""oh...it's Karmashock. Cognitive dissonance is your deal. Nevermind. Carry on."" That looks like someone judging my post by some record I have left behind of previous posts.
I have no problem with people that actually log in doing that. That's fine. But ACs are fucking hypocrite trash when they do it.
... so one example of one insurance company losing its non-profit status means that they are all greedy and driving up costs of insurance?
Never mind taht if you go into a hospital without insurance they charge MORE than if you had insurance.
That implies that the costs are not coming from the insurance companies but rather from the hospitals.
Nearly all the money goes to the hospitals. Have you looked at a hospital bill recently? THAT is what is driving up costs. The hospital bills themselves.
Now why are hospital bills going up? many complex reasons... basically none of which has anything to do with insurance.
Your argument would require that the polls all agree with each other... but they don't. Every election cycle we have polls that are all over the place.
Are some of them going to be right? Sure... will a shotgun hit a target with some pellets?... easy to do when you blast out bird shot.
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... I'm not arguing that about smoking... I'm just not sure why i would do that in the first place.
Smoking is not something I do... I've gone to places that do it and frequently it is really hard for me to see what all the fuss is about. Maybe that's just me and everyone else is nuts for smoked meat.
It strikes me a bit like the california oak wine thing. There was this point in the California wine industry where they they thought having an oaky flavor was a plus. So they'd literally put oak wood chips in the wine while it fermented and aged. Needless to say... it made the wine taste gross but a lot of people thought it was more sophisticated or something because it tasted like wood.
The smoke thing is kind of similar... you've got people picking the right kind of wood they want to have smoke their meat... they want the smoke to really impart a flavor on the meat...
Why do I want any of these things? Since when do I want to taste burnt wood in my meat? The hell. And I'm pretty sure liquid smoke is the grossest thing ever.
I'm also not a fan of dry rub. I think they do that in texas because they smoke everything but I prefer a proper marinade ideally.
I do a lot of asian fusion stuff. I just mess around... people seem to like it and above all I stay interested.
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You got one thing straight... I do like fighting idiots... its so easy!
And I'll point out that there's only so much work for me because there aren't enough people helping me keep back the green tide.:D
Its a sunday morning... and I'm in my underwear slapping fools around between games of "Dirty Bomb" until a store opens where I need to run an errand... then I'm off to a big 4th of july themed party that is on the 5th for no reason.
... a drill sergeant could just push your arm into the correct position and call you a grab-asstic piece of amphibian shit until you get it straight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This reminds me of those tablets they were handing out to school children on the notion that it improves education... and isn't just a great way to play angry birds. Which is exactly what happened to the Los Angeles Unified version of that little genius ploy.
I don't know. I'm all for exoskeletons... in the military and otherwise. But telling me it teaches people how to shoot in the military seems like a solution to a problem that we already have a better solution for... no?
The "you're angry" comment again... You're really just so completely stupid that you don't understand that is almost literally impossible?
I would have to be THREATENED by you to be angry. How could you possibly threaten me? And absent that... absent some sort of fear on my part... how could I possibly be angry?
Anger is product of fear... retard. I would have to "FEAR" you to be "ANGRY".
Wow you're stupid.
I don't get angry with you morons... I just get a bit frustrated because you're just that stupid. It's like playing whack-o-mole with idiots.
I don't know how many of you there are... I suspect fewer than it seems. your whole AC thing you've got going makes it impossible to tell if I'm talking to two douchebags or five.
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I don't believe in the tactic of "not feeding the trolls"...
I engage them.
And really you're just admitting that I'm right, aren't you troll filth?:D
The problem with the don't feed the trolls concept is that it only works if you can outright censor them. You have to ignore them until someone comes in and bans you.
but that isn't going to happen in most places so this "don't feed the trolls" idea actually becomes "surrender to the trolls".
I don't surrender to trolls. I blow through you idiots like a freight train through a paper mache carnival. I have no reason to avoid contact.
As to circles... sure I can... right hand holds the left... no?:D
As to the notion that you can retain accuracy and precision with 9 percent response rates, ignoring people that only have cellphones, really just a tediously long list of reasons you're wrong... believe what you like. They can make up whatever they want with that system and dupes like you will drop to their knees,close their eyes, and suck their rewards out of a "hose"...
