Yeah, but now Facebook--though still requiring you to use your real name, real address, real phone number, and real place of work in your profile--will allow you the option to check a box saying "I'm a transexual!!" for everyone in your small town to see. Isn't that apology enough???
That's what people said about Tesla and just about every real thinker of the past.
Yeah, and that's what they also said about the crazy guy down on the street corner screaming about his perpetual energy machine, or the "visionary" proclaiming that we'd all be driving flying cars by 2000. Just because someone's ideas sound radical and people disagree with him doesn't make him right. Most "crazy ideas" really ARE crazy. And most "nutters" really ARE nutters.
In Musk's case, though, I don't think he's crazy. I just think he's a charismatic con man looking to line his own pockets by selling a pipe dream.
No, he's just selling some snake oil. If people are stupid enough to buy it, he will make a lot of money.
Earth is the only place humans can survive. No known natural disaster is going to make any this planet less habitable than any other planet in the solar system. No other planet in this solar system can be made habitable and sustainable to humans without RADICAL alteration of humans themselves. And no known technology is going to take us to other solar systems.
Yes, there may be technological advances that change this in the very distant future. But right now, wasting resources on Mars that would be better spent making the earth more sustainable in the long-term is foolish. You don't piss in the pool in hopes that one day you may be able to find some other pool in some distant land that hasn't been pissed in.
The only thing that can stop the NFL and the misplaced US hero worship is their own greed.
Greed??? Why sir, I'll have you know that the NFL *always* provided local viewers with plenty of reasonably-priced $4,000 skybox tickets as an alternative to being blacked-out. It was quite charitable of them!
All you anti-corporate, pro-open-source Linux users can rejoice! Google has finally brought you the corporate-owned, closed-source Linux desktop of your dreams!
As a territorial police force of sworn constables, are they responsible for proposing laws?
No, but if the UK's politicians are anything like their American counterparts, the politicians will use their statements to support the new laws--as in "See, the police are saying they NEED this authority, to protect us from the T E R R O R I S T S ! ! !"
Illegitimate oppression = "My boss, that prick, just doesn't like me. He's holding back my brilliance." Legitimate oppression = "My boss fired me because he said he hates working with niggers like me."
That's what people get for believing that ANY leader EVER wants people in his organization releasing embarrassing information to the public about said organization.
Anyone who ever tells you "I'm cool with the people who work for me embarrassing me and undermining me" is FUCKING LYING. Period. End of story. YES, YOUR GUY TOO! YES, GANDHI AND MOTHER TERESA TOO!
"Transparency" and "openness" are just a politician's way of saying "I need you to vote for me, but the second I'm in office I'm going to be just as much a shitheel as the last guy."
It may be a moral good, even a moral necessity to do it. But you're *never* rewarded for it, even under the best of circumstances (all these bullshit whistleblower bounty programs are just for show). And at worst, you'll end up in prison or dead.
If 99% of people make it through their entire lives without ever getting treated unfairly, discriminated against, or oppressed in any way that would absolutely fucking amaze me. I doubt the number is even close to 50% now even in the most advanced countries.
If it's anything like the science fairs we used to have at my high school, then it will turn out dad is a plant biologist (who swears the girls did it all on their own) and the girls will be curiously vague when asked about the methodology.
It will never be "all" because we will never live in a perfect world. There will always be cases of SOME men, women, blacks, whites, Indians, etc. who are legitimately oppressed or discriminated against for many various reasons, even in the best countries. So if you can say "the vast majority of X are treated fairly" then you're doing about as good as is humanly possible.
1) Declare yourself a feminist hero 2) Create some fake posts or a fake website attacking yourself with vile and threatening language (the worse the better) 3) Run to the liberal press with copies of these "attacks" and declare yourself oppressed, 4) Demand public sympathy and support 5) Call any critics or skeptics misogynists 4) Goto 1
Yeah, but don't you feel sorry for that poor oppressed girl? She was being attacked and threatened by a website that her publicist paid someone to create! She's a VICTIM!!!!!
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They should have known it was a setup when someone offered to buy an Xbox One.
I kid, I kid. ;-)
Again, still a WORLD of difference between that and colonizing Mars.
They're very sorry for this policy which they intend to continue. But they're very sorry about it. And that's coming from the heart, man.
Yeah, but now Facebook--though still requiring you to use your real name, real address, real phone number, and real place of work in your profile--will allow you the option to check a box saying "I'm a transexual!!" for everyone in your small town to see. Isn't that apology enough???
Yes, the guy built a good electric car.
That's a little different than colonizing Mars.
