"That way, we'll see what shape this rock really is,"
This guy and his kind of thinking is the kind of fuckery I detest. There is ample proof that the earth isn't flat. You can look through a telescope right now and see that every celestial body within our solar system is not the only spheroid in shape, but rotates so that you can see it is. Also, you can look at live International Space Station footage as it orbits the earth and sees that the earth has a curvature and is spheroid. For fuck's sake, we are dealing with people who are mentally diseased in that they rejected 600 years of science outright because "No One Can Tell Me What To Think!!!" No you fuckwits, the evidence is there for you to see from all the hard work others did for you.
This is an indictment of our tax system and how ridiculously byzantine it is in its breadth and scope. I don't blame either company for legally finding ways to not pay tax. I do it, we all do it. I have zero qualms about it. But to virtue signal in same fake puritanical way to cheerlead one company over another as they take potshots at each other over taxes because "Hey, it's tax season." and "Hey, because socialist presidential candidates are railing against corporations and the 1% again." is a complete deflection to the real problem. The entire US tax code is the problem.
The US should be a tax haven, not a tax hell. It should also have a tax code that is simple, coherent, and fair. It can be done. There are good plans out there to do it, but the fact that it isn't is an indictment about the various interests that have built entire industries around finding ways to not pay or pay the least amount of taxes, eg: CPA's, financial firms, banks, corps, law, almost the entire strata of society has a vested interest in the current tax code being stable for opportunistic purposes as possible.
Right now we have nearly 50% of Americans who do not pay income taxes at all. The rest of the 50% pick up the load with the top 10% of those people paying nearly 75% of all taxes in the country. That isn't remotely fair or coherent. Even Trump doesn't have the political will to champion real tax reformation in the form of a fair tax/flat tax or anything other than every congress/president does which is band-aid the current laws. Why? Because the government never seems to ever stop growing. It just bloats more and more.
Then on the other end, we still have people who claim that the 16A is unconstitutional/never amended/illegal/etc. We know that no one wants to pay taxes, but we also know that you couldn't have the kind of society we live in without paying them to some degree. We need to stop being children about this and whining about taxes and figure out a good coherent strategy and plan to execute on a real tax plan that will last this country a long time and actually works.
Well, here you go. Deal with it. Here is your fame? How do you like it now? Oh, the money is great, but you better keep producing or you're going to lose it. Hope you've invested wisely so you have an eventual exit strategy.
What do you expect from an 8th world shithole like India, where the dumb get dumber and live in their own shit. That entire country has zero redeeming qualities. This isn't whatsapp fault, this is the fault of a stone age shit-dwellers who scream and point 'WITCH!!!' at everything they don't understand. Mobs in India are fairly common regardless of what state you go to. It's just the culture and the mentality of these barely people.
Poorly written? Are you nuts? It was poorly conceived from the beginning. None of that money was going to go to helping the homeless. It was going to be general fund dollars. That law was tantamount to extortion by any other name.
Right, which is the only system of voting that matters in presidential elections. Trotting out popular vote tallies is meaningless and irrelevant in this regard. The fact that moronic leftists like you still cling to this notion is only a testament to the delusions you operate under.
Put up or shut up AC. Other than you ridiculous assertions based on the typical deranged delusions that infect leftists like you, do you have anything else of substance to add that questions the validity of Belguim outlawing lockboxes in MMO's?
It doesn't really matter what other people think outside of the US. Nearly every country outside of the US has no equivalent to the 1st Amendment so we already know what these governments think of their citizens, while people in the US have died to protect such a right to keep it from being diluted by the nuance you so desperately seek.
So if Reddit starts to censor speech, even speech it doesn't like, as a commercial enterprise, it's within their rights to do so, but only to their detriment. You don't have to like racist language/speech, but the reality is how you combat it that matter more by using speech that disintegrates it on its face. That's the real nuance.
It's not about weaponization. In this regard, it's about being first to market to bring AI as an advantageous weapon over your enemies perceived or real. The first nation to truly leverage AI in any real, meaningful way will win the AI arms race because it could conceivably be set to incapacitate any other AI it sees as a threat for its host nation. It's a tricky business.
Wow, that is one of the longest non-sequitur rants I've read in a long time that achieved absolutely nothing. You must be a riot in meetings to discuss progress and status.
It's worse than a circle-jerk echo chamber, it's the leftist attempt to further sanitize speech and thought. To send a chilling message to those that say something in contravention of normal everyday common sense thinking and substitute it with the politically correct lexicon that is approved by the SJW groupthink minders.
Why do people have to complicate the simplest of things. Just stop DST and be done with the whole thing altogether. Over, Finito, Zip, Zero, Nada, Finished or Finnish?:D
The stresses on a ship to rotate it to acquire.5g or even 1g would be so enormous as to basically rip it apart. It can't be done with current materials or manufacturing techniques.
Sci-Fi and even fantasy writing as all been replaced by SJW feminist garbage. I was at a Barnes and Noble the other day and just happened to walk by the new releases for Sci-Fi/Fantasy and every single book on the cover featured a female-centric story. I'm not saying that sci-fi/Fantasy is a males-only distraction, but I can see the pendulum of re-programming occurring here.
Slashdot Mirror
"That way, we'll see what shape this rock really is," This guy and his kind of thinking is the kind of fuckery I detest. There is ample proof that the earth isn't flat. You can look through a telescope right now and see that every celestial body within our solar system is not the only spheroid in shape, but rotates so that you can see it is. Also, you can look at live International Space Station footage as it orbits the earth and sees that the earth has a curvature and is spheroid. For fuck's sake, we are dealing with people who are mentally diseased in that they rejected 600 years of science outright because "No One Can Tell Me What To Think!!!" No you fuckwits, the evidence is there for you to see from all the hard work others did for you.
