I don't like Trump either- mainly because he's an openly self-serving sociopath, a narcissist to almost certainly pathological degree, a shameless bully with no target too cheap or low if it dares to threaten his dangerously thin skin, and an all-round, outright piece of shit.
I really don't have to lift a finger. It's all there for anyone who wants to see. Offering bribes is obviously widely accepted. The people that accept them are always winning the elections. They and the voters make my case. If bribes were considered so evil, it wouldn't be so.
Virtually every single thing you said proves my case even more solidly. You're really, really undercutting your own argument here.:)
"The people that accept them are always winning the elections" - if this is true, then it's even more reason for both the offering and the accepting of bribes to be illegal.
"If bribes were considered so evil, it wouldn't be so" - except bribery is considered to be evil, and so much so that it's against the law. Lots of things are considered to be "evil" and even though most if not all of them are illegal, people still do them. So what's your point?
By your standards, attempting to molest a child should be allowed as long as the child resists. After all, you're only offering to molest the child, it's only if the child goes along with your molestation that there's a problem, right?
I also noticed that you had no cogent response to my other points. Nice try at dodging the issue. Let's try again, shall we?
If you had the courage of your convictions you'd find a judge or cop and start offering bribes so you could make your case in front of the world, but you won't do that. I'm sure you've got all sorts of convenient excuses as to why, but the point is that if you really believe in what you're saying, put your money where your mouth is. Take a cue from Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King or Bayard Rustin or Mildred Loving and Richard Loving. Have some balls to back up what you insist to be right and just.
The reason you're in the minority this time is because your position is incompatible with logic and reason. Believe it or not, most laws make sense. Not all, but most. They've been honed over hundreds of years or practice and offering a bribe has always been seen as improper and unethical behavior. Never, to my knowledge has offering a bribe ever been accepted in any society anywhere at any time. If I'm wrong, show me a society where bribery was legal.
And I recognized my minority status a very long time ago, and, being actually right and all, will stick my guns to the very end.
Being a minority doesn't make you right. Your position is untenable, and you more or less copped to that with the "another guy spreading the same garbage would have his followers" statement.
If you had the courage of your convictions you'd find a judge or cop and start offering bribes so you could make your case in front of the world, but you won't do that. I'm sure you've got all sorts of convenient excuses as to why, but the point is that if you really believe in what you're saying, put your money where your mouth is. Take a cue from Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King or Bayard Rustin or Mildred Loving and Richard Loving. Have some balls to back up what you insist to be right and just.
The reason you're in the minority this time is because your position is incompatible with logic and reason. Believe it or not, most laws make sense. Not all, but most. They've been honed over hundreds of years or practice and offering a bribe has always been seen as improper and unethical behavior. Never, to my knowledge has offering a bribe ever been accepted in any society anywhere at any time.
Now you can go on mumbling about how you're "right" and the entire rest of the world is wrong wah wah wah, but until you can make a cogent argument for your position that holds up under scrutiny, you'll be "wrong" in every country and courtroom on Earth.
Isn't that how 6-Sigma at GE supposedly worked? They routinely expected to sack anyone whose metrics were below some arbitrary number? Keep jacking the number they have to hit up and when they stop making it, you jettison them like an empty rocket stage.
You're thinking of "Stack Ranking", used by Microsoft to foster hatred and backstabbing between their employees. And boy did it work.
You are either young, stupid or a troll. Possibly all three.
I vote for all three, but sheer stupidity could be the simplest answer.
Like you, I lived near some industrial areas in the 60s and 70s, and the lack of environmental regulation caused more damage than most people today could or would believe. Yes, factories emptied their waste products directly into streams and rivers killing everything downstream. The crap that came out of the smokestacks was unreal.
Anyone that's against regulating this kind of thing has got to be, as you said, young, stupid or a troll.
Without Rush Limbaugh, another guy spreading the same garbage would have his followers.
Lol, that's a cop-out and you've just undermined everything you've said while simultaneously admitting that I'm right.
The offer is what kicks things off, and we both know it- you just acknowledged that above.:)
-
Without the followers Rush Limbaugh would not be getting 400 mil a year.
Again, you're agreeing with and validating my whole point.:) Without Rush (or someone like him), there would be no one to follow, period, end of story. You can't commit bribery without the offer, the acceptance is the result of the offer.:)
Still, I'm all for it and it's a step in the right direction. Perhaps a small bounty could be paid for reporting sites that are found to be peddling fake brands.
many a times MVP/MVC or other "responsibility containment" patterns refactoring hours are applied to existing, super complex activities that will never be reused;/quote>
I've always thought MVC to be one of the most inefficient and impractical ways to do nearly anything. Yeah, there are probably cases where it makes sense, I've just never seen one in the real world. Everything is spread out over multiple files and code blocks and controllers. Echhh. Making a minor change seems to involve a lot of work, and larger changes are ugly, time-consuming, and frustrating.
