a) He was testifying for something that he shouldn't have been testifying for to begin with.
b) He specifically asked the prosecutor to define sex. The prosecutor defined sex as not including blowjobs. Therefore, Clinton told the truth about not having had sex with Lewinsky; 100% true, and again, something he shouldn't have had to testify about to begin with.
c) The Republicans changed their definition of sex, in order for there to be *something* they could attempt impeachment over. Even with their millions of dollars worth of investigations, they uncovered NOTHING except some bullshit "lie" that was completely irrelevant to everything to begin with..
Fast forward to today and we still have morons who don't know what happened and try to play this bullshit "Clinton lied!" card. And even if he had lied, so fucking what? I'll say it one more time: it was about something that was nobody else's business to begin with. It wasn't about his finances. It wasn't about how the country was being run. It wasn't about anything relevant to his presidency or his previous career. It was about where he put his dick.
Personally, I'd rather have controversy over a stain on a blue dress than (for instance) controversy over whether or not our soldiers tortured people half way around the world, but then I guess my priorities are too fucked up to be a Republican.
Clinton and the Democrats bargged about it in 1998 and 99. They said it would enable them to pay down some of the debt, and they were correct.
And this was during an economic boom. I think you and I can both agree that economic conditions right now couldn't be classified as an "booming," therefore comparing what we "should" be doing now now to what we were doing then is pretty stupid.
50% of the country is pro-life. However you feel on the issue, you disagree with half of the people in the country. No politician unites the country on this issue.
50% of the country is happy letting our laws be molded after a 2000 year old book of fables that they haven't even read -- which, if you do read it, has no problem with abortion. And taking their beliefs to a logical conclusion would mean that the ONLY acceptable thing, in order to get as many people as possible into heaven to meet Jeebus, would be to abort EVERY baby so they'd automatically go there and not have a chance of sinning their way to hell. Because, you know, our life on Earth is only meaninglessly short blip compared to eternity in heavenly bliss, so these fetuses wouldn't even really be missing anything.
Comparing their ignorance to the other 50%'s (and it's far higher than 50%, actually) ideas is insultingly stupid.
He just wants the states to run them instead of the federal government.
No, he wants the states to NOT HAVE TO run them; just like he wants states to NOT have to legalize abortion and let states decide to NOT legalize gay marriage. In other words, he wants there to be an extremely repressive Christianity-based state in the model of Islamic theocracies, and have it be perfectly legal.
Of course he doesn't want the whole COUNTRY to be like that; that would obviously be insane, and there are too many pesky secularists along the northern coasts for that to ever fly. But if Missouri or Texas decides they want Sharia -- err, I mean Christian -- Law, then hey, let them go for it.
I never said anything about deregulating corporations (who I hate)
But Ron Paul has, and you're playing the part of Ron Paul advocate, so unfortunately you have to defend the "bad" of what he says along with the "good", or at least explain why the good outweighs the bad.
My first thought is that this is a perfect example of why Linux fanbois should pay more attention to the speck of dust in their eye than the logs stuck in Windows' and OSX's eyes.
Your idea of "cracking the security" seems to be roughly as developed as the plot to "Hackers".
Highwaymen can already jump people, force them off the road somehow to deviate to a location where they can rob the driver. Making something autonomous doesn't magically give thieves supernatural cracking abilities to get at the interfaces that drive the car.
We all know where delicious bacon comes from, and have to live with that or not.
Yes, but some of us grasp basic ethics and see no reason for there not to be humane treatment of our sources of bacon, while others of us do not. It's always been pretty clear that libertarians kind of fail on the empathy scale, and your inability to grasp that there could be degrees of acceptability to *how* our food is treated is a perfect example of this.
Of course, this has nothing to do with a river of blood, which is, again, a perfect example of libertarianism failing.
If we don't have an FDA, then we don't even have a guy to go in and miss the river of blood. Even if they're incompetent and miss a bunch of stuff, it's better than nothing. Just like in football: even though you may not have a running game, you have to keep it on the ground every once in a while just to keep the defense slightly honest.
Here in the US we really only have the stomachs to consume human blood, and then only if it's been turned into wine or juice and served with a cracker.
