What's interesting is that the only USians with the balls to condemn an ancient barbaric religion are members of another one!
The rest of America is gutless, and brainwashed that superstition should be respected. Fuck that.
Modern culture EVOLVED by destroying backward cultures, and should seek to improve the breed by competing. Everything secular USians profess to hate about Christianity is vastly worse in Muslim societies.
Attacking all superstition is man's duty to the human race.
"I don't really mind if people think poorly of NJ; it keeps people from overcrowding the good parts of the state. "
The brutal taxes and restrictive laws help even more, which is why leaving NJ for freer, less expensive areas to live in is commonplace. The property taxes on a home in Jersey would pay a mortgage elsewhere.
That said, Jersey has some beautiful old towns and semi-rural areas, but you need to be wealthy to live there. Not being wealthy, I GTFO. (BTW the Carolinas look like Jersey did decades ago, and are vastly cheaper to live and retire in.)
A "Snooki" is a delightful woman from a documentary about typical New Jersey residents, which should be fascinating to Slashdot readers who can't get enough such news from geek sites like TMZ. I commend the posting of this informative story.
Prenuptial agreements are good enough for royalty, but Joe Dumbshit isn't smart enough to get one.
"especially lower status men." who are often less educated, and more likely to throw a ring on the first thing that gives them a shot of leg.
BTW, you can't get divorced if you don't get married, so unless your superstition says you need a license to fuck, shack up for several years first.
"The fact that you voluntarily entered the marriage and are now metaphorically laying down in the bed you made is not something most Americans will accept."
"My wife and I live in NYC and we've estimated that for a husband and wife to live comfortably here (including going out to dinner once a week, belonging to a gym, being able to leave the city every other weekend, etc) you have to make around a combined income of $300k."
That's why I escaped North Jersey. I can do the same thing easily in South Carolina for under 40K/year, and I can't even imagine being able to afford six acres in NYC.
Not really. One is absolved of moral obligation to enemies if ones cause is just. It is reasonable to use all means to attack enemies.
If one dislikes the king, shorten his neck. If one prefers the king, shorten the necks of the rebels. Last group standing wins. Impossible to cheat when there are no rules except that "rules mean losing".
"He pissed off the United States, so any and all allegations against him are automatically baseless? By those standards, all anti-US terrorists in US history are automatically innocent."
Yes. Is that in the slightest surprising?
Politics is war between cultures and belief systems, not a search for truth or the best way to do things. Damage to ones enemies is literally delectable, and to motivate the masses must be seen as righteous. People don't make war for intellectual constructs, by and large. What men evolved to crave is Jihad, Crusade, Lebensraum, and power.
PFC Attention Whore _must_ have pure motivation for bulk document leakage, because he furthers a cause his backers find affirming. Sarah Palin _must_ be the maternal goddess of the Tea Party because she furthers a cause her supporters find affirming. That's how most people work.
"Frankly, I believe that computers make fewer mistakes than humans, so I would in fact prefer a plane with a single (or no) human pilots."
I've got 26 years as a tactical aircraft avionics tech, engine weenie, and crew chief, from manual control (Bronco) to hydraulically-boosted and electronically supplemented flight controls (Phantom) to excellent fly-by-wire flight controls (F-16 A/B/C/D) and in my experienced opinion... FUCK THAT NONSENSE! We aren't there yet for passenger applications. UAVs and drones are still early in their development, let alone autonomous systems.
Pilots fuck up, systems fuck up, and one can compensate for the other which is a good reason to have both.
One needs skills that are different enough not to be smashed by the same wave of outsourcing.
They can be learnt as hobby that overlaps a portable trade (auto or truck mechanic, weldor, electronic service tech) or acquired through continuing education (most any field you like, for what one enjoys one is more likely to be good at). Interest in things geekish can translate into different jobs, particularly if one has enthusiasm for electronics.
While not a programmer, I knew I'd not be an aircraft mechanic after retiring from the USAF unless I wanted to move. My hobbies got me my subsequent jobs. I'm a gearhead, so I fixed used cars for a lot. Continuing education (a welding course) coupled with broad gearhead hobby background got me into working at a community college.
Hobbies can complement ones job, or be drastically different, but if all or most of them have job counterparts you are ahead of the game.
While you have a job, consider what else you might like to do, then learn something about doing it. You might find a friend who has a related business and help him/her out to test the water. Everyone is different, but eagerness to explore and learn new skills is the key.
"I thought Teabaggers were all for restoring the rights given by the constitution, regardless as to whether what's being said doesn't agree with their worldview?"
That would conflict with being the same Religious Right who Karl Rove so brilliantly exploited in the past. Rove is mostly out of the current game, but it's being played by very capable (and rich) people.
Unwitting and very earnest sock puppets are still sock puppets:
"CS Bachelor's degree and 20 years experience mean jack shit in this economy."
What OTHER skills did you invest time and effort in acquiring during those two decades?
Specialization is wonderful when specialists are in demand, less so when that demand drives a bunch of people to flood the labor market for that specialty, even less so when (normal, periodic) economic cycles shrink that market.
