Their obsession with sucking up to Hollywood is quite annoying though. All those laws protecting media companies and persecuting civilians...
Agreed. Fortunately, in the "lesser of two evils" list, being unable to get an unencrypted copy of some movie or song ranks pretty well near the bottom. And I say this as someone who detests the RIAA/MPAA.
I liked how Romney tried to rebrand "trickle-down," which we all know is a failure, from supply-side economics to some sort of new "trickle-down government" that nobody has ever heard of.
Unfortunately, it will probably work by playing on people's ignorance.
Besides the assumption that all of these felons are what put Franken in office, we'll just forget that disenfranchisement of felons is unconstitutional to begin with.
Indeed, these are abuses of Obama's that I'm not happy with.
Unfortunately, if Romney gets into office he'll do the same fucking things, along with a whole host of other shit that was disastrous for the country under Reagan and Bush II.
What, you think that extra $2 trillion in military spending that Romney wants will just sit there idling? That'd be wasteful!
I watched the PBS coverage of both presidential debates. After the first, the overwhelming opinion was that Romney had "won". (based on his demeanor, not his arguments) Even though most of what Romney said was utter bullshit, and later fact-checked to be utter bullshit, and most of what Obama said was basically true, and later fact-checked to be basically true. (Yes, I know that "facts" are just something us liberals like to throw around to decide what's right and wrong, but you'll have to forgive me for that.) During the debate, nobody took Romney to task for all of his for-it-then, against-it-now positions. Nobody took him to task for his dismissal of half the voting base. Nobody took him to task for claiming credit for all the accomplishments of the Democratic-controlled Massachusetts government. How, exactly, was the liberal pandering hurting him so badly?
During the second debate, Obama clearly owned Romney. Romney was forced to back off of multiple points that were outright wrong. After the debate, the coverage was "well, Obama won, but he wasn't very likable." Yep. Sure sounds like a lot more liberal bias -- from supposedly the bastion of liberal bias, PBS.
Just admit that you heard about that Drudge Report finding once, that it said something about liberal bias in the media (even though the logic behind it was specious at best, and you probably didn't read it anyway), that this agrees with your own biases, and that you've latched onto it as unquestionable dogma ever since.
I swear, the amount of butthurt whining I hear about the so-called liberal media would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
Wait, I thought that progressives were all lazy parasitic freeloaders who live off the government dole. Now you're telling me that they're successful business owners? Could you get your rhetoric consistent, at least? I need to know exactly who to demonize.
Sure they can. They brainwash you from infancy to be offended about certain things, then you become offended by those things in adulthood when they happen.
Oh, wait -- those aren't the 'offenders' you were talking about?
I keep being told that we can't blame things on Bush any more. After 4 years of getting nothing done, all of the nation's problems are now Obama's fault.
Yeah, it was completely unlike the 9/11 attack, where we immediately knew all of the details and President Bush himself delivered them himself, clearly, minutes after they happened.
You're holding the current administration up to an impossible standard, and then finding every excuse possible for them to not live up to that standard.
Let's be straight here. The GP was right on the money. Any liberal who votes for Obama without holding their nose at this election is a fucking tool.
Agreed, mostly, though I wouldn't go quite so far as to say I'll be "holding my nose."
Problem is there's no viable candidate to replace him. Romney has made it very clear that he's got every intention of bringing back the massive tax cuts for the wealthy and debt spending of the '80s and the W years. I'd need someone to hold a gun to my head before I'd consider voting for that.
If a thing is basically a requirement to be a productive member of society, society had better make sure it's pretty easily attainable by all people, or you'll suddenly have classes of people that can't be productive when they can't access that thing.
And before you go all "but public wifi is available everywhere, and public computers with internet access are available at the library!" You've still got 2 classes of people: those that can afford their own wifi and computers, and those that have to spend 2 hours round-trip just to wait in line to use a basic utility that most people take for granted.
I'm not convinced that internet access is completely necessary at this point, but at the same time, I haven't tried to function with no internet access since the early '90s.
No, you're not necessarily a racist, you just don't know statistics.
