Al Gore deserved Matt and Trey's mocking and MUCH more. Look, whatever anyone thinks about Global Warming, the one thing that I am sure of is that Al Gore is a political opportunist who, like every other scumbag politician, would climb over his mother's dead body to win an election or advance the his own chief cause--himself. His glomming onto global warming as a means to further his own political and personal interests has fuck-all to do with whether or not he's a decent person in the end, and he's no less deserving of mockery than any other professional politician. The fact remains that he's a life-long politician and a well-established hypocrite, who has and will continue to waste prodigious amounts our planet's resources to live an extravagant lifestyle, all while lecturing the rest of us on *our* wastefulness. Matt and Trey's parody was mild compared to what he (and pretty much every politician) deserves.
And if they're going to hire a firm to monitor student online social activities, they got ripped off at $40,500. Creepy Larry would have done it for free.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the NSA has a whole office that does nothing but spy on Bitcoin sales, Bitcoin trading, infiltrating Bitcoin exchanges, etc. With 35,000 employees and God-like computing muscle, I imagine they've devoted no small amount of resources to monitoring (and perhaps sabotaging) Bitcoin and other grey market currencies.
Why not just get it over with and use that headline instead? Let's face it, they're either Big Brother at this point, or they're trying VERY HARD to be.
I hear that things have gotten so bad in the wake of this law that young hotheads are wandering around stealing, fighting, and drinking in some of the tougher Boston neighborhoods.
Actually, in Sociology of Religion, you're supposed to STUDY to inbred religious rednecks. Unfortunately, all we ever got to study was the Senior Olympics.
I kid you not. I had a teacher in college who would spend all his classes talking about his friends in the Senior Olympics (this was a Sociology of Religion class, but he did the same in all his classes). Then he would periodically give a test that had nothing to do with the book or anything he said in class (i.e., no Senior Olympics questions). Everyone would fail, and he would grade on a curve. I scored the highest raw test grade in the class for the semester with a 46 (only thanks to a pretty good general knowledge).
Of course he had tenure, and of course everyone knew about his antics. A few years later he fell over dead while training for the Senior Olympics (again, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried). He would not be missed.
I don't believe our government is capable of telling the truth any longer.
Oh, they're capable. They're just not *incentivized* in any way. When there's every reward for pulling off a lie, and no punishment for getting caught in one--are you going to tell the truth?
The argument was that people got poor by having children they could not afford, yes?
No, the argument is that poor people got that way by being worthless wankers who can't hold down a job, drink too fucking much, can't stay out of jail or in school, and generally can't get their fucking shit together. The fact that said wankers shouldn't be having kids and thus producing another generation of worthless wankers, is merely the given that the GP is pointing out.
And one day you will have selectively forgotten that you were such a pro-global warming zealot--long after the gloom-and-doom scenarios didn't materialize and the hippies have moved on to the next environmental fad for hating on humanity.
Yeah, except none of the *other* 51 states get to tell the rest what to do. Who do you think is egging on this whole "We MUST strike Syria!" mess? It sure as shit isn't the American People.
You know I was wondering why, after I posted a pro-Palestinian editorial, I started getting all those magnetic car bombs. I figured it was just the neighborhood kids. But I'm beginning to suspect something more nefarious at work.
Ah, that's weak tea. A true 1983-style nuclear apocalypse has to have mutants on dune-buggies and wastelands (or at least bombed-out cities with lots of skulls laying around).
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Al Gore deserved Matt and Trey's mocking and MUCH more. Look, whatever anyone thinks about Global Warming, the one thing that I am sure of is that Al Gore is a political opportunist who, like every other scumbag politician, would climb over his mother's dead body to win an election or advance the his own chief cause--himself. His glomming onto global warming as a means to further his own political and personal interests has fuck-all to do with whether or not he's a decent person in the end, and he's no less deserving of mockery than any other professional politician. The fact remains that he's a life-long politician and a well-established hypocrite, who has and will continue to waste prodigious amounts our planet's resources to live an extravagant lifestyle, all while lecturing the rest of us on *our* wastefulness. Matt and Trey's parody was mild compared to what he (and pretty much every politician) deserves.
