That's true (and awesome when you live close to the Netherlands)
But he is right about something : the Netherland did crap with their marijuana legalization : they didn't legalize (or at least they didn't free the market) "industrial" large farms.
This has lead to a crazy situation where pot is legally sold to individuals in coffe shop, but this pot often comes from the mafia !!
Because the coffee shop are not allowed to grown as much as they want, and because it's not easy to grow pot on large scale to resell to coffee shops in large amounts, the coffee shop owners have no other option than buying illegal pot !
it's insane !
No politician wants to legalize marijuana because most of the public doesn't smoke weed and therefore it is regarded as hippy liberal craziness to legalize it BUT no politician would EVER consider backing off on marijuana legalization !
When you think about it it's just the most awesome thing :
A. Taxes, loads of money for the government
B. Much less crime (drug traffic is the number one source of crime)
C. Jobs ! tons of real legit jobs instead of non legit, off the record, criminals.
If people weren't so fuc*ing stupid and ideological about it, and if some conservatives could take the broomstick they have up their ass out for 2 minutes everybody would realize legalizing marijuana is the only pragmatic decision to make.
What blizzard realized was that a significant part of the games played on starcraft and war3 were played between people who know each other.
It's far from being the majority but it's a significant amount.
If you let these people play on Lan, they do not connect to battle.net, so:
A. they are more independant and your power over their lessens.
B. You can't feed them with your advertising.
Ultimately I don't understand how this wasn't more stressed as an issue. I mean the RealID was a mess, complete PR failure and terrible idea, but this is much more relevant to the gaming part of the matter.
Anyway Blizzard keeps on going that slippery slope they stepped on with WoW : good game bad practices.
I suppose it's OK for now, but when you measure how much free battle.net made for their image and the success of their games you really don't get how they could let such stupid limitation alter this image !
Stupid writers reported the force in lbf instead of mN and the surface in square feet...
Just use ISO units FOR FUCK'S SAKE ! Meters, Newtons, kilograms !
Wtf ?
If google fails to sell its Nexus One it's their problem.
it doesn't affect their customers, and they make no fault at all. Just bad business and marketing.
When Apple sells a faulty device it does affect their customers !
They fail to provide a working device!
The gaza ships were cruising towards gaza, but they were still 50 miles away in the f*cking international waters. No country whatsoever would have done this and get away with it.
Moreover I certainly wouldn't have picked the USA as a model of democracy...
Just to be very clear how much rocket has the Hamas launched since say 2007 ?
How much bombs did Tsahal use in one hour of the Gaza "intervention" in 2009 ?
How many Israelis were killed ? and how many Palestinians ?
No country does this and calls itself a democracy except Iran and North Korea maybe.
These vessels were loaded with medical supplies, and there were 2 nobel peace price in the convoy for christ's sake ! Do you really think these guys would have taken part in such an operation had there been ANY chances that military material could have been in the ships ?
And the terrorists who smuggle rockets inside Gaza do it via tunnels from Egypt.
As for C. Not when you are in internationnal water and the country whose military is threatenning you calls itself a democracy.
Maybe you think that State do not have to abide by the law ? And I'm of course refering to the international law.
As for the rest your obvious troll is obvious. The video show people hitting military and military shooting at them. Is not wide angle and you see only what Tsahal wants you to see.
Now I'm no expert on journalism but I would say that a video from the very army who did the attack may not be the most objective and unbiased material to determine what exactly happened.
AFAIK nobody asked Nixon for the truth about the Watergate.
Yes of course...
Just Look at New Orleans! I mean the thing was cleared and rebuilt in what 2 days?
Oh wait...
Again if the Haitian people wasn't starving to death already BEFORE the earthquake and if they had say trucks and tractors and such maybe they could clean the "mess" and rebuild faster. Sadly they do not.
And keep in mind this is a tragedy of a magnitude so much greater than anything the USA or Europe has had to recover from since WW II.
250,000 dead people, and every fucking building destroyed. And they are cleaning it with shovels.
Are you crazy ?
A. there was a video made by Tsahal, with notes on screen (in yellow colour if I recall correctly) that was broadcast several hours after the attack.
Stewart made a whole segment about this ! It was broadcast on ALL the networks, CBS, FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, all of them.
The video was aired more than a hundred times in 24 hours ! And it was made by Tsahal.
B.You are just repeating what Glenn Beck said the day after the video was aired 100 times, and Stewart nailed him the day after that with FACTS and video proof.
