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In Soviet Russia, every time you destroy a planet...God masturbates.
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The problem with naysaying doomsayers is that, well, it only takes one earth annihilating event to totally fuck things up for all of us. If it was just a localized problem it might not be such an issue. For instance, if suddenly the whole island of Japan leapt into deep space, we could get over that. We might not have any good televison sets for a few years but I am sure Tiwan and china would pick up the slack eventually.
However, if the whole earth gets destroyed it makes a much bigger dent in my future plans. As for myself, I will suffer the cautiousnes of doomsayers as a brake on possible eradication of all observed life in the universe. To do otherwise is just a bit reckless, IMHO.
Factor in the cost of the lawsuit if you install OS X on a non approved machine and sel it on E-bay later and, sadly, the TCO of Vista is drastically better.
Strange you mention that. The last time I did it I was at the threshold of full visions and actively supressing the visual hallucinations. The one irrepressible feeling was the distinct notion there was an axis of the universe passing through the center of my body, from groin to the crown of my head, and extending to infinity. The oddest part was the axis was also a fold that felt perpendicular to the other 3 dimensions. It was almost as if a 90 degree fold was there but it was 90 degrees to everything else, not just another plane. This feeling persisted for about 30 minutes before subsiding.
I guess I need to do the 60x to get the full 7 dimensions.
"...for example, when he made fun of Michael J. Fox's Parkinsons Disease..."
He did not make fun of it. He stated that he thought MJF was acting to make his symptoms appear worse than they actually are and took issue with MJF's claim that embryonic stem cell research would cure him and others like him. As it turned out, MJF was not acting. He has a policy of strategically stopping his meds for certain interviews.
No need to dispute the source on that info either, as it was MJF himself.
So what you are saying is that a criminal will be a criminal regardless of the possible negative outcomes of their crime. In other words, a criminal who wants to steal something will (if the punishment for theft is harsh enough) murder a whole family to cover their tracks.
I don't want someone like that "rehabilitated." They obviously do not posess rational though like that of other humans. I couldn't even begin to justify stealing something much less murdering to cover my tracks.
Elimination, not seperation or rehabilitation, seems to be the only sensible action for a defective creature that acts like that.
"You don't get to violate it just because you think the situation is special and the rules do not apply to you."
There is no violation. The police can legally ask for anything they want from the library director. The library director can also legally give the FBI what they are requesting, all without a warrant. A warrant is necessary to compel compliance when someone legally refuses cooperation. Notice the FBI agents are not going to be prosecuted for acquiring evidence without a warrant? That is because it was legally obtained.
Do you think this is the first administration that has done this?
Do you think that Democratic politicians feel any less polarized feelings towawrd people who oppose thier ideology?
The reason I ask is I felt your post was dead on except for the fact you seem to think this is only a republican trait and not a political tool used by all (both) parties.
"Implying that someone like him should die (and that implication has been made many times here on/.) is just whacked."
I disagree completely. If he had somehow survived his suicide attempt, I would gladly be on the jury to convict him of murder, and subsequently feel no remorse in condemning him to death.
Some will argue that he is sick, "disturbed", etc. I would argue that anything that would commit those acts is not human and deserved of no greater regard than an animal that kills humans. Put them down like a rabid dog and forget about it.
For this you call me "whacked." Fine. However, in my eye spending money to rehabilitate or imprison a person who murders their family or children while there are starving people in the world is a gross misappropriation of funds.
The guy, Hugo, in the story I linked was fired from his job for sexual molestation of a co-worker. Apparently he had been doing it for years. People that worked with him said that because he was such a good salesperson and made the company so much money that they helped cover for him. Apparently, he did it to the wrong person and his company finally fired him.
I know about this man from two different angles. First, my father and my father's girlfriend worked with him. An incident where this bastard tried to molest my father's girlfriend eventually led to his firing.
