Battle of Britain decided by V-2s? Whuh? +5 Informative? In addition to the fact that the V rockets didn't exist in the same timeframe as the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe had no problem finding and bombing British airfields. It was a command decision to switch from a war of attrition against British air to terror bombing against cities that allowed the RAF a much-needed breather, at the cost of thousands of civilian lives.
The Pathfinder bombers were purely on the Allied side, in Europe no less. What about the other sides to the conflict, in other theaters? Typical Ameri-eurocentric view of WWII, misinformed and blindly following the narrative instead of the facts.
Let's not be so fast to judge - Wayne Hoehn is no hero. First, he's from Kentucky, a well-known redneck state. Second, he's a crazy Vietnam veteran. This white man killed nonwhites because they opposed Nixon! While we can all say that Righthaven isn't the good guy, Hoehn is certainly not on the good side either. It's like the Joker vs. the Riddler: whoever wins, we lose.
the freedom to behave in as dangerous and irresponsible fashion as we free red-blooded Americans damn well please.
Implicit in the idea of "freedom" is the freedom of choice. That choice includes the "wrong" decisions. Who decides what's wrong and what's right? You? Of course! Society's betters are always correct, this has been proven thousands of times by history. Oh, wait, history is full of contrary examples. Damn you, facts! The narrative is always right!
Even if it somewhat accurately reflects the uglier facets of the American Spirit.
So, is it accurate or not? Stop joking and state a solid viewpoint. If you're anti-American, get right out there and say it. There's nothing to be ashamed about! You're in good company with Che Guevara, Janeane Garofalo, Moammar Ghadaffi, Oliver Stone, Hugo Chavez, NPR CEO and President Vivian Schiller, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. What's to be ashamed of? Why so serious?
Obama was the last great hope? What the fuck? He was never any great hope...the media came up with that. Remember the serious, accredited journalists crying openly on camera on election night? Obama wisely shut the hell up and let the narrative play itself out, and rode it all the way to the White House.
Six months ago Khadaffy and his government were the darlings of the civilized world. He met with many top European leaders. He gave the al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights to the progressive President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Trade was supposed to open up his regime, just like it opened up other oppressive countries. Give the common folk a taste of the good life and suddenly they want more than Khadaffy's couple hundred dinars a month.
"Don't sell to dictators"? And then you mention China? China's not a dictatorship, dude. No more oil from Saudi Arabia...laff. Then, it's a segue to an unrelated topic, encrypted communication. Dude, I have two questions for you: (1) what are you smoking, and (2) where can I get some?
Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is the most likely.
What's the more likely scenario: an international CIA conspiracy that doesn't leak secrets and actually works, or the fact that Anonymous is just a bunch of assholes?
Uh, maybe because snow is so rare as to not require municipal investment in snow removal equipment? Maybe the money would be better spent on hurricane preparedness or flood control? No, no, no...snow is "normal" within the tiny confines of sjbe's mind, and therefore everywhere in the world should be able to deal with it. Lost is the irony that now that the shoe is on the other foot, New Yorkers are freaking out at not even a hurricane, but a mere tropical storm.
How about this: why don't you open a snow tire business in Birmingham and see how well you do?
Where the hell do you live? "Potemkin villages"? All the fake DVD and software shops were shut down a couple of years ago. Heck, all I can find is legitimate software these days. Please let me know this mythical city with the DVD market still there, I much desire to visit it.
The worm actually tries the password 12345? Windows admins use this password to log in to their servers remotely? Somebody must, otherwise the worm wouldn't spread. That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Why don't you read your own website? It's obvious that you don't, due to the sheer number of duplicate stories that appear, well into 2011. I'm a big fan of the "two stories posted on the front page at the same time" method as well as the "we posted this two months ago and yet I'm treating it as if it just happened because obviously I didn't keep up with my own website."
