"We paid Vice President McNepotista's retarded cousin Benny six hojillion greenbacks to lash up a flaky site in Front Page, and if we had to acknowledge that our crappy site doesn't render in most standards compliant browsers, we might not feel like such virile corporate stallions tonight while we're snorting coke out of a hooker's ass crack."
Those with no decision power CAN escalate it up the food chain to someone that does.
Sure they can. And after they've done that a few times, they can be invited to seek out exciting new opportunities as a Hygiene Technician (Fryer Specialist) at Burger King.
Tires are consumables. Only a retard would mention them - don't be that guy. And lead-acid batteries can easily last a decade, if you keep them fully charged. A warm climate helps.
Bitch, "his sort" never leave. They're only happy when they're bitching about "one more thing". Timid, frightened, angry people don't have the guts to put their zip code where their mouth is.
To begin with, it'll be one add every 3 hours. Once we get used to that, it'll be one an hour, one every ten minutes, then before we know it, there'll be so many ads bombarding us in-game that we might as well go outside into the real world and start shooting actual cops in the face.
Is that what you want, APB? Because that's what's going to happen!
Scientists say ["nuclear"] devices like Mr Suppes' pose no real threat to neighbouring communities or the environment because they contain no nuclear materials, such as uranium or plutonium.
Attention hadrons: you are not welcome here!
Yes, I know they meant "radioactive", but it's a bit rich to publish folksy "We don't take kindly to your new fangled 'science' round these parts" vox-pop quotes when you can't even get the single most significant safety aspect of fusion vs fission right yourself.
I'd go for a practical definition: 'minor treat sized'. Vending machine can of soda or chocolate bar, an amount so small that the question isn't "Can I afford it?" but "Do I want it?"
My point, which you've handily illustrated, is that even though Enderle and Zogby usually spout complete bullshit, there are still many apologists suffering from chronic cognitive dissonance who queue up to use them as reliable sources because their random guesses are right half of the time.
Note carefully that Enderle wasn't "predicting" Apples' future strategy, he was talking about what they were just about to announce, and was wrong on every count. By that measure of success, I could predict that Ford's are about to announce a flying car, and in 50 years or so, I'll look like a frikkin' genius.
1. He runs the site and is being harassed by the Australian and U.S. governments
No. No, he is not. Even by his own inflated hyperbolic claims, he is not. The "harassment" by the Australian government was a low level peon pointing out that his passport was about to expire. The "harassment" from the U.S. government is entirely in his imagination. Paying a lawyer to tell him that he may be harassed does not mean that he is being harassed. Wanting to be harassed is not being harassed. Snopes needs to do a Wikileaks special.
By the way, if you're ever offered a Free Personality Test on the street, I'd strongly recommend that you run, run as fast as you can.
They all want to argue the First Amendment, like it's some Holy Scripture and they get bonus karma for it in a future life.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Taking things out of the public domain that were already there is the opposite of progressing Science and (the) useful Arts. That's the pertinent Constitutional issue, not some bullshit Amendment-of-last-resort argument.
Wikileaks is becoming one of its own valid stories
Wikileaks is desperately attempting to become a story. By doing so, they're detracting attention from the actual important stories that they run. What are we debating here: the mass murder of innocent civilians, or Wikileaks?
They're harassed at the international level
No. No, they are not. You've bought Assange's story. There is no evidence, other than his assertions, that he is being "harassed" at any level, let alone the international. Remember when he claimed his passport had been "seized", and it turned out to be that all that happened was that it had been pointed out to him that it was due to expire?
He's been threatening to release these videos and documents for months now, in what has become a rather pathetic attempt to get some attention from the Big Bad US. That shows that he's more interested in becoming a cause célèbre than in actually doing what he set out to do: publish and damn their eyes.
The man has or had good intentions, but now he's pulling a Jimbo Wales, and getting delusions that he's bigger than his creation, when he needs to be as anonymous as his sources.
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"We paid Vice President McNepotista's retarded cousin Benny six hojillion greenbacks to lash up a flaky site in Front Page, and if we had to acknowledge that our crappy site doesn't render in most standards compliant browsers, we might not feel like such virile corporate stallions tonight while we're snorting coke out of a hooker's ass crack."
Sure they can. And after they've done that a few times, they can be invited to seek out exciting new opportunities as a Hygiene Technician (Fryer Specialist) at Burger King.