That's not conservativism. Grow up.
This is an indictment of our tax system and how ridiculously byzantine it is in its breadth and scope. I don't blame either company for legally finding ways to not pay tax. I do it, we all do it. I have zero qualms about it. But to virtue signal in same fake puritanical way to cheerlead one company over another as they take potshots at each other over taxes because "Hey, it's tax season." and "Hey, because socialist presidential candidates are railing against corporations and the 1% again." is a complete deflection to the real problem. The entire US tax code is the problem. The US should be a tax haven, not a tax hell. It should also have a tax code that is simple, coherent, and fair. It can be done. There are good plans out there to do it, but the fact that it isn't is an indictment about the various interests that have built entire industries around finding ways to not pay or pay the least amount of taxes, eg: CPA's, financial firms, banks, corps, law, almost the entire strata of society has a vested interest in the current tax code being stable for opportunistic purposes as possible. Right now we have nearly 50% of Americans who do not pay income taxes at all. The rest of the 50% pick up the load with the top 10% of those people paying nearly 75% of all taxes in the country. That isn't remotely fair or coherent. Even Trump doesn't have the political will to champion real tax reformation in the form of a fair tax/flat tax or anything other than every congress/president does which is band-aid the current laws. Why? Because the government never seems to ever stop growing. It just bloats more and more. Then on the other end, we still have people who claim that the 16A is unconstitutional/never amended/illegal/etc. We know that no one wants to pay taxes, but we also know that you couldn't have the kind of society we live in without paying them to some degree. We need to stop being children about this and whining about taxes and figure out a good coherent strategy and plan to execute on a real tax plan that will last this country a long time and actually works.
Well, don't buy insurance and you won't get cunted.
Well, here you go. Deal with it. Here is your fame? How do you like it now? Oh, the money is great, but you better keep producing or you're going to lose it. Hope you've invested wisely so you have an eventual exit strategy.
What do you expect from an 8th world shithole like India, where the dumb get dumber and live in their own shit. That entire country has zero redeeming qualities. This isn't whatsapp fault, this is the fault of a stone age shit-dwellers who scream and point 'WITCH!!!' at everything they don't understand. Mobs in India are fairly common regardless of what state you go to. It's just the culture and the mentality of these barely people.
By celebrating their birthdays? It's stupid. It's just code.
High tarriffs on many incoming chinese goods should do that.
These are engineering laptops. Relax.
Poorly written? Are you nuts? It was poorly conceived from the beginning. None of that money was going to go to helping the homeless. It was going to be general fund dollars. That law was tantamount to extortion by any other name.
So CO2 was higher 800k years ago when the population of Neanderthals was less than 20k around the world? Hmm...
Right, which is the only system of voting that matters in presidential elections. Trotting out popular vote tallies is meaningless and irrelevant in this regard. The fact that moronic leftists like you still cling to this notion is only a testament to the delusions you operate under.
Put up or shut up AC. Other than you ridiculous assertions based on the typical deranged delusions that infect leftists like you, do you have anything else of substance to add that questions the validity of Belguim outlawing lockboxes in MMO's?
A shit lord? Even a turd needs its rest.
It doesn't really matter what other people think outside of the US. Nearly every country outside of the US has no equivalent to the 1st Amendment so we already know what these governments think of their citizens, while people in the US have died to protect such a right to keep it from being diluted by the nuance you so desperately seek. So if Reddit starts to censor speech, even speech it doesn't like, as a commercial enterprise, it's within their rights to do so, but only to their detriment. You don't have to like racist language/speech, but the reality is how you combat it that matter more by using speech that disintegrates it on its face. That's the real nuance.
It's not about weaponization. In this regard, it's about being first to market to bring AI as an advantageous weapon over your enemies perceived or real. The first nation to truly leverage AI in any real, meaningful way will win the AI arms race because it could conceivably be set to incapacitate any other AI it sees as a threat for its host nation. It's a tricky business.
Did Bill Gates win the birth canal lottery? How about Bezos? How about the hundreds of thousands of new millionaires created? You aren't very bright.
The basement-dwelling analogy has lost all of its luster by now. Why do people still use it?
Wow, that is one of the longest non-sequitur rants I've read in a long time that achieved absolutely nothing. You must be a riot in meetings to discuss progress and status.
It's not even a cry for help. It's just salty language used to make a point. Now whether or not you like that point is up to you.
It's worse than a circle-jerk echo chamber, it's the leftist attempt to further sanitize speech and thought. To send a chilling message to those that say something in contravention of normal everyday common sense thinking and substitute it with the politically correct lexicon that is approved by the SJW groupthink minders.
Why do people have to complicate the simplest of things. Just stop DST and be done with the whole thing altogether. Over, Finito, Zip, Zero, Nada, Finished or Finnish? :D
Herpes Man!!! Wielding the power of ostracism at will!!!
The stresses on a ship to rotate it to acquire .5g or even 1g would be so enormous as to basically rip it apart. It can't be done with current materials or manufacturing techniques.
Sci-Fi and even fantasy writing as all been replaced by SJW feminist garbage. I was at a Barnes and Noble the other day and just happened to walk by the new releases for Sci-Fi/Fantasy and every single book on the cover featured a female-centric story. I'm not saying that sci-fi/Fantasy is a males-only distraction, but I can see the pendulum of re-programming occurring here.