Really? You can hold a place and switch back and forth between what you're reading and, say, a chart 10 pages ago and a definition 15 pages ago as quickly on an iPad as you can with a physical book? This is what GP was complaining about, not that the pages flipped slowly.
They don't "feel entitled", each company knows that if they don't take all the advantages China's manufacturing offers, someone else will and undercut them.
People have been "undercutting" Apple for NEARLY ITS ENTIRE HISTORY and somehow it seems to be doing alright financially.
Hmm, so a baby at 36 weeks but still in the womb isn't alive?
Except pro-lifers don't limit their arguments to edge cases like that. If that's all they took issue with, then their stance would be much more defensible. Unfortunately, they equate a weeks-old lump of cells with a fully formed baby, and use misleading imagery and arguments to confuse people about what most (as in, the vast, vast majority) performed abortions are.
For disagreeing with politically correct orthodoxy on gay marriage I have managed to garner several death threats from the so called 'tolerant' progressives here on Slashdot this afternoon.
Pics or it didn't happen.
And besides, it's easy to find idiots on either side. Go to any NRA forum and suggest that maybe a 24 hour waiting period to buy a guy isn't a terrible idea and see how many OPEN death threats you walk away with. At least these supposed death threats you've been a victim of were sent by people who had the sense to keep it private.
Hell, I only TOLERATE progressives, I certainly don't ACCEPT em and since 99% of gays are also progs........ you guys made my shitlist long before my gaydar went off.
Well, we don't give a shit what you think, and I have bad news for you: you've already lost. It's only a matter of time. If you're old, it doesn't matter too much because you'll die soon, and your idiocy will die with you and those like you. If you're young, well, that sucks for you because you're going to have to put up with these unpleasant changes for the whole rest of your life.
It's the way it is, the way it always has been, and the way it always will be.
And this is where I'm going to call you out, you homophobic jackass. Which of the following language was "putting one's own gender on display"?
"sandytaru" is a person with a husband. It is not evident what his or her own gender is.
Protip: stupid contrarian shit like this doesn't help anyone's cause. Just because someone assumes (with a confidence of greater than 99% at this point) that having a husband implies that someone is a woman does NOT make them a homophobe.
Missed the point. GP wasn't saying that they couldn't have all of the above, but pointing out the obvious fact that most CCW owners don't, in fact, carry a first aid kit or take CPR training.
The Gamecube was far more powerful than the PS2. Not that it matters, but please stop repeating this myth that came from Sony releasing inflated, theoretical "polygon rendering" numbers of 75 million (unlit, untextured, single-pixel, pre-transformed triangle strips) compared to Nintendo's conservative 10-12 million lighted, multi-textured, anti-aliased polygons that would be used in a real-world situation. It was on roughly equal footing with the original XBox, and in many ways was a much more efficient platform tailored for games, whereas the XBox was just a bunch of slightly more powerful generic PC hardware stuffed in a box.
Even if you don't believe the numbers, just look at the games. Gamecube games looked great, while PS2 games looked like washed out, jaggy messes. Metroid Prime and Resident Evil 4 were gorgeous games on the 'Cube, and Capcom even had to pre-render several scenes when they backported RE4 to the PS2 because it just didn't have the muscle to do it.
Star Fox Assault was a piece of shit. Everybody has occasional failures. What's your point?
Metroid is, hands down, my favorite game franchise. Metroid: Other M is a huge piece of shit. The nice thing is, I'm able to take a look at stuff objectively and see that, despite any emotional attachment I may have to something, it has flaws. (in the case of Other M, it was more a collection of flaws with a few bits of good stuff thrown in)
This generation, Nintendo has given us Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 and NSMB: Wii -- all fantastic platformers. We've gotten Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, both fantastic adventure/puzzle games. Metroid Prime 3 was good -- not great, but good. Smash Brothers: Brawl is excellent. On top of these main franchises, there's stuff like Excite Truck and Punch Out! that are simple, but a hell of a lot of fun. Then there are a handful of 3rd party gems to play through.
