You can do granular permissions with Xiaomi MIUI. It's asked me several times if I want to allow some naughty app to send an SMS or read my contacts, and I say "no and remember this setting".
Careful...you're sounding an awful lot like the tea party there. This sort of thing is being noted, and stored away. You don't even bother to hide your identity - a poor choice. There will be a reckoning for people like you...coming soon.
Could you not say "nothingburger"? It has the distinct disadvantage of sounding hipsterish, and the -burger suffix adds nothing to the meaning. In the future, please use the English word "nothing" as it already exists, means the same thing, and won't confuse ESL speakers. Sorry, I spend a lot of time every day dealing with people who speak English perfectly well but can't understand people when they invent words that don't need to exist. Thanks!
Wait a minute - did you just put Hitler, a far-right nutbag, and Mao, a respected leftist who is acceptable on university campuses to this day - on the same page? You're a fuckbag.
Oh, and by the way, serfs do deserve their fate. You going to stand up for trailer trash now? Oppose Jon Stewart? Nah.
Yeah, you're right - capitalism always ends up with huge amounts of money. Strange how that works. Damn those capitalists! Meanwhile a socialist economy is failing again. Why does this always happen!
Yeah, Opera pretty much gave us desktop users the middle finger. They don't want us any more and don't care. They just reskinned Chrome and pushed it out the door. I'm still on 12 but that won't last forever as standards change. I don't know what I'm going to do. Chrome sucks, Firefox is a hog, IE not in this lifetime. Ugh.
Wow - just...wow! Is someone actually apologizing for Stalin? Sorry friend, somewhere along the line, you went wrong. You lost yourself. You are now in a place that nobody should be.
Why would being a socialist have destroyed your career? Was it because 50s socialists wanted to overthrow the elected US government and replace it with a tyrannous government more to their liking? And then this government would take its marching orders from International Headquarters? Oh yes, that was it!
Maybe I forgot...maybe you forgot too. Or maybe you never learned in the first place.
There's no religion of the free market. It's not faith-based, it's reality-based. The reason that people know free enterprise and capitalism work is because these principles do not view man as he should be, but man as he exists.
it is uncritically championed as being perfect and infallible[citation needed]
Burglary is a low-priority crime. Nobody got hurt, the amount of property lost was small, and there's the redistribution of wealth angle to consider. What were the cops supposed to do? It's not like TV where they send in CSI to do DNA samples and photo enhancement. If the burglar doesn't know the victim then it's impossible to solve.
In other news, people who think bribery is cool are small-minded morons. Case in point:
"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
He just wants attention by doing the most outrageous acts he can think of. It worked for PETA and other extremist organizations, the media falls all over them every time. Can't blame him for copying.
You can thank the environmentalists for driving the factories out with laws intentionally designed to give the middle finger to business. With laughs and high-fives all around every time a factory closed and Americans were put out of work.
> You'd end up with a lot of small-c-conservative stuff.
I love how your mind is so tiny that you can't even conceive that Americans might think this is a good thing. Obama and his cronies are supremely frustrated that they can't just slash and burn the U.S. government to their liking. Obama himself even said that the government was "broken" because he didn't get what he wanted. That's by design, it's not a goddamn mistake. It's a good system that's resistant to change. The 20th century was full of examples of radical changes in government and the vast majority of the time it resulted in tyranny instead of freedom.
Are you sure you are up-to-date on that? I have read many places, this website included, that USA is much worse than all of those put together. Mind you, this is from educated people who are speaking without irony.
Useful idiot doesn't mean what you think it means, either.
Yes, but we look at the actions of 50 years ago with the attitudes of today. Why do you think modern people dismiss Marilyn Monroe with phrases like "She didn't work out, look at her stomach, nothing but flab there, where are the six-pack abs?"
So Timothy McVeigh is a patriot now? How does that work, exactly? Sorry your flawed ideas led you to this place, but as soon as you agree with right-wing nutbags that "TEH FEDURUL GUBMIT IZ BAYYYUD" then the civilized world tunes out.
Honestly, your example of "Germany became strong due to these tactics and without which couldn't have tried to take over the world" doesn't really help your cause. With a weak, divided Germany there would have been no World Wars and millions of gentiles and Jewish people would be alive today.
You ancien regime reactionaries need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. You're lucky we don't require you to log in by Facebook to view the content. Don't have a Facebook account, you say? You're suspicious by default.
If it agrees with our bias then isn't bias, amirite? It's purely objective and anyone who could disagree is mentally unstable. Because there's only one correct way to think.
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You can do granular permissions with Xiaomi MIUI. It's asked me several times if I want to allow some naughty app to send an SMS or read my contacts, and I say "no and remember this setting".