Great Depression lesson from the Greatest Generation: Good times are nice, but if you don't use those times to carefully and thoroughly prepare yourself for the ______INEVITABLE________ Bad Times, it's yo' ass! Use what you learn now to prepare for when it happens again, and again, and again. It _will_ happen, there is no choice.
If the US gets Autobahns, I'm fine with that as long as German licensing standards, DUI rules, and related laws go with it.;)
US drivers are often ignorant, incompetent, and their drivers license tests meant nothing. This won't change in our lifetimes and there is no support for making things any different than they are.
Consider this: If (many) guys would fuck ugly broads and not give a shit, it is reasonable the (many) women would do the same thing.
Terms like "I went hoggin' last night!" etc. didn't come from nowhere. I would certainly fuck female losers for money (were I not happily married) since as a single guy I often tapped expendable women.
So what? A guy shouldn't give a damn about that, nor should a woman. Sex is like language. It can express love, express lust, entertain, or mean nothing at all. The porn "blooper" shots of utterly bored performers are hilarious, and revealing.
"I don't understand; how does theming your window manager help against this? "
It doesn't.
If Windows users cared about avoiding these things, they'd browse using a virtual browser appliance, or browse using a second OS in a VM.
Portable VirtualBox allows fun things like.rar'ing a backup copy of a complete VM plus the software to run it, so if your VM is compromised you can simply delete it and extract a fresh copy.
"Funny how it was capitalism that imploded recently, not socialism."
Periodic recessions and depressions (like hurricanse) are normal, though until more people understand that fewer will be ready.
Vietnam succeeds as it becomes more capitalist, ditto China.
Communism is good for one thing, destroying rotted systems that deserve to die. It has been a TRANSITIONAL system, mainly because its economics. Communism freed China from foreign domination as it did Viet Nam.
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What's interesting is that the only USians with the balls to condemn an ancient barbaric religion are members of another one!
The rest of America is gutless, and brainwashed that superstition should be respected. Fuck that.
Modern culture EVOLVED by destroying backward cultures, and should seek to improve the breed by competing. Everything secular USians profess to hate about Christianity is vastly worse in Muslim societies.
Attacking all superstition is man's duty to the human race.
"I don't really mind if people think poorly of NJ; it keeps people from overcrowding the good parts of the state. "
The brutal taxes and restrictive laws help even more, which is why leaving NJ for freer, less expensive areas to live in is commonplace. The property taxes on a home in Jersey would pay a mortgage elsewhere.
That said, Jersey has some beautiful old towns and semi-rural areas, but you need to be wealthy to live there. Not being wealthy, I GTFO. (BTW the Carolinas look like Jersey did decades ago, and are vastly cheaper to live and retire in.)
Nothing else is likely to work, and the internet negates most practical law enforcement,
A "Snooki" is a delightful woman from a documentary about typical New Jersey residents, which should be fascinating to Slashdot readers who can't get enough such news from geek sites like TMZ. I commend the posting of this informative story.
Prenuptial agreements are good enough for royalty, but Joe Dumbshit isn't smart enough to get one.
"especially lower status men." who are often less educated, and more likely to throw a ring on the first thing that gives them a shot of leg.
BTW, you can't get divorced if you don't get married, so unless your superstition says you need a license to fuck, shack up for several years first.
"The fact that you voluntarily entered the marriage and are now metaphorically laying down in the bed you made is not something most Americans will accept."
If you're dumb, you'd better be tough. :)
"My wife and I live in NYC and we've estimated that for a husband and wife to live comfortably here (including going out to dinner once a week, belonging to a gym, being able to leave the city every other weekend, etc) you have to make around a combined income of $300k."
That's why I escaped North Jersey. I can do the same thing easily in South Carolina for under 40K/year, and I can't even imagine being able to afford six acres in NYC.
Heads up for combat soldiers family and friends, get a grip. Stress is one thing, wigging out is another and helps no one.
Plenty of combat soldiers/Marines/airmen game in-theater! Deployments have loooooong, boring stretches and gaming is a popular distraction.
"Am I only the one who doesn't need a pat on the back every 5 minutes in order to enjoy something or derive satisfaction from it?"
You might be, but either way there is sweet, sweet money to be made in backpatting.
"Tough choice."
Not really. One is absolved of moral obligation to enemies if ones cause is just. It is reasonable to use all means to attack enemies.
If one dislikes the king, shorten his neck. If one prefers the king, shorten the necks of the rebels. Last group standing wins. Impossible to cheat when there are no rules except that "rules mean losing".
Troll, eh?
I defy whoever modded the post down to post a reasonable counter-argument instead.
"He pissed off the United States, so any and all allegations against him are automatically baseless? By those standards, all anti-US terrorists in US history are automatically innocent."
Yes. Is that in the slightest surprising?
Politics is war between cultures and belief systems, not a search for truth or the best way to do things. Damage to ones enemies is literally delectable, and to motivate the masses must be seen as righteous. People don't make war for intellectual constructs, by and large. What men evolved to crave is Jihad, Crusade, Lebensraum, and power.
