women complain men are obsessed with t&a but women are exactly the same: if you're not tall, it doesn't matter if you are a CEO and run 3 charities: she'll pick the tall guy who still lives with his mom
right: the qaddafi regime will stop butchering it's people and wait while you wrangle over your legalisms
maybe you can get the UN to write him an angry letter. that'll teach qaddafi
pffffffffffft
and i'm glad that you side with the tiny minority of libyans invested in the current regime at the pig feeding trough that defend his murderous regime
sir: you've lost your moral compass. you only have a legal compass. it is not sufficient for what you think it is sufficient for. namely, doing the right thing
well, the aggression of the qadaffi regime against it's own people has been defeated. as someone who doesn't like aggressive warmongering, you're happy, right?
oh i see. you believe in things like the toothfairy, the easter bunny, and that people like qaddafi go away by themselves, like a popped soap bubble. and that all the criminality they do in the meantime, until they will magically pop like a soap some day, is acceptable to you? is that it?
choose:
1. oppose qadaffi, with force, in the name of the people of libya, with the people of libya. that's really all the justification you need
2. or allow him to continue to exist, thereby making you complicit with evil by your inaction
there is such a thing as a pacifist in this world, and i appreciate them. but sometimes, i imagine some pacificists would sit there serenely, while witnessing a rape or murder. because force, ANY use of force, is apparently wrong to them
when do you pick up force of arms and oppose evil at work in the world? never? then to me, you are not a pacifist, you are an inert stump. you live in an ivory tower and sneer down at us poor fools in the messiness of life, and imagine yourself superior, because you won't roll up your sleeves and get messy in important struggles as well. you've simply ceased to matter to the world, by your own choice, and therefore, you have also forfeited your right to comment, on situations you yourself have chosen not to matter to
so stand for something in this world, ready to back up with force if necessary, or follow through on your own philosophy of not mattering in this world, and fuck off and shut up
anyone gambling or surfing porn from work is not performing. i's like the hilarious lie that heroin addicts should be allowed to take heroin if they can still perform at work and maintain their relationships. such people don't exist!
this seems to be the increasing tenor in this country (or my country, if you are not posting from the usa): classism. class warfare is of course the next step. unfortunate, but people denied equal treatment because of their income have to fight back some way to reaffirm the fairness owed them, the double standards
the right has even openly embraced classism as the new "morality" for america: "i got mine already, so screw you". "you're poor? sorry, no healthcare or education for you". get your money and screw your fellow americans "i love america! (just not my actual fellow americans, they can rot as far as i care, so yeah, i guess i don't love america, only myself)"
not that i am complaining, as this is exactly how i use slashdot (he said, posting from work), and i think this is true of most other people here
slashdot would materially suffer from a workplace that blocked outside surfing
i would further add that the articles i read on slashdot have benefited me at work, such as with the recent spate of articles covering development on the android: i bring these subjects up in meetings with my coworkers and superiors and employees under me
the web at work is not about porn or gambling sites. unfortunately, that's the only way some management views the issue. you can walk a middle road: black list sites of only a certain nature. for example: block porntube.com, don't block cnn.com
furthermore, if you do have an employee looking at porn or gambling from work, you are dealing with someone whose comfort level with certain kinds of transgressions at work that they are probably transgressing in other ways at work as well. meaning, blocking their web access is not the way to deal with them, and doesn't solve the problem of the other possible transgressions they are probably engaging in, perhaps against the company. keep an eye at them at least, or better yet, terminate them. anyone surfing porn or gambling from work has issues
agreed 100%. except what we are talking about is indeed accurately described as seeds
we all understand we aren't talking about a literal plant based seed
we are talking about the most basic molecular units that have the potential to replicate in the right environment. seeds
i mean if you still find use of the word seed as confusing, i would counter that the use of the word element in this context is equally confusing, as we aren't talking about just literal carbon and nitrogen, but how those elements are arranged as basic replication blocks
thank you, that's awesome, because like fred i believe the big bang theory is a load of bunk as well
the universe is infinite in space AND time. the expansion and contraction we see on the "edge" of the universe is a local phenomenon. it's like being on the crest or trough of a wave in the middle of the ocean: the expansion and contraction you see is only local, in an infinite expanse of contractions and expansions
that's just my opinion, but since we first started looking skyward (geocentric solar system debunked, etc.) we always seem to fall for the prejudice we are at the center of things happening. the big bang theory is simple an extension of this prejudice. the march of astronomical progress has always shown we aren't anywhere special, or any TIME special
it is my opinion that the theory of comets seeding life on earth, or earth seeding life on europa or mars or elsewhere is completely besides the point:
the seeds of life are simply everywhere, inside and outside the solar system, and life is simply always lying dormant, everywhere in the galaxy, as bits of flotsam and jetsam of space debris, ready to seed something somewhere, at any time, in the distant future, and the distant past
this whole argument of where life came from is moot. the potential is simply always there, everywhere, ready to seed
good! a canadian with a sense of humor. i admire your country, but it's so easy to pull the arrogant american routine and get a canadian foaming at the mouth. thank you sir, for not taking the flamebait;-)
and i thought i was the only person that watched it
there's a whole universe of this weird syndicated content on late night american tv produced in some strange land that i've pieced together is referred to as canada
i've also admired davinci's inquest, about police politics in vancouver
And being a politician or an executive does not make one a criminal. Nelson Mandela: politician. Warren Buffet: executive.
