No shit, what's the fucking end game here? Are we supposed to believe that Russia is trying to topple American democracy so it can be replaced by some military dictatorship that probably wouldn't think twice about going to war with Russia?
"You see comrade, we avoid war with America by coaxing America to go to war with us!"
Gee whiz, someone doesn't like being called a Nazi when they're not Nazi's. What a fucking amazing revelation! To top it off, being smeared as a Nazi makes you a valid target for political violence. I, for one, can't believe that anyone would mind being called a Nazi by a bunch of commies. Shocking, just scandalous.
But what if the locals do it wrong? What then, Mr. Libertarian? Hmmmmmm? Next you're going to tell me people have a choice to live wherever they want, which is wrong because obviously. The fact of the matter is that the stupid peasants should be unilaterally subjected to whatever flights of fancy their intellectual superiors have devised this month. If they don't like it, just scream "IT'S SCIENCE" until they give up and go away.
Yes. Being a Special Snowflake is not a matter of right/left, rather it's an additional axis. It's plain that the types of behaviors associated with the Snowflakes are present on both sides of the political spectrum. On the left, we have the Intersectional Feminist/Progressives and their opposites in autism, the Alt-right. Identity politics wouldn't be possible without opposing parties, the Alt-right is a "reactionary" response to the activities of the Radical Social Justice crowd.
That article is nonsense. I've noticed that it never sounded right to my ear when Obama said 'folks', and I always figured it's because they don't use that in Kenya and he just never got the hang of it.
Sure, car frames and phones are completely comparable.
One is a transportation device which propels the occupants at high speed and the other an electronic device which propels user data at high speed to the data mongers in S.V. Obviously, a unibody design on your phone will protect the occupants from injury when its involved in a high speed collision.
Oh wait, that's not right. The unibody design will prevent user servicing of things like batteries or replacing broken parts. But hey, at Apple has their "recycling" program so you can feel good about replacing an otherwise working device with whatever the new shiny is this month. Let's applaud Apple for saving the planet, one planned obsolescent device at a time!
Too bad that in this case, the government has just as much interest in privacy invasion as the corporations do. In fact, the government tends to just get the corps to do their dirty work for them, so I'm not sure where you think this magical governmental salvation is going to come from.
Jesus, just the thought of using stock Samsung software sends shivers down my spine and a hot anger rise to my face. Fuck Samsung stock ROMs forever, I don't care how much "better" the apologists claim TouchWiz has gotten. It's complete and utter shit no matter what they do, it will always be utter shit, again, no matter what they do. They have produced a software product so bad that nothing short of complete annihilation will ever fix it.
Well, we never got the removable battery back, but I understand why... just so long as it stays repairable as opposed to glued in so insanely that replacing the battery amounts to refurbishing.
What explanation is it that you've understood? It enables more fancy unibody design and exotic materials? Who the fuck cares about that?!
Windows 10 has nearly realized it. The installation media is now, roughly speaking, a system image much like a ROM file for Andriod. That is, the image is applied and obliterates the previous one to achieve a simple install/upgrade mechanism that ensures settings and whatnot are forced to known good states upon upgrade.
Observe how certain Windows 10 settings are obliterated after certain large updates such as Creators Edition. Have fun turning all the privacy options back on and redoing any anti-auto-update tricks again after updating.
Which reminds me, with forced auto-updates, automatic restarts regardless of what the computer may be doing, and forced setting changes upon update, why, it's almost like it's Microsoft's computer rather than your own. This is entirely by design.
Not only are most phones not 64GB, when that is an option it's a damn costly one. I'd rather use my cheap as dirt MicroSD than shell out an extra $300 for more built-in storage because some hipster retards at the handset maker felt it necessary to make the shell un-openable because of "muh industrial design".
My favorite part of the intersectional Feminist ideology that's pushing this shit is how they fought tooth and nail to get women into the workforce apparently just so they could further their narrative about capitalistic exploitation.
"We need more women in the workforce because equality!" "We need to stop the evil capitalists from exploiting women!"
