So, you just made some shit up and tried to pin it on him? And that got +4 Interesting? WTF we are just making shit up now? It is depressing how many people simply refuse to believe that there might be nice places in the world where live nice people. They just can't get the idea through their minds - everybody in the world must be just like them, there cannot possibly be any diversity.
Communism works just fine. What they had in Eastern Europe wasn't communism, not by a long shot. Go to a major university and talk to some well-respected Marxist professors, they'll set you straight.
Funny, you advocate for science, and yet you merely make assertions without any evidence. Are you sure you know how science works? Should science really have people like you on its side?
Withdrawn unilaterally from several of the Geneva conventions...which ones would those be? The convention of 1949 or which one? We do know, right, that the Geneva convention only applies to uniformed combatants of a national armed force, right? Right? The proper response to an uniformed militant who doesn't represent a nation - someone like a Taliban - is, under the Geneva convention, immediate battlefield execution. No really.
I remember a time when in-state long distance was 50 cents a minute while out-of-state was 20-30 cents a minute. Some federal law or something. Which sucked, because everything I wanted to do was in-state. Enter phone phreaking! Make all your calls for free, from any phone in the country. There was a period of about eight years where I never paid for a phone call, ever. It was convenient as I ended up doing a lot of traveling and at the end I was making hour-long international phone calls originating overseas without worrying about a thing.
What killed it? The cost of long distance fell through the floor. It's been a while since cell networks let you call nationwide for the same price as local calls. Even direct-dialing international calls from my cell phone is a reasonable price.
Other websites manage to display the time correctly without the stupid hack of "show the computer's local time."
Maybe the reason that everything they do is heavily scrutinised by rabid right-wing politicians and licence-fee payers is because the BBC are corrupt to the core. Seems like extra scrutiny is not only warranted but heartily welcomed.
Man, I wish there were no such thing as a "show the local computer's time" function. There are so many websites that should damn well know better that do this. Even sites for organizations that are responsible for keeping accurate time pull this crap. Timeanddate.com does a fantastic job, I've no idea why it can't be done elsewhere. Oh, right - 100 hours to fix it and that's not in the budget.
So...single-issue groups only pursue their single issue? Do you understand how politics works? Just because you're against slavery doesn't mean you're going to work against financial crimes or child abuse.
There's a huge backlash - right here. By weakening one amendment we weaken them all. hell, there are a lot of educated people who think the US Constitution is dumb and evil, because they despise the people who celebrate it.
You ever stop to think that they're right? The slide is continuing, when both sides say "things are going down" then they are merely making a correct observation. When one observes this at 85/100 and falling and another observes it at 55/100 and falling then both are right.
Occupy Wall Street was the voice of the 99% rising up against the 1%. The elite used police thugs to bring an end to the uppity commoners. It's sad you've fallen for the false narrative provided by Fox News.
Bullshit. Is that what we tell ourselves, or are the actions of the Left simply put down the garbage disposal of the Memory Hole? Cambodia was a revolutionary Marxist paradise. Private property, religion and money were abolished. Here's a contemporary account of the Leftist view of Cambodia. You'll recognize the tropes, eh?
"For years western imperialism raped an Asiatic land, killing nearly a million people, transforming a beautiful cultured Cambodian city into a ghetto, a brothel. But the people rose, freed themselves, threw out the intruders, found that their fine towns needed restoration. So they emptied the houses and began to clear up the mess. They began to scrub floors and walls, because people were never meant to live in degradation here, but in peace and with dignity. Then crocodile tears poured forth in the West. The brothel has been emptied and the clean-up is in progress. Only pimps can regret what is happening."
"When Gunnar Bergstrom was a guest in Khmer Rouge Cambodia of Pol Pot in August 1978, the Swede enjoyed a rare meeting and dinner of oysters hosted by Pol Pot.
The meal followed a rare interview he and three politcal comrades from Sweden were given by the innaccesible and secretive Pol Pot who was then presiding over the death of more than a million and a half people that was actually escalating and under full rage at the time of that August 1978 feast. he returned to Europe and labeled talk about genocide under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge rule as a Western lie.
