You think I'm an Ayn Randian or a Marxist?... I can't tell which... I was clearly defending Herbert from association with the guardian... who are basically marxists... so that implies your randian statement is directed at me. And then you call me a marxist.
Your post is very confusing.
Do you think I'm a Randian or a Marxist? I'm neither.
I believe in freedom of course... individual self determination... but I don't ascribe to organized political philosophies personally. I might support one or the other from one moment and context to the next but that has more to do with choosing the lesser of evils from one moment to the next or desiring a given faction to win a given struggle than it does with actually identifying with any of them.
I am my own man, cupcake. I know that isn't convenient. Its hard to organize people when they insist on being personally evaluated rather than judged as arbitrary groups. But despite the difficulty, it is not unreasonable for me to expect that before being judged.
1. ACs don't get to talk about the posting history of people that actually log in. Its idiotically hypocritical.
2. I'm not angry. Just contemptuous of nitwits and I don't like it when they claim authors as being members of their little club that are dead and can't defend themselves from such fallacious associations.
Who will defend Herbert from such people if not people like me? He's dead. Anyone can claim herbert as one of their own unless someone stands up and says "no." that's all I did.
3. I'm weird am I? I'm really interested to hear this explained. Tell me why I'm weird. I'm genuinely really really interested what about me you find to be weird. I actually like being weird by the way... I take it as a high compliment. It implies distinctiveness and thus individuality. One of the things I value more than anything else is independence of thought. I don't like conformity because it suggests a dehumanizing socialization where people just mirror each other surrendering their own ability to think and be to... something else. So I like being weird. But I am genuinely interested to know what about me especially you find to be weird?
4 As to enjoying life... I'm having a ball, bro. I come here for entertainment. Occasionally there is an interesting article but those are happening less and less. Mostly slashdot is turning into another progressive cesspit like the rest of the social networks. I can't stop it... so I'm going to enjoy the ride.;-D
Yep... That's where I fucking live... Down people's throats... Watch the teeth. I'm almost there.:D
I can't help myself... its too easy.
In all seriousness, my issue was with the attempt by the author to attribute Herbert with a culture and and political framework that he's actually well beyond. This "age of Aquarius" thing is beneath Herbert. That movement was typified by phoney mystics, people that were more high than actually thoughtful, and often callow philosophies that were so trite as to be comical.
What made that irritating is that the Guardian is effectively that culture grown up. The kids sitting there blitzed out of their minds asking questions like "is this my hand or is this only what I think of as my hand?"... eventually grew up to both write for and read the guardian.
And for that segment of the population to claim Herbert is offensive to me. They don't deserve him.
From Herbert's own mouth... he distrusts people that want to help others but only have the same solution... FOR EVERYONE.
Now... how does that not describe the Guardian? Are they not about their "solution"... and is not that solution the same for everyone?
My point was to show that Herbert is not what the author thinks he is.
I read Dune at the same time I was reading "the User Illusion" and a book on zen philosophy... I was 16... it was sort of surreal mix and it changed the way I see myself, society, and the rest of humanity... apparently permanently.
Are you channeling more of your stupidity from beyond the grave? Alright... I'll link hands with some people and I'll invite you into our circle, spirit...... Ooooommm.... *meditates on your idioicy*:p
If you don't care about my citations then I'm not going to care about yours either. Okay... moving forward where all citations are invalid... this should be fun!
As to poll response rates not making them less accurate... it does make them less precise though. It has to increase your margin of error pretty dramatically when your total sample size is small and then you're introducing 91% non response rates on top of that. Can you even claim one significant digit at that point?
And lets talk further about how these are telephone polls and they don't poll cellphones. Do you want to know the last time I owned a land line phone? NEVER. I've never had one. I got a cellphone as a kid and have kept the same number ever since. I don't see the point in landlines... people that want them... that's fine... I won't judge but I'll probably never have one. And that's a demographic and socio economic figure as well. Because the people that tend to have land lines tend to be older or richer. I personally do quite well but i'm younger. I grew up with a cell phone. I'm happy with it. And because of that, telephone polls don't touch me.
