the "I want to believe" factor is just too good to pass up
The "I want NOT to believe" factor is even stronger for people like you. You've got some of the most reputable newspapers in the country reporting it from real sources (though, of course, anonymous for obvious reasons). You've got Congress investigating how it leaked, the President saying "I didn't leak it," drunk Israeli generals bragging about it, etc. Short of a "Yep, we did it" official press release from the NSA, that's about as good as it gets.
But some people want to keep their head buried deep in the sand, I guess. That's fine. But not all of us are from Missouri.
Don't know about Flame, but Stuxnet didn't use net-connected computers as its vector for infection. Somehow U.S./Israel got it on the flash drives of the Russian contractors who were working on the centrifuges. The contractors brought it in physically on those drives.
I'm pretty sure you've figured out by now that the U.S. and Israel are trying to sabotage your nuclear program. If the numerous targeted computer viruses didn't clue you in, you must have at least noticed the dead bodies of your nuclear scientists starting to pile up.
This whole "We can't find the skilled workers we need thing" is just a big H1B visa scam (here in the U.S. anyway):
1) Post ads for jobs with impossible qualifications (i.e. 20 years of Java development experience) or so specialized that only a specific H1B candidate can meet them. 2) Turn away every applicant as unqualified 3) Cry to Congress and the Labor Dept. that you can't find enough qualified workers to fill positions, ask for more visas 4) Get more H1B visas 5) Pay foreign nationals a pittance. 6) Profit!
Actually, I imagine it will create an incentive for people to leave Time Warner. And the best part is that, since Time Warner has patented it, you can be guaranteed fast-forward everywhere else.
It was the most emotionally complex Trek series, and showed a future that wasn't so clean and utopian, with people who weren't so predictable.
THANK YOU! It was the only Trek series where humans acted like actual human beings. It was the only series that bore any resemblance at all to reality. All the others are so hopelessly utopian, they make me want to puke sometimes. "We've conquered poverty and live in a communist utopia with no money. And we also don't have sex and are completely professional" [he said in a robotic voice].
There is a scene in DS9 that pretty much sums it all up for me when it comes to the annoyingly paternalistic attitude of the Federation and its damned utopianism. Quark makes a human drink and gives Garek a taste. Garek complains that it's "So sweet and cloying...like the Federation", to which Quark replies "I know, doesn't it make you sick?"
Oh god, remember that godawful episode where they found the old truck floating in space. That's when I pretty much checked out of Star Trek altogether. DS9 was the pinnacle of Trek as far as I'm concerned. Everything else that followed was just an afterthought.
I'm sorry, but did you just recommend that he introduce someone to Star Trek with Season One of TNG?!?!? That's like introducing someone to the Rocky franchise by showing them Rocky V.
It's my second favorite science fiction episode of all time, right behind that episode of the original Battlestar Galactica where they mourn the loss of their home planet and the vast majority of the human race by going to an alien space disco.
Just because I left my door open, doesn't mean it's okay to steal.
Yes, but it was still a crazy stupid move of Americash not to pay. It would have been worth way more than $15,000 just to find out details on how they had done it (and close a major vulnerability in the system).
My advice might seem a little cynical, but the first thing I always tell someone who asks "How do I get my kid to like X?" is to tell them "Don't." If they're anything like my kids, mom and dad trying to sell them on something is the quickest way to make it the most uncool thing in the universe.
When I was a kid, my dad kept trying to sell me on Westerns. Whether or not that had anything to do with it, or whether it was just my nature, I can tell you that I *hated* Westerns then and still do. Of course, I never had the heart to tell the old man, and humored him to no end. But if there was ever any chance I was going to like those bastards Louis L'Amour or John Ford, my dad trying to make them seem "cool" certainly guaranteed that it was never going to happen.
As an alternative, why not ask your kid what HE likes, and YOU read some of HIS stuff instead? It will probably be a bunch of crap (my evil kids stuck me with reading those damned Harry Potter and pussy vampire books). But at least you won't be turning him off to something.
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It just allegedly quotes a bunch of anonymous sources about supposed top secret information.
So did Woodward and Bernstein when they wrote about Watergate. You think Nixon issued a press release saying "Yeah, we did break-in."?
The CIA and NSA have been in bed with Mossad for decades. This is hardly something new.
the "I want to believe" factor is just too good to pass up
The "I want NOT to believe" factor is even stronger for people like you. You've got some of the most reputable newspapers in the country reporting it from real sources (though, of course, anonymous for obvious reasons). You've got Congress investigating how it leaked, the President saying "I didn't leak it," drunk Israeli generals bragging about it, etc. Short of a "Yep, we did it" official press release from the NSA, that's about as good as it gets.
