See, there are two sides to this story and they always talk past each other. One side says drugs are cool, and everyone should do a little, just to see what it's like and if it's not your thing then it's OK. They only see the positive effects. The other side works in emergency rooms and treatment centers and only sees the negative effects, and warns everyone to stay away, don't even try drugs once because we hear that story everyday of the guy who tried it once, liked it, and ruined his previously promising life.
What do these two views have in common? Fucking druggies. People who are wholly incapable of controlling themselves so they ruin it for everyone. There is a certain kind of person that freaking loves drugs. They'll structure their entire lives so that they can do drugs, and they don't care about who they harm in the process. They will steal from and hurt people they love. Hunter S. Thompson said, "You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug," and he knew what he was talking about. Other people don't care for drugs at all. I've known veterans who have been prescribed the best sorts of opiates for legitimate medical reasons, and all they do is complain about how their minds "feel fuzzy and can't think straight". This fuzzy feeling is exactly what pleases druggies the most.
So, what do you do? Legalize drugs and let druggies run wild? Put them all on an island where they don't pay rent, eat for free and get all they drugs they want? Hell, why should I work for a living when I can just do that? Keep drugs illegal and scare away most of the good people? Who knows, maybe I've been looking all my life for methamphetamine and just don't know it yet because I've never tried it because I'm scared of going to jail. The main problem that both sides have is the fucking druggies. If it weren't for them, we could have safe, legal drugs and it wouldn't be a goddamn problem.
Isn't it funny how, when it comes to religion or other parts of life, we have to accept what science tells us no matter how unpleasant the consequences are. It is inviolable and can't be argued with because it is objective truth. Denialists are shamed and labeled as low-IQ morons. But, as soon as race enters the issue, suddenly science cannot be right under any circumstances, and we have to ignore the evidence of our lying eyes. Isn't that strange?
If the F-4 actually had had good missiles, it wouldn't have needed its cannon. The Sparrow missile however was a piece of shit, and it didn't help that it never occurred to the designers that it would be used in a tropical environment. F-4 pilots got into the habit of firing two at a time, because they knew one of them would fail to light and fall into the jungle, or immediately go straight and fail to track, or some other problem.
Before I clicked on the comments, I was convinced that the comments discussing the Russian fighter would be few, and the comments tearing into America would be many. Yup, I nailed it.
What is going on in the summary for this article? What is OTTD? Want to tell the rest of us? Why does it immediately start talking about "most servers", as if I should know what those are? What the fuck is an SSE blitter? NewGRFs? Gosh, I'm so glad to know that Korean number separators were fixed. I can sleep well tonight knowing that.
No, don't waste your time explaining. I spent too much time on this already. The whole thing is written like it's by insiders for insiders. But then again insiders already know about this and don't need an announcement on Slashdot.
Reading the annotated game, Bill not only had white, but got one ? move and another ?? move. A ? is a blunder and ?? is a really stupid blunder. The ?? move lost him the game. The other player even sacrificed one of his bishops which put the convicted monopolist up on material. He still should have lost, but BG screwed up royally. Can't blame him for being mediocre at chess, though, because that has been regarded for centuries as a good thing.
"[Chess] is certainly a pleasing and ingenious amusement, but it seems to have one defect, which is that it is possible to have too much knowledge of it, so that whoever would excel in the game must give a great deal of time to it, as I believe, and as much study as if he would learn some noble science or perform well anything of importance; and yet in the end, for all his pains, he only knows how to play a game. Thus, I think a very unusual thing happens in this, namely that mediocrity is more to be praised than excellence."
-- Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, 1528, Book II para. 31, Singleton translation
How about we Americans give you superior Europeans a huge number of our low-performing students? In proportion to your country's population, of course. Wouldn't want to over-burden you. Then you can deal with them fighting with each other and your native population, the racism, the hostility towards people who don't look like they do, and then you can tell us how well you can teach them about every country in Europe while they disrupt the learning for every class they're in.
A lot of times I think Europeans really have no idea what goes on in the average or below average American classrooms. It's Lord of the Flies in there.
I know a bunch of vice-directors and directors, as well as the office folk. Nobody knows the extremely powerful people, sighting them is like sighting Bigfoot. They're never out.
