The NDAA, which you seem *extremely* focused on, as you've posted this exact same comment about 5 times in this thread, has veto-proof support in both the senate and the house. Vetoing it would be a nice gesture, but would ultimately not matter.
On top of that, apparently the NDAA doesn't actually make us a police state. The sections that supposedly make it legal to disappear American citizens, do not actually apply to American citizens. I'm not a lawyer and would have personally not had the language in the bill to begin with, but credible critiques have made it sound like it's not really a sky-is-falling situation. I suggest you look some of them up.
Of course Paul will do alright against a field of candidates, because he has his long-term supporters that will always vote for him. Put him up one-on-one against just the eventual nominee (you know, the one that *won't* be Paul), and you'll still see him at around 21.4% of the vote.
So the Southern attempts to block civil rights advancements were mostly coming from the Democratic Party (which is a fact that most people under 30 seem completely unaware of).
Even if people are unaware of this fact, it's completely irrelevant to the political landscape today. The Republican party was once the "liberal" party -- do you go around reminding everyone of that fact as well?
I played it on and off for years; it was fun when it was somewhat challenging, but the story was always pretty weak. The world was well constructed, but particularly after BC came out everything really felt like it was just blatantly ripping off other sources for what passed as "story."
I'm a huge fan of Warcraft and Starcraft. WoW was, indeed, pretty weak. But then, I'm one of those people who can enjoy something and still recognize the flaws.
seobook.com? Yeah, that's going to be an impartial source: a community of parasites that actively games Google's search algorithms to make searches less useful to average users and then throws a fit every time Google defeats one of their schemes and in the process makes their algorithms more useful to average users.
Seriously, if you dismiss jailbreaking out of hand for the iPad and yet claim in the same breath that your "rooted" Xoom does a heck of a lot more, then you're letting your bias show.
There have always been Android devices available that users have root access to out of the box. There have never and will never be iOS devices where users have root access out of the box.
This is going to be less and less of an issue for Android users as companies like Motorola and HTC are granting root access out of the box on all new phones.
There is no comparison. You can claim there is all you want, but until there's a custom iOS build floating around for you to install on your iWhatever you have, us Android users will laugh at your "jailbreaking."
The iPhone 4S has been the top selling handset for months
And this is why. 6 minutes later you talk about how Apple fans don't really care about marketshare.
Let me quote:
Certainly, there's an emotional attachment to Apple products from its fans, but they've spent so many years as underdogs that they don't obsess over marketshare numbers
Let me correct my earlier statement though: you're a combination of sad/funny. Currently it's more funny than sad though.
Gay marriage proponents are *not* pushing a moral agenda. They are simply trying to recognize rights for a minority that exist for EVERYONE ELSE. There is a huge difference between ethics and morality, and that's the distinction between pushing for gay marriage and, say, trying to outlaw abortion.
If you don't understand this distinction, please go to your nearest university or community college and take Ethics 101, then come back to the discussion when you're prepared.
If you look at nearly any discussion, it will be framed by democrats as "here is the problem now, and here is what we should do to fix it." Whereas the republican discussion will be "here is the problem now, and here is why we can't do anything to fix it without breaking everything even worse."
e.g. AGW, the economy, health care, *anything* really.
Even more direct, Jesus said he would come again "soon". I'm pretty sure that rules out the idea of our idea of time being anything like what God considers time so I have no idea why someone would insist it MUST be 6 24 hour days.
Why would Jesus, communicating with human beings, begin speaking in "god terms" just to confuse things? You would think that the son of/manifestation of god would have the sense to know his audience when choosing his words.
Can you provide other examples from the Jesus story where he spoke in terms that would be applicable differently depending on whether he was deemed to be speaking as a "god" vs as a "man", and where he clearly meant them as in "god" mode?
Why should us taxpayers, who prudently decided NOT to make foolish bets in the housing market, be forced to make you whole? Investors, like you, must NOT be bailed out from the downside of risks that they willingly took.
