They were full of platitudes and bull shit. Hilary took their money and gave them a shit sandwich in return. Meanwhile you're guy is about to hand the Crimera over to Russia without a peep.
Maybe the world is a little more complex than you want it to be? Maybe your anti-Clinton straw men are full of shit instead of straw?
and meddling. Meddling is spreading misinformation and breaking into computer systems to use leaks to spread fear and confusion. That's what the Soviets did.
Not that we're blameless, but a) two wrongs don't make a right and b) our meddling in foreign affairs has largely been at the behest of large corporations to protect their interests. Especially in regards to crushing Socialism wherever it took root. The phrase "Banana Republic" comes from us screwing over their working class to keep Banana's cheap for Dole. It always comes down to money and being able to pay people like shit. The Trump presidency will be the same way. He'll give away billions to the top and protect their interests. Everyone else'll be left holding the bag.
it's a trap for Donald Trump. It was only done to force him to repeal the sanctions (and thus reinforce his status as a pro-Soviet operator). It's a political move. The kind the Republicans have been doing successfully for decades. If the American Left want to get anything done this is the sort of thing we need to do. As the saying goes, this is how the sausage is made. Or put another way, Dems have been bringing a knife to a gun fight. Obama finally got his gun. Sad it took 'em 8 years.
they were the same thing. And Hitler just borrowed the word Socialist. I can call my self Grand Admiral Thrawn if I want but it doesn't mean I lead the Empire.
Gotta love them. A momentary dip in profitability can kill a company dead as they circle like jackals. Anyone else remember when 3DFX products were flying of the shelf and they still went out of business?
I've been following news non stop. Read the Washington Post, watch the Daily Show, Sam Bee, John Oliver and Cobert Report. That's kinda my point. Lefty fake news doesn't work. Lefties just don't fall for it the way righties do. There's a quote from one of the Fake News sellers where he admitted that the stuff just gets debunked before it can go viral...
everyone knows the Republicans have a monopoly on hacking voting machines.
Jokes aside we Dems are used to having to win by a wide enough margin that shenanigans can't come into play. Oh, and Nice to see Obama playing dirty. It's about fucking time.
don't make a right. Speaking of our right (wing) we mostly meddled in those countries to keep Socialism from taking root. Hell, there was just a lovely little story on the Smithsonian (yeah, I know, liberal rag and all that) about how the media covered Mussolini & Hitler. It was almost exclusively favorable until the war started. They were pleased at Mussolini's "economic miracle" and how he reigned in the Socialists and called Hitler the German Mussolini.
I think expectations were too high. They made $10 million in like a week. The investors wanted Nintendo to make a Candy Crush and/or Clash of Clans clone built from the ground up by psychologists to take advantage of whales. Nintendo figures that either wouldn't work and/or damage their brand so they just made an above average endless runner. SMR is more or less brand reinforcement. You make sure people don't forget what Mario is so they'll buy the switch. That's fine, but it's not what investors (who want short term gains to pad out their retirement portfolios) want.
that's what I think of when I see these stories (read: 1984). That's what 1984 was really about: Manipulating information to oppress people (specifically television).
It's got nothing to do with being committed. I have other options. For example, I was going to buy a Samsung J7. Samsung took 512mb of the ram out of this years model and hoped I wouldn't notice. I did. Now I'll be buying an LG. Still on on Android, just not Samsung.
Yeah, I know, they get to regulate inside their borders. But man, look at them fighting among themselves to see who's gonna let these things on the road. I'm a cyclist and these things have been caught drifting into bike lanes. A lot. They've also been caught running red lights several times. You damn well better believe I want them to have a permit and I want a special license required to drive one. Similar to what most driving instructors have so we know the person driving the damn thing is used to keeping tabs on a (bad) driver. Otherwise we're gonna have Uber's risk review department pulling that trick from the opening in "Fight Club".
There's lots of bad to say about Monsanto. GMOs make a lot of people nervous because we don't fully understand them; and by 'we' I mean all of us. It's not like we've got a 100% perfect grasp on genetic engineering. Still most progressives when pressed will admit that it's the only solution to feed our population. Sure, we've got nutters who'll disagree, but they're our nutters and we recognize them as such.
