That was the parent's point when he wrote "You poor, pathetic straight white male. It must be terrible for you. I shed a tear. *sob*
Is your telepathy a genetic thing or a technological advancement I haven't heard of? If the latter, I'd like me one of those. So I too can argue by ad hominem when someone questions the logic or intellectual dishonesty of something I like.
I.e. Replying by guessing what someone meant, calling people sad and... pretending to be a priest? Was that last one supposed to insinuate a moral authority? From clergy? All while not addressing the non-argumentation and ad hominems of OP's comment with anything more than "It's OK to use slurs and discrimination if I think that slurs are correct and that the discrimination does not exist. For I know who sins and who is pure."
On second thought... You can keep your telepathy helmet. It clearly doesn't work.
There are only two sides and all idiots are on one side only?
Not from my outsider's view on what can only be described as a "crying while jerking off over a first world problem contest".
Just the social justice warriors and 4DLULZ-trolls alone are pretty distinct factions, followed by the "not your shield" brigade and whatever the social justice warriors against social justice warriors are calling themselves. Also, where are the innocent bystanders and people who don't really give a fuck but still get bombarded with the issue - like me?
No. The point of racism is legitimization of mistreatment of other humans through dehumanization.
Which includes immaterial and subjective things like hating or fearing someone based solely on the fact of one's personal perception of them. Racism is a cognitive dissonance which provides reasoning for such behavior.
Rational, caring people are against all kinds of discrimination.
You poor, pathetic straight white male. It must be terrible for you. I shed a tear. *sob*
Wait... You know you just used slurs and verbal attacks based on gender and race solely BECAUSE of someone's gender and race? Assumed gender and race at that.
That does not seem very "rational, caring, and against all kinds of discrimination" to me.
Sounds more like this.
Rational, caring people are against all kinds of discrimination.
You poor, pathetic trannie black girl. It must be terrible for you. I shed a tear. *sob*
You know... Like a troll or a truly two-faced, hypocritical bigot who doesn't even realize their own bigotry.
Only harrasers should feel harrased by this debate. If you treat people with respect you should be happy with this debate, whether you are a white man or not.
You do realize that what you just said is the same old "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" argument?
Only _BAD_PEOPLE_TM should feel _NEGATIVE by this _PROCES. If you _GOOD_PEOPLE_TM you should be _POSITIVE with this _PROCESS, whether you are a _DESCRIPTIVE_ATTRIBUTE or not. Or shorter, "You're either with me, the GOOD, or against me - therefore EVIL."
It's generalization to the extreme, piggybacking on top of a false dichotomy.
Collapsed buildings containing trapped human victims are most likely to occur in underdeveloped nations
Assumption one. Buildings NEVER crash in developed nations or people there simply don't ever get trapped in such situations?
underdeveloped nations which lack building codes or construction techniques to resist earthquakes
Assumption two. "Third world" is a place on a map. Probably somewhere in Africa. Which is a country of poor people. Hungry people. Stupid people. Cruel people. People who lack architectural and other knowledge as well as any care for human lives or quality thereof. They don't know of building codes cause they are simply not civilized enough. Or they can't afford to use them cause they are poor. Or greedy. Or lazy. Or all of the above.
Unlike in developed countries where care for human lives is the only thing valued more than science and knowledge. That is why assumption one - no accidents ever happen in the "first world" and everyone is kind and good and smart and gentle and caring. No one would DREAM violating codes in "first world" and that is why god loves them and doesn't send disasters there.
I mean... who ever heard of an Earthquake in California, or a tornado in Kansas, or someone blowing up a building in New York, or any buildings ever collapsing for any reason in USA, right? Or someone making changes against the building codes or simply violating them... say... in Italy? Is Italy "third world"? It's just next to Africa. Or Israel. That's like right there in Africa. They got a desert and everything. But I could have sworn that South Korea is not in Africa... ah well.
Such nations are also less likely to worry about luxuries like pest control
Assumption three. Yeah... Everyone in dirty, poor, stupid third world countries just doesn't use insecticide. It's not so much that it is a luxury, they simply don't comprehend how it works. And again... They don't care for human lives at all.
Assumption four. Despite being stupid, cruel, filthy, poor, careless etc. - they WILL use super-duper tele-roaches to track people trapped under the rubble? No money for insecticide - but plenty money for techno toys for rescue services? No care for human lives when it comes to codes and construction and living in insect free homes - but plenty of care once the people get squashed?
