This is bullshit. It is not news for nerds, it does not matter. This is day-to-day noise. The Syrian bloodshed has been going on for years, and it will continue for years to come. There are no good guys, just an armed minority on one side and Islamic fanatics on the other. Falsifying atrocities for the benefit of UN inspectors is nothing new, and has been refined over decades to an art form. Fuck this story. It does not belong here.
Eighteen thousand people died in the tsunami. How many have died due to the reactor? Which was the bigger disaster, and which deserves more press?
Ah, but which disaster best serves the cheap political interests of the establishment? Coal plants are big big money, and closing down nuclear results in a lot of new ca$h for them. So we all know what's going on here, don't even pretend.
You seem to be coming at this from some sort of angle that suggests this was ever otherwise. Do you have any proof? Because frankly, we have it better today than we've ever had it in history. When did this theoretical paradise exist?
Nope! Turns out, Senator McCarthy was right. There really were Communists in the State Department. But they did such a job on him that his name entered our language as a synonym for falsehood, which sadly continues yet today. When will Hollywood come out with a movie that shows the truth?
The author obviously has his pet topic, which is that it's not anyone's fault that anyone is fat. Sorry, but I've lived around too many fat people. They eat. They eat a lot. Honestly the author goes on far too long about "it's not their fault" and doesn't spend too much time discussing "why".
I can buy that there's something in food these days that may cause people to become heavier than they otherwise would become. But I don't buy the fact that this mystery chemical has made a nation of blobs. It may be a contributory factor, but it's not why obesity happens.
Frankly, I think that companies like McDonald's have successfully hacked the human brain and created foods that people just can't say no to. It's not all of us, I get nauseous eating McD's more than once a week (the smell outside the restaurant is enough to drive me away) but there are plenty of us who are wholly unable to resist. And by "unable to resist" I mean exactly that - your conscious mind might know it's bad, but you just can't help yourself because the food is so delicious. That this "flavor" is a bunch of old, tired cows mixed with industrial chemicals is beside the point. You've been hacked - you could say no, but you really don't want to. The idea of living without McD's for the rest of your life is repellent, a life hardly worth living at all.
I live overseas, and I've seen this myself with the locals and foreigners alike. The locals freaking love McD's and KFC. There's nothing like it in their cuisine and some of them (not all) just can't stop going there. Especially kids. Then, there are foreigners who upon discovering the local (awesome) food spit it out and won't eat anything but Western food. Seriously, I've known people who have lived locally for years and who every day eat nothing but Subway, Starbucks, McD's, KFC, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, etc. If I suggest we go and get a bowl of noodles or other local stuff and I receive a wide-eyed, "You eat that shite, mate? It's garbage!"
Look no further than the closest thing he makes to a hypothesis: "being poor is stressful, and stress makes you eat, and the cheapest food available is the stuff with a lot of âempty caloriesâ(TM), therefore poorer people are fatter than the better-off." Stop right there at the "stress makes you eat" part. WTF man? No it doesn't. Maybe it does FOR YOU, perhaps FOR SOME, but it's hardly universal.
Conclusion: the guy wanted to write 4,700 words to get his name in print and support his pre-existing political views, not because he had something insightful to say.
It wasn't really what you'd call a tragic accident. The person driving the killer truck wasn't around when the alarm went off, and rushed out to the scene after everyone had already arrived. You can imagine what it's like, sitting around week after week with no alarms, only to finally get a real one and you're missing out! She drove into the scene and ran over the girl.
Firemen don't like to talk about it, but there can be problems with adrenaline junkies. I'm not talking about arsonists, but people who just live for the excitement and get way too into it. Like anything, this can be converted into dedication and excellence on the job. However, there are also irresponsible people who don't care about the situation as long as they get to participate. It's like cops who just really enjoy beating people up.