The thing is that in these opinion polls, you have no way of determining empirically how accurate any of it is.. there's no way to actually know. So any of a billion things could bias a result and who is to say?
You're basically using sloppy telephone statistics as a device to create the news story you want. And I'm supposed to respect any of it? Sorry... I'm not one of the peasants your lot bamboozles with this stupidity.
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A few stations covers the entire poles though... and it is on the poles that nearly all the ground station warming is cited. If you actually gray out all the spaces on these heat maps that don't have stations in them... practically all the red areas vanish entirely... the red areas are often in places where there aren't any stations at all. The heat is imposed by models in many cases without any actual empirical evidence of it.
What is more, we're talking about a fraction of a degree over all using data sources that are often not even accurate to the degree. This is especially true historically. And it must be kept in mind that these stations were put in place and are currently maintained mostly to assess local weather and not fractional changes in global temperature.
Can you explain for example how climate data from these weather stations doesn't fall under the heading of "Spurious digits"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is my understanding that you can't cite a higher level of precision in your data than the precision of the initial data.
Are you claiming that your ground weather stations are each accurate and calibrated to within a fraction of a degree?... and historically so... going back how many ever years?
I think at the very least you're vastly overstating your precision. And if you can't cite figures within a fraction of a degree... can you even show warming? The figure currently was something like.4~.5 degrees?
Is your data even accurate to a degree much less a tenth of one?
Anyone that has had a few thermometers knows that it is very common for them to give slightly different readings. I have on that is a full 5 degrees off from the other one. I take any figure it cites and subtract 5 degrees to get a more likely figure.
As to your use of the term "denier" this term is an attempt to equate skeptics with holocaust deniers. You're calling people that disagree with you racists or nazis. I don't appreciate it. Either use a less charged term or I'm going to be unable to treat you as anything other than a political creature. And if you do that, the science discussion ends and I'm just going to talk politics with you. On a purely political level, the percentage of the US and UK population that are skeptical is increasing. We're winning the political struggle. You are losing political credibility. Is that the discussion you want to have? If not... no more political arguments out of you. I will not permit you to use political arguments against me and then expect me to defend myself with science. I will answer politics for politics. Only when you talk science will I respond with science.
As to changing minds... you've shown no ability to change your mind so you can't claim any superiority there.
touche... I would point out however that while any given company can do that... you can shift to other games in the same genre if you need to put leverage on a particular company that is being irritating.
With blizzard specifically that is likely to be hard but with the FPS esports games that shouldn't be a big deal.
Furthermore, the issue there is more about people making money off the league and less about the amateur tourneys which I'd be very surprised if Blizzard even is really aware of on a discreet level.
Vietnam might have been a blunder but it was done according to a world view that you don't understand. And because you don't understand it you can't judge the thought process of the US at the time.
Your comment on point three didn't actually rebut point three at all. Just fyi.
As to your response to point four, whether or not it is a poor strategy it is still a strategy that the war has to be seen within that context.
What you keep trying to do is talk about Vietnam as it if isn't part of the cold war and as if the US wasn't thinking in terms of domino theory. This renders your judgements of it meaningless.
As to iraq never being a safe harbor, I didn't suggest it was. That was Afghanistan. Iraq was part of nuclear containment doctrine.
Different strategies. I've explained this to you before... I must have... it is frustrating that you keep taking me out of context and misrepresenting my position. Do you do this because you're genuinely having a hard time understanding or are you just being a lying asshole? I genuinely can't tell the difference anymore.
As to my idea of strategy being so anything that you can't understand it... no... you could understand it... if you were aware of it and tried to understand it. But you're so busy demagoguing the US and strawmanning me that you don't understand anything.
Your entire position is little more than a specious character assassination.
As to an even bigger F' up than Vietnam... care to defend that statement? I mean without all your assorted bullshit?
You're so eager to personally and morally judge people that you fail to actually make a rational argument. You're going to have to stop stroking your hate boner for a second and just be rational. Otherwise its going to be too easy for me to just label you a raging idiot and move on.
No... that's your misunderstanding. I was saying they were going to be giving similar opportunities and those opportunites could have been used to obtain similar rewards.
