I've spied on the Daily Kos and other such blogs, so I have a well informed opinion on why they want Ron Paul elected. They know none of the Democrat presidential candidates stand a chance against Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson come 08.
Then you need to do some more spying, as the top Democratic candidates are crushing the Republican candidates.
It will be even worse for the Democrats should Hillary Clinton win the primaries for the 08 election.
Feh. You mean the conservative Hillary Clinton? She'd still take the presidency with ease. What she will do is hurt Democrats down ticket.
Feminism was never about equality, it was only ever about improving things for women. Case in point: dig into your shitflick collection and dig out your copy of Iron Jawed Angels, and try to find the part of the movie where these these brave suffragists stood up and demanded the right to be drafted into WWI. Or WWII. Or Korea. Or Vietnam.
Women live longer than men and yet improving health care for women is a much higher priority than improving it for men. Prostate cancer kills about as many men as breast cancer kills women, yet 3x is spent on breast cancer research. There's a plethora of Offices of Women's health throughout the country, yet only one Office of Men's Health exists, in New Hampshire, and it started with zero funding.
Why are there Violence Against Women laws when the vast majority of the victims of assaults and murders are men.
Or the rights of an individual in the event of unwanted pregnancy:
Women:
Abort the fetus without the father consent or knowledge.
Give the baby up for adoption without the father's consent or knowledge.
Keep the baby and raise it in secret without the fathers consent or knowledge.
Do #3 and then hit the father up years later for child support.
Men:
Get an attorney and sue for custody, if he knows about the child
That's why people are migrating BACK TO XP from Vista in sufficient numbers as to have MSFT extend the life of XP.
And where did I say anything about Vista? (sound of crickets chirping around a straw man).
Photoshop should work on any decently modern OS, especially something like a *NIX where X11 is the norm and ported everywhere. It doesn't however, because nobody demands it. And they don't demand it because customers accept that "this is the way things are.
No, they don't demand it because time is money and they see no reason to waste a great deal of money screwing around with Linux.
Next time if you sense you need 2-3 years to come up with something sensible to support your rants, just keep quiet until the 2-3 years pass and only then post.
You can edit documents, run spreadsheets (even multiply correctly!), design software/hardware, compose music, etc, just as easily in an OSS OS as Windows. And if people stopped worshipping Redmond they'd actually realize that *they* have the power to choose, not the producers.
It's not about "editing documents and spreadsheets," it's about "editing MS Office documents and spreadsheets" because Microsoft is a monopoly. Businesses aren't willing to screw around with OpenOffice if it means they might not be able to open files from clients. Microsoft wouldn't be able to charge $329 for an upgrade if they didn't have a lock on the market.
Why isn't photoshop ported to GNU/Linux? Because customers aren't demanding it enough.
No, because serious Photoshop users couldn't care less about running it on Linux. They need it to Just Work, not waste time tinkering with it.
If they want to force people to use their crappy software, it can at least be free.
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Yawn. It takes something on the level of a Dell laptop batter literally exploding and starting on fire to match the attention that Apple gets when 5 people have an issue with one of their products out of a few hundred thousand units.
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Same price, same storage, but wireless sync? On that itself I'm sold.
Um, why? You have to plug it in to sync. If you have to do that, why not just plug it in to the damn computer in the first place.
Wow, and I thought *I* was a Apple fanboy.
One given to kneejerk hyperbole, given what the parent actually said.
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Scalability is not in Apple's vocab. My library consists of 8000+ songs. Itunes on average uses in excess of 100 mb or ram. The music player beats out Outlook, Word, and Excel combined. Bloat anyone? Not to mention that it does not clean up it's temporary XML library files resulting in GB of litter after a year of usage.
Either you are full of crap or you've had a great deal of user errors. iTunes uses 72 megabytes of memory for my 15,000 song library and 77 megabytes for the data files. Including downloaded artwork.
iTunes is a rip off. Apple would have you believe that they are doing eveyone a favor of "fixing" the price of music at 99 cents.
Holy Super Atomic Hyperbole Batman! A 10% difference in price is a "rip off"? Since when? Apple makes next to no money off their music sales - the vast majority of the price goes to the music and credit card companies. You want to throw a fit, throw it at Mastercard and BMG.