Because that's what great with TV : it's recordable. (too bad for Glenn beck)
C. Some of the bodies were found to have 6 or 7 bullets inside them. Including 2 in the legs 2 in the back and 2 in the head. That's neutralisation and then execution. It's has another name : murder.
So please if you really are going to act as some sort of PR for Tsahal at least learn to do your job correctly.
It's a tie with the Colbert Report.
But yeah it is scary.
From a French point of view (and god knows our TV news are biased crap too especially TF1) Fox News is just unbearable to watch. I was SO shocked the first time I watched the show with Glenn Beck I remember writing an article about it in my high school journal (which I did only once...)
I mean I get political partisanship even in news, totally understandable. Nobody can be totally unbiased and objective. But Fox is just plain crazy.
There is something I find even much more disturbing about the whole libertarian ideology. Actually there are several.
A. What's with liberty ? you're about responsibility and more precisely personal responsibility. What you basically want is for people to be responsible of themselves so you don't have to be responsible for them so stop using liberty as a nice package to sell your ideas and just pick a name that's relevant to your ideology.
Sure it's gonna be a tougher sell but hey !
B. The whole libertarian (again very bad name) ideology that makes people responsible for themselves is based on the fact that people can actually be held accountable for their fate, i.e. it's their damn fault !
"You don't earn enough money to eat ? well why did you accept to be paid so low ?"
Of course any 5 years old could see the flaw in their logic but apparently they can't.
C. But where I think they are the most blind and inconsistent is the following :
There are many ways for a man to do something for the society , to useful to its peers, as there are many ways for a men to get something from the society (i.e. the rest of mens)
For instance, it is true that someone who is out of job and is granted some money by the government, to live long enough to find another job, is definitely getting something out of the society. Nobody will argue with this basic argument fro the libertarian.
What's arguable is the myth, vastly and widely shared among Americans, that some people, the so-called self-made men, can out of nothing and with no help whatsoever from the society become immensely rich and do a lot for the society.
I mean if you listen to some people these guys are better than Jesus Christ ! They everything, never were they helped and deserve everything they have because they got it with their own two hands.
I call this bullshit : the self-made man got from society much more than anyone else. He got a LOT of money, he got people who worked for him, he got subsidies, he took advantage of political decisions, market trends, fashion, and tens of other social events that are the result of work and actions done by others. There wouldn't be any bill gates without those who invented the computer, the people who worked for him, the people who bought the microsoft products, the investors, the media, the economical trend that made it possible for people to spend money on computers because they had bigger revenue, the cultural trend etc...
This myth that the only recipients of help from the society are the poor and the weak is just crazy.
Are you actually putting Argentina and North Korea in the same bag ?
And more importantly are you really saying that ANYONE on earth actually thinks that the Cuban or North Korean government are, and again I quote you, ideals ?
Because I can tell you I hang around with some nasty fuck** lefty commies who (apparently) would scare the sh*t out of you. They're really extreme on some issues, and don't get them started on private property and legacy and all.
But never EVER would any of them call Cuba an ideal.
Stop trying to fight your dad's war, because :
A. it's over, he won it so just stop.
B. He was wrong and even he knows it now so maybe it's time to put things back in perspective a little and accept the fact life is not so easy Disney can make a realistic picture of it in a 2 hours movie.
AFAIK this technique has been widely used in news media all over the world for a long time.
Say whatever crap you want to persuade people about, and please don't forget to include some FUD, that's usually very effective.
Then let the commie/liberal/gay/hippie/islamic others biased media say you're saying crap and have no argument. Let they rigorously demonstrate you were wrong and BINGO.
You might not convince (actually since you have no arguments you cannot convince..) the smartest but you will for sure persuade the widest audience.
What's important is to talk FIRST.
I've seen this zillions of time on Engadget : Breaking News:[insert any anti Nokia/whatever FUD form a weird rumour site in Kazakhstan]
And then 3 hours later : Updated : actually it was complete bullshit ! YAY !
Of course the updated part goes into the title, the "complete bullshit" mention comes at the end of the article or "after the break".
for most men in our society, having female companionship is very expensive: $20,000 diamond rings, $100,000 weddings
"Most people" don't have $100,000 weddings, some because they don't want to (that would be me for example) but "most" because they cannot afford it.
Notice how when I use most I actually mean the vast majority of the group (i.e. the acual meaning of most) whereas when you use most you refer to some sub-group (that amount for very little apparently) that probably look a lot like you.