You people are so addicted to identity politics that you're not able to have a discussion without them.
All your rivals are racists and bigots... and if you can't show that they are... you just keep saying it and hope that people are too lazy to see you're just making it up.:D
It doesn't work on the internet, chump. Only in the media. And even there the effectiveness is wearing off fast.
cite an instance of Blizzard either demanding money for a tourney or denying someone a right to have a tourney.
As to dumb things Nintendo has done recently... everyone in the gaming world is well aware of that. And honestly... after some bitching no one cared because Nintendo's most recent offerings have been garbage. They just had a really bad generation.
I hope they do better next time but... they're having a hard time.
Anywho... when it comes to esports we're talking about SC, Counterstrike... etc So... can you show me an instance of blizzard of valve shutting a tourney down?
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I'm probably just spoiled by really nice meat.
One of my family members owns a small ranch. He raises top quality beef. Most of it is exported to Japan.
I buy all my serious meat from him. Never frozen. Grass fed... From the slaughterhouse to my plate.
I've had texas BBQ. Best steak houses etc.
No offense to those fellow but its massively over rated in my opinion.
What great BBQ tradition do I hail from? I couldn't say. I'm from Cali and I can often improvise something that is better than that stuff. Obviously with just really good ingredients. But as they say... you use what you have... and I have really good meat.:P
It makes more sense if you understand eastern philosophy or actually read any of the Herbert books.
What I'm talking about is neither being so conflicted with doubt that you're unable to act effectively nor so married to any way of thinking that you can't change. As Lee said "be like water".
The point is... act... but be open to change. Maintain that child like ability to both commit to courses of action but also entirely alter your thinking at any moment.
My comment was not for anyone... it was for people that understood Herbert's work.
No, I'm not going to let you strawman me by allowing you to define my argument.
I am very clearly saying that the thesis of the whole thing was ethics in journalism. Were there rude comments made in and around that? Yes... but also from BOTH sides. Do you honestly think there were no abusive comments coming from anti GG? Don't be naive. Both sides engaged in it.
By your logic that makes anti GG a hate group as well apparently.
It is a leaderless hash tag consumer revolt. There's no way to control who joins or who speaks for it. ANYONE can use the hashtag. So yeah... you get heated and someone is going to say something nasty.
And BOTH sides did that.
Does that mean anything else anyone might have said that wasn't a mean remark is therefore void?
Obviously fucking not.
BUT that is PRECISELY your argument. And it is unsupportable if you actually have either any understanding of how the conversations work on the internet or have any interest in being intellectually honest.
If you grasp NEITHER... then you can legitimately claim to not understand through ignorance.
A fair number of the anti GG people know how the internet works. So they can't make that claim. And anyone with an open mind that wants to just get to the bottom of an issue even if they don't understand the internet will wade through the crap to find out what is really going on.
You want to claim this is all about harassment of women? Why? Because some woman had sex with five guys?
Why was she singled out? That's not unusual. We have hundreds of people that we could target for having sex with five guys. Some have had sex with a lot more than five guys... some have had sex with hundreds of guys. I could show you one of those japanese porn things where 20 guys cum on a girl's face? Where is the outrage at her?
Clearly having sex with a bunch of guys doesn't cause rage.
Okay... so maybe it is the cheating that triggered the hate? Except we have whole websites dedicated to posting stuff about how your ex cheated on you. Do you want me to post some of that? No rage there either.
So neither the cheating nor the sex caused the outrage.
What's left? Clearly it must be just because she's a woman? Well, they make up about half the population... why are these women being singled out?
BECAUSE THEY"RE GAME DEVS!!... well... we have lots of game devs that are women and they don't get harassment. There was that whole thing about Bayonetta... made by a woman. No rage at her. The creator of the king's quest series which was popular way back when... no hatred for her.
So what is left? Why do you think these women got negative reactions?
I'll tell you why... because they called anyone that said boo to them "bigots". That's what misogynist translates into... bigot. And if you call someone a bigot just for using them as evidence against a corrupt journalist... well, you're going to get people pissed off. And some of those people are going to say mean things to you that are going to hurt your fee fees.
