Bill Gates is a robber baron who is buying respectability, and it's shocking that educated people actually fall for his bullshit. He is NOT a kind man.
First of all, you've got TNG classified in the wrong category. It's not science fiction, it's a drama set on a spaceship. Where's the science? There's no science in it, the writers famously wrote "technobabble" as a placeholder in their scripts and later some tech expert would come up with something meaningless like "the power of the resistors is fluctuating in a quantum state." The writers were adamant that they weren't writing science fiction, in fact they looked on sci-fi authors as some sort of lesser species of human.
The episodes have aged badly. I tried watching a few a while back and it was just painful. It was like watching the later seasons of M*A*S*H. It was cool watching them at the time, you know? The moral of the story was always a politically correct one as well, TNG was one of the earliest to be infected by that meme. As good as TV today? Compare it to Sopranos or Deadwood or Game of Thrones or any of the modern shows, it falls flat.
Can anyone explain the connection of the headline and the discussion topic? What did Youtube have to do with a revolution? Which revolution was it, one of the color ones? Or is this just some stream-of-consciousness blabbering of a Millennial child? I honestly don't understand.
Do you remember Superstorm Sandy? It was proof positive of global warming. Remember that heat wave in Europe that killed a lot of people because they don't have air conditioning? Proof positive as well.
Or is it one of those things that when we do it, it's OK, but when they do it, it's not OK? I like the abusive, berating tone of your post, too, it really comes across well. It's good to see your kind with the mask off.
Because Huawei is a piece of junk? You'll find out soon enough. I have a Xiaomi and I can't wait for the two years to finish so I can justify buying a new phone to myself. Major brands are major brands for a reason.
PS stop starting comments in the Subject: line, it disrupts the flow of your message.
Strawman argument. This doesn't really happen, it's all the fault of that "Office Space" movie with the line about "pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison". Federal prisons are nice facilities and there's no screwing around in there. State prisons are the hellholes, but then really only at the harder levels. And even then, it's not like prison rape is something that happens to everyone, usually you get involved in shenanigans and it happens in retaliation.
You know how I know prison rape isn't important? None, and I mean zero, of the national "rape conversation" that's happening in our media right now is directed to the topic. It's all about women, therefore it's not a problem nor does any solution need to take place.
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
"While Dan Rather attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable 'terrorist propaganda video,' it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," the family said.
"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose. By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan."
-- Mariane Pearl, May 15, 2002
You are on the WRONG side of this issue. There is free speech and there is mocking speech. And mocking speech that mocks powerless minorities is no free speech at all. This isn't some fringe view, either.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
His age has the word "teen" in it, therefore he is a teenager, whether you feel it or not.
Interesting fact: other languages don't have the "teen" suffix for 13-19, so in their culture, the stereotype of the "teenager" simply does not exist. There's no rebelliousness, rock music, sex, etc. There are just older children and younger adults, and sometimes these switch roles depending on the situation. But try telling an American that teenagers as a concept didn't exist before the 1950s...OH NO. Mustn't discard our mental blinders! Too much thinking that way.
"How society dealt with communism" yeah about that, turns out it was the right way to do it. Communism wasn't just some competing political ideology, it advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government and its replacement with a dictatorship. So, let's not get things confused around. They didn't want a better life for the American people, they wanted to burn the country down.
Well, let's be fair - the media in the 70s was steadfastly AGAINST the U.S. side. They showed what they showed deliberately, in order to achieve a political agenda. Imagine my surprise as an adult when I found out that the Tet Offensive was actually a decisive defeat for the Viet Cong and not at all an enemy victory as Walter Cronkite claimed on-air.
In fact, isn't that what you're blaming Fox for? Being blatantly pro-American? It's OK when the media biases towards your side, but as soon as they show a diversity of viewpoints, suddenly it's not OK. Nice system you have there.
Nope! It's the Whole Foods, Prius driving leftists who are anti-vaccination. They don't want their one kid going autistic so they selfishly rely on herd immunity. Glad you can update your knowledge with facts, and stop repeating falsehoods in the future. Thanks! Isn't it wonderful to be on the left, where people actually care about facts and will change their opinions when confronted with them?:)
Q: There's a perception that vaccine refusal is especially common among affluent, well-educated, politically liberal parents-is there any truth to that?
S.M.: It's dangerous to make broad generalizations about a group, but anecdotally and from the overall data that's been collected it seems to be people who are very actively involved in every possible decision regarding their children's lives. I think it relates to a desire to take uncertainty out of the equation. And autism represents such an unknown. We still don't know what causes it and we still don't have good answers for how to treat it. So I think that fear really resonates.
