Well, to be fair, I know that the personality of that annoying foreigner lady on MAD TV is supposed to be annoying.. I get the joke, but in the end, I just find her annoying. The fact that the grand parent doesn't share your sense of humor does not necessarily mean he fails to "get it."
Yes, it does. That's how politics work these days. Aw, never mind - you obviously don't get it either.
Fluorine is one, but if you've got elemental fluorine wafting around at the dinner table, the last thing you're going to be worried about is that it might react with the table salt.
Indeed. Instead you'd probably be marveling at your strong, clean teeth.
Water isn't free. You pay for clean water via your taxes and/or water bill. Or you buy it bottled.
Or you have a well. It's a sweet deal if you are lucky enough.
And how many people are? Do you have any idea what's in that water, between dissolved minerals, microbial contamination, toxic waste leakage, etc.? I'll keep getting my water from the local water district that treats and cleans and softens it, thanks.
What about the fact that the last mile is a shared pipe in cable based Inet systems.
What about it? As others have said here (and I'll add my voice), regardless of theoretical concerns, in practice the service and performance of OptimumOnline is fantastic, no matter what package you have. And it's excellent for latency as well as bandwidth - I find I'm usually the LPB (or one of them) on pretty much any online game server I join, at least as long as it's in the US.
YES it's wealth redistribution. I don't understand the argument against it; we're all in this together
Well, then, why don't we all pay for it together?
and no one is going to pull down a million a year
Right, 'cause everyone on/. is a millionaire. The millionaires can afford the taxes. The poor don't pay any. It's the increasingly nonexistent middle class that's getting pinched, the ones who weren't born rich or lucked out on some IPO, but who studied hard and worked hard and scrimped and saved to become modestly well off, they're the ones who suffer the most pain from the tax structure.
unless there's infrastructure and a quality labor force to build on. Try posting a CEO resume in Zaire, really... see how many bites you get.
So... the government invented businesses? No wonder they're all failing these days.
You have rights because your human, not because some dead guys signed a piece of paper.
Really> Show me the gene for "rights" in your DNA.
We have rights because we define them, because we defend them, and because we are ever-vigilant against those who would infringe upon them. Otherwise, they disappear.
making it easier to buy a McMansion and put a Hummer in the garage.
Who are these imaginary people with McMansions and Hummers? I don't know any, and I live in the metro NYC area and earn six figures. That's enough for a small in a decent neighborhood, and a VW. There must be some awfully rich folks over in them there flyover states.
Therefore most of what you earn is taxed so that the chance of you randomly dying to a rampage by a man or a woman with nothing to lose is significantly reduced.
The parent said "MORE THAN HALF". Do you honestly think that's reasonable? If you round that up, it's tantamount to saying the State actually owns you outright. And that is NOT supposed to be what America is about.
Folks who have the equivalent of a second-grade education, and who are all by themselves aboard a robotic shit at sea, and therefore have all the livelong day to search for the LoJack box, chopping up the bridge and any other part of the ship they want in order to find it...
Yeah... Let's send robot ships out there to travel to a port and then wonder WTF happened when it doesn't arrive... Did the scurvy pirates get it or did it drift off course or did it sink?
If only they could invent some type of Global Positioning System. I can see it now... you would need a couple dozen or so satellites to ensure coverage over the planet. They would broadcast some type of signal. Then all you would need is some type of devices to read the signal from two or three of these satellites to get a 2D or 3D positioning.
*runs off to patent office*
Uh, huh. And the ship could read this, and then radio its position to its owners. Except... what happens when the pirates, y'know, switch off the little radio transponder thingy?
The problem is that 99.99% of Christ's followers here in the USA firmly believe that gay marriage is horrible and must be banned, and that somehow Jesus would have wanted this.
No, the problem is that you choose to make up bullshit pseudo-statistics to bolster your precarious positions.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with discriminating against people who are actively doing evil things. "Bigotry" implies that you're discriminating against people for things they have little to no control over, like the color of their skin, their nationality, their disabilities, etc.
So, then, it's OK to discriminate against someone for his religious beliefs? 'Cause, you know, religious belief is a matter of choice, at least once a person reaches an age when his brain becomes capable of critical thought. (Which, admittedly, for some people is seemingly never.)
