There is just too much misinformation about this post.
State College is no in "Western Pennsylvania". And neither is any part of Ohio..
True, but very few people live in the center of Pennsylvania. Penn State's membership is largely people from the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas, where the vast majority of the people in the state live. Ohio people tend to go to Ohio State.
I can't speak about Eastern Pa as I travel there only rarely; but for the entirety of Western and Central Pennsylvania, GP's words are quite true. "football trumps justice"
Alcohol is considered fair play. I know too many girls who, when I bring up that I don't mess with girls once they've had more than a minor buzz, proceed to carefully explain to me that what they do when they're drunk as fuck is their business and their responsibility--up to and including fucking the hell out of everyone when they're too far gone to remember their own name (or stay conscious).
People just don't see this as wrong. I don't know why.
Because you are venturing into a realm of common sense that most people are oblivious to.
I had a girl get pissed off at me at a bar because I refused to hit on her in her sloppy-drunken state. (We had a conversation going, until she went from "normal-possibly-interesting person to douche-baguette in under 2 drinks.) If I wouldn't even want be friends with someone that gets obnoxiously wasted to that level, i certainly wouldn't want to be romantic with such a person. I ended up spending half of the evening trying to keep her from falling down on top of the musicians that were playing. (which were friends of mine)
Now, I am not saying there is a not hotness level a woman could achieve to override my gag reflex of douchyness; but falling down drunkenness is seriously unattractive.
More important, cops will know who to question directly, same as if they'd had an anonymous tip. They can do that.
Apply pressure to the people involved, one will flip. Everyone goes down, one with a lesser charge.
And cops know how to cover up for their friend's kids. Which is exactly what is happening in this case. If Anonymous had not stepped in, these fuckers would be getting off with little more than a slap on the wrist. Read up on this Sheriff Fred Abdalla.
"3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."
That could mean anything. By commenting on how this is an evil bait-and-switch by Google I could be encouraging people to fork Android and cause fragmentation. Does this mean Google can take away my ability to develop software for Android and pull any apps I have created from the store? Is this some sort of back-door clause so they can do the Apple thing and pull any app for any made-up reason with this?
Neither the article nor the summary says anything that could even be remotely interpreted as an attack on capitalism. And you know it.
Strawman arguments are lies.
Not to mention that this entire deal had nothing to do with capitalism. Government guarantees a giant loan to a business driven by nepotism, greed and lies in an erratic industry headed by a former sports star with no management experience whatsoever? How is that capitalism?
Lately they've been doing gift certificates to grocery stores and such, but completely forgetting that money is fungible - money I suddenly didn't have to spend on groceries is freed up for buying, well whatever else, including guns. That's the thing, though. Unless the trade-in doesn't involve money or any tangible good, it become a fungible item.
I think that the anti-gun lobbies and authorities who host these things could have benefited from consulting any divorce lawyer when it comes to the subject of all things fungible, no?
Either that or you can simply assault someone with a banana.
But if you use the reward you get from the group to directly support the opposite of their agenda... did you really help them? For instance, using the gift token to buy a new FPS game.
I would like to think they would somehow arrange for the reward to not be able to be used in this way, but groups like this tend not to be terribly forward thinking.
You will get Gift cards to Build a Bear
Never been in the store, but I will suppose you cannot build violent bears?
When's the last time you saw somebody who was a student athlete shoot up a school or movie theater?
Sports are charged with testosterone, true, but they also teach people how to lose gracefully and that losing is a part of life. I'd trust some football-playing hothead who says what's on his mind and cools down minutes after a rage much more than some silent, coddled, brooding nerd-loser who chooses to mass-murder out of anger at their own weakness and defeatism.
So in short, you accuse athletes of being bullies and brutes, but it turns out that the dumb louts actually manage their emotions better than you do.
-- Ethanol-fueled
No, student athletes don't shoot up movie theaters, they just rape girls and brag about it to their friends. Then the school community covers it up for them because in redneck America highschool football "stars" are the darlings of town.
Then you run into the same problem as people trading in broken or useless guns to the gun buyback:
By turning in your property, you effectively endorse their political cause. They get to say that "X number of people turned in this filth to get it off of our streets and out of our schools!". Personally, I'm not willing to become part of their cause and make that value of X going higher at any cost.
If you actually do find their message convincing then by all means turn in your games.
But if you use the reward you get from the group to directly support the opposite of their agenda... did you really help them? For instance, using the gift token to buy a new FPS game.
I would like to think they would somehow arrange for the reward to not be able to be used in this way, but groups like this tend not to be terribly forward thinking.
There is an elegant way to solve the problem of the concentration of wealth issue to the exclusion of general society.
Tax the robots at 70%
Then take that money, and funnel it into education, the arts, and a basic living wage to the masses.
Problems with people becoming breeding factories? Reduce the basic wage payments given for each child born over +2 by 50% then 75%, then nothing over 4.
