What makes you think that Cuba's government is going to allow its citizens to leave the country? They can't leave, anyone who does is labeled a defector. It just happened a few days ago, some Cuban athletes turned up missing at headcount.
It's because a lot of BSD users are absolute jerks. They piss on anyone who isn't a part of their "ecosystem". A lot of people, including me, got scared away a long time ago due to this. Sure, I could use BSD, and it's evidently technically superior, but am I going to turn into one of THEM? Even if I don't, I'm still going to have to deal with these pricks on a daily basis while asking for support, and that's just too much. No way. Sorry, BSD.
Of course they are lies. If they aren't true, then they're freaking lies. There are no old men in limos blocking bike lanes, it is an out-and-out fabrication. This is why me and a lot of other people are totally baffled about this story, the opposition is a fiction invented by supporters.
So it's a ridiculous exaggeration by a cycling supporter, and there aren't any old men in limos. Sad that they have to resort to lies like this to get their point across, when there are so many valid reasons to support bicycling.
Poverty is associated with obesity. You really don't know that? You can't ride a bike when you're 300 pounds. Typical "fuck you poor" attitude that I've come to expect from the well-off. "Just get a job and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, buy a bicycle!" Of course when the poor actually do buy bikes, you're going to be front and center complaining that the bike lanes are full of stinky proles.
This concept is referred to in the headline with a direct quote, and yet it's not in the article or the summary. Where are these old men in limos? Did the submitter or editor just invent this quote out of thin air to provide support to a fictitious argument that nobody is making?
You really don't see it? They're going to create these bike lanes by taking a car lane and walling it off. Thus, more traffic and it sucks for everyone but bike riders.
I know that a lot of bike riders think of this as a positive, which is unfortunate. You can't ride a bike unless you're physically fit, which rules out the disabled, the elderly, the young, and much of the poor. Also to people who sweat a lot, and entirely genetic problem. It's like a giant middle finger to everyone in society. The attitude seems to be, "tough, now it's time for YOU to suffer!"
First of all, it's not a monolithic "community", gimme a break. It's a bunch of people who post on a website. Second, posting has really been dropping lately, people are leaving. Thirdly, go re-read the Climategate emails. Lastly, calling people who disagree derogatory names simply discredits your own side.
Once again, the defense appears which really should have a name by now. When an (R) does something despicable, it is proof positive that all (R) are horrid people and need to be cast out of politics, permanently. When a (D) does something despicable, we all need to band together and discard petty things like party politics and forget that it was a (D). This despite the fact that the American Left utterly hates the opposition and says so loudly on a daily basis. This attitude comes up again and again and again.
I love how it takes an imprisonable felony to even shake your faith in Hilary in the slightest, and STILL you bitch about the other side first. Geez, even without this she should NEVER EVER be President. Nobody named Clinton or Bush should hold any high office, ever, for the next 100 years at least. It was mildly amusing when Roosevelt did it and look how that turned out (Emperor for 4 terms, finally died in office).
Wow, you people just won't let Hillary go, will you? Here she is, caught red-handed at last, and you still want to censure and move on. Benghazi didn't happen because of an anti-Islamic video and Bill Clinton had a horde of women following him around in the 1992 elections, it's not like we all didn't know back then that he was a rapist. (A man in power who has sex with women under him is a rapist because the women feel unable to decline otherwise the man will fire them, a feminist trope curiously absent every time the topic came up.)
It commands an incomparably more precise, logically structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion. It offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one's own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.
-- Vaclav Havel on socialism, "The Power of the Powerless"
It's a common practice of listing three possibilities to an known unknown, each less likely, and the last exaggerated or even comedic. "I don't know who drank all the booze in here, was it the cat, Mayor Quimby, or Santa Claus?" It's the sort of speech pattern common to ordinary Americans. You're really not familiar with it? So shamefully uneducated.
I really think the problem isn't going to get any better. Have you investigated emigration? I hear France is lovely this time of year. How about Canada, that's always popular. There are a number of leftist regimes throughout the world that share your point of view and govern the way you would, I think a long stay in one of them would be very educational and enlightening for you.
Yup, no reply but a jeer and childlike name-calling. That's the Left I know. Now, let's all get together under the American flag and go defeat the evil corporations together! Yeah, I LOL'd too. And yet that's exactly what you said above.
Way to totally ignore the fact that there is a corrosive Left in this country which DESPISES anyone who doesn't share their opinions, and simply does not recognize their right to political representation. Did we just suddenly forget this? Hell, they don't even recognize the word "American", choosing to intentionally misunderstand that the word applies to the combined North and South American continents. Suddenly they want us all to pull together under Old Glory, "Stars and Stripes Forever" playing in the background? Where is this bizarro world, and how can I visit it?