Second, in a strange twist of events, I worked with the guy as well. When he was fired he came to work at my company. At that time I had no idea of his involvement with my father and his girlfriend, nor the circumstances that led to his leaving his previous job. He mentioned layoffs, large oil and gas comapny, etc. He, however, had to know who I was because my father and I have the same name. In addition Hugo revealed he worked at the same installation my father worked at. I even described my father to him in hopes that they knew eachother. He feined ignorance of course.
Hugo and I worked together for a few months before he killed his wife, 2 young children, and babysitter. It wasn't till then that I learned of my father's involvement in his firing (my dad led the charge to get him fired, for obvious reasons) and the conduct that led to his firing. My impression of him after hearing all the details was that he was an egomaniacal control freak that had little regard for those around him, especially women. However, he maintained a well-meaning facade for the public by being active in his church and community. Eventually I came to the conclusion that his disregard for women was actually rooted in a sociopathic disregard of all people. I think he ultimately viewed his family as posessions he could do whatever he wanted with.
Before he got fired he was pretty much king of his domain. There was a constant stream of young women to pick from at work, he made phenomenal amounts of money, had the traditional wife and kids, and, according to some in the know, a 19 year old babysitter to have sex with whenever he wanted. Maybe he felt life was not living anymore without being able to get his way whenever he wanted. Whatever the reason, the scariest part is that I and many others worked right beside this powderkeg for months and he was able to pass among us and appeared to be a well adjusted, intelligent, humble, nice guy.
Nice try at changing the subject. McCain is and was always the run of the mill political candidate. We expect shit like this from him and every other dyed-in-the-wool politician. In his defense he has been in Washington for so long that he probably has had to flip-flop on some positions to avoid becoming a what he will inevitably be quite soon, a dinosaur.
Lets get back to WTF we were talking about. Obama hooked me and alot of other people by claiming to be a candidate of change. Not just political change was implied, mind you, but also a different type of politician was promised. He backed this up by consistently taking the high road, avoiding mud slinging, vituperousness, and retaliatory comments with his opponents, etc. He was a little light on issues, but alot of us felt he would flesh those out as the race progressed and that if he was true to those principles we had already seen in him, we would be more than justified in supporting him.
Now the first serious challenge to his integrity comes in the guise of this telecom bill. Not only a challenge, but a wonderful chance for him to grandstand those principles many of us have been begging for in a representative and that he has promised he posesses. A honey of an issue too; the press has been all over this thing for the better part of 2 and a half years. Really the perfect place to make a statement and to serve notice to all the other political has-beens, have-nots, and wannabes. So what does he do? Does he go out there and in one fell swoop claim the presidency in a display of character and statesmanship unseen since JFK? No. He fucks it up so royally many of us can't believe it.
All I want to know is this: Where is the fucking candidate he said he was going to be?! I still want to vote for THAT Obama but this is eerily like that scene from "Men in Black." You know, the one where a goddamned giant cockroach climbs out of the skin of the exterminator? The parallels of irony in that are too many to count.
And no, you pigs and trolls, I am not talking about anything racial with that last comment. Grow up.
"and we can only do that by voting for the other candidates in response to their lies."
Votes don't come with a post script. They will be just as likely to assume they didn't go "centrist" enough as they are to assume they are being taken to task for violating their "principles."
I have visons of inverse letters branded on the business end of a Louiville Slugger being applied to extremeties of certain politicians. They say pain is the best teacher. If inspecting the affected area revealed "Telecom vote" I would find it hard to believe that even the most hard-headed politician would mistake the intent of the overture.
Personally I would just truncate your post to this:
"You're missing the point. They'll never stick to their words."
"The "expert" could not even convert Mach numbers to MPH."
Not to excuse him, but I think Mach numbers refer to the ratio between the speed of an object and the speed of sound through the fluid or gaseous medium through which that object is traveling. The speed of sound is variable based on the density of the medium it travels through and density can be affected by many variables. For instance, the density of air is affected by water content, altitude, atmospheric conditions, temperature, etc. Therefore the MPH of mach 6 at or near sea level is quite different from mach 6 at 40,000 feet.