Are you talking to yourself? Because I was on topic throughout.
You're just another of these lackwit would be sages that memorizes some very trite arguments someone fed to you and then reguritate them the situation comes up as if any of it is your own thinking.
I LOVE frustrating people like you because I don't work that way. I come up with my own arguments and my own thinking so twits like you with chicken mcnugget responses don't have anything contextually relevant to say.
Watching you flounder as you try to push me into one of your cookie cutter scenarios that I need to argue for your counter arguments to work is hilarious.
It really is one of the more rewarding things about thinking for yourself... the absolute bafflement of zombies like you people. It's delicious. I'm positively turgid with satisfaction.
moral relativism is not the same thing as being open minded.
What is more, moral relativism largely becomes a problem when you presume to still judge people morally AFTER you accept a premise of moral relativism.
The automatic consequence of moral relativism is that morality can't be used to judge a situation because its all relative to the morality being used. Thus you have to make your judgements on something besides morality... ethics... or something objective.
As to critical thinking... that is a core belief of mine and I would certainly instill that.
As to causality... also something I think is very important.
As to being poisoned by mixed premises... that's more a question of your personal intelligence actually. It has been said that a sign of a first quality mind is the ability to hold two mutually exclusive concepts in your mind at once and be able to think in both terms at once.
Not to toot my own horn but I can maintain dozens of compartmentalized mentalities in my mind at once.
I use some of them to model the behavior of other people by emtulating what I believe to be simulations of their thought process. I also have expert system mentalities that are myopically focused on being hyper competent in specific tasks while not especially useful in any other role. And then I divide my personality into different elements to control aspects of my mind that need to be contained and also give a freer reign to my better angels if you will.
I've done this for years and as time goes on, I get better at it.
I think I first started consciously doing it after reading the "User Illusion" which was a book about the illusion of human consciousness/awareness from a neurological and psychological perspective.
I read that book at the same time I read Dune and some other books that were psychologically transformative.
Regardless, those books at that formative time in my life allowed me to organize my mind. I do not suffer conflicting premises because I compartmentalize them into different mentalities. Each mentality is intellectually pure.
The only thing that changes is which I listen to more from one second to the next.
My mind is something of a council... no one gets a vote but me... but I take advice from one and all.
In FPSs that isn't the case especially if they're all copying each other and balanced similarly which many of them are.
Also... I think you have to admit that Blizzard's actions in that case were an exception even for blizzard and the rest of the industry doesn't do that.
Regardless... your objections don't show why esports are bad or invalid as sports simply because some corporation has control over various versions of the game.
The sports leagues control all professional sports. You possibly could set up your own league but no one will pay any attention to it. Its totally dominated by the franchises.
The ultimate result is that there is less of a difference here than you're attempting to claim.
So I'm driving long range... you want me to stop for 40 minutes to restore 80 percent of my max range... when if I were in a gas car it would take less than 5 minutes?
And that is with an 80,000 dollar electric car.
And you think you're winning the case that this is practical? HOW?
As to driving ranges... I routinely drive 200 miles round trip... practically every weekend.
Regardless your example is one of the worst possible examples because its an 80k car.
Why did you throw 80k at a car that you can get equivalent quality from a gas car that is half that price? Who is going to be able to afford that monster? That is fucking expensive car.
Seriously, you don't think I couldn't find a car that is equally nice with similar specs for about 40k or even less? Look at BMW, Mercedes, Lexus... if you like the imports... you can find MANY cheaper alternatives that are every bit as nice as the Model S.
Which means you're doing what... paying 40k for electric? Why? No really.
WHY are you doing that?
My belief is that you are "SAYING" you would do it for some reasons. But do you personally own an electric car? I doubt you do. Do you own a car at all? 50/50 on that. Is your car actually a gas car? If you have a car at all it almost certainly is gasoline. Why is your car a gas car?
I'm just guessing... the vast majority of people advocating these cars can't possibly actually own one. So I don't understand how they can be so gung ho for it when they don't put their wallet where their mouth is...