It's not a "bold denial", it's basic common sense. You are either very dumb or are deliberately obtuse, as grocery stores and utilities obviously run by very different variables. Utilities depend on the "last mile", or the hookup to each home, to work. Grocery stores do not. It makes no sense to have multiple sewer and water and power companies because each unused line is simply wasted. The same would only apply to grocery stores if multiple stores were built on the same location, which doesn't happen unless there is sufficient customer demand to sustain more than one store.
you see it all the time in comic books - a good writer can make a very interesting story arc with a mundane character, whereas a hack can write a fantastically horrible story on a character with a lot of depth and backstory.
This is simply wrong. The pro-life movement is intimately connected with crisis pregnancy centers and charities.
Some might be. For others (i.e. the Republican Party) the fetus is the most important thing in the world. Until it's born. Then they couldn't care less. To say the state should stop abortions but then have zero responsibility in caring for the resulting children is just evil. No this isn't flamebait, unless this morning the GOP stopped trying to ban abortion and end social spending and I missed it.
Being juvenile isn't the problem. It's talking about real world events and things, acting like yourself rather than your character, etc.
RPG's generally take time to play. A lot of time. If talking about non-game issues means you aren't really playing a "real" RPG, there have probably been 3 or 4 "real" RPG's played since Gygax co-published D&D back in '74.
If you are man, and your character is a woman, who is also a leather-maker and a fighter, then you should interact with other people as if you were a leather making female fighter, not a male accountant from New Jersey.
So if people multitask it needs to be held against them? Back when I played Counter-Strike, we chatted about non-game stuff constantly, but it doesn't mean that we didn't rescue the hostages or plant bombs.
Really? What if he ran out of the store? Is that then suspicious enough to be probable cause?
Nope.
What if he ran out with bulges under his trenchcoat yelling "You'll never catch me fuckers!"
Straw man.
The cops actions are not in question here, only the store security guard.
Changes nothing. If you have no right to refuse a search then you have no right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
So I walk up to you on the street. I ask to see the newspaper you're holding. You say no and keep walking. Apparently according to you I've just searched you and violated your rights. Give me a break. The only search that was performed was by the cop at the end and that was consentual. There was no search performed by store staff.
OMFG just how fucking stupid are you? If I said no you can't look at my newspaper and keep walking, you didn't just look through it. And the reason we are hearing about this guy is because the store illegally demanded to search his bag. Did your mom feed you a steady diet of bull shit when you were a baby?
A woman walks into a grocery store (this actually happened) hides a turkey under her dress and walks out pretending she's pregnant. Noone saw her put the turkey under her skirt, but the staff saw her walk in not pregnant and walk out pregnant. Since she was so obviously hiding something, they stop her and accuse her of shoplifting. According to you again, since they didn't actually see her put the turkey under her skirt, the did an illegal search and confinement and should have all been shot for violating her god given right to walk around with a turkey under her skirt. You're such an idiot.
Straw man.
Again: provide evidence that merchants have the authority to stop you and search your reciept and the contents of your bag when they have no suspicion that you are a shoplifter. Or just admit that you are the biggest shithead this world has ever produced, and castrate yourself with a rusty pair of scissors to protect the gene pool.
There's a lady with a book out now with the premise that those in power take advantage of public shock (911, Katrina) to get away with stuff they wouldn't otherwise (Patriot Act, changing entire economies).
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No offense to the radically leftist
You want "radically leftist", you need to go to North Korea.
but surely these are some of the absolutely worst reasons for abortions
Not in the slightest. A severe birth defect is a life sentence for that child.
I've spied on the Daily Kos and other such blogs, so I have a well informed opinion on why they want Ron Paul elected. They know none of the Democrat presidential candidates stand a chance against Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson come 08.
Then you need to do some more spying, as the top Democratic candidates are crushing the Republican candidates.
It will be even worse for the Democrats should Hillary Clinton win the primaries for the 08 election.
Feh. You mean the conservative Hillary Clinton? She'd still take the presidency with ease. What she will do is hurt Democrats down ticket.
with the help of affirmative action that he has since trashed.
Yo, she-bitch, lets go.
Feminism was never about equality, it was only ever about improving things for women. Case in point: dig into your shitflick collection and dig out your copy of Iron Jawed Angels, and try to find the part of the movie where these these brave suffragists stood up and demanded the right to be drafted into WWI. Or WWII. Or Korea. Or Vietnam.
