Amen to that. They're already a monopoly in my area, and act like one. There is no way any good can come of this for the consumer. I've started calling them Con-cast. Their service leaves much to be desired, it's pushy and disingenuous. And, after trying to upgrade my subscription to HD this weekend, I never even received the confirmation email I was supposed to get, so I doubt it's even in their records.
This. Both Christie and Cuomo are taking flak.
The use of the term, "scaremongering" in the summary is childish paranoid bullshit. Some people are too stupid or arrogant to realize that hindsight is 20/20, and forecasting is and always will be (for the foreseeable future) an inexact science. So, some butthurt whiners were inconvenienced by the safety measures enacted, yet had the opposite been the case, where the threat of the storm was under-represented and it turned out to be catastrophic, ala Sandy, they'd have been the first ones to scream about incompetent government preparation. Add to this the fact that people might've been genuinely endangered in such a scenario, and it's obvious to anyone capable of reason that it's better to be safe than sorry.
Besides, as it was, New England got hammered, it's just that North Jersey and NYC got off light, since the storm's path was some miles east from the predicted model.
The chemistry set thing really sticks in my craw, as they say. You can find a decent one online if you look hard enough I suppose (and willing to pay a small fortune!), but the vast majority out there in stores are neutered crap compared to what I had as a kid in the early seventies.
Anthrax would be scarier and more damaging than a small explosive. I still remember the postal scare from 2002. If a hate/terrorist group manages to fly a drone or three through a window, (not sure if the White House allows those, at least, without bars), with a payload of anthrax, and that could get real ugly. Perhaps even ricin, though then again that seems to be nigh impossible to aerosolize. In any case, I don't think it's wise to get too wound up about them, but OTOH, it's not wise to get completely complacent either and trivialize the damage a drone could potentially do; people get creative.
Obviously a Harry Potter reference, but it seems like an odd choice. Perhaps after shutting down all the pedophiles, they can find the secret to immortality, and purge the mudbloods from the world too.
You sir, just made my day. Look out for button up shirts, they're really murder to figure out... especially if you wear a woman's blouse, they put the buttons on the wrong side! uhh... not that I would know from personal experience.. yeah.. *cough*
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Common sense is wrong more than it's right. It's only good for making guesses about things you don't understand, and is worthless for evaluating things you understand.
You either don't understand what common sense is, or perhaps possess little of it yourself then. It's related to basic, common experience based judgement. I've known people who were math whizzes but had no common sense, and did really bone-headed things in regular life. Without a book or instructions to tell them how to proceed, they seemed a bit helpless, like a musician who can sight read perfectly but can't improvise a few measures.
They're not all that backward, unfortunately, that they don't have a dedicated hacking group or two. ISIS is considered plenty tech saavy as well. Centcom's twitter was hacked a week or two ago.
AQ and ISIS have sites for their fellow jihadis-in-arms, there are definitely targets anonymous could choose to attack, but I won't hold my breath that they'll actually conduct the attacks they promised.
Is there a generally understood tolerance, plus or minus a century or two? Because I think it's fair to consider that humankind had transformed the planet before 1945 , with the industrial revolution, the span of railroads across continents, flight, building huge cities and skyscrapers and lighting them up at night with electricity (visible from space), etc..
I had an old mechanical flip type digital clock "back in the day", when digital clocks first came out. That only did 12:00 to 12:00, no military time. I'm gonna get off my lawn now.
It's not that you know what you're talking about, it's just that you're an apologist who is willfully blind to the modern, recent reality of islamic extremism. Maybe before throwing the door wide open and embracing islam, we should wait until it's cancer is in remission. Oh, and comparing modern day islamic extremism with modern christianity? That's a really, really, bad caricature of xtianity.
You are obviously retarded, and the coward... at least I posted with my username. Oh, and your gratuitously obligatory "Fox news" comment is fucking laughable, it shows total lack of self thought, it's just something on your checklist you must bring up in every conversation. It really doesn't have teeth, you know, it just kinda reveals you as a pretty poor troll. Keep working on it.
