I'll never understand why people enjoy eating lobsters. It's cultural, I'm sure. Lobster has been defined as a luxury dish, so people want it. Lobsters are giant freaking bugs, man. They have creepy claws and EYESTALKS, for God's sake. Totally gross.
Hey, it beats the overtly political stories any day. Just look at all the frothing of the mouth at "teh military industrial complexxx!" on the F-22 story. Give me conversations about Linux any day. Save that other crap for any of the other millions of websites out there that are not for nerds.
It's frankly disingenous[sp], disrespectful, rude and counter-productive to imply that anyone who opposes same-sex marriage is necessarily a hate-mongering bigot.
This is a bizarro idea I have never seen expressed before on the internet, much less by a gay. Care to expand on this? Is there something wrong with your brain? Have you been for a CAT scan recently?
The "bilingual" education in California is not bilingual at all. It merely teaches Spanish. The graduates of the system are as monolingual as any American who took two years of Spanish in high school. They just called it bilingual education in a successful attempt to get people to vote for it.
Someone has to develop it. It ain't gonna come out of pure research. If we're being robbed blind by these fuckers, the least they can do is develop advanced communications systems that the rest of us can use.
It says that the Americans put on their thinking caps and came up with a solution to a very difficult problem, in the best tradition of their kind.
Let me guess, your next example is going to be the old saw about the American vs. Soviet space programs, and how the Americans spent millions on a pen while the Soviets used a pencil. The AK vs. M-16 debate has been had a million times. Think of a slider bar with "reliability" on one side and "accuracy" on the other. Then, think about each nation's militaries (conscripts who have never seen a flush toilet vs. motivated volunteers).
That's OK - just call it the Lawn Dart and everyone will know what you're talking about. The joke comes out of the fact that the F-16 is a single engine airplane and has all fly-by-wire flight controls without manual backup. Combine that ALSO with the fact that a lot of F-16s were powered by the Pratt F-100-PW-220 engine, which has had a reputation for being not exactly the most reliable motor. This has led to a lot of people needing to bail out of the jet for engine problems -- failure, fire, bird ingestion, etc. This leaves that sleek, pointy-nosed aerospace vehicle to fall to earth ballistically, just like a lawn dart. They lost nearly a squadron a year this way.
They called it the Viper after the Colonial Viper from the Battlestar Galactica TV series. The real one - the one with the inimitable Lorne Greene as Commander Adama and the dashing Dirk Benedict as Starbuck the cigar-chomping, womanizing lovable rogue. You know, back when they used to come up with new ideas for TV shows instead of "re-imagining" old series that frankly weren't that great in the first place.
What's wrong with that? It fits the narrative. News is about telling stories. What kind of story does your BS quote tell? Can you imagine a genuine, bona fide journalist telling your story?
So, now we just make shit up about our political opponents, eh? Who supports "buy American"?
The propensity of leftwingers to change their tune in an instant and bury the previous view is well-known. George Orwell wrote about it in 1984, based on his experience with lefties in the UK and the Hitler-Stalin pact.
Does a PDF show inline comments? The idea was, he inserts his comments and send the file back. I'll be honest, I was so shocked that the iPad didn't have a free.DOC viewer worth anything, it didn't occur to me. I just gave up in disgust at that point.
Huh? The Tea Party are nationalists, they want American products made in America for Americans. Surely you know that. If I got the political affiliation wrong, then you were spouting the exact same crap as the people you despise. How does it feel to receive abuse?
Well, that sucks. I live in an area (China) where Google does not allow any payments AT ALL. That's right, I can't buy anything even if I want to. I even tried using a VPN to come from America - nope, Google looks at your SIM card. China Unicom, no dice. Pleco, an excellent Chinese dictionary application, cleverly got around this by offering a web page where you could buy a registration number outside the app. See, most of their customers are in China, obviously. Now that's in ruins. Good job, Google. Dicks.
Yeah, sure, this is an astroturf post. Why else would it repeat Apple's words, as well as provide links to all the appropriate ads? You know, they intentionally make lame ads like this to "encourage" social media discussion. The worst ad is the one that nobody talks about.
Enough about that, let's examine Apple's most famous ad, "1984". Read the text, while thinking (differently) about the kind of company that Apple is in 2012.
