Actually? Kind of, sort of, yes? There was a time where I was curious about what my sexuality might be and was open enough to investigate such. It turns out that kissing a man is not as much fun as I'd hoped. So, yeah...
So no, you didn't choose it, you tried both and one just felt better therefore you followed that path. Therefore following those feelings were not a choice.
Once you walk down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Is that not also true of Linux, Apple, Google etc?
Ecosystems are a fact of life and are nothing new. I work in mixed shop so tend not to get religious about it. MS does back office stuff well (Desktop, AD, Office, Email) and Linux does front of house stuff well (Web, DB, Apps, Integration). As someone with feet in both camps, we won't be changing either of these anytime soon, simply because each are both best at what they do.
Data on "your" server is no longer secure. The only thing that is certain is your delusion that you have control over your data under any circumstances.
The issue I have with Microsoft's approach to software is that they like to make large do everything software. vs smaller do one thing and do it well software.
That doesn't even pass the first scratch and sniff test.
Exchange does Email. SQL does DB. Windows is the OS. Sharepoint is a CMS. None of these things try to do anything more than what they are, and most of them are market leaders in their field (or at least up there).
I know it's cool to hate on MS, but at least try to make sense when you do...
And for what it's worth, for all of the complaints given about the US, the US is perhaps one of the least male-dominated societies out there.
Yeah, when the set of "societies out there" only includes countries using the Imperial system.
For majority of the developed world, who've already had female heads of state, your claim is laughable.
You sound like an idiot who can't read. I simply said that going off-grid with solar requires a huge outlay of money that makes it cost prohibitive for most.
Extend your mortgage and pay it off at the same rate as your electricity bill (minus whatever trivial amount your interest rates are). It's then a zero net cost.
Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.
It's beyond stupid, Buy product x online, then get bombarded with ads for product x for months afterwards. Even though you are now the least likely person to buy product x because you already own it.
It really makes Google look like a bunch of morons, and I can't figure out for the life of me why any advertiser would pay them for such a stupid service.
Since even the most optimistic estimate of the number of speakers (including non-native) is around 500 million, you are talking about a language spoken by about 7% of the world's population.
Yeah, but those 7% are widely dispersed in most of the places worth visiting. No other language comes close, so yes English is the closest thing to a universal language we have.
BTW I'm not American or English, but I do travel a lot, to lots of places, and very rarely have to pull out the translator. Asia(incl India and Middle East), Oceania, Africa, Europe, Americas, they are all easily navigable with the English language.
The american indians managed the land and it's resources just fine, It's the assholes from europe that wiped out most everything because of stupidity.
This is a myth. Every population, human or otherwise expands until it can no longer support itself (or is killed off by higher predators). The "Europeans" were just more developed and hence could expand into the vast American continent much faster. Easter Island serves as a perfect example of primitive humans falling foul of poor environmental management.
As noted in the title, the panic caused by the mass evacuations etc (e.g. moving people from hospitals) may have caused 1500 deaths.
I remember reading something a few years ago, can't remember the author, maybe it was Michael Crichton. He said he was researching a book about the most massive terrorist-type events in history, and when he looked closer, found there actually were none. People are afraid of such things even though they don't ever really happen. Even the worst events only killed a few hundred people which wasn't enough to base a story around.
Take 9/11, the original event only killed about 500 people. the rest died from poorly managed damage control from the victim's own government. Chernobyl was the same, only a few dozen deaths from the accident, the rest from the authorities not evacuating residents nearby. Fukushima the same story.
When you put it into perspective that 30000 people die in cars each year, even a Chernobyl style accident is nothing to really be concerned about, as long as you have a reasonable emergency response plan. As TFA says, if an accident creates a mandatory nature reserve then it may actually be a net gain for the planet.
The funny thing about Chernobyl is that future generations of hippies will probably be grateful that it happened. By removing humans from the area, it has guaranteed a sanctuary for nature for at least 10000 years. There aren't many places like that left anywhere on our planet.
A couple of years ago, your probably asked why a phone needed sensors - like gyros, compass, temperature, motion, fingerprints, cameras, etc.
Nope. I did ask why the phone manufacturer requires me to have a registered account and my credit card details before I can use it though.
Not all technology is good.
Or block the passenger from doing it, just like my car does with the GPS. It's my fucking car, unless it's against the law, it shouldn't be controlling my behaviour (Even then it still shouldn't).