The young Swedish leftists shared Pol Pot's view, seeing the Khmer Rouge takeover as a revolution to transform Cambodia into a fairer society benefiting the poor."
Go visit our universities and do some research - people were not cast out for these views. Most of them (or their proteges) are still teaching students.
This makes sense - if the point of journalism is to deliver high-quality photography of the kind that other photographers will appreciate. So much of old-fashioned journalism is a gigantic circle-jerk. It has been repeatedly proven that nobody needs this sort of hugely expensive photography in order to tell a story. A couple of snapshots are enough. "But how will anyone win the Pulitzer Prize?!?!" Yeah, the local newspaper won't win that anyway. It's more of a political award than an acknowledgement of talent.
Frankly, the people who will be providing said snapshots are ordinary folk posting on social media. Who cares what the f-stop was, or if someone took a shot facing into the sun? It's a freaking photo, it will be gone in 24 hours, why spend any money on it?
Professional photographers are, predictably, butthurt about the whole thing as it directly attacks their livelihood. When I became an adult I was just shocked at how horridly expensive photography is. And how stupidly overpowered this photography was for my needs. Nobody wants to pay $1500 for a photo of some ducks at a lake. I'm just illustrating an article, thanks. And yet until now this sort of market has existed. Insane, and it is quite gratifying to see this sort of elitist nonsense finally obsoleted.
Oh, don't believe me? One need only spend time on pro photographer forums to find out just how prevalent the snobbery is. Let's not even get into Nikon vs. Canon.
The smart people don't really want to help the lower class. Ugh, have you actually met any of them? Shudder. If anything they should be vexed even more than they are already.
What the smart people want is to be seen as helping the lower class. This gives you fantastic social status (among other smart people, naturally) and ensures that you will be invited to all the right parties. The lower class will themselves not be attending these parties. Again, a five minute conversation with any of them is quite enough.
Which brings to mind an interesting point: 40 years ago gays and pedophiles were both considered bad. Today, one is untouchable while the other is, if anything, worse off. Why is that?
In the 70s attempts were made by progressives to change society's attitude and achieve the sexual liberation of children. Unfortunately they failed and we as a culture are still stuck with attitudes that are centuries old.
No, there are no canals on Mars, you anti-scientific moron. Canals are artificial, they are made by MARTIANS!@#@!# Go back to your religion and constitution-worshipping wingnuts. Canals! On Mars! Modded +5 Informative! Ugh makes me want to puke when I see this sort of garbage in public.
This insistence on sticking to the letter of the constitution smacks of Tea Partyism. Let's get to the root of the matter, let's give up on the constitution. It contains archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions. Moreover, it is worshipped by right-wingers and anything that they like is dodgy by definition.
Feynman was a womanizer and misogynist. He freely admits to it in his autobiography. Stop idolizing the man. He's a disgrace and if he was around today would be tossed out of any reputable university.
What a bunch of B.S. D&D came from miniatures wargaming. The whole dungeon crawl thing was just another terrain. The "interactive improv theater" idea of D&D is something quite recent. Honestly, it was added in retrospect by players who just got bored with combats. Look at the damn rules of AD&D - spends most of its time describing combat and spends very little telling players how to riff off of each other, never contradict another player telling a story, and the well-worn story archetypes such as "the hero's journey".
Settlers of Catan is well-balanced?!? Oh, now THAT is hilarious! Settlers is well-known for being horridly UN-balanced! You made all the right choices, you placed in the right areas - and yet you watch while turn after turn, the dice fail to roll your numbers. You lose. LOL. Ask any serious Euro-gamer: Settlers of Catan is a joke. Might as well play Monopoly or Sorry, the outcome is equally random.
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So, you just made some shit up and tried to pin it on him? And that got +4 Interesting? WTF we are just making shit up now? It is depressing how many people simply refuse to believe that there might be nice places in the world where live nice people. They just can't get the idea through their minds - everybody in the world must be just like them, there cannot possibly be any diversity.
Communism works just fine. What they had in Eastern Europe wasn't communism, not by a long shot. Go to a major university and talk to some well-respected Marxist professors, they'll set you straight.