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.
We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology.
Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths.
Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.
We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.
Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.
We shall prevail!"
How ironic, eh? Apple has become the very thing that they despised, back then. One True Way of doing things, and if you don't like it, hit the highway.
I'm a late adopter, for very good reasons I won't go into here. I recently saw my first iPad in the wild, my new roomie has one. I had some cool Cajun mp3s he wanted, so I gave him my USB stick to transfer the files. I even GAVE him the actual CD that I purchased from the hand of the artist himself, to keep, as I didn't particularly care for the music and he loved it. Oops! The iPad doesn't have a USB port. He explained he had to do everything by iTunes. Bummer, eh?
Next, he was going for a new job, and wanted me to look over his contract. He sent me the.DOC file by email, and I annotated it using Libre Office's "CTRL-ALT-C comment" function. I highlighted the parts of the contract I thought should be changed, made my comments, and resent the file to him. Oops! Turns out, there's no free.DOC reader that will show those comments. His brother ended up loading the files onto his PC and sending him JPG screenshots. I'm sure if he wanted to pay $19.99, there would be some sort of solution to his problem. Again, a garden of pure ideology, secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths.
Jeez, the entire Apple motto, "Think Different", is a riff on IBM's motto, "Think". Let's all think differently and ignore the obvious grammatical error. Oof, how outdated! It's like how Texas A&M defines themselves by the rivalry to UT, and has no personality without it...now they're in different conferences. Awkward.
While I'm first in line to shit all over CCTV (China Central Television) for being the one-sided pillar of propaganda that it is (sort of like if the Obama administration purchased the New York Times) their Olympic coverage is quite nice. They don't do ANY lifestyle/puff pieces on the athletes' lives. It's all sports, all the time. Of course, the time zones are a problem, but whatchagonnado? The events are biased towards those likely to be won by China, but hey gotta give it to them, eh. What kind of unpatriotic freaks don't support their own people in the Olympics? Thus, we get extensive coverage of the two most important events: badminton and ping pong. Yeah, I'm not kidding - those events are Serious Business[tm] in China. Nobody realizes that they are joke events, sort of like how the private school trust fund horsey set never realize that dressage isn't mainstream. Still, better to watch ANY real Olympic sport than commercials and a 20-minute report on an American athlete's relationship with her Yorkshire Terrier. Bonus: if I don't listen carefully, I can't hear the inane announcers ruining the event with their idiotic observations. All that being said, it's not all wine and roses: last night, they had men's synchronized diving on CCTV-5 and women's weightlifting on CCTV-1. Ugh. Switching channels had no effect. Female weightlifters are among the least telegenic athletes of the games, and if I wanted to watch pork and beans I'd open up a can of Hormel.
You are essentially locking Americans out of large sectors of the economy, obviously giving them zero opportunities to replace the ones you've taken away.
You know, no matter how many times I see this jingoist, nationalistic bullshit, it never gets any less putrid. Fuck Americans, fuck you, and fuck your Tea Party fuckwit asshole nativist friends. Let the rest of the world taste prosperity for a change. It's not all about you.
Try living outside it, for a change. I live in a real-life police state. The difference from America is astounding. People here would give anything to have the freedoms Americans have. Being able to post your own videos to youtube! Being able to start your own media company with no license needed from the government! Being able to own firearms! Being able to vote! In my experience, Americans who try to peddle the "democracy is a scam" bullshit are just untraveled morons who have never seen what it's like to live under any other system.
Overwhelming force causes hopelessness in potential adversaries. If they say, "damn, look what they have, we will never win, why even try to challenge them?" then you've won without fighting. Sun Tzu approves.
The problem comes when you let yourself decay and adversaries smell blood, and think they can get one over on Uncle Sammie. Japan tried that, it didn't work out too well for them.
I started reading it. It started off well, but then by Chapter 5 went all bonkers. It's like a leftist masturbatory fantasy of HOW BAD THINGS WILL BE if we don't listen to leftists and implement their failed policies IMMEDIATELY.
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It's nauseating for a people to be proud of their accomplishments? What sort of fucked-up culture do you live in where this is the case? Seriously.
