""Buy American" is essentially a racist statement."
Not unless you wrote your own special dictionary.
"You're implying that the value of an American is higher than that of someone from another country by saying that it's better to protect industries in this country to protect the jobs. At some point, we've got to start calling out "Buy American" for the racist statement that it is."
Racism is NOT Nationalism. Those words do not mean the same thing. In any event America is multi-racial and multi-ethnic, in case you didn't notice.
Valuing one's own group, whose actions benefit oneself, is logical. Even if one values others as one values oneself, there is still no reason to renounce all advantage to people who are not "better" than oneself.
"There's another part of me that just wants to one up you by claiming to work somewhere that they required me to personally kill a kitten before every check-in."
The can-crusher next to the time clock works for me.
"Mrao?" Ka-chunk! "Mrao?" Ka-chunk! "I can has survival?" Ka-chunk!
"I discovered that a large percentage of my fellow countrymen are ignorant, illogical, paranoid, quasi-literate, parochial, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual believers in UFOs."
"Yeah, those WW2 games are offensive too. That's why there are so many of them that hardly anyone complains about. Let's all stop playing FPSs set in a warzone, and make it all happen in a magic land with evil ponies that shoot lasers from their mouth."
Chess is pretty nasty also, with pawns being as expendable as a Red Shirt on Star Trek.
"But co2 legislation lets them pass idiotic laws. How about we tax the countries PROFITING from co2 production, instead of the ones suffering from it ? Tax the oil producing states, leave the rest alone."
Thus raising the cost of domestic oil which is passed on to the consumer, and making foreign oil more attractive. Nice.
"Gimp saves a lot of people the bother of either paying money or committing copyright infringement to do 97% of image manipulation."
Who the hell besides a few zealots gives a flying fuck about copyright infringement for private use? For example, Adobe gains marketshare by "chumming" to build a user base, and businesses gain users that are familiar with the product. (Zealots, earnest little bitches that they are, carry flamethrowers so I'll don my flamesuit.)
Slowly, for the short bus crew: User just want to get shit done with standard tools so they can benefit from base of users who get shit done with standard tools and can exchange stuffs smoothly with other users of standard tools.
LOTD should have the goal of Embracing and Extending by running as much WINDOWS software as possible so as to get the camels nose under the tent.
He was tried by Iraqis, and obviously going to be killed as payback for those he killed. The trial was a mere gesture and of trivial importance. He should have gotten the same treatment as Mussolini, but Iraqis didn't get him first. There is no reason to bother with the rituals of law and mercy with such enemies.
"What makes you think they don't already or that the damage to those surroundings is more important than our ability to keep the sea lanes open in the next shooting war?"
There will be no naval conflict, for the current Administration will bring us peace in our time, peace with honor, and permanent global love.
As for the proliferation of small, inexpensive, quiet diesel submarines, that couldn't possibly cause a problem...
"There are other, actually more effective, ways to kill people which do not mutilate the corpses"
Not other than (some) chemical warfare agents, for all practical purposes. Rapiers are out of fashion these days.
Why is collateral corpse crisping a concern, especially when ambient heat will have them ripe quite shortly?
Shooty and explody munitions do plenty of damage, although most US media don't show it and take care to crop it out of photos other media run uncensored.
Compare Germany after WW1 (no civilian destruction that mattered) and after WWII, when the Germans became remarkably pacific (as did the Japs).
Killing "designated casualties"/uniformed forces does not impose a cost upon the civilian population. Burning their world down around their ears (and destroying their soldiery) makes an effective point.
Bombing civilians worked VERY well in the war against Serbia. The Serb forces suffered minimal losses because they dispersed, decoyed, and moved often. Their infrastructure couldn't move and was blasted, imposing enough suffering that they gave up without much resistance.
"Usually I see cars outfitted with these devices (either remotely disabled, or requiring the car's driver to enter a PIN every week to month until payments are done) sold by used car dealers who are dealing with people with frighteningly bad credit histories."
