"Lug a laptop around"? It's not 1987 anymore, laptops are hardly luggable. They weigh about four pounds. I get that tablets are lighter, but still. It just goes to show you how utterly spoiled people are they they'd call four pounds something that needs to be lugged around like it was a boat anchor.
Let me guess - you're a liberal, right? Americans are stupid, check. Americans are bizarre, check. Americans are the cause of the world's problems, check. America-hating comment modded up to +4, check.
So I guess we should all be ruled by your friends in the Council of Alphas, right? Guess what, they've already tried that, it didn't work and killed millions of people.
"Square"? What is this, 1953, daddy-o? Modded up to +3 Informative? Yeah, guess what, "squares" already don't go to your precious counter-culture. We DO stay away. But no matter how hard we stop our ears, we can't stop hearing you people talk about how awesome you are and how great it is to be away from us, if only for a week. It's the equivalent of hearing that lady in HR talk about how great her cruise to the Caribbean was and how everything was wonderful and Manuel the bartender was so nice and knew all these jokes and ways to fold a paper napkin in the shape of animals and come and see the photos! You know how insufferable that is? Yeah, that's what you sound like.
Ah, yes. Rwanda. If America did get involved it would have been cast *just like Somalia*, white people killing black people. If America didn't get involved, it's the callous whites allowing genocide to happen. I notice you conveniently left out the fact that the UN refused to authorize action in Rwanda, and America should never act unilaterally.
Actually, I am quite a rare bird. I am both pro-America and pro-China. You don't find those very often.
The US, certainly. In China, Snowden would have been hunted down by internal security, given a quiet trial, and executed shortly thereafter and his organs harvested. In America not only was Snowden able to escape due to not having to go to a government office and get an exit visa for his passport (documenting where you're going, when, for how long, and showing airline tickets and hotel reservations, then the government will allow you to leave) but he was soundly cheered by many Americans.
As a Westerner who has been in China for years now and speaks Mandarin, people only like China because they reflexively hate America and either don't know anything about China or project their wants and desires on China. "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know."
You can shame America into doing things...what just happened in Syria? China just doesn't care unless you're Chinese. And even then, it's a stretch.
China is building a cable across the Pacific, and American firms want to invest and use their equipment. Suddenly it sounds rational to disallow foreigners. How's that work?
I get the idea that Americans just aren't allowed to do anything that's in their national interest. If the Chinese government (and that's what state-owned enterprises means) wants to invest and install their own equipment, then the Americans must allow them! The Chinese will install spyware on the cable? Oh, boo hoo you Americans will just have to take it because you're bad people and hurt puppies!
No, evidently this is not a joke, "Killer Robot Policy" is actually the headline. At least it doesn't ask a question. Remember on the Simpsons when we all had a laugh at this one?
Tonight, on "Eye on Springfield": just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it (sarcastically) 'the army", but a more alarmist name would be The Killbot Factory."
First as parody, then as farce. A sad day for intelligent people.
Yup, seen it a million times. Someone gets a large amount of money from Kickstarter, all at once, and falls in love with the idea of doing things. The actual project...well, we'll get that done...later. Who could possibly spend (pinky finger) one million dollars?
Wow, you weren't kidding about him saying "Kickstarter is amazing, but one of the hidden catches is that once you have taken a bunch of people's money to do a thing, you have to actually do that thing, and not some other thing that you thought up in the meantime." Amazing. He actually said it, and actually called it a "hidden catch". And he wonders why he's having trouble getting investors to buy in to his idea?
The real problem is that Kickstarter lets novices (some people call them "idiots") get ahold of large sums of cash. These people then make beginner mistakes of the sort you would expect beginners to make. They then can't handle criticism and get angry when people start complaining expecting a product.
This is why stretch goals are a horrible idea. Take someone that is already in over their head in a project that will be difficult to complete, and add EVEN MORE stuff to do. Unfortunately people love this stuff and won't stop giving money. A victimless crime, I suppose.
Sieg Heil, Comrade! To the barricades! The Americans (our culture's fear and hate objects) are making bad things happen to us again! Because if there's one thing we know, it's that EU bureaucrats love to slavishly follow AmeriKKKa!