Verifiable fact: there are more poor people in jail than non-poor in the US. There is a much larger correlation between economic status and crime than there is between race and crime.
So, the fact that you "illustrated" this, shows one of a few possibilities. 1) you were unaware of this tighter correlation. 2) you are aware of this correlation, but don't believe it. (why?) 3) you are aware of this correlation, but don't understand it, and choose to promote the sloppy "more black people in jail" statistic as if it had any meaning by itself.
So you can continue lying with statistics -- very similarly to how people do with the male/female "wage gap" -- or you can adjust your rhetoric to include and account for all relevant data. My guess is you and cayenne8 will both continue lying with a smug superiority complex about how "you're not racist, you're just stating facts".
With Android, if you're happy being locked into a single vendor like you are with iOS, you have the same ability with Google Play and synchronization with a Google account.
And an SD card gives you an *additional* option.
So in this case, like most others, Android's feature set is a superset of iOS'.
And, clearly, your use case should be everybody else's use case as well, Anyone who tries to do something differently is, by Apple's definition, "doing it wrong."
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Their obsession with sucking up to Hollywood is quite annoying though. All those laws protecting media companies and persecuting civilians...
Agreed. Fortunately, in the "lesser of two evils" list, being unable to get an unencrypted copy of some movie or song ranks pretty well near the bottom. And I say this as someone who detests the RIAA/MPAA.
--Jeremy
Trickle down has been proven not to work.
I liked how Romney tried to rebrand "trickle-down," which we all know is a failure, from supply-side economics to some sort of new "trickle-down government" that nobody has ever heard of.
Unfortunately, it will probably work by playing on people's ignorance.
--Jeremy
Besides the assumption that all of these felons are what put Franken in office, we'll just forget that disenfranchisement of felons is unconstitutional to begin with.
--Jeremy
Indeed, these are abuses of Obama's that I'm not happy with.
Unfortunately, if Romney gets into office he'll do the same fucking things, along with a whole host of other shit that was disastrous for the country under Reagan and Bush II.
What, you think that extra $2 trillion in military spending that Romney wants will just sit there idling? That'd be wasteful!
--Jeremy
Oh boo fucking hoo.
I watched the PBS coverage of both presidential debates. After the first, the overwhelming opinion was that Romney had "won". (based on his demeanor, not his arguments) Even though most of what Romney said was utter bullshit, and later fact-checked to be utter bullshit, and most of what Obama said was basically true, and later fact-checked to be basically true. (Yes, I know that "facts" are just something us liberals like to throw around to decide what's right and wrong, but you'll have to forgive me for that.) During the debate, nobody took Romney to task for all of his for-it-then, against-it-now positions. Nobody took him to task for his dismissal of half the voting base. Nobody took him to task for claiming credit for all the accomplishments of the Democratic-controlled Massachusetts government. How, exactly, was the liberal pandering hurting him so badly?
During the second debate, Obama clearly owned Romney. Romney was forced to back off of multiple points that were outright wrong. After the debate, the coverage was "well, Obama won, but he wasn't very likable." Yep. Sure sounds like a lot more liberal bias -- from supposedly the bastion of liberal bias, PBS.
Just admit that you heard about that Drudge Report finding once, that it said something about liberal bias in the media (even though the logic behind it was specious at best, and you probably didn't read it anyway), that this agrees with your own biases, and that you've latched onto it as unquestionable dogma ever since.
I swear, the amount of butthurt whining I hear about the so-called liberal media would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
--Jeremy
Wait, I thought that progressives were all lazy parasitic freeloaders who live off the government dole. Now you're telling me that they're successful business owners? Could you get your rhetoric consistent, at least? I need to know exactly who to demonize.
--Jeremy
Look, NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU BE OFFENDED.
Sure they can. They brainwash you from infancy to be offended about certain things, then you become offended by those things in adulthood when they happen.
Oh, wait -- those aren't the 'offenders' you were talking about?
--Jeremy
If the text is so religiously motivated, as you apparently believe, finding a second instance shouldn't be too difficult.
Preferably one that's more than just a colloquialism.
