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  1. Re:All this means is that you can catch them on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    *arms and legs cut off*

    "Oh, so you're a coward are you!? Running away!?"

    You're a loony.

  2. Stop. Posting. This. Shit. on CSTA: Google Surveying Educators On Unconscious Biases of Students, Parents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everyone is clearly sick to fucking death of his SJW vomit. Where ever you're getting this shit... go somewhere else. Maybe you'll find something less idiotic to post on the board.

  3. Re:And no one cares on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    Why not starwars then. Reshoot the original trilogy.

    And while we're at it we can totally change the story to something totally different.

    he fucking blew up Vulcan.... that's fucking unacceptable. That's one of the core worlds of the federation. That's like just killing the Klingons off for no reason. What the actual fuck?

  4. Re:Why don't they have a sat link? on Undersea Cable Break Disrupts Life In Northern Mariana Islands · · Score: 1

    I know exactly how shitty they are... it doesn't matter. You'd have enough bandwidth to sustain banking, outgoing/incoming text messages... that sort of thing. Critical communications would be maintained. Outgoing phone calls? No. General access to the internet for everyone? Absolutely not. Core services could be routed through the sat link though and it would work.

    What is more... the cruise sat links are shitty even for sat links. Most of the tv crews beam their broadcasts by satellite... FULL VIDEO AND SOUND from where ever in town. Just an example. The sats can handle lots of bandwidth. The issue is if you can afford it. And as a back up system that normally uses ZERO bandwidth... you could even splurg for a big uplink that is only used when the shit hits the fan.

  5. Re:Well, she was an interim. on Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return · · Score: 1

    ... you are one of the dumbest people on this board.

    You literally quoted me when I said this:

    "If I'm right, then reddit will create a pattern behind the wall that will look remarkably similar to someone putting a lasagna into a food processor and failing to put the lid on."

    That was what your quibble referred to... by your own citation.

    Note:

    And failing to put the lid on.
    And failing to put the lid on.
    And failing to put the lid on.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Re:So tired of these stupid articles on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    ""You do know that a government budget is in a human readable format right?""

    Which is why everyone knows what is in the budget and understands how much is being spent on what?...

    Bitch please.

    ""You wave your magic wand and more doctors appear? Please explain how this mechanism works that allows you to increase more doctors on demand? It can't be through any sort of subsidy because as you say, that is the work of the devil.""

    As to increasing supply, this is something we do all the time for lots of different things. That include labor. Even skilled labor can be generated simply by increasing the number of doctors put through the system. The current number of doctors we produce per year is strictly limited by the medical schools. We could do a lot of things to increase the numbers.

    As to socialist militaries... I'm not even going to get into the many layers of idiot that it took concoct that argument... beyond of course for the first one where I point out that the state doing something does not mean it is socialist.

    ""Socialism is a social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy,[1][2]""

    Who makes the missiles? The guns? The uniforms? The everything?

    Private companies.

    https://youtu.be/qiukc1yfzCI?t...

  7. Re:NEWSFLASH - Slimy politician is slimy on Barney Frank Defends Political Hypocrisy, Game Theory Explains It · · Score: 1

    That's more down to the cultish adherence people have to these arbitrary parties.

    Break all the factions down... and list all their beliefs.

    Most of them shouldn't be on the same sides.

    Why are greens and pro union people on the same party? they've got contrary interests.

    Why are evangelical Christians and libertarians in the same party? They believe in almost none of the same things.

    The whole thing is fucked up.

  8. Re:That wasn't the featured point on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 2

    We have a lot of progressive idiots that like to make everything into a gender/race issue.

  9. Re:All this means is that you can catch them on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    I'll just address the final point.

    Any relationship involves two sides. And any change in regards to society should something that ultimately serves society. If a change damages society and ensures the ultimate collapse of that society... then the change was poorly executed... or possibly entirely inadvisable.

  10. Why don't they have a sat link? on Undersea Cable Break Disrupts Life In Northern Mariana Islands · · Score: 2

    F'ing cruise ships have that... you'd think the island could afford ONE satlink. Just for emergencies.

  11. Re:All this means is that you can catch them on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    You're just going into black knight mode at this point:
    https://youtu.be/dhRUe-gz690?t...