The lot I help out at buys cheap cars at auctions, some of which had been repo'ed with the help of these little gizmos.
Dealers who deal with people with no credit often have a down payment that covers what they have in the car, so if the customer smashes it they still win. The guy I help out doesn't even check history or require full coverage insurance! He makes a very nice profit, sells vehicles at reasonable prices, and while he repos some he doesn't get excited about it because it isn't required for him to do well. The downturn may have hurt NEW car sales, but he does fine.
"What's next, are you gonna tell us your girlfriend is also a Linux geek who can set up an encrypted Debian-based RAID cluster while having sex with you in her very own basement?"
"Most sensible countries either got rid of blasphemy laws or never had them."
Sensible countries are not Islamic, and before modding this down DO bother to actually compare how freely one may criticize religion in free countries versus Muslim countries.
Modern man must be free to attack superstition and the barbarians who believe in it.
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"Command Line Interface Terrorism?"
You are my Acronym God.
I e-genuflect before thee.
""Buy American" is essentially a racist statement."
Not unless you wrote your own special dictionary.
"You're implying that the value of an American is higher than that of someone from another country by saying that it's better to protect industries in this country to protect the jobs. At some point, we've got to start calling out "Buy American" for the racist statement that it is."
Racism is NOT Nationalism. Those words do not mean the same thing. In any event America is multi-racial and multi-ethnic, in case you didn't notice.
Valuing one's own group, whose actions benefit oneself, is logical. Even if one values others as one values oneself, there is still no reason to renounce all advantage to people who are not "better" than oneself.
"When will they eventually get to the point of taxing what comes out of my butt?"
Been done already. "Municipal sewage fees."
"There's another part of me that just wants to one up you by claiming to work somewhere that they required me to personally kill a kitten before every check-in."
The can-crusher next to the time clock works for me.
"Mrao?"
Ka-chunk!
"Mrao?"
Ka-chunk!
"I can has survival?"
Ka-chunk!
"I discovered that a large percentage of my fellow countrymen are ignorant, illogical, paranoid, quasi-literate, parochial, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, racist, anti-intellectual believers in UFOs."
They also vote. Sleep well. :)
"Yeah, those WW2 games are offensive too. That's why there are so many of them that hardly anyone complains about. Let's all stop playing FPSs set in a warzone, and make it all happen in a magic land with evil ponies that shoot lasers from their mouth."
Chess is pretty nasty also, with pawns being as expendable as a Red Shirt on Star Trek.
"But co2 legislation lets them pass idiotic laws. How about we tax the countries PROFITING from co2 production, instead of the ones suffering from it ? Tax the oil producing states, leave the rest alone."
Thus raising the cost of domestic oil which is passed on to the consumer, and making foreign oil more attractive.
Nice.
"Gimp saves a lot of people the bother of either paying money or committing copyright infringement to do 97% of image manipulation."
Who the hell besides a few zealots gives a flying fuck about copyright infringement for private use?
For example, Adobe gains marketshare by "chumming" to build a user base, and businesses gain users that are familiar with the product. (Zealots, earnest little bitches that they are, carry flamethrowers so I'll don my flamesuit.)
Slowly, for the short bus crew:
User just want to get shit done with standard tools so they can benefit from base of users who get shit done with standard tools and can exchange stuffs smoothly with other users of standard tools.
LOTD should have the goal of Embracing and Extending by running as much WINDOWS software as possible so as to get the camels nose under the tent.
"Some of you cream puffs need to crawl through mud for the next 4 years just to get back to "sane"."
No shit. We live in a world where dropping bombs on people to coerce them is acceptable, but individually coercing them to do our will is not.
Our opponents, being smart people and not interested in the consequences of being called names for being unsportsmanlike, are free to do their will.
