Your party is corrupt. Your party is money-grubbing and is only concerned about their own power.
Only idiots vote for a party that is as non-logical as yours. Your party has been taken over by extremists who only want to destroy the United States as we know it!!
Your party is nothing but a bunch of Useful Idiots who support the New World Order!!
Your party doesn't even care about the people any more. Your party is only worried about getting more money from Special Interests.
Look at all of the voting fraud your party is involved in. Do you know why your party doesn't complain more loudly about vote fraud? It's because your party doesn't want the extend of their own involvement known to the general public! It would destroy your party!
Your party only fields idiots and crooks for office. They have to be idiots to support the things that your party believes in. You, know things like gay marriage, abortion, and the war? Idiots! I, however, will not associate with idiots, so I belong to my party.
Sure, my party has a few crooks in it, but I would never support it if it had as many crooks as your party does.
>> Despite the fact that women are better drivers on average than men? Rate car insurance lately?
Insurance rates don't indicate that females are 'better' drivers than males, it means that insurance companies feel that males are more of a risk than females.
It appears that males are more a risk since males tend to drive much more than females, generally, and that males tend to like to be involved in fatal/severe accidents more frequently than females.
In fact, females, tend to have a higher accident rate per mile than males do.
I am curious about why males are involved in severe accidents more frequently than females, and would openly speculate that it is due to more risk-taking behavior on the part of males.
Aspiring grognards may be interested in the Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit from Multiman Publishing. MMP has run out of it's first production run, though, but will be doing another run soon.
Yes, Squad Leader is still alive and kicking, and this is a very good way to learn it w/o reading the entire Big Damned Binder O' ASL Rules or taking a semester course in ASL.
Anyone who doesn't believe the same thing that I believe is obviously riding on life's short bus.
Just look at [Anecdotal Fact A], [Anecdotal Fact B], and their relationship to [Widely-known prinicple], and the numerous scientists who support My opinion.
Those 'scientists' who don't agree with My stance have clearly sold out for political or monetary interests, while the scientists who agree with My stance are motivated by pure altruism.
It is clear that those who do not agree with My stance on this issue probably vote for a political party that I don't vote for, and probably masturbate too much.
You're absolutely right. The Kerry/Edwards campaign really ought to explain their plan in detail somewhere...
Touche!. As we all know, written plans, and especially those that are freely available in pdf form, are always legitimate and present accurate representations of the way events will occur. I have seen the light and I will now vote for Kerry!
I have a plan to free America from its dangerous dependence on Mideast oil.
I have a plan to expand the all-volunteer active duty Army by 40,000 soldiers...
I have a plan to win the peace in Iraq, and bring our troops home.
My plan will cut health care costs by up to $1,000...
Oh yeah? Well I have a plan to cut health care costs by up to $10,000!
I have a plan to raise two hundred packets of Amazing Sea Monkeys and train them to hunt down and destroy terrorists!
I also have a plan to to have colonies on the Moon by 2006, another plan to create a virus that will wipe out all mean and/or rude people in the world, and another plan to ensure that all Americans have a right to live to be two hundred years old while simultaneously dropping the retirement age to 38.
Good plans... Solid plans...
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A few years ago I spent several months working with a developer who was from Russia. Being a bit of a xenophile, I regularly questioned him regarding Russian life, politics, culture, etc, and was even able to explain a few curiosities of American culture to him.
One day during lunch we found out that we had both been in the Army (not the same Army) at the same time, back when there was still a Cold War. I began to chuckle over the propoganda that the Army endeavored to instill in myself and my fellow soldiers. We had the impression that the Soviets were a bunch of automatons with no respect for human life that were just waiting to go war for any reason. How the Soviets were just dying to use chemical and/or nuclear weapons!
Sergei began to laugh, too, and said 'That's the same sort of thing that they used to tell us about you Americans.'
Earth's magnetic field is reversing due to the presence of too many human-caused magnetic fields.