--Jeremy
After you die you will realize the fallacy of your ignorance and see how ALL life has a divine purpose.
Threats that can only be realized after the recipient is already dead ... somehow those just ring hollow.
--Jeremy
Congratulations on being an example to hold up for why some people shouldn't have access to guns.
--Jeremy
Amazing how reasonable you can be when it comes to defending Apple from unreasonable claims.
Too bad that capacity for reason completely goes away when it comes to defending Apple from reasonable claims.
--Jeremy
I keep being told that we can't blame things on Bush any more. After 4 years of getting nothing done, all of the nation's problems are now Obama's fault.
--Jeremy
Yeah, it was completely unlike the 9/11 attack, where we immediately knew all of the details and President Bush himself delivered them himself, clearly, minutes after they happened.
You're holding the current administration up to an impossible standard, and then finding every excuse possible for them to not live up to that standard.
--Jeremy
Let's be straight here. The GP was right on the money. Any liberal who votes for Obama without holding their nose at this election is a fucking tool.
Agreed, mostly, though I wouldn't go quite so far as to say I'll be "holding my nose."
Problem is there's no viable candidate to replace him. Romney has made it very clear that he's got every intention of bringing back the massive tax cuts for the wealthy and debt spending of the '80s and the W years. I'd need someone to hold a gun to my head before I'd consider voting for that.
--Jeremy
When faced by reality, you have two options. Either acknowledge that you were wrong, or double-down on the crazy.
I see you've chosen to double-down.
--Jeremy
Seriously? I knew you were out of touch, but this?
Fuck, even Romney has acknowledged that he was completely wrong about that statistic.
Why do you hate the troops and old people so much?
--Jeremy
Maher is a comedian. Kind of like Jon Stewart, except with less rigorous fact-checking. Their audiences know this.
Limbaugh is also a comedian. The difference is, neither he nor his audience know it.
--Jeremy
If a thing is basically a requirement to be a productive member of society, society had better make sure it's pretty easily attainable by all people, or you'll suddenly have classes of people that can't be productive when they can't access that thing.
And before you go all "but public wifi is available everywhere, and public computers with internet access are available at the library!" You've still got 2 classes of people: those that can afford their own wifi and computers, and those that have to spend 2 hours round-trip just to wait in line to use a basic utility that most people take for granted.
I'm not convinced that internet access is completely necessary at this point, but at the same time, I haven't tried to function with no internet access since the early '90s.
--Jeremy
Leftist "rights" advocates are not able to see the difference.
Derp.
--Jeremy
No, you're not necessarily a racist, you just don't know statistics.
Verifiable fact: there are more poor people in jail than non-poor in the US. There is a much larger correlation between economic status and crime than there is between race and crime.
So, the fact that you "illustrated" this, shows one of a few possibilities. 1) you were unaware of this tighter correlation. 2) you are aware of this correlation, but don't believe it. (why?) 3) you are aware of this correlation, but don't understand it, and choose to promote the sloppy "more black people in jail" statistic as if it had any meaning by itself.
So you can continue lying with statistics -- very similarly to how people do with the male/female "wage gap" -- or you can adjust your rhetoric to include and account for all relevant data. My guess is you and cayenne8 will both continue lying with a smug superiority complex about how "you're not racist, you're just stating facts".
--Jeremy
And if you control for how their parents lived, there's an even tighter correlation.
As others have pointed out, you're just using sloppy statistics to justify thinly-veiled racism.
--Jeremy
With Android, if you're happy being locked into a single vendor like you are with iOS, you have the same ability with Google Play and synchronization with a Google account.
And an SD card gives you an *additional* option.
So in this case, like most others, Android's feature set is a superset of iOS'.
Nice try though!
--Jeremy
And, clearly, your use case should be everybody else's use case as well, Anyone who tries to do something differently is, by Apple's definition, "doing it wrong."
--Jeremy
Also offtopic but:
Why do you antitheists insist on injecting religion into every thread?
Why do theists insist on injecting their religion everywhere else?
--Jeremy
If only he'd been able to do it before the law-by-judicial-fiat was able to "pass" the Citizens United ruling.
--Jeremy