  12. Re:And no one cares on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    We'll see... he could reboot the whole universe and have actors from past films make appearances through visions and shit.

    I think if he did to starwars what he did to startrek... you'd understand why the trekies didn't like it.

    You don't reboot some franchises. You just don't.

  13. Re:So tired of these stupid articles on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    I got modded up by 15 people and modded down by 20... so... its actually showing that my position is a popular one and the opposition has no lock on the issue.

    Also... still excellent karma.

  14. And no one cares on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    The least concerning thing about starwars is the racial diversity. The most concerning thing is them fucking it up again like they did last time.

    Would the phantom menace have been better if they were all minorities? Nope.

    Does not fucking matter. Further, it is in space and half of the fucking characters are aliens or robots... so... who gives a shit.

  15. Re:I'm all for it on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    True, but citing my point as requiring an aeronautical degree when people with such degrees have proposed the same thing is stupid.

    As in... the opinion a stupid person would have.

    The position is one shared by some experts and professionals. Blueprints have been drawn up for it.

    The issue is not the weight or the structural integrity.

    Its just that planes are expensive and getting anything modified that way would be a custom job and that would be even more expensive. Its a good idea. it just needs to get adopted enough to become economical. The existing system isn't any better. Its just the standard of our day.

  16. Re:All this means is that you can catch them on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1

    Not really... I said something was in the western tradition and you interpreted that to mean something much more narrow than what I actually said.

    I corrected you... and now you're butthurt that you lacked the imagination or precision of thought to grasp that I could be referring to something wider than what you consider typical.

    In any case... you're now officially boring me with your attempts to breath life into a dead argument. Its dead, jim.

    You can either accept that and make a new argument in this topic or please don't waste any more of my time pretending it isn't already over. This is boring.

  17. NEWSFLASH - Slimy politician is slimy on Barney Frank Defends Political Hypocrisy, Game Theory Explains It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The entitlement out of these people is pretty fucking revolting. I mean, they think they earned something. They got elected - sure... people voted for them - sure... but if you get elected to do X and then do Y... fuck you. The voters might have been stupid to trust you but you're still a slimeball for fucking them over, aren't you shithead?

    Who has any faith in these people at this point.

    We seem to have no one choose from besides slime balls and crazy people.

    On the left you've got a choice between Hillary and Bernie... Slime ball versus crazy person. And then on the right you have a collection of slimeballs versus a collection of crazy people. I can't really think of any one on either side that doesn't fit neatly into one of those categories.

    Like... Trump... the republicans think that is a good idea right now for reasons that can only be attributed to fucking madness. he's a crazy person. Then you have Jeb and Cruz... slimeballs.

    Its a race to see if we are ruled by corrupt lying shitheads... or people that probably should have butterfly nets thrown over their heads and carted off to a nice quiet place with a life time supply of jigsaw puzzles to chew on.

  18. Re: It only works without humans on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Do ever get tired of being wrong? If I were you, I would...

    ""literally
    ADVERB

            in a literal manner or sense; exactly:
            "the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the traffic circle""

    What dictionary are you reading that defines "literally" as "not literally"? Because the answer has to be "your ass" again... or something equally reputable.

    Do you even know how crazy you sound?

    Seriously. Just stop.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  19. Re:So tired of these stupid articles on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    Also true... though somewhat overblown.

    This would mostly refer to our drug costs. From what I can tell, most of the drug costs are due to artificial scarcity. Also there is profit sharing between the doctor and the drug company.

    If a doctor proscribes you an expensive drug he gets more money than if he proscribes a cheap drug.

    There are a lot of drugs on the market that come in two versions. Literally a cheap one and an expensive one. Same drug. And the expensive ones are frequently proscribes because it makes the doctors/hospitals more money.

    This is why people should do some research when they get proscribed something... especially anything expensive.

    My parents had this happen to them a few times. Doctors they trusted that they had been seeing for years proscribed some very expensive drugs for them. And I researched them and found that there were effectively identical drugs that cost somewhere between a 10th or 100th of what the proscribed drugs cost.

