What happens when you take all that energy out of the environment and it has unexpected consequences elsewhere? You're just trying to fuck up the planet...again. We don't need more power, we need to use less power. Period.
Assuming you're being serious, terrorists don't want to kill people at security checkpoints. They want the biggest, most spectacular attacks they can get. Airliners are awesome. Marathons less so - but easier.
Remember that guy who shot a bunch of people at the El Al check-in at LAX? No? Yeah, that's what I thought. Remember that guy who tried to blow up an airliner with a bomb in his shoe? Yeah he's famous.
Women will never consider you as an option. They are only interested in the top 10% of men. What, you thought that monogamy just appeared one day cut out of whole cloth? It was designed by men so that every man could have a woman. In contrast to the earlier harem paradigm.
Bullshit! People need something to relate to. You have to put fantastic phenomena in terms they understand. I'm wondering where your brain spends its time if the first thing you come up with is this sad idea. So schoolchildren can recite lists? WTF dude, you're wrong.
Dude, that's only you who instantly thought of strippers. Where's your brain been? It's especially telling that you thought that everyone else would have the same reaction...nope.
Once you've proved that you can't play nicely with the rest of us, you get some of your rights taken away. Want to vote? Don't commit felonies. It's pretty easy to do.
Samwise Gamgee asked a good question: what do mosquitoes eat and why are there so many of them? They feed on blood from animals. So let's say you're in the middle of the swamp somewhere - where do all the mosquitoes come from? They obviously aren't eating very well because any animal that comes close will be driven off by the swarm of bites. So how do they maintain their clouds of insects when they can only reproduce with animal blood in their bellies?
Men have discovered that they want to have sex a lot more often than in the past and women are taking a long time to adapt to these new sexual demands.
WTF are you talking about? The modern Western woman is having more sex, with more men, than ever in recorded history. Indeed it is the mark of a liberated woman - the repressed woman will, by definition, have sex with few men or one man.
To be quite honest, California hurts California's business. This sounds like a fig-leaf excuse. "Oh, they're not investing because of some reason that's not our fault!" Tailor-made for CYA, an all-too-convenient cureall for a fire under your ass.
No, they're not investing because California has gone to great lengths to create a climate that is openly hostile to new business, and all business in general. But I expect the fig-leaf to work because the people who get the policies passed are not the same ones who have to answer for them.
Who's talking about secession? Are we just making shit up now?
Ah, the ancient sport of looking down on Americans as uncultured slobs. Centuries go by and this pastime is evergreen. It never, ever gets old and the arguments are the same as they have always been.
77 cents a minute is still pretty cheap, relatively. International long distance used to be $2/3 per minute, easily. I used to work for a long distance company monitoring their network. The highest cost I ever saw to land locations were distant Pacific islands at $5 per minute. The most expensive ever were ships at sea (Inmarsat) for $6/minute. I called one of them and it was the bridge of an aircraft carrier!
Ah, the No True Scotsman fallacy. By definition he wasn't a socialist, because no true socialist would do what he did. Nice! That's a pretty sweet defense you have going there. I see how you confuse fascism and national socialism too, good job.
Hold on - did someone just compare deliberate Soviet genocide to some sort of theoretical Republican conspiracy? Really? Have we been reading the New York Times again? You know, the New York Times that got a Pulitzer Prize for covering up the Holodomor.
It's a wonder after WWII ended, that magic was performed and the Nazis were suddenly no longer socialists but some sort of space alien. It certainly wasn't like that when it was happening.
"We have backed the wrong horse in Spain. We would have done better to back the Republicans. They represent the people. We could always have converted these socialists into good National Socialists later. The people around Franco are all reactionary clerics, aristocrats, and moneybags â" they've nothing in common with us Nazis at all!"
-- Adolf Hitler, April 1938
"True socialism is the welfare of all the people, and not of one class at the expense of others. Therefore we oppose class warfare."
-- Adolf Hitler, November 12, 1922
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
-- Adolf Hitler
It's all part of the current zeitgeist that seeks to portray rural Americans as some sort of evil alien life form, totally unrelated to us good people who live in cities and ride bikes on the bike trails. Who cares if the stereotypes are accurate? That's not the point.
That's the running joke since Defcon 1. That's why there is a "spot the Ph3d!" contest in the first place.
That's also why it was a running joke for so long that anyone serious would never go to Defcon. Only idiots went there, like script kiddies, attention whores, people who copy & pasted manuals and got published on 2600, and grayareas.
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Because stories like this make enviro-nuts like you open their wallets. It's about $$$$, that's why. Could it be anything else?
What a stupid non-sequitur. Children have never studied Marx.
It's not communism unless it's enforced at gunpoint.
What happens when you take all that energy out of the environment and it has unexpected consequences elsewhere? You're just trying to fuck up the planet...again. We don't need more power, we need to use less power. Period.
