ah. i see. thanks for reminding me that i am a stupid vegetarian, and that super MRSA is not, in fact, related to the fact that people eat pork when it is entirely unnecessary.
by the way, if there is something wrong with the food supply, then perhaps restaurants and grocery stores could stop throwing it out when its perfectly good to eat, . . . or perhaps the government could stop paying farmers to not grow things. and maybe most of food costs , if they were not related to packaging , marketing, reprocessing, re-reprocessing, value added, etc,..... until those things happen, i am not sure i will ever be convinced there is a 'food shortage'.
please remind me again how the modern human is 'designed to eat meat', and how 'natural' meat is, and how vegetarians suffer from various delusions and alarmist theories about the health and quality of the food supply.
you dont have a 'right' to sell children simulated experiences of murdering prostitutes and robbing them, any more than you have a 'right' to sell them simulated experiences of fucking prostitutes, or to put cigarette advertising inside of comic books.
of all the actual, real censorship going on in society today, namely, people like Thomas Drake, Stephen Kim, and others being charged with Espionage for simply talking to reporters.... thats what REAL censorship is. i would love to see the people who get butthurt about people disapproving of having 4 year olds simulate murdering prostitutes and dealing drugs, actually speak out against things like the government's treatment of Diane Roark, or the way that Goldman Sachs tries to hush up people talking about oil prices (Leah McGrath Goodman).
oh, but no. lets defend people who want to sell rape fantasies to children. because their rights are what the first amendment is all about. where was the ACLU when Jesselyn Radack was being threatened with prison for simply talking to a reporter about the governments lies? While it is defending video game makers, it did not run to support her.
The ludicrous disconnect between these video game advocates and what is actually, really going on with the first amendment in this country is just mind boggling. Unless, of course, you explain it by the simple profit motive. That is what makes most sense. Regulation of video games would cost money for EA and other 'free speech' advocates. That is why they are against regulation.
Of course, try being an EA employee without signing an NDA agreement. Try being an EA empoyee and talk about forming a Union. Try being a worker at best buy or apple or any other place that sells video games, and talk about better working conditions, higher pay, etc. Then we will see how much these 'free speech advocates' actually care about free speech.... in the end, they make a mockery of themselves. The only regulations they care about are the ones that might hit them in the wallet.
And there is nothing wrong with barring kids from going to see Saw 5 or Basic Instinct.
There is nothing wrong with telling parents "Oh, this game allows you to simulate killing prostitutes". If you think its ok for a 5 year old kid to have 'fun' killing prostitutes and stealing their money, then you have serious issues.
selling violent video games to kids is about as bad as selling them pornography, or letting cigarette companies target them with advertising. it primes them to support things like the Iraq War, or the coming Iran War, which will bankrupt this country and dehumanize the nation.
to use Office products during classes in college, I think about how they wouldn't be above paying someone to spam slashdot with this stuff, over and over, even after the guy -specifically required portability-.
since you believe 'iranian terrorists' are trying to steal nuclear warheads from the middle of the nebraska highways, im guessing you also believe in the free market. so i have to ask you, why cant we just let the invisible hand take care of all these problems?
like its accurate. UF6 is an intermediate stage of the uranium between the 'yellowcake' form --- its what you stick into your enrichment process. its like saying flour is "used in the process of making bread". no, flour is what the bread is made of!
i notice you have a reagan signature. maybe you would enjoy his numerous speeches about the virtuous god-fearing mujahideen freedom fighters, and their battle against the godless communist aggressors in the 1980s? because there are a large number of such speeches. they are at the reagan archives, you can google them.
the result was modems, the BBS, and, oh, something called 'the internet'. it was what people used to browse the web on before "Wal-Mart Mobile" took over.
of Intel chips, does not have 'intel inside' anywhere on its stores, logos, brands, cases, etc. they didn't even used to say 'intel core duo" processor, they just said 'core duo' processor.
it wasn't just dell. it was HP and several others
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the article describes this practice going on at many, many computer suppliers, not just dell.
there are no regulators anymore. the agencies that were supposed to watch over this stuff were gutted and staffed with clueless yes men whose job was to make sure their employees didn't do their jobs.
a few books for you:
"The Asylum", Leah McGrath Goodman "The Big Short", Michael Lewis "The Sellout", Charles Gasparino "All the Devils are Here", Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera "Colossal Failure of Common Sense", Lawrence McDonald + Patrick Robinson "Lost Trust", Lang Gibson "Diary of a very bad year", Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager + Keith Gessen
"The average user does not need more cores right now"
cores are the only way to improve performance because the GHZ increases are reaching the limits of the physics of the universe as currently understood by science. There are not going to be 15 GHZ chips because it is simply not possible unless you use cyrogenics and i don't think the "average user" wants to have a jar of liquid nitrogen sitting in their house.