And to make matters funnier the stats show that many a lot of people that buy hybrids are replacing them with all gasoline cars now. The hybrids have been out for awhile... they wear out and people replace them. And so here we are... and what are they replacing their hybrids with? Gas cars.
I'd like a little less evangelism on the stupid electric cars and a little more pragmatism.
Here are some things that I think could make electric cars... really all cars more affordable. Make them more modular. Rather than trying to sell people on the new model... sell people on the new modules. Have a core standardized frame and rather than people buying a whole new car... maybe they buy a new engine, a new shell (the thin skin that sits on top of the frame),... just upgrades.
it would be cheaper and the car would be more of an investment because it wouldn't depreciate as hard.
Just an idea. I don't know if that would work but I think the 80k car concept might work better if rather than asking someone to throw that kind of money down all at once it was something people could build up to. Maybe you get the frame with a gas motor and at some point upgrade to get electric motors put into the wheels... then you start adding batteries... and once that gets to a good place you either dump the engine or swap it for a smaller on the road charging engine.
One thing that I'd like to see tried is a turbine standby engine. Just something to top the battery up. I think Aston Martin might have actually done that with a hybrid super car they built. If I recollect... they used electrical generation turbines rather than automotive engines and they only kick on to top the battery up which gives you gasoline range with a plug in hybrid super car.
That specific model is of course impractical because its an aston martin and those are inherently impractical unless you're james bond on an expense account.
I also remember seeing a fellow that gutted an H2 Hummer and custom installed a hybrid system. I think he said he was getting 60 miles to the gallon... in an H2 Hummer. Also an obviously impractical car for so many reasons.
But the point is that rather than going in for these quasi religious transformations we need to be a bit more practical about it.
Really... tell me the profound difference between pre Korean War Korea and pre vietnam war Vietnam.
Educate me. I'm listening. If all you've got is more vague allusions to secret knowledge that you refuse to back up then I'm going to generally call bullshit on the whole thing. Your move.
Word of warning... any difference you cite is going to be taken as a challenge for me to find another country in the region that has the same cultural beliefs etc that is economically successful thus disassociating your citation with economic failure.
Maybe I'm wrong and you've got a good argument. I'll keep an open mind. But I don't see how you can sustain this argument.
... and not a single falsifiable statement in there anywhere.
Good job. It is literally impossible for you to be wrong. Why? Because you didn't make complete argument in there anywhere. And as such... you can't be wrong... you also can't be right but I imagine you don't care about that.
Your real worry is being proven wrong and surrendering any ability to be right in the process is probably a small price to pay.
Make a complete argument or your fucking statement is null. Idiot.
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No intelligent reader takes me seriously says an AC?
Who takes you seriously?
The unending hypocrisy of ACs to remain so anonymous they don't even use a consistent fake name like mine... and then to judge the histories of people that ACTUALLY log in. You could be posting about your love of goat sex in other threads and there'd be no way to associate that with you. But I'm a bad man because I actually log in? Who the fuck do you think you are? You're some garbage can that is so terrified of being judged he won't even use a fake name.
Oh... and I have an EXCELLENT karma rating. So... actually on average most people appreciate my posts. Suck it.
No one takes ACs seriously, shithead. You're all trolls and people that have been so crippled by negative judgements from your peers that you don't even feel comfortable posting under a fake name.
who brought that up? Not me. And in the quote you're referring to, I wasn't talking about fucking power outtages. I was talking about any trip exceeding 100 miles. That is a dangerous or annoying thing to do in an electric car.
In a gas car... no big deal. That was my point.
I take trips like that easily once a week. And given that if I had to choose between a gas or electric car... I can't choose the electric car because its inconvenient if I want to take a longer drive or even just have a really busy day driving all over the place.
Look, I like the "IDEA" of electric cars. I look forward to the day when they aren't stupid. That day has not arrived. They are inferior to gasoline cars in pretty much every way that matters.
You think you're saving money with electric?
Look at the price difference of the two, compare the maintenence costs of the two... then into that add the fuel cost difference. YES... the electric power is cheaper but the battery that you have to buy upfront offsets the difference in fuel cost for up to a decade in some cases. And what is the depreciation rate of all that?