Same goes for stupid seat-belt warnings, or door open warnings which prevent me from playing the stereo while cleaning out my car. Oh no, the door is open and the key is in the ignition, I'll sound an unending obnoxious warning sound to prevent you from doing something every car owner has done for decades.
My next car will be a vintage car. I've had enough of technology that makes my life harder...
Maybe in your hometown of Steubenville, but everywhere else, no, just because a naked woman passed out in your bed doesn't make it "acceptable".
"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape" Eva Finne, Stockholm's chief prosecutor.
You can make up whatever excuse you need to feel like the little boy who cried rape, but the sad fact is all you are doing is trivializing all those women who actually have been raped.
Are you really trying to pretend that penetrating someone while they're asleep is perfectly acceptable?
Maybe you don't sleep with many women, but the fact she is naked in your bed makes the acceptability a little more convincing. And the fact that she didn't get out of bed immediately and go to the police suggests maybe he wasn't the violent criminal you're trying to make out?
How many rapes have you committed that you're trying to now excuse?
How many claims of rape have you made that never were?
Not in any country I've been, and I've been to quite a few. Generally the more despotic the regime, the more chance you have of detained or tracked for no reason, ie less freedom. In Western countries except the US, I feel like I can go anywhere and do anything I would normally do at home with fear of detainment.
The US appears to be going down the path of the frog in the pot. 1 more degree warmer, it's still not a problem...
I know people who have done this, but it really only takes a few hundred thousand if you plan right.
A 40ft yacht (any bigger needs a crew) and $20k spending money per annum will get you around the world and back for a few years.
I happen to live by a beach somewhere warm. As much as it sounds great when your from somewhere cold, it does get boring just sitting around all day.
Holidays feel good because of all the shit that happened before the holiday. It's relative. If you whole life is a holiday you simply get bored and depressed, just like Markus Persson
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Actually? Kind of, sort of, yes? There was a time where I was curious about what my sexuality might be and was open enough to investigate such. It turns out that kissing a man is not as much fun as I'd hoped. So, yeah...
So no, you didn't choose it, you tried both and one just felt better therefore you followed that path. Therefore following those feelings were not a choice.
Once you walk down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
Is that not also true of Linux, Apple, Google etc?
Ecosystems are a fact of life and are nothing new. I work in mixed shop so tend not to get religious about it. MS does back office stuff well (Desktop, AD, Office, Email) and Linux does front of house stuff well (Web, DB, Apps, Integration). As someone with feet in both camps, we won't be changing either of these anytime soon, simply because each are both best at what they do.
Data on "your" server is no longer secure. The only thing that is certain is your delusion that you have control over your data under any circumstances.
The issue I have with Microsoft's approach to software is that they like to make large do everything software. vs smaller do one thing and do it well software.
That doesn't even pass the first scratch and sniff test.
Exchange does Email. SQL does DB. Windows is the OS. Sharepoint is a CMS. None of these things try to do anything more than what they are, and most of them are market leaders in their field (or at least up there).
I know it's cool to hate on MS, but at least try to make sense when you do...
And for what it's worth, for all of the complaints given about the US, the US is perhaps one of the least male-dominated societies out there.
Yeah, when the set of "societies out there" only includes countries using the Imperial system.
For majority of the developed world, who've already had female heads of state, your claim is laughable.
You sound like an idiot who can't read. I simply said that going off-grid with solar requires a huge outlay of money that makes it cost prohibitive for most.
Extend your mortgage and pay it off at the same rate as your electricity bill (minus whatever trivial amount your interest rates are). It's then a zero net cost.
Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.
Says some guy on the Internet...
I'm sorry but it's just stupid how they work.
It's beyond stupid, Buy product x online, then get bombarded with ads for product x for months afterwards. Even though you are now the least likely person to buy product x because you already own it. It really makes Google look like a bunch of morons, and I can't figure out for the life of me why any advertiser would pay them for such a stupid service.
The taxi industry is regulated for very good reasons (one being safety)
But the main one being to create an artificial monopoly...
and all the "ride sharing" app companies blatantly ignore them.
Because the laws no longer make sense, and the law makers need to catch up with technology.
Since even the most optimistic estimate of the number of speakers (including non-native) is around 500 million, you are talking about a language spoken by about 7% of the world's population.
Yeah, but those 7% are widely dispersed in most of the places worth visiting. No other language comes close, so yes English is the closest thing to a universal language we have.
