I don't want actors writing mission critical code for our spacecraft, and by the same token, we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh, not make us see truth.
Labels labels labels... you hear that, NASA? If your coders are in a theater troop in their spare time, they shouldn't be allowed to write mission-critical code, because actors shouldn't be allowed to do that.
And what you can accomplish in life is limited by the title that someone is willing to bestow you upon hiring, not by who you are and what you can do; your identity and your potential are defined by the title you hold. If your paycheck says "make jokes", then anything you do that isn't a joke should be ignored.
So believes hessian, who is a slashdotter and therefore should not be allowed to have a girlfriend. Because labels define you and everything about you.
The guys on the ground called the Apache in BECAUSE they were fired on.
Shots were heard, but Americans were not actually fired at. There's a difference between "I heard gunshot" and "I was fired at". Go try to find evidence to support the claim if you want, but I warn you that you'll find nothing but the right-wing echo chamber of claims that they were fired at.
Those kids in the car were going to murder every marine in a 10 mile radius!
One guy holding what may or may not be an RPG round doesn't make 19 insurgents out of everyone massacred around him. The people covering up those murders are telling you they found weapons? Let's believe them, after all they were telling the truth about Pat Tillman, weren't they? And they were telling the truth about Jessica Lynch, and about WMDs, right?
But, like religion, people won't believe anything that they haven't already decided on.
Yup, like if the DoD says someone is an insurgent, some people will have religiously faith that they were, no matter how much proof of the opposite piles up.
As I have contemplated what makes some people with above average intelligence different and how they can either tone it down or otherwise adjust comfortably into society
I'm sorry, but you come off as very elitist; "I don't fit into society, but I'm way above average and everybody else is too stupid (to understand me).
Elitism usually draws envy and resentment from the lower classes. We're sorry you're upset at us for being smarter than you, we really are.
Some people are smart, and since they don't notice that it makes them different, they become outsiders.
I noticed, but even if I do my social-interaction shtick, I feel alone in the midst of all those people who can't understand my genuine thoughts. I have to censor myself and only use words and concepts from the "normal people know of this" subset of the things I think about: Lifelong annoyance.
I don't really consider "toning it down" to actually be dumbing yourself down. Speaking in a manner that isn't a pretentious a-hole is like speaking another language.
I learned to "dumb it down" decades ago, but I don't think that using correct terminology is being pretentious or shitting on those who can't.
I have contemplated what makes some people with above average intelligence different and how they can either tone it down or otherwise adjust comfortably into society,
All humans have managed to do is delude themselves into believing that they are superior to every other species on the planet so that they can slaughter innocent animals in order to satisfy their taste buds, even when there are other sources of food to eat that don't suffer just as we do.
Yeah those damn insensitive humans oh and don't forget those wolves too I mean the forest is full of yummy berries and even mushrooms but all they want to do is eat those cute innocent deer.
FWI: Wolves will supplement their diet with fruit and vegetable matter; they willingly eat the berries of mountain ash, lily of the valley, bilberries, blueberries and cowberry. Other fruits include nightshade, apples and pears. They readily visit melon fields during the summer months.
I very much disagree with his use of "murder" regarding that dead reporter and associates.
What do you call it when people are unlawfully slaughtered, and then there's a cover up to hide the circumstances of those killings to make it appear that they were justified?
The American military said in a statement late Thursday that 11 people had been killed: nine insurgents and two civilians. According to the statement, American troops were conducting a raid when they were hit by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. The American troops called in reinforcements and attack helicopters. In the ensuing fight, the statement said, the two Reuters employees and nine insurgents were killed.
There were no insurgents, no American troops were hit by small arms fire, there was no hostile force engaging that helicopter. It's lies through and through, with a pile of dead and mangled bodies underneath, and the guilty walking free.
It's a making-of clip, with the commercial at the end. If you, you know, clicked through for once, you'd have seen that.
I saw it 4 websites ago when it was new... I'm not a cat-fancier, so that commercial wasn't aimed at swaying my emotions, it's therefore normal that it fails. I guess cat-fanciers must love watching other people talk about cats.