You want to believe this is about harassment of women? There's no way to believe that. Its logically unsupportable. Its not a valid opinion. You can't even legitimately believe that. It makes no logical sense.
But I can't stop you from believing irrational things. So go ahead. Worship your religion if that makes you feel better. But don't expect anyone else to take your beliefs seriously... and your faction lost this struggle... HARD. Continue to bitch... it just makes you look sadder.
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So you expect a random collection of people on the internet to NOT make off color remarks?
take ANY issue that gets politically heated... then cherry pick the responses for the most hateful comments... and then represent ALL the comments and the ENTIRE group as JUST those hateful comments.
Do that.
Pick ANY issue that is controversial then pick either side... then do that.
Boom... that side is a hate group.
That's what you just did there. And you say "I" need mental gymnastics?
the whole "GG is a hate group" thing was only made possible because the people that were sold that line of bull were mostly people that were not internet savvy... that and credulous dupes. People that either don't understand that the internet just HAS those sorts of comments in any heated discussion or people predisposed to believe the worst.
And keep in mind a lot of the hateful comments are coming out of fucking 12 year olds. And in some cases they were also false flags. Lets not pretend there were not sock puppets a plenty.
Regardless... to conflate the most hateful comments with either the majority of comments or the central message is somewhere between naive and dishonest. Flip a coin.
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Who builds something like that and then puts a brisket in it?
If I put that much energy into making a grill... I'd put a better piece of meat into it.
Frank is a deeper fellow than all but a few really grasp.
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
- Frank Herbert.
How perfectly does that describe the Guardian and most of its readership?
True wisdom requires the humility to see the universe for what it is... a step beyond our reason... always and forever. That is not an endorsement of some religion... that is rather a caution before anyone becomes consumed by unshakable convictions.
Be decisive for he that hesitates is lost... but always be prepared to reverse course and never come back.
As to humanity... I suggested he was from a different planet to be more specific. I'm sure there are "people" of a kind somewhere else... you know with tentacles and acid blood...:D
As to anger... no... I'm not angry... i'm all smiles, pal.:D
I'm not renting a car every time I want to drive more than 100 miles.
Try living anywhere that has some DISTANCE between points.
too many of you tweedles and dees are coming from one population and urban planning context that is not in any way a given.
I'm driving more than a hundred miles in any given direction at least once a week. Maybe its family. Maybe its friends. Sometimes its work.
The glory of gas is that I don't have to worry about range. I know I'm covered and if I have to rent a car constantly then why the fuck did buy a car at all?
I'll just keep the rental then full time... Get myself a leasing agreement... or I know... I'll just buy a car that isn't fucking impractical in all but ONE context.
The only situation where electric makes sense is as an urban or suburban commuter.
They're generally small which means you can't throw your crap in it or rug rats or pack it full of your friends. They're often more expensive which is not going to help sales.
And really the primary selling point is the warm fuzzies the car gives people that think they're helping the evironment or something because they bought a car full of highly toxic batteries.
Understand... Grock completely... I want us to transition to a fully electric fleet.
Do you Grock me? However... there is a time when it is right. We're getting closer all the time.
We are NOT there yet. Pushing a total conversion now is premature.
I'm actually more interested in bio fuels at this point than I am in electric cars. A carbon neutral locally generated gasoline might a nice transitional technology.
I think I'd enjoy as well for the same reason I find e-cigs funny. They don't cause cancer but the anti smoking lobby hates them as much as they hate tobacco cigs. A carbon neutral diesel fuel would fill me orgasmic levels of trollish glee.
.... Are you arguing that electric cars are more reliable in a power outrage?
Stop talking to me. You're like one of those homeless people that comes up to you on the street and wants to tell you about the aliens living in his shoes.
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You think I'm an Ayn Randian or a Marxist?... I can't tell which... I was clearly defending Herbert from association with the guardian... who are basically marxists... so that implies your randian statement is directed at me. And then you call me a marxist.
Your post is very confusing.
Do you think I'm a Randian or a Marxist? I'm neither.
