The Republicans could have done it themselves if they'd been inclined at any time over the previous 12 years if they'd actually cared or had any real ideas.
Instead they passed Medicare "reform" that makes it illegal for the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies.
Get off your own damn high horse.
Also:
And, like it or not, Americans are center-right, and don't tend to like many pushes left.
Citation needed. Just because Fox News repeats it all the time doesn't make it true. And "center-right" "center-left" are pretty much bullshit, meaningless labels anyway -- but if it makes you feel better to think that you're part of some nebulous majority, I guess go for it.
And George W. Bush started out as a son of a wealthy, politically-connected family with a former president as a father. How do we go about shutting him down before he becomes a problem?
Dude, all you have to do is watch him go through one of his lists of words, circling certain letters, that end up spelling "progressive", to know that the guy is completely full of shit.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, maybe he's like Colbert and just playing a crazy man on TV, but I don't think that's the case. If his portrayal of the idiotic crap he spouts is sincere, then he's not worth watching on a regular basis. Just like I don't have to watch every episode of "The Simple Life" to know that it's garbage.
We vs. they mentality being perpetuated by the libs, eh?
Let's do a quick, completely unscientific Google poll. Just did the following searches (inspired by xkcd):
"Damn Republicans" - About 6,000 results "Damn Conservatives" - About 8,780 results
"Damn Democrats" - About 30,000 results "Damn liberals" - About 78,000 results "Damn progressives" - About 1,700 results
Naturally, I'll grant that some of the "damn X" statements are probably self-referencing, but even if we assume that it's 25%, that still means that the "conservative" camp does a hell of a lot more name calling.
I didn't hear the GP say anything about how great he was. All I heard were factual statements about how specific conservatives (Reagan, Bush I and Bush II) rung up huge debts, while we hear all the time about how fiscally responsible they were, and how irresponsible the libs are.
Do you dispute these facts? They're easily looked up in any number of references.
I doubt you'd try to dispute them though; you don't seem dumb. It really just sounds like you're changing the subject so you don't have to address your cognitive dissonance. (nothing personal: we all have them.)
Hitler was Hitler. He wasn't a conservative. He wasn't a liberal. He was a fucking lunatic.
Please, shut the hell up about Hitler. We're in the US in 2010, not Germany in the 1940s.
(And, before you bring it up, the GGP first claimed that conservatives opposed Nazis, with the implicit implication that liberals supported them. So if you want to call Godwin on the thread, direct at him.)
GearScore is an incredibly worthless statistic. All it means is that they were present in a raid when a piece of loot dropped, and they won it.
If someone is fully decked out in heroic gear, you don't need GearScore to tell you they're probably a decent player. If someone doesn't have the gear you "want" them to have, you have no idea *why* they don't have it. A good player can generally play well above their actual gear score, and because nearly all fights are more about execution than raw numbers, gear doesn't even matter in most cases.
Except in this case, we have a few really rich wolves spending a whole shitload of money convincing the sheep that they really are wolves, and should vote against themselves.
This is the second time you've corrected someone with your misunderstanding.
Over air, every node is connected, directly, to every other node. This is a much easier case to solve than a typical TSP where to get from node A to node C, you may have to go through node B .
This may be true, but he's trying to look tougher and meaner than someone blowing bubbles. About all that would take is some harsh language like, "knock that off, knucklehead."
Look, there are idiots on both sides. There are unreasonable people who think that Obama is supernatural, and there are unreasonable people who have pictures of GWB up on their mantle next to pictures of their family.
Unfortunately, the media mainly likes to give airtime to idiots from both sides.
When you choose to spend your time arguing with the idiots instead of debating the people with real ideas, you do everyone a disservice. I can understand arguing with the idiots though, because it's so easy to look smart.
Not to make any assumptions about your beliefs here, but my main problem with this whole stink raised by the military over "protecting our operatives" -- and particularly by the conservative backlash against this -- is that nobody seemed to mind one bit when it was a white house leak over the whole Valerie Plame affair.