Women live longer than men and yet improving health care for women is a much higher priority than improving it for men. Prostate cancer kills about as many men as breast cancer kills women, yet 3x is spent on breast cancer research. There's a plethora of Offices of Women's health throughout the country, yet only one Office of Men's Health exists, in New Hampshire, and it started with zero funding.
Why are there Violence Against Women laws when the vast majority of the victims of assaults and murders are men.
Or the rights of an individual in the event of unwanted pregnancy:
Women:
- Abort the fetus without the father consent or knowledge.
- Give the baby up for adoption without the father's consent or knowledge.
- Keep the baby and raise it in secret without the fathers consent or knowledge.
- Do #3 and then hit the father up years later for child support.
Men:That's why people are migrating BACK TO XP from Vista in sufficient numbers as to have MSFT extend the life of XP.
And where did I say anything about Vista? (sound of crickets chirping around a straw man).
Photoshop should work on any decently modern OS, especially something like a *NIX where X11 is the norm and ported everywhere. It doesn't however, because nobody demands it. And they don't demand it because customers accept that "this is the way things are.
No, they don't demand it because time is money and they see no reason to waste a great deal of money screwing around with Linux.
Next time if you sense you need 2-3 years to come up with something sensible to support your rants, just keep quiet until the 2-3 years pass and only then post.
What he said.
You can edit documents, run spreadsheets (even multiply correctly!), design software/hardware, compose music, etc, just as easily in an OSS OS as Windows. And if people stopped worshipping Redmond they'd actually realize that *they* have the power to choose, not the producers.
It's not about "editing documents and spreadsheets," it's about "editing MS Office documents and spreadsheets" because Microsoft is a monopoly. Businesses aren't willing to screw around with OpenOffice if it means they might not be able to open files from clients. Microsoft wouldn't be able to charge $329 for an upgrade if they didn't have a lock on the market.
Why isn't photoshop ported to GNU/Linux? Because customers aren't demanding it enough.
No, because serious Photoshop users couldn't care less about running it on Linux. They need it to Just Work, not waste time tinkering with it.
If they want to force people to use their crappy software, it can at least be free.
Yawn. It takes something on the level of a Dell laptop batter literally exploding and starting on fire to match the attention that Apple gets when 5 people have an issue with one of their products out of a few hundred thousand units.
Same price, same storage, but wireless sync? On that itself I'm sold.
Um, why? You have to plug it in to sync. If you have to do that, why not just plug it in to the damn computer in the first place.
Wow, and I thought *I* was a Apple fanboy.
One given to kneejerk hyperbole, given what the parent actually said.
Scalability is not in Apple's vocab. My library consists of 8000+ songs. Itunes on average uses in excess of 100 mb or ram. The music player beats out Outlook, Word, and Excel combined. Bloat anyone? Not to mention that it does not clean up it's temporary XML library files resulting in GB of litter after a year of usage.
Either you are full of crap or you've had a great deal of user errors. iTunes uses 72 megabytes of memory for my 15,000 song library and 77 megabytes for the data files. Including downloaded artwork.
iTunes is a rip off. Apple would have you believe that they are doing eveyone a favor of "fixing" the price of music at 99 cents.
Holy Super Atomic Hyperbole Batman! A 10% difference in price is a "rip off"? Since when? Apple makes next to no money off their music sales - the vast majority of the price goes to the music and credit card companies. You want to throw a fit, throw it at Mastercard and BMG.
MS has huge amounts of money to burn, and Apple has a bad habit of losing their lead
Since when. Steve's been back over ten years now and the only lead they've lost was a technical one when they threw away the Newton.
Instead of making bold denials
It's not a "bold denial", it's basic common sense. You are either very dumb or are deliberately obtuse, as grocery stores and utilities obviously run by very different variables. Utilities depend on the "last mile", or the hookup to each home, to work. Grocery stores do not. It makes no sense to have multiple sewer and water and power companies because each unused line is simply wasted. The same would only apply to grocery stores if multiple stores were built on the same location, which doesn't happen unless there is sufficient customer demand to sustain more than one store.
Because on the PC a game selling 50000 copies can be considered a hit
Since when. Daikatana was one of the biggest flops of all time and it sold 200,000 copies according to this site.