While no one with scientific education would or even could deny that the planet's magnetic field has reversed itself many times in the past, was is disturbing to many environmental scientists is the rate at which HCMFR (Human-caused Magnetic Field Reversal) is occurring.
Ms. Karen Interpretation, Scientist!, explains this alarming trend... "Although we don't really have any idea how quickly the magnetic field reversed polarity in the past, we do like to use what we scientists! call the 'Perfect Harmony' theory in which we assume that Big Changes only occur of Long Periods of time. According to this theory, a dramatic change in polarity could only occur over a period of tens of thousands of years. The fact that the strength of the magnetic field has declined over 80 percent in the last 150 years, which coincides with presence of human-made magnetic fields, is very, very, very, very, very disturbing. Did I mention that this was disturbing? Very!"
Dr. I. M. Thanatos, environmental activist, believes that immediate action is required. "Governments must ban magnetic fields that exist solely for commerical or entertainment purposes. The magnetic fields that are caused by computers, televisions, radios and refrigerator magnets are weakening Gaia's Protective Aura, and must be destroyed. Magnetic fields must only be created and used for purposes that we environmentalists believe are good."
Thanotos further adds that "There is nothing that we can do about reversal at this point. The over-use of magnetic fields has removed all hope for a future. We might as well kill everybody. You all just don't care, and you suck, so Die!"
Right-wing pundit Jack Hasse puts a more optimistic spin on HCMFR - "A reverse in polarity will create jobs in the compass industry."
I'm still aghast at the number of developers who think that they need Visual Studio, or any IDE for that matter, to develop in.NET/Java/whatever.
I'll be sticking with Visual Vim 2004, Nant, and the SDK, thank you. My decrepit mouse-wrist really appreciates the fact that with vim my fingers rarely have to leave the keyboard, too.
The Democrat/Statist contingent around here will all be dependent on the government someday, and that government will let them down. Maybe put them in a bad financial situation (unless they live in mommy's basement for their ENTIRE life, not just their entire young adult life). Will you all say, "thank you sir, may I have another?" Will you say that it was the right thing to fuck you over? Do you suffer from that much self-loathing?
When you are dying in the gutter because you've sold your future to the government that made sure that no-one wants to do business in the U.S.A, I pray to God you're not stupid enough to thank them for it.
One of my favorites from Tripping the Rift was when one of the Dark Clowns infected the ship's computer with a virus that made it refuse to do what the crew wanted...
I think that spooje is making a valid point albiet a left-handed one.
Many slashdotters attribute the off-shoring phenomenon to the greed of corporate MBAs but fail to give the tender mercies of our own government(s) proper credit.
How much of the added expense of keeping a US developer on payroll, vs an Indian developer on contract, is due to direct taxation (Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Workmans Comp.) and indirect taxation that the employer and employee have to cover?
Since when do (American) corporations invest in R&D, expansion, or (real) growth?
More than likely, corporations will take the money that they save from offshoring and divide it up as big, fat bonuses for their executives, possibly as dividends for shareholders, or even to buy out competitors.
I wish that U.S. corporations would look to India, China, and Russia for low-cost MBAs. I'm pretty confident off-shore MBAs would be just as capable of bilking and mis-managing companies as American executive-club-MBAs for something like 1/20th or less of the cost. Now them's savings!
Everyone who has investments-by-proxy through mutual funds can take a share of the blame, too. These funds apply pressure to companies to get them to engage in off-shoring so that they can milk more money out their stocks, and are the same ones that reward corporate stock-manipulation strategies.
I wouldn't turn to the government for rescue, either. These are the jokers that add to the cost of keeping American workers employed w/ their lovely Social Security taxes, unemployment taxes, mandatory health insurance, etc. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats are going to do a thing about these 'hidden costs' of keeping an American worker on payroll.
Where we humans, even scientist-humans, get tripped-up is in the assessment, analysis and interpretation of facts, the consequences of facts, and in deciding what, if anything, should be done in response to facts.
A state borrowing security ideas off of gambling machines is rather akin to corporations fishing for secure payment ideas from porn sites. Makes sense. Ironic... but makes sense.
