Having worked in several workplaces dominated by women, I too have been privy to quite a few discussions where women "let their hair down".
However, unless one has a particular fetish for hygiene, menstrual cycles and other assorted feminine matters, the kind of dreams that conjured up are mostly the ones involving waking up sweaty and terrified;-)
That is correct. Evolution, or rather the mechanisms we use to try and describe how we currently understand it to work, is a Theory.
Incidentally, so is our understanding of that funny concept that keeps your feet on the floor and causes apples to fall on your head. Yet somehow none of the biblethumpers seem inclined to question why they're not spontaneously floating into the sky. Perhaps that particular revelation is saved for the Rapture?
Hmm, that's an idea. Send Child Protective Services after any parents who actually *do* allow their children to receive a nice dose of rays or a good ol' fashioned groping.
Parents have seen their children taken away for less...
And his job is to make sure you are competent and delivering the product the company is paying you for.
If he doesn't understand technical issues himself that's fine, but in that case he still requires a method to determine whether or not you are doing a good job.
Nah, it just means he's realized it's fucking hopeless, and one might as well treat the sheep the way they want to be treated...to be led, to be shorn and ultimately to be slaughtered*
Real world example: Portugal. All drug use has been decriminalized and addicts are treated for their addiction instead of being put into a prison. Net result: less money spent, lower chances of repetition and a much higher chance of rehabilitation. And yes, overall drug use has in fact slightly dropped.
Another example: soft drug use in the Netherlands is far lower than in the surrounding countries, yet we're the only country where it's legal to buy the stuff(for now).
As for caring for the elderly, nice little strawman. I'm comparing an expensive method that does not work to a cheaper one that does, you're comparing an expensive method that does work to killing old people. Did you learn to debate on the internet by any chance?
by the same logic the failure to enforce prohibition is justification to decriminalise hard drugs or other abuse-related activities.
Surprise...it is.
Why allow the government to keep spending your money on something when they continuously fail to achieve the stated goal and there's no return on investment?
And guess what, decriminalizing the use of hard drugs results in...less prisoners, less drugs users, and an overall reduction in the costs to society as a result of hard drug use.
So yes, losing the "War on Drugs" *is* a good reason to pull out and look for a different approach. It had been *proven* to work. Of course there's no fucking way the "tough on crime" folks will allow it, but that is besides the point.
By your very logic, I could just stop buying bread from the local baker because I only intend to convert it into (mostly useless) crap anyway, and the efficiency with which my body converts said bread into energy is really quite lousy.
Don't get me wrong, I can think of tons of things that are more useful than weaponry, but your argument makes no sense. The money doesn't disappear, it moves around in circles, that's what an economy does. When a government spends 300 million on a bridge, that money ends up somewhere, it doesn't disappear into thin air.
One of the consequences of being extremely competent in one's field is constantly having to deal with folks that are, by definition, less(if at all) competent.
At some point patience may run out resulting in acting like a jerk...
Thats what they taught you in school, so that you would not be able to think like a free man.
No, they did not. That is what rational thought tells me. Our rights and our laws are what we collectively decide as human beings. Anything beyond that is total claptrap. There is no God giving us rights. There are no rights inherent to us because we happened to develop too many neurons to just stay in the fucking tree. We are *not* in any way, shape or form special.
We have rights because as a collective we decide we have them and then we hire a bunch of folks #1 and give them weapons to protect those rights, all the while hiring another bunch of folks #2 to try and take them away while we aren't looking, right up to the the point where we violently toss out group #2 while praying #1 is on our side and not theirs.
So, where do *your* rights come from? Don't bother replying if it involves deities.
In that case it has jackshit to do with morality and is simply a case of statistics.
And speaking of statistics, what's more dangerous: having different sexual partners while using condoms and getting regular tests or taking part in daily traffic? I'll leave that as exercise for the "moral majority".
Sex with multiple partners is perfectly responsible so long as all the parties involved are aware of the full situation and have made a decision for themselves as to whether or not the risk is worth the fun. Surely as a Libertarian you can agree with that.
If he did indeed pass the data, he isn't a hero, he is most likely a traitor, or at the very least guilty of espionage, wire fraud, or some other similar charge. That makes him an enemy of the US.
Thank you good sir, for restoring my lack of faith in the US once again. Go forth sir, and vote your freedoms away one by one. May your government issued assprobe be most painful.
Fortunately said plan is encountering massive resistance from local governments, even when said governments are part of the same party that introduced the plan.
