So, produce links, names, references. Produce ANY FUCKING THING.
The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that global warming is both happening now, and caused by man, and not a desirable thing.
I don't know what "agenda driven climatoligists" you refer to. Maybe "agenda of wishing to survive" climatoligists. I suppose you could sya those folks do have an agenda.
But, obviously you know the opinion of "the world's best." I guess you don't need anyone else telling YOU what to think, smart guy.
I have yet to see anyone outside of the lunatic internet fringe claim that climate change is going to kill us all off,
If you examine the ruins of any extinct civilization, you will almost uniformly find that they were destroyed by a sudden change in the weather. The cliff dwellings in Southern Colorado, Easter Island, hell even the Romans seem to have been the victims of an unusually cold spell around the depths of the Dark Ages.
That's not lunatic fringe talking, sir. That's historical fact. We ignore it at our extreme peril.
I'm getting the impression that like most wealthy men, Jobs was a massive narcissist and meglomaniac who constantly had to shove his dick in the world's face to show us all how fucking awesome he was.
But like most sociopathic narcissists, Jobs' non-stop self-deluding garbage was just bullshit. Having successfully founded a cult built around buying products, Jobs ended his life trying to assure his eternal control over everything in his purview -- like any narcissist. I don't think he EVER grasped anything beyond his own self-centered needs.
Problem with fashion is the name means more than the look itself.
Trouble yourself to understand why this is. If you don't have proprietary lock-in/ownership of killer app, all you have to trade on is the quality of your manufacturing work.
That is what fashion labels offer. My wife likes to buy and sell these designer purses online. Fake ones are looked on very differently, because the quality of manufacture just isn't the same.
If software companies were banking on the quality of their finished product rather than the patented features of their sloppy-ass third-rate implementation of protected intellectual property, don't you think the IT industry would have a much better reputation? As it is people find computers relentlessly buggy and difficult to use, EVEN THE DAMN IPHONE. Maybe if quality was the #1 job, instead of 'safely-protected revenue stream,' our nation's economy wouldn't be such a horrorshow, either.
After all, for the last 20 years at least, it seems that American businesses value being first (and alone) in line to capture a revenue stream, rather than being the best product on the market.
The Dept. of Education never educated one single child
Do you just pull these useless nuggets out of your ass randomly, or did someone spoon-feed this propaganda into your eager little right-wing brain?
HUD, by failing to oversee Freddy and Fanny, got us into the mortgage mess we're in now
NO, FUCKTARD, the mortgage mess was caused first and foremost by the securitzation of bad loans, which were MASSIVELY ENCOURAGED by the Republican administration at the time via Bush's Ownership Society. Hell, if you were even being a tiny bit intellectually honest you could bother yourself to google Bush Touts Home Ownership and see the numerous articles of the GOP drooling all over each other about how great fantastic it is that every 'murkin is gonna have a house.
IT WAS THOSE bad loans that collapsed the mortgage industry, moron. PLEASE DO bother your lazy ass to get the facts straight before you just FART OUT some ignorant propaganda that you're rebreathing out of Rush Limbaugh's diseased asshole.
Ron paul's economic ideas are head-crushingly, fucking stupid.
There is no practical acknowledgement of the role of government in his world-view. He's one of those fucking crazy idiots who thinks that economies magically regulate themselves. We've got 30 years of history demonstrating that he and all libertarian fetishists are DEAD WRONG regarding that subject.
Why the fuck is anyone listening to this doddering old fool?
It boggles my mind how Apple can release one phone a year when the development pace in this sector is so brisk.
I have your answer:
Look in my eyes, what do you see? the Cult of Personality I know your anger, I know your dreams I've been everything you wanna be ohhh⦠I'm the Cult of Personality Like Mussolini and Kennedy I'm the Cult of Personality the Cult of Personality the Cult of Personality
Neon lights, Nobel Prize When a leader speaks, the reflection lies You won't have to follow me Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be I'm the smiling face of your T.V. ohh⦠I'm the Cult of Personality I exploit you; still you love me I tell you one and one makes three ohh⦠I'm the Cult of Personality Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi ohh⦠I'm the Cult of Personality the Cult of Personality the Cult of Personality
Neon lights, Nobel Prize When a leader speaks, that leader dies You won't have to follow me Only you can set you free
-Living Colour
Now that Jobs is finally dead, maybe Apple will have to actually produce stuff that works correctly (please don't make me laugh by asserting otherwise) and provides actual value.