PFC Attention Whore _must_ have pure motivation for bulk document leakage, because he furthers a cause his backers find affirming. Sarah Palin _must_ be the maternal goddess of the Tea Party because she furthers a cause her supporters find affirming. That's how most people work.
"Frankly, I believe that computers make fewer mistakes than humans, so I would in fact prefer a plane with a single (or no) human pilots."
I've got 26 years as a tactical aircraft avionics tech, engine weenie, and crew chief, from manual control (Bronco) to hydraulically-boosted and electronically supplemented flight controls (Phantom) to excellent fly-by-wire flight controls (F-16 A/B/C/D) and in my experienced opinion...
FUCK THAT NONSENSE! We aren't there yet for passenger applications. UAVs and drones are still early in their development, let alone autonomous systems.
Pilots fuck up, systems fuck up, and one can compensate for the other which is a good reason to have both.
One needs skills that are different enough not to be smashed by the same wave of outsourcing.
They can be learnt as hobby that overlaps a portable trade (auto or truck mechanic, weldor, electronic service tech) or acquired through continuing education (most any field you like, for what one enjoys one is more likely to be good at). Interest in things geekish can translate into different jobs, particularly if one has enthusiasm for electronics.
While not a programmer, I knew I'd not be an aircraft mechanic after retiring from the USAF unless I wanted to move. My hobbies got me my subsequent jobs. I'm a gearhead, so I fixed used cars for a lot. Continuing education (a welding course) coupled with broad gearhead hobby background got me into working at a community college.
Hobbies can complement ones job, or be drastically different, but if all or most of them have job counterparts you are ahead of the game.
While you have a job, consider what else you might like to do, then learn something about doing it. You might find a friend who has a related business and help him/her out to test the water. Everyone is different, but eagerness to explore and learn new skills is the key.
"The problem is that wiring up 80% of the country would create a thriving local economy and enable inexpensive communication"
Citation very much needed. The developed world has its POTS infrastructure long paid for and takes it for granted.
"I thought Teabaggers were all for restoring the rights given by the constitution, regardless as to whether what's being said doesn't agree with their worldview?"
That would conflict with being the same Religious Right who Karl Rove so brilliantly exploited in the past. Rove is mostly out of the current game, but it's being played by very capable (and rich) people.
Unwitting and very earnest sock puppets are still sock puppets:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
"They're looking for something they can airdrop on refugees."
Ouch.
"CS Bachelor's degree and 20 years experience mean jack shit in this economy."
What OTHER skills did you invest time and effort in acquiring during those two decades?
Specialization is wonderful when specialists are in demand, less so when that demand drives a bunch of people to flood the labor market for that specialty, even less so when (normal, periodic) economic cycles shrink that market.
Great Depression lesson from the Greatest Generation:
Good times are nice, but if you don't use those times to carefully and thoroughly prepare yourself for the ______INEVITABLE________ Bad Times, it's yo' ass! Use what you learn now to prepare for when it happens again, and again, and again. It _will_ happen, there is no choice.
If the US gets Autobahns, I'm fine with that as long as German licensing standards, DUI rules, and related laws go with it. ;)
US drivers are often ignorant, incompetent, and their drivers license tests meant nothing. This won't change in our lifetimes and there is no support for making things any different than they are.
Time for a social networking app to artificially improve "scores" based on social networking.
I'm friends with that guy to bring him to Jesus. :)
Consider this:
If (many) guys would fuck ugly broads and not give a shit, it is reasonable the (many) women would do the same thing.
Terms like "I went hoggin' last night!" etc. didn't come from nowhere. I would certainly fuck female losers for money (were I not happily married)
since as a single guy I often tapped expendable women.
So what? A guy shouldn't give a damn about that, nor should a woman. Sex is like language. It can express love, express lust, entertain, or mean nothing at all. The porn "blooper" shots of utterly bored performers are hilarious, and revealing.
"I don't understand; how does theming your window manager help against this? "
It doesn't.
If Windows users cared about avoiding these things, they'd browse using a virtual browser appliance, or browse using a second OS in a VM.
Portable VirtualBox allows fun things like .rar'ing a backup copy of a complete VM plus the software to run it, so if your VM is compromised you can simply delete it and extract a fresh copy.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/portable-virtualbox.html
Democrats generate plenty of lulz.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-14-2010/alvin-greene-wins-south-carolina-primary
"No, they're news. It's just that no matter which side of the aisle you're on, they're bad news."
They are modern Christian Conservatism in all its glory, and proud to claim it. Take a good, long look.
"Funny how it was capitalism that imploded recently, not socialism."
Periodic recessions and depressions (like hurricanse) are normal, though until more people understand that fewer will be ready.
Vietnam succeeds as it becomes more capitalist, ditto China.
Communism is good for one thing, destroying rotted systems that deserve to die. It has been a TRANSITIONAL system, mainly because its economics.
Communism freed China from foreign domination as it did Viet Nam.
Citation needed. Yes, really.