This is how Micheal Jackson's killer doctor Conrad Murray got the paramedics to take his patient to the hospital. The paramedics arrived, shined a flashlight into Micheal Jackson's eyes, and got no pupil contraction. Since the pupils are controlled by the reptilian part of the brain, the last to go after death, the paramedics said, "he's dead, Jim." and wanted to wrap it up right there. Dr. Murray overruled them and directed them to continue CPR and livesaving. You can imagine his reaction: "the hell if he's going to die in here when I was the only doctor around!" MJ was transported to the hospital and they worked on him for a few more hours before he "died". This gave time for all the family to get there, the media to surround the hospital, etc. Also gave time for Dr. Murray to exit the scene unnoticed, without even signing the death certificate.
It doesn't work on the individual level. Without the power of government backing it, people will never accept it. We need a sustained advertising campaign and supportive personalities in the media and popular culture before it can succeed.
Well, what should we do exactly? Rise up in armed insurrection? The moment that happens the mainstream media will be all over it with negative stories and scaremongering. Because NRA.
Then we just need to use less power, period. There shouldn't be any new coal OR nuclear plants allowed. If this leads to brownouts then that's just too bad. We should have thought of that before polluting the environment to serve our own selfish needs.
Nuclear power is far more dangerous. Did we not all see Fukushima? WTF dude, you can't trust private companies at all. Shutting down nuclear is the right thing to do. Look, when environmentalists say it's a good idea, it's a good idea. If you have clean skies and clear water in your city, thank an environmentalist.
Well, let's face it: people don't know what's good for them. It's better if we let the smart people run society. They can make better decisions for us than we can make for ourselves. This is known as Coercive Paternalism and it is the hottest new movement since Progressivism. The closed-minded need not apply, CP is only available to those who enjoy having their cherished beliefs challenged. From page 1: "The truth is that we don't reason very well, and in many cases there is no justification for leaving us to struggle with our own inabilities and to suffer the consequences." Since the government is not tempted by the rewards of your poor decision-making, it can dispassionately make better decisions for you. Let's face it: "choice" is such a sacred cow, especially to a certain that kind of person who practices out-of-fashion politics.
If you are a productive citizen, then you are needed to pay taxes. You aren't allowed to take that away, it's selfish. If you are a net consumer of taxes, then you are needed to keep voting for more money for your kind. Either way, you're sticking around.
Eh, keep your panties in a knot. The 100 flowers campaign was designed to smoke out closet right-wingers. It succeeded wonderfully, and those neocon pricks spent the next 20 years in jail, unable to harm society with their poisonous ideas.
Why shouldn't the organs be given to the smart people in society? They're the ones that we need to keep around. Are we just going to waste valuable organs on some nutsack who won't even stop drinking or smoking pot? Remember, China is run by scientists and engineers: people like us.
You're right, women aren't attracted to dominant men. Women are attracted to sensitive, funny men who share women's concerns about hot-button social issues. Women also greatly value intelligence and thoughtfulness. A man who isn't afraid to be fucked up the ass with a dildo is always a plus. That old stereotype of the muscled man who is in charge of every situation went out with the Reagan administration.
No way. No no no no no. The potential for racism is far, far too high. Better to bury this tech deep where nobody will ever find it, and to shame the creators publically so badly that nobody will attempt this sort of thing again.
How much of this is an actual complaint and how much of it is blaming the foreigners? I'm sure if Brazil looked around they could find hundreds of domestic companies who were much worse. What's the political situation in Brazil right now, is the government hurting for cash or is an election coming up?
What on earth was HP thinking when they made printers like that? How were they planning on selling new printers to their customers if they ones they sold never degraded? I hope whoever came up with this idiot idea got fired.
Leave it to the mainstream media to take a bizarre perspective and pretend like it's real. They like to go on about public transportation but will you ever see a big name journalist on a bus? Oh hell no. Yeah, I'm not talking about taking the subway in New York City.
I love how they harp on the fact that "the bus schedules are withheld from the public" like it's some sort of conspiracy theory. Unless your destination is their company, you've got no business sitting on that bus. I suppose they'd prefer the alternative, that employees drive themselves to work in private automobiles? Just more proof (if any was needed) that journalists ignore progress and immediately spring to interpret the next new events in whatever negative manner they can think of.