Most cost calculations of electric or even hybrid cars show that they actually NEVER even break even with their gasoline counter parts on a cost basis.
So what's left if they're not cheaper? Nothing but the warm fuzzies you get by driving electric. Fuck that.
Here is a better question. How low would my self esteem have to be if I cared what YOU thought about me?
Seriously. Think about that. How pathetic would I have to be if I worried what some random AC on Slashdot felt about something I posted?:-D
I don't care what you think. I don't value you opinion enough or am insecure enough in my sense of self to give any fraction of a shit what you think about anything.
You don't like me? I don't care about you enough to even dislike you. You mean too little to me for me to bother even forming an opinion of you. Do you think your opinion of me is more valuable than my opinion of you? You're nothing to me. You're the dust in the wind of my internet experience. And you better believe I'm popping around in a full body hazmat suit around this shitshow. All you do is cause me to change out the cartridges in my gas mask in this post apocalyptic wasteland that is the internet.
2. The glowing piece also claimed ownership of his work effectively within the ideological camp of the paper. That was the core my disagreement with the fellow. If he had just said nice things about Herbert that would have been one thing. It was the whole age of Aquarius thing that was unacceptable.
3. As to your presumption to judge the posting history of someone that logs in while yourself being an AC... that you can't grasp the mindblowing levels of hypocrisy in that action then you're too stupid to be credited with a having a dead rat's worth of wisdom. If I were like you... and posted as AC... could you make that comment? You couldn't.
And I have an EXCELLENT Karma rating. What is your Karma rating? Zero.
And yet you presume to judge my posting history? Who the fuck are you to do that, mr ac?
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I saw "when nerds BBQ"... Not when nerds make tedious and generally not very rewarding texas smokers less of a pain in the ass.
""oh...it's Karmashock. Cognitive dissonance is your deal. Nevermind. Carry on.""
That looks like someone judging my post by some record I have left behind of previous posts.
I have no problem with people that actually log in doing that. That's fine. But ACs are fucking hypocrite trash when they do it.
... so one example of one insurance company losing its non-profit status means that they are all greedy and driving up costs of insurance?
Never mind taht if you go into a hospital without insurance they charge MORE than if you had insurance.
That implies that the costs are not coming from the insurance companies but rather from the hospitals.
Nearly all the money goes to the hospitals. Have you looked at a hospital bill recently? THAT is what is driving up costs. The hospital bills themselves.
Now why are hospital bills going up? many complex reasons... basically none of which has anything to do with insurance.
Really... and all the election polls were accurate?
http://www.yourememberthat.com...
Election polls are frequently wrong. The republicans in 2012 thought they were going to win as I remember.
There is so much evidence that you're choking on stupidity:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
Your argument would require that the polls all agree with each other... but they don't. Every election cycle we have polls that are all over the place.
Are some of them going to be right? Sure... will a shotgun hit a target with some pellets?... easy to do when you blast out bird shot.
... I'm not arguing that about smoking... I'm just not sure why i would do that in the first place.
Smoking is not something I do... I've gone to places that do it and frequently it is really hard for me to see what all the fuss is about. Maybe that's just me and everyone else is nuts for smoked meat.
It strikes me a bit like the california oak wine thing. There was this point in the California wine industry where they they thought having an oaky flavor was a plus. So they'd literally put oak wood chips in the wine while it fermented and aged. Needless to say... it made the wine taste gross but a lot of people thought it was more sophisticated or something because it tasted like wood.
The smoke thing is kind of similar... you've got people picking the right kind of wood they want to have smoke their meat... they want the smoke to really impart a flavor on the meat...
Why do I want any of these things? Since when do I want to taste burnt wood in my meat? The hell. And I'm pretty sure liquid smoke is the grossest thing ever.
I'm also not a fan of dry rub. I think they do that in texas because they smoke everything but I prefer a proper marinade ideally.
I do a lot of asian fusion stuff. I just mess around... people seem to like it and above all I stay interested.
You got one thing straight... I do like fighting idiots... its so easy!
Often my forum wars feel like this to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And I'll point out that there's only so much work for me because there aren't enough people helping me keep back the green tide. :D
Its a sunday morning... and I'm in my underwear slapping fools around between games of "Dirty Bomb" until a store opens where I need to run an errand... then I'm off to a big 4th of july themed party that is on the 5th for no reason.