Don't take it too personally I'm not trying to bash but honestly if most Americans could afford $100,000 weddings your country would be in much better shape.
Get a grip on reality:)
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It's always the same argument.
You cannot (try to) demonstrate the superiority of Windows over any Linux distro by simply saying people won't be able to do exactly like in windows and get the same thing.
Of course they can't : IT'S A DIFFERENT OS !
If this was possible than the aforementioned Linux distribution would be... Windows itself and then its only benefit would be to be free, BUT since the people who MAKE the Linux distribution are trying to innovate they won't copy/paste an OS just to get new users.
What's amazing (and terrible) about your argument is that you make all this innovation sound like a BAD thing...
Bottom line is : You can playback DVD on Ubuntu by installing ONE package that is proposed at the first start-up, and Rhythmbox is pretty similar to itunes and does a great job as an easy to use music player/library.
Getting money out of people using leverage you should have.
The mafia extorted money from the shop owners in the 30s, using leverage it got from the monopoly of the usage of strengh it had taken from the state authority (the police which was unable to fight the aforementioned mafia)
MPEG LA will extort money out of us and any video content provider/creator using leverage it will have gotten from abusive patents and technological monopoly reached through lobbying.
You, moronically, make it sounds like it is a law of nature where in fact it is just the the result of the pre-existence of h.264.
This is definitely something you should take into consideration when you are trying to determine which codec is best intrinsically.
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Let's hope this one doesn't end with nuclear strikes.
That's true (and awesome when you live close to the Netherlands)
But he is right about something : the Netherland did crap with their marijuana legalization : they didn't legalize (or at least they didn't free the market) "industrial" large farms.
This has lead to a crazy situation where pot is legally sold to individuals in coffe shop, but this pot often comes from the mafia !!
Because the coffee shop are not allowed to grown as much as they want, and because it's not easy to grow pot on large scale to resell to coffee shops in large amounts, the coffee shop owners have no other option than buying illegal pot !
it's insane !
huh... me ?
No politician wants to legalize marijuana because most of the public doesn't smoke weed and therefore it is regarded as hippy liberal craziness to legalize it BUT no politician would EVER consider backing off on marijuana legalization !
When you think about it it's just the most awesome thing :
A. Taxes, loads of money for the government
B. Much less crime (drug traffic is the number one source of crime)
C. Jobs ! tons of real legit jobs instead of non legit, off the record, criminals.
If people weren't so fuc*ing stupid and ideological about it, and if some conservatives could take the broomstick they have up their ass out for 2 minutes everybody would realize legalizing marijuana is the only pragmatic decision to make.
That's an issue because Blizzard loses control.
What blizzard realized was that a significant part of the games played on starcraft and war3 were played between people who know each other.
It's far from being the majority but it's a significant amount.
If you let these people play on Lan, they do not connect to battle.net, so:
A. they are more independant and your power over their lessens.
B. You can't feed them with your advertising.
Ultimately I don't understand how this wasn't more stressed as an issue. I mean the RealID was a mess, complete PR failure and terrible idea, but this is much more relevant to the gaming part of the matter.
Anyway Blizzard keeps on going that slippery slope they stepped on with WoW : good game bad practices.
I suppose it's OK for now, but when you measure how much free battle.net made for their image and the success of their games you really don't get how they could let such stupid limitation alter this image !
The linux requirements on their page are a bit ridiculous.. Dual Core 2.5 GHz and Ubuntu only? Jeeze... I'll wait for the fedora rpm thank you.
wtf ?
Which Linux requirements on what page ?
Starcraft II is natively playable on Ubuntu ? => *happy geek*
I though it was a total rumour !
Stupid writers reported the force in lbf instead of mN and the surface in square feet...
Just use ISO units FOR FUCK'S SAKE ! Meters, Newtons, kilograms !
You're talking about the same USA ?
The one with the Watergate ? And the 2000 presidential election ?
Have you even ever got out of the USA ?
Lived in another country ?
Do you really think a democracy is about having a nice president ?
Try Norway for a model democracy and you'll be getting closer.
And NO I'm not norvegian but I lived there for a year and I can compare and contrast.
Anyway since my bias is obvious I'll leave you with your unbiased opinions.
NO.
0.55% of the customers reported the problem BY PHONE.
Given they are iPhone users it's really no surprised : they're not very used to make calls.
Well of course there was a small return rate : they promise to fix the problem.
Now that Steve jobs solution is known (a.k.a. the condom proposition) let's see how the return rate evolves...
Wtf ?
