I don't know what media you've been consuming, but the Iraqi government of 2012 is openly hostile to the US government. Didn't you get the memo? It's understandable if your narrative regarding Iraq hasn't been updated since five years ago. You remember 2007? That was when Iraq disappeared from the pages of the mainstream media, what with the decisive defeat of al-Qaeda after the Sunni Awakening and all. It's understandable if your worldview is as outdated as "I kissed a girl and I liked it" by Avril Lavigne...the same year as "An Inconvenient Truth" won the Oscar for Best Documentary, beating out 'Iraq in Fragments' and the absurdly anti-Christian 'Jesus Camp'.
Is this the story which environmentalists tell themselves? This sounds ridiculous. Where's the dissent? As we all know, dissent is a healthy part of any debate. How about telling us the part about receiving, with full knowledge, funding from the Soviet Union? It's morally equivalent as taking funding from Khadaffy or Christians.
OK, since when is a crappy TV show some sort of barometer of government? When did this happen? Seriously, are your horizons that small? A CBS reality show somehow provides God's Honest Truth in what way exactly? Your negation of representative government by this method frightens me. You right-wingers will be the death of us all.
The B-1 works better for that purpose. If you need a flying bomb truck, a B-1 can cover a much larger area due to its speed. A B-52 would be there in hours, while a B-1 can be there in minutes. This is very important for soldiers on the ground who need air support NOW. All of Afghanistan - a quite large area - can be covered by a single B-1.
Yeah, you're right. People are so dumb they can't even stay on-topic. Every discussion, no matter how trivial, can be hijacked to serve a poster's idea of what's wrong with everyone else but me.
...and that's the problem, isn't it? You're not being actively inclusive. Seriously, how did you get through four years of college without learning about diversity and sexism? It was pounded into my head. This ridiculous meritocracy argument you advance is biased in favor of the patriarchy.
Killacycle? That's certainly an amusing name. You know what they call motorcycles at my Mom's hospital? Donorcycles. As in, young men ride them dangerously, are severely injured, and arrive at the hospital with a fresh supply of healthy, low-mileage organs. Asking a gearhead to tamper with software sounds like a great recipe for a new crop. After all, only one person dies, but the organs enable many people to live. It's win-win!
There is a wide, yawning gulf between "giving your own money, of your own free will, to a charity that shares your interests" and having your money confiscated by the government and spent on whatever they think is a good idea. I thought this was so obvious as to not need mentioning, but evidently someone needs to mention it.
He's not serving time because he stole pizza. He's in prison because he's a habitual criminal, someone to whom 'stealing' is a job, just like 'programming' is a job for many people here. Programmers belong in cubicles, criminals belong in jail.
"While Dan Rather attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable 'terrorist propaganda video,' it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," the family said.
"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose. By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan."
-- Mariane Pearl, May 15, 2002
TEHRAN (FNA)- The wife of Martyr Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, who was assassinated by Mossad agents in Tehran in January, reiterated on Tuesday that her husband sought the annihilation of the Zionist regime wholeheartedly.
"Mostafa's ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel," Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani told FNA on Tuesday.
Bolouri Kashani also underlined that her spouse loved any resistance figure in his life who was willing to fight the Zionist regime and supported the rights of the oppressed Palestinian nation.
Excuse me, what kind of fucked-up person are you who uses pain on dogs? WHAT THE FUCK? How are you not in prison for cruelty? Let me guess...Bu$h voter, right?
Oh, for fuck's sake, STOP REMIXING OLD CRAP. It won't be good, ever. You can't put lipstick on a pig. Take this "creative energy" (i.e. making entertainment product) and put it towards something actually useful. Have you considered learning calculus? It is immensely more rewarding, moreover it is the language of science. You know, that "science" stuff that everyone is always in favor of? Just think of the civilizational advances that would come from learning mathematics instead of motion picture editing. Ah, who am I kidding? We all know the future is in entertainment where nobody can say you're wrong...not like those despicable hard sciences where conclusions are falsifiable.