I have faith that physicists have done their work well,
That's thrust and confidence.
You trust scientists that they know and understand the field of their research based on the fact that they have invested decades of work and study and calculation and experimentation in reaching the conclusions they've reached.
You'd have no such trust in similar claims coming from a guy who came around to fix your boiler. He starts talking about his calculation and experiments proving worm holes exist and you start backing away. Right? Nor would you have any trust in claims made by a scientist from another field.
E.g. A microbiologist coming up with a theory on how there are more than 700 different flavors of electrons. You'd go "OK, got any proof of that? No?" And in the off chance that the said microbiologist would reply that they've used LHC (or similar equipment) to prove it - would that automatically satisfy you? Or would you continue asking questions? Like "How EXACTLY did you use it? They have microbiology department at CERN? Did you get to meet Brian Cox? What does he say? Are things really gonna get better?"
Because you have trust and confidence in the PROCEDURE of how someone gets to CERN to smash protons together.
But my mother that attends church feels the same way about her pastor.
Nope. She'd buy the story about how he saw Jesus while in a coma from both the boiler guy and the microbiologist. Or the pastor. Cause she has faith in the IDEA of Jesus and afterlife - NOT in the qualifications of pastors, microbiologists or plumbers.
Had they said "I was in a coma and a purple panda-bird came to me and said I will be a tasty ornament of a fridge god called Joe and fed me ice cream that tasted like color blue." she would probably not believe them.
"Tesla Q3 Earnings Live: Shares Rise, Strong Outlook for '15 Even While Model X Faces More Delays" http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...
Tesla reported a tiny third-quarter profit of $3 million using its preferred numbers while delivering a record 7,785 Model S sedans. That resulted in a $932 million quarter, up 55% from a year ago. But results were challenged by a month-long shutdown of the company's lone production facility as it tools up for the Model X crossover SUV it is introducing next year, albeit later than planned. Gross margin also took a small hit due to changes in warranty accounting, coming in at 23%. The sum total is that Tesla lowered its outlook for 2014 production to 33,000 total deliveries, from 35,000 citing the production deficit. Investors so far have shrugged off the news, sending the stock higher after hours.
Wall Street was looking for lower revenues and a small loss. But the numbers were buoyed by very strong sales of Zero Emission Vehicle credits, which totaled a "much higher than expected" $76 million, Tesla said.
Tesla Motors TSLA +5.8% reported its third quarter results Wednesday. While analysts' attention was riveted to its financials, manufacturing experts saw two signs that the company is struggling.
First, Tesla lowered its 2014 production target to 33,000 vehicles, down from its goal of 35,000. Second, Tesla pushed back the delivery date for its upcoming Model X once more, to the third quarter of 2015.... The announcement validates the prediction made last month by Morgan Stanley MS +0.09% analyst Adam Jonas.
One has a "hey, no biggie" tone while the other uses weasel words and literal red herrings to push "gloom and doom" scenario. Despite obvious disregard by investors, clearly seen in the opening paragraph with Tesla's stock market tag.
I.e. "Manufacturing experts" who say that the company is "struggling" are ONE "Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas". Who, in the cited article said the following:
"Given the ever-higher level of technical and safety scrutiny facing all auto manufacturers, we find it very common for major launches to hit dealer lots later than the market anticipates," Jonas said.
Which was interpreted in TFA as:
One was that major launches are often delayed, although generally not for numerous times like Model X.
Note the slight bias?
The rest of it is in the same mode. Positive points and sentiment turned into negative.
Jonas refers to Tesla as "world's most important car company", calling the delay "an opportunity to buy" and a "silver lining". Instead of talking about "generally numerous delays", furor, technological features not available - while dumping lines which present those things as positive.
Like " intense public interest in the product", "one of the most desirable âwhy buyâ(TM) characteristics" and the entire 4th point being a praise to Tesla.
Jonas, in his investor note, said there were four reasons he expected another delay for Model X. One was that major launches are often delayed, although generally not for numerous times like Model X. The second was that few prototypes have been spotted on the road.
Third, Tesla caused a little furor a few weeks ago, when it introduced an unexpected all-wheel drive version of the Model S, and Jonas thought the company might want to put more space between it and the Model X.Fourth, Model X is likely to be Teslaâ(TM)s most ad
You do realize that iPhone, Android, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn made Global Frequency so hilariously dated?