I have no idea what those channels are you listed. Nor what a leaf antenna is. Yeah, it's amazing what you can do when the TV's not on. Mostly spend more time on the internet, but hey.
No, it's not that. It's a union doing what a union does best: protecting its own power. They long ago stopped representing workers. It's not 1920 any more, comrade. Wake up. In 1956 Khrushchev made an important speech that you need to listen to to become up to date on current events.
The cure is worse than the disease. It's worrisome how often leftists decry coercion and tyranny, but happily switch sides and say "they should be forced to" at the drop of a hat. You're comparing some defect-free utopia that exists only in your imagination to the brutal reality of software development. If only more government power could be utilized, we could just FORCE them to comply! That works every time. Yup, concentrating more power in the government has a great record historically and hardly ever leads to negative outcomes.
PS stop starting your comments in the Subject: line, that's for the subject of your message. Write your comment in the Comment: box. It's disruptive and impedes the flow of a message.
It has always ever been thus. There is a real antagonism against idiotic tech that will make our lives worse, and this has been in place since Day 1. Your slur against powerless lower-class whites has nothing to do with it. If that's the first thing that comes to mind, it's YOUR problem.
"Red-neck speech"? I trust you were not alive during the previous Administration. Calls for the death of the President were common and daily occurrences. Books were written about fantasy coup scenarios. He was compared, un-ironically, to Adolf Hitler. Is this one of those things where it's only wrong when the other side does it?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Well, I've been working on a thing. It's,
uh, sorta like Stummies.
DON
Go on. I like what I hear.
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
It's exactly like Stummies.
DON
And the twist is?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
It's a much bigger pill.
DON
I like a lot. Is it ready for production?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Yes sir, it's ready to go.
DON
Yeah, have there been any side effects?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Yes sir, a few side effects.
NATALIE
Well that's OK. As long as there's no
flipper babies, right Don?
Everyone LAUGHS.
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Well, there have been a few flipper babies.
CUT TO:
23 INT. RORITOR BUILDING
-
HALLWAY/ELEVATOR23
Marv and Chris are coming out
of the elevator.The Big
Stummies Scientist is is hysterical and is being carried away
by two security guards.
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
AHHH! It was only a couple of flipper
babies!
Well, before we get all bent out of shape and waving the First Amendment around (hint: it's in Bangladesh, there is no First Amendment there), let's all remember what our President had to say about the situation.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
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What makes you think that Cuba's government is going to allow its citizens to leave the country? They can't leave, anyone who does is labeled a defector. It just happened a few days ago, some Cuban athletes turned up missing at headcount.
It's because a lot of BSD users are absolute jerks. They piss on anyone who isn't a part of their "ecosystem". A lot of people, including me, got scared away a long time ago due to this. Sure, I could use BSD, and it's evidently technically superior, but am I going to turn into one of THEM? Even if I don't, I'm still going to have to deal with these pricks on a daily basis while asking for support, and that's just too much. No way. Sorry, BSD.
Of course they are lies. If they aren't true, then they're freaking lies. There are no old men in limos blocking bike lanes, it is an out-and-out fabrication. This is why me and a lot of other people are totally baffled about this story, the opposition is a fiction invented by supporters.
So it's a ridiculous exaggeration by a cycling supporter, and there aren't any old men in limos. Sad that they have to resort to lies like this to get their point across, when there are so many valid reasons to support bicycling.
Poverty is associated with obesity. You really don't know that? You can't ride a bike when you're 300 pounds. Typical "fuck you poor" attitude that I've come to expect from the well-off. "Just get a job and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, buy a bicycle!" Of course when the poor actually do buy bikes, you're going to be front and center complaining that the bike lanes are full of stinky proles.
This concept is referred to in the headline with a direct quote, and yet it's not in the article or the summary. Where are these old men in limos? Did the submitter or editor just invent this quote out of thin air to provide support to a fictitious argument that nobody is making?
You really don't see it? They're going to create these bike lanes by taking a car lane and walling it off. Thus, more traffic and it sucks for everyone but bike riders.
I know that a lot of bike riders think of this as a positive, which is unfortunate. You can't ride a bike unless you're physically fit, which rules out the disabled, the elderly, the young, and much of the poor. Also to people who sweat a lot, and entirely genetic problem. It's like a giant middle finger to everyone in society. The attitude seems to be, "tough, now it's time for YOU to suffer!"
First of all, it's not a monolithic "community", gimme a break. It's a bunch of people who post on a website. Second, posting has really been dropping lately, people are leaving. Thirdly, go re-read the Climategate emails. Lastly, calling people who disagree derogatory names simply discredits your own side.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
Once again, the defense appears which really should have a name by now. When an (R) does something despicable, it is proof positive that all (R) are horrid people and need to be cast out of politics, permanently. When a (D) does something despicable, we all need to band together and discard petty things like party politics and forget that it was a (D). This despite the fact that the American Left utterly hates the opposition and says so loudly on a daily basis. This attitude comes up again and again and again.