Stalin had a plan to counterfeit dollars. Why not counterfeit bonds too? There was some very strange stuff going on in the KGB + SS back in the day. And lots of insane programs that were of low quality.
of course now days, we pay people like Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke to counterfeit dollars, but we call it 'increasing money supply'. And our economy is wrecked worse than Stalin ever dreamed of. But whatever.
for example, the pension funds and retirement funds of the entire planet were conned into buying CDOs back in 2000-2008. those were essentially 'garbage securities' but everyone was too lazy to actually give a shit until 2008, when the government simply bailed out the crooks for 2 trillion dollars.
if you slather over a bunch of electronic securities with mathematics and "well spoken men in armani suits", you can pretty much get away with anything.
so whats the problem with paper securities? exactly what you say. the trick is to somehow get them infiltrated into the electronic system. id wager there is some way to do that though the same obscure off-shore accounts that corporations and rich people use every day to hide their misdeeds.
step 1. try to live on minimum wage for 2 months. i give him 4 days before he breaks down and buys a pizza or goes to a movie or something else financially disastrous to the ordinary person.
step 2. fill out interviews for jobs in other areas, like, say, cashier at Target. make bets on how long he says in an exasperated voice "ive sent out dozens of resumes and nobody is calling me back!"
step 3. actually go to job interviews. see how the 'clueless idiots' in management seem like when they dont actually depend on you - when you are just some expendable blob for them to use.
after all that i think he might change his opinion. he might be able to get a job with less hours, but he is not going to run off without thinking.
1. spend more money on sidewalks, crosswalks, walking + bicycle paths, and safe intersections
2. spend less money subsidizing the corn, sugar, and 'value added' goods industries based off of those two carbohydrates
3. pay doctors to stop people from getting diabetes in the first place, instead of paying them to diagnose and treat it.
i realize diabetes is often genetic. but often its lifestyle based. and that lifestyle is not the result of 'free choice', its the result of urban planners and social engineers who believe in profit over everything else.
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ah. i see. thanks for reminding me that i am a stupid vegetarian, and that super MRSA is not, in fact, related to the fact that people eat pork when it is entirely unnecessary.
by the way, if there is something wrong with the food supply, then perhaps restaurants and grocery stores could stop throwing it out when its perfectly good to eat, . . . or perhaps the government could stop paying farmers to not grow things. and maybe most of food costs , if they were not related to packaging , marketing, reprocessing, re-reprocessing, value added, etc,..... until those things happen, i am not sure i will ever be convinced there is a 'food shortage'.
please remind me again how the modern human is 'designed to eat meat', and how 'natural' meat is, and how vegetarians suffer from various delusions and alarmist theories about the health and quality of the food supply.
you dont have a 'right' to sell children simulated experiences of murdering prostitutes and robbing them, any more than you have a 'right' to sell them simulated experiences of fucking prostitutes, or to put cigarette advertising inside of comic books.
of all the actual, real censorship going on in society today, namely, people like Thomas Drake, Stephen Kim, and others being charged with Espionage for simply talking to reporters.... thats what REAL censorship is. i would love to see the people who get butthurt about people disapproving of having 4 year olds simulate murdering prostitutes and dealing drugs, actually speak out against things like the government's treatment of Diane Roark, or the way that Goldman Sachs tries to hush up people talking about oil prices (Leah McGrath Goodman).
oh, but no. lets defend people who want to sell rape fantasies to children. because their rights are what the first amendment is all about. where was the ACLU when Jesselyn Radack was being threatened with prison for simply talking to a reporter about the governments lies? While it is defending video game makers, it did not run to support her.
The ludicrous disconnect between these video game advocates and what is actually, really going on with the first amendment in this country is just mind boggling. Unless, of course, you explain it by the simple profit motive. That is what makes most sense. Regulation of video games would cost money for EA and other 'free speech' advocates. That is why they are against regulation.
Of course, try being an EA employee without signing an NDA agreement. Try being an EA empoyee and talk about forming a Union. Try being a worker at best buy or apple or any other place that sells video games, and talk about better working conditions, higher pay, etc. Then we will see how much these 'free speech advocates' actually care about free speech.... in the end, they make a mockery of themselves. The only regulations they care about are the ones that might hit them in the wallet.
And there is nothing wrong with barring kids from going to see Saw 5 or Basic Instinct.
There is nothing wrong with telling parents "Oh, this game allows you to simulate killing prostitutes". If you think its ok for a 5 year old kid to have 'fun' killing prostitutes and stealing their money, then you have serious issues.
selling violent video games to kids is about as bad as selling them pornography, or letting cigarette companies target them with advertising. it primes them to support things like the Iraq War, or the coming Iran War, which will bankrupt this country and dehumanize the nation.
to use Office products during classes in college, I think about how they wouldn't be above paying someone to spam slashdot with this stuff, over and over, even after the guy -specifically required portability-.
