It's very telling your comment makes this into an us-vs-them competition for victim status. Instead the post is about the fact that hominids are biologically meant to reproduce between the ages of 15-25. But all you see is the identity politics angle. Sad.
Lol someone actually got modded up for the "DURR AMRIKKKANS STOOPID" meme? Gimme a break. Make good movies and Americans will go to them. It's just that so much of foreign cinema disdains the audience and wishes to make movies for people like themselves. Then acts surprised when the movies don't appeal.
The Forbes we grew up with, the business magazine, isn't what's being talked about here. Forbes.com the internet site is just a blogging platform like Wordpress.com. Moreover they are highly aggressive with their adblocker-blocker and thus most people don't read anything on their site. Just because something appears there, doesn't mean Forbes endorses it. You can see from the URL it's just some guy's blog.
The only Star Trek that was science fiction was the original series with Kirk and Spock. Ever since, they've all been dramas. People like Harland Ellison used to write the episodes. Now it's people who write for House M.D. or LA Law or whatnot. Don't get me wrong, some of the newer episodes are quite good dramas. But science fiction it's not. In fact, the writers consider science deplorable and will just write [technobabble] in the scripts whenever any science-y things are required by the plot.
As an American, it's really weird to see regulatory agencies taking the view that the behavior of ruthless multinational megacorps should benefit their people. I just sort of automatically assume they'd be bought out or that the megacorp would appoint its own people to the regulatory agency.
That's not really the story here, the story is that Google has clearly gone evil. Seeing that they were founded on the slogan "Don't be evil" it's a pretty big change. Firing that engineer for saying men and women are different was when they crossed the moral event horizon, and now their face-heel turn appears complete.
Now all Google needs is a red lightsaber and a cool makeover with some spikes or breathing machine. It's so sad. I loved Google for a long time. They really were one of the good guys, in an IT field with monsters like Microsoft and Oracle stalking defenseless prey. Their fall to evil is a tragedy for us all.
Well over a decade ago? Where have you been, under a rock? But the best part is that we no longer need to maintain a bloated military and can start bringing the troops home. Smart people have been saying for a long time that the sooner we stop spending money on a massive military to maintain our global hegemony the better. The goal is to no longer be a global hegemony, not to maintain it through other means.
Let's be honest: who wants to be a barbaric bully's friend? Nobody. Certainly not Europe, they've been demanding a US withdrawal forever. The US Global Supremacy era is long over. Time to close the 1,000 military bases across the globe, withdraw to the Western hemisphere, rebuild a crumbling nation. After serial genocides in SE Asia, Central America and now the Middle East, no one can seriously argue the US was a "force for good" over the past 50 years. American descent into a third world cesspool is almost complete.
Lots of Europeans detest America even today. It's not like it's a controversial opinion. The leadership, the people, and the country as a whole. It's a pretty strong word, and it's a pretty accurate word.
Most people consider reading in the same category as having a tooth pulled: something that's only done when absolutely necessary. They love video because it's effortless. Moreover it gives people a feeling of "being friends" if the video reader is high energy. This is where all the "youtubers" come from, it's a substitute for friends from lonely people. Watching a livestream is better than hanging out with your friends, because your friends can't be that personable, the youtuber is.
Oh my God, women aren't rational! Stop the presses! We need to get this newsflash to the world!
In fact, it's perfectly rational from a woman's point of view. She requires resources in order to raise her children, and demanding an up-front payment from a suitor is proof positive he has the resources to burn on a useless gift, and thus that her children won't starve or be forced to go to a public school. Learn about what women want.
Well, seeing as Nobel prizes are a joke. Obama got one, Henry Kissinger got one, and Yasser Arafat got one. All of them are murderers. The Nobel prizes didn't die, they committed suicide.
Well, now that the barrier to entry (high prices) has been removed from Whole Foods, the unwashed masses are sure to pour in. People will fondly remember the old days when nobodies couldn't afford the prices, but the good people could. Kept the place clean, no deplorables, "not a cultural fit" as Google would say. Well, that's all over now. Get ready for Whole Foods food stamp purchases to go way up, and starting to see Wal-Mart shoppers there as well. A sad day, for some of us.
It's not a punishment as he hasn't been convicted yet. You think government prosecutors don't know how to make an end run around the Constitution? You think they play fair? This is the Department of Justice we're talking about.
People like you have been bitching and moaning about this for a long time, and at this point I think you just enjoy complaining. Slashdot isn't going to change, get used to it. Or join the horde of people who don't come here any more. Either way, STFU with the stupid metric flame.
Negative. Huge swathes of the Chinese economy are still owned directly by the government. Huge numbers of regulations encumber the Chinese people. There absolutely is a minimum wage, and if you get paid any less there are fines for employers. Tons of factories are shut down right now in environmental raids. It's disrupting supply chains all over China at the moment, haven't you heard about it? Have you been watching fake news? Why don't you ask what people really want, and what China is really like, instead of inventing a bunch of stuff in your head? +4 Insightful my ass, more like -1 Inaccurate.