Well then you'll be happy with the outcome, because we ABSOLUTELY DID NOT bail out homeowners. Checked foreclosure data lately? Seen all the neighborhoods that are scheduled for fucking demolition because the owners all had to move out (read: their investment failed, they lost everything they put into it) and there's nobody that can afford to move back in?
We get it, you're angry. Maybe you should direct that at the people who not only caused the problem but also profited greatly from the problem they caused.
Ignorant, finger pointing, victim blaming assholes like you really make me sick.
Ahh good, so if I'm traveling and take my laptop (a nice 17" MBP), I have to take a different power cable, because if I don't, someone can just use my power cord to get into my accounts. Since the only time I use my laptop is when I'm traveling, that effectively makes the power cord that came with it useless, and I get to pony up another $80 for proprietary Apple power cord.
The only way this wouldn't be a negative feature for me would be if it were entirely optional. Otherwise it makes my purchase *worse*.
Put it on a $2 USB dongle that I never have any reason to take *anywhere*. That actually makes sense.
However, on the opposite side you also cannot tell congress that it is your constitutional right to have internet or a press. Your only right is that you can publish your opinion via those media, providing you have legal access to them. (ie. you cannot break into a newspaper building and use their press)
It is perfectly within someone's rights to have internet access or a printing press. It's also perfectly within the rights of a population to say, "we think that internet access is so important, we're going to build the infrastructure and make it available to everyone." Unfortunately we can't even have that discussion, because providing it to everyone is SOCIALISM, and cutting out the cable/telephone companies KILLS JOBS.
No, I think it's generally applied to people who are incapable of seeing the flaws in the things they like, and cannot have a rational discussion about them. It's people who somehow have an emotional investment in their chosen product being "the best" and anyone who chooses differently, for any reason, is "wrong".
It's perfectly fine to have a favorite, it's not perfectly fine to be blinded to alternatives.
I think the case with Vick was more that he came from a background where dogfighting was a normal thing to do. When you grow up around it and just accept that "this is what people do," you're less likely to step back and take a critical look at it. It's obviously an extreme case, but I'm sure everyone has events in their life where they realized that what they were doing wasn't "normal," or in some cases, acceptable.
Actually, it is stupid. The only reason the credit card companies are able to offer these incentives is because they suck up a nice percentage of every transaction. Retailers, in turn, have to raise their prices to compensate for losing a certain percentage (on average) of every transaction. So they're using your own money to buy your loyalty.
Unfortunately, the tragedy of the commons means that for a person to not participate in this system by not using credit cards means that they miss out on the incentives *and* still have to pay the higher prices that are caused by everyone else who thinks they just *have* to get that 1% pittance back.
Hey, I like Kucinich and can respect some of what Ron Paul says (though I'd never vote for him), but to be fair, I'm not sure it's possible to make those guys *not* look like they just escaped from the loony bin. They're just some genuinely funky looking dudes.
God I'm getting sick of these ridiculous comparisons and mischaracterizations. You don't have a monopoly on personal responsibility. Take your ad homs and shut the hell up.
I'd hate to be a lefty because I can't imagine trying to live with such a low opinion of the human race.
Yeah, because we're all really big into that "original sin" and "fall of man" and "need to be saved" stuff.
Also, you wouldn't be nearly as annoying if you didn't do so much name calling. And I mean you as in you, specifically, 0123456, not 'you' in the general 'people who disagree with me' sense, which is who you like to call names.
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The NDAA, which you seem *extremely* focused on, as you've posted this exact same comment about 5 times in this thread, has veto-proof support in both the senate and the house. Vetoing it would be a nice gesture, but would ultimately not matter.
On top of that, apparently the NDAA doesn't actually make us a police state. The sections that supposedly make it legal to disappear American citizens, do not actually apply to American citizens. I'm not a lawyer and would have personally not had the language in the bill to begin with, but credible critiques have made it sound like it's not really a sky-is-falling situation. I suggest you look some of them up.
--Jeremy
Of course Paul will do alright against a field of candidates, because he has his long-term supporters that will always vote for him. Put him up one-on-one against just the eventual nominee (you know, the one that *won't* be Paul), and you'll still see him at around 21.4% of the vote.
--Jeremy
So the Southern attempts to block civil rights advancements were mostly coming from the Democratic Party (which is a fact that most people under 30 seem completely unaware of).
Even if people are unaware of this fact, it's completely irrelevant to the political landscape today. The Republican party was once the "liberal" party -- do you go around reminding everyone of that fact as well?
--Jeremy
I played it on and off for years; it was fun when it was somewhat challenging, but the story was always pretty weak. The world was well constructed, but particularly after BC came out everything really felt like it was just blatantly ripping off other sources for what passed as "story."
I'm a huge fan of Warcraft and Starcraft. WoW was, indeed, pretty weak. But then, I'm one of those people who can enjoy something and still recognize the flaws.
--Jeremy
seobook.com? Yeah, that's going to be an impartial source: a community of parasites that actively games Google's search algorithms to make searches less useful to average users and then throws a fit every time Google defeats one of their schemes and in the process makes their algorithms more useful to average users.
--Jeremy
Seriously, if you dismiss jailbreaking out of hand for the iPad and yet claim in the same breath that your "rooted" Xoom does a heck of a lot more, then you're letting your bias show.
There have always been Android devices available that users have root access to out of the box. There have never and will never be iOS devices where users have root access out of the box.
This is going to be less and less of an issue for Android users as companies like Motorola and HTC are granting root access out of the box on all new phones.
There is no comparison. You can claim there is all you want, but until there's a custom iOS build floating around for you to install on your iWhatever you have, us Android users will laugh at your "jailbreaking."
--Jeremy
The iPhone 4S has been the top selling handset for months
And this is why. 6 minutes later you talk about how Apple fans don't really care about marketshare.
Let me quote:
Certainly, there's an emotional attachment to Apple products from its fans, but they've spent so many years as underdogs that they don't obsess over marketshare numbers
Let me correct my earlier statement though: you're a combination of sad/funny. Currently it's more funny than sad though.
--Jeremy
Bonch, congratulations. I no longer mind reading your drivel because you've gone from annoying to comical.
--Jeremy
gay marriage
Gay marriage proponents are *not* pushing a moral agenda. They are simply trying to recognize rights for a minority that exist for EVERYONE ELSE. There is a huge difference between ethics and morality, and that's the distinction between pushing for gay marriage and, say, trying to outlaw abortion.
If you don't understand this distinction, please go to your nearest university or community college and take Ethics 101, then come back to the discussion when you're prepared.
--Jeremy
Democrats are more fatalistic
This is bullshit.
If you look at nearly any discussion, it will be framed by democrats as "here is the problem now, and here is what we should do to fix it." Whereas the republican discussion will be "here is the problem now, and here is why we can't do anything to fix it without breaking everything even worse."
e.g. AGW, the economy, health care, *anything* really.
--Jeremy
Even more direct, Jesus said he would come again "soon". I'm pretty sure that rules out the idea of our idea of time being anything like what God considers time so I have no idea why someone would insist it MUST be 6 24 hour days.
Why would Jesus, communicating with human beings, begin speaking in "god terms" just to confuse things? You would think that the son of/manifestation of god would have the sense to know his audience when choosing his words.
Can you provide other examples from the Jesus story where he spoke in terms that would be applicable differently depending on whether he was deemed to be speaking as a "god" vs as a "man", and where he clearly meant them as in "god" mode?
--Jeremy
Why should us taxpayers, who prudently decided NOT to make foolish bets in the housing market, be forced to make you whole? Investors, like you, must NOT be bailed out from the downside of risks that they willingly took.
Well then you'll be happy with the outcome, because we ABSOLUTELY DID NOT bail out homeowners. Checked foreclosure data lately? Seen all the neighborhoods that are scheduled for fucking demolition because the owners all had to move out (read: their investment failed, they lost everything they put into it) and there's nobody that can afford to move back in?