What's really goddamned scary about the idea of implantable chips is that banks are probably going to want a fifty-dollar a month 'service' fee just for having the thing and will probably still be deducting fifty cents or two dollars or more for every stinkin' transaction that you make.
Neato technology, but I'll be paying with cash, thank you.
The mainstream picks their candidate based on likability and how attractive they are and whether they wear the right colored suit or seem smug.
And which issues/policies should people favor? Or is just better to concerned with some kind of issue at all?
Humans pick their CEO's, car salesman, dates, class presidents, etc. based upon the same criteria that your've described above. Personal impressions count, and they effect everyone's decisions to one degree or another. Too bad. Appearances, intuitions and fuzzy feelings probably shouldn't matter, but they do. Complaining about it won't help.
Who's morally, ethically or even intellectually superior to those who just 'go with their gut'?
Senior citizens who vote for the AARP endorsed-candidate?
Voters who select candidates based upon a single issue like Pro-Lifers? Pro-Choicers?
Voters who go with the candidate endorsed by their favorite newspaper?
People who vote for whatever candidate promises not to take money away from them?
People who vote for whatever candidate promises to take money off of others and give it to them?
People who vote for whatever candidate promises to let them do something that others don't them to do?
People who vote for whatever candidate promises to stop others from doing something that they don't want them to do?
Selecting the candidate seems the nicest or the strongest or suits one's intuition doesn't seem so reprehensible compared with some of the above.
Being able to logically and empirically weigh issues and determine what courses are best for the present and the future, and know what it is - precisely and altruistically - that's best for everyone is a capability that's wayyyy beyond pretty much every human on the face of this planet.
Hell, I can barely figure out what's best just for me and my family.
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Your party is corrupt. Your party is money-grubbing and is only concerned about their own power.
Only idiots vote for a party that is as non-logical as yours. Your party has been taken over by extremists who only want to destroy the United States as we know it!!
Your party is nothing but a bunch of Useful Idiots who support the New World Order!!
Your party doesn't even care about the people any more. Your party is only worried about getting more money from Special Interests.
Look at all of the voting fraud your party is involved in. Do you know why your party doesn't complain more loudly about vote fraud? It's because your party doesn't want the extend of their own involvement known to the general public! It would destroy your party!
Your party only fields idiots and crooks for office. They have to be idiots to support the things that your party believes in. You, know things like gay marriage, abortion, and the war? Idiots! I, however, will not associate with idiots, so I belong to my party.
Sure, my party has a few crooks in it, but I would never support it if it had as many crooks as your party does.
>> Despite the fact that women are better drivers on average than men? Rate car insurance lately?
Insurance rates don't indicate that females are 'better' drivers than males, it means that insurance companies feel that males are more of a risk than females.
It appears that males are more a risk since males tend to drive much more than females, generally, and that males tend to like to be involved in fatal/severe accidents more frequently than females.
In fact, females, tend to have a higher accident rate per mile than males do.
See this link for support of statements.
I am curious about why males are involved in severe accidents more frequently than females, and would openly speculate that it is due to more risk-taking behavior on the part of males.
Aspiring grognards may be interested in the Advanced Squad Leader Starter Kit from Multiman Publishing. MMP has run out of it's first production run, though, but will be doing another run soon.
Yes, Squad Leader is still alive and kicking, and this is a very good way to learn it w/o reading the entire Big Damned Binder O' ASL Rules or taking a semester course in ASL.
Anyone who doesn't believe the same thing that I believe is obviously riding on life's short bus.
Just look at [Anecdotal Fact A], [Anecdotal Fact B], and their relationship to [Widely-known prinicple], and the numerous scientists who support My opinion.
Those 'scientists' who don't agree with My stance have clearly sold out for political or monetary interests, while the scientists who agree with My stance are motivated by pure altruism.
It is clear that those who do not agree with My stance on this issue probably vote for a political party that I don't vote for, and probably masturbate too much.
You're absolutely right. The Kerry/Edwards campaign really ought to explain their plan in detail somewhere...