    Its a big problem. Its the worst with the psychotropic drugs that they proscribe for various emotional and mental conditions. But its evident in every drug category.

  20. Re:It only works without humans on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    And morality is subjective to your moral system. Which means you're basically citing someone for violating a rule that isn't even a law.

    Who the fuck cares what you think is or is not moral? I don't give a shit what the Jihadis think is moral. I don't give a shit what the evangelical Christians think is moral. And why the fuck would I give a wet rat fart what YOU think is moral?

    Who the fuck are you to decide what is and is not moral? And on that basis how can you even begin to presume to judge what is and is not greed?

    My definition for greed came out of a dictionary. Your definitions came out of your ass.

    I don't have to validate my position to you.

  21. Re:It only works without humans on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Yes and no.

    It had some of the most exciting space battles I've ever seen. The one where galactica fights for the jump point at Ragnar station was really cool and my second favorite would be the assault on new caprica with galactica jumping into the atmosphere, launching vipers, and then jumping out before it slammed into the ground.

    Exciting. But I think probably really stupid.

    For one thing, fighters don't make sense in space. I can nail you with light speed particle beams so all that juking around isn't going to do anything. Beyond that I don't know how you're maneuvering like that because you're in a vacuum... you're also spending fuel like a crazy person. I just don't think fighters make any sense in space combat... at all.

    The startrek model is less stupid but still really really really stupid. Because weapons tend to be more powerful than defenses. I mean... the best battleship in its day would still get killed by the best guns of that day... practically in one good shot. Battleships lasted so long in fights against each other because they mostly missed. Over and over again. Direct hits with a 16 inch shell? Good night princess.

    Point is... they let themselves get hit. They don't dodge. They don't use point defense against the incoming fire.

    The klingons/romblians are somewhat better with their cloaking devices which lets them ambush people. But the Federation especially are fucking crazy. They LET themselves get hit. I mean... if I were the Klingons... I'd just build a super torp that would insta kill a federation starship. then I'd give each of my ships two or three of those because seriously how many do you need? And then they'd decloak behind some federation turkey... mag the shit out of them.... and recloak.

    But in the startrek universe, the weapons are for no apparent reason much less powerful than the defenses. The defenses can take direct hit after direct hit and stand.

    What? That isn't how it works today.

    Take a tank... a mainline battle tank takes a direct hit from another comparable mainline battle tank... say one Abrams directly hits another Abrams... the other Abrams is dead. Instantly. Everyone inside is dead. The tank is trashed. One hit. What the armor lets you do is shrug off lesser weapons than an 80mm smooth bore fired armor piercing whatever the round is... And it lets you shug off glancing blows.

    But a direct hit? You're done. Period.

    Mainline battle tanks avoid this situation by first engaging at long range so most shots are going to miss and it gives the attacker something of an advantage because it will take a second for the defense to figure out where the enemy is etc. Also... the defenders all dig their tanks in... use dirt to absorb the hits... and they camo the tanks so they aren't as easily seen.

    Its all about NOT being hit in the first place. And that's assuming you're not using air support to blow up all the tanks before you even engage with your own tanks.

    In BSG... they get so god damn close to each other.

    Do you know the range battleships were engaging each other at during WW2? Over 10 kilometers. They wouldn't get any closer to each other than that. Part of the whole advantage of a battleship is that the guns have longer ranges. Which means you can sit outside someone else's range and pound them and they can't pound you back. that was something of the idea behind cruisers. A cruiser is supposed to be a ship with battleship class guns but destroyer class armor. And the idea was that it didn't need the armor because it just wouldn't get close enough to get hit.

    Now that didn't work for various reasons. But the point is that you want to engage people in YOUR range but ideally OUTSIDE theirs. So you can shoot at them and they can't shoot back.

    BSG got too close in fights. And they didn't use their jump in combat enough. That was especially crazy. You'd you'd "spin up" your FTL... jump near them... fire off a barrage... then jump away.

    They even had that stealth ship that apparentl

  22. Re:It only works without humans on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Its not a faith in humanity... it is a realistic estimation of the ability of elites to control ultimately uncontrollable technology.

    If the elites could control everything gun gun wouldn't have been invented and neither would the crossbow. We'd be mud farmers used as fodder in wars that were more games while our betters ran around in shiny armor mostly hacking peasants apart.