Well, it all depends. I just spent a little over $5k to go to Universal resort with my family for the Harry Potter parks , and I think it was well worth it. At least I can cross it off of my bucket list. Oh, and the money was already in the bank. Kinda hurts to see it go, but at least it didn't put me in debt.
I get what you're saying, realism is what it is; but ideally, there is a difference. As kids, yes, people have less self control and respond more viscerally. As adults, it's our social responsibility to be more mature, and counter words or ideas with the same, not escalate to physical violence. Most of us manage that. You don't see nearly as many office brawls as you did playground brawls. (Bars and pubs are an exception, due to lowered inhibitions brought on by alcohol consumption)
And we also have to stop with being offended by every little thing, that's out of control, its getting to the point where one can validly question, who is bullying who?
Think that through a little further, you don't mean that across the board. Should you be punished for insulting Kim Jong Il? Stalin? Hitler? How about a congressman or president you disagree with? Free speech can't be selective like that. Certainly Obama and Bush have both been the at the receiving end of a slew of brutal insults, even from public figures. Who's to judge when it's punishable and when it's not?
That sums it up nicely. Ironically, it's liberals (which most atheists are) who most adamantly keep defending Islam and willfully ignoring the fact that it has a cancer that should be addressed more aggressively by their own leaders. At best, Shariah law is inconsistent with democratic principles. And now, Duke University is allowing the muslim morning call to prayer from it's bell tower. Hello atheists, where are you now? We all know if they'd said the lord's prayer was to be played from the tower instead, leftists and atheists would be howling for blood and freaking out. They shouldn't be doing either of them, University should be totally secular. (Yay, and now after probably pissing off lefties, I've just pissed off righties.. such is the curse of the moderate)
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Amen to that. They're already a monopoly in my area, and act like one. There is no way any good can come of this for the consumer. I've started calling them Con-cast. Their service leaves much to be desired, it's pushy and disingenuous. And, after trying to upgrade my subscription to HD this weekend, I never even received the confirmation email I was supposed to get, so I doubt it's even in their records.
This. Both Christie and Cuomo are taking flak.
The use of the term, "scaremongering" in the summary is childish paranoid bullshit. Some people are too stupid or arrogant to realize that hindsight is 20/20, and forecasting is and always will be (for the foreseeable future) an inexact science. So, some butthurt whiners were inconvenienced by the safety measures enacted, yet had the opposite been the case, where the threat of the storm was under-represented and it turned out to be catastrophic, ala Sandy, they'd have been the first ones to scream about incompetent government preparation. Add to this the fact that people might've been genuinely endangered in such a scenario, and it's obvious to anyone capable of reason that it's better to be safe than sorry.
Besides, as it was, New England got hammered, it's just that North Jersey and NYC got off light, since the storm's path was some miles east from the predicted model.
The chemistry set thing really sticks in my craw, as they say. You can find a decent one online if you look hard enough I suppose (and willing to pay a small fortune!), but the vast majority out there in stores are neutered crap compared to what I had as a kid in the early seventies.
Anthrax would be scarier and more damaging than a small explosive. I still remember the postal scare from 2002. If a hate/terrorist group manages to fly a drone or three through a window, (not sure if the White House allows those, at least, without bars), with a payload of anthrax, and that could get real ugly. Perhaps even ricin, though then again that seems to be nigh impossible to aerosolize. In any case, I don't think it's wise to get too wound up about them, but OTOH, it's not wise to get completely complacent either and trivialize the damage a drone could potentially do; people get creative.
Obviously a Harry Potter reference, but it seems like an odd choice. Perhaps after shutting down all the pedophiles, they can find the secret to immortality, and purge the mudbloods from the world too.
You sir, just made my day. Look out for button up shirts, they're really murder to figure out... especially if you wear a woman's blouse, they put the buttons on the wrong side! uhh... not that I would know from personal experience.. yeah.. *cough*
Sorry, that sounded meaner than I meant it.