Careful, brother. This is Slashdot, where even modest questioning of the Church of Global Warming can get you modded right into Hell.
Haven't we grown out of "the ends justify the means" yet?
Never have and never will.
And if they're going to hire a firm to monitor student online social activities, they got ripped off at $40,500. Creepy Larry would have done it for free.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the NSA has a whole office that does nothing but spy on Bitcoin sales, Bitcoin trading, infiltrating Bitcoin exchanges, etc. With 35,000 employees and God-like computing muscle, I imagine they've devoted no small amount of resources to monitoring (and perhaps sabotaging) Bitcoin and other grey market currencies.
Why not just get it over with and use that headline instead? Let's face it, they're either Big Brother at this point, or they're trying VERY HARD to be.
Yeah, but Newegg will probably have it for $27K.
I hear that things have gotten so bad in the wake of this law that young hotheads are wandering around stealing, fighting, and drinking in some of the tougher Boston neighborhoods.
Actually, in Sociology of Religion, you're supposed to STUDY to inbred religious rednecks. Unfortunately, all we ever got to study was the Senior Olympics.
Hush, you fool! Do you want to corrupt our youth?!?!
Are you kidding? That's where you got into the REAL autistics and nutballs! Only the psychology profs were worse than them.
A surprising number of 4-year colleges want to get on the big grant chuckwagon.
FTFY
Nice tinfoil hat. When can I buy one?
The NSA has already read your post and will be mailing you one later today.
I kid you not. I had a teacher in college who would spend all his classes talking about his friends in the Senior Olympics (this was a Sociology of Religion class, but he did the same in all his classes). Then he would periodically give a test that had nothing to do with the book or anything he said in class (i.e., no Senior Olympics questions). Everyone would fail, and he would grade on a curve. I scored the highest raw test grade in the class for the semester with a 46 (only thanks to a pretty good general knowledge).
Of course he had tenure, and of course everyone knew about his antics. A few years later he fell over dead while training for the Senior Olympics (again, I couldn't make this shit up if I tried). He would not be missed.
Yes, they did *claim* that.
I don't believe our government is capable of telling the truth any longer.
Oh, they're capable. They're just not *incentivized* in any way. When there's every reward for pulling off a lie, and no punishment for getting caught in one--are you going to tell the truth?
Well, it should come in handy when the Feds are investigating "terrorists."
Would you gas them?
No, but I wouldn't give them money to sit on their lazy asses in the pub all day either.
The argument was that people got poor by having children they could not afford, yes?
No, the argument is that poor people got that way by being worthless wankers who can't hold down a job, drink too fucking much, can't stay out of jail or in school, and generally can't get their fucking shit together. The fact that said wankers shouldn't be having kids and thus producing another generation of worthless wankers, is merely the given that the GP is pointing out.
Contracted with Hogwarts they have!
And one day you will have selectively forgotten that you were such a pro-global warming zealot--long after the gloom-and-doom scenarios didn't materialize and the hippies have moved on to the next environmental fad for hating on humanity.
Yeah, except none of the *other* 51 states get to tell the rest what to do. Who do you think is egging on this whole "We MUST strike Syria!" mess? It sure as shit isn't the American People.
You know I was wondering why, after I posted a pro-Palestinian editorial, I started getting all those magnetic car bombs. I figured it was just the neighborhood kids. But I'm beginning to suspect something more nefarious at work.
If it makes you feel any better, the Israeli government pinky-promised that they wouldn't use it for anything bad. And that's a PINKY promise, mister!
Did you somehow miss the whole Fukushima thing?
Ah, that's weak tea. A true 1983-style nuclear apocalypse has to have mutants on dune-buggies and wastelands (or at least bombed-out cities with lots of skulls laying around).