on mine.
Let me guess, you sprung for the entire sleeve of cocks.
Tattoos are far from permanent. You're spreading the same kind of FUD your mother use to spread. Just remember that the next time you go off on someone for distorting the truth.
You're right. Eventually, your body will decompose, and, Voila! No more tattoo.
Probably for the same reason you don't know the difference between not knowing everything and not knowing anything.
I told you the answer to this waaaaaaay back at the beginning of this thread. The 10% will be the ones who both care enough to look for a disable switch, and are smart enough to find it. The 90% will either not care that someone can install things remotely, or not figure out how to disable said feature. Rather than dispute this reasoning, you just yelled at me that I didn't know how big the 90% is.
Even Bill and Ted knew the difference between Aristotle and Socrates.
Yeah, Socrates they brought back and Aristotle they didn't.
You're dumber than Bill and Ted.
Hey now, I'm sure if kdawson had spent a few hours stuffed in a phone booth with Socrates, he'd know the difference too. Let's at least give him credit for that.
It reminds me of the whole "Bible Code" fiasco. I'm of the opinion that if you want really to see a message in your soup, you will. But to everyone else, it's just another bowl of spaghetti-O's.
"There's a message in my alpha-bits! It says, 'oooOOooOOooo'..."
"Peter, those are Cheeios."
Aristotle was a student of Plato
Wait a minute, those people were real?
Even more, they were rational!
Not to mention, they were finite!
Once again, if 90% don't know how to do anything intelligent with their machine, by all means leave it in for that 90%. I'm just saying give an opt-out switch for the remaining 10%. This has nothing to do with whether your bandwidth is taking a hit from botnets. We all know botnets exist and that they wreak havoc on the internet. You seem to be arguing an issue that wasn't even part of the discussion.
If you don't think so, you're a) not paying enough attention and b) probably getting all your information from the State Controlled Media.
What, NPR?