Also I think there's a fair amount of entitlement. Not vaccinating your child is basically saying I deserve to rely on the herd immunity that exists in a population. At the most basic level it's saying I believe vaccines are potentially harmful, and I want other people to vaccinate so I don't have to. And for people to hide under this and say, "Oh, it's just a personal decision," it's being dishonest. It's a personal decision in the way drunk driving is a personal decision. It has the potential to affect everyone around you.
Q: But why liberals?
S.M.: I think it taps into the organic natural movement in a lot of ways.
I talked to a public health official and asked him what's the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there's a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, "No, really, I'm not joking." It's those communities with the Prius driving, composting, organic food-eating people.
Uh, guy? The government didn't kill the muscle car. The gas crisis pretty much did that. Followed by advances in material technology that allowed large horsepower to fit in small engines. The ricecar danced on the grave of the muscle car.
No, no, no, a thousand times no, don't use DOSbox. DOSbox is for games and games alone. Don't believe me? The developers say it themselves:
DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION. "Search the forum, there are lengthy threads why a games-targeting emulator is not what you need. It can go wrong at any random time for any nondeterministic reason. Don't, just don't."
The company's $$$$ is in America. That's why the suit is here. Come to a U.S. court armed with an Indian judgment and see how far you get seizing assets. First law: go where the money is. Didn't you see she has a big-name lawyer? He wouldn't have gotten involved unless he was going to get paid. It's all about money, my friend.
Yeah, well, when that happens you right-wing fucks can go for your guns like you're always talking about. Frankly I can't wait to see you people go down. A lot of other people worldwide will be cheering on that day, too. Extremism needs to go away just like racism, sexism, and all of the other problems that you freaks create. Good ridance to you.
attitude that puts the individual interest above the interest of the collective.
Welcome to the United States of America. If you value collectivism over the rights of the individual, you're probably much better off in one of the world's other many countries. Learn new languages, get exposed to multiculturalism, shop in countries where Wal-Mart has been banned. With borders opening more and more every day, what's your excuse?
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Bill Gates is a robber baron who is buying respectability, and it's shocking that educated people actually fall for his bullshit. He is NOT a kind man.
First of all, you've got TNG classified in the wrong category. It's not science fiction, it's a drama set on a spaceship. Where's the science? There's no science in it, the writers famously wrote "technobabble" as a placeholder in their scripts and later some tech expert would come up with something meaningless like "the power of the resistors is fluctuating in a quantum state." The writers were adamant that they weren't writing science fiction, in fact they looked on sci-fi authors as some sort of lesser species of human.
The episodes have aged badly. I tried watching a few a while back and it was just painful. It was like watching the later seasons of M*A*S*H. It was cool watching them at the time, you know? The moral of the story was always a politically correct one as well, TNG was one of the earliest to be infected by that meme. As good as TV today? Compare it to Sopranos or Deadwood or Game of Thrones or any of the modern shows, it falls flat.
Two Warsaw Pact colonels were having lunch in Paris. One asks the other, "so, who won the air war?"
Surprise! The Chinese phone also comes with uninstallable crapware. As a bonus, they put messages in the system drawer in Chinese.
Can anyone explain the connection of the headline and the discussion topic? What did Youtube have to do with a revolution? Which revolution was it, one of the color ones? Or is this just some stream-of-consciousness blabbering of a Millennial child? I honestly don't understand.
What does a "voltage surge" even mean? Does that have anything to do with a representative government?
Let's not forget that Mao was the greatest mass murderer in the history of mankind. He beat that amateur Hitler by an order of magnitude.
Do you remember Superstorm Sandy? It was proof positive of global warming. Remember that heat wave in Europe that killed a lot of people because they don't have air conditioning? Proof positive as well.
Or is it one of those things that when we do it, it's OK, but when they do it, it's not OK? I like the abusive, berating tone of your post, too, it really comes across well. It's good to see your kind with the mask off.
Well, it worked, didn't it? He made 45 years of programmers afraid to use a GOTO unless in dire need. It's as valid today as when he spoke it.
Because Huawei is a piece of junk? You'll find out soon enough. I have a Xiaomi and I can't wait for the two years to finish so I can justify buying a new phone to myself. Major brands are major brands for a reason.
PS stop starting comments in the Subject: line, it disrupts the flow of your message.
And then you get sued for being a racist piece of shit who uses antivax as dog whistle racism. Go sit on a broomstick, you bigoted piece of shit.
And yet it was A-OK when Lois Lerner at the IRS lost her records. Ooops! Well, better not to investigate that, let's move on.
Strawman argument. This doesn't really happen, it's all the fault of that "Office Space" movie with the line about "pound-me-in-the-ass federal prison". Federal prisons are nice facilities and there's no screwing around in there. State prisons are the hellholes, but then really only at the harder levels. And even then, it's not like prison rape is something that happens to everyone, usually you get involved in shenanigans and it happens in retaliation.