At least we've achieved equality of capitalistic exploitation, because that's important. Go team Socialism! Hurrah!
Obviously the answer is separating boys and girls in the classroom. Hell, separate schools entirely would probably be even better. That way, we can teach the boys to be the expendable and fungible resources they are, while the girls can be molded into the true and rightful leaders of the world that they were always meant to be before the patriarchy got in the way.
Better hope not, because if America goes down you can be sure it'll take down the rest of the world with it. Not necessarily talking nuclear hellfire here, but you can rest assured that the collapse of one of the lynchpins of the ballyhooed "interconnected global economy" will drag everyone else down with it.
I suppose this is the only way they can keep their drivers from raping and harassing their fares. Then again, with the way the company culture apparently is, maybe the self driving cars will be equipped with some sort of automated raping subsystems. Gotta keep that rape culture going somehow, amirite?
Think of the society on Solaria in Azimov's The Naked Sun. 10,000:1 Robots to humans, extreme isolation of individuals who suffer interpersonal contact solely for procreation, and don't forget the extreme longevity of all Spacer populations. Every positive impulse of humanity is buried under robots and long life.
Not that Earth in those stories is anything to look forward to either, but still, Solaria is the ultra-rich dreamland.
NO! The TV told me "draining the swamp" was about getting rich guys out of the government and not getting rid of all the corrupt globalist scumbags that are shitting up our governmental apparatus. The TV then scoffed as Trump put more of the same kinds of assholes in charge and never mention that the small-fry scumbags that enable the shitty policies of past governments are the ones who really need to go.
That NSA friend someone mentioned above is part of that swamp. Good riddance. The sooner we purge the Neo-con cancer from state institutions the better.
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No shit, what's the fucking end game here? Are we supposed to believe that Russia is trying to topple American democracy so it can be replaced by some military dictatorship that probably wouldn't think twice about going to war with Russia?
"You see comrade, we avoid war with America by coaxing America to go to war with us!"
Gee whiz, someone doesn't like being called a Nazi when they're not Nazi's. What a fucking amazing revelation! To top it off, being smeared as a Nazi makes you a valid target for political violence. I, for one, can't believe that anyone would mind being called a Nazi by a bunch of commies. Shocking, just scandalous.
But what if the locals do it wrong? What then, Mr. Libertarian? Hmmmmmm? Next you're going to tell me people have a choice to live wherever they want, which is wrong because obviously. The fact of the matter is that the stupid peasants should be unilaterally subjected to whatever flights of fancy their intellectual superiors have devised this month. If they don't like it, just scream "IT'S SCIENCE" until they give up and go away.
We'll get there soon enough, don't you worry.
Yes. Being a Special Snowflake is not a matter of right/left, rather it's an additional axis. It's plain that the types of behaviors associated with the Snowflakes are present on both sides of the political spectrum. On the left, we have the Intersectional Feminist/Progressives and their opposites in autism, the Alt-right. Identity politics wouldn't be possible without opposing parties, the Alt-right is a "reactionary" response to the activities of the Radical Social Justice crowd.
That article is nonsense. I've noticed that it never sounded right to my ear when Obama said 'folks', and I always figured it's because they don't use that in Kenya and he just never got the hang of it.
FTFY.
Sure, car frames and phones are completely comparable.
One is a transportation device which propels the occupants at high speed and the other an electronic device which propels user data at high speed to the data mongers in S.V. Obviously, a unibody design on your phone will protect the occupants from injury when its involved in a high speed collision.
Oh wait, that's not right. The unibody design will prevent user servicing of things like batteries or replacing broken parts. But hey, at Apple has their "recycling" program so you can feel good about replacing an otherwise working device with whatever the new shiny is this month. Let's applaud Apple for saving the planet, one planned obsolescent device at a time!
When, exactly, was this halcyon period where critical thinking was the norm, the populace was uniformly educated and agreed 100% on what is Reality?
I'll wait.
Too bad that in this case, the government has just as much interest in privacy invasion as the corporations do. In fact, the government tends to just get the corps to do their dirty work for them, so I'm not sure where you think this magical governmental salvation is going to come from.