So, that's what you're going with? Russians did it? The Russians made Hillary lose Pennsylvania? How the hell does ANY Democrat lose Pennsylvania? Or Michigan, for fuck's sake? PA, MI, *and* Wisconsin and somehow TEH COMMIEZ did it?
Now, I bet the discussions in the Michigan union halls and the Pennsylvania VFWs went something like this: "You know Mitch, with the economy so good and America so respected in the world, I was totally going to support Hillary continuing Obama's work, but then I found out that Donna Brazile was feeding her CNN's debate questions. Also, until Comey reminded me, I had totally forgotten Hillary was under FBI investigation for doing what would have gotten me sent to Leavenworth if I had done it when I was in the Navy. So, despite loving all the Democrat policies that have made my life a paradise, especially the idea of a law allowing grown men in dresses to loiter in my tween daughter's restroom, I'm voting for Trump. Oh, and I'm a deplorable racist and hate science. Also, sexism."
Attempting to shout down legitimate criticisms with "TEH COMMIEZ DID IT" is what led to Brexit in the first place. But keep it up please, we wouldn't want you to win any elections any time soon. Seriously...TEH COMMIEZ is your whole argument? LOL.
You're required to use your real name? You mean like Facebook? Hmm...seems like China aren't the assholes here, they're just doing what they always do: copy the successful.
Because for a lot of people out there, what's on the TV is light-years ahead of what's going on in their lives. Walk the dog? When the neighborhood isn't safe? Talk to people, when they'll stab you? The TV is very important and serves to mitigate the very real pain of people with empty lives.
I thought about that, when I went overseas. But no, you have no idea *just how important* watching TV is to a lot of people's lives. They aren't just disappointed when they can't watch the latest American TV, they get upset. Angry and then bitter. It's real emotions, not crocodile tears. It's not as simple as "just turn off the TV and go outside", watching TV is a way of life for them and to remove it causes them real pain.
I was overseas and wanted to watch the Superbowl. Hurray for drinking beer at 7:30am Monday morning! Tried and tried to use the legitimate NFL.com streaming to watch the game. It just would not work. I clicked submit and then it either timed out or went to a website error.
I went to myp2p.eu and got the stream from there. Steady, reliable, and it even got the commercials which the NFL.com stream would have lacked. Superbowl is the one time a year I actually want to watch the commercials. Once again, the pirates provided a better service than the corporations.
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It's very telling your comment makes this into an us-vs-them competition for victim status. Instead the post is about the fact that hominids are biologically meant to reproduce between the ages of 15-25. But all you see is the identity politics angle. Sad.
Lol someone actually got modded up for the "DURR AMRIKKKANS STOOPID" meme? Gimme a break. Make good movies and Americans will go to them. It's just that so much of foreign cinema disdains the audience and wishes to make movies for people like themselves. Then acts surprised when the movies don't appeal.
The Forbes we grew up with, the business magazine, isn't what's being talked about here. Forbes.com the internet site is just a blogging platform like Wordpress.com. Moreover they are highly aggressive with their adblocker-blocker and thus most people don't read anything on their site. Just because something appears there, doesn't mean Forbes endorses it. You can see from the URL it's just some guy's blog.
The only Star Trek that was science fiction was the original series with Kirk and Spock. Ever since, they've all been dramas. People like Harland Ellison used to write the episodes. Now it's people who write for House M.D. or LA Law or whatnot. Don't get me wrong, some of the newer episodes are quite good dramas. But science fiction it's not. In fact, the writers consider science deplorable and will just write [technobabble] in the scripts whenever any science-y things are required by the plot.
As an American, it's really weird to see regulatory agencies taking the view that the behavior of ruthless multinational megacorps should benefit their people. I just sort of automatically assume they'd be bought out or that the megacorp would appoint its own people to the regulatory agency.
That's not really the story here, the story is that Google has clearly gone evil. Seeing that they were founded on the slogan "Don't be evil" it's a pretty big change. Firing that engineer for saying men and women are different was when they crossed the moral event horizon, and now their face-heel turn appears complete.
Now all Google needs is a red lightsaber and a cool makeover with some spikes or breathing machine. It's so sad. I loved Google for a long time. They really were one of the good guys, in an IT field with monsters like Microsoft and Oracle stalking defenseless prey. Their fall to evil is a tragedy for us all.
Well over a decade ago? Where have you been, under a rock? But the best part is that we no longer need to maintain a bloated military and can start bringing the troops home. Smart people have been saying for a long time that the sooner we stop spending money on a massive military to maintain our global hegemony the better. The goal is to no longer be a global hegemony, not to maintain it through other means.
Let's be honest: who wants to be a barbaric bully's friend? Nobody. Certainly not Europe, they've been demanding a US withdrawal forever. The US Global Supremacy era is long over. Time to close the 1,000 military bases across the globe, withdraw to the Western hemisphere, rebuild a crumbling nation. After serial genocides in SE Asia, Central America and now the Middle East, no one can seriously argue the US was a "force for good" over the past 50 years. American descent into a third world cesspool is almost complete.