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This is bullshit. It is not news for nerds, it does not matter. This is day-to-day noise. The Syrian bloodshed has been going on for years, and it will continue for years to come. There are no good guys, just an armed minority on one side and Islamic fanatics on the other. Falsifying atrocities for the benefit of UN inspectors is nothing new, and has been refined over decades to an art form. Fuck this story. It does not belong here.
Eighteen thousand people died in the tsunami. How many have died due to the reactor? Which was the bigger disaster, and which deserves more press?
Ah, but which disaster best serves the cheap political interests of the establishment? Coal plants are big big money, and closing down nuclear results in a lot of new ca$h for them. So we all know what's going on here, don't even pretend.
You seem to be coming at this from some sort of angle that suggests this was ever otherwise. Do you have any proof? Because frankly, we have it better today than we've ever had it in history. When did this theoretical paradise exist?
LOL. Mention IQ and watch the same people squirm and insist that science is subjective and bias is everywhere. Case in point. It's just a priori science.
Nope! Turns out, Senator McCarthy was right. There really were Communists in the State Department. But they did such a job on him that his name entered our language as a synonym for falsehood, which sadly continues yet today. When will Hollywood come out with a movie that shows the truth?
Failure to control a variable: false assumption that lab animal food hasn't changed. Oops!
The author obviously has his pet topic, which is that it's not anyone's fault that anyone is fat. Sorry, but I've lived around too many fat people. They eat. They eat a lot. Honestly the author goes on far too long about "it's not their fault" and doesn't spend too much time discussing "why".
I can buy that there's something in food these days that may cause people to become heavier than they otherwise would become. But I don't buy the fact that this mystery chemical has made a nation of blobs. It may be a contributory factor, but it's not why obesity happens.
Frankly, I think that companies like McDonald's have successfully hacked the human brain and created foods that people just can't say no to. It's not all of us, I get nauseous eating McD's more than once a week (the smell outside the restaurant is enough to drive me away) but there are plenty of us who are wholly unable to resist. And by "unable to resist" I mean exactly that - your conscious mind might know it's bad, but you just can't help yourself because the food is so delicious. That this "flavor" is a bunch of old, tired cows mixed with industrial chemicals is beside the point. You've been hacked - you could say no, but you really don't want to. The idea of living without McD's for the rest of your life is repellent, a life hardly worth living at all.
I live overseas, and I've seen this myself with the locals and foreigners alike. The locals freaking love McD's and KFC. There's nothing like it in their cuisine and some of them (not all) just can't stop going there. Especially kids. Then, there are foreigners who upon discovering the local (awesome) food spit it out and won't eat anything but Western food. Seriously, I've known people who have lived locally for years and who every day eat nothing but Subway, Starbucks, McD's, KFC, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, etc. If I suggest we go and get a bowl of noodles or other local stuff and I receive a wide-eyed, "You eat that shite, mate? It's garbage!"
Look no further than the closest thing he makes to a hypothesis: "being poor is stressful, and stress makes you eat, and the cheapest food available is the stuff with a lot of âempty caloriesâ(TM), therefore poorer people are fatter than the better-off." Stop right there at the "stress makes you eat" part. WTF man? No it doesn't. Maybe it does FOR YOU, perhaps FOR SOME, but it's hardly universal.
Conclusion: the guy wanted to write 4,700 words to get his name in print and support his pre-existing political views, not because he had something insightful to say.
It wasn't really what you'd call a tragic accident. The person driving the killer truck wasn't around when the alarm went off, and rushed out to the scene after everyone had already arrived. You can imagine what it's like, sitting around week after week with no alarms, only to finally get a real one and you're missing out! She drove into the scene and ran over the girl.
Firemen don't like to talk about it, but there can be problems with adrenaline junkies. I'm not talking about arsonists, but people who just live for the excitement and get way too into it. Like anything, this can be converted into dedication and excellence on the job. However, there are also irresponsible people who don't care about the situation as long as they get to participate. It's like cops who just really enjoy beating people up.