With a higher level of education, our scientific advancement will increase, further increasing our wealth in general. Since the tax on robots leaves a 30% profit for the rich, they are rewarded for keeping the machines going. and paying for the administration of the machines to those who still earn a wage.
The formulas can be tweaked, should there be a new frontier opened up such as space, and money may in fact become only representations of pure resources and energy if technology such as a nano lathe becomes reality. (Being able to assemble anything from the atom up)
The trouble with 'warning signs' when it comes to events like this is we are talking about a FP/TP ratio of possibility millions to one... meaning that as indicators of mass shootings, they are completely useless.
Now, they might have utility in getting people help that would increase their quality of life or of that around them.. but more likely they would just be used to crack down on people who are already having trouble...
FP/TP Ratio? So people with a high First Post to Third Post ratio are more likely to be killers? I knew it....
2) You must be able to get your message to people who want to hear it.
Slave Owner's didn't WANT to hear messages of their slaves... so is it not in their right to speak freely?
Free speech means having to hear to people that you don't agree with at times. You don't have to listen.
And yet, if I decide to stand on the sidewalk across from your house with a sign that reads "nschubach is an asshole and deserves do die", I will have a restraining order put on me and not be allowed within x feet of you. Your right not to be harassed trumps my right of free speech.
Was the second paragraph of your post copypasta or TMI? And what the fuck did it have to do with anything? I like a good non-sequitor as much as the next person, but wtf?
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Make "Rent of Barium" part of the bill - if you return the Barium, you get your deposit back.
Good plan. The last time I got a hospital bill that was not covered by insurance... I wanted to take a dump on the hospital administrator's desk.
We're basically just a living, breathing, seriously deformed donut.
FTFY.
(At any rate, that reminds me to get some exercise today...)
Well if your goal is to look more like a donut... eating more donuts is actually a way to achieve that.
There is just too much misinformation about this post.
State College is no in "Western Pennsylvania". And neither is any part of Ohio. .
True, but very few people live in the center of Pennsylvania. Penn State's membership is largely people from the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas, where the vast majority of the people in the state live. Ohio people tend to go to Ohio State.
I can't speak about Eastern Pa as I travel there only rarely; but for the entirety of Western and Central Pennsylvania, GP's words are quite true. "football trumps justice"
Alcohol is considered fair play. I know too many girls who, when I bring up that I don't mess with girls once they've had more than a minor buzz, proceed to carefully explain to me that what they do when they're drunk as fuck is their business and their responsibility--up to and including fucking the hell out of everyone when they're too far gone to remember their own name (or stay conscious).
People just don't see this as wrong. I don't know why.
Because you are venturing into a realm of common sense that most people are oblivious to.
I had a girl get pissed off at me at a bar because I refused to hit on her in her sloppy-drunken state. (We had a conversation going, until she went from "normal-possibly-interesting person to douche-baguette in under 2 drinks.) If I wouldn't even want be friends with someone that gets obnoxiously wasted to that level, i certainly wouldn't want to be romantic with such a person. I ended up spending half of the evening trying to keep her from falling down on top of the musicians that were playing. (which were friends of mine)
Now, I am not saying there is a not hotness level a woman could achieve to override my gag reflex of douchyness; but falling down drunkenness is seriously unattractive.
Maybe, maybe not.
More important, cops will know who to question directly, same as if they'd had an anonymous tip. They can do that.
Apply pressure to the people involved, one will flip. Everyone goes down, one with a lesser charge.
And cops know how to cover up for their friend's kids. Which is exactly what is happening in this case. If Anonymous had not stepped in, these fuckers would be getting off with little more than a slap on the wrist. Read up on this Sheriff Fred Abdalla.
I know don't feed the trolls, but this is just lazy.
What about the top comment? Titled "Serves Obama right..."
Ok, ok... nobody other than OP is saying that.
Monsanto is evil, therefore all GMO is evil.
Microsoft is evil, therefore all operating systems are evil.
Google is evil, therefore all internet based software companies are evil.
IBM is evil, therefore all computers are evil.
Scientology is evil, therefore all religions are evil.
Now, should these children be jailed? Most certainly not. Because it is not the crime that is of importance; rather it is the motive.
So if I murder you because I want to steal a can of soda from you, I should only be charged with a misdemeanor?
Ok I get it, you are a stand up philosopher.
A series produced protocol droid from junk parts. And no, that is not the only thing that bothered me with those movies.
Maybe it was a junk pile of protocol droids? Jabba did have a habit of destroying them.
Put it on a train. Trains are so much more efficient for freight than trucks.
Presuming there are train tracks going right to the place you are delivering to, or your cargo is cross-country.
"3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."
That could mean anything. By commenting on how this is an evil bait-and-switch by Google I could be encouraging people to fork Android and cause fragmentation. Does this mean Google can take away my ability to develop software for Android and pull any apps I have created from the store? Is this some sort of back-door clause so they can do the Apple thing and pull any app for any made-up reason with this?
Neither the article nor the summary says anything that could even be remotely interpreted as an attack on capitalism. And you know it.
Strawman arguments are lies.