To make a long explanation short, Mach MPH can be different depending on where you measure it
Some people assume news networks have placed "more viewers" and "more money" as their conscious and subconscious primary goal. What many people on the right conjecture is that the liberal controlled media is a propaganda machine first and foremost. Namely, news and maintaining viewership are secondary to the primary goal of re-educating and shaping ideas.
Current losses in viewership of "traditional news media", huge drops in readership of similar newspapers, and the increase in volume of fox news viewership and the explosion of the conservative "blogosphere" (I hate that word but it is useful) are used as data in the conservative model. They postulate that people are tired of the propoganda (through verbal shading, opinion placing, story choice, etc.) of the liberal media and are turning to other media because of it.
Funny story about "black hole histeria" that should tie in nicely.
My 10 year old daughter and I watched a discovery channel/science channel show about supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. At a certain point in the show she began to realize just how incredibly huge and powerful these things are and became quite frightened.
I played into it to help her out. We had talked before about the Milky Way galaxy and I reminded her about where we are with respect to the center of the galaxy where the big-bad-supermassive-black-hole lives. I asked her what she would do if that particular black hole got really mad at HER and wanted to come here and kick her butt personally. She got a bit more frightened and said there was nothing she could do to get away or protect herself and that is what frightened her so much. So then we looked at the size of the galaxy and I explained that even if that black hole could travel at the speed of light, and it started right now heading our way, it would be about 300,000 years before it got here. She paused and then giggled as little girls do, all fear gone.
People create fear when they don't realize what is going on. Knowledge is the best defence against fear.
Maybe we can design the experiments with a safety measure. All we have to do is make sure the particles that result from the collisions have at least escape velocity. That way, if a black hole is formed it will just leave the gravity well harmlessly. Bye-bye black hole.
Of course this assumes that nano-black holes have no charge and won't be affected by the magnets in the collider. If they do (I don't know under what circumstances a nano-black hole could have charge but damn wouldn't it be neat if we could trap one!) have charge just keep the ring running until we can shoot them off into space or otherwise dispose of them. How hard can that be? The particle velocities are way above escape velocity.
You have to decide to be offended by a set of phonic combinations whose meanings, by and large, refer to some universal part of the human condition. The limbic system doesn't posess language centers. If you stimulate that part of the brain you are likely to get a fist sandwich or a cloud of dust, not better or more foreceful communication.
Anyways, if you do not posess or have risen above primitive emotions and thoughts, how can a simple vocal utterance evoke them from you? In other words, maybe the only people who are offended by curse words are the ones who are not mentally and emotionally advanced.
"his "me-first" attitude will become an "us-first" attitude when he gets married,"
I seriously don't get the evolutionary advantage. It assumes a guaranteed "mate-for-life" scenario that is all too unlikely from a person who will "have no problem fucking-over his friends, co-workers, bosses, and neighbors for personal gain." What is to stop that person from fucking over their mate when something better comes along or when the drag of the relationsip stats to interfere with the "me-first" preferences of this jerk? OR in evolutionary terms, what is to stop this person from getting the mate pregnant and then leaving to find other unencumbered mates?
What it assumes is a male that is callous and indifferent to all others, but when children appear becomes a good provider and sacrifices all his previous self-interested ways on the altar of the family. Sounds like a strech to me.
If this is really the evolutionary heritage of all women then so is "shortsightedness" and "lack of brains."
On a similar note, I decided long ago that if I ever receive a large settlement or win the lottery I will give all the people I do not like $1000 in cash.
Than I shall laugh hysterically in their faces and, through my tears, say something like "Imagine how much I would have given you if you weren't such a douche!"
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In Soviet Russia, every time you destroy a planet...God masturbates.
The problem with naysaying doomsayers is that, well, it only takes one earth annihilating event to totally fuck things up for all of us. If it was just a localized problem it might not be such an issue. For instance, if suddenly the whole island of Japan leapt into deep space, we could get over that. We might not have any good televison sets for a few years but I am sure Tiwan and china would pick up the slack eventually.