Elon Musk didn't bribe anyone, there's perfectly good legal avenues available. When you bribe an official, you can't stop once you've started. It's a poor business decision. If you depend on him to do business, eventually he will retire or go to jail and you're screwed.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
Giving $30k to an organization for Africa doesn't help anyone. The Africans themselves either steal or waste the money. Don't ask me - ask the NGOs that work there, they'll give you an earful as long as they don't think anyone's listening and will nail them for racism.
Oh gimme a fucking break. "Unless you know the right people in the CCP" is a load of horseshit. I know a bunch of commies, and most of them can't do anything for you. They have a narrow focus and even in their own offices they can't do anything if it's someone else's department.
Sure you can. You don't know Chinese law. Just another ignorant foreigner who thinks he can breeze into China and things will be just like they are back home. Nine times out of ten when you hear the "China screwed me" story it means "I couldn't be bothered to learn anything about local laws and just assumed I could do whatever I wanted." China has laws, but you have to use them, and most people don't bother to learn. Check chinalawblog.com for endless stories on this topic.
But Obama was different and was going to deliver us. And yet, to this day, criticism is muted and barely exists. Oh, and drop the whole USA = Nazis thing, it's getting old and shows you're a nutbag.
Yeah, so we make-believe to genocide greenskins. That's cool. It didn't actually happen, so it's OK. Newsflash: RPG players simulate what they really wish would happen.
The part with the gigantic demon could reasonably be construed as Satanic. Come ON, are we deliberately being ignorant now?
We're not talking about Garl Glittergold, way to cherry-pick the single least silly deity from the entire volume. Look at the others, for fuck's sake. The Norse deities should have been left out as the Nazis had only been in their graves for 29 years when D&D came out. Some goddamn sympathy would be nice.
I fucking despise mixing sci-fi and fantasy and many other people do as well. It lends itself so readily to munchkins. But go ahead and call us closed minds because I guess that makes you feel better about yourself.
Go back and look at the cover of the Player's Handbook where there's a gigantic demon on there. Another book was entirely dedicated to telling kids how to worship pagan deities. Then, your kid that plays the game is pretending to be a thief. A real thief. After that, your kid tells you that the object of the game is to murder people with green skin and take their stuff. But go ahead and think it was all needless fear-mongering.
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See, there are two sides to this story and they always talk past each other. One side says drugs are cool, and everyone should do a little, just to see what it's like and if it's not your thing then it's OK. They only see the positive effects. The other side works in emergency rooms and treatment centers and only sees the negative effects, and warns everyone to stay away, don't even try drugs once because we hear that story everyday of the guy who tried it once, liked it, and ruined his previously promising life.
What do these two views have in common? Fucking druggies. People who are wholly incapable of controlling themselves so they ruin it for everyone. There is a certain kind of person that freaking loves drugs. They'll structure their entire lives so that they can do drugs, and they don't care about who they harm in the process. They will steal from and hurt people they love. Hunter S. Thompson said, "You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug," and he knew what he was talking about. Other people don't care for drugs at all. I've known veterans who have been prescribed the best sorts of opiates for legitimate medical reasons, and all they do is complain about how their minds "feel fuzzy and can't think straight". This fuzzy feeling is exactly what pleases druggies the most.
So, what do you do? Legalize drugs and let druggies run wild? Put them all on an island where they don't pay rent, eat for free and get all they drugs they want? Hell, why should I work for a living when I can just do that? Keep drugs illegal and scare away most of the good people? Who knows, maybe I've been looking all my life for methamphetamine and just don't know it yet because I've never tried it because I'm scared of going to jail. The main problem that both sides have is the fucking druggies. If it weren't for them, we could have safe, legal drugs and it wouldn't be a goddamn problem.
Isn't it funny how, when it comes to religion or other parts of life, we have to accept what science tells us no matter how unpleasant the consequences are. It is inviolable and can't be argued with because it is objective truth. Denialists are shamed and labeled as low-IQ morons. But, as soon as race enters the issue, suddenly science cannot be right under any circumstances, and we have to ignore the evidence of our lying eyes. Isn't that strange?
They came from the ground, it sounds like a good idea to put them right back.
The video game crash was in 1983, look it up on Wikipedia.
If the F-4 actually had had good missiles, it wouldn't have needed its cannon. The Sparrow missile however was a piece of shit, and it didn't help that it never occurred to the designers that it would be used in a tropical environment. F-4 pilots got into the habit of firing two at a time, because they knew one of them would fail to light and fall into the jungle, or immediately go straight and fail to track, or some other problem.
