"Lillith held up a mirror to life, and chopped off all the bits of life that didn't fit".
Oh look , another cut and paste quote. How original.
"bigoted crap that bisexual men don't exist"
You don't. You're just gay sonny but won't admit it to yourself much less anyone else.
"You're not only judgemental, bigoted and reprehensible in every possible way - you are, like every other person like you I've known - an ignorant idiot as well."
Ooo , meow! Careful with that handbag now!
" I would almost imagine you're hitting on me"
LOL , oh yes, go on drag the old "X apparently doesn't like Y , so imply X must secretly be Y" comeback out from its coffin! Jesus, you really still are at chapter 1 of the Dummies Guide to Debating arn't you mate?:o)
Are you sure you're in your 30s? You sound like a teenager who's just discovered sex and wants to shock everyone with the words he knows.
"I am also no gay - I'm bisexual"
Its "not gay". And yes, its pretty obvious you are. Like I said, you're just in denial. And I doubt you even have a wife.
"Fred Phelps."
Never heard of him. Is he a Yank?
"Now ask yourself- just how good does somebody have to be at these things to get special dispensation from a university allowing him to take computer science as an extra, credited major when he is enrolled to for a degree in English Literature and Philosophy ?"
Simple - you're just a kid sitting in his bedroom making it all up to suit the argument. There are hundreds of you on this site.
In other words you're a cheating gay man in denial - plenty of gay men get married and have kids and plenty of men like to dress up their cheating as some kind of acceptable lifestyle. Even Elton John was married to a woman once btw.
"Yes, actually, but it happens to be one I have a university degree in"
Sadly it doesn't seem to help your clarity. Please explain exactly which part of "Coming from a country where it's a political hot potato to have insurance cover birth control but not viagra" translates to "birth control should be readily available". Or perhaps you just use google translate for everything?
"To paraphrase G.B. Shaw"
Ah yes, quote or paraphrase some well known cliche - the last resort of those who can't think up their own counter arguments.
"says it's for smart-asses"
Actually the plural is spelt "ass's" Mr English Degree.
"you are a judgmental moralist who blame the oppressed for their own oppression"
Its only people who have no morals who *don't* judge others. And the only people oppressing those who have more kids than they can support is themselves. But I guess language degrees don't require the comprehension of simple logic.
"People like me ? And what pray-tell kind of people, am I ?"
Well going by that whining self righteous queenie rant you're obviously fairly young, early 20s, maybe teens and probably gay. Its also obviously quite clear that you're the sort who think people have no responsibility for the amount of children they have if they can't get free birth control else you wouldn't have thought my comment was stupid. Either that or you simply didn't understand it.
"a clear indication that I believe birth control should be readily available."
Actually it wasn't clear at all. Is english a 2nd language for you?
"Considering I am not biologically capable of having children"
Being gay doesn't mean you're incapable, you just don't want to. So if you were angling for a bit of sympathy you're out of luck pal.
At what cost? Loss of wild habitats, sterile monocultures , pesticide poisoning of what little wildlife is left, fertilizer runoff causing o2 depletion in the rivers, soil erosion due to constant tilling, huge CO2 footprint due to fossil fuels required to produce agrichemicals and machinery to work the land and so on and on and on.
The methods of 300 years ago had survived for millenia. The way we've abused the planet in the last century we'll do well to be able to maintain this production for the next 100 years, never mind 1000.
... food availability goes down for the same amount of farmland.
Sure , we could chop down all the forests and bulldoze all the other wild habitats to use more of it for agriculture , or... people could use contraception or keep their fscking pants on now and then. If I see one more sob story of some halfwit who can't feed their ten kids....
"a Tunisian street vendor who could no longer feed his family set himself on fire in protest."
Well, it was also the constant harassment from officials too according to wonkypedia.
However I have limited sympathy with a certain type of person who you see on TV bleating that they can't feed their 5 or 10 kids. Perhaps if they'd invested some money in contraception or maybe just kept their pants on occasionally they wouldn't be in this situation. Unfortunately reproduction ability isn't governed by IQ - if it was there wouldn't be over 7 billion and counting on this planet already.
"They're all programmed to sit pretty much dead center once operating temperature is reached"
Yup, sadly you're right. Luckily my car however has a service menu which you can get up with a few button presses (not in the manual obviously) that will tell me the actual temp.
And if he'd said illiterate little brother it wouldn't have been? Why? Do you think boys are naturally more stupid than girls or are you just angling for some right-on brownie points? Which it looks like you didn't get btw.
"The other angle is the shadowy nexus of Russian FSB and Russian organized crime, ex-KGB involvement in organized crime here and abroad. What if his exposes reach someone connected to the FSB? That could have repercussions with some very scary and very capable kinds of people."
It could happen I suppose - but if the people are that high up they probably use highly sophisticated bespoke malware, not something off the shelf that can be tracked by this guy.