This is how it's been with Nintendo consoles since everybody decided they wanted to work with Sony in the N64 era and Microsoft paid off the rest of the 3rd parties for XBox exclusives. If you don't like this arrangement, don't buy a Nintendo console and shut the fuck up. I bought a Wii expecting this (though, after its unexpectedly huge sales success I was surprised at how 3rd parties mostly completely failed to show up to take advantage of it) and am completely satisfied. It also helps that, because I'm no longer 15 years old, I don't actually have nearly as much time to spend playing games, so I'm ok with fewer AAA releases. I also prefer arcade style games to more "realistic" simulation wanna-bes, and I had enough of FPS games back in the Unreal Tournament/Quake 3 era, so I couldn't care less about missing out on Halo or any of the WW2 simulations du jour.
And before you give me any shit about "not being able to see the decline in game quality" -- I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600. I'd probably smoke you in just about any multiplayer game you chose. I've played the hell out of just about every genre except dating simulators. Currently, I'm still happy with Nintendo and am not worried about them going away any time soon, despite sky-is-falling predictions from idiots like bonch.
Tepples, if you really want to get into game development, just do it. Nothing is stopping you. Nintendo isn't stopping you. Microsoft isn't stopping you. Inability to have 4-player simultaneous play on a singe PC isn't stopping you. Being unable to simulate buttons with a touch screen isn't stopping you. These are all excuses.
Just do it. Put a link to what you've done in your sig and people will check it out. If you're any good, somebody will notice and you'll make some money at it. But quit with the whining about restrictions about what you can and can't do on platform X. Pick a platform and find a way to do something interesting given the limitations of the platform.
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He didn't lie under oath.
a) He was testifying for something that he shouldn't have been testifying for to begin with.
b) He specifically asked the prosecutor to define sex. The prosecutor defined sex as not including blowjobs. Therefore, Clinton told the truth about not having had sex with Lewinsky; 100% true, and again, something he shouldn't have had to testify about to begin with.
c) The Republicans changed their definition of sex, in order for there to be *something* they could attempt impeachment over. Even with their millions of dollars worth of investigations, they uncovered NOTHING except some bullshit "lie" that was completely irrelevant to everything to begin with..
Fast forward to today and we still have morons who don't know what happened and try to play this bullshit "Clinton lied!" card. And even if he had lied, so fucking what? I'll say it one more time: it was about something that was nobody else's business to begin with. It wasn't about his finances. It wasn't about how the country was being run. It wasn't about anything relevant to his presidency or his previous career. It was about where he put his dick.
Personally, I'd rather have controversy over a stain on a blue dress than (for instance) controversy over whether or not our soldiers tortured people half way around the world, but then I guess my priorities are too fucked up to be a Republican.
--Jeremy
Clinton and the Democrats bargged about it in 1998 and 99. They said it would enable them to pay down some of the debt, and they were correct.
And this was during an economic boom. I think you and I can both agree that economic conditions right now couldn't be classified as an "booming," therefore comparing what we "should" be doing now now to what we were doing then is pretty stupid.
--Jeremy
50% of the country is pro-life. However you feel on the issue, you disagree with half of the people in the country. No politician unites the country on this issue.
50% of the country is happy letting our laws be molded after a 2000 year old book of fables that they haven't even read -- which, if you do read it, has no problem with abortion. And taking their beliefs to a logical conclusion would mean that the ONLY acceptable thing, in order to get as many people as possible into heaven to meet Jeebus, would be to abort EVERY baby so they'd automatically go there and not have a chance of sinning their way to hell. Because, you know, our life on Earth is only meaninglessly short blip compared to eternity in heavenly bliss, so these fetuses wouldn't even really be missing anything.
Comparing their ignorance to the other 50%'s (and it's far higher than 50%, actually) ideas is insultingly stupid.
--Jeremy
He just wants the states to run them instead of the federal government.
No, he wants the states to NOT HAVE TO run them; just like he wants states to NOT have to legalize abortion and let states decide to NOT legalize gay marriage. In other words, he wants there to be an extremely repressive Christianity-based state in the model of Islamic theocracies, and have it be perfectly legal.