Heck... final episode has this crazy concept of a private company working on sending people and cargo into space. Pure science fiction. Never gonna happen.
Then again... Who's to say that Global Frequency isn't behind all those things happening IRL?
But see, you left out the most important part, where the people REELECT the BOUGHT REPRESENTATIVES over and over, giving them lifetime careers, because they decided it was too inconvenient to go out and find somebody else.
You missed the point.
EVERYONE who gets elected, regardless if it is the old guy, new guy, dead guy or a robot - GETS BOUGHT. That is how it is MEANT to work. If it weren't so, lobbying would be illegal. And so would be donating more than a half of a minimum daily wage. Or any other mechanism which allows money into politics which isn't coming from the taxes or from individual citizens.
For those, who say that Republicans will not act on NSA either, I say this: Listen, elections is what in game theory considered a repeat game. In such situations it's often advantageous to enforce beneficial cooperation by employing fear of retaliation. And we're not bluffing this time...
Or what? Next time you'll vote Democrat? Four years is a long time. They may die, you may die, horse might learn to sing...
Game theory looks nice on paper. In the real world you might as well be trying to end a war by playing Tetris.
If there only was some way for people to express their feelings and thoughts remotely. Like in a written form. Or in some form of a ballot or check box. But without leaving their respective homes and towns.
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That was the parent's point when he wrote "You poor, pathetic straight white male. It must be terrible for you. I shed a tear. *sob*
Is your telepathy a genetic thing or a technological advancement I haven't heard of?
If the latter, I'd like me one of those.
So I too can argue by ad hominem when someone questions the logic or intellectual dishonesty of something I like.
I.e. Replying by guessing what someone meant, calling people sad and... pretending to be a priest? Was that last one supposed to insinuate a moral authority? From clergy?
All while not addressing the non-argumentation and ad hominems of OP's comment with anything more than "It's OK to use slurs and discrimination if I think that slurs are correct and that the discrimination does not exist. For I know who sins and who is pure."
On second thought... You can keep your telepathy helmet. It clearly doesn't work.
There are only two sides and all idiots are on one side only?
Not from my outsider's view on what can only be described as a "crying while jerking off over a first world problem contest".
Just the social justice warriors and 4DLULZ-trolls alone are pretty distinct factions, followed by the "not your shield" brigade and whatever the social justice warriors against social justice warriors are calling themselves.
Also, where are the innocent bystanders and people who don't really give a fuck but still get bombarded with the issue - like me?
The point about racism is power.
No.
The point of racism is legitimization of mistreatment of other humans through dehumanization.
Which includes immaterial and subjective things like hating or fearing someone based solely on the fact of one's personal perception of them.
Racism is a cognitive dissonance which provides reasoning for such behavior.
Rational, caring people are against all kinds of discrimination.
You poor, pathetic straight white male. It must be terrible for you. I shed a tear. *sob*
Wait... You know you just used slurs and verbal attacks based on gender and race solely BECAUSE of someone's gender and race?
Assumed gender and race at that.
That does not seem very "rational, caring, and against all kinds of discrimination" to me.
Sounds more like this.
Rational, caring people are against all kinds of discrimination.
You poor, pathetic trannie black girl. It must be terrible for you. I shed a tear. *sob*
You know... Like a troll or a truly two-faced, hypocritical bigot who doesn't even realize their own bigotry.
Only harrasers should feel harrased by this debate. If you treat people with respect you should be happy with this debate, whether you are a white man or not.
You do realize that what you just said is the same old "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" argument?
Only _BAD_PEOPLE_TM should feel _NEGATIVE by this _PROCES. If you _GOOD_PEOPLE_TM you should be _POSITIVE with this _PROCESS, whether you are a _DESCRIPTIVE_ATTRIBUTE or not.
Or shorter, "You're either with me, the GOOD, or against me - therefore EVIL."
It's generalization to the extreme, piggybacking on top of a false dichotomy.
Sounds like a case of giving with one hand, and taking with the other!
Advertizing a free handjob, while it is actually a part of a reach-around.
Collapsed buildings containing trapped human victims are most likely to occur in underdeveloped nations
Assumption one.
Buildings NEVER crash in developed nations or people there simply don't ever get trapped in such situations?
underdeveloped nations which lack building codes or construction techniques to resist earthquakes
Assumption two.