Funny, you advocate for science, and yet you merely make assertions without any evidence. Are you sure you know how science works? Should science really have people like you on its side?
Withdrawn unilaterally from several of the Geneva conventions...which ones would those be? The convention of 1949 or which one? We do know, right, that the Geneva convention only applies to uniformed combatants of a national armed force, right? Right? The proper response to an uniformed militant who doesn't represent a nation - someone like a Taliban - is, under the Geneva convention, immediate battlefield execution. No really.
I remember a time when in-state long distance was 50 cents a minute while out-of-state was 20-30 cents a minute. Some federal law or something. Which sucked, because everything I wanted to do was in-state. Enter phone phreaking! Make all your calls for free, from any phone in the country. There was a period of about eight years where I never paid for a phone call, ever. It was convenient as I ended up doing a lot of traveling and at the end I was making hour-long international phone calls originating overseas without worrying about a thing.
What killed it? The cost of long distance fell through the floor. It's been a while since cell networks let you call nationwide for the same price as local calls. Even direct-dialing international calls from my cell phone is a reasonable price.
Plus, SS7. Seriously, fuck SS7.
Other websites manage to display the time correctly without the stupid hack of "show the computer's local time."
Maybe the reason that everything they do is heavily scrutinised by rabid right-wing politicians and licence-fee payers is because the BBC are corrupt to the core. Seems like extra scrutiny is not only warranted but heartily welcomed.
Man, I wish there were no such thing as a "show the local computer's time" function. There are so many websites that should damn well know better that do this. Even sites for organizations that are responsible for keeping accurate time pull this crap. Timeanddate.com does a fantastic job, I've no idea why it can't be done elsewhere. Oh, right - 100 hours to fix it and that's not in the budget.
Funny, the today the unions have become plutocrats. Who will protect us from the corrupt unions? Get out of your fantasyland, it's not 1933 any more.
There's a huge backlash - right here. By weakening one amendment we weaken them all. hell, there are a lot of educated people who think the US Constitution is dumb and evil, because they despise the people who celebrate it.
Anyone who says Obama is worse than Bush is a conservative and quite likely a racist as well. You just
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I see comments everywhere decrying this. Where is the lack of concern, or are you just making shit up because you hate the 2nd?
You ever stop to think that they're right? The slide is continuing, when both sides say "things are going down" then they are merely making a correct observation. When one observes this at 85/100 and falling and another observes it at 55/100 and falling then both are right.
Inductive charging is highly wasteful. Imagine if millions of people switched. Good thing we're not all as selfish as you.
Occupy Wall Street was the voice of the 99% rising up against the 1%. The elite used police thugs to bring an end to the uppity commoners. It's sad you've fallen for the false narrative provided by Fox News.
Bullshit. Is that what we tell ourselves, or are the actions of the Left simply put down the garbage disposal of the Memory Hole? Cambodia was a revolutionary Marxist paradise. Private property, religion and money were abolished. Here's a contemporary account of the Leftist view of Cambodia. You'll recognize the tropes, eh?
"For years western imperialism raped an Asiatic land, killing nearly a million people, transforming a beautiful cultured Cambodian city into a ghetto, a brothel. But the people rose, freed themselves, threw out the intruders, found that their fine towns needed restoration. So they emptied the houses and began to clear up the mess. They began to scrub floors and walls, because people were never meant to live in degradation here, but in peace and with dignity. Then crocodile tears poured forth in the West. The brothel has been emptied and the clean-up is in progress. Only pimps can regret what is happening."
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"When Gunnar Bergstrom was a guest in Khmer Rouge Cambodia of Pol Pot in August 1978, the Swede enjoyed a rare meeting and dinner of oysters hosted by Pol Pot.
The meal followed a rare interview he and three politcal comrades from Sweden were given by the innaccesible and secretive Pol Pot who was then presiding over the death of more than a million and a half people that was actually escalating and under full rage at the time of that August 1978 feast. he returned to Europe and labeled talk about genocide under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge rule as a Western lie.
The young Swedish leftists shared Pol Pot's view, seeing the Khmer Rouge takeover as a revolution to transform Cambodia into a fairer society benefiting the poor."