Of course he doesn't want the whole COUNTRY to be like that; that would obviously be insane, and there are too many pesky secularists along the northern coasts for that to ever fly. But if Missouri or Texas decides they want Sharia -- err, I mean Christian -- Law, then hey, let them go for it.
--Jeremy
I never said anything about deregulating corporations (who I hate)
But Ron Paul has, and you're playing the part of Ron Paul advocate, so unfortunately you have to defend the "bad" of what he says along with the "good", or at least explain why the good outweighs the bad.
--Jeremy
My first thought is that this is a perfect example of why Linux fanbois should pay more attention to the speck of dust in their eye than the logs stuck in Windows' and OSX's eyes.
Err, at least I think that's how the saying goes.
--Jeremy
Your idea of "cracking the security" seems to be roughly as developed as the plot to "Hackers".
Highwaymen can already jump people, force them off the road somehow to deviate to a location where they can rob the driver. Making something autonomous doesn't magically give thieves supernatural cracking abilities to get at the interfaces that drive the car.
--Jeremy
We all know where delicious bacon comes from, and have to live with that or not.
Yes, but some of us grasp basic ethics and see no reason for there not to be humane treatment of our sources of bacon, while others of us do not. It's always been pretty clear that libertarians kind of fail on the empathy scale, and your inability to grasp that there could be degrees of acceptability to *how* our food is treated is a perfect example of this.
Of course, this has nothing to do with a river of blood, which is, again, a perfect example of libertarianism failing.
--Jeremy
If we don't have an FDA, then we don't even have a guy to go in and miss the river of blood. Even if they're incompetent and miss a bunch of stuff, it's better than nothing. Just like in football: even though you may not have a running game, you have to keep it on the ground every once in a while just to keep the defense slightly honest.
--Jeremy
Here in the US we really only have the stomachs to consume human blood, and then only if it's been turned into wine or juice and served with a cracker.
--Jeremy
And the people making those claims were quickly peer reviewed out the door.
--Jeremy
Really? You can hold a place and switch back and forth between what you're reading and, say, a chart 10 pages ago and a definition 15 pages ago as quickly on an iPad as you can with a physical book? This is what GP was complaining about, not that the pages flipped slowly.
--Jeremy
They don't "feel entitled", each company knows that if they don't take all the advantages China's manufacturing offers, someone else will and undercut them.
People have been "undercutting" Apple for NEARLY ITS ENTIRE HISTORY and somehow it seems to be doing alright financially.
--Jeremy
Hmm, so a baby at 36 weeks but still in the womb isn't alive?
Except pro-lifers don't limit their arguments to edge cases like that. If that's all they took issue with, then their stance would be much more defensible. Unfortunately, they equate a weeks-old lump of cells with a fully formed baby, and use misleading imagery and arguments to confuse people about what most (as in, the vast, vast majority) performed abortions are.
--Jeremy
Don't forget, "Oh, and by the way, for your convenience we've already written the legislation we'd like to see passed!"
--Jeremy
For disagreeing with politically correct orthodoxy on gay marriage I have managed to garner several death threats from the so called 'tolerant' progressives here on Slashdot this afternoon.
Pics or it didn't happen.
And besides, it's easy to find idiots on either side. Go to any NRA forum and suggest that maybe a 24 hour waiting period to buy a guy isn't a terrible idea and see how many OPEN death threats you walk away with. At least these supposed death threats you've been a victim of were sent by people who had the sense to keep it private.
--Jeremy
Hell, I only TOLERATE progressives, I certainly don't ACCEPT em and since 99% of gays are also progs........ you guys made my shitlist long before my gaydar went off.
Well, we don't give a shit what you think, and I have bad news for you: you've already lost. It's only a matter of time. If you're old, it doesn't matter too much because you'll die soon, and your idiocy will die with you and those like you. If you're young, well, that sucks for you because you're going to have to put up with these unpleasant changes for the whole rest of your life.
It's the way it is, the way it always has been, and the way it always will be.
--Jeremy
So the answer is to give the government more power?
No, the answer is to root out corruption, but defeatists like yourself will never allow that to happen.
--Jeremy
And the opposite is also true, in that socialists and communists think that every last minutia of life should be regulated "for the greater good".