If the retards in Limburg want to close their coffeeshops, go for it, just one more reason not to go down there. But the folks in Amsterdam rather feel that having Snoop Dogg pop down there for a smoke is good fun, and they don't seem to have any intention to close things down, no matter what the national government may shout about it.
Oh, there was 1 member of parliament who did her very best to defeat this (who conveniently happened to be a former lobbyist for our largest ISP) who happens to be a member of our currently largest political party.
She got *crucified*. Rarely have I seen so much ridicule. The second she started spouting bullshit all the nerds on Twitter started feeding just the right counterarguments to the opposition, it was a beautiful sight to behold indeed;-)
Puhlease. The Netherlands are crawled up so far the US's asshole we can fucking see Canada from here.
If the US says jump, half our cabinet starts beating each other's brains in for the opportunity to be the first to ask "how high" and maybe get in a little quality time with The First Weiner.
My usual statement is "I'm a guy. I like stuff that goes vroom or boom. Bonus points if it does both".
Note that boobs go neither boom nor vroom, but contrary to hypercars or explosives I get to handle those in real life without significant danger to the people within a 2 mile radius;-)
You blame the evil gubmint. I blame the populace that is ignorant enough to keep electing it over and over and over again.
Despite the established dual powerblock, a third party should be able to gain a foothold, but in order to do so a significant portion of the electorate would have to wake up, grow a pair and stop voting for the lesser of 2 evils. Since this doesn't happen I place the blame squarely at the feet of the voters, not the voted. The people get the government they deserve. And hence the (rather final) solution to the original issue would be to exterminate the people, not the government. Wiping out the government would only result in it being replaced by something quite similar.
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The ability to rearrange the taskbar. Because OCD...makes me more efficient, yeah, that's it ;-)
Having worked in several workplaces dominated by women, I too have been privy to quite a few discussions where women "let their hair down".
However, unless one has a particular fetish for hygiene, menstrual cycles and other assorted feminine matters, the kind of dreams that conjured up are mostly the ones involving waking up sweaty and terrified ;-)
That is correct. Evolution, or rather the mechanisms we use to try and describe how we currently understand it to work, is a Theory.
Incidentally, so is our understanding of that funny concept that keeps your feet on the floor and causes apples to fall on your head. Yet somehow none of the biblethumpers seem inclined to question why they're not spontaneously floating into the sky. Perhaps that particular revelation is saved for the Rapture?
One cannot choose to be stupid. One can however, choose to be ignorant.
Won't someone think of the stupid children?
Hmm, that's an idea. Send Child Protective Services after any parents who actually *do* allow their children to receive a nice dose of rays or a good ol' fashioned groping.
Parents have seen their children taken away for less...
In addition, having a watch during a meeting is a-ok. Having a cellphone turned on is being an ass.
Hardly. The Gestapo was bad, and they were very very good at being bad.
The TSA is just plain incompetent.
And his job is to make sure you are competent and delivering the product the company is paying you for.
If he doesn't understand technical issues himself that's fine, but in that case he still requires a method to determine whether or not you are doing a good job.
Same. Especially considering I hardly enter lowsec and thus have very little use for a carrier anyway ;-)
Nah, it just means he's realized it's fucking hopeless, and one might as well treat the sheep the way they want to be treated...to be led, to be shorn and ultimately to be slaughtered*
*Special offcers may apply in Wales or Australia
Real world example: Portugal. All drug use has been decriminalized and addicts are treated for their addiction instead of being put into a prison. Net result: less money spent, lower chances of repetition and a much higher chance of rehabilitation. And yes, overall drug use has in fact slightly dropped.
Another example: soft drug use in the Netherlands is far lower than in the surrounding countries, yet we're the only country where it's legal to buy the stuff(for now).
As for caring for the elderly, nice little strawman. I'm comparing an expensive method that does not work to a cheaper one that does, you're comparing an expensive method that does work to killing old people. Did you learn to debate on the internet by any chance?
by the same logic the failure to enforce prohibition is justification to decriminalise hard drugs or other abuse-related activities.
Surprise...it is.
Why allow the government to keep spending your money on something when they continuously fail to achieve the stated goal and there's no return on investment?
And guess what, decriminalizing the use of hard drugs results in...less prisoners, less drugs users, and an overall reduction in the costs to society as a result of hard drug use.