Hint: Where there is a "meaning number 1" and a "meaning number 2" for a word in the dictionary, "meaning number 1" is the more accepted and widely used meaning, not "meaning number 2". HTH. Unless, of course, you're being intentionally obtuse, which I won't rule out since this is, after all, Slashdot. If you insist on using the second meaning, well, then, go on with your bad self, but don't be surprised when most people misunderstand you.
Yes, that's right. Control of resources was the actual intent of the invasion, not the ostensible. The ostensible intent was WMDs, spreading democracy, etc.
Maybe blowing the sentenced up with explosives? A small lead container with walls strong enough to be reusable and enough explosives to annihilate the human?
Heh. Did you see Mythbusters last night? Methinks being pounded by a rocket sled at 650 mi/hr would do the trick.
I'm a bit saddened by the scarcity of comments like this in the thread. Is capital punishment really so widely accepted in the US?
I tend to measure civilization by three criteria:
Ability to make drinkable beer
Ability to make edible cheese
Abolition of the Death Penalty
Come on guys, you've made small but significant progress in the first two recently, why not go for the set?
In case you haven't heard, the United States has (at least nominally) a federal, not a unitary government. In the United States, murder, and the punishment for it, is a state, not a federal matter. Many US states have the death penalty, but many do not. (Translation: don't blame us all for them damn Red States.)
And don't go judging American beer until you've traveled around the US a bit. It's a big place, with lots of fantastic craft breweries. Nobody's holding a gun to your head and making you drink Budweiser (which is now Belgian, anyway, so there).
Maybe its just me, but if someone rapes an 8 year old girl, kills her, and then puts her in a suitcase at the bottom of a pond, their death should be as painful as possible.
And what purpose does that serve? Does it bring the 8-year-old back to life?
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I would hate to see an America where there was only one party.
Uh...I've got some bad news for you.
You mean good news, don't you? It's so much easier when the poor little sheeple don't have worry their widdwe heads with political choices...
> Call it the Colbert flu? I don't think so. Colbert was just being funny...
So are we.
> Anyway, Colbert is generally a positive influence.
Only if you agree with his politics.
And what would those be? From what I can tell, he's an equal opportunity skewer-er.
Well, to be fair, I know that the personality of that annoying foreigner lady on MAD TV is supposed to be annoying.. I get the joke, but in the end, I just find her annoying. The fact that the grand parent doesn't share your sense of humor does not necessarily mean he fails to "get it."
Yes, it does. That's how politics work these days. Aw, never mind - you obviously don't get it either.
Fluorine is one, but if you've got elemental fluorine wafting around at the dinner table, the last thing you're going to be worried about is that it might react with the table salt.
Indeed. Instead you'd probably be marveling at your strong, clean teeth.
Or you have a well. It's a sweet deal if you are lucky enough.
And how many people are? Do you have any idea what's in that water, between dissolved minerals, microbial contamination, toxic waste leakage, etc.? I'll keep getting my water from the local water district that treats and cleans and softens it, thanks.
What about the fact that the last mile is a shared pipe in cable based Inet systems.
What about it? As others have said here (and I'll add my voice), regardless of theoretical concerns, in practice the service and performance of OptimumOnline is fantastic, no matter what package you have. And it's excellent for latency as well as bandwidth - I find I'm usually the LPB (or one of them) on pretty much any online game server I join, at least as long as it's in the US.
and anonymously to boot?
You're one to talk, that or your parents had quite a sense of humor to name their kid Chaos1.
That's pretty funny coming from someone whose parents named him Anonymous Coward.
Possibly the best thing we could do at this point is grow a bunch of algae and bamboo and bury them.
And, you know what would happen to the algae and bamboo if you left them buried long enough, right? ...More coal!
YES it's wealth redistribution. I don't understand the argument against it; we're all in this together
Well, then, why don't we all pay for it together?
and no one is going to pull down a million a year
Right, 'cause everyone on /. is a millionaire. The millionaires can afford the taxes. The poor don't pay any. It's the increasingly nonexistent middle class that's getting pinched, the ones who weren't born rich or lucked out on some IPO, but who studied hard and worked hard and scrimped and saved to become modestly well off, they're the ones who suffer the most pain from the tax structure.
unless there's infrastructure and a quality labor force to build on. Try posting a CEO resume in Zaire, really... see how many bites you get.
So... the government invented businesses? No wonder they're all failing these days.
You have rights because your human, not because some dead guys signed a piece of paper.
