Fifty thousand sounds like an outrageous figure. I can start (and have started) a company for MUCH MUCH less than that. "The Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability" *cough* BS *cough*. And their second choice is the UK? What the hell? Are these people naive or just lazy? For a borderless organization, it simply strains belief that they would choose a business-hostile jurisdiction to incorporate under. Hell, I could make some phone calls and have a Hong Kong company up and running by the end of next week. Even if they wanted to stay in Europe for some reason, aren't there friendly jurisdictions like Luxembourg or Andorra or something? The equivalent to Delaware? I smell a rat, someone (or someone's cousin, fraternity brother, etc.) is making some cash off this deal.
Because the bastards in charge spend a lot of their time on the internet as well? And, as members of the ruling class, their horizons are so small as to not be aware of anything outside their own little group?
There's just this idiotic, pervasive belief that "applying twitter" to any problem fixes it. Changing your web page's background to green in solidarity with the people actually accomplishes something meaningful. Go ahead and laugh, there are serious, highly educated people who have faith in this technique and are puzzled when it doesn't work.
Look, everyone understands the Nobel Peace Prize is a joke
Really? Are you sure about that? There are a hell of a lot of people out there who worship the NPP and consider it a crowning achievement of civilization. Many of them are journalists and NGO members.
Harland Sanders got cheated by his partners. The first thing they did after they got rid of him was change all of KFC's recipes to be lower quality. He went to his grave bitter that his image and legacy were attached to such crap food.
Assuming that you're not pretending to misunderstand, the concept of Squick fits the bill nicely. There, you've had your education. Other people see things differently and you need to tolerate their viewpoints, because they're just as valid as yours.
Nobel prizes are not given for accomplishments. They are a call to action, and a reward for effort and initiative. [citation needed], you say?
The
Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Wow, way to talk out your ass and totally invent something. I especially like the looking down on people who live in a different part of the country than you do. Those people over there are all stupid!
Why is it that the National Enquirer gets the third degree, and yet other media like NBC, CBS, New York Times, and so on get a free pass? What does it say about them that they look to the National Enquirer to lead? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Sorry, he's an officer of a publicly held company. Other people need to know about his health in order to properly plan. If he came out and said "I have Stage IV cancer with a 3-6 month mortality prognosis" that would be one thing, but the secrecy is irresponsible, and in fact generates interest. Why else would a trashy celebrity news site follow him around?
This just in. Studies show that as much as 95% of movies labeled as sci-fi actually contain no science whatsoever. Star Wars, Battlefield Earth, Transformers are not sci-fi but are commonly misconceived as such.
DT was exactly the same as DB except that IBM gave some cash and then demanded that it be renamed after IBM's nickname of "Big Blue". It was the same software. I suppose we forget this all too quickly.
I have been assured, on many occasions, that Canada makes no enemies, only acts positively towards other nations, and thus nobody would ever want to mess with them. I don't get this story, is it a fake? Has it been fact-checked? I smell a rat. The last sentence about "public sentiment towards China is getting very, very testy" is openly racist and sounds jingoist as well.
Just like when Deep Thought won against Kasparov, there can be no rematch. The project will be scrapped, the computer must be disassembled, and hence never compete again. To do that would jeopardize all the progress that's been made. What if someone were to find a weakness and exploit it? There would be a lot of red-faced developers.
Johnny-come-lately. The real eleet never use BitchX, they use ircII. With a script. That they wrote themselves. Lemme guess, you were in an ANSI art group, right?
Out of order! Oh, yes! You mean out of order like starting to read a comment and realizing that the rest of it is in the Subject: line? How utterly irritating! Thanks for illustrating my point so effectively.
Taxes aren't a crime. Taxes are how we transfer wealth away from the wealthy and give entitlements to those deemed deserving. If I've learned one thing watching the news, it's that anyone who's against taxes are a bunch of Baracknophobic idiots.
Baracknophobia: an irrational fear of hope (Jon Stewart)
I see this a lot in politics these days: educated, intelligent journalists lashing out and saying anyone who doesn't agree with their political opinions must not be a member of the human race. And here's one who thinks that it's OK to call for deaths just because she's frustrated. America has the same thing, Sarah Palin's calls for violence incited her followers and real people died.
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Fifty thousand sounds like an outrageous figure. I can start (and have started) a company for MUCH MUCH less than that. "The Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability" *cough* BS *cough*. And their second choice is the UK? What the hell? Are these people naive or just lazy? For a borderless organization, it simply strains belief that they would choose a business-hostile jurisdiction to incorporate under. Hell, I could make some phone calls and have a Hong Kong company up and running by the end of next week. Even if they wanted to stay in Europe for some reason, aren't there friendly jurisdictions like Luxembourg or Andorra or something? The equivalent to Delaware? I smell a rat, someone (or someone's cousin, fraternity brother, etc.) is making some cash off this deal.