Touche!. As we all know, written plans, and especially those that are freely available in pdf form, are always legitimate and present accurate representations of the way events will occur. I have seen the light and I will now vote for Kerry!
I have a plan to free America from its dangerous dependence on Mideast oil.
I have a plan to expand the all-volunteer active duty Army by 40,000 soldiers...
I have a plan to win the peace in Iraq, and bring our troops home.
My plan will cut health care costs by up to $1,000...
Oh yeah? Well I have a plan to cut health care costs by up to $10,000!
I have a plan to raise two hundred packets of Amazing Sea Monkeys and train them to hunt down and destroy terrorists!
I also have a plan to to have colonies on the Moon by 2006, another plan to create a virus that will wipe out all mean and/or rude people in the world, and another plan to ensure that all Americans have a right to live to be two hundred years old while simultaneously dropping the retirement age to 38.
Good plans... Solid plans...
A few years ago I spent several months working with a developer who was from Russia. Being a bit of a xenophile, I regularly questioned him regarding Russian life, politics, culture, etc, and was even able to explain a few curiosities of American culture to him.
One day during lunch we found out that we had both been in the Army (not the same Army) at the same time, back when there was still a Cold War. I began to chuckle over the propoganda that the Army endeavored to instill in myself and my fellow soldiers. We had the impression that the Soviets were a bunch of automatons with no respect for human life that were just waiting to go war for any reason. How the Soviets were just dying to use chemical and/or nuclear weapons!
Sergei began to laugh, too, and said 'That's the same sort of thing that they used to tell us about you Americans.'
I still want Crusade back. :(
From Fear and Loathing magazine, Mar 04...
Human-Caused Magnetic Field Reversal
Earth's magnetic field is reversing due to the presence of too many human-caused magnetic fields.
While no one with scientific education would or even could deny that the planet's magnetic field has reversed itself many times in the past, was is disturbing to many environmental scientists is the rate at which HCMFR (Human-caused Magnetic Field Reversal) is occurring.
Ms. Karen Interpretation, Scientist!, explains this alarming trend... "Although we don't really have any idea how quickly the magnetic field reversed polarity in the past, we do like to use what we scientists! call the 'Perfect Harmony' theory in which we assume that Big Changes only occur of Long Periods of time. According to this theory, a dramatic change in polarity could only occur over a period of tens of thousands of years. The fact that the strength of the magnetic field has declined over 80 percent in the last 150 years, which coincides with presence of human-made magnetic fields, is very, very, very, very, very disturbing. Did I mention that this was disturbing? Very!"
Dr. I. M. Thanatos, environmental activist, believes that immediate action is required. "Governments must ban magnetic fields that exist solely for commerical or entertainment purposes. The magnetic fields that are caused by computers, televisions, radios and refrigerator magnets are weakening Gaia's Protective Aura, and must be destroyed. Magnetic fields must only be created and used for purposes that we environmentalists believe are good."
Thanotos further adds that "There is nothing that we can do about reversal at this point. The over-use of magnetic fields has removed all hope for a future. We might as well kill everybody. You all just don't care, and you suck, so Die!"
Right-wing pundit Jack Hasse puts a more optimistic spin on HCMFR - "A reverse in polarity will create jobs in the compass industry."
Spider-Man 2 is certainly the movie that pays off all the promise Sam Raimi has held for the past few decades.
Whassat? I think that you just unintentionally implied that Army of Darkness was not the greatest movie of all time!
I'm still aghast at the number of developers who think that they need Visual Studio, or any IDE for that matter, to develop in .NET/Java/whatever.
I'll be sticking with Visual Vim 2004, Nant, and the SDK, thank you. My decrepit mouse-wrist really appreciates the fact that with vim my fingers rarely have to leave the keyboard, too.
Minor Correction:
The Democrat/Statist contingent around here will all be dependent on the government someday, and that government will let them down. Maybe put them in a bad financial situation (unless they live in mommy's basement for their ENTIRE life, not just their entire young adult life). Will you all say, "thank you sir, may I have another?" Will you say that it was the right thing to fuck you over? Do you suffer from that much self-loathing?
