"How is forcing all the students to use Macs in a world dominated by windows PCs preparing them for reality?
These people are fucking stupid."
Not necessarily. The students can learn to use a computer while being less distracted by the problems and distractions (gaming, which while fun is also a waste of time) of Windows machines. They'll expect computers that WORK, and don't get bogged down by Winrot.
The standard school "computer" when I was growing up was a slide rule. I adapted to other systems easily enough.:)
"But there's been enough wiggle room in the phrasing for the enemies of liberty to exploit for the last 220+ years."
There is not "wiggle room". There is the lie that there is "wiggle room", which is very different.
"Militia" and "rights" had specific meanings at the time of writing, when the revolutionaries understood very well that citizens might have to shoot and kill their government. Those revolutionaries had done just that, with real muskets shooting real lead balls.
Let's always keep in mind that the freedom we enjoy (and many of us want to give away) was secured by people who. at risk of their lives, goods, and liberty, KILLED:
Tax collectors. Government officials. Tories. British soldiery. Hessian mercs. Whoever else got in the way.
That modern illiterates think "militia" means something different in the context of the Constitution than what it meant at time of writing is a fault of their _willful_and_wanton_ignorance_.
The Founders weren't teabaggers or rabid Bible Thumpers in the modern "crazed white trash" sense, they were Revolutionaries who built a system embedding the CAPABILITY of REVOLT so that it is available as a last resort.
That comment reminds me of the the folks bitching about GLCM (Ground Launched Cruise Missiles) back in the '80s. (They were pretty much Soviet stooges who objected to NATO being able to shoot back in the very real possibility of tactical nuclear combat.)
Of course they quite ignored ALCM (Air Launched Cruise Missiles) so when GLCM went away they were pleased, yet little of value was lost. Ranting was more important than understanding.
Uncle Sugar doesn't particularly need drones. The same equipment fits nicely on manned aircraft.
"I'm sorry to hear that the Star Wars kid decided to be a blood sucking lawyer."
Yep, they're all evil until YOU need one to help you navigate the law, or until the EFF uses them to fight for your rights. Lawyers don't sue, PLAINTIFFS sue.
Large trucks are comfortable, allow the operator to see over traffic, and are easy for tall (and fat) people to enter and exit. Room is nice to have, while speed and agility don't matter much when commuting.
I've had plenty of vehicles, and choose to commute in a truck because the road I take is travelled by idiots who wreck, and wreck often.
I'd rather ride my FXR or BMW R90/6, but will pass on being squozen between non-driving morons. Given the tendency of these fucktards to avoid my intimidating wreckers. I'm tempted to add a railroad rail-reinforced bumper to my F150 commuter truck too.
"I'm a healthy adult and a trial and/or jail would traumatize me too, especially since I would know that it's going to be a show trial. Even if I were found not guilty of 90% of the counts, they'd still throw me in jail for ten years for 'failure to appear' or something because they got their asses handed to them in the security department."
Me as well, which motivates me not to fuck with stuff that does not BELONG to me.
"It's like all the people who pointed at the school buses after Katrina and said "Why didn't they just put people in buses and drove them out?" Where exactly would they have been put? Out in a pasture somewhere?"
That would have worked, had the pasture been out of hurricane reange and near useful things like major roads and/or a military base.
Getting aid to people would have been easier had they been dispersed and accessible instead of concentrated in the disaster area!
"3) From a conspiracy theory perspective, this is absolute proof the USGovt has proof of aliens and UFOs. I suppose that distracts them from the real conspiracies, but its not much of a win."
It can't hurt! After all, aliens and UFOs are the ideal misdirection because people so hornily, desperately want to BELIEVE in them.
BTW, I was amused when we got former F-117 maintainers in our squadron after the program ceased to be Black. They told us that "UFO" sightings were common when they flew, which was of course at night. Better the chumps lick up this alien fetish (they'll react to this post as an attempt at misdirecting THEM) and we keep the night sky a mystery.