It is more like abusive police. Not all police are abusive. But it is true that the idea of police work attracts certain people with the psychological need to assert dominance and violent physical power. Like the priesthood or the teaching profession appeals to pedophiles because of positions of trust and access to children.
Likewise, the profession of politician and executive does indeed attract a certain class of cunning sociopath, giving the whole profession a bad name.
We still need these positions in the world, we just have to do a better job of weeding out the undeserving.
1. i don't know everything. i never thought i did or said i did. stop projecting
2. the end effect of revolutions are not guaranteed. we already live in a democracy. it is infected with money. so lets remove the infection. revolution? what will that lead to exactly?
3. i have an ancestor that fought in the american revolution (the real kind of revolution, against a foreign power, not against a democratically elected government by the majority of citizens- you want to revolt against that?!), and on my mother's side her roots go back to the 1600s in New England. i am certain your ancestors came here long after mine. so why don't you leave, you lazy newcomer?
but my ancestry doesn't actually matter to me (it matters to you, apparently). biology has no meaning, ideology does. and i am familiar with many new immigrants, and i have to say, considering some of their attitudes, and yours, i consider them more of a real american than you. to me, being an american is about embracing a certain set of ideals. apparently, according to you, being an american is about being entitled to something superior because of the GPS coordinates of where your mom opened her stinking twat and squeezed you out
you? you're an ugly troll. improving this country is about deporting you. the content of your thoughts are unamerican, what you believe in has nothing to do with what is good about this country. you don't deserve citizenship, because you don't support citizenry, in a democratically elected government. you support revolution, based on a set of ideas help by only a small minority. that's not revolution, that's a fascist coup that you champion: the will of the minority fringe idea is what is FOUGHT, not FOUGHT FOR, moron. what an ignorant scumbag
for awhile he was like "i'm going to blow up, i'm going to blow up". then towards then end he basically just gave up and accepted what was coming. pretty sad. the bomb squad was still being assembled: boom, right on the side of the road, surrounded by cops. i guess many thought it was a fake until then
thank god for hollywood, which had to turn it into a comedy >/sarcasm<
as a matter of timing, you wonder if the movie inspired this australian idiot. reading about the plot in the newspaper (i don't think movie came out yet when this idiotic plot went down)
you know you are a genuine idiot, when a comedy about feeble idiots trying to cook up a feeble criminal plot, inspires you to actually try that real life
if you are smart enough to run a successful extortion plot, you are also smart enough to make money honestly and jeopardy-free, and realize that's the better choice
i know, i know: there is always the common refrain that you don't hear about the smart criminals. that their invisibility is proof of their success. their invisibility could also be taken as proof of their nonexistence
not that smart criminals don't exist. i am certain there's some dude in french polynesia sunning himself right now with his ill-gotten gains from a perfect caper. but i believe this is the rarity. most people have hollywood-addled imaginations, and overestimate the number of the mysterious perfect criminal in this world
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women complain men are obsessed with t&a but women are exactly the same: if you're not tall, it doesn't matter if you are a CEO and run 3 charities: she'll pick the tall guy who still lives with his mom
right: the qaddafi regime will stop butchering it's people and wait while you wrangle over your legalisms
maybe you can get the UN to write him an angry letter. that'll teach qaddafi
pffffffffffft
and i'm glad that you side with the tiny minority of libyans invested in the current regime at the pig feeding trough that defend his murderous regime
sir: you've lost your moral compass. you only have a legal compass. it is not sufficient for what you think it is sufficient for. namely, doing the right thing
and just sell alaska back to russia. or china. or canada. they'll get a gasbag mama grizzly as a bonus, you betcha
ask a libyan
the point is aggression is wrong, right?
