"WE" are not losing. Only people without sufficient knowledge to have a properly functioning bullshit detector, and those too lazy to do any proper research are losing. If you're too lazy to do some fact checking, you've actively turned yourself into a sucker and deserve everything you get. Maybe when you're been fooled / scammed often enough, the lesson will sink in.
And as I said, repressed gay men like you just can't help but do what you're doing. It's one of the reasons I make fun of people like you - that's all you're worth.
"because they don't like to face undue hardship." What a bullshit excuse. A whistleblower should be willing to stand up and say "this is what I saw." Hiding just makes it look questionable, doing everyone who wants the truth a disservice, and playing into the hands of the perps, because "well, it's an anonymous source - probably fake."
For too long we have encouraged cowardice for the sake of convenience. You're doing so right now. Your other comments, you hide behind a nym. Coward. Come here and say that and watch how fast I have the cops on your ass for hate speech. Because words have consequences, and you should be held accountable for what you say.
"The mob" doesn't want to steal. However, when pushed, people will do what they have to do to re-organize society so that it continues to function. Sometimes that means violent revolution. There is no natural law that says it's "stealing" - that's a human concept, and as such, subject to interpretation and revision. For example, tooo many libtards who enjoy the benefits of taxation claim that taxation is stealing. And the most valid answer to that is "Fuck you, hypocrite." At some future date, it may become "Up against the wall!"
To create a drone that can handle all eventualities will be to create a drone that requires so much energy, and such a large mass/payload ratio, that it would be simple to just sneakernet whatever you want to send. And of course, the more each drone costs (to make it multi-environmental/multi-task enabled), the more likely it will be a target of theft or vandalism. There's always a cost/capability trade-off, and no amount of hand-waving or wishful thinking is going to change that. As one example, there is simply no model that would make sense to deliver the materials to pave a road by drone. A dump truck is cheaper, safer, and quicker.
Actually, I do believe that anonymous speech is the last resort of cowards. Say what you mean, and stand behind it, and damn the consequences. You have freedom of speech, but neither freedom from the consequences of that speech nor the right to be anonymous. Check your constitution - you'll see that neither anonymity nor lack of consequences are rights. Or are you going to claim that the people who wrote the constitution were nazis as well?
Your lack of knowledge of your own laws is typically American.
Dream on. The "powers that be" only have power as long as the mob believes they are helpless to resist. Or did you miss those grannies in the Ukraine in the streets armed with cobblestones fighting (and dying) against government soldiers armed with rifles?
Standard of living? My standard of living is far better than the most powerful king 1000 years ago and I am not wealthy. Employment != standard of living. Technology has made most all humans standard of living increase, why should I assume this time automation will change this?
So you have thousands of slaves and an unlimited supply of sex partners? And you can order anyone executed? And have first crack at every virgin in your kingdom?
Read the filing - the claim is that the specifications of the balls violate their patents - Costco says the specifications don't match their balls - something that they are prepared to prove in court, so it doesn't even matter if the patents are valid or not. It's like you patenting rounded corners on a phone, and then claiming infringement against a phone with square corners.
You need to learn to read for comprehension. I did NOT refer to your handle. Get it right. You made reference to my original first name, saying it was "one of the biblical apostles." I pointed out that my new name was, and I quote, "Far better than being named after a fictitious religious character in a fictitious religious tale."
And unlike you, I don't hide behind handles or nyms.
If you had read the complaint, you would have known that the patent claims they're asserting don't even apply to the product, which has different specifications than the ones cited in the patents.
I changed jobs. Went from being a programmer to a receptionist before getting another coding job. That eliminated a lot of the problems that an on-the-job transition would have had. It's unfortunate, but this is the way it often ends up, either voluntarily or forced.
It wouldn't have worked out. Sometimes you know. Just like I had a gut feeling that one of my friends wouldn't be able to accept it - and I was more right than I could have ever imagined. Anger, hostility, rage... 15 years tossed in the garbage in 15 seconds. Every few years I send an email, get no answer. It's a shame since he lives a 10-minute walk away and I pass by his street all the time.