That's my day. :P
More ACs telling me how I should behave!
Tell me AC... how do you behave on this site. Can you show me your record here?
Yes you can or no you're another hypocritical shithead?
LOG IN or don't presume to judge those that do.
... a drill sergeant could just push your arm into the correct position and call you a grab-asstic piece of amphibian shit until you get it straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This reminds me of those tablets they were handing out to school children on the notion that it improves education... and isn't just a great way to play angry birds. Which is exactly what happened to the Los Angeles Unified version of that little genius ploy.
I don't know. I'm all for exoskeletons... in the military and otherwise. But telling me it teaches people how to shoot in the military seems like a solution to a problem that we already have a better solution for... no?
The "you're angry" comment again... You're really just so completely stupid that you don't understand that is almost literally impossible?
I would have to be THREATENED by you to be angry. How could you possibly threaten me? And absent that... absent some sort of fear on my part... how could I possibly be angry?
Anger is product of fear... retard. I would have to "FEAR" you to be "ANGRY".
Wow you're stupid.
I don't get angry with you morons... I just get a bit frustrated because you're just that stupid. It's like playing whack-o-mole with idiots.
I don't know how many of you there are... I suspect fewer than it seems. your whole AC thing you've got going makes it impossible to tell if I'm talking to two douchebags or five.
I don't believe in the tactic of "not feeding the trolls"...
I engage them.
And really you're just admitting that I'm right, aren't you troll filth? :D
The problem with the don't feed the trolls concept is that it only works if you can outright censor them. You have to ignore them until someone comes in and bans you.
but that isn't going to happen in most places so this "don't feed the trolls" idea actually becomes "surrender to the trolls".
I don't surrender to trolls. I blow through you idiots like a freight train through a paper mache carnival. I have no reason to avoid contact.
No... down with the people appropriating people that don't share their ideology or way of thinking as members of their group.
As to circles... sure I can... right hand holds the left... no? :D
As to the notion that you can retain accuracy and precision with 9 percent response rates, ignoring people that only have cellphones, really just a tediously long list of reasons you're wrong... believe what you like. They can make up whatever they want with that system and dupes like you will drop to their knees,close their eyes, and suck their rewards out of a "hose"...
So you're a raging idiot that can be ignored... thanks.
Are you talking to yourself? Because I was on topic throughout.
You're just another of these lackwit would be sages that memorizes some very trite arguments someone fed to you and then reguritate them the situation comes up as if any of it is your own thinking.
I LOVE frustrating people like you because I don't work that way. I come up with my own arguments and my own thinking so twits like you with chicken mcnugget responses don't have anything contextually relevant to say.
Watching you flounder as you try to push me into one of your cookie cutter scenarios that I need to argue for your counter arguments to work is hilarious.
It really is one of the more rewarding things about thinking for yourself... the absolute bafflement of zombies like you people. It's delicious. I'm positively turgid with satisfaction.
*smacks lips*
moral relativism is not the same thing as being open minded.
What is more, moral relativism largely becomes a problem when you presume to still judge people morally AFTER you accept a premise of moral relativism.
The automatic consequence of moral relativism is that morality can't be used to judge a situation because its all relative to the morality being used. Thus you have to make your judgements on something besides morality... ethics... or something objective.
As to critical thinking... that is a core belief of mine and I would certainly instill that.
As to causality... also something I think is very important.
As to being poisoned by mixed premises... that's more a question of your personal intelligence actually. It has been said that a sign of a first quality mind is the ability to hold two mutually exclusive concepts in your mind at once and be able to think in both terms at once.
Not to toot my own horn but I can maintain dozens of compartmentalized mentalities in my mind at once.
I use some of them to model the behavior of other people by emtulating what I believe to be simulations of their thought process. I also have expert system mentalities that are myopically focused on being hyper competent in specific tasks while not especially useful in any other role. And then I divide my personality into different elements to control aspects of my mind that need to be contained and also give a freer reign to my better angels if you will.
I've done this for years and as time goes on, I get better at it.