I'll never understand why people enjoy eating lobsters. It's cultural, I'm sure. Lobster has been defined as a luxury dish, so people want it. Lobsters are giant freaking bugs, man. They have creepy claws and EYESTALKS, for God's sake. Totally gross.
Hey, it beats the overtly political stories any day. Just look at all the frothing of the mouth at "teh military industrial complexxx!" on the F-22 story. Give me conversations about Linux any day. Save that other crap for any of the other millions of websites out there that are not for nerds.
This is a bizarro idea I have never seen expressed before on the internet, much less by a gay. Care to expand on this? Is there something wrong with your brain? Have you been for a CAT scan recently?
The "bilingual" education in California is not bilingual at all. It merely teaches Spanish. The graduates of the system are as monolingual as any American who took two years of Spanish in high school. They just called it bilingual education in a successful attempt to get people to vote for it.
Someone has to develop it. It ain't gonna come out of pure research. If we're being robbed blind by these fuckers, the least they can do is develop advanced communications systems that the rest of us can use.
It says that the Americans put on their thinking caps and came up with a solution to a very difficult problem, in the best tradition of their kind.
Let me guess, your next example is going to be the old saw about the American vs. Soviet space programs, and how the Americans spent millions on a pen while the Soviets used a pencil. The AK vs. M-16 debate has been had a million times. Think of a slider bar with "reliability" on one side and "accuracy" on the other. Then, think about each nation's militaries (conscripts who have never seen a flush toilet vs. motivated volunteers).
That's OK - just call it the Lawn Dart and everyone will know what you're talking about. The joke comes out of the fact that the F-16 is a single engine airplane and has all fly-by-wire flight controls without manual backup. Combine that ALSO with the fact that a lot of F-16s were powered by the Pratt F-100-PW-220 engine, which has had a reputation for being not exactly the most reliable motor. This has led to a lot of people needing to bail out of the jet for engine problems -- failure, fire, bird ingestion, etc. This leaves that sleek, pointy-nosed aerospace vehicle to fall to earth ballistically, just like a lawn dart. They lost nearly a squadron a year this way.
They called it the Viper after the Colonial Viper from the Battlestar Galactica TV series. The real one - the one with the inimitable Lorne Greene as Commander Adama and the dashing Dirk Benedict as Starbuck the cigar-chomping, womanizing lovable rogue. You know, back when they used to come up with new ideas for TV shows instead of "re-imagining" old series that frankly weren't that great in the first place.
What's wrong with that? It fits the narrative. News is about telling stories. What kind of story does your BS quote tell? Can you imagine a genuine, bona fide journalist telling your story?
The propensity of leftwingers to change their tune in an instant and bury the previous view is well-known. George Orwell wrote about it in 1984, based on his experience with lefties in the UK and the Hitler-Stalin pact.
Point: we should have new, safe nuclear reactors instead of the ancient designs.
Anti-nuclear Counterpoint: No, absolutely not. We need no nuclear power whatsoever.
Point: We need more power, and nuclear power is the best option.
Anti-nuclear Counterpoint: No. We need less power, period. People must suffer for their sins against the environment.
Point: aren't you just a bunch of extremists who get lovey-dovey treatment from the mainsteam media because the MSM shares your views?
Anti-nuclear Counterpoint: No. We are the mainstream ones. Why, everyone we know is anti-nuclear - this means everyone is!
Does a PDF show inline comments? The idea was, he inserts his comments and send the file back. I'll be honest, I was so shocked that the iPad didn't have a free .DOC viewer worth anything, it didn't occur to me. I just gave up in disgust at that point.
Which would promptly be pirated all over the net.
Huh? The Tea Party are nationalists, they want American products made in America for Americans. Surely you know that. If I got the political affiliation wrong, then you were spouting the exact same crap as the people you despise. How does it feel to receive abuse?
OSX? We're talking about iPad. Nice try to distract the conversation.
Well, that sucks. I live in an area (China) where Google does not allow any payments AT ALL. That's right, I can't buy anything even if I want to. I even tried using a VPN to come from America - nope, Google looks at your SIM card. China Unicom, no dice. Pleco, an excellent Chinese dictionary application, cleverly got around this by offering a web page where you could buy a registration number outside the app. See, most of their customers are in China, obviously. Now that's in ruins. Good job, Google. Dicks.