I believe in freedom of course... individual self determination... but I don't ascribe to organized political philosophies personally. I might support one or the other from one moment and context to the next but that has more to do with choosing the lesser of evils from one moment to the next or desiring a given faction to win a given struggle than it does with actually identifying with any of them.
I am my own man, cupcake. I know that isn't convenient. Its hard to organize people when they insist on being personally evaluated rather than judged as arbitrary groups. But despite the difficulty, it is not unreasonable for me to expect that before being judged.
1. ACs don't get to talk about the posting history of people that actually log in. Its idiotically hypocritical.
2. I'm not angry. Just contemptuous of nitwits and I don't like it when they claim authors as being members of their little club that are dead and can't defend themselves from such fallacious associations.
Who will defend Herbert from such people if not people like me? He's dead. Anyone can claim herbert as one of their own unless someone stands up and says "no." that's all I did.
3. I'm weird am I? I'm really interested to hear this explained. Tell me why I'm weird. I'm genuinely really really interested what about me you find to be weird. I actually like being weird by the way... I take it as a high compliment. It implies distinctiveness and thus individuality. One of the things I value more than anything else is independence of thought. I don't like conformity because it suggests a dehumanizing socialization where people just mirror each other surrendering their own ability to think and be to... something else. So I like being weird. But I am genuinely interested to know what about me especially you find to be weird?
4 As to enjoying life... I'm having a ball, bro. I come here for entertainment. Occasionally there is an interesting article but those are happening less and less. Mostly slashdot is turning into another progressive cesspit like the rest of the social networks. I can't stop it... so I'm going to enjoy the ride. ;-D
Yep... That's where I fucking live... Down people's throats... Watch the teeth. I'm almost there. :D
I can't help myself... its too easy.
In all seriousness, my issue was with the attempt by the author to attribute Herbert with a culture and and political framework that he's actually well beyond. This "age of Aquarius" thing is beneath Herbert. That movement was typified by phoney mystics, people that were more high than actually thoughtful, and often callow philosophies that were so trite as to be comical.
What made that irritating is that the Guardian is effectively that culture grown up. The kids sitting there blitzed out of their minds asking questions like "is this my hand or is this only what I think of as my hand?"... eventually grew up to both write for and read the guardian.
And for that segment of the population to claim Herbert is offensive to me. They don't deserve him.
From Herbert's own mouth... he distrusts people that want to help others but only have the same solution... FOR EVERYONE.
Now... how does that not describe the Guardian? Are they not about their "solution"... and is not that solution the same for everyone?
My point was to show that Herbert is not what the author thinks he is.
precisely...
I read Dune at the same time I was reading "the User Illusion" and a book on zen philosophy... I was 16... it was sort of surreal mix and it changed the way I see myself, society, and the rest of humanity... apparently permanently.
Are you channeling more of your stupidity from beyond the grave? Alright... I'll link hands with some people and I'll invite you into our circle, spirit... ... Ooooommm.... *meditates on your idioicy* :p
If you don't care about my citations then I'm not going to care about yours either. Okay... moving forward where all citations are invalid... this should be fun!
As to poll response rates not making them less accurate... it does make them less precise though. It has to increase your margin of error pretty dramatically when your total sample size is small and then you're introducing 91% non response rates on top of that. Can you even claim one significant digit at that point?
And lets talk further about how these are telephone polls and they don't poll cellphones. Do you want to know the last time I owned a land line phone? NEVER. I've never had one. I got a cellphone as a kid and have kept the same number ever since. I don't see the point in landlines... people that want them... that's fine... I won't judge but I'll probably never have one. And that's a demographic and socio economic figure as well. Because the people that tend to have land lines tend to be older or richer. I personally do quite well but i'm younger. I grew up with a cell phone. I'm happy with it. And because of that, telephone polls don't touch me.
The thing is that in these opinion polls, you have no way of determining empirically how accurate any of it is.. there's no way to actually know. So any of a billion things could bias a result and who is to say?
You're basically using sloppy telephone statistics as a device to create the news story you want. And I'm supposed to respect any of it? Sorry... I'm not one of the peasants your lot bamboozles with this stupidity.
This is definitely a mainstay of cali BBQ.