So yes, losing the "War on Drugs" *is* a good reason to pull out and look for a different approach. It had been *proven* to work. Of course there's no fucking way the "tough on crime" folks will allow it, but that is besides the point.
Ehmm, yeah.
By your very logic, I could just stop buying bread from the local baker because I only intend to convert it into (mostly useless) crap anyway, and the efficiency with which my body converts said bread into energy is really quite lousy.
Don't get me wrong, I can think of tons of things that are more useful than weaponry, but your argument makes no sense. The money doesn't disappear, it moves around in circles, that's what an economy does. When a government spends 300 million on a bridge, that money ends up somewhere, it doesn't disappear into thin air.
One of the consequences of being extremely competent in one's field is constantly having to deal with folks that are, by definition, less(if at all) competent.
At some point patience may run out resulting in acting like a jerk...
Law and rights are completely arbitrary.
Thats what they taught you in school, so that you would not be able to think like a free man.
No, they did not. That is what rational thought tells me. Our rights and our laws are what we collectively decide as human beings. Anything beyond that is total claptrap. There is no God giving us rights. There are no rights inherent to us because we happened to develop too many neurons to just stay in the fucking tree. We are *not* in any way, shape or form special.
We have rights because as a collective we decide we have them and then we hire a bunch of folks #1 and give them weapons to protect those rights, all the while hiring another bunch of folks #2 to try and take them away while we aren't looking, right up to the the point where we violently toss out group #2 while praying #1 is on our side and not theirs.
So, where do *your* rights come from? Don't bother replying if it involves deities.
In that case it has jackshit to do with morality and is simply a case of statistics.
And speaking of statistics, what's more dangerous: having different sexual partners while using condoms and getting regular tests or taking part in daily traffic? I'll leave that as exercise for the "moral majority".
Sex with multiple partners is perfectly responsible so long as all the parties involved are aware of the full situation and have made a decision for themselves as to whether or not the risk is worth the fun. Surely as a Libertarian you can agree with that.
This "WTF is Frozen Synapse" shows the gameplay pretty clearly: linky.
Gotta warn you though, the guy is pretty damn enthusiastic, but with reason ;-)
If he did indeed pass the data, he isn't a hero, he is most likely a traitor, or at the very least guilty of espionage, wire fraud, or some other similar charge. That makes him an enemy of the US.
Thank you good sir, for restoring my lack of faith in the US once again. Go forth sir, and vote your freedoms away one by one. May your government issued assprobe be most painful.
Fortunately said plan is encountering massive resistance from local governments, even when said governments are part of the same party that introduced the plan.
If the retards in Limburg want to close their coffeeshops, go for it, just one more reason not to go down there. But the folks in Amsterdam rather feel that having Snoop Dogg pop down there for a smoke is good fun, and they don't seem to have any intention to close things down, no matter what the national government may shout about it.
Oh, there was 1 member of parliament who did her very best to defeat this (who conveniently happened to be a former lobbyist for our largest ISP) who happens to be a member of our currently largest political party.
She got *crucified*. Rarely have I seen so much ridicule. The second she started spouting bullshit all the nerds on Twitter started feeding just the right counterarguments to the opposition, it was a beautiful sight to behold indeed ;-)
Puhlease. The Netherlands are crawled up so far the US's asshole we can fucking see Canada from here.
If the US says jump, half our cabinet starts beating each other's brains in for the opportunity to be the first to ask "how high" and maybe get in a little quality time with The First Weiner.
My usual statement is "I'm a guy. I like stuff that goes vroom or boom. Bonus points if it does both".
Note that boobs go neither boom nor vroom, but contrary to hypercars or explosives I get to handle those in real life without significant danger to the people within a 2 mile radius ;-)
Apparently you didn't get my point.
You blame the evil gubmint. I blame the populace that is ignorant enough to keep electing it over and over and over again.
Despite the established dual powerblock, a third party should be able to gain a foothold, but in order to do so a significant portion of the electorate would have to wake up, grow a pair and stop voting for the lesser of 2 evils. Since this doesn't happen I place the blame squarely at the feet of the voters, not the voted. The people get the government they deserve. And hence the (rather final) solution to the original issue would be to exterminate the people, not the government. Wiping out the government would only result in it being replaced by something quite similar.
Didn't the US numbers get skewed massively by counting eg burger flippers at McD as manufacturing workers as well?
Step 1. Measure
Step 2. Redefine parameters for measurement
Step 3. Measure again
Step 4. Shout off the rooftops how much better things are now.
Mission accomplished then? :-)