This is how Micheal Jackson's killer doctor Conrad Murray got the paramedics to take his patient to the hospital. The paramedics arrived, shined a flashlight into Micheal Jackson's eyes, and got no pupil contraction. Since the pupils are controlled by the reptilian part of the brain, the last to go after death, the paramedics said, "he's dead, Jim." and wanted to wrap it up right there. Dr. Murray overruled them and directed them to continue CPR and livesaving. You can imagine his reaction: "the hell if he's going to die in here when I was the only doctor around!" MJ was transported to the hospital and they worked on him for a few more hours before he "died". This gave time for all the family to get there, the media to surround the hospital, etc. Also gave time for Dr. Murray to exit the scene unnoticed, without even signing the death certificate.
It doesn't work on the individual level. Without the power of government backing it, people will never accept it. We need a sustained advertising campaign and supportive personalities in the media and popular culture before it can succeed.
Well, what should we do exactly? Rise up in armed insurrection? The moment that happens the mainstream media will be all over it with negative stories and scaremongering. Because NRA.
Then we just need to use less power, period. There shouldn't be any new coal OR nuclear plants allowed. If this leads to brownouts then that's just too bad. We should have thought of that before polluting the environment to serve our own selfish needs.
Nuclear power is far more dangerous. Did we not all see Fukushima? WTF dude, you can't trust private companies at all. Shutting down nuclear is the right thing to do. Look, when environmentalists say it's a good idea, it's a good idea. If you have clean skies and clear water in your city, thank an environmentalist.
Well, let's face it: people don't know what's good for them. It's better if we let the smart people run society. They can make better decisions for us than we can make for ourselves. This is known as Coercive Paternalism and it is the hottest new movement since Progressivism. The closed-minded need not apply, CP is only available to those who enjoy having their cherished beliefs challenged. From page 1: "The truth is that we don't reason very well, and in many cases there is no justification for leaving us to struggle with our own inabilities and to suffer the consequences." Since the government is not tempted by the rewards of your poor decision-making, it can dispassionately make better decisions for you. Let's face it: "choice" is such a sacred cow, especially to a certain that kind of person who practices out-of-fashion politics.
If you are a productive citizen, then you are needed to pay taxes. You aren't allowed to take that away, it's selfish. If you are a net consumer of taxes, then you are needed to keep voting for more money for your kind. Either way, you're sticking around.
Eh, keep your panties in a knot. The 100 flowers campaign was designed to smoke out closet right-wingers. It succeeded wonderfully, and those neocon pricks spent the next 20 years in jail, unable to harm society with their poisonous ideas.
Why shouldn't the organs be given to the smart people in society? They're the ones that we need to keep around. Are we just going to waste valuable organs on some nutsack who won't even stop drinking or smoking pot? Remember, China is run by scientists and engineers: people like us.
You're right, women aren't attracted to dominant men. Women are attracted to sensitive, funny men who share women's concerns about hot-button social issues. Women also greatly value intelligence and thoughtfulness. A man who isn't afraid to be fucked up the ass with a dildo is always a plus. That old stereotype of the muscled man who is in charge of every situation went out with the Reagan administration.
All three sentences are clear references to the Jim Crow laws and slavery.
No way. No no no no no. The potential for racism is far, far too high. Better to bury this tech deep where nobody will ever find it, and to shame the creators publically so badly that nobody will attempt this sort of thing again.
How much of this is an actual complaint and how much of it is blaming the foreigners? I'm sure if Brazil looked around they could find hundreds of domestic companies who were much worse. What's the political situation in Brazil right now, is the government hurting for cash or is an election coming up?
Tell you what, as soon as journalists start taking the bus, so will the rest of us. Lead the way, hypocrites.
Nope, when you are outside you are consuming resources. Sitting inside is one of the best things humans can do, short of suicide.
What on earth was HP thinking when they made printers like that? How were they planning on selling new printers to their customers if they ones they sold never degraded? I hope whoever came up with this idiot idea got fired.
I love how they harp on the fact that "the bus schedules are withheld from the public" like it's some sort of conspiracy theory. Unless your destination is their company, you've got no business sitting on that bus. I suppose they'd prefer the alternative, that employees drive themselves to work in private automobiles? Just more proof (if any was needed) that journalists ignore progress and immediately spring to interpret the next new events in whatever negative manner they can think of.