A vid of hundreds of cats loose in a store WOULD have been nice, instead of just a few frustratingly edited clips. So BOO I say, BOOOOOOO!
Oh, THAT game! Yeah, I'm not buying that game. That game could be about all the things I geek out about having sex with each other, and I wouldn't buy it if the publisher had so little faith in their product that they were trying to prevent people from talking about it.
Being ashamed of your product is never a good sell.
political violence is such an inefficient and ineffective means of achieving political aims that no one who actually cares about achieving political aims will ever use violence as their primary weapon.
Madoff didn't brainwash him into committing suicide like a cult, etc. A guy made some bad business decision and decided to chicken out. Madoff was a crook, not a murderer.
Actually, yes, it was a cult. A charismatic leader, a bunch of followers trusting him with all their wealth... same kind of wolf, different kinds of sheep's clothing.
I'm still getting a dead input-box more often than not on twitter.com, and I'm still not hearing anything about improving reliability in this talk of upgrade to more multimedia.
And upgrades to more media never meant more reliability, quite the contrary.
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What do Beck, Stewart and Colbert have in common?
They're entertainers, not political scientists.
I don't want actors writing mission critical code for our spacecraft, and by the same token, we the voters shouldn't get our opinions from people who are paid to make us laugh, not make us see truth.
Labels labels labels... you hear that, NASA? If your coders are in a theater troop in their spare time, they shouldn't be allowed to write mission-critical code, because actors shouldn't be allowed to do that.
And what you can accomplish in life is limited by the title that someone is willing to bestow you upon hiring, not by who you are and what you can do; your identity and your potential are defined by the title you hold. If your paycheck says "make jokes", then anything you do that isn't a joke should be ignored.
So believes hessian, who is a slashdotter and therefore should not be allowed to have a girlfriend. Because labels define you and everything about you.
They readily visit melon fields during the summer months.
Yeah put a large deer with a hurt leg in that same field and I bet you those wolves aren't going to have a fruit salad for dinner that night
They wouldn't deserve their place at the top of the food chain if they tolerated weakness in their prey.
The guys on the ground called the Apache in BECAUSE they were fired on.
Shots were heard, but Americans were not actually fired at. There's a difference between "I heard gunshot" and "I was fired at". Go try to find evidence to support the claim if you want, but I warn you that you'll find nothing but the right-wing echo chamber of claims that they were fired at.
Insurgents. Yes, insurgents.
Those kids in the car were going to murder every marine in a 10 mile radius!
One guy holding what may or may not be an RPG round doesn't make 19 insurgents out of everyone massacred around him. The people covering up those murders are telling you they found weapons? Let's believe them, after all they were telling the truth about Pat Tillman, weren't they? And they were telling the truth about Jessica Lynch, and about WMDs, right?
But, like religion, people won't believe anything that they haven't already decided on.
Yup, like if the DoD says someone is an insurgent, some people will have religiously faith that they were, no matter how much proof of the opposite piles up.
I am compelled to say this as simply and as honestly as I can.
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I'm sorry, but you come off as very elitist; "I don't fit into society, but I'm way above average and everybody else is too stupid (to understand me).
Elitism usually draws envy and resentment from the lower classes. We're sorry you're upset at us for being smarter than you, we really are.
Some people are smart, and since they don't notice that it makes them different, they become outsiders.
I noticed, but even if I do my social-interaction shtick, I feel alone in the midst of all those people who can't understand my genuine thoughts. I have to censor myself and only use words and concepts from the "normal people know of this" subset of the things I think about: Lifelong annoyance.
I don't really consider "toning it down" to actually be dumbing yourself down. Speaking in a manner that isn't a pretentious a-hole is like speaking another language.
I learned to "dumb it down" decades ago, but I don't think that using correct terminology is being pretentious or shitting on those who can't.
I have contemplated what makes some people with above average intelligence different and how they can either tone it down or otherwise adjust comfortably into society,
Drink early, drink often;
All humans have managed to do is delude themselves into believing that they are superior to every other species on the planet so that they can slaughter innocent animals in order to satisfy their taste buds, even when there are other sources of food to eat that don't suffer just as we do.