Biased result - what they should have done was give people a set amount of time work to do, gave them the same amount of money, and then measured the productivity of the two groups. Instead, they put the first group to work for the full 30 minutes and then gave the second group 20 minutes of work, a break to browse the web for 10 minutes, then 10 more minutes of work. A break gives you more productivity on tedious tasks like highlighting every letter 'e' in a Word document? Duh! At least it was done in Singapore so we know no U.S. tax dollars were spent on such an obvious conclusion.
How about people who don't work at all but screw around on the web all day? Giving them the same amount of money for work or no work would answer that question. I know for a fact some people will sit around all day at work commenting on their friends' facebook status, checking twitter, watching Youtube with headphones on, and reading celebrity news. Heck, I've done my fair share of wasting time, too..."Honest boss, I need to check Slashdot all day to...uh...stay current in tech trends!" (to be fair this was back in 2001 when this website was a different place)
Oh, so *that's* what happened in Wisconsin! Jeez, now I understand all the videos of dissenters getting the shit kicked out of them by "union" thugs. They were hired by the governor and his mafia allies!
so its kind of easy for IBM to spend on R&D in the 1930s, considering that every government on the planet was pouring money into it's coffers.
This doesn't follow. Who the hell is talking about the 1930s? Where did this come from? We're talking about 2011. Just because a company is making money doesn't mean they invest in R&D. That's the entire point of the fucking article. Did you take some weird anti-IBM university course? Are you a disgruntled former IBM employee? Do you understand how "3 countries" does not equal "every country in the world"? I weep for the state of higher education. PS, that shift key next to the "Z" on your keyboard is used to capitalize the first word of each sentence. Obviously, you know where it is because you correctly capitalized IBM, IT, and (bizarrely) Hitler. Oh, and this link's for you: Bob the Angry Flower's Guide to its and it's.
This can't be true. Journalists are the smart people. Otherwise, they wouldn't be journalists. You seem to be implying they're just as anti-intellectual and anti-learning as a person who lives in a rural area, a patently false assertion.
"CBS News has a culture, has a history that for those of us who work here, is very real - that we see it as a sort of magical mystical kingdom of journalistic knights - and I know I can mentally hear people rolling their eyes, that's the way we feel."
-- Ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather
What the fuck is a haypenny? Some sort of agricultural redstate slang? Nobody knows what hay is, you ignorant redneck. Go back to feeding the livestock with antibiotics and molesting ruminants.
I even volunteered to be a "Nielsen family," but I guess they didn't give them to single geeks.
Huh. I suppose you got all that education, and still don't understand the meaning of the word "family".
"Hillbillies". "Trailer parks". "Rednecks". Wow, keep the class-based racial hatred flowing, shall we? Basing your prejudices on a sample size of one...that's a real way to show your education has enlightened you, eh? What would you call these people were they dark-skinned? More to the point, what would we call you?
Hate speech is not free speech. It has no place on the university campus and anyone caught with hate literature or speaking hate will be expelled to the applause of everyone. Universities are bastions of free thinking, not academies of prejudice against those who think differently.
The 80287 was a separate chip from the 80286. To be fair, back then nobody needed math coprocessors. Unless you were running CAD or scientific applications, they were irrelevant and never used.
I live in China, and one of my favorite pastimes in my town was to ride my electric moped around and discover new places. Who knows where the road leads? What, I got lost? Big deal, it just helps to get to know the city. After a while, I got a reputation as the guy to ask when someone needed to know where something was.
About a year ago, a new arrival in town showed me her iPhone. It had integrated GPS with Google Maps, in English even. All the shops were there, even the small ones. I saw a place I wanted to go, and asked her how to get there. She said she had no idea, she just popped up a window with the address in Chinese and showed it to the taxi. Getting around town by bike was a foreign idea to her. She also showed me her Chinese food menu (bilingual with photos) and her voice activated translation program (just speak and it translates to Chinese). I said, "Wow, with this you don't need to know anything or speak Chinese at all." She said, "Yeah, isn't it great!" I just sighed.
It's the same as Firefox developers. They don't want to make a solid product, they want to make something new. Why? Because it's fun. Screw what the rest of us think.