I think I first started consciously doing it after reading the "User Illusion" which was a book about the illusion of human consciousness/awareness from a neurological and psychological perspective.
I read that book at the same time I read Dune and some other books that were psychologically transformative.
Regardless, those books at that formative time in my life allowed me to organize my mind. I do not suffer conflicting premises because I compartmentalize them into different mentalities. Each mentality is intellectually pure.
The only thing that changes is which I listen to more from one second to the next.
My mind is something of a council... no one gets a vote but me... but I take advice from one and all.
In FPSs that isn't the case especially if they're all copying each other and balanced similarly which many of them are.
Also... I think you have to admit that Blizzard's actions in that case were an exception even for blizzard and the rest of the industry doesn't do that.
Regardless... your objections don't show why esports are bad or invalid as sports simply because some corporation has control over various versions of the game.
The sports leagues control all professional sports. You possibly could set up your own league but no one will pay any attention to it. Its totally dominated by the franchises.
The ultimate result is that there is less of a difference here than you're attempting to claim.
So I'm driving long range... you want me to stop for 40 minutes to restore 80 percent of my max range... when if I were in a gas car it would take less than 5 minutes?
And that is with an 80,000 dollar electric car.
And you think you're winning the case that this is practical? HOW?
As to driving ranges... I routinely drive 200 miles round trip... practically every weekend.
Regardless your example is one of the worst possible examples because its an 80k car.
Why did you throw 80k at a car that you can get equivalent quality from a gas car that is half that price? Who is going to be able to afford that monster? That is fucking expensive car.
Seriously, you don't think I couldn't find a car that is equally nice with similar specs for about 40k or even less? Look at BMW, Mercedes, Lexus... if you like the imports... you can find MANY cheaper alternatives that are every bit as nice as the Model S.
Which means you're doing what... paying 40k for electric? Why? No really.
WHY are you doing that?
My belief is that you are "SAYING" you would do it for some reasons. But do you personally own an electric car? I doubt you do. Do you own a car at all? 50/50 on that. Is your car actually a gas car? If you have a car at all it almost certainly is gasoline. Why is your car a gas car?
I'm just guessing... the vast majority of people advocating these cars can't possibly actually own one. So I don't understand how they can be so gung ho for it when they don't put their wallet where their mouth is...
And to make matters funnier the stats show that many a lot of people that buy hybrids are replacing them with all gasoline cars now. The hybrids have been out for awhile... they wear out and people replace them. And so here we are... and what are they replacing their hybrids with? Gas cars.
I'd like a little less evangelism on the stupid electric cars and a little more pragmatism.
Here are some things that I think could make electric cars... really all cars more affordable. Make them more modular. Rather than trying to sell people on the new model... sell people on the new modules. Have a core standardized frame and rather than people buying a whole new car... maybe they buy a new engine, a new shell (the thin skin that sits on top of the frame),... just upgrades.
it would be cheaper and the car would be more of an investment because it wouldn't depreciate as hard.
Just an idea. I don't know if that would work but I think the 80k car concept might work better if rather than asking someone to throw that kind of money down all at once it was something people could build up to. Maybe you get the frame with a gas motor and at some point upgrade to get electric motors put into the wheels... then you start adding batteries ... and once that gets to a good place you either dump the engine or swap it for a smaller on the road charging engine.
One thing that I'd like to see tried is a turbine standby engine. Just something to top the battery up. I think Aston Martin might have actually done that with a hybrid super car they built. If I recollect... they used electrical generation turbines rather than automotive engines and they only kick on to top the battery up which gives you gasoline range with a plug in hybrid super car.
That specific model is of course impractical because its an aston martin and those are inherently impractical unless you're james bond on an expense account.
I also remember seeing a fellow that gutted an H2 Hummer and custom installed a hybrid system. I think he said he was getting 60 miles to the gallon... in an H2 Hummer. Also an obviously impractical car for so many reasons.
But the point is that rather than going in for these quasi religious transformations we need to be a bit more practical about it.
Really... tell me the profound difference between pre Korean War Korea and pre vietnam war Vietnam.
Educate me. I'm listening. If all you've got is more vague allusions to secret knowledge that you refuse to back up then I'm going to generally call bullshit on the whole thing. Your move.