Check your tax bill for the rest of the cost. It's not all bad though: your kids and grandkids will help you out with the cleanup costs.
Tires are consumables. Only a retard would mention them - don't be that guy. And lead-acid batteries can easily last a decade, if you keep them fully charged. A warm climate helps.
Have you ever met any Old People? They'll be queuing up for this job, and you only have to pay them in creamed corn and butterscotch.
Bitch, "his sort" never leave. They're only happy when they're bitching about "one more thing". Timid, frightened, angry people don't have the guts to put their zip code where their mouth is.
The harsh directional lighting does make it look kind of fat and lumpy. Plus, green isn't flattering on anyone, you insensitive clod.
Your sort has always been just about to leave, and you always will be.
Out of interest, where do you imagine would have you?
To begin with, it'll be one add every 3 hours. Once we get used to that, it'll be one an hour, one every ten minutes, then before we know it, there'll be so many ads bombarding us in-game that we might as well go outside into the real world and start shooting actual cops in the face.
Is that what you want, APB? Because that's what's going to happen!
He couldn't figure it out, so he attributed the fault to a No See Um. Might as well blame it on goblins, or declare that A Wizard Did It.
Thus my taking issue with the publisher, not the scientists. Fair point though, I should have elided the first two words. You win an Internets.
Attention hadrons: you are not welcome here!
Yes, I know they meant "radioactive", but it's a bit rich to publish folksy "We don't take kindly to your new fangled 'science' round these parts" vox-pop quotes when you can't even get the single most significant safety aspect of fusion vs fission right yourself.
In case it becomes necessary to destroy teh intarnets to save it?
With smoother and more convenient Ring 0 integration than ever!
I'd go for a practical definition: 'minor treat sized'. Vending machine can of soda or chocolate bar, an amount so small that the question isn't "Can I afford it?" but "Do I want it?"
My point, which you've handily illustrated, is that even though Enderle and Zogby usually spout complete bullshit, there are still many apologists suffering from chronic cognitive dissonance who queue up to use them as reliable sources because their random guesses are right half of the time.
Note carefully that Enderle wasn't "predicting" Apples' future strategy, he was talking about what they were just about to announce, and was wrong on every count. By that measure of success, I could predict that Ford's are about to announce a flying car, and in 50 years or so, I'll look like a frikkin' genius.
Nonsense, Zogby is the Rob Enderle of polling.
Bear in mind that they're meedja types, so they and all their meedja friends have iPhones, and they've never actually seen an Android handset.
So, go ahead and buy from the MPAA. Do you really think that any of your money makes it to the people who wrote, directed and produced the content?
No. No, he is not. Even by his own inflated hyperbolic claims, he is not. The "harassment" by the Australian government was a low level peon pointing out that his passport was about to expire. The "harassment" from the U.S. government is entirely in his imagination. Paying a lawyer to tell him that he may be harassed does not mean that he is being harassed. Wanting to be harassed is not being harassed. Snopes needs to do a Wikileaks special.
By the way, if you're ever offered a Free Personality Test on the street, I'd strongly recommend that you run, run as fast as you can.
Why would you leak anything to Wikileaks if you think they'll sit on it indefinitely just to troll a government, rather than publishing it?
Joke's on you: I sit very still so as to avoid relativistic time dilation.
Here's the deal: when Germany actually wins a war, they get to dictate spelling.
They all want to argue the First Amendment, like it's some Holy Scripture and they get bonus karma for it in a future life.
Taking things out of the public domain that were already there is the opposite of progressing Science and (the) useful Arts. That's the pertinent Constitutional issue, not some bullshit Amendment-of-last-resort argument.
Wikileaks is desperately attempting to become a story. By doing so, they're detracting attention from the actual important stories that they run. What are we debating here: the mass murder of innocent civilians, or Wikileaks?
No. No, they are not. You've bought Assange's story. There is no evidence, other than his assertions, that he is being "harassed" at any level, let alone the international. Remember when he claimed his passport had been "seized", and it turned out to be that all that happened was that it had been pointed out to him that it was due to expire?
He's been threatening to release these videos and documents for months now, in what has become a rather pathetic attempt to get some attention from the Big Bad US. That shows that he's more interested in becoming a cause célèbre than in actually doing what he set out to do: publish and damn their eyes.
The man has or had good intentions, but now he's pulling a Jimbo Wales, and getting delusions that he's bigger than his creation, when he needs to be as anonymous as his sources.