I love how it takes an imprisonable felony to even shake your faith in Hilary in the slightest, and STILL you bitch about the other side first. Geez, even without this she should NEVER EVER be President. Nobody named Clinton or Bush should hold any high office, ever, for the next 100 years at least. It was mildly amusing when Roosevelt did it and look how that turned out (Emperor for 4 terms, finally died in office).
Wow, you people just won't let Hillary go, will you? Here she is, caught red-handed at last, and you still want to censure and move on. Benghazi didn't happen because of an anti-Islamic video and Bill Clinton had a horde of women following him around in the 1992 elections, it's not like we all didn't know back then that he was a rapist. (A man in power who has sex with women under him is a rapist because the women feel unable to decline otherwise the man will fire them, a feminist trope curiously absent every time the topic came up.)
It commands an incomparably more precise, logically structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion. It offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. To wandering humankind it offers an immediately available home: all one has to do is accept it, and suddenly everything becomes clear once more, life takes on new meaning, and all mysteries, unanswered questions, anxiety, and loneliness vanish. Of course, one pays dearly for this low-rent home: the price is abdication of one's own reason, conscience, and responsibility, for an essential aspect of this ideology is the consignment of reason and conscience to a higher authority. The principle involved here is that the center of power is identical with the center of truth.
-- Vaclav Havel on socialism, "The Power of the Powerless"
Godwin's Law! LOL. You lose, you get nothing, good day sir!
Who is saying this? Nobody.
[citation needed]
It's a common practice of listing three possibilities to an known unknown, each less likely, and the last exaggerated or even comedic. "I don't know who drank all the booze in here, was it the cat, Mayor Quimby, or Santa Claus?" It's the sort of speech pattern common to ordinary Americans. You're really not familiar with it? So shamefully uneducated.
I really think the problem isn't going to get any better. Have you investigated emigration? I hear France is lovely this time of year. How about Canada, that's always popular. There are a number of leftist regimes throughout the world that share your point of view and govern the way you would, I think a long stay in one of them would be very educational and enlightening for you.
Yup, no reply but a jeer and childlike name-calling. That's the Left I know. Now, let's all get together under the American flag and go defeat the evil corporations together! Yeah, I LOL'd too. And yet that's exactly what you said above.
Way to totally ignore the fact that there is a corrosive Left in this country which DESPISES anyone who doesn't share their opinions, and simply does not recognize their right to political representation. Did we just suddenly forget this? Hell, they don't even recognize the word "American", choosing to intentionally misunderstand that the word applies to the combined North and South American continents. Suddenly they want us all to pull together under Old Glory, "Stars and Stripes Forever" playing in the background? Where is this bizarro world, and how can I visit it?
I have no idea what those channels are you listed. Nor what a leaf antenna is. Yeah, it's amazing what you can do when the TV's not on. Mostly spend more time on the internet, but hey.
No, it's not that. It's a union doing what a union does best: protecting its own power. They long ago stopped representing workers. It's not 1920 any more, comrade. Wake up. In 1956 Khrushchev made an important speech that you need to listen to to become up to date on current events.
PS stop starting your comments in the Subject: line, that's for the subject of your message. Write your comment in the Comment: box. It's disruptive and impedes the flow of a message.
It has always ever been thus. There is a real antagonism against idiotic tech that will make our lives worse, and this has been in place since Day 1. Your slur against powerless lower-class whites has nothing to do with it. If that's the first thing that comes to mind, it's YOUR problem.
"Red-neck speech"? I trust you were not alive during the previous Administration. Calls for the death of the President were common and daily occurrences. Books were written about fantasy coup scenarios. He was compared, un-ironically, to Adolf Hitler. Is this one of those things where it's only wrong when the other side does it?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Well, I've been working on a thing. It's, uh, sorta like Stummies.
DON
Go on. I like what I hear.
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
It's exactly like Stummies.
DON
And the twist is?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
It's a much bigger pill.
DON
I like a lot. Is it ready for production?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Yes sir, it's ready to go.
DON
Yeah, have there been any side effects?
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Yes sir, a few side effects.
NATALIE
Well that's OK. As long as there's no flipper babies, right Don?
Everyone LAUGHS.
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
Well, there have been a few flipper babies.
CUT TO:
23 INT. RORITOR BUILDING
- HALLWAY/ELEVATOR23
Marv and Chris are coming out of the elevator.The Big Stummies Scientist is is hysterical and is being carried away by two security guards.
BIG STUMMIES SCIENTIST
AHHH! It was only a couple of flipper babies!
Well, before we get all bent out of shape and waving the First Amendment around (hint: it's in Bangladesh, there is no First Amendment there), let's all remember what our President had to say about the situation.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly