I hate when people try to explain away Hitler by saying he was insane.
He wasn't, he was quite coldly rational about what he wanted. He was an ordinary man, much like any other. Saying he was insane just cultivates the field for another like him to appear.
English is "derided" for being "easy to learn"? What the fuck kind of world do you live in where that's a problem?
The world's common language should be easy. I'm learning an Asian language and it's difficult as hell for no good reason. I and everyone else learning it certainly wouldn't criticize it if it were easy.
The one who wrote it sees the word "drone" and immediately thinks of "Afghanistan" and is shocked to find that the word has another use. Said person considers herself educated and worldly, but in fact lives in a tiny world and has a small mind. Meanwhile the rest of us have this in our daily vocabularies.
Look at that story. It's obviously not the product of an open-minded person. It's just that in today's media-saturated society, in some circles, the word "drone" doesn't mean "aircraft that flies without a pilot". It has a political meaning, and these people just can't see past that. They see the word drone and immediately they think military, because their minds are small. "Wow, look, one that carries a camera, instead! Remarkable! And it's a quadrotor and not a fixed-wing aircraft! I've got to write an article about this right away!"
It would be humiliating if they weren't so unaware of any existence outside themselves and their little cliques. What's the word for that...oh right, solipsist.
We're talking about the TSA, not the NSA. Do try to keep up.
Somehow, with your hostile attitude, I think you made the decision quite a long time ago to never visit America. And yet you feel the need to get up and talk shit in front of everyone, acting like this is the last straw that cost America a shit-ton of money. Here's a clue: we Americans hate the federal government, too. If you set your prejudices aside you might just find friendly, like-minded people. But I have found in my life that closed-minded bigots will not do this, and instead spend time bitching and moaning to others like themselves. Like the people who modded you +5 Insightful.
Careful, citizen. Criticizing the President is racist. Trust the government. The government is your friend. Not trusting the President is sedition. Sedition is punishable by twenty years in federal prison. Any citizen that attempts to prove the President is wrong is a Commie mutant traitor.
B.S. If cars didn't have the latest technology, car reviewers would give them bad reviews, and people like you would trash them for being stuck in the 20th century. It doesn't matter if it's a good idea or not, what matters is that it's new and different.
Unfortunately GoG doesn't offer the Master of Magic 1.4 patch. The last patch released by Simtex, 1.31, still had a ton of bugs. A man went through the.exe with a debugger, into the machine code, and fixed a ton of bugs. The computer opponent doesn't make nearly as many stupid mistakes now. It will now make and use magic items. Plus, there were a couple of huge bugs that never worked the way the designers intended, and now do. Plus, it adds a new difficulty level between Hard (too easy) and Impossible (so hard it's no fun).
Responding to criticisms that he and Khrushchev did not do enough to expose Stalin's crimes, former first deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan reportedly said: "We couldn't do that because then everyone would have known what scoundrels we were."
That, too, is the difference between Communism and Nazism: the Communist scoundrels understood who they were because they realised the gulf separating them from the ideals they revered; the Nazis liked being scoundrels - that was their ideal.
-- Alexander Mekhanik, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
What with the recent harsh criticism of Slashdot, I see once again that despite mentioning the fact that the guy has a blog, the editors cannot be bothered to do a simple search and put the link into the story. No, I don't want someone to reply and add the link, that's not what I'm talking about. The lack of self-awareness is just shocking, but then again I suppose that's why commenters are abandoning this site in droves. I'll be off myself shortly, I expect.
I have been in China ten years and had a QQ account shortly after I arrived. I use Baidu regularly. I'm also on Weibo and Weixin (Wechat). I have seen a lot of linux geeks doing their thing.
I have yet to see a Red Flag installation. Everyone uses the same linuxes as we use in the West. I have also seen people who do not speak a word of English but know how to read enough to install a system. From what I can gather, Red Flag is something that Westerners like to jabber on about because it's the only connection they know, much like how they won't shut up about Tiananmen Square. They just don't know anything else to say.
Business in general has a tremendous upside and somewhat of a downside. You're just bitching about the negatives without deigning to mention any of the huge number of positives. Who made the computer you're writing this on, or the network that transmits your data? It wasn't ARPANET, that's for fucking sure.
"The only universal medicine (Marxists) have for social evils - State ownership of the means of production - is not only perfectly compatible with all the disasters of the capitalist world: with exploitation, imperialism, pollution, misery, economic waste, national hatred and national oppression, but it adds to them a series of disasters of its own: inefficiency, lack of economic incentives and above all the unrestricted rule of the omnipresent bureaucracy, a concentration of power never before known in human history".
-- Leszek Kolakowski
Just because it landed and deployed its landing gear doesn't mean it accomplished all its design goals. Geez, imagine an Eagle that landed and expected to spend 3 months on the moon and yet ran out of battery after the first week. "Mission accomplished!"
When you're a foreigner in a foreign place, you tend to gravitate towards other foreigners since they are likely to speak English while locals cannot.
So, hold on. kilo, mega, tera... and centi, milli, micro, nano I should learn, but hecto, deka, deci I should not? Who teaches this stuff? The metric system is based on powers of 10 and easy convertability. You mean to tell me that you don't know them all? That's ridiculous, I was repeatedly tested on all of these prefixes and what they mean.
You were doing well until the racial slur. Oh, my. Please be more sensitive in the future. You people are NOT the chosen ones, no matter how often you say it to yourselves.
Hello racism? Wasn't Google Maps rightly flamed for exactly what you're talking about? What the fuck...how do educated people even spew this crap? Self-awareness, anyone?
Sorry, I live overseas and I can't buy apps even if I want to. I thought I would be clever and use a VPN: nah, turns out that Google doesn't check your IP, they check your SIM card. A big middle finger to me and everyone else. We are all doomed to use only free apps, forever.
Ah. But Obama was specifically elected on a platform of overturning the abuses of the "EVULLL" Bu$hitler administration.
So, which is more evil? That which openly proclaims its evil and laughs about it, or that which claims to be good but is actually more evil than its predecessor?
Come on, listing openly liberal sites like nytimes.com in the "rational" end of the spectrum does nothing for objective discourse. The opposite of nytimes.com isn't timecube.com, it's stormfront.com.
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He wasn't, he was quite coldly rational about what he wanted. He was an ordinary man, much like any other. Saying he was insane just cultivates the field for another like him to appear.
English is "derided" for being "easy to learn"? What the fuck kind of world do you live in where that's a problem?
The world's common language should be easy. I'm learning an Asian language and it's difficult as hell for no good reason. I and everyone else learning it certainly wouldn't criticize it if it were easy.
Bigots don't deserve sympathy. They need to know that they are only welcome among their own kind.
The one who wrote it sees the word "drone" and immediately thinks of "Afghanistan" and is shocked to find that the word has another use. Said person considers herself educated and worldly, but in fact lives in a tiny world and has a small mind. Meanwhile the rest of us have this in our daily vocabularies.
Look at that story. It's obviously not the product of an open-minded person. It's just that in today's media-saturated society, in some circles, the word "drone" doesn't mean "aircraft that flies without a pilot". It has a political meaning, and these people just can't see past that. They see the word drone and immediately they think military, because their minds are small. "Wow, look, one that carries a camera, instead! Remarkable! And it's a quadrotor and not a fixed-wing aircraft! I've got to write an article about this right away!"
It would be humiliating if they weren't so unaware of any existence outside themselves and their little cliques. What's the word for that...oh right, solipsist.
We're talking about the TSA, not the NSA. Do try to keep up.
Somehow, with your hostile attitude, I think you made the decision quite a long time ago to never visit America. And yet you feel the need to get up and talk shit in front of everyone, acting like this is the last straw that cost America a shit-ton of money. Here's a clue: we Americans hate the federal government, too. If you set your prejudices aside you might just find friendly, like-minded people. But I have found in my life that closed-minded bigots will not do this, and instead spend time bitching and moaning to others like themselves. Like the people who modded you +5 Insightful.
Careful, citizen. Criticizing the President is racist. Trust the government. The government is your friend. Not trusting the President is sedition. Sedition is punishable by twenty years in federal prison. Any citizen that attempts to prove the President is wrong is a Commie mutant traitor.
B.S. If cars didn't have the latest technology, car reviewers would give them bad reviews, and people like you would trash them for being stuck in the 20th century. It doesn't matter if it's a good idea or not, what matters is that it's new and different.
Unfortunately GoG doesn't offer the Master of Magic 1.4 patch. The last patch released by Simtex, 1.31, still had a ton of bugs. A man went through the .exe with a debugger, into the machine code, and fixed a ton of bugs. The computer opponent doesn't make nearly as many stupid mistakes now. It will now make and use magic items. Plus, there were a couple of huge bugs that never worked the way the designers intended, and now do. Plus, it adds a new difficulty level between Hard (too easy) and Impossible (so hard it's no fun).
Download the Master of Magic patch here. Unzip it over the files in your MoM directory.
Responding to criticisms that he and Khrushchev did not do enough to expose Stalin's crimes, former first deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan reportedly said: "We couldn't do that because then everyone would have known what scoundrels we were."
That, too, is the difference between Communism and Nazism: the Communist scoundrels understood who they were because they realised the gulf separating them from the ideals they revered; the Nazis liked being scoundrels - that was their ideal.
-- Alexander Mekhanik, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
What with the recent harsh criticism of Slashdot, I see once again that despite mentioning the fact that the guy has a blog, the editors cannot be bothered to do a simple search and put the link into the story. No, I don't want someone to reply and add the link, that's not what I'm talking about. The lack of self-awareness is just shocking, but then again I suppose that's why commenters are abandoning this site in droves. I'll be off myself shortly, I expect.
I think a white person comparing black Africans to Nazis is really out of line.
I have been in China ten years and had a QQ account shortly after I arrived. I use Baidu regularly. I'm also on Weibo and Weixin (Wechat). I have seen a lot of linux geeks doing their thing.
I have yet to see a Red Flag installation. Everyone uses the same linuxes as we use in the West. I have also seen people who do not speak a word of English but know how to read enough to install a system. From what I can gather, Red Flag is something that Westerners like to jabber on about because it's the only connection they know, much like how they won't shut up about Tiananmen Square. They just don't know anything else to say.
The Americans aren't censoring the internet. Duh.
Fraud isn't business.
Business in general has a tremendous upside and somewhat of a downside. You're just bitching about the negatives without deigning to mention any of the huge number of positives. Who made the computer you're writing this on, or the network that transmits your data? It wasn't ARPANET, that's for fucking sure.
"The only universal medicine (Marxists) have for social evils - State ownership of the means of production - is not only perfectly compatible with all the disasters of the capitalist world: with exploitation, imperialism, pollution, misery, economic waste, national hatred and national oppression, but it adds to them a series of disasters of its own: inefficiency, lack of economic incentives and above all the unrestricted rule of the omnipresent bureaucracy, a concentration of power never before known in human history".
-- Leszek Kolakowski
Just because it landed and deployed its landing gear doesn't mean it accomplished all its design goals. Geez, imagine an Eagle that landed and expected to spend 3 months on the moon and yet ran out of battery after the first week. "Mission accomplished!"
When you're a foreigner in a foreign place, you tend to gravitate towards other foreigners since they are likely to speak English while locals cannot.
So, hold on. kilo, mega, tera... and centi, milli, micro, nano I should learn, but hecto, deka, deci I should not? Who teaches this stuff? The metric system is based on powers of 10 and easy convertability. You mean to tell me that you don't know them all? That's ridiculous, I was repeatedly tested on all of these prefixes and what they mean.
> The first time it was a goy in brooklyn
You were doing well until the racial slur. Oh, my. Please be more sensitive in the future. You people are NOT the chosen ones, no matter how often you say it to yourselves.
Hello racism? Wasn't Google Maps rightly flamed for exactly what you're talking about? What the fuck...how do educated people even spew this crap? Self-awareness, anyone?
Sorry, I live overseas and I can't buy apps even if I want to. I thought I would be clever and use a VPN: nah, turns out that Google doesn't check your IP, they check your SIM card. A big middle finger to me and everyone else. We are all doomed to use only free apps, forever.
Ah. But Obama was specifically elected on a platform of overturning the abuses of the "EVULLL" Bu$hitler administration.
So, which is more evil? That which openly proclaims its evil and laughs about it, or that which claims to be good but is actually more evil than its predecessor?
Come on, listing openly liberal sites like nytimes.com in the "rational" end of the spectrum does nothing for objective discourse. The opposite of nytimes.com isn't timecube.com, it's stormfront.com.
Here is a heartwarming story of a bunch of technology-hating hippies who went out in the forest to pick natural mushrooms and instead got a bonus helicopter ride to a modern hospital where the technology of liver transplants saved their worthless lives.
This guy ate several and said they were bland. "Gee, I donâ(TM)t think Iâ(TM)ll ever pick and eat these again," he said. He was right!