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The Pathfinder bombers were purely on the Allied side, in Europe no less. What about the other sides to the conflict, in other theaters? Typical Ameri-eurocentric view of WWII, misinformed and blindly following the narrative instead of the facts.
Let's not be so fast to judge - Wayne Hoehn is no hero. First, he's from Kentucky, a well-known redneck state. Second, he's a crazy Vietnam veteran. This white man killed nonwhites because they opposed Nixon! While we can all say that Righthaven isn't the good guy, Hoehn is certainly not on the good side either. It's like the Joker vs. the Riddler: whoever wins, we lose.
Fuck you, teabagger. Less government is NEVER the solution.
the freedom to behave in as dangerous and irresponsible fashion as we free red-blooded Americans damn well please.
Implicit in the idea of "freedom" is the freedom of choice. That choice includes the "wrong" decisions. Who decides what's wrong and what's right? You? Of course! Society's betters are always correct, this has been proven thousands of times by history. Oh, wait, history is full of contrary examples. Damn you, facts! The narrative is always right!
Even if it somewhat accurately reflects the uglier facets of the American Spirit.
So, is it accurate or not? Stop joking and state a solid viewpoint. If you're anti-American, get right out there and say it. There's nothing to be ashamed about! You're in good company with Che Guevara, Janeane Garofalo, Moammar Ghadaffi, Oliver Stone, Hugo Chavez, NPR CEO and President Vivian Schiller, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. What's to be ashamed of? Why so serious?
Obama was the last great hope? What the fuck? He was never any great hope...the media came up with that. Remember the serious, accredited journalists crying openly on camera on election night? Obama wisely shut the hell up and let the narrative play itself out, and rode it all the way to the White House.
Six months ago Khadaffy and his government were the darlings of the civilized world. He met with many top European leaders. He gave the al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights to the progressive President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Trade was supposed to open up his regime, just like it opened up other oppressive countries. Give the common folk a taste of the good life and suddenly they want more than Khadaffy's couple hundred dinars a month.
"Don't sell to dictators"? And then you mention China? China's not a dictatorship, dude. No more oil from Saudi Arabia...laff. Then, it's a segue to an unrelated topic, encrypted communication. Dude, I have two questions for you: (1) what are you smoking, and (2) where can I get some?
What's the more likely scenario: an international CIA conspiracy that doesn't leak secrets and actually works, or the fact that Anonymous is just a bunch of assholes?
Uh, maybe because snow is so rare as to not require municipal investment in snow removal equipment? Maybe the money would be better spent on hurricane preparedness or flood control? No, no, no...snow is "normal" within the tiny confines of sjbe's mind, and therefore everywhere in the world should be able to deal with it. Lost is the irony that now that the shoe is on the other foot, New Yorkers are freaking out at not even a hurricane, but a mere tropical storm.
How about this: why don't you open a snow tire business in Birmingham and see how well you do?
Where the hell do you live? "Potemkin villages"? All the fake DVD and software shops were shut down a couple of years ago. Heck, all I can find is legitimate software these days. Please let me know this mythical city with the DVD market still there, I much desire to visit it.
The worm actually tries the password 12345? Windows admins use this password to log in to their servers remotely? Somebody must, otherwise the worm wouldn't spread. That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Why don't you read your own website? It's obvious that you don't, due to the sheer number of duplicate stories that appear, well into 2011. I'm a big fan of the "two stories posted on the front page at the same time" method as well as the "we posted this two months ago and yet I'm treating it as if it just happened because obviously I didn't keep up with my own website."
And in 1980, you would have been correct. "Not actually useful yet for anything that matters" is an accurate statement in 2011.
Vulcans were inspired by science and computer geeks of the 60s.
Biased result - what they should have done was give people a set amount of time work to do, gave them the same amount of money, and then measured the productivity of the two groups. Instead, they put the first group to work for the full 30 minutes and then gave the second group 20 minutes of work, a break to browse the web for 10 minutes, then 10 more minutes of work. A break gives you more productivity on tedious tasks like highlighting every letter 'e' in a Word document? Duh! At least it was done in Singapore so we know no U.S. tax dollars were spent on such an obvious conclusion.