But some people want to keep their head buried deep in the sand, I guess. That's fine. But not all of us are from Missouri.
Don't know about Flame, but Stuxnet didn't use net-connected computers as its vector for infection. Somehow U.S./Israel got it on the flash drives of the Russian contractors who were working on the centrifuges. The contractors brought it in physically on those drives.
Now hold on... what nuclear scientists died here?
Wow, just get back from an isolated island or something?
One of many, many reports.
I'm pretty sure you've figured out by now that the U.S. and Israel are trying to sabotage your nuclear program. If the numerous targeted computer viruses didn't clue you in, you must have at least noticed the dead bodies of your nuclear scientists starting to pile up.
Don't you know there's a war on, son?
bright college grad
I know those words, but in that context they make no sense.
And will likely vote for him again because...
...the alternative is a fucking nightmare.
No, it wasn't in *visual* basic.
Well, at least the government can't frame her on a rape charge.
This whole "We can't find the skilled workers we need thing" is just a big H1B visa scam (here in the U.S. anyway):
1) Post ads for jobs with impossible qualifications (i.e. 20 years of Java development experience) or so specialized that only a specific H1B candidate can meet them.
2) Turn away every applicant as unqualified
3) Cry to Congress and the Labor Dept. that you can't find enough qualified workers to fill positions, ask for more visas
4) Get more H1B visas
5) Pay foreign nationals a pittance.
6) Profit!
Actually, I imagine it will create an incentive for people to leave Time Warner. And the best part is that, since Time Warner has patented it, you can be guaranteed fast-forward everywhere else.
It was the most emotionally complex Trek series, and showed a future that wasn't so clean and utopian, with people who weren't so predictable.
THANK YOU! It was the only Trek series where humans acted like actual human beings. It was the only series that bore any resemblance at all to reality. All the others are so hopelessly utopian, they make me want to puke sometimes. "We've conquered poverty and live in a communist utopia with no money. And we also don't have sex and are completely professional" [he said in a robotic voice].
There is a scene in DS9 that pretty much sums it all up for me when it comes to the annoyingly paternalistic attitude of the Federation and its damned utopianism. Quark makes a human drink and gives Garek a taste. Garek complains that it's "So sweet and cloying...like the Federation", to which Quark replies "I know, doesn't it make you sick?"
And, Voyager was absolutely the most unwatchable
Oh god, remember that godawful episode where they found the old truck floating in space. That's when I pretty much checked out of Star Trek altogether. DS9 was the pinnacle of Trek as far as I'm concerned. Everything else that followed was just an afterthought.
I'm sorry, but did you just recommend that he introduce someone to Star Trek with Season One of TNG?!?!? That's like introducing someone to the Rocky franchise by showing them Rocky V.
Oddly enough, there's an actor named Chris Pine in those too.
It's my second favorite science fiction episode of all time, right behind that episode of the original Battlestar Galactica where they mourn the loss of their home planet and the vast majority of the human race by going to an alien space disco.
Just because I left my door open, doesn't mean it's okay to steal.
Yes, but it was still a crazy stupid move of Americash not to pay. It would have been worth way more than $15,000 just to find out details on how they had done it (and close a major vulnerability in the system).
Nonsense, this guy is a job creator. Let's all vote Romney and give him a big tax cut!
Weed + any food = yum.
Hey kids, want to hear how Cancer Man got bitten by a radioactive spider?
Oh yeah, and put up some YouTube videos of it!
The guy will dip french fries in ANYTHING.
My advice might seem a little cynical, but the first thing I always tell someone who asks "How do I get my kid to like X?" is to tell them "Don't." If they're anything like my kids, mom and dad trying to sell them on something is the quickest way to make it the most uncool thing in the universe.
When I was a kid, my dad kept trying to sell me on Westerns. Whether or not that had anything to do with it, or whether it was just my nature, I can tell you that I *hated* Westerns then and still do. Of course, I never had the heart to tell the old man, and humored him to no end. But if there was ever any chance I was going to like those bastards Louis L'Amour or John Ford, my dad trying to make them seem "cool" certainly guaranteed that it was never going to happen.
As an alternative, why not ask your kid what HE likes, and YOU read some of HIS stuff instead? It will probably be a bunch of crap (my evil kids stuck me with reading those damned Harry Potter and pussy vampire books). But at least you won't be turning him off to something.
I think that Iran should declare war on the US over it. That'd be good for some lolz
Would you still be laughing if a U.S. strike on Iran prompted Russia, North Korea, and China to join in and it became WWIII?