"Third world" is a place on a map. Probably somewhere in Africa. Which is a country of poor people. Hungry people. Stupid people. Cruel people.
People who lack architectural and other knowledge as well as any care for human lives or quality thereof.
They don't know of building codes cause they are simply not civilized enough.
Or they can't afford to use them cause they are poor. Or greedy. Or lazy.
Or all of the above.
Unlike in developed countries where care for human lives is the only thing valued more than science and knowledge.
That is why assumption one - no accidents ever happen in the "first world" and everyone is kind and good and smart and gentle and caring.
No one would DREAM violating codes in "first world" and that is why god loves them and doesn't send disasters there.
I mean... who ever heard of an Earthquake in California, or a tornado in Kansas, or someone blowing up a building in New York, or any buildings ever collapsing for any reason in USA, right?
Or someone making changes against the building codes or simply violating them... say... in Italy?
Is Italy "third world"? It's just next to Africa.
Or Israel. That's like right there in Africa. They got a desert and everything.
But I could have sworn that South Korea is not in Africa... ah well.
Such nations are also less likely to worry about luxuries like pest control
Assumption three.
Yeah... Everyone in dirty, poor, stupid third world countries just doesn't use insecticide.
It's not so much that it is a luxury, they simply don't comprehend how it works.
And again... They don't care for human lives at all.
Assumption four.
Despite being stupid, cruel, filthy, poor, careless etc. - they WILL use super-duper tele-roaches to track people trapped under the rubble?
No money for insecticide - but plenty money for techno toys for rescue services?
No care for human lives when it comes to codes and construction and living in insect free homes - but plenty of care once the people get squashed?
Sounds kinda contradictory. Methinks.
The only good bug is a dead bug.
Seriously.
Those tele-roaches better be cheap. Any of them come next to me and they'll get crushed.
Possibly at the expense of human lives around me.
Also, if the building was sprayed recently, wouldn't that kill off the roaches sent in?
I have faith that physicists have done their work well,
That's thrust and confidence.
You trust scientists that they know and understand the field of their research based on the fact that they have invested decades of work and study and calculation and experimentation in reaching the conclusions they've reached.
You'd have no such trust in similar claims coming from a guy who came around to fix your boiler.
He starts talking about his calculation and experiments proving worm holes exist and you start backing away. Right?
Nor would you have any trust in claims made by a scientist from another field.
E.g. A microbiologist coming up with a theory on how there are more than 700 different flavors of electrons.
You'd go "OK, got any proof of that? No?"
And in the off chance that the said microbiologist would reply that they've used LHC (or similar equipment) to prove it - would that automatically satisfy you? Or would you continue asking questions?
Like "How EXACTLY did you use it? They have microbiology department at CERN? Did you get to meet Brian Cox? What does he say? Are things really gonna get better?"
Because you have trust and confidence in the PROCEDURE of how someone gets to CERN to smash protons together.
But my mother that attends church feels the same way about her pastor.
Nope.
She'd buy the story about how he saw Jesus while in a coma from both the boiler guy and the microbiologist. Or the pastor.
Cause she has faith in the IDEA of Jesus and afterlife - NOT in the qualifications of pastors, microbiologists or plumbers.
Had they said "I was in a coma and a purple panda-bird came to me and said I will be a tasty ornament of a fridge god called Joe and fed me ice cream that tasted like color blue." she would probably not believe them.
Hope for some form of afterlife.
It usually boils down to those two.
It's a legendarily BAD game and a huge failure that was supposed to be a great success, which through an ironic twist ended up in a hole in the ground - which is what the gameplay of the game boils down to.
In short - it's famous.
Why don't these people just put a gun to their head and end their misery instead of inflicting it on the rest of us?
Cause they don't got the sand to do it.
What are people buying these for? Is it just because of the history?
Yes.
"Tesla Q3 Earnings Live: Shares Rise, Strong Outlook for '15 Even While Model X Faces More Delays"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...
Tesla reported a tiny third-quarter profit of $3 million using its preferred numbers while delivering a record 7,785 Model S sedans. That resulted in a $932 million quarter, up 55% from a year ago. But results were challenged by a month-long shutdown of the company's lone production facility as it tools up for the Model X crossover SUV it is introducing next year, albeit later than planned. Gross margin also took a small hit due to changes in warranty accounting, coming in at 23%. The sum total is that Tesla lowered its outlook for 2014 production to 33,000 total deliveries, from 35,000 citing the production deficit. Investors so far have shrugged off the news, sending the stock higher after hours.