Years ago I worked with a group that was doing a simple calendar and booking application using the MVC paradigm...it was a multi-month long goat fuck. Changes rippled back and forth and broke stuff on a regular basis. These were competent programmers and they were told by the Powers That Be that the MVC framework would provide all sorts of advantages. In reality, it didn't.
The programmers finally said "screw it" and developed it using more traditional methods...it was done in a few weeks, and it worked.
Like I said, there are almost certainly cases where MVC makes perfect sense, I've just never seen one myself.
Slashdot Mirror
We usually don't elect politicians who are paid to commit murder, at least not knowingly.
So what? Maybe they were bribed to commit murder.
Again, your argument is a total fail.
In your world it should be legal to offer kids in kindergarten so heroin to pull the fire alarm.
"But officer, I did nothing wrong by offering those kids the heroin, they committed the crime by accepting it!"
I don't like Trump either- mainly because he's an openly self-serving sociopath, a narcissist to almost certainly pathological degree, a shameless bully with no target too cheap or low if it dares to threaten his dangerously thin skin, and an all-round, outright piece of shit.
And those are his good qualities.
Hundreds down, only a few more tens of millions to go!
Yeah, sure they will. Absolutely, I totally believe fer sure that Twitter will block Trump.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go jump on my unicorn and hunt some snipe and leprechauns.
What about the rights of the corporation to protect their brand?
What about the rights of the people to speak their mind?
Should we all shut our mouths and bow down to our corporate masters to make sure we don't offend their delicate sensibilities?
If people that take bribes win elections, that obviously means people approve, law or no law.
And if people take money to commit murder, that obviously means people approve, law or no law. Right?
But people that reward people who take bribes do approve of offering bribes. Vote them out and the problem is solved. Too simple.
But people that reward people who commit murder do approve of committing murder. Tell them not to do it and the problem is solved. Too simple.
See how silly your 'logic' is? But again, you don't have the courage of your convictions. Time to go put on your MAGA hat and offer some bribes!
I'd call Islam a cult bent bent on world domination. Convert or die.
Yup, just like Christianity was, back when it could get away with lopping your head off on a whim.
Christians would still love to be able to do that kind of thing, and they're jealous as hell that Islam is so upfront about it.
I really don't have to lift a finger. It's all there for anyone who wants to see. Offering bribes is obviously widely accepted. The people that accept them are always winning the elections. They and the voters make my case. If bribes were considered so evil, it wouldn't be so.
Virtually every single thing you said proves my case even more solidly. You're really, really undercutting your own argument here. :)
"The people that accept them are always winning the elections" - if this is true, then it's even more reason for both the offering and the accepting of bribes to be illegal.
"If bribes were considered so evil, it wouldn't be so" - except bribery is considered to be evil, and so much so that it's against the law. Lots of things are considered to be "evil" and even though most if not all of them are illegal, people still do them. So what's your point?
By your standards, attempting to molest a child should be allowed as long as the child resists. After all, you're only offering to molest the child, it's only if the child goes along with your molestation that there's a problem, right?
I also noticed that you had no cogent response to my other points. Nice try at dodging the issue. Let's try again, shall we?
If you had the courage of your convictions you'd find a judge or cop and start offering bribes so you could make your case in front of the world, but you won't do that. I'm sure you've got all sorts of convenient excuses as to why, but the point is that if you really believe in what you're saying, put your money where your mouth is. Take a cue from Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King or Bayard Rustin or Mildred Loving and Richard Loving. Have some balls to back up what you insist to be right and just.
The reason you're in the minority this time is because your position is incompatible with logic and reason. Believe it or not, most laws make sense. Not all, but most. They've been honed over hundreds of years or practice and offering a bribe has always been seen as improper and unethical behavior. Never, to my knowledge has offering a bribe ever been accepted in any society anywhere at any time. If I'm wrong, show me a society where bribery was legal.
"Congress has passed a law protecting the right of U.S. consumers to post negative online reviews without fear of retaliation from companies."
Never fear, Citizen! Mein Fuhrer Trump will soon overturn this anti-corporate, abusive law!
"Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed"
Riiiiight, because games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders are "news". That makes so much sense. So. Much. Fucking. Sense.
And I recognized my minority status a very long time ago, and, being actually right and all, will stick my guns to the very end.
Being a minority doesn't make you right. Your position is untenable, and you more or less copped to that with the "another guy spreading the same garbage would have his followers" statement.