Not to mention that this entire deal had nothing to do with capitalism. Government guarantees a giant loan to a business driven by nepotism, greed and lies in an erratic industry headed by a former sports star with no management experience whatsoever? How is that capitalism?
Lately they've been doing gift certificates to grocery stores and such, but completely forgetting that money is fungible - money I suddenly didn't have to spend on groceries is freed up for buying, well whatever else, including guns. That's the thing, though. Unless the trade-in doesn't involve money or any tangible good, it become a fungible item.
I think that the anti-gun lobbies and authorities who host these things could have benefited from consulting any divorce lawyer when it comes to the subject of all things fungible, no?
Either that or you can simply assault someone with a banana.
But if you use the reward you get from the group to directly support the opposite of their agenda... did you really help them? For instance, using the gift token to buy a new FPS game.
I would like to think they would somehow arrange for the reward to not be able to be used in this way, but groups like this tend not to be terribly forward thinking.
You will get Gift cards to Build a Bear
Never been in the store, but I will suppose you cannot build violent bears?
When's the last time you saw somebody who was a student athlete shoot up a school or movie theater?
Sports are charged with testosterone, true, but they also teach people how to lose gracefully and that losing is a part of life. I'd trust some football-playing hothead who says what's on his mind and cools down minutes after a rage much more than some silent, coddled, brooding nerd-loser who chooses to mass-murder out of anger at their own weakness and defeatism.
So in short, you accuse athletes of being bullies and brutes, but it turns out that the dumb louts actually manage their emotions better than you do.
-- Ethanol-fueled
No, student athletes don't shoot up movie theaters, they just rape girls and brag about it to their friends. Then the school community covers it up for them because in redneck America highschool football "stars" are the darlings of town.
more boobs plz
Amusingly enough the one thing these people typically find more taboo than violence, is sex.
Then you run into the same problem as people trading in broken or useless guns to the gun buyback:
By turning in your property, you effectively endorse their political cause. They get to say that "X number of people turned in this filth to get it off of our streets and out of our schools!". Personally, I'm not willing to become part of their cause and make that value of X going higher at any cost.
If you actually do find their message convincing then by all means turn in your games.
But if you use the reward you get from the group to directly support the opposite of their agenda... did you really help them? For instance, using the gift token to buy a new FPS game.
I would like to think they would somehow arrange for the reward to not be able to be used in this way, but groups like this tend not to be terribly forward thinking.
There is an elegant way to solve the problem of the concentration of wealth issue to the exclusion of general society.
Tax the robots at 70%
Then take that money, and funnel it into education, the arts, and a basic living wage to the masses.
Problems with people becoming breeding factories? Reduce the basic wage payments given for each child born over +2 by 50% then 75%, then nothing over 4.
With a higher level of education, our scientific advancement will increase, further increasing our wealth in general. Since the tax on robots leaves a 30% profit for the rich, they are rewarded for keeping the machines going. and paying for the administration of the machines to those who still earn a wage.
The formulas can be tweaked, should there be a new frontier opened up such as space, and money may in fact become only representations of pure resources and energy if technology such as a nano lathe becomes reality. (Being able to assemble anything from the atom up)
Tax the robots? I do not pay my robots a salary.
So what you're saying is, cars don't commit DUI's... car drivers do. Bizarre thinking.
I don't know... my car was drinking ethanol...
This. Adding 'this' always makes the parent true.
"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
Pro-tip: use the Fact: prefix before making stating any opinion in an online forum.
And adding the "Period" suffix after your opinion makes it a universal truth. Period.
I don't believe you.
Fact: Your statement was not prefixed with the appropriate "Fact:" flag and is therefore untrustworthy. End of line.
Adding end of line at the end of your line makes you sound like you are the MCP. End of line.
The trouble with 'warning signs' when it comes to events like this is we are talking about a FP/TP ratio of possibility millions to one... meaning that as indicators of mass shootings, they are completely useless.
Now, they might have utility in getting people help that would increase their quality of life or of that around them.. but more likely they would just be used to crack down on people who are already having trouble...
FP/TP Ratio? So people with a high First Post to Third Post ratio are more likely to be killers? I knew it....
Your right not to be harassed trumps my right of free speech.
Restraining orders restrict movement, not speech.
Stop using the restraining order restrict speech fallacy, ktx.
As long as everyone else agrees that harassment is not free speech.
2) You must be able to get your message to people who want to hear it.
Slave Owner's didn't WANT to hear messages of their slaves... so is it not in their right to speak freely?
Free speech means having to hear to people that you don't agree with at times. You don't have to listen.
And yet, if I decide to stand on the sidewalk across from your house with a sign that reads "nschubach is an asshole and deserves do die", I will have a restraining order put on me and not be allowed within x feet of you. Your right not to be harassed trumps my right of free speech.
Now, how do we define harassment?
Was the second paragraph of your post copypasta or TMI? And what the fuck did it have to do with anything? I like a good non-sequitor as much as the next person, but wtf?