If by "pro-business," you mean people who haven't (openly) advocated lining up business owners against a wall and machine-gunning them
GW Bush
Sorry E++, but Pudge still tops you for red herrings and wanton asshatery.
The same argument about "inefficiency" can be made for any industry
No, it can't, and your analogy sucks.
Surely grocery stores
Grocery stores don't require utility lines to be run to people's houses.
Sorry I should have said citation needed for the past 5 years.
I suppose I could see that as a reasonable premise, if I were stupid and naive.
Too bad you decided to blow off the parents citations of real abuse of power with wanton asshattery.
you see it all the time in comic books - a good writer can make a very interesting story arc with a mundane character, whereas a hack can write a fantastically horrible story on a character with a lot of depth and backstory.
You're being disingenuous.
Portugal, 2001
Cause as yet undetermined.
Moscow, 2000
Which one? There wasn't one listed on that page.
Spain, 2005
Accident during construction.
Germany, 1998 (train derail, overpass collapses)
As you said, train derailed. So, how many bridges have collapsed in Europe because of building on the cheap and then being cheap on the maintenance?
This is simply wrong. The pro-life movement is intimately connected with crisis pregnancy centers and charities.
Some might be. For others (i.e. the Republican Party) the fetus is the most important thing in the world. Until it's born. Then they couldn't care less. To say the state should stop abortions but then have zero responsibility in caring for the resulting children is just evil. No this isn't flamebait, unless this morning the GOP stopped trying to ban abortion and end social spending and I missed it.
Being juvenile isn't the problem. It's talking about real world events and things, acting like yourself rather than your character, etc.
:)
RPG's generally take time to play. A lot of time. If talking about non-game issues means you aren't really playing a "real" RPG, there have probably been 3 or 4 "real" RPG's played since Gygax co-published D&D back in '74.
If you are man, and your character is a woman, who is also a leather-maker and a fighter, then you should interact with other people as if you were a leather making female fighter, not a male accountant from New Jersey.
So if people multitask it needs to be held against them? Back when I played Counter-Strike, we chatted about non-game stuff constantly, but it doesn't mean that we didn't rescue the hostages or plant bombs.
Don't be a purist snob.
Feminazis?
Yup, feminazis. The one and only good thing that Rush ever came up with.
Yeah, that's mature.
Accurate, is what it is.
Guess you like hypocrisy too.
Not in the slightest, feminazi. But thanks for asking.
Really? What if he ran out of the store? Is that then suspicious enough to be probable cause?
Nope.
What if he ran out with bulges under his trenchcoat yelling "You'll never catch me fuckers!"
Straw man.
The cops actions are not in question here, only the store security guard.
Changes nothing. If you have no right to refuse a search then you have no right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
So I walk up to you on the street. I ask to see the newspaper you're holding. You say no and keep walking. Apparently according to you I've just searched you and violated your rights. Give me a break. The only search that was performed was by the cop at the end and that was consentual. There was no search performed by store staff.
OMFG just how fucking stupid are you? If I said no you can't look at my newspaper and keep walking, you didn't just look through it. And the reason we are hearing about this guy is because the store illegally demanded to search his bag. Did your mom feed you a steady diet of bull shit when you were a baby?
A woman walks into a grocery store (this actually happened) hides a turkey under her dress and walks out pretending she's pregnant. Noone saw her put the turkey under her skirt, but the staff saw her walk in not pregnant and walk out pregnant. Since she was so obviously hiding something, they stop her and accuse her of shoplifting. According to you again, since they didn't actually see her put the turkey under her skirt, the did an illegal search and confinement and should have all been shot for violating her god given right to walk around with a turkey under her skirt. You're such an idiot.
Straw man.
Again: provide evidence that merchants have the authority to stop you and search your reciept and the contents of your bag when they have no suspicion that you are a shoplifter. Or just admit that you are the biggest shithead this world has ever produced, and castrate yourself with a rusty pair of scissors to protect the gene pool.
There's a lady with a book out now with the premise that those in power take advantage of public shock (911, Katrina) to get away with stuff they wouldn't otherwise (Patriot Act, changing entire economies).
So if some players are juvenile, it's not an RPG? I guess there are no RPG's then, and never have been.