Or maybe like before, without the personality the cult will experience a long, slow death.
'But adult supervision most certainly is in order, because News Corp. seems to be operating with only the sketchiest of business plans and no effective executive oversight of his many far-flung initiatives
It's to terrorize a modern democracy into giving over control of our every institution to unelected morons with a bare-knuckled agenda of self-enrichment.
Fuck Fox News. Fuck Everyone Who Listens To Fox News. Fuck Everyone Who Opens Their Dumb Fuck Mouth On Fox News. Fox News Should Be Pulled Apart By Wild Weasels.
I've about had it with these vandals. Fucking freaks!
Dan Rather resigned after he allowed himself to be punk'd. How many Fox News anchors resigned after farting out a total lie?
Answer: 0.
I hope you are not trying to say that since Fox bothers you everyone else is pure as the driven snow,
I hope you aren't trying to establish a false equivalence with this desperate Teabagger nonsense. CBS did not go to court to establish their right to broadcast falsehoods, as Fox News has.
And no major media outlet to my knowledge has been caught hacking the phones of crime victims, world leaders, and well just about anybody else.
The sheer mendacity of what you're saying is beyond explanation. You think you can shit out a "Dan rather" and excuse decades of monstrous manipulation and lying on the part of Fox News.
You understand you just described all of the media, right?
Fox News has gone to court to protect their right to broadcast falsehoods. No other media outlet has done so to my knowledge.
And I also would like you to find a media outlet hacking phones and covering that up as well.
The equivalence you are trying to establish just doesn't exist. There is NO MAJOR MEDIA OUTLET that has displayed the incredible disdain for facts and credibility that Fox News has.
"But if songs had been $0.99 wouldn't you just have have downloaded them instead having a friend tape it "
Are you not clear on how that works? I didn't go to a friend 25 years ago and say "hey, tape me some Rush." Instead, a friend came to ME and said, "you play bass. You should hear this."
People make copies and give it out because they like the group/artist, and think someone else might like it too. In your scenario, having a $0.99 gateway is just an impediment to that kind of word-of-mouth advertising. No, I do not trawl the iTunes store or any other mp3 store looking for stuff that I might be interested in paying for that I've never heard.
All the software in the world won't reproduce that dynamic, and the RIAA can stick their fingers in their ears and scream PIRACY all they like, but the undisputed fact remains that word-of-mouth and home recording is a significant factor in making music successful.
I'm already there. I could not justify $130 a month for 500 channels of mindless puree. And I'm still not sure how we got to paying for commercials. One thing maybe these fuckwits could take note of is that customers pay for TV to get away from the goddamn commerical interruptons. I am sticking with Netflix because I tried Hulu as an alternative, and the every-10-minutes commercial interruption (which was in no way "limited" at all) was enough of a nuisance that I decided I refuse to pay $8/mo for some fucking bullshit to be bleated in my ear while I'm trying to relax.
I didn't know "grandma" was the problem the iPad was meant to solve.
Demographic studies would seem to indicate that the main group using iPads are between 35-44. In other words, perfectly computer literate, probably well into their careers, and wealthy enough to afford the hefty price tag and maintenance (after all, you've got to send it back to change the battery).
Also, I have used an iPad. It is just as quirky as any Windows computing device. I don't know where this delusion comes from that Apple products are more user-friendly, but from the perspective of someone who had to learn how to hook these damn things into my virtual desktop environment, I have had ample opportunity to experience the Apple user interface, and it is really nothing spectacular. It's just as badly-designed as every other user interface I've ever encountered.
Like all govt interference in the free market, the colleges will all raise their prices by $8000 in response
This inference is so stupid I gave up my mod points in this article just to point out that the inference you are making is COLOSALLY stupid. Like most glibertarian shibboleths, it has zero basis in fact.
What about the tens of thousands of jobs that we could use in our economy, right now
Renewables are much more likely to produce jobs, and improve our economic outlook. Continuing to service the needs of the oil companies has not improved our economic outlook for a decade now. Why do you think it might suddenly start?
Mcarthy got his butt smoked when he started going after the Army.