Because the bastards in charge spend a lot of their time on the internet as well? And, as members of the ruling class, their horizons are so small as to not be aware of anything outside their own little group?
There's just this idiotic, pervasive belief that "applying twitter" to any problem fixes it. Changing your web page's background to green in solidarity with the people actually accomplishes something meaningful. Go ahead and laugh, there are serious, highly educated people who have faith in this technique and are puzzled when it doesn't work.
Look, everyone understands the Nobel Peace Prize is a joke
Really? Are you sure about that? There are a hell of a lot of people out there who worship the NPP and consider it a crowning achievement of civilization. Many of them are journalists and NGO members.
Harland Sanders got cheated by his partners. The first thing they did after they got rid of him was change all of KFC's recipes to be lower quality. He went to his grave bitter that his image and legacy were attached to such crap food.
Assuming that you're not pretending to misunderstand, the concept of Squick fits the bill nicely. There, you've had your education. Other people see things differently and you need to tolerate their viewpoints, because they're just as valid as yours.
I can imagine a dragon that farts rainbows. Can't you?
...and the "sci" stands for science. Read some science fiction novels to find out what SCIENCE fiction is. Star Wars, etc. are just dramas.
Nobel prizes are not given for accomplishments. They are a call to action, and a reward for effort and initiative. [citation needed], you say?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.
Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population.
For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world's leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama's appeal that "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Oslo, October 9, 2009
Wow, way to talk out your ass and totally invent something. I especially like the looking down on people who live in a different part of the country than you do. Those people over there are all stupid!
Why is it that the National Enquirer gets the third degree, and yet other media like NBC, CBS, New York Times, and so on get a free pass? What does it say about them that they look to the National Enquirer to lead? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Sorry, he's an officer of a publicly held company. Other people need to know about his health in order to properly plan. If he came out and said "I have Stage IV cancer with a 3-6 month mortality prognosis" that would be one thing, but the secrecy is irresponsible, and in fact generates interest. Why else would a trashy celebrity news site follow him around?
"Because I think something, I can't understand why anyone would ever think differently."
This just in. Studies show that as much as 95% of movies labeled as sci-fi actually contain no science whatsoever. Star Wars, Battlefield Earth, Transformers are not sci-fi but are commonly misconceived as such.
DT was exactly the same as DB except that IBM gave some cash and then demanded that it be renamed after IBM's nickname of "Big Blue". It was the same software. I suppose we forget this all too quickly.
I have been assured, on many occasions, that Canada makes no enemies, only acts positively towards other nations, and thus nobody would ever want to mess with them. I don't get this story, is it a fake? Has it been fact-checked? I smell a rat. The last sentence about "public sentiment towards China is getting very, very testy" is openly racist and sounds jingoist as well.
The former Chinese president Jiang Zemin has admitted in an unpublished memoir that Serbian military intelligence units were hiding inside the Chinese embassy in Belgrade when Nato bombed it in 1999.
Just like when Deep Thought won against Kasparov, there can be no rematch. The project will be scrapped, the computer must be disassembled, and hence never compete again. To do that would jeopardize all the progress that's been made. What if someone were to find a weakness and exploit it? There would be a lot of red-faced developers.
not pissing-off a malevolent, anonymous mass
Yeah, the wrong sort of people pissed off a malevolent, anonymous mass before. In order for vigilantism to win, good people need only do nothing.
Used to be, back when nerds ruled the roost, that an argument would take a while before Godwin's Law took effect. It wasn't the tool of first resort.
PS might want to check H&S's respective political parties
Johnny-come-lately. The real eleet never use BitchX, they use ircII. With a script. That they wrote themselves. Lemme guess, you were in an ANSI art group, right?
Out of order! Oh, yes! You mean out of order like starting to read a comment and realizing that the rest of it is in the Subject: line? How utterly irritating! Thanks for illustrating my point so effectively.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
Baracknophobia: an irrational fear of hope (Jon Stewart)
I see this a lot in politics these days: educated, intelligent journalists lashing out and saying anyone who doesn't agree with their political opinions must not be a member of the human race. And here's one who thinks that it's OK to call for deaths just because she's frustrated. America has the same thing, Sarah Palin's calls for violence incited her followers and real people died.
"What did you do at your last job?"
"Oh, I saw something clearly wrong and participated in it."