A few stations covers the entire poles though... and it is on the poles that nearly all the ground station warming is cited. If you actually gray out all the spaces on these heat maps that don't have stations in them... practically all the red areas vanish entirely... the red areas are often in places where there aren't any stations at all. The heat is imposed by models in many cases without any actual empirical evidence of it.
What is more, we're talking about a fraction of a degree over all using data sources that are often not even accurate to the degree. This is especially true historically. And it must be kept in mind that these stations were put in place and are currently maintained mostly to assess local weather and not fractional changes in global temperature.
Can you explain for example how climate data from these weather stations doesn't fall under the heading of "Spurious digits"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is my understanding that you can't cite a higher level of precision in your data than the precision of the initial data.
Are you claiming that your ground weather stations are each accurate and calibrated to within a fraction of a degree?... and historically so... going back how many ever years?
I think at the very least you're vastly overstating your precision. And if you can't cite figures within a fraction of a degree... can you even show warming? The figure currently was something like .4~.5 degrees?
Is your data even accurate to a degree much less a tenth of one?
Anyone that has had a few thermometers knows that it is very common for them to give slightly different readings. I have on that is a full 5 degrees off from the other one. I take any figure it cites and subtract 5 degrees to get a more likely figure.
As to your use of the term "denier" this term is an attempt to equate skeptics with holocaust deniers. You're calling people that disagree with you racists or nazis. I don't appreciate it. Either use a less charged term or I'm going to be unable to treat you as anything other than a political creature. And if you do that, the science discussion ends and I'm just going to talk politics with you. On a purely political level, the percentage of the US and UK population that are skeptical is increasing. We're winning the political struggle. You are losing political credibility. Is that the discussion you want to have? If not... no more political arguments out of you. I will not permit you to use political arguments against me and then expect me to defend myself with science. I will answer politics for politics. Only when you talk science will I respond with science.
As to changing minds... you've shown no ability to change your mind so you can't claim any superiority there.
touche... I would point out however that while any given company can do that... you can shift to other games in the same genre if you need to put leverage on a particular company that is being irritating.
With blizzard specifically that is likely to be hard but with the FPS esports games that shouldn't be a big deal.
Furthermore, the issue there is more about people making money off the league and less about the amateur tourneys which I'd be very surprised if Blizzard even is really aware of on a discreet level.
Vietnam might have been a blunder but it was done according to a world view that you don't understand. And because you don't understand it you can't judge the thought process of the US at the time.
Your comment on point three didn't actually rebut point three at all. Just fyi.
As to your response to point four, whether or not it is a poor strategy it is still a strategy that the war has to be seen within that context.
What you keep trying to do is talk about Vietnam as it if isn't part of the cold war and as if the US wasn't thinking in terms of domino theory. This renders your judgements of it meaningless.
As to iraq never being a safe harbor, I didn't suggest it was. That was Afghanistan. Iraq was part of nuclear containment doctrine.
Different strategies. I've explained this to you before... I must have... it is frustrating that you keep taking me out of context and misrepresenting my position. Do you do this because you're genuinely having a hard time understanding or are you just being a lying asshole? I genuinely can't tell the difference anymore.
As to my idea of strategy being so anything that you can't understand it... no... you could understand it... if you were aware of it and tried to understand it. But you're so busy demagoguing the US and strawmanning me that you don't understand anything.
Your entire position is little more than a specious character assassination.
As to an even bigger F' up than Vietnam... care to defend that statement? I mean without all your assorted bullshit?
You're so eager to personally and morally judge people that you fail to actually make a rational argument. You're going to have to stop stroking your hate boner for a second and just be rational. Otherwise its going to be too easy for me to just label you a raging idiot and move on.
No... that's your misunderstanding. I was saying they were going to be giving similar opportunities and those opportunites could have been used to obtain similar rewards.
You people are so addicted to identity politics that you're not able to have a discussion without them.
All your rivals are racists and bigots... and if you can't show that they are... you just keep saying it and hope that people are too lazy to see you're just making it up. :D
It doesn't work on the internet, chump. Only in the media. And even there the effectiveness is wearing off fast.