As a progressive (and a Democratic Socialist who waited in line 3 hours to vote Bernie) I'm nervous about Nuclear. Fukushima isn't exactly a glowing recommendation (it glowed, I suppose). The trouble with nuclear is that sooner or later some asshat "Job Creator" is going to take over the plant with promises of all the money privatization will save and cut maintenance and safety. Which is exactly what happened in Japan. Until Nuclear plants are cheaper to run and maintain safely than not or until American embraces government regulation I'll stick with Natural Gas fired plants and as much wind/solar as I can get.
I mean, it's a troll, and a bad one, but you could at least try a little harder. "critical of white cis-hetero men"? I can't tell if you're attacking or supporting feminism. In either case I got none of that in my English class. I had one class built around that sorta thing and it was mostly there to give me exposure to other cultures/ideas in the hopes that any lingering racism I might have picked up from my folks I might disabuse myself of (how's that for Intellectual Snobbery, I used the phrase "disabused of". Hope I used it correctly...).
And I litterally have no idea what you're last comment is about. Again, please try harder. If you're gonna troll me I need to understand the trolling well enough to respond. C-, see me after class.
for people with a higher baseline intelligence. In other worlds the sort of people who would have learned to think Critically on their own. For the less capable reading and analyzing texts in a classroom setting is how they learn. And believe me, you want those people to learn critical thinking. Otherwise they'll be lead by the nose to the slaughter house, and you'll get roped in with them.
and I've got a 2TB hard drive and writeable Blue-Ray. So I'm at nobody's mercy. Now, if you're into Multi-Player games exclusively you might have a point. Especially the ones that connect to servers. Then again, you can still play Phantasy Star Universe on private servers if you're so inclined.
FreeBSD, NetBSD. FPGA, Arm, x86. Rasperi Pi, Tablets, Laptops (with USB 3.0 dedicated graphics enclosures). VMs, Cloud, WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet. Want me to start listing programming Languages? How about toolkits for each language?
There's an F-Bomb of variety out there. You don't even have to look that hard.
lots and lots of page views. Worse, Fake News only really works with the worst sort. Either people who aren't all there (Alzheimer's, which given aging populations is a real problem) or folks who never learned critical thinking (which, despite what the right ring will tell you, is a skill that can be taught. That's what all those English Classes are for).
The worst thing is you can't even harness Fake News for good. The sort of person who's on the ball enough to do good isn't going to fall for Fake News. Where the sort of person who is just needs a little push in the right direction to do something nasty. That's why you don't see left wing Fake News very much. The ones selling it (not good natured lefties but folks in the page views biz) admitted as much when asked in several interviews. Lefty Fake News gets debunked too fast to spread like good Fake News needs to...
While there was plenty of dirty pool to go around in the Democratic primary fake news was non existent. I was knee deep in politics and the 'Fake News' sited in that article didn't register with me. And I waited in line two hours to vote Bernie.
Bernie also lost because we let a ruling elite decide our politicians (google the phrase "Sheldon Primary" sometime). That had more to do with it than just about anything. And don't forget, the Democrats have a lot of economic right wingers who are just social liberals. Bernie didn't fly well with them. Honestly I don't think Bernie would have won the primary for just that reason. Which makes all the Dirty Pool even stupider. It was completely unnecessary.
fearmongering and what they did. They actively worked to sabotage the US economy, threatening to shut down the US government at a time when the economy was weak and insighted war with Iran with the Stated goal of damaging the United States so that people would blame the damage on Obama and the Democratic party. They were caught doing this multiple times and only ever called out by the liberal press, Al Jazeer and Maybe the BBC.
See the difference? Fearmongering is when you say scary things. Terrorism is when you take action. They took action. Lots of it. To the determent of all of Americans outside of a wealthy the connected elite they serve.
when you have Arizona. Seriously, our local news was thrilled. "Their Loss is our gain" they said. What's a few traffic fatalities among people too poor to buy luxury cars with extra safety/crumple zones? amairight?
Seriously, I got stuck on the highway here in blinding rain once and kept getting overtaken by asshats going 80. Found out their Audis and BMWs have lane assist that keeps them in the lanes even when they can't see. Like one of 'em once told me: "Let'em hit me, I'm older and better insured". That's Uber in a nut shell.
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They were full of platitudes and bull shit. Hilary took their money and gave them a shit sandwich in return. Meanwhile you're guy is about to hand the Crimera over to Russia without a peep.