Really> Show me the gene for "rights" in your DNA.
We have rights because we define them, because we defend them, and because we are ever-vigilant against those who would infringe upon them. Otherwise, they disappear.
making it easier to buy a McMansion and put a Hummer in the garage.
Who are these imaginary people with McMansions and Hummers? I don't know any, and I live in the metro NYC area and earn six figures. That's enough for a small in a decent neighborhood, and a VW. There must be some awfully rich folks over in them there flyover states.
Therefore most of what you earn is taxed so that the chance of you randomly dying to a rampage by a man or a woman with nothing to lose is significantly reduced.
The parent said "MORE THAN HALF". Do you honestly think that's reasonable? If you round that up, it's tantamount to saying the State actually owns you outright. And that is NOT supposed to be what America is about.
Or you could, like, move out of NYC, or something.
Folks who have the equivalent of a second-grade education, and who are all by themselves aboard a robotic shit at sea, and therefore have all the livelong day to search for the LoJack box, chopping up the bridge and any other part of the ship they want in order to find it...
Pffffff... The gay bomb was declassified years ago.
Pffffff... not nearly as scary as The Nude Bomb.
Yeah... Let's send robot ships out there to travel to a port and then wonder WTF happened when it doesn't arrive... Did the scurvy pirates get it or did it drift off course or did it sink?
If only they could invent some type of Global Positioning System. I can see it now... you would need a couple dozen or so satellites to ensure coverage over the planet. They would broadcast some type of signal. Then all you would need is some type of devices to read the signal from two or three of these satellites to get a 2D or 3D positioning.
*runs off to patent office*
Uh, huh. And the ship could read this, and then radio its position to its owners. Except... what happens when the pirates, y'know, switch off the little radio transponder thingy?
GPS != global LoJack.
The problem is that 99.99% of Christ's followers here in the USA firmly believe that gay marriage is horrible and must be banned, and that somehow Jesus would have wanted this.
No, the problem is that you choose to make up bullshit pseudo-statistics to bolster your precarious positions.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with discriminating against people who are actively doing evil things. "Bigotry" implies that you're discriminating against people for things they have little to no control over, like the color of their skin, their nationality, their disabilities, etc.
So, then, it's OK to discriminate against someone for his religious beliefs? 'Cause, you know, religious belief is a matter of choice, at least once a person reaches an age when his brain becomes capable of critical thought. (Which, admittedly, for some people is seemingly never.)
Fearmongering will get us nowhere.
I don't know about that. Al Gore has made many millions of dollars off of fearmongering.
He's totally serial.
Hint: Where there is a "meaning number 1" and a "meaning number 2" for a word in the dictionary, "meaning number 1" is the more accepted and widely used meaning, not "meaning number 2". HTH. Unless, of course, you're being intentionally obtuse, which I won't rule out since this is, after all, Slashdot. If you insist on using the second meaning, well, then, go on with your bad self, but don't be surprised when most people misunderstand you.
Yes, that's right. Control of resources was the actual intent of the invasion, not the ostensible. The ostensible intent was WMDs, spreading democracy, etc.
Come on face it... the invasion was ostensibly about control of resources.
[inigo] You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [/inigo]
Maybe blowing the sentenced up with explosives? A small lead container with walls strong enough to be reusable and enough explosives to annihilate the human?
Heh. Did you see Mythbusters last night? Methinks being pounded by a rocket sled at 650 mi/hr would do the trick.
I'm a bit saddened by the scarcity of comments like this in the thread. Is capital punishment really so widely accepted in the US?
I tend to measure civilization by three criteria:
Come on guys, you've made small but significant progress in the first two recently, why not go for the set?
In case you haven't heard, the United States has (at least nominally) a federal, not a unitary government. In the United States, murder, and the punishment for it, is a state, not a federal matter. Many US states have the death penalty, but many do not. (Translation: don't blame us all for them damn Red States.)
And don't go judging American beer until you've traveled around the US a bit. It's a big place, with lots of fantastic craft breweries. Nobody's holding a gun to your head and making you drink Budweiser (which is now Belgian, anyway, so there).
Maybe its just me, but if someone rapes an 8 year old girl, kills her, and then puts her in a suitcase at the bottom of a pond, their death should be as painful as possible.
And what purpose does that serve? Does it bring the 8-year-old back to life?