"It is a conspiracy to provide all of the chinese single men with sterile (feminized men) who look like women, can make love like women, and are developed like women minus the actual female reproductive organs."
I was multitasking and didn't catch the Jewish nic (I don't care for your superstition either), but the statements still apply. You can't escape the actions of your co-religionists because religion is a political movement.
Muslims in the street don't matter, their masters and the societies they build do. I defy you to find a Muslim country as free as most European countries or the US.
Your history doesn't matter because it is as dead as the pyramids. You have nothing to be proud of now, and are trapped longing for a dead, dead past.
YOUR countries prove my point. YOUR governments,e chosen and run by Muslims, prove my point. I've visited the wealthiest and best societies your superstition has ever produced, in KSA, the Emirates, Kuwait, and Turkey. I've done this for many years, on a very friendly basis (I have social skills, and do very smooth anti-Zionist rants that go over well.)
I'm not impressed.
Your superstition doesn't promote personal freedom. I DEMAND personal freedom and don't give a shit about someone's imaginary friend telling them they must have theocracy. Everyday Muslims are quite like everyday Communists. To be is to lend tacit support. To support Islam is to support theocracy (you don't get a choice, as much more faithful members will remind you), to support the seemless blend of religion and state, and thus to empower Jihadists to run your lives. That's why Iran got what it got after the Revolution. Islam, like Communism, ensure "Bolshevists" will take over eventually. Theory doesn't mean shit when your whole construct is designed to always be jacked by extremists.
Being a Muslim is to support Islam, therefore the individual character _does not matter_ because that individual still supports the toxic mass movement.
"Islam has its own foundational principles of modern civilization. That these foundational principles don't happen to match your own is an issue of cultural discourse, not absolutist violence. For that matter, some of the vaunted Enlightenment is actually predicated on learning imported from the Muslim world."
Principles don't matter, anywhere. Principles are not more than propaganda. PRACTICE is EVERTYTHING because that is what has effect. The Enlightenment is over, all that old shit doesn't matter HERE, NOW, which is where we are. Muslim government is Iran, Saudi Arabia, and similar areas. FAITHFUL religionists cannot be anything but primitive fundamentalists because faith equals fidelity to the ancient tribal myths and teachings.
Stripped of the god nonsense, Islam is essentially violent Pan-Arabism in a format easily marketed to the unsophisticated. It is politics, and may be opposed as any other mass movement like Maoism. Religionists want religion to get some special pass so they don't need to disicuss the essence of desert superstition, which is a bunch of tribesmen stabbing/hacking/raping/killing each other while invoking their imaginary friends.
My utter contempt for _all_ superstition and for all religious people doesn't exclude the fact Islam is the most currently toxic superstition. History is worthy of study, but the current problem is the current problem. Fortunately, Muslims kill more of each other in schismatic squabbles than they do of anyone else.
There is no need to be religious (though there is plenty of convenience in professing faith so the religious don't kill you).
Not only is Ataturk dead, the Turks are turning Jihadist, so now we'll have Taliban with a taste for dead Kurd (erm, "Mountain Turks"). The veneer of modern civilization is peeling off (granted, the glue never dried) and they are revealing their true Muslim character.
Add it to the list of countries Israel should nuke when götterdämmerung comes.
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"How is forcing all the students to use Macs in a world dominated by windows PCs preparing them for reality?
These people are fucking stupid."
Not necessarily. The students can learn to use a computer while being less distracted by the problems and distractions (gaming, which while fun is also a waste of time) of Windows machines. They'll expect computers that WORK, and don't get bogged down by Winrot.
The standard school "computer" when I was growing up was a slide rule. I adapted to other systems easily enough. :)
"But there's been enough wiggle room in the phrasing for the enemies of liberty to exploit for the last 220+ years."
There is not "wiggle room". There is the lie that there is "wiggle room", which is very different.
"Militia" and "rights" had specific meanings at the time of writing, when the revolutionaries understood very well that citizens might have to shoot and kill their government. Those revolutionaries had done just that, with real muskets shooting real lead balls.