Assuming you're being serious, terrorists don't want to kill people at security checkpoints. They want the biggest, most spectacular attacks they can get. Airliners are awesome. Marathons less so - but easier.
Remember that guy who shot a bunch of people at the El Al check-in at LAX? No? Yeah, that's what I thought. Remember that guy who tried to blow up an airliner with a bomb in his shoe? Yeah he's famous.
Women will never consider you as an option. They are only interested in the top 10% of men. What, you thought that monogamy just appeared one day cut out of whole cloth? It was designed by men so that every man could have a woman. In contrast to the earlier harem paradigm.
Bullshit! People need something to relate to. You have to put fantastic phenomena in terms they understand. I'm wondering where your brain spends its time if the first thing you come up with is this sad idea. So schoolchildren can recite lists? WTF dude, you're wrong.
Dude, that's only you who instantly thought of strippers. Where's your brain been? It's especially telling that you thought that everyone else would have the same reaction...nope.
Once you've proved that you can't play nicely with the rest of us, you get some of your rights taken away. Want to vote? Don't commit felonies. It's pretty easy to do.
That is a really dumb made-up attempted explanation. Try harder next time.
Samwise Gamgee asked a good question: what do mosquitoes eat and why are there so many of them? They feed on blood from animals. So let's say you're in the middle of the swamp somewhere - where do all the mosquitoes come from? They obviously aren't eating very well because any animal that comes close will be driven off by the swarm of bites. So how do they maintain their clouds of insects when they can only reproduce with animal blood in their bellies?
Men have discovered that they want to have sex a lot more often than in the past and women are taking a long time to adapt to these new sexual demands.
WTF are you talking about? The modern Western woman is having more sex, with more men, than ever in recorded history. Indeed it is the mark of a liberated woman - the repressed woman will, by definition, have sex with few men or one man.
Leftist academics despise the center-right, and aren't too keen on moderates, either. Have you ever seen what they write? It's some scary shit.
They didn't give it to him because he wasn't Bush. They gave it to him due to his skin color. Sad, but true.
To be quite honest, California hurts California's business. This sounds like a fig-leaf excuse. "Oh, they're not investing because of some reason that's not our fault!" Tailor-made for CYA, an all-too-convenient cureall for a fire under your ass.
No, they're not investing because California has gone to great lengths to create a climate that is openly hostile to new business, and all business in general. But I expect the fig-leaf to work because the people who get the policies passed are not the same ones who have to answer for them.
Who's talking about secession? Are we just making shit up now?
Ah, the ancient sport of looking down on Americans as uncultured slobs. Centuries go by and this pastime is evergreen. It never, ever gets old and the arguments are the same as they have always been.
77 cents a minute is still pretty cheap, relatively. International long distance used to be $2/3 per minute, easily. I used to work for a long distance company monitoring their network. The highest cost I ever saw to land locations were distant Pacific islands at $5 per minute. The most expensive ever were ships at sea (Inmarsat) for $6/minute. I called one of them and it was the bridge of an aircraft carrier!
Ah, the No True Scotsman fallacy. By definition he wasn't a socialist, because no true socialist would do what he did. Nice! That's a pretty sweet defense you have going there. I see how you confuse fascism and national socialism too, good job.
You see what I did there?
Hold on - did someone just compare deliberate Soviet genocide to some sort of theoretical Republican conspiracy? Really? Have we been reading the New York Times again? You know, the New York Times that got a Pulitzer Prize for covering up the Holodomor.
"We have backed the wrong horse in Spain. We would have done better to back the Republicans. They represent the people. We could always have converted these socialists into good National Socialists later. The people around Franco are all reactionary clerics, aristocrats, and moneybags â" they've nothing in common with us Nazis at all!"
-- Adolf Hitler, April 1938
"True socialism is the welfare of all the people, and not of one class at the expense of others. Therefore we oppose class warfare."
-- Adolf Hitler, November 12, 1922
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
-- Adolf Hitler
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It's all part of the current zeitgeist that seeks to portray rural Americans as some sort of evil alien life form, totally unrelated to us good people who live in cities and ride bikes on the bike trails. Who cares if the stereotypes are accurate? That's not the point.
That's the running joke since Defcon 1. That's why there is a "spot the Ph3d!" contest in the first place.
That's also why it was a running joke for so long that anyone serious would never go to Defcon. Only idiots went there, like script kiddies, attention whores, people who copy & pasted manuals and got published on 2600, and grayareas.
The IBM PC cast a long shadow on the industry.
Even today, Apple's motto is still "Think Different", a parody of IBM's motto of "Think".
Sounds to me like the developers just didn't like dealing with bugs and wanted the users to do it all and present them with a gift-wrapped solution.