It will still be a shitload more habitable than Mars. I'd rather be fighting Mad Max mutants for gas than having to fight for my next breath.
"Fuck the script! We'll worry about that insignificant detail after the FX are in place! We need to focus on the EXPLOSIONS!" -Michael Bay
If Elon Musk told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?
*No one* earns a free pass to have their ideas be exempt from analysis or criticism. I don't give a fuck what kind of car you built.
That's what people said about Tesla and just about every real thinker of the past.
Yeah, and that's what they also said about the crazy guy down on the street corner screaming about his perpetual energy machine, or the "visionary" proclaiming that we'd all be driving flying cars by 2000. Just because someone's ideas sound radical and people disagree with him doesn't make him right. Most "crazy ideas" really ARE crazy. And most "nutters" really ARE nutters.
In Musk's case, though, I don't think he's crazy. I just think he's a charismatic con man looking to line his own pockets by selling a pipe dream.
I think Musk just jumped the shark.
No, he's just selling some snake oil. If people are stupid enough to buy it, he will make a lot of money.
Earth is the only place humans can survive. No known natural disaster is going to make any this planet less habitable than any other planet in the solar system. No other planet in this solar system can be made habitable and sustainable to humans without RADICAL alteration of humans themselves. And no known technology is going to take us to other solar systems.
Yes, there may be technological advances that change this in the very distant future. But right now, wasting resources on Mars that would be better spent making the earth more sustainable in the long-term is foolish. You don't piss in the pool in hopes that one day you may be able to find some other pool in some distant land that hasn't been pissed in.
The only thing that can stop the NFL and the misplaced US hero worship is their own greed.
Greed??? Why sir, I'll have you know that the NFL *always* provided local viewers with plenty of reasonably-priced $4,000 skybox tickets as an alternative to being blacked-out. It was quite charitable of them!
I just think someone should have warned this guy that Windows follows the opposite of the Star Trek movie principle, so even releases always suck
All you anti-corporate, pro-open-source Linux users can rejoice! Google has finally brought you the corporate-owned, closed-source Linux desktop of your dreams!
As a territorial police force of sworn constables, are they responsible for proposing laws?
No, but if the UK's politicians are anything like their American counterparts, the politicians will use their statements to support the new laws--as in "See, the police are saying they NEED this authority, to protect us from the T E R R O R I S T S ! ! !"
Illegitimate oppression = "My boss, that prick, just doesn't like me. He's holding back my brilliance."
Legitimate oppression = "My boss fired me because he said he hates working with niggers like me."
That's what people get for believing that ANY leader EVER wants people in his organization releasing embarrassing information to the public about said organization.
Anyone who ever tells you "I'm cool with the people who work for me embarrassing me and undermining me" is FUCKING LYING. Period. End of story. YES, YOUR GUY TOO! YES, GANDHI AND MOTHER TERESA TOO!
"Transparency" and "openness" are just a politician's way of saying "I need you to vote for me, but the second I'm in office I'm going to be just as much a shitheel as the last guy."
It may be a moral good, even a moral necessity to do it. But you're *never* rewarded for it, even under the best of circumstances (all these bullshit whistleblower bounty programs are just for show). And at worst, you'll end up in prison or dead.
If 99% of people make it through their entire lives without ever getting treated unfairly, discriminated against, or oppressed in any way that would absolutely fucking amaze me. I doubt the number is even close to 50% now even in the most advanced countries.
If it's anything like the science fairs we used to have at my high school, then it will turn out dad is a plant biologist (who swears the girls did it all on their own) and the girls will be curiously vague when asked about the methodology.
Oh I forgot a step:
5.5) Get some mod points and mod down anyone who calls you on any of this.
Did you know that men are roughly 50% of the population, but only 13% of elementary education teachers in the United States are men?
Help, help, we're being oppressed!!
It will never be "all" because we will never live in a perfect world. There will always be cases of SOME men, women, blacks, whites, Indians, etc. who are legitimately oppressed or discriminated against for many various reasons, even in the best countries. So if you can say "the vast majority of X are treated fairly" then you're doing about as good as is humanly possible.
1) Declare yourself a feminist hero
2) Create some fake posts or a fake website attacking yourself with vile and threatening language (the worse the better)
3) Run to the liberal press with copies of these "attacks" and declare yourself oppressed,
4) Demand public sympathy and support
5) Call any critics or skeptics misogynists
4) Goto 1
Yeah, but don't you feel sorry for that poor oppressed girl? She was being attacked and threatened by a website that her publicist paid someone to create! She's a VICTIM!!!!!