Well, let's all remember that Iran is a functioning fascist theocracy. What's the name of the country? Oh, right, "Islamic Republic of Iran". The nation is under the control of real-life religious nutcases. They fully intend to develop nuclear weapons and then use them to wipe Israel off the map. This will bring about the End Times and the revealing of the Twelfth Imam. You doubt? Ask your friendly neighborhood Persian what he thinks what should happen to Israel (don't bother asking his wife, he'll get angry if you're alone with her and afterwards he'll beat the shit out of her for being alone with a man who is not her relative, it's a lose-lose situation).
Grab J. Random Iranian off the street. Ask him: "Would you be willing to die in a nuclear exchange if it meant that Israel would cease to exist?" The answer: "Sure! Especially as I would be a martyr and get my 72 virgins in heaven!"
It's a bitch dealing with people who believe life doesn't even begin until after death, ain't it?
"The expatriate mentality is a tough thing to explain easily. Any affluent or even middle-class American who renounces the good life of sushi delivery and 500-channel cable television to relocate permanently to some third-world hole usually has to be motivated by a highly destructive personality defect. Either that, or something about home creates psychological demons that in turn create the urge for radical escape."
-- Mark Ames, _The Exile: Sex, Drugs, And Libel In The New Russia_
Yeah, go ahead and go to another country. You'll be back in America within a year.
How about making your own? Seriously. Nobody's forcing anyone to use Google or any other service. If you don't like it, change. If you don't like the other choices, start your own. It's really that simple. According to your own analysis, there is a huge underserved market out there waiting for a player to enter the game.
Yeah, it's called "paying the price for shipping a crappy product." Customers have a long memory. When they get burned, they remember it and make sure to repeat it constantly, so as to make the company pay for blatantly cheating them. Have we never heard of this phenomenon before?
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I don't know what media you've been consuming, but the Iraqi government of 2012 is openly hostile to the US government. Didn't you get the memo? It's understandable if your narrative regarding Iraq hasn't been updated since five years ago. You remember 2007? That was when Iraq disappeared from the pages of the mainstream media, what with the decisive defeat of al-Qaeda after the Sunni Awakening and all. It's understandable if your worldview is as outdated as "I kissed a girl and I liked it" by Avril Lavigne...the same year as "An Inconvenient Truth" won the Oscar for Best Documentary, beating out 'Iraq in Fragments' and the absurdly anti-Christian 'Jesus Camp'.
Is this the story which environmentalists tell themselves? This sounds ridiculous. Where's the dissent? As we all know, dissent is a healthy part of any debate. How about telling us the part about receiving, with full knowledge, funding from the Soviet Union? It's morally equivalent as taking funding from Khadaffy or Christians.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
-- Benito Mussolini
OK, since when is a crappy TV show some sort of barometer of government? When did this happen? Seriously, are your horizons that small? A CBS reality show somehow provides God's Honest Truth in what way exactly? Your negation of representative government by this method frightens me. You right-wingers will be the death of us all.
"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."
The B-1 works better for that purpose. If you need a flying bomb truck, a B-1 can cover a much larger area due to its speed. A B-52 would be there in hours, while a B-1 can be there in minutes. This is very important for soldiers on the ground who need air support NOW. All of Afghanistan - a quite large area - can be covered by a single B-1.
Yeah, you're right. People are so dumb they can't even stay on-topic. Every discussion, no matter how trivial, can be hijacked to serve a poster's idea of what's wrong with everyone else but me.
...and that's the problem, isn't it? You're not being actively inclusive. Seriously, how did you get through four years of college without learning about diversity and sexism? It was pounded into my head. This ridiculous meritocracy argument you advance is biased in favor of the patriarchy.
-- Windows XP Professional license agreement
Killacycle? That's certainly an amusing name. You know what they call motorcycles at my Mom's hospital? Donorcycles. As in, young men ride them dangerously, are severely injured, and arrive at the hospital with a fresh supply of healthy, low-mileage organs. Asking a gearhead to tamper with software sounds like a great recipe for a new crop. After all, only one person dies, but the organs enable many people to live. It's win-win!