And everyone knows what sort of a libtard asshole you are. See how that works? Those sidewalks and roads you use? Did you pay tolls to use them, or were they paid for with taxes from the "oppressed?" Public safety? Water? Food inspection? Society has moved beyond your sick ilk, despite the best efforts of Trumpsters to reverse it.
The word derives from latin, bestial. However, I'm not confining myself to following dead languages slavishly. More and more people are spelling it "beastiality." Get over it. Or do you call wild animals "bests?"
Thanks. I chose my new middle name specifically to make things easier for my brother-in-law, who really, REALLY objects to it. As in pound on the supper table "I will NEVER call you by your (legal) name ever." For a few years, they said they needed time. Then it was "we need more time." "We still need more time." So I figured, they can't bring themselves to say "Barbara" or "Barb" or whatever, they probably won't be able to say "Jane" either, but I know damn well they can say the initials B.J.
Of course, they can't do that either, but it makes for a good supper table joke when there are new faces who don't know, and they hear me old name and sex used. I just turn to them and say "They can't get used to the whole sex change thing." It used to upset me, because support from those closest to you is key, and there's nothing closer than immediate family. But I got over it, and they're slowly coming around - just a few more decades should do it:-) And if it never happens, so what?
At least they no longer say "Why couldn't you just be gay? THAT we could accept." And they've been a huge help with helping me survive my ongoing health problems the last 5 years or so. I'd probably be dead without them.
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The suckers are doing a better job of destroying the Tea Party than anyone outside could have. "Useful idiots" works for me :-)
"WE" are not losing. Only people without sufficient knowledge to have a properly functioning bullshit detector, and those too lazy to do any proper research are losing. If you're too lazy to do some fact checking, you've actively turned yourself into a sucker and deserve everything you get. Maybe when you're been fooled / scammed often enough, the lesson will sink in.
And as I said, repressed gay men like you just can't help but do what you're doing. It's one of the reasons I make fun of people like you - that's all you're worth.
"because they don't like to face undue hardship." What a bullshit excuse. A whistleblower should be willing to stand up and say "this is what I saw." Hiding just makes it look questionable, doing everyone who wants the truth a disservice, and playing into the hands of the perps, because "well, it's an anonymous source - probably fake."
For too long we have encouraged cowardice for the sake of convenience. You're doing so right now. Your other comments, you hide behind a nym. Coward. Come here and say that and watch how fast I have the cops on your ass for hate speech. Because words have consequences, and you should be held accountable for what you say.
"The mob" doesn't want to steal. However, when pushed, people will do what they have to do to re-organize society so that it continues to function. Sometimes that means violent revolution. There is no natural law that says it's "stealing" - that's a human concept, and as such, subject to interpretation and revision. For example, tooo many libtards who enjoy the benefits of taxation claim that taxation is stealing. And the most valid answer to that is "Fuck you, hypocrite." At some future date, it may become "Up against the wall!"
To create a drone that can handle all eventualities will be to create a drone that requires so much energy, and such a large mass/payload ratio, that it would be simple to just sneakernet whatever you want to send. And of course, the more each drone costs (to make it multi-environmental/multi-task enabled), the more likely it will be a target of theft or vandalism. There's always a cost/capability trade-off, and no amount of hand-waving or wishful thinking is going to change that. As one example, there is simply no model that would make sense to deliver the materials to pave a road by drone. A dump truck is cheaper, safer, and quicker.
You mentioned dating, not me. And I don't date gay men, repressed or otherwise, with tiny hands or otherwise.
Actually, I do believe that anonymous speech is the last resort of cowards. Say what you mean, and stand behind it, and damn the consequences. You have freedom of speech, but neither freedom from the consequences of that speech nor the right to be anonymous. Check your constitution - you'll see that neither anonymity nor lack of consequences are rights. Or are you going to claim that the people who wrote the constitution were nazis as well?
Your lack of knowledge of your own laws is typically American.
Dream on. The "powers that be" only have power as long as the mob believes they are helpless to resist. Or did you miss those grannies in the Ukraine in the streets armed with cobblestones fighting (and dying) against government soldiers armed with rifles?