The smart ones are the coders who write the malware, not the criminal morons who use it. The chances of some east european knuckle dragging thug flying to the US , getting through security, tracking this guy down and doing him some harm is pretty slim. I'd be more worried about mafia closer to home who probably also use the malware but being smarter tend to be better at concealing their activities.
People talk about parallel start up , well you can do that with init anyway. Its it smarter with dependencies or is it just change for the sake of it? I'm really not thrilled with the prospect of yet another config language, there are quite enough already.
"ftp" is usually synonymous with sftp these days, though of course if you use 12345 or similar as your password you might as well just tie a print out of all your important data to a dogs tail and let it run through a town centre for all the good public-private key encryption will do you.
Believing in some ineffable higher power is one thing , believing in the clearly made up sub harry potter level childrens stories that are laughably known as religious texts is another entirely.
So you have a poster of Stalin on your wall at home? The member states have LOST too much power which has been ceded to a lot of unelected beaurocrats in brussels. So much for democracy.
"so the EU can not function as one entity in matters like this"
Good. At least not all of us will have to suffer the consequences of all the left wing bleeding heart socialists that brussels is infested with.
... in out atmosphere , whereas the CO2 released from burning it hangs around for hundreds if not thousands of years until its reabsorbed.
(And yes I am aware that the escaped methane ends up as CO2 after those 10 odd years , but its a tiny amount compared to the amount we release by burning).
Uh , one example from 13 years ago which is nothing more than failed asylum seekers deported back to their home country after a failed asylum bit? Is that REALLY the best you can do?? FFS. Your sort will grab onto any passing turd won't you.
My government? You should stop assuming everyone who posts here is from the USA. I doubt my government gives a damn about Amanda Knox one way or the other.
I'm not putting myself up as some sort of saviour - who then bails out when the going gets tough.
As for character assassination - judging people by their actions is entirely legitimate and nothing that man has done has convinced me that the way I see him is wrong. He might pull the wool over the eyes of gullible teens and twenty somethings , but when you've been on this planet long enough you've seen plenty of Assange types.
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"Lillith held up a mirror to life, and chopped off all the bits of life that didn't fit".
Oh look , another cut and paste quote. How original.
"bigoted crap that bisexual men don't exist"
You don't. You're just gay sonny but won't admit it to yourself much less anyone else.
"You're not only judgemental, bigoted and reprehensible in every possible way - you are, like every other person like you I've known - an ignorant idiot as well."
Ooo , meow! Careful with that handbag now!
" I would almost imagine you're hitting on me"
LOL , oh yes, go on drag the old "X apparently doesn't like Y , so imply X must secretly be Y" comeback out from its coffin! Jesus, you really still are at chapter 1 of the Dummies Guide to Debating arn't you mate? :o)
"while using your computer, living in nice apartment, driving a car and enjoying modern medicin"
Sure, I use modern tech , but I use public transport and I don't have 10 kids. There's something called sustainability.
"We are quite adaptable species, when environment changes we will adapt again."
Oh dear, is the old hand waving "it'll be alright in the end, we don't need to worry or change" argument really all you've got?
Are you sure you're in your 30s? You sound like a teenager who's just discovered sex and wants to shock everyone with the words he knows.
"I am also no gay - I'm bisexual"
Its "not gay". And yes, its pretty obvious you are. Like I said, you're just in denial. And I doubt you even have a wife.
"Fred Phelps."
Never heard of him. Is he a Yank?
"Now ask yourself- just how good does somebody have to be at these things to get special dispensation from a university allowing him to take computer science as an extra, credited major when he is enrolled to for a degree in English Literature and Philosophy ?"
Simple - you're just a kid sitting in his bedroom making it all up to suit the argument. There are hundreds of you on this site.
"polyamorous and bisexual"
In other words you're a cheating gay man in denial - plenty of gay men get married and have kids and plenty of men like to dress up their cheating as some kind of acceptable lifestyle. Even Elton John was married to a woman once btw.
"Yes, actually, but it happens to be one I have a university degree in"
Sadly it doesn't seem to help your clarity. Please explain exactly which part of "Coming from a country where it's a political hot potato to have insurance cover birth control but not viagra" translates to "birth control should be readily available". Or perhaps you just use google translate for everything?
"To paraphrase G.B. Shaw"
Ah yes, quote or paraphrase some well known cliche - the last resort of those who can't think up their own counter arguments.
"says it's for smart-asses"
Actually the plural is spelt "ass's" Mr English Degree.
"you are a judgmental moralist who blame the oppressed for their own oppression"
Its only people who have no morals who *don't* judge others. And the only people oppressing those who have more kids than they can support is themselves. But I guess language degrees don't require the comprehension of simple logic.
"People like me ? And what pray-tell kind of people, am I ?"
Well going by that whining self righteous queenie rant you're obviously fairly young, early 20s, maybe teens and probably gay. Its also obviously quite clear that you're the sort who think people have no responsibility for the amount of children they have if they can't get free birth control else you wouldn't have thought my comment was stupid. Either that or you simply didn't understand it.
"a clear indication that I believe birth control should be readily available."
Actually it wasn't clear at all. Is english a 2nd language for you?