Yes, care should be taken to protect people's lives. Some of the leaked information should have been redacted. But all of the people who immediately jump to bashing Wikileaks and, particularly, making personal attacks against Assange, aren't really doing anyone any favors either.
"I specifically ignored the much, much cheaper non-Apple machines because, well, I'm trying to see if there's some sort of Mac tax hiding in the hardware, and I'm ignoring the fact that the cheaper ones could be customized with completely aftermarket parts and still come out much, much cheaper."
I bought my hyperthreaded P4 close to 10 years ago and it's just as powerful today as it was back then. I'm still using it for most of the same things it did back then. I can't play the newest games on it any more than you'll be able to play the newest games on your Mac when it's 10 years old. What does that prove?
If you've convinced yourself that Apple hardware is worth the money, well, good for you. You've rationalized your purchase like most people do. I have a brand new 17" MacBook Pro provided by my employer; I don't have any emotional investment in how great it is, and I can see that it's just a PC in a machined aluminum case with an asinine touchpad that makes the *entire surface* the button.
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The Republicans could have done it themselves if they'd been inclined at any time over the previous 12 years if they'd actually cared or had any real ideas.
Instead they passed Medicare "reform" that makes it illegal for the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies.
Get off your own damn high horse.
Also:
Citation needed. Just because Fox News repeats it all the time doesn't make it true. And "center-right" "center-left" are pretty much bullshit, meaningless labels anyway -- but if it makes you feel better to think that you're part of some nebulous majority, I guess go for it.
--Jeremy
In other words: "I'm going to rationalize that it's ok because it's my guy that's doing it."
--Jeremy
That's not how margins of error work.
Try taking a statistics class.
--Jeremy
And George W. Bush started out as a son of a wealthy, politically-connected family with a former president as a father. How do we go about shutting him down before he becomes a problem?
--Jeremy
Then quit calling people names and just stick with XP? None of us will care. Honest.
--Jeremy
You mean GM? What other bailout recipients were there? Could you clarify a bit, rather than give vague innuendo?
--Jeremy
And then she shot back, "these two things aren't even remotely comparable, you nitwit." The father's smile quickly vanished from his face.
She never spoke to her father again, due to his poorly reasoned attempts to control her.
--Jeremy
Dude, all you have to do is watch him go through one of his lists of words, circling certain letters, that end up spelling "progressive", to know that the guy is completely full of shit.
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, maybe he's like Colbert and just playing a crazy man on TV, but I don't think that's the case. If his portrayal of the idiotic crap he spouts is sincere, then he's not worth watching on a regular basis. Just like I don't have to watch every episode of "The Simple Life" to know that it's garbage.
--Jeremy
We vs. they mentality being perpetuated by the libs, eh?
Let's do a quick, completely unscientific Google poll. Just did the following searches (inspired by xkcd):
"Damn Republicans" - About 6,000 results
"Damn Conservatives" - About 8,780 results
"Damn Democrats" - About 30,000 results
"Damn liberals" - About 78,000 results
"Damn progressives" - About 1,700 results
Naturally, I'll grant that some of the "damn X" statements are probably self-referencing, but even if we assume that it's 25%, that still means that the "conservative" camp does a hell of a lot more name calling.
--Jeremy
I didn't hear the GP say anything about how great he was. All I heard were factual statements about how specific conservatives (Reagan, Bush I and Bush II) rung up huge debts, while we hear all the time about how fiscally responsible they were, and how irresponsible the libs are.
Do you dispute these facts? They're easily looked up in any number of references.
I doubt you'd try to dispute them though; you don't seem dumb. It really just sounds like you're changing the subject so you don't have to address your cognitive dissonance. (nothing personal: we all have them.)
--Jeremy
Hitler was Hitler. He wasn't a conservative. He wasn't a liberal. He was a fucking lunatic.
Please, shut the hell up about Hitler. We're in the US in 2010, not Germany in the 1940s.