Careful...you're sounding an awful lot like the tea party there. This sort of thing is being noted, and stored away. You don't even bother to hide your identity - a poor choice. There will be a reckoning for people like you...coming soon.
Could you not say "nothingburger"? It has the distinct disadvantage of sounding hipsterish, and the -burger suffix adds nothing to the meaning. In the future, please use the English word "nothing" as it already exists, means the same thing, and won't confuse ESL speakers. Sorry, I spend a lot of time every day dealing with people who speak English perfectly well but can't understand people when they invent words that don't need to exist. Thanks!
Wait a minute - did you just put Hitler, a far-right nutbag, and Mao, a respected leftist who is acceptable on university campuses to this day - on the same page? You're a fuckbag.
Oh, and by the way, serfs do deserve their fate. You going to stand up for trailer trash now? Oppose Jon Stewart? Nah.
Yeah, you're right - capitalism always ends up with huge amounts of money. Strange how that works. Damn those capitalists! Meanwhile a socialist economy is failing again. Why does this always happen!
This sounds chillingly like, "Shut them all down, comrade"...am I right?
Where did executive compensation come from, and how does it negate the point that governments raise taxes constantly?
Yeah, Opera pretty much gave us desktop users the middle finger. They don't want us any more and don't care. They just reskinned Chrome and pushed it out the door. I'm still on 12 but that won't last forever as standards change. I don't know what I'm going to do. Chrome sucks, Firefox is a hog, IE not in this lifetime. Ugh.
Wow - just...wow! Is someone actually apologizing for Stalin? Sorry friend, somewhere along the line, you went wrong. You lost yourself. You are now in a place that nobody should be.
Why would being a socialist have destroyed your career? Was it because 50s socialists wanted to overthrow the elected US government and replace it with a tyrannous government more to their liking? And then this government would take its marching orders from International Headquarters? Oh yes, that was it!
Maybe I forgot...maybe you forgot too. Or maybe you never learned in the first place.
This outcome wasn't a flaw in the plan.
There's no religion of the free market. It's not faith-based, it's reality-based. The reason that people know free enterprise and capitalism work is because these principles do not view man as he should be, but man as he exists.
it is uncritically championed as being perfect and infallible[citation needed]
Burglary is a low-priority crime. Nobody got hurt, the amount of property lost was small, and there's the redistribution of wealth angle to consider. What were the cops supposed to do? It's not like TV where they send in CSI to do DNA samples and photo enhancement. If the burglar doesn't know the victim then it's impossible to solve.
In other news, people who think bribery is cool are small-minded morons. Case in point:
"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
He just wants attention by doing the most outrageous acts he can think of. It worked for PETA and other extremist organizations, the media falls all over them every time. Can't blame him for copying.
LOL. So, your argument is those brown people can't do things like us civilized folk because they're too stupid? Racist prick. Fuck you.
You can thank the environmentalists for driving the factories out with laws intentionally designed to give the middle finger to business. With laughs and high-fives all around every time a factory closed and Americans were put out of work.
> You'd end up with a lot of small-c-conservative stuff.
I love how your mind is so tiny that you can't even conceive that Americans might think this is a good thing. Obama and his cronies are supremely frustrated that they can't just slash and burn the U.S. government to their liking. Obama himself even said that the government was "broken" because he didn't get what he wanted. That's by design, it's not a goddamn mistake. It's a good system that's resistant to change. The 20th century was full of examples of radical changes in government and the vast majority of the time it resulted in tyranny instead of freedom.
Are you sure you are up-to-date on that? I have read many places, this website included, that USA is much worse than all of those put together. Mind you, this is from educated people who are speaking without irony.
Useful idiot doesn't mean what you think it means, either.
Yes, but we look at the actions of 50 years ago with the attitudes of today. Why do you think modern people dismiss Marilyn Monroe with phrases like "She didn't work out, look at her stomach, nothing but flab there, where are the six-pack abs?"
So Timothy McVeigh is a patriot now? How does that work, exactly? Sorry your flawed ideas led you to this place, but as soon as you agree with right-wing nutbags that "TEH FEDURUL GUBMIT IZ BAYYYUD" then the civilized world tunes out.
Honestly, your example of "Germany became strong due to these tactics and without which couldn't have tried to take over the world" doesn't really help your cause. With a weak, divided Germany there would have been no World Wars and millions of gentiles and Jewish people would be alive today.
You ancien regime reactionaries need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era. You're lucky we don't require you to log in by Facebook to view the content. Don't have a Facebook account, you say? You're suspicious by default.
Capitalism is BUILT AROUND real-world principles and ideas. That's why it works.
If it agrees with our bias then isn't bias, amirite? It's purely objective and anyone who could disagree is mentally unstable. Because there's only one correct way to think.