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Edgar Snow lied like a dog about Mao Zedong, and Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for covering up Stalin's genocide in the Ukraine. The Pulitzer Prize committee flat-out refused to revoke his award.
Go visit our universities and do some research - people were not cast out for these views. Most of them (or their proteges) are still teaching students.
This makes sense - if the point of journalism is to deliver high-quality photography of the kind that other photographers will appreciate. So much of old-fashioned journalism is a gigantic circle-jerk. It has been repeatedly proven that nobody needs this sort of hugely expensive photography in order to tell a story. A couple of snapshots are enough. "But how will anyone win the Pulitzer Prize?!?!" Yeah, the local newspaper won't win that anyway. It's more of a political award than an acknowledgement of talent.
Frankly, the people who will be providing said snapshots are ordinary folk posting on social media. Who cares what the f-stop was, or if someone took a shot facing into the sun? It's a freaking photo, it will be gone in 24 hours, why spend any money on it?
Professional photographers are, predictably, butthurt about the whole thing as it directly attacks their livelihood. When I became an adult I was just shocked at how horridly expensive photography is. And how stupidly overpowered this photography was for my needs. Nobody wants to pay $1500 for a photo of some ducks at a lake. I'm just illustrating an article, thanks. And yet until now this sort of market has existed. Insane, and it is quite gratifying to see this sort of elitist nonsense finally obsoleted.
Oh, don't believe me? One need only spend time on pro photographer forums to find out just how prevalent the snobbery is. Let's not even get into Nikon vs. Canon.
LOL. Go ahead and talk to the lower classes in your precious Sweden. Invite them to your parties. Oh, you won't be doing that? Why, exactly?
Why do any of us even bother listening to Swedes? In another 20 years you'll all be gone.
Europeans make private residences with 8.5 inch thick concrete walls? Ugh, concrete is so soulless. I prefer natural materials.
The smart people don't really want to help the lower class. Ugh, have you actually met any of them? Shudder. If anything they should be vexed even more than they are already.
What the smart people want is to be seen as helping the lower class. This gives you fantastic social status (among other smart people, naturally) and ensures that you will be invited to all the right parties. The lower class will themselves not be attending these parties. Again, a five minute conversation with any of them is quite enough.
Which brings to mind an interesting point: 40 years ago gays and pedophiles were both considered bad. Today, one is untouchable while the other is, if anything, worse off. Why is that?
In the 70s attempts were made by progressives to change society's attitude and achieve the sexual liberation of children. Unfortunately they failed and we as a culture are still stuck with attitudes that are centuries old.
No, there are no canals on Mars, you anti-scientific moron. Canals are artificial, they are made by MARTIANS!@#@!# Go back to your religion and constitution-worshipping wingnuts. Canals! On Mars! Modded +5 Informative! Ugh makes me want to puke when I see this sort of garbage in public.
This insistence on sticking to the letter of the constitution smacks of Tea Partyism. Let's get to the root of the matter, let's give up on the constitution. It contains archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions. Moreover, it is worshipped by right-wingers and anything that they like is dodgy by definition.
Ah, another person who has no idea what the Straits of Malacca are, why they are important, or why Singapore was built where it was.
Feynman was a womanizer and misogynist. He freely admits to it in his autobiography. Stop idolizing the man. He's a disgrace and if he was around today would be tossed out of any reputable university.
What a bunch of B.S. D&D came from miniatures wargaming. The whole dungeon crawl thing was just another terrain. The "interactive improv theater" idea of D&D is something quite recent. Honestly, it was added in retrospect by players who just got bored with combats. Look at the damn rules of AD&D - spends most of its time describing combat and spends very little telling players how to riff off of each other, never contradict another player telling a story, and the well-worn story archetypes such as "the hero's journey".
Settlers of Catan is well-balanced?!? Oh, now THAT is hilarious! Settlers is well-known for being horridly UN-balanced! You made all the right choices, you placed in the right areas - and yet you watch while turn after turn, the dice fail to roll your numbers. You lose. LOL. Ask any serious Euro-gamer: Settlers of Catan is a joke. Might as well play Monopoly or Sorry, the outcome is equally random.