(And, before you bring it up, the GGP first claimed that conservatives opposed Nazis, with the implicit implication that liberals supported them. So if you want to call Godwin on the thread, direct at him.)
--Jeremy
Funny, my anecdotal evidence suggests that your anecdotal evidence is a load of crap. Assholes come from all parts of the political spectrum.
But sure, keep calling names, keep the holier-than-thou attitude, and keep thinking that your shit don't stink. It's really constructive.
--Jeremy
GearScore is an incredibly worthless statistic. All it means is that they were present in a raid when a piece of loot dropped, and they won it.
If someone is fully decked out in heroic gear, you don't need GearScore to tell you they're probably a decent player. If someone doesn't have the gear you "want" them to have, you have no idea *why* they don't have it. A good player can generally play well above their actual gear score, and because nearly all fights are more about execution than raw numbers, gear doesn't even matter in most cases.
--Jeremy
Except in this case, we have a few really rich wolves spending a whole shitload of money convincing the sheep that they really are wolves, and should vote against themselves.
--Jeremy
Because elections are really fucking important, and "anything goes" is not a very good set of conditions to produce optimal results.
Unless, of course, you think that our elections should end up looking like WWE productions. Err, wait, they already do.
--Jeremy
...
for people. Not random, anonymous, untraceable groups with a specific agenda.
--Jeremy
You're being intentionally dense.
--Jeremy
(Also, I'm posting under my real name, coward.)
This is the second time you've corrected someone with your misunderstanding.
Over air, every node is connected, directly, to every other node. This is a much easier case to solve than a typical TSP where to get from node A to node C, you may have to go through node B .
--Jeremy
This may be true, but he's trying to look tougher and meaner than someone blowing bubbles. About all that would take is some harsh language like, "knock that off, knucklehead."
--Jeremy
No.
Geeks do something because they're interested in it.
Hipsters do something because they saw someone else doing it and thought it might make them look cool.
--Jeremy
Look, there are idiots on both sides. There are unreasonable people who think that Obama is supernatural, and there are unreasonable people who have pictures of GWB up on their mantle next to pictures of their family.
Unfortunately, the media mainly likes to give airtime to idiots from both sides.
When you choose to spend your time arguing with the idiots instead of debating the people with real ideas, you do everyone a disservice. I can understand arguing with the idiots though, because it's so easy to look smart.
--Jeremy
Is that a fancy way of saying "bought"?
--Jeremy
Not to make any assumptions about your beliefs here, but my main problem with this whole stink raised by the military over "protecting our operatives" -- and particularly by the conservative backlash against this -- is that nobody seemed to mind one bit when it was a white house leak over the whole Valerie Plame affair.
Yes, care should be taken to protect people's lives. Some of the leaked information should have been redacted. But all of the people who immediately jump to bashing Wikileaks and, particularly, making personal attacks against Assange, aren't really doing anyone any favors either.
--Jeremy
And you're arguing against a strawman, yet it's somehow +5 insightful.
Ooh, and some name calling to boot.
--Jeremy
Yeah, right, that story.
"I specifically ignored the much, much cheaper non-Apple machines because, well, I'm trying to see if there's some sort of Mac tax hiding in the hardware, and I'm ignoring the fact that the cheaper ones could be customized with completely aftermarket parts and still come out much, much cheaper."
I bought my hyperthreaded P4 close to 10 years ago and it's just as powerful today as it was back then. I'm still using it for most of the same things it did back then. I can't play the newest games on it any more than you'll be able to play the newest games on your Mac when it's 10 years old. What does that prove?
If you've convinced yourself that Apple hardware is worth the money, well, good for you. You've rationalized your purchase like most people do. I have a brand new 17" MacBook Pro provided by my employer; I don't have any emotional investment in how great it is, and I can see that it's just a PC in a machined aluminum case with an asinine touchpad that makes the *entire surface* the button.
--Jeremy