He was tried by Iraqis, and obviously going to be killed as payback for those he killed. The trial was a mere gesture and of trivial importance. He should have gotten the same treatment as Mussolini, but Iraqis didn't get him first. There is no reason to bother with the rituals of law and mercy with such enemies.
"What's going to be the next scare over -- the radioactive americium in smoke detectors?"
Now I need a lead foil hat...
"What makes you think they don't already or that the damage to those surroundings is more important than our ability to keep the sea lanes open in the next shooting war?"
There will be no naval conflict, for the current Administration will bring us peace in our time, peace with honor, and permanent global love.
As for the proliferation of small, inexpensive, quiet diesel submarines, that couldn't possibly cause a problem...
"what in the hell is the point of stopping someone from using a "learning edition" product just because 90 days have passed?"
"Have some crack, kid!"
Nothing a BIOS clock adjustment can't work around...
"There are other, actually more effective, ways to kill people which do not mutilate the corpses"
Not other than (some) chemical warfare agents, for all practical purposes. Rapiers are out of fashion these days.
Why is collateral corpse crisping a concern, especially when ambient heat will have them ripe quite shortly?
Shooty and explody munitions do plenty of damage, although most US media don't show it and take care to crop it out of photos other media run uncensored.
Compare Germany after WW1 (no civilian destruction that mattered) and after WWII, when the Germans became remarkably pacific (as did the Japs).
Killing "designated casualties"/uniformed forces does not impose a cost upon the civilian population. Burning their world down around their ears (and destroying their soldiery) makes an effective point.
Bombing civilians worked VERY well in the war against Serbia. The Serb forces suffered minimal losses because they dispersed, decoyed, and moved often. Their infrastructure couldn't move and was blasted, imposing enough suffering that they gave up without much resistance.
Buy multiple machines and spare parts. Box them up and put in service as needed. The logical goal is a fifteen-year supply of the same machine and OS.
"Farm related porn will flood the interweb"
But think of the boost in tourism!
"Simply put, command-destruct/self-destruct functions should be illegal in ANY product."
Future NASA launch safety officers will be equipped with a Really Large Catchers Mitt.
"Usually I see cars outfitted with these devices (either remotely disabled, or requiring the car's driver to enter a PIN every week to month until payments are done) sold by used car dealers who are dealing with people with frighteningly bad credit histories."
The lot I help out at buys cheap cars at auctions, some of which had been repo'ed with the help of these little gizmos.
Dealers who deal with people with no credit often have a down payment that covers what they have in the car, so if the customer smashes it they still win. The guy I help out doesn't even check history or require full coverage insurance! He makes a very nice profit, sells vehicles at reasonable prices, and while he repos some he doesn't get excited about it because it isn't required for him to do well. The downturn may have hurt NEW car sales, but he does fine.
"Twice, no less."
"Two astronauts, one cup?"
"What's next, are you gonna tell us your girlfriend is also a Linux geek who can set up an encrypted Debian-based RAID cluster while having sex with you in her very own basement?"
Mom IS quite capable.
"Well, maybe he's gay and wants to prove how macho he is so he can attract a nice manly man."
Then he'd have an Itronix GoBook in airbrushed MARPAT camo slung from a strong-but-revealing pseudo-tactical harness.
Not to mention a long line of sub sailors following him...
"Long ago I learned the best way to meet women is a) be injured, b) go shopping with a baby, and c) walk around a park with a cute dog."
Thanks, dude!
I'll walk my injured baby dog around a park and get mad bootay.
""Let's not talk about it, maybe it will become peaceful and the radicals won't be a problem"
Didn't they do the same thing with Hitler?"
Religion gets a pass because fools think superstitious political beliefs are somehow different from secular political beliefs.
"Most sensible countries either got rid of blasphemy laws or never had them."
Sensible countries are not Islamic, and before modding this down DO bother to actually compare how freely one may criticize religion in free countries versus Muslim countries.
Modern man must be free to attack superstition and the barbarians who believe in it.