It was never about communism. It was about forcing a conservative point of view down everyone's throat by labeling anything they didn't understand or weren't comfortable with as "communism." The asshole who started this particular thread is just farting noise out of his mouth-hole that should have been farted out of his butt-hole. He knows nothing.
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The entire Republican party is incompetent and corrupt? I knew that!
So, produce links, names, references. Produce ANY FUCKING THING.
The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that global warming is both happening now, and caused by man, and not a desirable thing.
I don't know what "agenda driven climatoligists" you refer to. Maybe "agenda of wishing to survive" climatoligists. I suppose you could sya those folks do have an agenda.
But, obviously you know the opinion of "the world's best." I guess you don't need anyone else telling YOU what to think, smart guy.
If you examine the ruins of any extinct civilization, you will almost uniformly find that they were destroyed by a sudden change in the weather. The cliff dwellings in Southern Colorado, Easter Island, hell even the Romans seem to have been the victims of an unusually cold spell around the depths of the Dark Ages.
That's not lunatic fringe talking, sir. That's historical fact. We ignore it at our extreme peril.
I'm getting the impression that like most wealthy men, Jobs was a massive narcissist and meglomaniac who constantly had to shove his dick in the world's face to show us all how fucking awesome he was.
But like most sociopathic narcissists, Jobs' non-stop self-deluding garbage was just bullshit. Having successfully founded a cult built around buying products, Jobs ended his life trying to assure his eternal control over everything in his purview -- like any narcissist. I don't think he EVER grasped anything beyond his own self-centered needs.
Trouble yourself to understand why this is. If you don't have proprietary lock-in/ownership of killer app, all you have to trade on is the quality of your manufacturing work.
That is what fashion labels offer. My wife likes to buy and sell these designer purses online. Fake ones are looked on very differently, because the quality of manufacture just isn't the same.
If software companies were banking on the quality of their finished product rather than the patented features of their sloppy-ass third-rate implementation of protected intellectual property, don't you think the IT industry would have a much better reputation? As it is people find computers relentlessly buggy and difficult to use, EVEN THE DAMN IPHONE. Maybe if quality was the #1 job, instead of 'safely-protected revenue stream,' our nation's economy wouldn't be such a horrorshow, either.
After all, for the last 20 years at least, it seems that American businesses value being first (and alone) in line to capture a revenue stream, rather than being the best product on the market.
It's no wonder our economy sucks.
What's more pertient is that Apple didn't invent those things any more than Google did.
Jobs was a giant fake. Better at using the work of others than at coming up with a single thing on his own.
As I recall, there was this guy they called Woz who did most of the heavy lifting for Cult Of Steve Jobs.
"Debt" is a broad term. It means "money owed." Maybe YOU should try understanding what that little thing means.
Do you just pull these useless nuggets out of your ass randomly, or did someone spoon-feed this propaganda into your eager little right-wing brain?
NO, FUCKTARD, the mortgage mess was caused first and foremost by the securitzation of bad loans, which were MASSIVELY ENCOURAGED by the Republican administration at the time via Bush's Ownership Society. Hell, if you were even being a tiny bit intellectually honest you could bother yourself to google Bush Touts Home Ownership and see the numerous articles of the GOP drooling all over each other about how great fantastic it is that every 'murkin is gonna have a house.
IT WAS THOSE bad loans that collapsed the mortgage industry, moron. PLEASE DO bother your lazy ass to get the facts straight before you just FART OUT some ignorant propaganda that you're rebreathing out of Rush Limbaugh's diseased asshole.
Ron paul's economic ideas are head-crushingly, fucking stupid.
There is no practical acknowledgement of the role of government in his world-view. He's one of those fucking crazy idiots who thinks that economies magically regulate themselves. We've got 30 years of history demonstrating that he and all libertarian fetishists are DEAD WRONG regarding that subject.
Why the fuck is anyone listening to this doddering old fool?
I have your answer:
-Living Colour
Now that Jobs is finally dead, maybe Apple will have to actually produce stuff that works correctly (please don't make me laugh by asserting otherwise) and provides actual value.
Or maybe like before, without the personality the cult will experience a long, slow death.
Racists are frequently ignorant of just how offensive their statements are. Just like incompetent people almost never know that they are incompetent.