If google fails to sell its Nexus One it's their problem.
it doesn't affect their customers, and they make no fault at all. Just bad business and marketing.
When Apple sells a faulty device it does affect their customers ! They fail to provide a working device!
IN THEIR FUCKING TERRITORIAL WATERS !
You obviously don't know the facts.
The gaza ships were cruising towards gaza, but they were still 50 miles away in the f*cking international waters. No country whatsoever would have done this and get away with it.
Moreover I certainly wouldn't have picked the USA as a model of democracy...
Just to be very clear how much rocket has the Hamas launched since say 2007 ?
How much bombs did Tsahal use in one hour of the Gaza "intervention" in 2009 ?
How many Israelis were killed ? and how many Palestinians ?
No country does this and calls itself a democracy except Iran and North Korea maybe.
These vessels were loaded with medical supplies, and there were 2 nobel peace price in the convoy for christ's sake ! Do you really think these guys would have taken part in such an operation had there been ANY chances that military material could have been in the ships ?
And the terrorists who smuggle rockets inside Gaza do it via tunnels from Egypt.
As for C. Not when you are in internationnal water and the country whose military is threatenning you calls itself a democracy.
Maybe you think that State do not have to abide by the law ? And I'm of course refering to the international law.
As for the rest your obvious troll is obvious. The video show people hitting military and military shooting at them. Is not wide angle and you see only what Tsahal wants you to see.
Now I'm no expert on journalism but I would say that a video from the very army who did the attack may not be the most objective and unbiased material to determine what exactly happened.
AFAIK nobody asked Nixon for the truth about the Watergate.
Yes of course...
Just Look at New Orleans! I mean the thing was cleared and rebuilt in what 2 days?
Oh wait...
Again if the Haitian people wasn't starving to death already BEFORE the earthquake and if they had say trucks and tractors and such maybe they could clean the "mess" and rebuild faster. Sadly they do not.
And keep in mind this is a tragedy of a magnitude so much greater than anything the USA or Europe has had to recover from since WW II.
250,000 dead people, and every fucking building destroyed. And they are cleaning it with shovels.
Are you crazy ?
A. there was a video made by Tsahal, with notes on screen (in yellow colour if I recall correctly) that was broadcast several hours after the attack.
Stewart made a whole segment about this ! It was broadcast on ALL the networks, CBS, FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC, all of them.
The video was aired more than a hundred times in 24 hours ! And it was made by Tsahal.
B.You are just repeating what Glenn Beck said the day after the video was aired 100 times, and Stewart nailed him the day after that with FACTS and video proof.
Because that's what great with TV : it's recordable. (too bad for Glenn beck)
C. Some of the bodies were found to have 6 or 7 bullets inside them. Including 2 in the legs 2 in the back and 2 in the head. That's neutralisation and then execution. It's has another name : murder.
So please if you really are going to act as some sort of PR for Tsahal at least learn to do your job correctly.
It's a tie with the Colbert Report.
But yeah it is scary.
From a French point of view (and god knows our TV news are biased crap too especially TF1) Fox News is just unbearable to watch. I was SO shocked the first time I watched the show with Glenn Beck I remember writing an article about it in my high school journal (which I did only once...)
I mean I get political partisanship even in news, totally understandable. Nobody can be totally unbiased and objective. But Fox is just plain crazy.
There is something I find even much more disturbing about the whole libertarian ideology. Actually there are several.
A. What's with liberty ? you're about responsibility and more precisely personal responsibility. What you basically want is for people to be responsible of themselves so you don't have to be responsible for them so stop using liberty as a nice package to sell your ideas and just pick a name that's relevant to your ideology.
Sure it's gonna be a tougher sell but hey !
B. The whole libertarian (again very bad name) ideology that makes people responsible for themselves is based on the fact that people can actually be held accountable for their fate, i.e. it's their damn fault !
"You don't earn enough money to eat ? well why did you accept to be paid so low ?"
Of course any 5 years old could see the flaw in their logic but apparently they can't.
C. But where I think they are the most blind and inconsistent is the following :
There are many ways for a man to do something for the society , to useful to its peers, as there are many ways for a men to get something from the society (i.e. the rest of mens)
For instance, it is true that someone who is out of job and is granted some money by the government, to live long enough to find another job, is definitely getting something out of the society. Nobody will argue with this basic argument fro the libertarian.
What's arguable is the myth, vastly and widely shared among Americans, that some people, the so-called self-made men, can out of nothing and with no help whatsoever from the society become immensely rich and do a lot for the society.