You know, the entire idea was that getting your news from one source was wrong. Your reply seems to be saying that as long as people don't get their news from the incorrect single source, that's OK. Way to totally miss the point.
The soft practitioners of social sciences frequently look down on the hard sciences. Why would an elite organization like the NYT hire engineers? Artists, designers, writers - yes, of course. An engineer? It would be like hiring a soldier or a rancher, a total non sequitur for the Times.
Lots of people are proud that they only get their news from the New York Times or NPR. They won't listen to any other sources because they won't believe anything that doesn't reconfirm their already-held beliefs.
What's a "doorman"? What's "Park Ave"? I honestly and truly have no idea, and I get the impression that most of the people who just read your statement don't know, either.
You keep a knife down your back? Isn't that sort of thing illegal in civilized areas? What's next, an AR-15? Like the New Yorker who opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard? You violence-loving people are freaking weird.
I call bullshit. Source, please. This just sounds like some reiteration of Henry Ford's philosophy. You know, Henry Ford? The man who wrote the book The International Jew: The World's Problem. Ooooh, awkward! I'm sorry were you counting on that to bolster your argument?
He didn't know that was true. He was just pulling shit from his ass. The fact that 40 years later he was proved right proves nothing, other than the fact that you remembered it.
Whenever I hear conservatives complain about political correctness, all I hear is that they can't keep the Negroes out of their country clubs any more. Your "unpleasant" speech is racist and people who speak it deserve to be imprisoned, with applause from everyone in civilized society.
You just can't stand to see a successful company bailed out by the government, can you? Thousands of good jobs were saved, and all you can think about is some ancient history. You right-wing wingnuts are all the same. If Obama was for it, you're against it. You do know that the US government sold all its shares in GM several years ago, right? Right? Otherwise how do you explain this unthinking hostility?
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"Lug a laptop around"? It's not 1987 anymore, laptops are hardly luggable. They weigh about four pounds. I get that tablets are lighter, but still. It just goes to show you how utterly spoiled people are they they'd call four pounds something that needs to be lugged around like it was a boat anchor.
Let me guess - you're a liberal, right? Americans are stupid, check. Americans are bizarre, check. Americans are the cause of the world's problems, check. America-hating comment modded up to +4, check.
So I guess we should all be ruled by your friends in the Council of Alphas, right? Guess what, they've already tried that, it didn't work and killed millions of people.
Like Burning Man today has any relationship whatsoever to how it was in the beginning.
"Square"? What is this, 1953, daddy-o? Modded up to +3 Informative? Yeah, guess what, "squares" already don't go to your precious counter-culture. We DO stay away. But no matter how hard we stop our ears, we can't stop hearing you people talk about how awesome you are and how great it is to be away from us, if only for a week. It's the equivalent of hearing that lady in HR talk about how great her cruise to the Caribbean was and how everything was wonderful and Manuel the bartender was so nice and knew all these jokes and ways to fold a paper napkin in the shape of animals and come and see the photos! You know how insufferable that is? Yeah, that's what you sound like.
So yeah, next time you go, stay there.
Ah, yes. Rwanda. If America did get involved it would have been cast *just like Somalia*, white people killing black people. If America didn't get involved, it's the callous whites allowing genocide to happen. I notice you conveniently left out the fact that the UN refused to authorize action in Rwanda, and America should never act unilaterally.
Actually, I am quite a rare bird. I am both pro-America and pro-China. You don't find those very often.
The US, certainly. In China, Snowden would have been hunted down by internal security, given a quiet trial, and executed shortly thereafter and his organs harvested. In America not only was Snowden able to escape due to not having to go to a government office and get an exit visa for his passport (documenting where you're going, when, for how long, and showing airline tickets and hotel reservations, then the government will allow you to leave) but he was soundly cheered by many Americans.
As a Westerner who has been in China for years now and speaks Mandarin, people only like China because they reflexively hate America and either don't know anything about China or project their wants and desires on China. "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know."
You can shame America into doing things...what just happened in Syria? China just doesn't care unless you're Chinese. And even then, it's a stretch.
China is building a cable across the Pacific, and American firms want to invest and use their equipment. Suddenly it sounds rational to disallow foreigners. How's that work?