BTW I'm not American or English, but I do travel a lot, to lots of places, and very rarely have to pull out the translator. Asia(incl India and Middle East), Oceania, Africa, Europe, Americas, they are all easily navigable with the English language.
Humans: The most terrifying killing machine Earth has ever seen. Nothing is worse than a human.
You've obviously never heard of a meteorite or microbiology...
The american indians managed the land and it's resources just fine, It's the assholes from europe that wiped out most everything because of stupidity.
This is a myth. Every population, human or otherwise expands until it can no longer support itself (or is killed off by higher predators). The "Europeans" were just more developed and hence could expand into the vast American continent much faster. Easter Island serves as a perfect example of primitive humans falling foul of poor environmental management.
As noted in the title, the panic caused by the mass evacuations etc (e.g. moving people from hospitals) may have caused 1500 deaths.
I remember reading something a few years ago, can't remember the author, maybe it was Michael Crichton. He said he was researching a book about the most massive terrorist-type events in history, and when he looked closer, found there actually were none. People are afraid of such things even though they don't ever really happen. Even the worst events only killed a few hundred people which wasn't enough to base a story around.
Take 9/11, the original event only killed about 500 people. the rest died from poorly managed damage control from the victim's own government. Chernobyl was the same, only a few dozen deaths from the accident, the rest from the authorities not evacuating residents nearby. Fukushima the same story.
When you put it into perspective that 30000 people die in cars each year, even a Chernobyl style accident is nothing to really be concerned about, as long as you have a reasonable emergency response plan. As TFA says, if an accident creates a mandatory nature reserve then it may actually be a net gain for the planet.
The funny thing about Chernobyl is that future generations of hippies will probably be grateful that it happened. By removing humans from the area, it has guaranteed a sanctuary for nature for at least 10000 years. There aren't many places like that left anywhere on our planet.
Er, there is nothing stopping you using a fake name, so I don't get why this is a problem?
They're more than happy to publish article after article citing anonymous "high ranking" officials...
And yet here you are posting as AC. You're probably too stupid to realise how ridiculous your post is...
And I would argue that one million subscribers to the best known newspaper on the planet...
Because if it's popular in America, it has to popular in the other 95% of the world right?
A couple of years ago, your probably asked why a phone needed sensors - like gyros, compass, temperature, motion, fingerprints, cameras, etc.
Nope. I did ask why the phone manufacturer requires me to have a registered account and my credit card details before I can use it though.
Not all technology is good.
Or block the passenger from doing it, just like my car does with the GPS. It's my fucking car, unless it's against the law, it shouldn't be controlling my behaviour (Even then it still shouldn't).
Same goes for stupid seat-belt warnings, or door open warnings which prevent me from playing the stereo while cleaning out my car. Oh no, the door is open and the key is in the ignition, I'll sound an unending obnoxious warning sound to prevent you from doing something every car owner has done for decades.
My next car will be a vintage car. I've had enough of technology that makes my life harder...
Maybe in your hometown of Steubenville, but everywhere else, no, just because a naked woman passed out in your bed doesn't make it "acceptable".
"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape" Eva Finne, Stockholm's chief prosecutor.
You can make up whatever excuse you need to feel like the little boy who cried rape, but the sad fact is all you are doing is trivializing all those women who actually have been raped.
Are you really trying to pretend that penetrating someone while they're asleep is perfectly acceptable?
Maybe you don't sleep with many women, but the fact she is naked in your bed makes the acceptability a little more convincing. And the fact that she didn't get out of bed immediately and go to the police suggests maybe he wasn't the violent criminal you're trying to make out?
How many rapes have you committed that you're trying to now excuse?
How many claims of rape have you made that never were?
Not in any country I've been, and I've been to quite a few. Generally the more despotic the regime, the more chance you have of detained or tracked for no reason, ie less freedom. In Western countries except the US, I feel like I can go anywhere and do anything I would normally do at home with fear of detainment.
The US appears to be going down the path of the frog in the pot. 1 more degree warmer, it's still not a problem...
How is it rape is she consented?
I know people who have done this, but it really only takes a few hundred thousand if you plan right. A 40ft yacht (any bigger needs a crew) and $20k spending money per annum will get you around the world and back for a few years.
I happen to live by a beach somewhere warm. As much as it sounds great when your from somewhere cold, it does get boring just sitting around all day.
Holidays feel good because of all the shit that happened before the holiday. It's relative. If you whole life is a holiday you simply get bored and depressed, just like Markus Persson