I'm not a relaxed guy. I told my Member of Parliament in all seriousness that I support economic sanctions against the US, and that I think we should cut the supply of oil running from Canada into the US.
I think we have better things to have our young people doing than taking two mortgages, to get a house in the middle of fucking nowhere Alberta, so they can spend their lives building infrastructure to supply the US with oil, until it's gone and the value of their lifes work tanks.
With all the war crimes your nation has committed, and the fact that dealing with you makes us a viable terrorist target, having anything to do with you is both dangerous and wrong.
The mad cow scare was a great example of how much better off people become when they stop dealing with you people. Now we have our own slaughterhouses and sell frozen steak shipped around the world by freighter instead of getting pennies on the dollar selling it to the US so they can slaughter it and sell it back to us.
You need to clean your fucking country up. Marching to Washington and hanging your entire government would be a great start, and a show of good faith to the rest of the world.
Personally, I find it's such a pain in the ass to go into IE and un-lock-it-down enough that it's actually a functional web browser again so I can test with it, when I'm doing internal facing stuff half the time I'm in a rush and don't even bother to test with IE. And I've found, it doesn't really matter. I don't know too many professionals these days that don't use Firefox, and it's close enough that you can use it to get work done even if it does look a little uglier in IE from time to time.
If you're not trying to do slick marketing, you can always just dismiss IEs little quirks and let it become known among the public as the ugly but functional browser that comes with Windows before you stick FF onto it, just as they do with the default Media Player.
I wouldn't have put it in such an inflammatory way, but yeah.
Put another way, the U.S. is a good country., but that doesn't mean it can't be better. Instead of resting on our laurels---instead of being proud of ourselves for not being worse---we should be looking at the things that are wrong and trying to improve upon them, constantly setting the bar higher and higher. Otherwise, someday we'll look back and compare ourselves with the world and find ourselves at the bottom.
No, the US is a bad country, with one of the worst education systems in the developed world and one of the worst health care systems in the developed world, hated by the multitude of nations they have been oppressing all these years, continuously engaged in aggressive warfare, crippled by an infrastructure that will collapse utterly if the supply of foreign oil dries up, buried in enough national debt that if you were to honour your obligations it would render you a nation of slaves, and facing the collapse of their social structures due to a combination of low birth rates and declining immigration.
You ARE at the bottom. You're just too idealistic and poorly informed to be able to understand that it's true.
I wish you would get your collective heads out of your collective asses and deal with your issues domestically so the rest of the world doesn't end up being pushed into declaring war on you. Because history has shown that, with the way your nation is behaving, we eventually will.
If it happens, you will lose, and you will die, and many of we the rest of the world will die, and it will all be YOUR FAULT because it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to see to it that your little collective behaves in a civilized fashion, except that none of you are.
It is so trivially easy to destroy that a single determined individual can lay waste to millions and a piss bomb coupled with a garage door opener can destroy millions in dollars of military hardware, yet you continue to believe, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that you can survive by being respected and feared instead of being liked and valued.
It is your cultural values and your willingness to hold to them that are the problem here. It's because in the material ways that matter, your collective behaviour is evil, violent, aggressive and unrestrained by a respect for human dignity.
I usually suggest to people that they come up with a positive self talk phrase, take the first letter of each word, then replace a letter with a number that resembles it.
Something like "I am a happy person who loves their life." turns into "Iaahpwlt1", which is long, contains numbers and letters and no dictionary words whatsoever.
You end up repeating it to yourself every time you log in, which serves double duty as both a mnemonic device and a way to preserve your positive attitude.
Last time I checked there are freaking TONS of people literally dieing to get in to this country. So many that the U.S. is building a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigration. Yes those are generally lower educated people but there are still far more "high tech" people wanting in the county than H1Bs.
That's true. That's yet another problem with the US... they were dependent on the uneducated but industrious illegals to harvest food, and now that they're locking things down and throwing immigrants into concentration camps in the hundreds of thousands, food is rotting in the fields.
You seriously want people to believe that the U.S. is run by a bunch of "Religious Fanatics"? The same country that based its laws off of Christian values and religious freedoms (not freedom from religion) has morphed into a country that kids can't pray public schools, certain retailers were scared to say "Merry Christmas" and if anyone wants to teach children that "MOST" people in the U.S.A/World believe that the universe/time et all began by God, they will probably be fighting the ACLU in court.