Word of warning... any difference you cite is going to be taken as a challenge for me to find another country in the region that has the same cultural beliefs etc that is economically successful thus disassociating your citation with economic failure.
Maybe I'm wrong and you've got a good argument. I'll keep an open mind. But I don't see how you can sustain this argument.
... and not a single falsifiable statement in there anywhere.
Good job. It is literally impossible for you to be wrong. Why? Because you didn't make complete argument in there anywhere. And as such... you can't be wrong... you also can't be right but I imagine you don't care about that.
Your real worry is being proven wrong and surrendering any ability to be right in the process is probably a small price to pay.
Make a complete argument or your fucking statement is null. Idiot.
Person/organization X is Y Ideology
VS
Specific Poll R is biased to support Y ideology.
Is this not obvious?
No intelligent reader takes me seriously says an AC?
Who takes you seriously?
The unending hypocrisy of ACs to remain so anonymous they don't even use a consistent fake name like mine... and then to judge the histories of people that ACTUALLY log in. You could be posting about your love of goat sex in other threads and there'd be no way to associate that with you. But I'm a bad man because I actually log in? Who the fuck do you think you are? You're some garbage can that is so terrified of being judged he won't even use a fake name.
Oh... and I have an EXCELLENT karma rating. So... actually on average most people appreciate my posts. Suck it.
No one takes ACs seriously, shithead. You're all trolls and people that have been so crippled by negative judgements from your peers that you don't even feel comfortable posting under a fake name.
https://youtu.be/bafxzamsGgY?t...
who brought that up? Not me. And in the quote you're referring to, I wasn't talking about fucking power outtages. I was talking about any trip exceeding 100 miles. That is a dangerous or annoying thing to do in an electric car.
In a gas car... no big deal. That was my point.
I take trips like that easily once a week. And given that if I had to choose between a gas or electric car... I can't choose the electric car because its inconvenient if I want to take a longer drive or even just have a really busy day driving all over the place.
Look, I like the "IDEA" of electric cars. I look forward to the day when they aren't stupid. That day has not arrived. They are inferior to gasoline cars in pretty much every way that matters.
You think you're saving money with electric?
Look at the price difference of the two, compare the maintenence costs of the two... then into that add the fuel cost difference. YES... the electric power is cheaper but the battery that you have to buy upfront offsets the difference in fuel cost for up to a decade in some cases. And what is the depreciation rate of all that?
Most cost calculations of electric or even hybrid cars show that they actually NEVER even break even with their gasoline counter parts on a cost basis.
So what's left if they're not cheaper? Nothing but the warm fuzzies you get by driving electric. Fuck that.
Here is a better question. How low would my self esteem have to be if I cared what YOU thought about me?
Seriously. Think about that. How pathetic would I have to be if I worried what some random AC on Slashdot felt about something I posted? :-D
I don't care what you think. I don't value you opinion enough or am insecure enough in my sense of self to give any fraction of a shit what you think about anything.
You don't like me? I don't care about you enough to even dislike you. You mean too little to me for me to bother even forming an opinion of you. Do you think your opinion of me is more valuable than my opinion of you? You're nothing to me. You're the dust in the wind of my internet experience. And you better believe I'm popping around in a full body hazmat suit around this shitshow. All you do is cause me to change out the cartridges in my gas mask in this post apocalyptic wasteland that is the internet.
thank you for that, that was amusing.
Okay... lets be straight.
1. Reputable news organization? Debatable.
2. The glowing piece also claimed ownership of his work effectively within the ideological camp of the paper. That was the core my disagreement with the fellow. If he had just said nice things about Herbert that would have been one thing. It was the whole age of Aquarius thing that was unacceptable.
3. As to your presumption to judge the posting history of someone that logs in while yourself being an AC... that you can't grasp the mindblowing levels of hypocrisy in that action then you're too stupid to be credited with a having a dead rat's worth of wisdom. If I were like you... and posted as AC... could you make that comment? You couldn't.
And I have an EXCELLENT Karma rating. What is your Karma rating? Zero.
And yet you presume to judge my posting history? Who the fuck are you to do that, mr ac?
Glad we got that straight. ;-)