How about people who don't work at all but screw around on the web all day? Giving them the same amount of money for work or no work would answer that question. I know for a fact some people will sit around all day at work commenting on their friends' facebook status, checking twitter, watching Youtube with headphones on, and reading celebrity news. Heck, I've done my fair share of wasting time, too..."Honest boss, I need to check Slashdot all day to...uh...stay current in tech trends!" (to be fair this was back in 2001 when this website was a different place)
Oh, so *that's* what happened in Wisconsin! Jeez, now I understand all the videos of dissenters getting the shit kicked out of them by "union" thugs. They were hired by the governor and his mafia allies!
so its kind of easy for IBM to spend on R&D in the 1930s, considering that every government on the planet was pouring money into it's coffers.
This doesn't follow. Who the hell is talking about the 1930s? Where did this come from? We're talking about 2011. Just because a company is making money doesn't mean they invest in R&D. That's the entire point of the fucking article. Did you take some weird anti-IBM university course? Are you a disgruntled former IBM employee? Do you understand how "3 countries" does not equal "every country in the world"? I weep for the state of higher education.
PS, that shift key next to the "Z" on your keyboard is used to capitalize the first word of each sentence. Obviously, you know where it is because you correctly capitalized IBM, IT, and (bizarrely) Hitler. Oh, and this link's for you: Bob the Angry Flower's Guide to its and it's.
This can't be true. Journalists are the smart people. Otherwise, they wouldn't be journalists. You seem to be implying they're just as anti-intellectual and anti-learning as a person who lives in a rural area, a patently false assertion.
"CBS News has a culture, has a history that for those of us who work here, is very real - that we see it as a sort of magical mystical kingdom of journalistic knights - and I know I can mentally hear people rolling their eyes, that's the way we feel."
-- Ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it."
-- Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO Be, Inc.
What the fuck is a haypenny? Some sort of agricultural redstate slang? Nobody knows what hay is, you ignorant redneck. Go back to feeding the livestock with antibiotics and molesting ruminants.
Huh. I suppose you got all that education, and still don't understand the meaning of the word "family".
"Hillbillies". "Trailer parks". "Rednecks". Wow, keep the class-based racial hatred flowing, shall we? Basing your prejudices on a sample size of one...that's a real way to show your education has enlightened you, eh? What would you call these people were they dark-skinned? More to the point, what would we call you?
It's a reality on today's college campus. Deal with it. Let me guess, you're one of them, aren't you? Mad at being kept out, eh?
Hate speech is not free speech. It has no place on the university campus and anyone caught with hate literature or speaking hate will be expelled to the applause of everyone. Universities are bastions of free thinking, not academies of prejudice against those who think differently.
The 80287 was a separate chip from the 80286. To be fair, back then nobody needed math coprocessors. Unless you were running CAD or scientific applications, they were irrelevant and never used.
I live in China, and one of my favorite pastimes in my town was to ride my electric moped around and discover new places. Who knows where the road leads? What, I got lost? Big deal, it just helps to get to know the city. After a while, I got a reputation as the guy to ask when someone needed to know where something was.
About a year ago, a new arrival in town showed me her iPhone. It had integrated GPS with Google Maps, in English even. All the shops were there, even the small ones. I saw a place I wanted to go, and asked her how to get there. She said she had no idea, she just popped up a window with the address in Chinese and showed it to the taxi. Getting around town by bike was a foreign idea to her. She also showed me her Chinese food menu (bilingual with photos) and her voice activated translation program (just speak and it translates to Chinese). I said, "Wow, with this you don't need to know anything or speak Chinese at all." She said, "Yeah, isn't it great!" I just sighed.
It's the same as Firefox developers. They don't want to make a solid product, they want to make something new. Why? Because it's fun. Screw what the rest of us think.