Let's always keep in mind that the freedom we enjoy (and many of us want to give away) was secured by people who. at risk of their lives, goods, and liberty, KILLED:
Tax collectors.
Government officials.
Tories.
British soldiery.
Hessian mercs.
Whoever else got in the way.
That modern illiterates think "militia" means something different in the context of the Constitution than what it meant at time of writing is a fault of their _willful_and_wanton_ignorance_.
The Founders weren't teabaggers or rabid Bible Thumpers in the modern "crazed white trash" sense, they were Revolutionaries who built a system embedding the CAPABILITY of REVOLT so that it is available as a last resort.
I used the Mozilla Firefox Google search page instead, which got rid of the stupid backgrounds (may whoever chose to run them die of crotch rot).
I also posted that solution as an answer anywhere I got the opportunity. Might as well promote Firefox while people are suffering in IE. :)
"I like your products, Microsoft...but I still abhor your business practices."
Not enough to stop using their software, hence not enough to matter.
"And do you accept that the Safari browser on the iOS devices has the right to purge all web ads and replace them with Apple ads"
No, and I don't buy Apple products.
It's called "voting with my wallet".
"Only now they're not quite so goddamn funny."
That comment reminds me of the the folks bitching about GLCM (Ground Launched Cruise Missiles) back in the '80s. (They were pretty much Soviet stooges who objected to NATO being able to shoot back in the very real possibility of tactical nuclear combat.)
Of course they quite ignored ALCM (Air Launched Cruise Missiles) so when GLCM went away they were pleased, yet little of value was lost. Ranting was more important than understanding.
Uncle Sugar doesn't particularly need drones. The same equipment fits nicely on manned aircraft.
"I'm sorry to hear that the Star Wars kid decided to be a blood sucking lawyer."
Yep, they're all evil until YOU need one to help you navigate the law, or until the EFF uses them to fight for your rights.
Lawyers don't sue, PLAINTIFFS sue.
"So I took it back to Best Buy "
I'd post AC too if were I admitting that. Eeew.
Large trucks are comfortable, allow the operator to see over traffic, and are easy for tall (and fat) people to enter and exit.
Room is nice to have, while speed and agility don't matter much when commuting.
I've had plenty of vehicles, and choose to commute in a truck because the road I take is travelled by idiots who wreck, and wreck often.
I'd rather ride my FXR or BMW R90/6, but will pass on being squozen between non-driving morons. Given the tendency of these fucktards to avoid my intimidating wreckers. I'm tempted to add a railroad rail-reinforced bumper to my F150 commuter truck too.
"I'm a healthy adult and a trial and/or jail would traumatize me too, especially since I would know that it's going to be a show trial. Even if I were found not guilty of 90% of the counts, they'd still throw me in jail for ten years for 'failure to appear' or something because they got their asses handed to them in the security department."
Me as well, which motivates me not to fuck with stuff that does not BELONG to me.
"It's like all the people who pointed at the school buses after Katrina and said "Why didn't they just put people in buses and drove them out?" Where exactly would they have been put? Out in a pasture somewhere?"
That would have worked, had the pasture been out of hurricane reange and near useful things like major roads and/or a military base.
Getting aid to people would have been easier had they been dispersed and accessible instead of concentrated in the disaster area!
He acted UPON objects in the US, remotely FROM England. Therefore, the crimes were committed in the US, as they would be if he shot across the border.
He acted UPON hardware located in the US. He was reaching FROM the UK to have physical effect on objects in the US.
Nice try though!
"3) From a conspiracy theory perspective, this is absolute proof the USGovt has proof of aliens and UFOs. I suppose that distracts them from the real conspiracies, but its not much of a win."
It can't hurt! After all, aliens and UFOs are the ideal misdirection because people so hornily, desperately want to BELIEVE in them.
BTW, I was amused when we got former F-117 maintainers in our squadron after the program ceased to be Black. They told us that "UFO" sightings were common when they flew, which was of course at night. Better the chumps lick up this alien fetish (they'll react to this post as an attempt at misdirecting THEM) and we keep the night sky a mystery.