It's to terrorize a modern democracy into giving over control of our every institution to unelected morons with a bare-knuckled agenda of self-enrichment.
Fuck Fox News. Fuck Everyone Who Listens To Fox News. Fuck Everyone Who Opens Their Dumb Fuck Mouth On Fox News. Fox News Should Be Pulled Apart By Wild Weasels.
I've about had it with these vandals. Fucking freaks!
And your opinion matters. I'm sure he's all broke up.
Dan Rather resigned after he allowed himself to be punk'd. How many Fox News anchors resigned after farting out a total lie?
Answer: 0.
I hope you aren't trying to establish a false equivalence with this desperate Teabagger nonsense. CBS did not go to court to establish their right to broadcast falsehoods, as Fox News has.
And no major media outlet to my knowledge has been caught hacking the phones of crime victims, world leaders, and well just about anybody else.
The sheer mendacity of what you're saying is beyond explanation. You think you can shit out a "Dan rather" and excuse decades of monstrous manipulation and lying on the part of Fox News.
What a bunch of teabagger horseshit.
Fox News has gone to court to protect their right to broadcast falsehoods. No other media outlet has done so to my knowledge.
And I also would like you to find a media outlet hacking phones and covering that up as well.
The equivalence you are trying to establish just doesn't exist. There is NO MAJOR MEDIA OUTLET that has displayed the incredible disdain for facts and credibility that Fox News has.
"But if songs had been $0.99 wouldn't you just have have downloaded them instead having a friend tape it "
Are you not clear on how that works? I didn't go to a friend 25 years ago and say "hey, tape me some Rush." Instead, a friend came to ME and said, "you play bass. You should hear this."
People make copies and give it out because they like the group/artist, and think someone else might like it too. In your scenario, having a $0.99 gateway is just an impediment to that kind of word-of-mouth advertising. No, I do not trawl the iTunes store or any other mp3 store looking for stuff that I might be interested in paying for that I've never heard.
All the software in the world won't reproduce that dynamic, and the RIAA can stick their fingers in their ears and scream PIRACY all they like, but the undisputed fact remains that word-of-mouth and home recording is a significant factor in making music successful.
Ah, I see we still have the -1 "You're Wrong, Bitch" moderation category.
Or is it the -1 "I disagree with you but am too chickenshit to say so" category?
Seriously, you don't. You just treat him like a sponge. Leave books around and let him absorb them.
I'm already there. I could not justify $130 a month for 500 channels of mindless puree. And I'm still not sure how we got to paying for commercials. One thing maybe these fuckwits could take note of is that customers pay for TV to get away from the goddamn commerical interruptons. I am sticking with Netflix because I tried Hulu as an alternative, and the every-10-minutes commercial interruption (which was in no way "limited" at all) was enough of a nuisance that I decided I refuse to pay $8/mo for some fucking bullshit to be bleated in my ear while I'm trying to relax.
I didn't know "grandma" was the problem the iPad was meant to solve.
Demographic studies would seem to indicate that the main group using iPads are between 35-44. In other words, perfectly computer literate, probably well into their careers, and wealthy enough to afford the hefty price tag and maintenance (after all, you've got to send it back to change the battery).
Also, I have used an iPad. It is just as quirky as any Windows computing device. I don't know where this delusion comes from that Apple products are more user-friendly, but from the perspective of someone who had to learn how to hook these damn things into my virtual desktop environment, I have had ample opportunity to experience the Apple user interface, and it is really nothing spectacular. It's just as badly-designed as every other user interface I've ever encountered.
This inference is so stupid I gave up my mod points in this article just to point out that the inference you are making is COLOSALLY stupid. Like most glibertarian shibboleths, it has zero basis in fact.
-1, Patent Troll.
Renewables are much more likely to produce jobs, and improve our economic outlook. Continuing to service the needs of the oil companies has not improved our economic outlook for a decade now. Why do you think it might suddenly start?
Mcarthy got his butt smoked when he started going after the Army.
It was never about communism. It was about forcing a conservative point of view down everyone's throat by labeling anything they didn't understand or weren't comfortable with as "communism." The asshole who started this particular thread is just farting noise out of his mouth-hole that should have been farted out of his butt-hole. He knows nothing.
Seriously, produce verifiable facts regarding this insane hysterica, or shut your big fat ignorant mouth.