If you had the courage of your convictions you'd find a judge or cop and start offering bribes so you could make your case in front of the world, but you won't do that. I'm sure you've got all sorts of convenient excuses as to why, but the point is that if you really believe in what you're saying, put your money where your mouth is. Take a cue from Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King or Bayard Rustin or Mildred Loving and Richard Loving. Have some balls to back up what you insist to be right and just.
The reason you're in the minority this time is because your position is incompatible with logic and reason. Believe it or not, most laws make sense. Not all, but most. They've been honed over hundreds of years or practice and offering a bribe has always been seen as improper and unethical behavior. Never, to my knowledge has offering a bribe ever been accepted in any society anywhere at any time.
Now you can go on mumbling about how you're "right" and the entire rest of the world is wrong wah wah wah, but until you can make a cogent argument for your position that holds up under scrutiny, you'll be "wrong" in every country and courtroom on Earth.
It's all fire and motion, as ironically Joel Spolsky once said.
I think of it as "stumble and fumble".
Isn't that how 6-Sigma at GE supposedly worked? They routinely expected to sack anyone whose metrics were below some arbitrary number? Keep jacking the number they have to hit up and when they stop making it, you jettison them like an empty rocket stage.
You're thinking of "Stack Ranking", used by Microsoft to foster hatred and backstabbing between their employees. And boy did it work.
I see private courts, competing with each other as the only legitimate courts that can address the issue of government corruption.
Found the libertarian nut job.
You are either young, stupid or a troll. Possibly all three.
I vote for all three, but sheer stupidity could be the simplest answer.
Like you, I lived near some industrial areas in the 60s and 70s, and the lack of environmental regulation caused more damage than most people today could or would believe. Yes, factories emptied their waste products directly into streams and rivers killing everything downstream. The crap that came out of the smokestacks was unreal.
Anyone that's against regulating this kind of thing has got to be, as you said, young, stupid or a troll.
This has gone as far as I can take it.
Well we can certainly agree on that. :)
When you deny both common sense and reality it's almost inevitable that you'll end up refuting yourself and proving the other side's point.
Sounds too good to be true....but let's see what comes of it.
Without Rush Limbaugh, another guy spreading the same garbage would have his followers.
Lol, that's a cop-out and you've just undermined everything you've said while simultaneously admitting that I'm right.
The offer is what kicks things off, and we both know it- you just acknowledged that above. :)
-
Without the followers Rush Limbaugh would not be getting 400 mil a year.
Again, you're agreeing with and validating my whole point. :) Without Rush (or someone like him), there would be no one to follow, period, end of story. You can't commit bribery without the offer, the acceptance is the result of the offer. :)
"It really makes our life a lot easier and helps us build a product that we can all use and be far more productive with", he continued.
Like I care what makes the lives of Microsoft employees easier? Fuck off.
I should change my whole dev process and tool chain to make their lives easier? Fuck off.
Buy a copy of Windows so I can install a LAMP stack under it and run it all in a VM? Fuck off.
4,500 down, 22,876,341 to go.
Still, I'm all for it and it's a step in the right direction. Perhaps a small bounty could be paid for reporting sites that are found to be peddling fake brands.
you are misunderstanding the meaning of looks rats
Enlighten me, please. What exactly does the phrase mean?
A very true quote I saw in Time magazine, paraphrased: *I don't worry about Rush Limbaugh. I worry about his followers*.
You really don't get it, do you? Without Rush Limbaugh, there would be no followers.
many a times MVP/MVC or other "responsibility containment" patterns refactoring hours are applied to existing, super complex activities that will never be reused;/quote>
I've always thought MVC to be one of the most inefficient and impractical ways to do nearly anything. Yeah, there are probably cases where it makes sense, I've just never seen one in the real world. Everything is spread out over multiple files and code blocks and controllers. Echhh. Making a minor change seems to involve a lot of work, and larger changes are ugly, time-consuming, and frustrating.
Years ago I worked with a group that was doing a simple calendar and booking application using the MVC paradigm...it was a multi-month long goat fuck. Changes rippled back and forth and broke stuff on a regular basis. These were competent programmers and they were told by the Powers That Be that the MVC framework would provide all sorts of advantages. In reality, it didn't.
The programmers finally said "screw it" and developed it using more traditional methods...it was done in a few weeks, and it worked.
Like I said, there are almost certainly cases where MVC makes perfect sense, I've just never seen one myself.
It's M$ they'd put broken glass on a Bouncy Castle and bill it as an improvement
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they make a vacuum.
Bribes would not be offered if they weren't accepted.
You have it backwards...bribes would not be accepted if they weren't offered.
Seriously, which comes first, the offer or the acceptance?