Since eMachines had it on their (yuck) 366 Celeron boxes, I doubt cost was an issue!
Most people don't KNOW there is a BIOS.
"It is a conspiracy to provide all of the chinese single men with sterile (feminized men) who look like women, can make love like women, and are developed like women minus the actual female reproductive organs."
No, that's called "Thailand". (runs)
"Perhaps Symantec needs to update its Ghost to run on Linux, for example"
Linux runs fine, who needs Ghost?
That will work sometimes if done correctly, the observers will become appropriately skeptical, and the cycle will begin anew.
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I was multitasking and didn't catch the Jewish nic (I don't care for your superstition either), but the statements still apply. You can't escape the actions of your co-religionists because religion is a political movement.
Muslims in the street don't matter, their masters and the societies they build do. I defy you to find a Muslim country as free as most European countries or the US.
Your history doesn't matter because it is as dead as the pyramids. You have nothing to be proud of now, and are trapped longing for a dead, dead past.
YOUR countries prove my point. YOUR governments,e chosen and run by Muslims, prove my point. I've visited the wealthiest and best societies your superstition has ever produced, in KSA, the Emirates, Kuwait, and Turkey. I've done this for many years, on a very friendly basis (I have social skills, and do very smooth anti-Zionist rants that go over well.)
I'm not impressed.
Your superstition doesn't promote personal freedom. I DEMAND personal freedom and don't give a shit about someone's imaginary friend telling them they must have theocracy. Everyday Muslims are quite like everyday Communists. To be is to lend tacit support. To support Islam is to support theocracy (you don't get a choice, as much more faithful members will remind you), to support the seemless blend of religion and state, and thus to empower Jihadists to run your lives. That's why Iran got what it got after the Revolution. Islam, like Communism, ensure "Bolshevists" will take over eventually. Theory doesn't mean shit when your whole construct is designed to always be jacked by extremists.
Being a Muslim is to support Islam, therefore the individual character _does not matter_ because that individual still supports the toxic mass movement.
"Islam has its own foundational principles of modern civilization. That these foundational principles don't happen to match your own is an issue of cultural discourse, not absolutist violence. For that matter, some of the vaunted Enlightenment is actually predicated on learning imported from the Muslim world."
Principles don't matter, anywhere. Principles are not more than propaganda. PRACTICE is EVERTYTHING because that is what has effect. The Enlightenment is over, all that old shit doesn't matter HERE, NOW, which is where we are. Muslim government is Iran, Saudi Arabia, and similar areas. FAITHFUL religionists cannot be anything but primitive fundamentalists because faith equals fidelity to the ancient tribal myths and teachings.
Stripped of the god nonsense, Islam is essentially violent Pan-Arabism in a format easily marketed to the unsophisticated. It is politics, and may be opposed as any other mass movement like Maoism. Religionists want religion to get some special pass so they don't need to disicuss the essence of desert superstition, which is a bunch of tribesmen stabbing/hacking/raping/killing each other while invoking their imaginary friends.
My utter contempt for _all_ superstition and for all religious people doesn't exclude the fact Islam is the most currently toxic superstition. History is worthy of study, but the current problem is the current problem. Fortunately, Muslims kill more of each other in schismatic squabbles than they do of anyone else.
There is no need to be religious (though there is plenty of convenience in professing faith so the religious don't kill you).
"It's about time that Turkey was expelled from NATO. It's turning into a fascist religiously controlled state at an alarming rate."
Leave it in NATO, since Jihadists still hate Commies (Russia still dreams Soviet dreams), but never let it into the European Union.
No Muslim country belongs there (unless Europeans decide they hate their own culture).
Not only is Ataturk dead, the Turks are turning Jihadist, so now we'll have Taliban with a taste for dead Kurd (erm, "Mountain Turks").
The veneer of modern civilization is peeling off (granted, the glue never dried) and they are revealing their true Muslim character.
Add it to the list of countries Israel should nuke when götterdämmerung comes.