I Common sense is wrong more than it's right. It's only good for making guesses about things you don't understand, and is worthless for evaluating things you understand.
You either don't understand what common sense is, or perhaps possess little of it yourself then. It's related to basic, common experience based judgement. I've known people who were math whizzes but had no common sense, and did really bone-headed things in regular life. Without a book or instructions to tell them how to proceed, they seemed a bit helpless, like a musician who can sight read perfectly but can't improvise a few measures.
You beat me to it. A film of this name and subject will be Michael Bay's next project.
They're not all that backward, unfortunately, that they don't have a dedicated hacking group or two. ISIS is considered plenty tech saavy as well. Centcom's twitter was hacked a week or two ago.
AQ and ISIS have sites for their fellow jihadis-in-arms, there are definitely targets anonymous could choose to attack, but I won't hold my breath that they'll actually conduct the attacks they promised.
I was thinking R2D2.
Is there a generally understood tolerance, plus or minus a century or two? Because I think it's fair to consider that humankind had transformed the planet before 1945 , with the industrial revolution, the span of railroads across continents, flight, building huge cities and skyscrapers and lighting them up at night with electricity (visible from space), etc..
Australia belongs to...
. . . the largest concentration of deadly, poisonous critters and creepy-crawlies on the planet.
And then there's all the marsupials, snakes, and spiders ..... ba dum tish
Cool! I must be rich!
I had an old mechanical flip type digital clock "back in the day", when digital clocks first came out. That only did 12:00 to 12:00, no military time. I'm gonna get off my lawn now.
Same here. He got one right. But even a broken clock is right twice a day :)
It's not that you know what you're talking about, it's just that you're an apologist who is willfully blind to the modern, recent reality of islamic extremism. Maybe before throwing the door wide open and embracing islam, we should wait until it's cancer is in remission. Oh, and comparing modern day islamic extremism with modern christianity? That's a really, really, bad caricature of xtianity.
You are obviously retarded, and the coward... at least I posted with my username. Oh, and your gratuitously obligatory "Fox news" comment is fucking laughable, it shows total lack of self thought, it's just something on your checklist you must bring up in every conversation. It really doesn't have teeth, you know, it just kinda reveals you as a pretty poor troll. Keep working on it.
Well, it all depends. I just spent a little over $5k to go to Universal resort with my family for the Harry Potter parks , and I think it was well worth it. At least I can cross it off of my bucket list. Oh, and the money was already in the bank. Kinda hurts to see it go, but at least it didn't put me in debt.
I get what you're saying, realism is what it is; but ideally, there is a difference. As kids, yes, people have less self control and respond more viscerally. As adults, it's our social responsibility to be more mature, and counter words or ideas with the same, not escalate to physical violence. Most of us manage that. You don't see nearly as many office brawls as you did playground brawls. (Bars and pubs are an exception, due to lowered inhibitions brought on by alcohol consumption)
And we also have to stop with being offended by every little thing, that's out of control, its getting to the point where one can validly question, who is bullying who?
The fuck are you babbling about? I wasn't talking about Hebdo.
Think that through a little further, you don't mean that across the board. Should you be punished for insulting Kim Jong Il? Stalin? Hitler? How about a congressman or president you disagree with? Free speech can't be selective like that. Certainly Obama and Bush have both been the at the receiving end of a slew of brutal insults, even from public figures. Who's to judge when it's punishable and when it's not?
That sums it up nicely. Ironically, it's liberals (which most atheists are) who most adamantly keep defending Islam and willfully ignoring the fact that it has a cancer that should be addressed more aggressively by their own leaders. At best, Shariah law is inconsistent with democratic principles. And now, Duke University is allowing the muslim morning call to prayer from it's bell tower. Hello atheists, where are you now? We all know if they'd said the lord's prayer was to be played from the tower instead, leftists and atheists would be howling for blood and freaking out. They shouldn't be doing either of them, University should be totally secular. (Yay, and now after probably pissing off lefties, I've just pissed off righties.. such is the curse of the moderate)
But accusing people of being racist is all the rage.