well, the aggression of the qadaffi regime against it's own people has been defeated. as someone who doesn't like aggressive warmongering, you're happy, right?
oh i see. you believe in things like the toothfairy, the easter bunny, and that people like qaddafi go away by themselves, like a popped soap bubble. and that all the criminality they do in the meantime, until they will magically pop like a soap some day, is acceptable to you? is that it?
choose:
1. oppose qadaffi, with force, in the name of the people of libya, with the people of libya. that's really all the justification you need
2. or allow him to continue to exist, thereby making you complicit with evil by your inaction
there is such a thing as a pacifist in this world, and i appreciate them. but sometimes, i imagine some pacificists would sit there serenely, while witnessing a rape or murder. because force, ANY use of force, is apparently wrong to them
when do you pick up force of arms and oppose evil at work in the world? never? then to me, you are not a pacifist, you are an inert stump. you live in an ivory tower and sneer down at us poor fools in the messiness of life, and imagine yourself superior, because you won't roll up your sleeves and get messy in important struggles as well. you've simply ceased to matter to the world, by your own choice, and therefore, you have also forfeited your right to comment, on situations you yourself have chosen not to matter to
so stand for something in this world, ready to back up with force if necessary, or follow through on your own philosophy of not mattering in this world, and fuck off and shut up
anyone gambling or surfing porn from work is not performing. i's like the hilarious lie that heroin addicts should be allowed to take heroin if they can still perform at work and maintain their relationships. such people don't exist!
yup
this seems to be the increasing tenor in this country (or my country, if you are not posting from the usa): classism. class warfare is of course the next step. unfortunate, but people denied equal treatment because of their income have to fight back some way to reaffirm the fairness owed them, the double standards
the right has even openly embraced classism as the new "morality" for america: "i got mine already, so screw you". "you're poor? sorry, no healthcare or education for you". get your money and screw your fellow americans "i love america! (just not my actual fellow americans, they can rot as far as i care, so yeah, i guess i don't love america, only myself)"
lol!
touche ;-)
not that i am complaining, as this is exactly how i use slashdot (he said, posting from work), and i think this is true of most other people here
slashdot would materially suffer from a workplace that blocked outside surfing
i would further add that the articles i read on slashdot have benefited me at work, such as with the recent spate of articles covering development on the android: i bring these subjects up in meetings with my coworkers and superiors and employees under me
the web at work is not about porn or gambling sites. unfortunately, that's the only way some management views the issue. you can walk a middle road: black list sites of only a certain nature. for example: block porntube.com, don't block cnn.com
furthermore, if you do have an employee looking at porn or gambling from work, you are dealing with someone whose comfort level with certain kinds of transgressions at work that they are probably transgressing in other ways at work as well. meaning, blocking their web access is not the way to deal with them, and doesn't solve the problem of the other possible transgressions they are probably engaging in, perhaps against the company. keep an eye at them at least, or better yet, terminate them. anyone surfing porn or gambling from work has issues
we're not talking about organisms. we're talking about basic molecular units of replication
still, the chance of such units getting ejected from one place of life, and seeding another place of potential life, is, obviously, vanishingly small
but over vast stretches of space and vast stretches of time, it goes from tiny possibility to probability
agreed 100%. except what we are talking about is indeed accurately described as seeds
we all understand we aren't talking about a literal plant based seed
we are talking about the most basic molecular units that have the potential to replicate in the right environment. seeds
i mean if you still find use of the word seed as confusing, i would counter that the use of the word element in this context is equally confusing, as we aren't talking about just literal carbon and nitrogen, but how those elements are arranged as basic replication blocks
thank you, that's awesome, because like fred i believe the big bang theory is a load of bunk as well
the universe is infinite in space AND time. the expansion and contraction we see on the "edge" of the universe is a local phenomenon. it's like being on the crest or trough of a wave in the middle of the ocean: the expansion and contraction you see is only local, in an infinite expanse of contractions and expansions
that's just my opinion, but since we first started looking skyward (geocentric solar system debunked, etc.) we always seem to fall for the prejudice we are at the center of things happening. the big bang theory is simple an extension of this prejudice. the march of astronomical progress has always shown we aren't anywhere special, or any TIME special
it is my opinion that the theory of comets seeding life on earth, or earth seeding life on europa or mars or elsewhere is completely besides the point:
the seeds of life are simply everywhere, inside and outside the solar system, and life is simply always lying dormant, everywhere in the galaxy, as bits of flotsam and jetsam of space debris, ready to seed something somewhere, at any time, in the distant future, and the distant past
this whole argument of where life came from is moot. the potential is simply always there, everywhere, ready to seed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
Book checks out you!
