Open source, going to do this, going to do that. I get the very real feeling google are fundamentallyy failing at what they are trying to project.
They are a company seeking profits, for the sake of their shareholders. I sincerely doubt they are doing anything for the users, it's all lip service and marketing PR spin.
Incorrect. You are replying your experiences from an "American" perspective. Your geo-political ignorance has been validated. It's atlas buying time for you.
What isn't funny is when you are always that 2%. Every, single, time, I go to the airport Im hassled by the goons searching, probing and testing for explosives. "been on a farm recently"... " fired a gun" used fertilizer in your garden recently..... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
15 minutes of shoe removal, swabs, scans and questions.
Never an explanation. Done nothing wrong. Just the way I look.
I suppose I needed to be put down with your caustic and subtle insults, but if you should BOTHER to read the context wrt the original post rather than make an assumption, or read some history, as you suggest, then you will indeed see that I am right.
While I didn't take the time to plagiarise something from wikipedia or other obscure source as *others* have, you will, upon reading the fact, find I am right.
I'm simply not going to be dragged into an argument with a person who still sees imperial units as "the way".
My last line in my original response wasn't entirely related to F, if you missed the sarcasm.
Better? Well, it makes sense and is backed by a bit of science. Unlike F which is based on how a human "feels". Now, Eskimo human or Bedouin? Desert Australian or tropical Fijian?
Perhaps the US can hang on to it. It's becoming more irrelevant every day. F that is...
No offense, but it's people like you that cause offense. He asked a clear question in plain English. He should be rewarded for this.
It proves nothing to jam a sentence with jargon to make one look smart.
Rather than a single critique, you could provide a cogent answer, but you didn't. You just created white noise and denigrated a guy who is trying to do his best.
Morals in good form are always found, even in the most despotic society. East Germany, Zimbabwe, China, NKPR... its how the "authorities" act that determine the tenor of the society, even if its citizens are moral themselves.
I agree with your assertion of what is moral, is not, and judged by whom. Morals are an extension of ethos and ethic. The problem lies here for the USA is that both its ethos and ethic are made up to suit the situation at hand. They are not true convictions but mere reactions to external influences (like a bad politician who is trying desperately to be all things to all people... it always fails, as the politician that lacks conviction makes up policy on the spot)
My comments were not meant to construe that all people, or even most people, in the USA are immoral, just its government, its state machinery, the legal system (police and judiciary) and the various legislatures. If one is to stand back and cast a critical and impartial eye on the society as seen from the outside, the conclusion is of empire in severe and precipitous decline and the subsequent decimation of "the good".
Stories on/. seem to justify this. People being torpedoed by police who don't want to be filmed beating people (yesterday), immoral corporations acting in even their own shareholders best interests (MPAA), senior executive/judiciary/lawmakers who act against the interests and benefits of the people.. etc etc.
While much of this holds true of any country and indeed most, the US has deliberately cast the spotlight of "justice" upon itself (as the leading light) and its now shown not to be a showcase, but a tattered, sad and rather decrepit clown standing alone on a big stage. Its magic is shown up to be mere cheap tricks and its rabbits and doves are dead in the hat.
There is no real coming back. That is just an illusion. What the citizens seriously need to contemplate is what to do next. This is a question for the people, not outsiders like me.
The days of "the united states" seem well and truly over. Economically, politically and socially it has turned to despotism, desperation and an absence of morals.
time to turn our attentions elsewhere while the poor old US eats itself alive with hate and fear.
Wonder how long it will be before the hate mongers generate a war with China?
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Open source, going to do this, going to do that. I get the very real feeling google are fundamentallyy failing at what they are trying to project.
They are a company seeking profits, for the sake of their shareholders. I sincerely doubt they are doing anything for the users, it's all lip service and marketing PR spin.
I'm saying this nicely, as a person from another country, yes, you are signing up for it, because you do nothing.
Blind Freddy can see you are in a police state, and it's getting worse by the day. The fate of the USA is inevitable.
So, what are YOU going to do about it?
Interesting isn't it.
Is that done now with the Dob In The Neighbour program? Straight from the east German stassi.
Bloody hell, drink less coffee.