Teachers are being fired for teaching science instead of creationism. The people in power were put there because the general population, or at least 49% of them, are so soft in the head that they swallowed all the religious rights rhetoric and elected a madman. Do you think a few insulting paintings written by attention seekers looking to tweak the nose of the religious establishment changes the nature of things? It doesn't... it's superficial
All in all the U.S. isn't looking too bad. Granted our taxes are ridiculous, but a hard working person in poverty can still become one of the richest people on earth and that can't be said for to many countries.
Hard work doesn't get you rich in the US. Scheming, conspiracy, underhanded tactics, economic exploitation of your fellow man, fraudulent accounting practices, exploitation of loopholes for personal gain... these are how a person in the US gets ahead. How naive are you?
Now to get this back on topic. I honestly don't know what this guys motive is at Sun. Sun sends out a ton of different messages and at the end of the day they are a company that needs to make money.
Well, you just answered your question. They want to make money. They want to climb to the top of the hill and wield power over the rest of us. In order to do that, they need the one thing that all modern business revolves around, which is vested interest from people in positions of power. This is an effort to generate that vested interest in the ascending market. They've been desperately throwing shit at the wall trying to get it to stick for a long time.
It used to be the case that selfish but intelligent people moved to the US so they could reap more rewards from the fruit of their minds and give less back to their indigenous culture.
That's changed.
Now intelligent people are afraid to move to the US, indeed, I've known of half a dozen people in the last year asking for advice about moving to Canada or Australia in order to escape the place.
Couple that with the disastrous education system, and things are not looking good for ANY significant developments coming out of the US in the future.
They jumped the shark. The US is a bunch of religious fanatics with high-tech but fragile and expensive weapons, and that's pretty much the last vestiges of US power that remains.
To recap, you outsource things because you're collectively helpless to do them yourselves, and no one wants to move there.
The answer, of course, is that corporations should not be permitted to make a profit. That was the intention behind establishing corporations in the first place, that they be a limited liability group that makes no profit and whose sole justification for existence is that they perform a public good.
A friend of mine is working on assembling a system where he keeps edible fish inside his greenhouse, uses the waste to feed his plants, and sell the remaining fish waste as environmentally friendly fertilizer.
I've often thought that if you had something like that in your backyard for personal use, stuck it on a dozen acres of land with some running water, then put the greenhouses, your home and all your land inside a power generating dome like the one I described, you could have fresh meat, fresh vegetables, free power, endless fresh water from condensation and never get rained on when you went outside.
Well, I'm not an engineer, but stone towers were being built by primitives centuries ago, and they didn't really impact the surrounding terrain that much. Skyscrapers are assembled today in sites that are not much larger than the buildings footprint, so that aspect shouldn't be a barrier.
As far as the sidewalls, I would imagine you could put together a skeleton framework out of thick tubes of steel, constructed in such a way that it would operate as an arch once it was raised into position, then run a steel cable through the sections and maneuver it all into place with helicopters.
Doesn't sound like a particularly challenging task if you have access to air support.
There are several fusion experiments that look quite promising and orbital solar is no fantasy.
Orbital solar power is without a doubt the most interesting, because it has more potential to scale than any other conceivable engineering project and it has the potential to remove any need for terrestrial power generation. Small scale renewable energy projects inevitably clutter up the landscape as they move towards peak capacity; windmill and solar farms are ugly.
You could build a massive cone shaped greenhouse, with intake vents at the bottom and a hollow tower standing in the middle venting out the top, and wind turbines inside the tower. There was a successful test of such technology as a way to harness solar energy in northern Europe, and from what I understand there's a large scale deployment going on in Australia to power Sydney's grid.
If you built such a structure over a hot spring, it would seem pretty obvious that you'd get some significant energy return from it, and you wouldn't have to disrupt the landscape at all.
Wow. Don't you think you're overreacting, just a little?
Your sig is particularly ironic here. If you want information to be free, you're welcome to offer to pay the salaries of all the journalists, reporters, cameramen, sound crews, and support folks who are out there all over the world collecting it. Go ahead and put your money where your mouth is.
I am.
I'll be launching a service in the new year to help actively creating artists make a profit off selling original works, leveraging the copyleft and mashup cultures to generate a fanbase and simultaneously devalue the global copyright pool.
For the right types of creators, the strategy of increasing the amount of budgets available for custom work by annihilating the cost of existing bodies of work is a valid one, and I intend to make it very easy for those types of people to do so as a side effect of their making money off the things that you cannot copy.
You'll excuse me if I wait till the new year to slashdot myself, but I assure you, I have sunk hundreds and hundreds of man hours and a lot of my own dough into putting my money where my mouth is, and when I'm ready, you will know all about it whether you like it or not, because it will be some noteworthy stuff.