yeah sad quote ;-(
he won't be in The Sixth Element either (you know that's coming too)
Brion James is sorely missed
You have to come work at The Mill. We're making the Sixth Element ;-)
good! a canadian with a sense of humor. i admire your country, but it's so easy to pull the arrogant american routine and get a canadian foaming at the mouth. thank you sir, for not taking the flamebait ;-)
"if you only you could see what i've seen, with your eyes"
best line in the movie
james hong cameo in Blade Runner 2: Electric Doggie Doo please
edward james olmos, rutger hauer, crazy sean young, daryl hannah, joe turkel... heck get vangelis to write a new score
brion james died unfortunately (leon)
wow
i have fond memories of that show
and i thought i was the only person that watched it
there's a whole universe of this weird syndicated content on late night american tv produced in some strange land that i've pieced together is referred to as canada
i've also admired davinci's inquest, about police politics in vancouver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci's_Inquest
and regenesis, about a molecular biologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGenesis
is canada some sort of unincorporated american territory somewhere? is it near alaska?
And being a politician or an executive does not make one a criminal. Nelson Mandela: politician. Warren Buffet: executive.
It is more like abusive police. Not all police are abusive. But it is true that the idea of police work attracts certain people with the psychological need to assert dominance and violent physical power. Like the priesthood or the teaching profession appeals to pedophiles because of positions of trust and access to children.
Likewise, the profession of politician and executive does indeed attract a certain class of cunning sociopath, giving the whole profession a bad name.
We still need these positions in the world, we just have to do a better job of weeding out the undeserving.
your analogy sucks
a better analogy would be yes, it is better to stay in the nose diving airplane and try to right it, then jump out of the airplane without a parachute
1. i don't know everything. i never thought i did or said i did. stop projecting
2. the end effect of revolutions are not guaranteed. we already live in a democracy. it is infected with money. so lets remove the infection. revolution? what will that lead to exactly?
3. i have an ancestor that fought in the american revolution (the real kind of revolution, against a foreign power, not against a democratically elected government by the majority of citizens- you want to revolt against that?!), and on my mother's side her roots go back to the 1600s in New England. i am certain your ancestors came here long after mine. so why don't you leave, you lazy newcomer?
but my ancestry doesn't actually matter to me (it matters to you, apparently). biology has no meaning, ideology does. and i am familiar with many new immigrants, and i have to say, considering some of their attitudes, and yours, i consider them more of a real american than you. to me, being an american is about embracing a certain set of ideals. apparently, according to you, being an american is about being entitled to something superior because of the GPS coordinates of where your mom opened her stinking twat and squeezed you out
this is a real american:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/us/17land.html
you? you're an ugly troll. improving this country is about deporting you. the content of your thoughts are unamerican, what you believe in has nothing to do with what is good about this country. you don't deserve citizenship, because you don't support citizenry, in a democratically elected government. you support revolution, based on a set of ideas help by only a small minority. that's not revolution, that's a fascist coup that you champion: the will of the minority fringe idea is what is FOUGHT, not FOUGHT FOR, moron. what an ignorant scumbag
they had tv footage and everything
for awhile he was like "i'm going to blow up, i'm going to blow up". then towards then end he basically just gave up and accepted what was coming. pretty sad. the bomb squad was still being assembled: boom, right on the side of the road, surrounded by cops. i guess many thought it was a fake until then
thank god for hollywood, which had to turn it into a comedy >/sarcasm<
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/30-minutes-or-less-collar-bom/
as a matter of timing, you wonder if the movie inspired this australian idiot. reading about the plot in the newspaper (i don't think movie came out yet when this idiotic plot went down)
you know you are a genuine idiot, when a comedy about feeble idiots trying to cook up a feeble criminal plot, inspires you to actually try that real life
if you are smart enough to run a successful extortion plot, you are also smart enough to make money honestly and jeopardy-free, and realize that's the better choice
i know, i know: there is always the common refrain that you don't hear about the smart criminals. that their invisibility is proof of their success. their invisibility could also be taken as proof of their nonexistence
not that smart criminals don't exist. i am certain there's some dude in french polynesia sunning himself right now with his ill-gotten gains from a perfect caper. but i believe this is the rarity. most people have hollywood-addled imaginations, and overestimate the number of the mysterious perfect criminal in this world