Before I clicked on the comments, I was convinced that the comments discussing the Russian fighter would be few, and the comments tearing into America would be many. Yup, I nailed it.
What is going on in the summary for this article? What is OTTD? Want to tell the rest of us? Why does it immediately start talking about "most servers", as if I should know what those are? What the fuck is an SSE blitter? NewGRFs? Gosh, I'm so glad to know that Korean number separators were fixed. I can sleep well tonight knowing that.
No, don't waste your time explaining. I spent too much time on this already. The whole thing is written like it's by insiders for insiders. But then again insiders already know about this and don't need an announcement on Slashdot.
Reading the annotated game, Bill not only had white, but got one ? move and another ?? move. A ? is a blunder and ?? is a really stupid blunder. The ?? move lost him the game. The other player even sacrificed one of his bishops which put the convicted monopolist up on material. He still should have lost, but BG screwed up royally. Can't blame him for being mediocre at chess, though, because that has been regarded for centuries as a good thing.
"[Chess] is certainly a pleasing and ingenious amusement, but it seems to have one defect, which is that it is possible to have too much knowledge of it, so that whoever would excel in the game must give a great deal of time to it, as I believe, and as much study as if he would learn some noble science or perform well anything of importance; and yet in the end, for all his pains, he only knows how to play a game. Thus, I think a very unusual thing happens in this, namely that mediocrity is more to be praised than excellence."
-- Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, 1528, Book II para. 31, Singleton translation
People who don't want Google watching and recording everything that they do.
How about we Americans give you superior Europeans a huge number of our low-performing students? In proportion to your country's population, of course. Wouldn't want to over-burden you. Then you can deal with them fighting with each other and your native population, the racism, the hostility towards people who don't look like they do, and then you can tell us how well you can teach them about every country in Europe while they disrupt the learning for every class they're in.
A lot of times I think Europeans really have no idea what goes on in the average or below average American classrooms. It's Lord of the Flies in there.
Elon Musk didn't bribe anyone, there's perfectly good legal avenues available. When you bribe an official, you can't stop once you've started. It's a poor business decision. If you depend on him to do business, eventually he will retire or go to jail and you're screwed.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
Giving $30k to an organization for Africa doesn't help anyone. The Africans themselves either steal or waste the money. Don't ask me - ask the NGOs that work there, they'll give you an earful as long as they don't think anyone's listening and will nail them for racism.
I'm talking about Communist China, not Washington, and you're arguing my point not disagreeing.
Oh gimme a fucking break. "Unless you know the right people in the CCP" is a load of horseshit. I know a bunch of commies, and most of them can't do anything for you. They have a narrow focus and even in their own offices they can't do anything if it's someone else's department.
Sure you can. You don't know Chinese law. Just another ignorant foreigner who thinks he can breeze into China and things will be just like they are back home. Nine times out of ten when you hear the "China screwed me" story it means "I couldn't be bothered to learn anything about local laws and just assumed I could do whatever I wanted." China has laws, but you have to use them, and most people don't bother to learn. Check chinalawblog.com for endless stories on this topic.
But Obama was different and was going to deliver us. And yet, to this day, criticism is muted and barely exists. Oh, and drop the whole USA = Nazis thing, it's getting old and shows you're a nutbag.
None of which would have happened if the child had been properly provided for, which it wasn't. Fuck the couple. They're trash.
Because it should be obvious.
So, what do Mexican banks do when illegal aliens try to open a bank account? Just curious.
Cold beans straight from the can taste gross. Moreover they're not anything close to a balanced meal.
Yeah, so we make-believe to genocide greenskins. That's cool. It didn't actually happen, so it's OK. Newsflash: RPG players simulate what they really wish would happen.
We're not talking about Garl Glittergold, way to cherry-pick the single least silly deity from the entire volume. Look at the others, for fuck's sake. The Norse deities should have been left out as the Nazis had only been in their graves for 29 years when D&D came out. Some goddamn sympathy would be nice.
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I fucking despise mixing sci-fi and fantasy and many other people do as well. It lends itself so readily to munchkins. But go ahead and call us closed minds because I guess that makes you feel better about yourself.
Go back and look at the cover of the Player's Handbook where there's a gigantic demon on there. Another book was entirely dedicated to telling kids how to worship pagan deities. Then, your kid that plays the game is pretending to be a thief. A real thief. After that, your kid tells you that the object of the game is to murder people with green skin and take their stuff. But go ahead and think it was all needless fear-mongering.