They're called M$ because a bad reputation takes a long, long time to live down.
Re-read the above comment, but mentally hear it in an "Inigo Montoya" accent. Works surprisingly well.
There is a wide, yawning gulf between "giving your own money, of your own free will, to a charity that shares your interests" and having your money confiscated by the government and spent on whatever they think is a good idea. I thought this was so obvious as to not need mentioning, but evidently someone needs to mention it.
He's not serving time because he stole pizza. He's in prison because he's a habitual criminal, someone to whom 'stealing' is a job, just like 'programming' is a job for many people here. Programmers belong in cubicles, criminals belong in jail.
"While Dan Rather attempts to rationalize the network's heartless decision to air this despicable 'terrorist propaganda video,' it is beyond our comprehension that any mother, wife, father or sister should have to relive this horrific tragedy and watch their loved one being repeatedly terrorized," the family said.
"Terrorists have made this video confident that the American media would broadcast it and thereby serve their exact purpose. By showing this video, CBS or any other broadcaster willing to show it proves that they fall without shame into the terrorists' plan."
-- Mariane Pearl, May 15, 2002
Uh, no. Please, for the love of God, stop assuming everyone has the same preconceptions as you. "Creativity" = ability to entertain other humans.
TEHRAN (FNA)- The wife of Martyr Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, who was assassinated by Mossad agents in Tehran in January, reiterated on Tuesday that her husband sought the annihilation of the Zionist regime wholeheartedly.
"Mostafa's ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel," Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani told FNA on Tuesday.
Bolouri Kashani also underlined that her spouse loved any resistance figure in his life who was willing to fight the Zionist regime and supported the rights of the oppressed Palestinian nation.
Excuse me, what kind of fucked-up person are you who uses pain on dogs? WHAT THE FUCK? How are you not in prison for cruelty? Let me guess...Bu$h voter, right?
Oh, for fuck's sake, STOP REMIXING OLD CRAP. It won't be good, ever. You can't put lipstick on a pig. Take this "creative energy" (i.e. making entertainment product) and put it towards something actually useful. Have you considered learning calculus? It is immensely more rewarding, moreover it is the language of science. You know, that "science" stuff that everyone is always in favor of? Just think of the civilizational advances that would come from learning mathematics instead of motion picture editing. Ah, who am I kidding? We all know the future is in entertainment where nobody can say you're wrong...not like those despicable hard sciences where conclusions are falsifiable.
Oh, right...Slashdot groupthink. Remember...Google isn't evil. They would never do anything like that.
Well, let's all remember that Iran is a functioning fascist theocracy. What's the name of the country? Oh, right, "Islamic Republic of Iran". The nation is under the control of real-life religious nutcases. They fully intend to develop nuclear weapons and then use them to wipe Israel off the map. This will bring about the End Times and the revealing of the Twelfth Imam. You doubt? Ask your friendly neighborhood Persian what he thinks what should happen to Israel (don't bother asking his wife, he'll get angry if you're alone with her and afterwards he'll beat the shit out of her for being alone with a man who is not her relative, it's a lose-lose situation).
Grab J. Random Iranian off the street. Ask him: "Would you be willing to die in a nuclear exchange if it meant that Israel would cease to exist?" The answer: "Sure! Especially as I would be a martyr and get my 72 virgins in heaven!"
It's a bitch dealing with people who believe life doesn't even begin until after death, ain't it?
-- Mark Ames, _The Exile: Sex, Drugs, And Libel In The New Russia_
Yeah, go ahead and go to another country. You'll be back in America within a year.
Don't talk to us like you talk to your daughter!
How about making your own? Seriously. Nobody's forcing anyone to use Google or any other service. If you don't like it, change. If you don't like the other choices, start your own. It's really that simple. According to your own analysis, there is a huge underserved market out there waiting for a player to enter the game.
Yeah, it's called "paying the price for shipping a crappy product." Customers have a long memory. When they get burned, they remember it and make sure to repeat it constantly, so as to make the company pay for blatantly cheating them. Have we never heard of this phenomenon before?