You're going to have to try harder.
cite an instance of Blizzard either demanding money for a tourney or denying someone a right to have a tourney.
As to dumb things Nintendo has done recently... everyone in the gaming world is well aware of that. And honestly... after some bitching no one cared because Nintendo's most recent offerings have been garbage. They just had a really bad generation.
I hope they do better next time but ... they're having a hard time.
Anywho... when it comes to esports we're talking about SC, Counterstrike... etc So... can you show me an instance of blizzard of valve shutting a tourney down?
Otherwise I'm going to yawn and hand wave.
vague... what will you be teaching your children? And why do you think they'll out compete people taught to be flexible and open minded?
I never contradicted that.
I'm probably just spoiled by really nice meat.
One of my family members owns a small ranch. He raises top quality beef. Most of it is exported to Japan.
I buy all my serious meat from him. Never frozen. Grass fed... From the slaughterhouse to my plate.
I've had texas BBQ. Best steak houses etc.
No offense to those fellow but its massively over rated in my opinion.
What great BBQ tradition do I hail from? I couldn't say. I'm from Cali and I can often improvise something that is better than that stuff. Obviously with just really good ingredients. But as they say... you use what you have... and I have really good meat. :P
It makes more sense if you understand eastern philosophy or actually read any of the Herbert books.
What I'm talking about is neither being so conflicted with doubt that you're unable to act effectively nor so married to any way of thinking that you can't change. As Lee said "be like water".
The point is... act... but be open to change. Maintain that child like ability to both commit to courses of action but also entirely alter your thinking at any moment.
My comment was not for anyone... it was for people that understood Herbert's work.
oh really? So you think the Guardian is an open minded institution that doesn't routinely engage in ideological advocacy of the same ideology?
Or that that ideology in question doesn't basically a have the same solution for everything?
Because if you don't know that... you haven't been paying attention.
No, I'm not going to let you strawman me by allowing you to define my argument.
I am very clearly saying that the thesis of the whole thing was ethics in journalism. Were there rude comments made in and around that? Yes... but also from BOTH sides. Do you honestly think there were no abusive comments coming from anti GG? Don't be naive. Both sides engaged in it.
By your logic that makes anti GG a hate group as well apparently.
It is a leaderless hash tag consumer revolt. There's no way to control who joins or who speaks for it. ANYONE can use the hashtag. So yeah... you get heated and someone is going to say something nasty.
And BOTH sides did that.
Does that mean anything else anyone might have said that wasn't a mean remark is therefore void?
Obviously fucking not.
BUT that is PRECISELY your argument. And it is unsupportable if you actually have either any understanding of how the conversations work on the internet or have any interest in being intellectually honest.
If you grasp NEITHER... then you can legitimately claim to not understand through ignorance.
A fair number of the anti GG people know how the internet works. So they can't make that claim. And anyone with an open mind that wants to just get to the bottom of an issue even if they don't understand the internet will wade through the crap to find out what is really going on.
You want to claim this is all about harassment of women? Why? Because some woman had sex with five guys?
Why was she singled out? That's not unusual. We have hundreds of people that we could target for having sex with five guys. Some have had sex with a lot more than five guys... some have had sex with hundreds of guys. I could show you one of those japanese porn things where 20 guys cum on a girl's face? Where is the outrage at her?
Clearly having sex with a bunch of guys doesn't cause rage.
Okay... so maybe it is the cheating that triggered the hate? Except we have whole websites dedicated to posting stuff about how your ex cheated on you. Do you want me to post some of that? No rage there either.
So neither the cheating nor the sex caused the outrage.
What's left? Clearly it must be just because she's a woman? Well, they make up about half the population... why are these women being singled out?
BECAUSE THEY"RE GAME DEVS!!... well... we have lots of game devs that are women and they don't get harassment. There was that whole thing about Bayonetta... made by a woman. No rage at her. The creator of the king's quest series which was popular way back when... no hatred for her.
So what is left? Why do you think these women got negative reactions?
I'll tell you why... because they called anyone that said boo to them "bigots". That's what misogynist translates into... bigot. And if you call someone a bigot just for using them as evidence against a corrupt journalist... well, you're going to get people pissed off. And some of those people are going to say mean things to you that are going to hurt your fee fees.