Maybe the world is a little more complex than you want it to be? Maybe your anti-Clinton straw men are full of shit instead of straw?
and meddling. Meddling is spreading misinformation and breaking into computer systems to use leaks to spread fear and confusion. That's what the Soviets did.
Not that we're blameless, but a) two wrongs don't make a right and b) our meddling in foreign affairs has largely been at the behest of large corporations to protect their interests. Especially in regards to crushing Socialism wherever it took root. The phrase "Banana Republic" comes from us screwing over their working class to keep Banana's cheap for Dole. It always comes down to money and being able to pay people like shit. The Trump presidency will be the same way. He'll give away billions to the top and protect their interests. Everyone else'll be left holding the bag.
it's a trap for Donald Trump. It was only done to force him to repeal the sanctions (and thus reinforce his status as a pro-Soviet operator). It's a political move. The kind the Republicans have been doing successfully for decades. If the American Left want to get anything done this is the sort of thing we need to do. As the saying goes, this is how the sausage is made. Or put another way, Dems have been bringing a knife to a gun fight. Obama finally got his gun. Sad it took 'em 8 years.
they were the same thing. And Hitler just borrowed the word Socialist. I can call my self Grand Admiral Thrawn if I want but it doesn't mean I lead the Empire.
of the Koch Bros I'm just wondering what took them so long.
At least we can retrain them to make air conditioners, right?
Gotta love them. A momentary dip in profitability can kill a company dead as they circle like jackals. Anyone else remember when 3DFX products were flying of the shelf and they still went out of business?
I've been following news non stop. Read the Washington Post, watch the Daily Show, Sam Bee, John Oliver and Cobert Report. That's kinda my point. Lefty fake news doesn't work. Lefties just don't fall for it the way righties do. There's a quote from one of the Fake News sellers where he admitted that the stuff just gets debunked before it can go viral...
everyone knows the Republicans have a monopoly on hacking voting machines.
Jokes aside we Dems are used to having to win by a wide enough margin that shenanigans can't come into play. Oh, and Nice to see Obama playing dirty. It's about fucking time.
The DNC is made up of American Citizens. You just asked for whom the bell tolls, asshat.
don't make a right. Speaking of our right (wing) we mostly meddled in those countries to keep Socialism from taking root. Hell, there was just a lovely little story on the Smithsonian (yeah, I know, liberal rag and all that) about how the media covered Mussolini & Hitler. It was almost exclusively favorable until the war started. They were pleased at Mussolini's "economic miracle" and how he reigned in the Socialists and called Hitler the German Mussolini.
I think expectations were too high. They made $10 million in like a week. The investors wanted Nintendo to make a Candy Crush and/or Clash of Clans clone built from the ground up by psychologists to take advantage of whales. Nintendo figures that either wouldn't work and/or damage their brand so they just made an above average endless runner. SMR is more or less brand reinforcement. You make sure people don't forget what Mario is so they'll buy the switch. That's fine, but it's not what investors (who want short term gains to pad out their retirement portfolios) want.
that's what I think of when I see these stories (read: 1984). That's what 1984 was really about: Manipulating information to oppress people (specifically television).
It's got nothing to do with being committed. I have other options. For example, I was going to buy a Samsung J7. Samsung took 512mb of the ram out of this years model and hoped I wouldn't notice. I did. Now I'll be buying an LG. Still on on Android, just not Samsung.
Yeah, I know, they get to regulate inside their borders. But man, look at them fighting among themselves to see who's gonna let these things on the road. I'm a cyclist and these things have been caught drifting into bike lanes. A lot. They've also been caught running red lights several times. You damn well better believe I want them to have a permit and I want a special license required to drive one. Similar to what most driving instructors have so we know the person driving the damn thing is used to keeping tabs on a (bad) driver. Otherwise we're gonna have Uber's risk review department pulling that trick from the opening in "Fight Club".
Hurray for races to the bottom!
no more crashes for me. I hope rest of you yahoos with your working rods and cones enjoy your crashtastic computers.
There's lots of bad to say about Monsanto. GMOs make a lot of people nervous because we don't fully understand them; and by 'we' I mean all of us. It's not like we've got a 100% perfect grasp on genetic engineering. Still most progressives when pressed will admit that it's the only solution to feed our population. Sure, we've got nutters who'll disagree, but they're our nutters and we recognize them as such.