So why aren't you pushing for using the original British standards? After all, the US is still using imperial units like the mile?
You have to admit it beat the shit out of it's biggest competitor at the time - Visual Basic.
I calll bullshit. There's a HUGE difference between positions in education and in industry and commerce.
1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime ...
Way to miss the point entirely. You must be a real blast at parties, explaining why jokes you told are funny, and why jokes everyone else told aren't.
Proof? Oh, you have none. Also, those of us who write it as "beastiality" do so by choice, and it's become very popular, so bite me.
Standard of living? My standard of living is far better than the most powerful king 1000 years ago and I am not wealthy. Employment != standard of living. Technology has made most all humans standard of living increase, why should I assume this time automation will change this?
So you have thousands of slaves and an unlimited supply of sex partners? And you can order anyone executed? And have first crack at every virgin in your kingdom?
> More and more people are misspelling it "beastiality."
FTFY.
A popular mistake is still a mistake.
Really? So you're going to convince Americans to spell it aluminium, honour, colour, fibre, centre, metre, theatre, flavour, humour, neighbour, travelled (double ell), oestrogen, foetus, paediatric, manoeuvre, leukaemia, defence, licence, offence, pretence, analogue, catalogue, dialogue, parlour, etc?
Never happen. Once something gets popular enough, it becomes part of the language.
Read the filing - the claim is that the specifications of the balls violate their patents - Costco says the specifications don't match their balls - something that they are prepared to prove in court, so it doesn't even matter if the patents are valid or not. It's like you patenting rounded corners on a phone, and then claiming infringement against a phone with square corners.
You need to learn to read for comprehension. I did NOT refer to your handle. Get it right. You made reference to my original first name, saying it was "one of the biblical apostles." I pointed out that my new name was, and I quote, "Far better than being named after a fictitious religious character in a fictitious religious tale."
And unlike you, I don't hide behind handles or nyms.
You've just proven again that you're a moron.
If you had read the complaint, you would have known that the patent claims they're asserting don't even apply to the product, which has different specifications than the ones cited in the patents.
I changed jobs. Went from being a programmer to a receptionist before getting another coding job. That eliminated a lot of the problems that an on-the-job transition would have had. It's unfortunate, but this is the way it often ends up, either voluntarily or forced.
It wouldn't have worked out. Sometimes you know. Just like I had a gut feeling that one of my friends wouldn't be able to accept it - and I was more right than I could have ever imagined. Anger, hostility, rage ... 15 years tossed in the garbage in 15 seconds. Every few years I send an email, get no answer. It's a shame since he lives a 10-minute walk away and I pass by his street all the time.
And everyone knows what sort of a libtard asshole you are. See how that works? Those sidewalks and roads you use? Did you pay tolls to use them, or were they paid for with taxes from the "oppressed?" Public safety? Water? Food inspection? Society has moved beyond your sick ilk, despite the best efforts of Trumpsters to reverse it.
The word derives from latin, bestial. However, I'm not confining myself to following dead languages slavishly. More and more people are spelling it "beastiality." Get over it. Or do you call wild animals "bests?"
If you think that dating never leads to sex, you're really are one sick puppy.
Thanks. I chose my new middle name specifically to make things easier for my brother-in-law, who really, REALLY objects to it. As in pound on the supper table "I will NEVER call you by your (legal) name ever." For a few years, they said they needed time. Then it was "we need more time." "We still need more time." So I figured, they can't bring themselves to say "Barbara" or "Barb" or whatever, they probably won't be able to say "Jane" either, but I know damn well they can say the initials B.J.
Of course, they can't do that either, but it makes for a good supper table joke when there are new faces who don't know, and they hear me old name and sex used. I just turn to them and say "They can't get used to the whole sex change thing." It used to upset me, because support from those closest to you is key, and there's nothing closer than immediate family. But I got over it, and they're slowly coming around - just a few more decades should do it :-) And if it never happens, so what?
At least they no longer say "Why couldn't you just be gay? THAT we could accept." And they've been a huge help with helping me survive my ongoing health problems the last 5 years or so. I'd probably be dead without them.