Wall Street was looking for lower revenues and a small loss. But the numbers were buoyed by very strong sales of Zero Emission Vehicle credits, which totaled a "much higher than expected" $76 million, Tesla said.
"Tesla Shows Signs It's Struggling With Manufacturing"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mi...
Tesla Motors TSLA +5.8% reported its third quarter results Wednesday. While analysts' attention was riveted to its financials, manufacturing experts saw two signs that the company is struggling.
First, Tesla lowered its 2014 production target to 33,000 vehicles, down from its goal of 35,000. Second, Tesla pushed back the delivery date for its upcoming Model X once more, to the third quarter of 2015. ...
The announcement validates the prediction made last month by Morgan Stanley MS +0.09% analyst Adam Jonas.
One has a "hey, no biggie" tone while the other uses weasel words and literal red herrings to push "gloom and doom" scenario.
Despite obvious disregard by investors, clearly seen in the opening paragraph with Tesla's stock market tag.
I.e. "Manufacturing experts" who say that the company is "struggling" are ONE "Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas".
Who, in the cited article said the following:
"Given the ever-higher level of technical and safety scrutiny facing all auto manufacturers, we find it very common for major launches to hit dealer lots later than the market anticipates," Jonas said.
Which was interpreted in TFA as:
One was that major launches are often delayed, although generally not for numerous times like Model X.
Note the slight bias?
The rest of it is in the same mode. Positive points and sentiment turned into negative.
Jonas refers to Tesla as "world's most important car company", calling the delay "an opportunity to buy" and a "silver lining".
Instead of talking about "generally numerous delays", furor, technological features not available - while dumping lines which present those things as positive.
Like " intense public interest in the product", "one of the most desirable âwhy buyâ(TM) characteristics" and the entire 4th point being a praise to Tesla.
Jonas, in his investor note, said there were four reasons he expected another delay for Model X. One was that major launches are often delayed, although generally not for numerous times like Model X. The second was that few prototypes have been spotted on the road.
Third, Tesla caused a little furor a few weeks ago, when it introduced an unexpected all-wheel drive version of the Model S, and Jonas thought the company might want to put more space between it and the Model X.Fourth, Model X is likely to be Teslaâ(TM)s most ad
Yes.
Greetings, praises and thankyous Mr. Ellis.
Any plans on doing more stories about historical events, like Crecy?
"what kind of stupid question is this?"
That sounds suspiciously like something someone who has access to thallium might ask.
Can we please NOT? On both the movie and a naked Larry David?
You can taste your soup hours after eating it.
You do realize that iPhone, Android, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn made Global Frequency so hilariously dated?
Heck... final episode has this crazy concept of a private company working on sending people and cargo into space.
Pure science fiction. Never gonna happen.
Then again... Who's to say that Global Frequency isn't behind all those things happening IRL?
How about was he sad that neither iPhone nor Android brought about a Global Frequency for real? :)
Planetary is practically THE reason I started reading comics again after giving them up for years in favor of manga.
But see, you left out the most important part, where the people REELECT the BOUGHT REPRESENTATIVES over and over, giving them lifetime careers, because they decided it was too inconvenient to go out and find somebody else.
You missed the point.
EVERYONE who gets elected, regardless if it is the old guy, new guy, dead guy or a robot - GETS BOUGHT.
That is how it is MEANT to work.
If it weren't so, lobbying would be illegal.
And so would be donating more than a half of a minimum daily wage.
Or any other mechanism which allows money into politics which isn't coming from the taxes or from individual citizens.
For those, who say that Republicans will not act on NSA either, I say this: Listen, elections is what in game theory considered a repeat game. In such situations it's often advantageous to enforce beneficial cooperation by employing fear of retaliation. And we're not bluffing this time...
Or what? Next time you'll vote Democrat?
Four years is a long time. They may die, you may die, horse might learn to sing...
Game theory looks nice on paper.
In the real world you might as well be trying to end a war by playing Tetris.
If there only was some way for people to express their feelings and thoughts remotely.
Like in a written form. Or in some form of a ballot or check box. But without leaving their respective homes and towns.
Alas... such a thing will never be possible.