We get it, you're angry. Maybe you should direct that at the people who not only caused the problem but also profited greatly from the problem they caused.
Ignorant, finger pointing, victim blaming assholes like you really make me sick.
--Jeremy
Ahh good, so if I'm traveling and take my laptop (a nice 17" MBP), I have to take a different power cable, because if I don't, someone can just use my power cord to get into my accounts. Since the only time I use my laptop is when I'm traveling, that effectively makes the power cord that came with it useless, and I get to pony up another $80 for proprietary Apple power cord.
The only way this wouldn't be a negative feature for me would be if it were entirely optional. Otherwise it makes my purchase *worse*.
Put it on a $2 USB dongle that I never have any reason to take *anywhere*. That actually makes sense.
--Jeremy
Let me guess: you're a big proponent of personal responsibility.
--Jeremy
We don't leave people dieing in cold.
If you're talking about the US, then yes, we do.
--Jeremy
However, on the opposite side you also cannot tell congress that it is your constitutional right to have internet or a press. Your only right is that you can publish your opinion via those media, providing you have legal access to them. (ie. you cannot break into a newspaper building and use their press)
It is perfectly within someone's rights to have internet access or a printing press. It's also perfectly within the rights of a population to say, "we think that internet access is so important, we're going to build the infrastructure and make it available to everyone." Unfortunately we can't even have that discussion, because providing it to everyone is SOCIALISM, and cutting out the cable/telephone companies KILLS JOBS.
--Jeremy
You're either lying or failing to make a joke. IE never ran on Win 3.1. It was first bundled with Plus! for Windows 95.
--Jeremy
Yeah, I only contracted a hitman to kill your wife. I did nothing wrong myself!
Yeah, as if we weren't sure before, now we know you're arguing from an intellectually dishonest position.
--Jeremy
No, I think it's generally applied to people who are incapable of seeing the flaws in the things they like, and cannot have a rational discussion about them. It's people who somehow have an emotional investment in their chosen product being "the best" and anyone who chooses differently, for any reason, is "wrong".
It's perfectly fine to have a favorite, it's not perfectly fine to be blinded to alternatives.
--Jeremy
I think the case with Vick was more that he came from a background where dogfighting was a normal thing to do. When you grow up around it and just accept that "this is what people do," you're less likely to step back and take a critical look at it. It's obviously an extreme case, but I'm sure everyone has events in their life where they realized that what they were doing wasn't "normal," or in some cases, acceptable.
--Jeremy
Nice strawmen you've constructed in that post.
--Jeremy
I would say NOT doing this is stupid.
Actually, it is stupid. The only reason the credit card companies are able to offer these incentives is because they suck up a nice percentage of every transaction. Retailers, in turn, have to raise their prices to compensate for losing a certain percentage (on average) of every transaction. So they're using your own money to buy your loyalty.
Unfortunately, the tragedy of the commons means that for a person to not participate in this system by not using credit cards means that they miss out on the incentives *and* still have to pay the higher prices that are caused by everyone else who thinks they just *have* to get that 1% pittance back.
--Jeremy
Hey, I like Kucinich and can respect some of what Ron Paul says (though I'd never vote for him), but to be fair, I'm not sure it's possible to make those guys *not* look like they just escaped from the loony bin. They're just some genuinely funky looking dudes.
--Jeremy
My protest could beat up your protest, so nyeah.
God I'm getting sick of these ridiculous comparisons and mischaracterizations. You don't have a monopoly on personal responsibility. Take your ad homs and shut the hell up.
--Jeremy
I'd hate to be a lefty because I can't imagine trying to live with such a low opinion of the human race.
Yeah, because we're all really big into that "original sin" and "fall of man" and "need to be saved" stuff.
Also, you wouldn't be nearly as annoying if you didn't do so much name calling. And I mean you as in you, specifically, 0123456, not 'you' in the general 'people who disagree with me' sense, which is who you like to call names.
--Jeremy