Nice strawman ya got there.
--Jeremy
And this is where I'm going to call you out, you homophobic jackass. Which of the following language was "putting one's own gender on display"?
"sandytaru" is a person with a husband. It is not evident what his or her own gender is.
Protip: stupid contrarian shit like this doesn't help anyone's cause. Just because someone assumes (with a confidence of greater than 99% at this point) that having a husband implies that someone is a woman does NOT make them a homophobe.
--Jeremy
From NY City generally implies "grew up in" NY City.
But then you seem to deliberately misinterpret *everything* so I doubt if this explanation will do you much good.
--Jeremy
Missed the point. GP wasn't saying that they couldn't have all of the above, but pointing out the obvious fact that most CCW owners don't, in fact, carry a first aid kit or take CPR training.
--Jeremy
The Gamecube was far more powerful than the PS2. Not that it matters, but please stop repeating this myth that came from Sony releasing inflated, theoretical "polygon rendering" numbers of 75 million (unlit, untextured, single-pixel, pre-transformed triangle strips) compared to Nintendo's conservative 10-12 million lighted, multi-textured, anti-aliased polygons that would be used in a real-world situation. It was on roughly equal footing with the original XBox, and in many ways was a much more efficient platform tailored for games, whereas the XBox was just a bunch of slightly more powerful generic PC hardware stuffed in a box.
Even if you don't believe the numbers, just look at the games. Gamecube games looked great, while PS2 games looked like washed out, jaggy messes. Metroid Prime and Resident Evil 4 were gorgeous games on the 'Cube, and Capcom even had to pre-render several scenes when they backported RE4 to the PS2 because it just didn't have the muscle to do it.
--Jeremy
Star Fox Assault was a piece of shit. Everybody has occasional failures. What's your point?
Metroid is, hands down, my favorite game franchise. Metroid: Other M is a huge piece of shit. The nice thing is, I'm able to take a look at stuff objectively and see that, despite any emotional attachment I may have to something, it has flaws. (in the case of Other M, it was more a collection of flaws with a few bits of good stuff thrown in)
This generation, Nintendo has given us Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 and NSMB: Wii -- all fantastic platformers. We've gotten Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, both fantastic adventure/puzzle games. Metroid Prime 3 was good -- not great, but good. Smash Brothers: Brawl is excellent. On top of these main franchises, there's stuff like Excite Truck and Punch Out! that are simple, but a hell of a lot of fun. Then there are a handful of 3rd party gems to play through.
This is how it's been with Nintendo consoles since everybody decided they wanted to work with Sony in the N64 era and Microsoft paid off the rest of the 3rd parties for XBox exclusives. If you don't like this arrangement, don't buy a Nintendo console and shut the fuck up. I bought a Wii expecting this (though, after its unexpectedly huge sales success I was surprised at how 3rd parties mostly completely failed to show up to take advantage of it) and am completely satisfied. It also helps that, because I'm no longer 15 years old, I don't actually have nearly as much time to spend playing games, so I'm ok with fewer AAA releases. I also prefer arcade style games to more "realistic" simulation wanna-bes, and I had enough of FPS games back in the Unreal Tournament/Quake 3 era, so I couldn't care less about missing out on Halo or any of the WW2 simulations du jour.
And before you give me any shit about "not being able to see the decline in game quality" -- I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600. I'd probably smoke you in just about any multiplayer game you chose. I've played the hell out of just about every genre except dating simulators. Currently, I'm still happy with Nintendo and am not worried about them going away any time soon, despite sky-is-falling predictions from idiots like bonch.
--Jeremy
Tepples, if you really want to get into game development, just do it. Nothing is stopping you. Nintendo isn't stopping you. Microsoft isn't stopping you. Inability to have 4-player simultaneous play on a singe PC isn't stopping you. Being unable to simulate buttons with a touch screen isn't stopping you. These are all excuses.
Just do it. Put a link to what you've done in your sig and people will check it out. If you're any good, somebody will notice and you'll make some money at it. But quit with the whining about restrictions about what you can and can't do on platform X. Pick a platform and find a way to do something interesting given the limitations of the platform.
--Jeremy