So no. I don't think I'm overreacting at all. I like to think when it all pans out in the end I'm going to play some small but important personal role in bringing the old things crashing down as a matter of fact. And have the people doing the real work be richer for it.
I do. Every time I hear about something like this, the site goes on my CustomizeGoogle blacklist, never to be seen again. It was the slashdot policy of posting "registration required" links to the New York Times that got me started on this path, and honestly, I'm better informed for it. All these big "news" publishers deliver is sanitized, oversimplified, dumbed down, biased and superficial stories blended with propaganda and outright lies concocted by private interests who stand to gain by your being misinformed. They make you stupider for having been exposed to them. Anyone with integrity has already adapted or left long ago, and those that are left are personally responsible for the wreckage. I hope airplanes land on their heads.
Oh so it's okay to pirate movies, TV shows, books, etc. because they are all publicly available?
No, it's obligatory. If you pay for them, you're part of the system of oppression, which makes you an enemy. If you're not with us, you're against us, and a part of the Axis of Evil, and no longer subject to the bounds of common morality and ethics. People who pay for media should be caned.
Tough shit. If you don't want your shit out there, keep it to yourself. No one is forcing you to participate. If you don't like it, go quietly freeze to death in the woods.
Isn't it great? My girlfriend started downloading documentaries to make up for the lack, and we've learned about a whole host of different things. It's amazing how little you miss the crap they churn out.
Did you hear the one about the crack dealer who went on strike? Where all his clients cleaned themselves up and the market disappeared?
No, me neither. Guess crack dealers are smarter than the Writers Guild.
Do I care that information about me might have been released amongst all the rest? Not at all.
Do I care that massive companies and governments get to amass all this data and not share it with the rest of us? A great deal.
There is too much privacy. No one cares about your guilty little sexual encounters, no one cares what the doctor says is going to kill you, and there are truly evil people hiding terrible things while you concern yourself with such trivialities.
Get over yourself. Stop fighting for secrecy and start fighting against ignorance and the hypocrisies it breeds.
Homosexuality isn't biological in basis. Passivity and submissiveness may be, but neither quality has stopped a great many gay men from having and raising families. And if they choose not to do so, then they have chosen not to be involved in society.
There is a difference between going out of your way to attack someone because they are not useful and empowering them to pursue their selfishness at the expense of other people. Yes, I think we should definitely bias against those who cut themselves off from the ongoing human society to pursue personal desire, be it base, intellectual, doesn't matter.
If you're a big fag and end up married to a lesbian wife, have a few kids, raise them right, get a babysitter and go swing both ways on the weekends, no big deal. You're not hurting anyone, and you're still a part of the ongoing fabric of society.
Personally, I think the way modern civilization turned out makes a strong argument for arranged marriages at a young age and an abandonment of the concept of lifelong marital sexual fidelity.
People should have kids while they're young enough to chase em around and flexible enough to relate to them. Then, when they start to think wistfully of what they might have missed, they should just go explore it without shame or resentment after they have started a family.
Why does everyone have to have a "Pro" in their name?
Why can't anyone say "I'm anti-abortion, because for thousands of generations the existence of the human race has relied on population created by women who didn't feel ready, and we're not going extinct just so you can spend another decade in childhood."
Breeding ought to be a prerequisite to voting. No person without material social ties to the future of the civilization ought to be put in a position of power over it.
To put it another way, all those rich lawyers and doctors and executives who don't have kids ought to be cast down from their authority to the very lowest class of our society. Their kids aren't going to play with my kids, or help keep my lights on, or wipe my ass for me when I'm too old to reach it. Let them die scrambling for an existence on the edge of civilization.
Facebook has already got this figured out... they're testing a new feature that lets you create alternate personalities to keep your various personalities away from each other...
Schizophrenia is a perfectly reasonable response to modern society, if you've accepted that you can't change it and you want to live at any cost, I suppose...
It's a calender. You can buy them at the department store, complete with beach bunnies or half naked firefighters, depending on how you swing.
Lets not pretend that there's anything particularly special about anything MS has done with calenders that you couldn't do yourself, ok? It's a fucking calender.
Personally, I like the ones with the half naked girls much better than anything made software, be it commercial or open source.
Take out the word "terrorist", put in the word "subversive", and you've actually pretty much defined the part of the internet that makes us care about it, and the thing they're afraid of.
Of course, it's absolutely true, and wise for them to be afraid of it. Their position has always relied on information and environmental control.