"Devising entirely new graphical user interface elements, mostly in 2D, though often in a true or simulated 3-D space"
"This will combine some of the GUI elements invented in (1) as well as displaying standard HTML or HTML5 content via a browser engine"
the guy likes to roll with an entourage, or so im told.
arent most bombs uranium nowdays?
since you believe 'iranian terrorists' are trying to steal nuclear warheads from the middle of the nebraska highways, im guessing you also believe in the free market. so i have to ask you, why cant we just let the invisible hand take care of all these problems?
like its accurate. UF6 is an intermediate stage of the uranium between the 'yellowcake' form --- its what you stick into your enrichment process. its like saying flour is "used in the process of making bread". no, flour is what the bread is made of!
sorry, i dont know how you get around that one.
i notice you have a reagan signature. maybe you would enjoy his numerous speeches about the virtuous god-fearing mujahideen freedom fighters, and their battle against the godless communist aggressors in the 1980s? because there are a large number of such speeches. they are at the reagan archives, you can google them.
dude, they are payed to be secretive. they are the big brother of the CIA. hell they probably used to spy on the CIA.
they probably took his theories and used them (if they didnt already have people who had come to similar conclusions working for them already).
the result was modems, the BBS, and, oh, something called 'the internet'. it was what people used to browse the web on before "Wal-Mart Mobile" took over.
are ok? wow. interesting moral theory
of Intel chips, does not have 'intel inside' anywhere on its stores, logos, brands, cases, etc. they didn't even used to say 'intel core duo" processor, they just said 'core duo' processor.
the article describes this practice going on at many, many computer suppliers, not just dell.
there are no regulators anymore. the agencies that were supposed to watch over this stuff were gutted and staffed with clueless yes men whose job was to make sure their employees didn't do their jobs.
a few books for you:
"The Asylum", Leah McGrath Goodman
"The Big Short", Michael Lewis
"The Sellout", Charles Gasparino
"All the Devils are Here", Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
"Colossal Failure of Common Sense", Lawrence McDonald + Patrick Robinson
"Lost Trust", Lang Gibson
"Diary of a very bad year", Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager + Keith Gessen
"The average user does not need more cores right now"
cores are the only way to improve performance because the GHZ increases are reaching the limits of the physics of the universe as currently understood by science. There are not going to be 15 GHZ chips because it is simply not possible unless you use cyrogenics and i don't think the "average user" wants to have a jar of liquid nitrogen sitting in their house.
Stalin had a plan to counterfeit dollars. Why not counterfeit bonds too? There was some very strange stuff going on in the KGB + SS back in the day. And lots of insane programs that were of low quality.
of course now days, we pay people like Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke to counterfeit dollars, but we call it 'increasing money supply'. And our economy is wrecked worse than Stalin ever dreamed of. But whatever.
do tell, do tell kind sir.
for example, the pension funds and retirement funds of the entire planet were conned into buying CDOs back in 2000-2008. those were essentially 'garbage securities' but everyone was too lazy to actually give a shit until 2008, when the government simply bailed out the crooks for 2 trillion dollars.
if you slather over a bunch of electronic securities with mathematics and "well spoken men in armani suits", you can pretty much get away with anything.
so whats the problem with paper securities? exactly what you say. the trick is to somehow get them infiltrated into the electronic system. id wager there is some way to do that though the same obscure off-shore accounts that corporations and rich people use every day to hide their misdeeds.
this guy needs a hobby something awful.
i think he needs to take a 'vacation to reality'.
step 1. try to live on minimum wage for 2 months. i give him 4 days before he breaks down and buys a pizza or goes to a movie or something else financially disastrous to the ordinary person.
step 2. fill out interviews for jobs in other areas, like, say, cashier at Target. make bets on how long he says in an exasperated voice "ive sent out dozens of resumes and nobody is calling me back!"
step 3. actually go to job interviews. see how the 'clueless idiots' in management seem like when they dont actually depend on you - when you are just some expendable blob for them to use.
after all that i think he might change his opinion. he might be able to get a job with less hours, but he is not going to run off without thinking.
1. spend more money on sidewalks, crosswalks, walking + bicycle paths, and safe intersections
2. spend less money subsidizing the corn, sugar, and 'value added' goods industries based off of those two carbohydrates
3. pay doctors to stop people from getting diabetes in the first place, instead of paying them to diagnose and treat it.
i realize diabetes is often genetic. but often its lifestyle based. and that lifestyle is not the result of 'free choice', its the result of urban planners and social engineers who believe in profit over everything else.