I get the idea that Americans just aren't allowed to do anything that's in their national interest. If the Chinese government (and that's what state-owned enterprises means) wants to invest and install their own equipment, then the Americans must allow them! The Chinese will install spyware on the cable? Oh, boo hoo you Americans will just have to take it because you're bad people and hurt puppies!
It's just South Carolina. Home of Gamecocks and racists. What's the loss?
Where did the Second Amendment come into this? Who was talking about that? Did you just pull that out of your ass or something?
It can't possibly be any worse than Detroit.
No, evidently this is not a joke, "Killer Robot Policy" is actually the headline. At least it doesn't ask a question. Remember on the Simpsons when we all had a laugh at this one?
Tonight, on "Eye on Springfield": just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it (sarcastically) 'the army", but a more alarmist name would be The Killbot Factory."
First as parody, then as farce. A sad day for intelligent people.
Yup, seen it a million times. Someone gets a large amount of money from Kickstarter, all at once, and falls in love with the idea of doing things. The actual project...well, we'll get that done...later. Who could possibly spend (pinky finger) one million dollars?
Wow, you weren't kidding about him saying "Kickstarter is amazing, but one of the hidden catches is that once you have taken a bunch of people's money to do a thing, you have to actually do that thing, and not some other thing that you thought up in the meantime." Amazing. He actually said it, and actually called it a "hidden catch". And he wonders why he's having trouble getting investors to buy in to his idea?
The real problem is that Kickstarter lets novices (some people call them "idiots") get ahold of large sums of cash. These people then make beginner mistakes of the sort you would expect beginners to make. They then can't handle criticism and get angry when people start complaining expecting a product.
This is why stretch goals are a horrible idea. Take someone that is already in over their head in a project that will be difficult to complete, and add EVEN MORE stuff to do. Unfortunately people love this stuff and won't stop giving money. A victimless crime, I suppose.
He's in Florida. Please pull your head out of your ass, the whole world doesn't revolve around New York.
Social safety net? The man is working although in an unconventional way. He should by all rights be excluded from the statistics.
Sieg Heil, Comrade! To the barricades! The Americans (our culture's fear and hate objects) are making bad things happen to us again! Because if there's one thing we know, it's that EU bureaucrats love to slavishly follow AmeriKKKa!
Shouldn't you be thankful that your pristine country is protected from Yankee cultural rot and contamination?
You know, the entire idea was that getting your news from one source was wrong. Your reply seems to be saying that as long as people don't get their news from the incorrect single source, that's OK. Way to totally miss the point.
The soft practitioners of social sciences frequently look down on the hard sciences. Why would an elite organization like the NYT hire engineers? Artists, designers, writers - yes, of course. An engineer? It would be like hiring a soldier or a rancher, a total non sequitur for the Times.
Lots of people are proud that they only get their news from the New York Times or NPR. They won't listen to any other sources because they won't believe anything that doesn't reconfirm their already-held beliefs.
What's a "doorman"? What's "Park Ave"? I honestly and truly have no idea, and I get the impression that most of the people who just read your statement don't know, either.
You keep a knife down your back? Isn't that sort of thing illegal in civilized areas? What's next, an AR-15? Like the New Yorker who opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard? You violence-loving people are freaking weird.
I call bullshit. Source, please. This just sounds like some reiteration of Henry Ford's philosophy. You know, Henry Ford? The man who wrote the book The International Jew: The World's Problem. Ooooh, awkward! I'm sorry were you counting on that to bolster your argument?
He didn't know that was true. He was just pulling shit from his ass. The fact that 40 years later he was proved right proves nothing, other than the fact that you remembered it.
Whenever I hear conservatives complain about political correctness, all I hear is that they can't keep the Negroes out of their country clubs any more. Your "unpleasant" speech is racist and people who speak it deserve to be imprisoned, with applause from everyone in civilized society.
You just can't stand to see a successful company bailed out by the government, can you? Thousands of good jobs were saved, and all you can think about is some ancient history. You right-wing wingnuts are all the same. If Obama was for it, you're against it. You do know that the US government sold all its shares in GM several years ago, right? Right? Otherwise how do you explain this unthinking hostility?
In fact, a box is one of the best ways to store and distribute wine.