I mean if you listen to some people these guys are better than Jesus Christ ! They everything, never were they helped and deserve everything they have because they got it with their own two hands.
I call this bullshit : the self-made man got from society much more than anyone else. He got a LOT of money, he got people who worked for him, he got subsidies, he took advantage of political decisions, market trends, fashion, and tens of other social events that are the result of work and actions done by others. There wouldn't be any bill gates without those who invented the computer, the people who worked for him, the people who bought the microsoft products, the investors, the media, the economical trend that made it possible for people to spend money on computers because they had bigger revenue, the cultural trend etc...
This myth that the only recipients of help from the society are the poor and the weak is just crazy.
Are you actually putting Argentina and North Korea in the same bag ?
And more importantly are you really saying that ANYONE on earth actually thinks that the Cuban or North Korean government are, and again I quote you, ideals ?
Because I can tell you I hang around with some nasty fuck** lefty commies who (apparently) would scare the sh*t out of you. They're really extreme on some issues, and don't get them started on private property and legacy and all.
But never EVER would any of them call Cuba an ideal.
Stop trying to fight your dad's war, because :
A. it's over, he won it so just stop.
B. He was wrong and even he knows it now so maybe it's time to put things back in perspective a little and accept the fact life is not so easy Disney can make a realistic picture of it in a 2 hours movie.
AFAIK this technique has been widely used in news media all over the world for a long time.
..) the smartest but you will for sure persuade the widest audience.
:[insert any anti Nokia/whatever FUD form a weird rumour site in Kazakhstan]
Say whatever crap you want to persuade people about, and please don't forget to include some FUD, that's usually very effective.
Then let the commie/liberal/gay/hippie/islamic others biased media say you're saying crap and have no argument. Let they rigorously demonstrate you were wrong and BINGO.
You might not convince (actually since you have no arguments you cannot convince
What's important is to talk FIRST.
I've seen this zillions of time on Engadget : Breaking News
And then 3 hours later : Updated : actually it was complete bullshit ! YAY !
Of course the updated part goes into the title, the "complete bullshit" mention comes at the end of the article or "after the break".
for most men in our society, having female companionship is very expensive: $20,000 diamond rings, $100,000 weddings
"Most people" don't have $100,000 weddings, some because they don't want to (that would be me for example) but "most" because they cannot afford it.
:)
Notice how when I use most I actually mean the vast majority of the group (i.e. the acual meaning of most) whereas when you use most you refer to some sub-group (that amount for very little apparently) that probably look a lot like you.
Don't take it too personally I'm not trying to bash but honestly if most Americans could afford $100,000 weddings your country would be in much better shape.
Get a grip on reality
It's always the same argument.
... Windows itself and then its only benefit would be to be free, BUT since the people who MAKE the Linux distribution are trying to innovate they won't copy/paste an OS just to get new users.
You cannot (try to) demonstrate the superiority of Windows over any Linux distro by simply saying people won't be able to do exactly like in windows and get the same thing.
Of course they can't : IT'S A DIFFERENT OS !
If this was possible than the aforementioned Linux distribution would be
What's amazing (and terrible) about your argument is that you make all this innovation sound like a BAD thing...
Bottom line is : You can playback DVD on Ubuntu by installing ONE package that is proposed at the first start-up, and Rhythmbox is pretty similar to itunes and does a great job as an easy to use music player/library.
None and I never even owned a Symbian smartphone, although I got to use several for a long time, since my father and some friends have one.
I own a Blackberry and to show how much Not a fanboy I am I will tell you this : in 5 years blackberry will be dead that's for sure.
Symbian offers every feature Android offers, plus all the features iOS offers that Android doesn't and then all the features BB OS offers.
Tell me exactly what can you do on iOS, Android, or WebOS or whatever that you can't do on Symbian?
And please don't say jailbreak.
Oh my god he said moron let's mod him flamebait !
Ty.
Getting money out of people using leverage you should have.
The mafia extorted money from the shop owners in the 30s, using leverage it got from the monopoly of the usage of strengh it had taken from the state authority (the police which was unable to fight the aforementioned mafia)
MPEG LA will extort money out of us and any video content provider/creator using leverage it will have gotten from abusive patents and technological monopoly reached through lobbying.
You, moronically, make it sounds like it is a law of nature where in fact it is just the the result of the pre-existence of h.264.
This is definitely something you should take into consideration when you are trying to determine which codec is best intrinsically.