Incorrect. You are replying your experiences from an "American" perspective. Your geo-political ignorance has been validated. It's atlas buying time for you.
I read it that it could produce at 1000% efficiency. ;)
No, her name is Greg and "she's" in her basement waiting for mum to bring her dinner. Chat roulette is not "making pr0n".
Walk past an ad....
What isn't funny is when you are always that 2%. Every, single, time, I go to the airport Im hassled by the goons searching, probing and testing for explosives. "been on a farm recently"... " fired a gun" used fertilizer in your garden recently..... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
15 minutes of shoe removal, swabs, scans and questions.
Never an explanation. Done nothing wrong. Just the way I look.
It's state sanctioned harassment.
Hunt for Red October wasn't a documentary :)
When I want to pump my fluids, I like to have my parts moving, nano or not!
and whacking people
I suppose I needed to be put down with your caustic and subtle insults, but if you should BOTHER to read the context wrt the original post rather than make an assumption, or read some history, as you suggest, then you will indeed see that I am right.
While I didn't take the time to plagiarise something from wikipedia or other obscure source as *others* have, you will, upon reading the fact, find I am right.
I'm simply not going to be dragged into an argument with a person who still sees imperial units as "the way".
My last line in my original response wasn't entirely related to F, if you missed the sarcasm.
Better? Well, it makes sense and is backed by a bit of science. Unlike F which is based on how a human "feels". Now, Eskimo human or Bedouin? Desert Australian or tropical Fijian?
Perhaps the US can hang on to it. It's becoming more irrelevant every day. F that is...
Problem?
don't forget the "in China" bit.
I have a friend who has 250 employees in a coffee cup factory and their collective salaries come to less than mine monthly.
Numbers are meaningless when you have 1.3 billion half starved peasants.
Money. No bux. Perhaps you don't have a real job in a real company where the money isn't free?
No offense, but it's people like you that cause offense. He asked a clear question in plain English. He should be rewarded for this.
It proves nothing to jam a sentence with jargon to make one look smart.
Rather than a single critique, you could provide a cogent answer, but you didn't. You just created white noise and denigrated a guy who is trying to do his best.
Offense taken.
Morals in good form are always found, even in the most despotic society. East Germany, Zimbabwe, China, NKPR... its how the "authorities" act that determine the tenor of the society, even if its citizens are moral themselves.
I agree with your assertion of what is moral, is not, and judged by whom. Morals are an extension of ethos and ethic. The problem lies here for the USA is that both its ethos and ethic are made up to suit the situation at hand. They are not true convictions but mere reactions to external influences (like a bad politician who is trying desperately to be all things to all people... it always fails, as the politician that lacks conviction makes up policy on the spot)
My comments were not meant to construe that all people, or even most people, in the USA are immoral, just its government, its state machinery, the legal system (police and judiciary) and the various legislatures. If one is to stand back and cast a critical and impartial eye on the society as seen from the outside, the conclusion is of empire in severe and precipitous decline and the subsequent decimation of "the good".
Stories on /. seem to justify this. People being torpedoed by police who don't want to be filmed beating people (yesterday), immoral corporations acting in even their own shareholders best interests (MPAA), senior executive/judiciary/lawmakers who act against the interests and benefits of the people.. etc etc.
While much of this holds true of any country and indeed most, the US has deliberately cast the spotlight of "justice" upon itself (as the leading light) and its now shown not to be a showcase, but a tattered, sad and rather decrepit clown standing alone on a big stage. Its magic is shown up to be mere cheap tricks and its rabbits and doves are dead in the hat.
There is no real coming back. That is just an illusion. What the citizens seriously need to contemplate is what to do next. This is a question for the people, not outsiders like me.
The days of "the united states" seem well and truly over. Economically, politically and socially it has turned to despotism, desperation and an absence of morals.
time to turn our attentions elsewhere while the poor old US eats itself alive with hate and fear.
Wonder how long it will be before the hate mongers generate a war with China?
Like -5 or something? You could try sqrt -2, I'd bet not many APs do that one.
Republican?
Why are you here? Looks like you have the wrong forum.
This is for people who think for themselves, not those who repeat the thinking of others.
Being a bit snippy aren't we ;)
Take a mood moderator. You're wound up a bit tight twinkyboy.