Coal, and fossil fuels in general, are widely recognized to be almost at, at, or past peak production on a global level, and will therefore become increasingly scarce, and therefore increasingly expensive, as time goes by.
Therefore, anyone wishing to create renewable energy more cost effective than coal doesn't need to do anything beyond keep trying and not get worse, and they will get there eventually.
As far as technical challenges go, this is right up there with "hitting the ground".
I bet if the sarcastic doofus reviewing it had read the instructions before starting his review, he might have gotten more out of it.
Good on yer !
And how about the doofus reviewing the review of the doofus overrunning his attention span and overlooking the fact that actually there had not been any instructions in the first place ?
So, you don't think there's something stupid about someone buying a product used, then publishing a video about how much it sucks because he can't figure it out?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-11-25-Immigration_N.htm
I'm not a relaxed guy. I told my Member of Parliament in all seriousness that I support economic sanctions against the US, and that I think we should cut the supply of oil running from Canada into the US.
I think we have better things to have our young people doing than taking two mortgages, to get a house in the middle of fucking nowhere Alberta, so they can spend their lives building infrastructure to supply the US with oil, until it's gone and the value of their lifes work tanks.
With all the war crimes your nation has committed, and the fact that dealing with you makes us a viable terrorist target, having anything to do with you is both dangerous and wrong.
The mad cow scare was a great example of how much better off people become when they stop dealing with you people. Now we have our own slaughterhouses and sell frozen steak shipped around the world by freighter instead of getting pennies on the dollar selling it to the US so they can slaughter it and sell it back to us.
You need to clean your fucking country up. Marching to Washington and hanging your entire government would be a great start, and a show of good faith to the rest of the world.
Personally, I find it's such a pain in the ass to go into IE and un-lock-it-down enough that it's actually a functional web browser again so I can test with it, when I'm doing internal facing stuff half the time I'm in a rush and don't even bother to test with IE. And I've found, it doesn't really matter. I don't know too many professionals these days that don't use Firefox, and it's close enough that you can use it to get work done even if it does look a little uglier in IE from time to time.
If you're not trying to do slick marketing, you can always just dismiss IEs little quirks and let it become known among the public as the ugly but functional browser that comes with Windows before you stick FF onto it, just as they do with the default Media Player.
I wouldn't have put it in such an inflammatory way, but yeah.
Put another way, the U.S. is a good country., but that doesn't mean it can't be better. Instead of resting on our laurels---instead of being proud of ourselves for not being worse---we should be looking at the things that are wrong and trying to improve upon them, constantly setting the bar higher and higher. Otherwise, someday we'll look back and compare ourselves with the world and find ourselves at the bottom.
No, the US is a bad country, with one of the worst education systems in the developed world and one of the worst health care systems in the developed world, hated by the multitude of nations they have been oppressing all these years, continuously engaged in aggressive warfare, crippled by an infrastructure that will collapse utterly if the supply of foreign oil dries up, buried in enough national debt that if you were to honour your obligations it would render you a nation of slaves, and facing the collapse of their social structures due to a combination of low birth rates and declining immigration.
You ARE at the bottom. You're just too idealistic and poorly informed to be able to understand that it's true.
I wish you would get your collective heads out of your collective asses and deal with your issues domestically so the rest of the world doesn't end up being pushed into declaring war on you. Because history has shown that, with the way your nation is behaving, we eventually will.
If it happens, you will lose, and you will die, and many of we the rest of the world will die, and it will all be YOUR FAULT because it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to see to it that your little collective behaves in a civilized fashion, except that none of you are.
It is so trivially easy to destroy that a single determined individual can lay waste to millions and a piss bomb coupled with a garage door opener can destroy millions in dollars of military hardware, yet you continue to believe, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that you can survive by being respected and feared instead of being liked and valued.
It is your cultural values and your willingness to hold to them that are the problem here. It's because in the material ways that matter, your collective behaviour is evil, violent, aggressive and unrestrained by a respect for human dignity.
I usually suggest to people that they come up with a positive self talk phrase, take the first letter of each word, then replace a letter with a number that resembles it.
Something like "I am a happy person who loves their life." turns into "Iaahpwlt1", which is long, contains numbers and letters and no dictionary words whatsoever.
You end up repeating it to yourself every time you log in, which serves double duty as both a mnemonic device and a way to preserve your positive attitude.
Last time I checked there are freaking TONS of people literally dieing to get in to this country. So many that the U.S. is building a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigration. Yes those are generally lower educated people but there are still far more "high tech" people wanting in the county than H1Bs.