Typical. Logical fallacy of proof by contradiction. Throw some falsifiable theories out there and we'll talk.
Enough about that, let's examine Apple's most famous ad, "1984". Read the text, while thinking (differently) about the kind of company that Apple is in 2012.
How ironic, eh? Apple has become the very thing that they despised, back then. One True Way of doing things, and if you don't like it, hit the highway.
I'm a late adopter, for very good reasons I won't go into here. I recently saw my first iPad in the wild, my new roomie has one. I had some cool Cajun mp3s he wanted, so I gave him my USB stick to transfer the files. I even GAVE him the actual CD that I purchased from the hand of the artist himself, to keep, as I didn't particularly care for the music and he loved it. Oops! The iPad doesn't have a USB port. He explained he had to do everything by iTunes. Bummer, eh?
Next, he was going for a new job, and wanted me to look over his contract. He sent me the .DOC file by email, and I annotated it using Libre Office's "CTRL-ALT-C comment" function. I highlighted the parts of the contract I thought should be changed, made my comments, and resent the file to him. Oops! Turns out, there's no free .DOC reader that will show those comments. His brother ended up loading the files onto his PC and sending him JPG screenshots. I'm sure if he wanted to pay $19.99, there would be some sort of solution to his problem. Again, a garden of pure ideology, secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths.
Jeez, the entire Apple motto, "Think Different", is a riff on IBM's motto, "Think". Let's all think differently and ignore the obvious grammatical error. Oof, how outdated! It's like how Texas A&M defines themselves by the rivalry to UT, and has no personality without it...now they're in different conferences. Awkward.
BTW, sorry for using three colons in the same post.. Kinda got carried away in the stream of consciousness there.
While I'm first in line to shit all over CCTV (China Central Television) for being the one-sided pillar of propaganda that it is (sort of like if the Obama administration purchased the New York Times) their Olympic coverage is quite nice. They don't do ANY lifestyle/puff pieces on the athletes' lives. It's all sports, all the time. Of course, the time zones are a problem, but whatchagonnado? The events are biased towards those likely to be won by China, but hey gotta give it to them, eh. What kind of unpatriotic freaks don't support their own people in the Olympics? Thus, we get extensive coverage of the two most important events: badminton and ping pong. Yeah, I'm not kidding - those events are Serious Business[tm] in China. Nobody realizes that they are joke events, sort of like how the private school trust fund horsey set never realize that dressage isn't mainstream. Still, better to watch ANY real Olympic sport than commercials and a 20-minute report on an American athlete's relationship with her Yorkshire Terrier. Bonus: if I don't listen carefully, I can't hear the inane announcers ruining the event with their idiotic observations. All that being said, it's not all wine and roses: last night, they had men's synchronized diving on CCTV-5 and women's weightlifting on CCTV-1. Ugh. Switching channels had no effect. Female weightlifters are among the least telegenic athletes of the games, and if I wanted to watch pork and beans I'd open up a can of Hormel.
You are essentially locking Americans out of large sectors of the economy, obviously giving them zero opportunities to replace the ones you've taken away.
You know, no matter how many times I see this jingoist, nationalistic bullshit, it never gets any less putrid. Fuck Americans, fuck you, and fuck your Tea Party fuckwit asshole nativist friends. Let the rest of the world taste prosperity for a change. It's not all about you.
Try living outside it, for a change. I live in a real-life police state. The difference from America is astounding. People here would give anything to have the freedoms Americans have. Being able to post your own videos to youtube! Being able to start your own media company with no license needed from the government! Being able to own firearms! Being able to vote! In my experience, Americans who try to peddle the "democracy is a scam" bullshit are just untraveled morons who have never seen what it's like to live under any other system.
The problem comes when you let yourself decay and adversaries smell blood, and think they can get one over on Uncle Sammie. Japan tried that, it didn't work out too well for them.
I started reading it. It started off well, but then by Chapter 5 went all bonkers. It's like a leftist masturbatory fantasy of HOW BAD THINGS WILL BE if we don't listen to leftists and implement their failed policies IMMEDIATELY.
The F-14, despite its starring role in Top Gun, was not a Fighter. I was an Interceptor, a different beast altogether.