Yeah those damn insensitive humans oh and don't forget those wolves too I mean the forest is full of yummy berries and even mushrooms but all they want to do is eat those cute innocent deer.
FWI: Wolves will supplement their diet with fruit and vegetable matter; they willingly eat the berries of mountain ash, lily of the valley, bilberries, blueberries and cowberry. Other fruits include nightshade, apples and pears. They readily visit melon fields during the summer months.
Assange leaked information that caused real-world consequences. Big consequences, like death and torture
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But don't spend too long looking, because you're repeating a lie.
I very much disagree with his use of "murder" regarding that dead reporter and associates.
What do you call it when people are unlawfully slaughtered, and then there's a cover up to hide the circumstances of those killings to make it appear that they were justified?
The American military said in a statement late Thursday that 11 people had been killed: nine insurgents and two civilians. According to the statement, American troops were conducting a raid when they were hit by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. The American troops called in reinforcements and attack helicopters. In the ensuing fight, the statement said, the two Reuters employees and nine insurgents were killed.
''There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force,'' said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad.
There were no insurgents, no American troops were hit by small arms fire, there was no hostile force engaging that helicopter. It's lies through and through, with a pile of dead and mangled bodies underneath, and the guilty walking free.
It's a making-of clip, with the commercial at the end. If you, you know, clicked through for once, you'd have seen that.
I saw it 4 websites ago when it was new... I'm not a cat-fancier, so that commercial wasn't aimed at swaying my emotions, it's therefore normal that it fails. I guess cat-fanciers must love watching other people talk about cats.
A vid of hundreds of cats loose in a store WOULD have been nice, instead of just a few frustratingly edited clips. So BOO I say, BOOOOOOO!
Would you be satisfied if poster Yahoo'd or Binged to the same article?
In July 2009, Yahoo! signed a deal with Microsoft, the result of which was that Yahoo! Search would be powered by Bing.
I would expect them to give a biased view against google... my point is: trust no one, the truth is out there.
TFA reads like Skyhook wrote it. I'm going to have to Google for a less biased FA.
We're trusting google to provide an unbiased view of itself?
No, their entire marketing plan was to hide as much of the game as possible until release, and then ban everyone from reviewing it until a week after it came out.
Oh, THAT game! Yeah, I'm not buying that game. That game could be about all the things I geek out about having sex with each other, and I wouldn't buy it if the publisher had so little faith in their product that they were trying to prevent people from talking about it.
Being ashamed of your product is never a good sell.
political violence is such an inefficient and ineffective means of achieving political aims that no one who actually cares about achieving political aims will ever use violence as their primary weapon.
When you vote you are exercising political authority, you are using force! And force my friends is violence: The supreme authority from which all other authority is derived.
So, accountants are terrorists? Perhaps we should be taking a closer look at colleges that have accounting programs.
It's not terrorism when you kill for money without intending to upset the status quo. It's just business.
Madoff didn't brainwash him into committing suicide like a cult, etc. A guy made some bad business decision and decided to chicken out. Madoff was a crook, not a murderer.
Actually, yes, it was a cult. A charismatic leader, a bunch of followers trusting him with all their wealth... same kind of wolf, different kinds of sheep's clothing.
But I bet he could write a really scary business plan! OOOH!
You think Madoff was an engineer?
You think an engineer would be able to do such damage?
Damage? He just moved numbers around a table, a money man can destroy your social status but engineers can break your bones and liquefy your organs.
When somebody figures out how to abuse the HTML5 H.264 format.
You're talking about the future, they're talking about the past.
Doesn't it require Flash?
Sorta, they're migrating to HTML5, but that would be "getting infected from flash", wouldn't it?
I'm still getting a dead input-box more often than not on twitter.com, and I'm still not hearing anything about improving reliability in this talk of upgrade to more multimedia.
And upgrades to more media never meant more reliability, quite the contrary.
This is cause for concern.
How do you get infected with malware from youtube?
Oh, pretty pictures, how nice! Now how about you don't failwhale every fucking 20 minutes and you always let me tweet, you unstable piece of fei-yu?