    But what happened? Another set of elites found it advantageous to break from the script and use peasants as the primary fighting force. And that meant arming them with something that could kill knights with minimum losses. No games. Fucking kill them. Long bows... cross bows... guns.

    And then the battlefield was no place for the elites because some peasant was going to fucking kill you which was not how it used to work.

    Then look at the rise of the industrial revolution. Here you'll say "but the peasants still worked in factories and that was bad"... yeah but the old aristocracy was overturned and overwhelmed by the new money and the new innovators. And those people rose out of the middle and lower classes. And they brought with them middle and lower class sensibilities to the upper class. Notions of hereditary power were overturned in favor of money, innovation, balls, leverage. Doesn't help the guy with nothing but every so often someone with nothing has leverage and balls and they can make something happen.

    The elites can't control the spread of technology.

    Look at what is happening in China and Iran. The peasants of both societies are communicating with the world despite their regimes wanting to control all speech.

    Did you see the ghost gunner? Its just a specialized CNC machine... nothing special. But it lets any moron make an untracable AR15... just as a starter.

    I can buy a reasonable 3 axis CNC machine for about 800 dollars these days. 800... dollars. How much longer until I can buy a 5 axis CNC machine for two grand? And with a 5 axis CNC machine you can make anything out of metal that a machine shop can make.

    So lets say you had something better than a CNC machine... you had a replicator? That's getting out. You're not stopping it. You could at best slow it down. But its getting out. And that isn't faith in humanity. That's faith in chaos against order. That's faith in the uncontrollable being uncontrollable.

    Its like trying to ban drugs that are grown in the dirt. How do you ban a plant people are growing? You can't. It isn't possible.

    Same thing for banning alcohol. You can't. Its fermented carbs. You can't ban carbs and you can't ban bacteria... so you can't ban alcohol. It isn't possible.

  23. Re: It only works without humans on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. And obviously so since mine came out of a dictionary and yours came out of your ass.

    I literally cited the dictionary. Kill yourself.
    https://youtu.be/qiukc1yfzCI?t...

  24. Re:Well, she was an interim. on Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return · · Score: 1

    ... do I read? Not only do I read, but I also remember what I've personally written for quite some time... unlike you apparently:
    "Pedantically picking on your analogy, have you used a food processor? They don't tend to eject stuff out the top."

    You ask if I have used one before.

    You say they don't eject stuff out the top... with the top off? I showed you a video with crap slapping off the top of the lid. They do.

    Either admit your error. I have cited you and shown evidence. Or I'm not going to go any farther in this discussion with you.

    If you want to have this discussion but your ego won't allow you to admit the obvious error you made. Then just appologize for saying anything about the food processor and ask me let that issue go.

    I will take that as you concession but you can take that anyway you want. Then perhaps we go forward on the understanding that I don't want to hear about your idiotic quibble ever a-fucking-gain.

    Where is my hostility and irritation coming from? You're looking like a degenerate liar to me at this point. That's the root of my irritation with you at this point. That's just my perception.

    And I really can't credit you with a meaningful voice in a discussion when you open with what appears to be a stupid error, I correct it, and then you refuse to acknowledge it.

    I'm not going to advance the discussion on that basis.

    So choose. You're in the irredeemable wrong on this issue. Concede the point and I will mechanically move beyond this... I am profoundly logical. If you concede a point. I will take it and move on. If you refuse to concede a lost point then its like refusing to accept I killed a chess piece.

    We can't keep playing if you do that. I took that piece. It's mine. Take it off the board and we'll keep playing.

  25. Re:All just cover for the H1B visa scam. on Well-Played: Microsoft Parlays NSF Video 'Remake' Into National CS K-12 Crisis · · Score: 1

    Jingoism?
    ""
    jingoism
    NOUN derogatory

            extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.""

    You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Fucking ignorant peasants are the death of every free republic. You morons are too stupid to be free. You're born to be dominated. And the real tragedy form my perspective is that you were given a vote in my future. You're unworthy of it. Left to your own devices you'd be in chains. And you're dragging those us that might just manage to be free down with you.