"Considering I am not biologically capable of having children"
Being gay doesn't mean you're incapable, you just don't want to. So if you were angling for a bit of sympathy you're out of luck pal.
At what cost? Loss of wild habitats, sterile monocultures , pesticide poisoning of what little wildlife is left, fertilizer runoff causing o2 depletion in the rivers, soil erosion due to constant tilling, huge CO2 footprint due to fossil fuels required to produce agrichemicals and machinery to work the land and so on and on and on.
The methods of 300 years ago had survived for millenia. The way we've abused the planet in the last century we'll do well to be able to maintain this production for the next 100 years, never mind 1000.
" I find your comment incredibly stupid."
Sadly people like you are part of the problem. But keep your head in the sand if it makes you feel better.
Spot on. But some expect some self hating bleading heart to mod you down anytime soon.
... food availability goes down for the same amount of farmland.
Sure , we could chop down all the forests and bulldoze all the other wild habitats to use more of it for agriculture , or ... people could use contraception or keep their fscking pants on now and then. If I see one more sob story of some halfwit who can't feed their ten kids....
"a Tunisian street vendor who could no longer feed his family set himself on fire in protest."
Well, it was also the constant harassment from officials too according to wonkypedia.
However I have limited sympathy with a certain type of person who you see on TV bleating that they can't feed their 5 or 10 kids. Perhaps if they'd invested some money in contraception or maybe just kept their pants on occasionally they wouldn't be in this situation. Unfortunately reproduction ability isn't governed by IQ - if it was there wouldn't be over 7 billion and counting on this planet already.
"They're all programmed to sit pretty much dead center once operating temperature is reached"
Yup, sadly you're right. Luckily my car however has a service menu which you can get up with a few button presses (not in the manual obviously) that will tell me the actual temp.
"Right. That is why I pointed out a comment which needlessly brought gender into a discussion that had nothing to do with gender"
Do yourself a favour - pull that rod out from your backside and grow the fsck up. Life isn't a school politics debate.
And if he'd said illiterate little brother it wouldn't have been? Why? Do you think boys are naturally more stupid than girls or are you just angling for some right-on brownie points? Which it looks like you didn't get btw.
"The other angle is the shadowy nexus of Russian FSB and Russian organized crime, ex-KGB involvement in organized crime here and abroad. What if his exposes reach someone connected to the FSB? That could have repercussions with some very scary and very capable kinds of people."
It could happen I suppose - but if the people are that high up they probably use highly sophisticated bespoke malware, not something off the shelf that can be tracked by this guy.
The smart ones are the coders who write the malware, not the criminal morons who use it. The chances of some east european knuckle dragging thug flying to the US , getting through security, tracking this guy down and doing him some harm is pretty slim. I'd be more worried about mafia closer to home who probably also use the malware but being smarter tend to be better at concealing their activities.
People talk about parallel start up , well you can do that with init anyway. Its it smarter with dependencies or is it just change for the sake of it? I'm really not thrilled with the prospect of yet another config language, there are quite enough already.
"ftp" is usually synonymous with sftp these days, though of course if you use 12345 or similar as your password you might as well just tie a print out of all your important data to a dogs tail and let it run through a town centre for all the good public-private key encryption will do you.
Believing in some ineffable higher power is one thing , believing in the clearly made up sub harry potter level childrens stories that are laughably known as religious texts is another entirely.
"the member states have far too much power"
So you have a poster of Stalin on your wall at home? The member states have LOST too much power which has been ceded to a lot of unelected beaurocrats in brussels. So much for democracy.
"so the EU can not function as one entity in matters like this"
Good. At least not all of us will have to suffer the consequences of all the left wing bleeding heart socialists that brussels is infested with.
... in out atmosphere , whereas the CO2 released from burning it hangs around for hundreds if not thousands of years until its reabsorbed.
(And yes I am aware that the escaped methane ends up as CO2 after those 10 odd years , but its a tiny amount compared to the amount we release by burning).
Uh , one example from 13 years ago which is nothing more than failed asylum seekers deported back to their home country after a failed asylum bit? Is that REALLY the best you can do?? FFS. Your sort will grab onto any passing turd won't you.
"Sweden because they have a history of handing people to the US to be tortured without even a trial."
Oh riiiight. Can to point us to a list of people extradited by sweden who are now being "tortured" in the US?
Whats that? You can't because you're talking out your arse? I'm shocked.
I like the tinfoil hat you've got going there btw.
LOL! Oh please, just go back to your student debating society where people might take your argument seriously :o)
My government? You should stop assuming everyone who posts here is from the USA. I doubt my government gives a damn about Amanda Knox one way or the other.
Straw man.
I'm not putting myself up as some sort of saviour - who then bails out when the going gets tough.
As for character assassination - judging people by their actions is entirely legitimate and nothing that man has done has convinced me that the way I see him is wrong. He might pull the wool over the eyes of gullible teens and twenty somethings , but when you've been on this planet long enough you've seen plenty of Assange types.