As a progressive (and a Democratic Socialist who waited in line 3 hours to vote Bernie) I'm nervous about Nuclear. Fukushima isn't exactly a glowing recommendation (it glowed, I suppose). The trouble with nuclear is that sooner or later some asshat "Job Creator" is going to take over the plant with promises of all the money privatization will save and cut maintenance and safety. Which is exactly what happened in Japan. Until Nuclear plants are cheaper to run and maintain safely than not or until American embraces government regulation I'll stick with Natural Gas fired plants and as much wind/solar as I can get.
I mean, it's a troll, and a bad one, but you could at least try a little harder. "critical of white cis-hetero men"? I can't tell if you're attacking or supporting feminism. In either case I got none of that in my English class. I had one class built around that sorta thing and it was mostly there to give me exposure to other cultures/ideas in the hopes that any lingering racism I might have picked up from my folks I might disabuse myself of (how's that for Intellectual Snobbery, I used the phrase "disabused of". Hope I used it correctly...).
And I litterally have no idea what you're last comment is about. Again, please try harder. If you're gonna troll me I need to understand the trolling well enough to respond. C-, see me after class.
for people with a higher baseline intelligence. In other worlds the sort of people who would have learned to think Critically on their own. For the less capable reading and analyzing texts in a classroom setting is how they learn. And believe me, you want those people to learn critical thinking. Otherwise they'll be lead by the nose to the slaughter house, and you'll get roped in with them.
and I've got a 2TB hard drive and writeable Blue-Ray. So I'm at nobody's mercy. Now, if you're into Multi-Player games exclusively you might have a point. Especially the ones that connect to servers. Then again, you can still play Phantasy Star Universe on private servers if you're so inclined.
FreeBSD, NetBSD. FPGA, Arm, x86. Rasperi Pi, Tablets, Laptops (with USB 3.0 dedicated graphics enclosures). VMs, Cloud, WiFi and Gigabit Ethernet. Want me to start listing programming Languages? How about toolkits for each language?
There's an F-Bomb of variety out there. You don't even have to look that hard.
lots and lots of page views. Worse, Fake News only really works with the worst sort. Either people who aren't all there (Alzheimer's, which given aging populations is a real problem) or folks who never learned critical thinking (which, despite what the right ring will tell you, is a skill that can be taught. That's what all those English Classes are for).
The worst thing is you can't even harness Fake News for good. The sort of person who's on the ball enough to do good isn't going to fall for Fake News. Where the sort of person who is just needs a little push in the right direction to do something nasty. That's why you don't see left wing Fake News very much. The ones selling it (not good natured lefties but folks in the page views biz) admitted as much when asked in several interviews. Lefty Fake News gets debunked too fast to spread like good Fake News needs to...
While there was plenty of dirty pool to go around in the Democratic primary fake news was non existent. I was knee deep in politics and the 'Fake News' sited in that article didn't register with me. And I waited in line two hours to vote Bernie.
Bernie also lost because we let a ruling elite decide our politicians (google the phrase "Sheldon Primary" sometime). That had more to do with it than just about anything. And don't forget, the Democrats have a lot of economic right wingers who are just social liberals. Bernie didn't fly well with them. Honestly I don't think Bernie would have won the primary for just that reason. Which makes all the Dirty Pool even stupider. It was completely unnecessary.
fearmongering and what they did. They actively worked to sabotage the US economy, threatening to shut down the US government at a time when the economy was weak and insighted war with Iran with the Stated goal of damaging the United States so that people would blame the damage on Obama and the Democratic party. They were caught doing this multiple times and only ever called out by the liberal press, Al Jazeer and Maybe the BBC.
See the difference? Fearmongering is when you say scary things. Terrorism is when you take action. They took action. Lots of it. To the determent of all of Americans outside of a wealthy the connected elite they serve.
when you have Arizona. Seriously, our local news was thrilled. "Their Loss is our gain" they said. What's a few traffic fatalities among people too poor to buy luxury cars with extra safety/crumple zones? amairight?
Seriously, I got stuck on the highway here in blinding rain once and kept getting overtaken by asshats going 80. Found out their Audis and BMWs have lane assist that keeps them in the lanes even when they can't see. Like one of 'em once told me: "Let'em hit me, I'm older and better insured". That's Uber in a nut shell.