When you are dying in the gutter because you've sold your future to the government that made sure that no-one wants to do business in the U.S.A, I pray to God you're not stupid enough to thank them for it.
I think that a really interesting distributed computing project would be one that simulates the growth, spread, and interaction between memes.
;)
It would have to be MS-based, though, or possibly done w/ Java.
One of my favorites from Tripping the Rift was when one of the Dark Clowns infected the ship's computer with a virus that made it refuse to do what the crew wanted...
Be careful! It sounds like it's from Microsoft!
I think that spooje is making a valid point albiet a left-handed one.
Many slashdotters attribute the off-shoring phenomenon to the greed of corporate MBAs but fail to give the tender mercies of our own government(s) proper credit.
How much of the added expense of keeping a US developer on payroll, vs an Indian developer on contract, is due to direct taxation (Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Workmans Comp.) and indirect taxation that the employer and employee have to cover?
REAL geeks also play Third Reich, w/o even having to look at the rules. ;)
Now if only Fox would bring the back The Tick. (The animated version! The animated version!)
Since when do (American) corporations invest in R&D, expansion, or (real) growth?
More than likely, corporations will take the money that they save from offshoring and divide it up as big, fat bonuses for their executives, possibly as dividends for shareholders, or even to buy out competitors.
I wish that U.S. corporations would look to India, China, and Russia for low-cost MBAs. I'm pretty confident off-shore MBAs would be just as capable of bilking and mis-managing companies as American executive-club-MBAs for something like 1/20th or less of the cost. Now them's savings!
Everyone who has investments-by-proxy through mutual funds can take a share of the blame, too. These funds apply pressure to companies to get them to engage in off-shoring so that they can milk more money out their stocks, and are the same ones that reward corporate stock-manipulation strategies.
I wouldn't turn to the government for rescue, either. These are the jokers that add to the cost of keeping American workers employed w/ their lovely Social Security taxes, unemployment taxes, mandatory health insurance, etc. Neither the Republicans or the Democrats are going to do a thing about these 'hidden costs' of keeping an American worker on payroll.
Now THAT's funny! You even extended Exception!Very creative and Swiftian.
I'd mod you up if I had any points.
Facts are one thing.
Where we humans, even scientist-humans, get tripped-up is in the assessment, analysis and interpretation of facts, the consequences of facts, and in deciding what, if anything, should be done in response to facts.
What's the advantage of a robot like that (which could have a quite hefty price tag) to a cheap mule/horse/real dog/etc to carry equipment?
Can a basselope project be far behind for the DOD?
This is not really surprising.
A state borrowing security ideas off of gambling machines is rather akin to corporations fishing for secure payment ideas from porn sites. Makes sense. Ironic... but makes sense.
What's really goddamned scary about the idea of implantable chips is that banks are probably going to want a fifty-dollar a month 'service' fee just for having the thing and will probably still be deducting fifty cents or two dollars or more for every stinkin' transaction that you make.
Neato technology, but I'll be paying with cash, thank you.
The mainstream picks their candidate based on likability and how attractive they are and whether they wear the right colored suit or seem smug.
And which issues/policies should people favor? Or is just better to concerned with some kind of issue at all?
Humans pick their CEO's, car salesman, dates, class presidents, etc. based upon the same criteria that your've described above. Personal impressions count, and they effect everyone's decisions to one degree or another. Too bad. Appearances, intuitions and fuzzy feelings probably shouldn't matter, but they do. Complaining about it won't help.
Who's morally, ethically or even intellectually superior to those who just 'go with their gut'?
Selecting the candidate seems the nicest or the strongest or suits one's intuition doesn't seem so reprehensible compared with some of the above.
Being able to logically and empirically weigh issues and determine what courses are best for the present and the future, and know what it is - precisely and altruistically - that's best for everyone is a capability that's wayyyy beyond pretty much every human on the face of this planet.
Hell, I can barely figure out what's best just for me and my family.