However, if the whole earth gets destroyed it makes a much bigger dent in my future plans. As for myself, I will suffer the cautiousnes of doomsayers as a brake on possible eradication of all observed life in the universe. To do otherwise is just a bit reckless, IMHO.
Factor in the cost of the lawsuit if you install OS X on a non approved machine and sel it on E-bay later and, sadly, the TCO of Vista is drastically better.
Strange you mention that. The last time I did it I was at the threshold of full visions and actively supressing the visual hallucinations. The one irrepressible feeling was the distinct notion there was an axis of the universe passing through the center of my body, from groin to the crown of my head, and extending to infinity. The oddest part was the axis was also a fold that felt perpendicular to the other 3 dimensions. It was almost as if a 90 degree fold was there but it was 90 degrees to everything else, not just another plane. This feeling persisted for about 30 minutes before subsiding.
I guess I need to do the 60x to get the full 7 dimensions.
"...for example, when he made fun of Michael J. Fox's Parkinsons Disease..."
He did not make fun of it. He stated that he thought MJF was acting to make his symptoms appear worse than they actually are and took issue with MJF's claim that embryonic stem cell research would cure him and others like him. As it turned out, MJF was not acting. He has a policy of strategically stopping his meds for certain interviews.
No need to dispute the source on that info either, as it was MJF himself.
"The sex of these good programmers is irrelevant."
Ahhh, the ambivalent benefits bisexuality. :)
"...demonstration of ability is almost exclusively artistic in nature."
Artistic? More like pornographic! Or have you not seen what strange positions those girls can contort themselves into?
I can barely watch without commenting to my wife that she should try that in the bedroom sometime.
So what you are saying is that a criminal will be a criminal regardless of the possible negative outcomes of their crime. In other words, a criminal who wants to steal something will (if the punishment for theft is harsh enough) murder a whole family to cover their tracks.
I don't want someone like that "rehabilitated." They obviously do not posess rational though like that of other humans. I couldn't even begin to justify stealing something much less murdering to cover my tracks.
Elimination, not seperation or rehabilitation, seems to be the only sensible action for a defective creature that acts like that.
"It was paid for by the taxpayers."
And just who do you think was paying for the investigation by the FBI?
"You don't get to violate it just because you think the situation is special and the rules do not apply to you."
There is no violation. The police can legally ask for anything they want from the library director. The library director can also legally give the FBI what they are requesting, all without a warrant. A warrant is necessary to compel compliance when someone legally refuses cooperation. Notice the FBI agents are not going to be prosecuted for acquiring evidence without a warrant? That is because it was legally obtained.
"The people responsible for the horrific gas prices are just pointing the fingers at the Democrats and people believe them."
Why the heck are new Chinese and Indian automobile owners doing pointing at our elected officials?
Do you think this is the first administration that has done this?
Do you think that Democratic politicians feel any less polarized feelings towawrd people who oppose thier ideology?
The reason I ask is I felt your post was dead on except for the fact you seem to think this is only a republican trait and not a political tool used by all (both) parties.
"Implying that someone like him should die (and that implication has been made many times here on /.) is just whacked."
I disagree completely. If he had somehow survived his suicide attempt, I would gladly be on the jury to convict him of murder, and subsequently feel no remorse in condemning him to death.
Some will argue that he is sick, "disturbed", etc. I would argue that anything that would commit those acts is not human and deserved of no greater regard than an animal that kills humans. Put them down like a rabid dog and forget about it.
For this you call me "whacked." Fine. However, in my eye spending money to rehabilitate or imprison a person who murders their family or children while there are starving people in the world is a gross misappropriation of funds.
I actually knew a man who did this same thing. For reference http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1995_1294608
The guy, Hugo, in the story I linked was fired from his job for sexual molestation of a co-worker. Apparently he had been doing it for years. People that worked with him said that because he was such a good salesperson and made the company so much money that they helped cover for him. Apparently, he did it to the wrong person and his company finally fired him.
I know about this man from two different angles. First, my father and my father's girlfriend worked with him. An incident where this bastard tried to molest my father's girlfriend eventually led to his firing.