You want to believe this is about harassment of women? There's no way to believe that. Its logically unsupportable. Its not a valid opinion. You can't even legitimately believe that. It makes no logical sense.
But I can't stop you from believing irrational things. So go ahead. Worship your religion if that makes you feel better. But don't expect anyone else to take your beliefs seriously... and your faction lost this struggle... HARD. Continue to bitch... it just makes you look sadder.
Guilty as charged... Still... brisket?
wow indeed.
So you expect a random collection of people on the internet to NOT make off color remarks?
take ANY issue that gets politically heated... then cherry pick the responses for the most hateful comments... and then represent ALL the comments and the ENTIRE group as JUST those hateful comments.
Do that.
Pick ANY issue that is controversial then pick either side... then do that.
Boom... that side is a hate group.
That's what you just did there. And you say "I" need mental gymnastics?
the whole "GG is a hate group" thing was only made possible because the people that were sold that line of bull were mostly people that were not internet savvy... that and credulous dupes. People that either don't understand that the internet just HAS those sorts of comments in any heated discussion or people predisposed to believe the worst.
And keep in mind a lot of the hateful comments are coming out of fucking 12 year olds. And in some cases they were also false flags. Lets not pretend there were not sock puppets a plenty.
Regardless... to conflate the most hateful comments with either the majority of comments or the central message is somewhere between naive and dishonest. Flip a coin.
Who builds something like that and then puts a brisket in it?
If I put that much energy into making a grill... I'd put a better piece of meat into it.
Frank is a deeper fellow than all but a few really grasp.
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
- Frank Herbert.
How perfectly does that describe the Guardian and most of its readership?
True wisdom requires the humility to see the universe for what it is... a step beyond our reason... always and forever. That is not an endorsement of some religion... that is rather a caution before anyone becomes consumed by unshakable convictions.
Be decisive for he that hesitates is lost... but always be prepared to reverse course and never come back.
I'll do that in the future if that helps.
As to humanity... I suggested he was from a different planet to be more specific. I'm sure there are "people" of a kind somewhere else... you know with tentacles and acid blood... :D
As to anger... no... I'm not angry... i'm all smiles, pal. :D
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Nope. Not dialing anything back.
I'm not renting a car every time I want to drive more than 100 miles.
Try living anywhere that has some DISTANCE between points.
too many of you tweedles and dees are coming from one population and urban planning context that is not in any way a given.
I'm driving more than a hundred miles in any given direction at least once a week. Maybe its family. Maybe its friends. Sometimes its work.
The glory of gas is that I don't have to worry about range. I know I'm covered and if I have to rent a car constantly then why the fuck did buy a car at all?
I'll just keep the rental then full time... Get myself a leasing agreement... or I know... I'll just buy a car that isn't fucking impractical in all but ONE context.
The only situation where electric makes sense is as an urban or suburban commuter.
They're generally small which means you can't throw your crap in it or rug rats or pack it full of your friends. They're often more expensive which is not going to help sales.
And really the primary selling point is the warm fuzzies the car gives people that think they're helping the evironment or something because they bought a car full of highly toxic batteries.
Understand... Grock completely... I want us to transition to a fully electric fleet.
Do you Grock me? However... there is a time when it is right. We're getting closer all the time.
We are NOT there yet. Pushing a total conversion now is premature.
I'm actually more interested in bio fuels at this point than I am in electric cars. A carbon neutral locally generated gasoline might a nice transitional technology.
I think I'd enjoy as well for the same reason I find e-cigs funny. They don't cause cancer but the anti smoking lobby hates them as much as they hate tobacco cigs. A carbon neutral diesel fuel would fill me orgasmic levels of trollish glee.
Yes yes... the aliens in your shoes are all powerful... and other babble. Fantastic. Go talk to a banana or something. I'm done with you.
.... Are you arguing that electric cars are more reliable in a power outrage?
Stop talking to me. You're like one of those homeless people that comes up to you on the street and wants to tell you about the aliens living in his shoes.
Enough.