You know how I know prison rape isn't important? None, and I mean zero, of the national "rape conversation" that's happening in our media right now is directed to the topic. It's all about women, therefore it's not a problem nor does any solution need to take place.
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
"While Dan Rather attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable 'terrorist propaganda video,' it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," the family said.
"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose. By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan."
-- Mariane Pearl, May 15, 2002
You are on the WRONG side of this issue. There is free speech and there is mocking speech. And mocking speech that mocks powerless minorities is no free speech at all. This isn't some fringe view, either.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
His age has the word "teen" in it, therefore he is a teenager, whether you feel it or not.
Interesting fact: other languages don't have the "teen" suffix for 13-19, so in their culture, the stereotype of the "teenager" simply does not exist. There's no rebelliousness, rock music, sex, etc. There are just older children and younger adults, and sometimes these switch roles depending on the situation. But try telling an American that teenagers as a concept didn't exist before the 1950s...OH NO. Mustn't discard our mental blinders! Too much thinking that way.
"How society dealt with communism" yeah about that, turns out it was the right way to do it. Communism wasn't just some competing political ideology, it advocated the overthrow of the U.S. government and its replacement with a dictatorship. So, let's not get things confused around. They didn't want a better life for the American people, they wanted to burn the country down.
In fact, isn't that what you're blaming Fox for? Being blatantly pro-American? It's OK when the media biases towards your side, but as soon as they show a diversity of viewpoints, suddenly it's not OK. Nice system you have there.
Nope! It's the Whole Foods, Prius driving leftists who are anti-vaccination. They don't want their one kid going autistic so they selfishly rely on herd immunity. Glad you can update your knowledge with facts, and stop repeating falsehoods in the future. Thanks! Isn't it wonderful to be on the left, where people actually care about facts and will change their opinions when confronted with them? :)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/04/20/vaccine-denial-and-the-left/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-rips-paul-christie-mindful-stupidity-of-liberal-anti-vaxxers/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/22/vaccine-deniers-stick-together-and-now-theyre-ruining-things-for-everyone/
http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/01/why-prius-driving-composting-set-fears-vaccines
Q: There's a perception that vaccine refusal is especially common among affluent, well-educated, politically liberal parents-is there any truth to that?
S.M.: It's dangerous to make broad generalizations about a group, but anecdotally and from the overall data that's been collected it seems to be people who are very actively involved in every possible decision regarding their children's lives. I think it relates to a desire to take uncertainty out of the equation. And autism represents such an unknown. We still don't know what causes it and we still don't have good answers for how to treat it. So I think that fear really resonates.
Also I think there's a fair amount of entitlement. Not vaccinating your child is basically saying I deserve to rely on the herd immunity that exists in a population. At the most basic level it's saying I believe vaccines are potentially harmful, and I want other people to vaccinate so I don't have to. And for people to hide under this and say, "Oh, it's just a personal decision," it's being dishonest. It's a personal decision in the way drunk driving is a personal decision. It has the potential to affect everyone around you.
Q: But why liberals?
S.M.: I think it taps into the organic natural movement in a lot of ways.
I talked to a public health official and asked him what's the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there's a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, "No, really, I'm not joking." It's those communities with the Prius driving, composting, organic food-eating people.
Uh, guy? The government didn't kill the muscle car. The gas crisis pretty much did that. Followed by advances in material technology that allowed large horsepower to fit in small engines. The ricecar danced on the grave of the muscle car.
No, no, no, a thousand times no, don't use DOSbox. DOSbox is for games and games alone. Don't believe me? The developers say it themselves:
DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION. "Search the forum, there are lengthy threads why a games-targeting emulator is not what you need. It can go wrong at any random time for any nondeterministic reason. Don't, just don't."
The company's $$$$ is in America. That's why the suit is here. Come to a U.S. court armed with an Indian judgment and see how far you get seizing assets. First law: go where the money is. Didn't you see she has a big-name lawyer? He wouldn't have gotten involved unless he was going to get paid. It's all about money, my friend.
Yeah, well, when that happens you right-wing fucks can go for your guns like you're always talking about. Frankly I can't wait to see you people go down. A lot of other people worldwide will be cheering on that day, too. Extremism needs to go away just like racism, sexism, and all of the other problems that you freaks create. Good ridance to you.
You mean like Bill Clinton vs. Monica Lewinsky? That was rape the whole time? Inconvenient truth! Inconvenient truth! Badthink, doubleplusungood!
attitude that puts the individual interest above the interest of the collective.
Welcome to the United States of America. If you value collectivism over the rights of the individual, you're probably much better off in one of the world's other many countries. Learn new languages, get exposed to multiculturalism, shop in countries where Wal-Mart has been banned. With borders opening more and more every day, what's your excuse?
Unchecked human industry? Ever dealt with the EPA? They view their primary goal as STOPPING human industry wherever possible.