Second, in a strange twist of events, I worked with the guy as well. When he was fired he came to work at my company. At that time I had no idea of his involvement with my father and his girlfriend, nor the circumstances that led to his leaving his previous job. He mentioned layoffs, large oil and gas comapny, etc. He, however, had to know who I was because my father and I have the same name. In addition Hugo revealed he worked at the same installation my father worked at. I even described my father to him in hopes that they knew eachother. He feined ignorance of course.
Hugo and I worked together for a few months before he killed his wife, 2 young children, and babysitter. It wasn't till then that I learned of my father's involvement in his firing (my dad led the charge to get him fired, for obvious reasons) and the conduct that led to his firing. My impression of him after hearing all the details was that he was an egomaniacal control freak that had little regard for those around him, especially women. However, he maintained a well-meaning facade for the public by being active in his church and community. Eventually I came to the conclusion that his disregard for women was actually rooted in a sociopathic disregard of all people. I think he ultimately viewed his family as posessions he could do whatever he wanted with.
Before he got fired he was pretty much king of his domain. There was a constant stream of young women to pick from at work, he made phenomenal amounts of money, had the traditional wife and kids, and, according to some in the know, a 19 year old babysitter to have sex with whenever he wanted. Maybe he felt life was not living anymore without being able to get his way whenever he wanted. Whatever the reason, the scariest part is that I and many others worked right beside this powderkeg for months and he was able to pass among us and appeared to be a well adjusted, intelligent, humble, nice guy.
Nice try at changing the subject. McCain is and was always the run of the mill political candidate. We expect shit like this from him and every other dyed-in-the-wool politician. In his defense he has been in Washington for so long that he probably has had to flip-flop on some positions to avoid becoming a what he will inevitably be quite soon, a dinosaur.
Lets get back to WTF we were talking about. Obama hooked me and alot of other people by claiming to be a candidate of change. Not just political change was implied, mind you, but also a different type of politician was promised. He backed this up by consistently taking the high road, avoiding mud slinging, vituperousness, and retaliatory comments with his opponents, etc. He was a little light on issues, but alot of us felt he would flesh those out as the race progressed and that if he was true to those principles we had already seen in him, we would be more than justified in supporting him.
Now the first serious challenge to his integrity comes in the guise of this telecom bill. Not only a challenge, but a wonderful chance for him to grandstand those principles many of us have been begging for in a representative and that he has promised he posesses. A honey of an issue too; the press has been all over this thing for the better part of 2 and a half years. Really the perfect place to make a statement and to serve notice to all the other political has-beens, have-nots, and wannabes. So what does he do? Does he go out there and in one fell swoop claim the presidency in a display of character and statesmanship unseen since JFK? No. He fucks it up so royally many of us can't believe it.
All I want to know is this: Where is the fucking candidate he said he was going to be?! I still want to vote for THAT Obama but this is eerily like that scene from "Men in Black." You know, the one where a goddamned giant cockroach climbs out of the skin of the exterminator? The parallels of irony in that are too many to count.
And no, you pigs and trolls, I am not talking about anything racial with that last comment. Grow up.
"and we can only do that by voting for the other candidates in response to their lies."
Votes don't come with a post script. They will be just as likely to assume they didn't go "centrist" enough as they are to assume they are being taken to task for violating their "principles."
I have visons of inverse letters branded on the business end of a Louiville Slugger being applied to extremeties of certain politicians. They say pain is the best teacher. If inspecting the affected area revealed "Telecom vote" I would find it hard to believe that even the most hard-headed politician would mistake the intent of the overture.
Personally I would just truncate your post to this:
"You're missing the point. They'll never stick to their words."
THAT is accurate.
"The "expert" could not even convert Mach numbers to MPH."
Not to excuse him, but I think Mach numbers refer to the ratio between the speed of an object and the speed of sound through the fluid or gaseous medium through which that object is traveling. The speed of sound is variable based on the density of the medium it travels through and density can be affected by many variables. For instance, the density of air is affected by water content, altitude, atmospheric conditions, temperature, etc. Therefore the MPH of mach 6 at or near sea level is quite different from mach 6 at 40,000 feet.
To make a long explanation short, Mach MPH can be different depending on where you measure it
Some people assume news networks have placed "more viewers" and "more money" as their conscious and subconscious primary goal. What many people on the right conjecture is that the liberal controlled media is a propaganda machine first and foremost. Namely, news and maintaining viewership are secondary to the primary goal of re-educating and shaping ideas.
Current losses in viewership of "traditional news media", huge drops in readership of similar newspapers, and the increase in volume of fox news viewership and the explosion of the conservative "blogosphere" (I hate that word but it is useful) are used as data in the conservative model. They postulate that people are tired of the propoganda (through verbal shading, opinion placing, story choice, etc.) of the liberal media and are turning to other media because of it.
"We the People of the United States,"
The preamble of the US Constitution defines what "the people" refers to. In fact, it is defined in the first sentence of the Constitution.
Funny story about "black hole histeria" that should tie in nicely.
My 10 year old daughter and I watched a discovery channel/science channel show about supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. At a certain point in the show she began to realize just how incredibly huge and powerful these things are and became quite frightened.
I played into it to help her out. We had talked before about the Milky Way galaxy and I reminded her about where we are with respect to the center of the galaxy where the big-bad-supermassive-black-hole lives. I asked her what she would do if that particular black hole got really mad at HER and wanted to come here and kick her butt personally. She got a bit more frightened and said there was nothing she could do to get away or protect herself and that is what frightened her so much. So then we looked at the size of the galaxy and I explained that even if that black hole could travel at the speed of light, and it started right now heading our way, it would be about 300,000 years before it got here. She paused and then giggled as little girls do, all fear gone.
People create fear when they don't realize what is going on. Knowledge is the best defence against fear.
Maybe we can design the experiments with a safety measure. All we have to do is make sure the particles that result from the collisions have at least escape velocity. That way, if a black hole is formed it will just leave the gravity well harmlessly. Bye-bye black hole.
Of course this assumes that nano-black holes have no charge and won't be affected by the magnets in the collider. If they do (I don't know under what circumstances a nano-black hole could have charge but damn wouldn't it be neat if we could trap one!) have charge just keep the ring running until we can shoot them off into space or otherwise dispose of them. How hard can that be? The particle velocities are way above escape velocity.
You have to decide to be offended by a set of phonic combinations whose meanings, by and large, refer to some universal part of the human condition. The limbic system doesn't posess language centers. If you stimulate that part of the brain you are likely to get a fist sandwich or a cloud of dust, not better or more foreceful communication.
Anyways, if you do not posess or have risen above primitive emotions and thoughts, how can a simple vocal utterance evoke them from you? In other words, maybe the only people who are offended by curse words are the ones who are not mentally and emotionally advanced.
"his "me-first" attitude will become an "us-first" attitude when he gets married,"
I seriously don't get the evolutionary advantage. It assumes a guaranteed "mate-for-life" scenario that is all too unlikely from a person who will "have no problem fucking-over his friends, co-workers, bosses, and neighbors for personal gain." What is to stop that person from fucking over their mate when something better comes along or when the drag of the relationsip stats to interfere with the "me-first" preferences of this jerk? OR in evolutionary terms, what is to stop this person from getting the mate pregnant and then leaving to find other unencumbered mates?
What it assumes is a male that is callous and indifferent to all others, but when children appear becomes a good provider and sacrifices all his previous self-interested ways on the altar of the family. Sounds like a strech to me.
If this is really the evolutionary heritage of all women then so is "shortsightedness" and "lack of brains."
On a similar note, I decided long ago that if I ever receive a large settlement or win the lottery I will give all the people I do not like $1000 in cash.
Than I shall laugh hysterically in their faces and, through my tears, say something like "Imagine how much I would have given you if you weren't such a douche!"
Children should be given choices.
Cake or death?