Jesus, just the thought of using stock Samsung software sends shivers down my spine and a hot anger rise to my face. Fuck Samsung stock ROMs forever, I don't care how much "better" the apologists claim TouchWiz has gotten. It's complete and utter shit no matter what they do, it will always be utter shit, again, no matter what they do. They have produced a software product so bad that nothing short of complete annihilation will ever fix it.
Repeat after me: FUCK SAMSUNG
Well, we never got the removable battery back, but I understand why... just so long as it stays repairable as opposed to glued in so insanely that replacing the battery amounts to refurbishing.
What explanation is it that you've understood? It enables more fancy unibody design and exotic materials? Who the fuck cares about that?!
Windows 10 has nearly realized it. The installation media is now, roughly speaking, a system image much like a ROM file for Andriod. That is, the image is applied and obliterates the previous one to achieve a simple install/upgrade mechanism that ensures settings and whatnot are forced to known good states upon upgrade.
Observe how certain Windows 10 settings are obliterated after certain large updates such as Creators Edition. Have fun turning all the privacy options back on and redoing any anti-auto-update tricks again after updating.
Which reminds me, with forced auto-updates, automatic restarts regardless of what the computer may be doing, and forced setting changes upon update, why, it's almost like it's Microsoft's computer rather than your own. This is entirely by design.
Not only are most phones not 64GB, when that is an option it's a damn costly one. I'd rather use my cheap as dirt MicroSD than shell out an extra $300 for more built-in storage because some hipster retards at the handset maker felt it necessary to make the shell un-openable because of "muh industrial design".
Silence fool, or you'll trigger rule 34. Then again, this being the internet such degeneracy probably already exists.
I don't know, it seems about as lucid and rational as any other left-wing "thinking".
Not egg, just Russian trolls and Russian bot armies. And don't forget the Russian Neo-Nazis, because that makes fucking sense.
My favorite part of the intersectional Feminist ideology that's pushing this shit is how they fought tooth and nail to get women into the workforce apparently just so they could further their narrative about capitalistic exploitation.
"We need more women in the workforce because equality!"
"We need to stop the evil capitalists from exploiting women!"
At least we've achieved equality of capitalistic exploitation, because that's important. Go team Socialism! Hurrah!
Obviously the answer is separating boys and girls in the classroom. Hell, separate schools entirely would probably be even better. That way, we can teach the boys to be the expendable and fungible resources they are, while the girls can be molded into the true and rightful leaders of the world that they were always meant to be before the patriarchy got in the way.
HR is where all the social justice types conglomerate. What better place to promulgate oppressive authoritarian social control than corporate America?
Better hope not, because if America goes down you can be sure it'll take down the rest of the world with it. Not necessarily talking nuclear hellfire here, but you can rest assured that the collapse of one of the lynchpins of the ballyhooed "interconnected global economy" will drag everyone else down with it.
I suppose this is the only way they can keep their drivers from raping and harassing their fares. Then again, with the way the company culture apparently is, maybe the self driving cars will be equipped with some sort of automated raping subsystems. Gotta keep that rape culture going somehow, amirite?
Think of the society on Solaria in Azimov's The Naked Sun. 10,000:1 Robots to humans, extreme isolation of individuals who suffer interpersonal contact solely for procreation, and don't forget the extreme longevity of all Spacer populations. Every positive impulse of humanity is buried under robots and long life.
Not that Earth in those stories is anything to look forward to either, but still, Solaria is the ultra-rich dreamland.
This book was prescient. God damn, I need a Mokie coke.
The Butlerian Jihad. Destroy the "thinking machines" to liberate humanity.
NO! The TV told me "draining the swamp" was about getting rich guys out of the government and not getting rid of all the corrupt globalist scumbags that are shitting up our governmental apparatus. The TV then scoffed as Trump put more of the same kinds of assholes in charge and never mention that the small-fry scumbags that enable the shitty policies of past governments are the ones who really need to go.
That NSA friend someone mentioned above is part of that swamp. Good riddance. The sooner we purge the Neo-con cancer from state institutions the better.