Lots of Europeans detest America even today. It's not like it's a controversial opinion. The leadership, the people, and the country as a whole. It's a pretty strong word, and it's a pretty accurate word.
Most people consider reading in the same category as having a tooth pulled: something that's only done when absolutely necessary. They love video because it's effortless. Moreover it gives people a feeling of "being friends" if the video reader is high energy. This is where all the "youtubers" come from, it's a substitute for friends from lonely people. Watching a livestream is better than hanging out with your friends, because your friends can't be that personable, the youtuber is.
It's a trap. Get an axe.
Oh my God, women aren't rational! Stop the presses! We need to get this newsflash to the world!
In fact, it's perfectly rational from a woman's point of view. She requires resources in order to raise her children, and demanding an up-front payment from a suitor is proof positive he has the resources to burn on a useless gift, and thus that her children won't starve or be forced to go to a public school. Learn about what women want.
Well, seeing as Nobel prizes are a joke. Obama got one, Henry Kissinger got one, and Yasser Arafat got one. All of them are murderers. The Nobel prizes didn't die, they committed suicide.
Well, now that the barrier to entry (high prices) has been removed from Whole Foods, the unwashed masses are sure to pour in. People will fondly remember the old days when nobodies couldn't afford the prices, but the good people could. Kept the place clean, no deplorables, "not a cultural fit" as Google would say. Well, that's all over now. Get ready for Whole Foods food stamp purchases to go way up, and starting to see Wal-Mart shoppers there as well. A sad day, for some of us.
It's not a punishment as he hasn't been convicted yet. You think government prosecutors don't know how to make an end run around the Constitution? You think they play fair? This is the Department of Justice we're talking about.
People like you have been bitching and moaning about this for a long time, and at this point I think you just enjoy complaining. Slashdot isn't going to change, get used to it. Or join the horde of people who don't come here any more. Either way, STFU with the stupid metric flame.
Negative. Huge swathes of the Chinese economy are still owned directly by the government. Huge numbers of regulations encumber the Chinese people. There absolutely is a minimum wage, and if you get paid any less there are fines for employers. Tons of factories are shut down right now in environmental raids. It's disrupting supply chains all over China at the moment, haven't you heard about it? Have you been watching fake news? Why don't you ask what people really want, and what China is really like, instead of inventing a bunch of stuff in your head? +4 Insightful my ass, more like -1 Inaccurate.
Hagbard Celine's Second Law:
"Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation."
So, that's what you're going with? Russians did it? The Russians made Hillary lose Pennsylvania? How the hell does ANY Democrat lose Pennsylvania? Or Michigan, for fuck's sake? PA, MI, *and* Wisconsin and somehow TEH COMMIEZ did it?
Now, I bet the discussions in the Michigan union halls and the Pennsylvania VFWs went something like this: "You know Mitch, with the economy so good and America so respected in the world, I was totally going to support Hillary continuing Obama's work, but then I found out that Donna Brazile was feeding her CNN's debate questions. Also, until Comey reminded me, I had totally forgotten Hillary was under FBI investigation for doing what would have gotten me sent to Leavenworth if I had done it when I was in the Navy. So, despite loving all the Democrat policies that have made my life a paradise, especially the idea of a law allowing grown men in dresses to loiter in my tween daughter's restroom, I'm voting for Trump. Oh, and I'm a deplorable racist and hate science. Also, sexism."
Attempting to shout down legitimate criticisms with "TEH COMMIEZ DID IT" is what led to Brexit in the first place. But keep it up please, we wouldn't want you to win any elections any time soon. Seriously...TEH COMMIEZ is your whole argument? LOL.
You're required to use your real name? You mean like Facebook? Hmm...seems like China aren't the assholes here, they're just doing what they always do: copy the successful.
Because for a lot of people out there, what's on the TV is light-years ahead of what's going on in their lives. Walk the dog? When the neighborhood isn't safe? Talk to people, when they'll stab you? The TV is very important and serves to mitigate the very real pain of people with empty lives.
I thought about that, when I went overseas. But no, you have no idea *just how important* watching TV is to a lot of people's lives. They aren't just disappointed when they can't watch the latest American TV, they get upset. Angry and then bitter. It's real emotions, not crocodile tears. It's not as simple as "just turn off the TV and go outside", watching TV is a way of life for them and to remove it causes them real pain.
Yeah, you don't understand women.
Complaining about Shows You Don't Watch
"Because guess what? You might not know everything about a genre you refuse to listen to."
I was overseas and wanted to watch the Superbowl. Hurray for drinking beer at 7:30am Monday morning! Tried and tried to use the legitimate NFL.com streaming to watch the game. It just would not work. I clicked submit and then it either timed out or went to a website error.
I went to myp2p.eu and got the stream from there. Steady, reliable, and it even got the commercials which the NFL.com stream would have lacked. Superbowl is the one time a year I actually want to watch the commercials. Once again, the pirates provided a better service than the corporations.