That's true. That's yet another problem with the US... they were dependent on the uneducated but industrious illegals to harvest food, and now that they're locking things down and throwing immigrants into concentration camps in the hundreds of thousands, food is rotting in the fields.
You seriously want people to believe that the U.S. is run by a bunch of "Religious Fanatics"? The same country that based its laws off of Christian values and religious freedoms (not freedom from religion) has morphed into a country that kids can't pray public schools, certain retailers were scared to say "Merry Christmas" and if anyone wants to teach children that "MOST" people in the U.S.A/World believe that the universe/time et all began by God, they will probably be fighting the ACLU in court.
Teachers are being fired for teaching science instead of creationism. The people in power were put there because the general population, or at least 49% of them, are so soft in the head that they swallowed all the religious rights rhetoric and elected a madman. Do you think a few insulting paintings written by attention seekers looking to tweak the nose of the religious establishment changes the nature of things? It doesn't... it's superficial
All in all the U.S. isn't looking too bad. Granted our taxes are ridiculous, but a hard working person in poverty can still become one of the richest people on earth and that can't be said for to many countries.
Hard work doesn't get you rich in the US. Scheming, conspiracy, underhanded tactics, economic exploitation of your fellow man, fraudulent accounting practices, exploitation of loopholes for personal gain... these are how a person in the US gets ahead. How naive are you?
Now to get this back on topic. I honestly don't know what this guys motive is at Sun. Sun sends out a ton of different messages and at the end of the day they are a company that needs to make money.
Well, you just answered your question. They want to make money. They want to climb to the top of the hill and wield power over the rest of us. In order to do that, they need the one thing that all modern business revolves around, which is vested interest from people in positions of power. This is an effort to generate that vested interest in the ascending market. They've been desperately throwing shit at the wall trying to get it to stick for a long time.
It used to be the case that selfish but intelligent people moved to the US so they could reap more rewards from the fruit of their minds and give less back to their indigenous culture.
That's changed.
Now intelligent people are afraid to move to the US, indeed, I've known of half a dozen people in the last year asking for advice about moving to Canada or Australia in order to escape the place.
Couple that with the disastrous education system, and things are not looking good for ANY significant developments coming out of the US in the future.
They jumped the shark. The US is a bunch of religious fanatics with high-tech but fragile and expensive weapons, and that's pretty much the last vestiges of US power that remains.
To recap, you outsource things because you're collectively helpless to do them yourselves, and no one wants to move there.
The answer, of course, is that corporations should not be permitted to make a profit. That was the intention behind establishing corporations in the first place, that they be a limited liability group that makes no profit and whose sole justification for existence is that they perform a public good.
A friend of mine is working on assembling a system where he keeps edible fish inside his greenhouse, uses the waste to feed his plants, and sell the remaining fish waste as environmentally friendly fertilizer.
I've often thought that if you had something like that in your backyard for personal use, stuck it on a dozen acres of land with some running water, then put the greenhouses, your home and all your land inside a power generating dome like the one I described, you could have fresh meat, fresh vegetables, free power, endless fresh water from condensation and never get rained on when you went outside.
Well, I'm not an engineer, but stone towers were being built by primitives centuries ago, and they didn't really impact the surrounding terrain that much. Skyscrapers are assembled today in sites that are not much larger than the buildings footprint, so that aspect shouldn't be a barrier.
As far as the sidewalls, I would imagine you could put together a skeleton framework out of thick tubes of steel, constructed in such a way that it would operate as an arch once it was raised into position, then run a steel cable through the sections and maneuver it all into place with helicopters.
Doesn't sound like a particularly challenging task if you have access to air support.
There are several fusion experiments that look quite promising and orbital solar is no fantasy.
Orbital solar power is without a doubt the most interesting, because it has more potential to scale than any other conceivable engineering project and it has the potential to remove any need for terrestrial power generation. Small scale renewable energy projects inevitably clutter up the landscape as they move towards peak capacity; windmill and solar farms are ugly.
You could build a massive cone shaped greenhouse, with intake vents at the bottom and a hollow tower standing in the middle venting out the top, and wind turbines inside the tower. There was a successful test of such technology as a way to harness solar energy in northern Europe, and from what I understand there's a large scale deployment going on in Australia to power Sydney's grid.
If you built such a structure over a hot spring, it would seem pretty obvious that you'd get some significant energy return from it, and you wouldn't have to disrupt the landscape at all.
Wow. Don't you think you're overreacting, just a little?
Your sig is particularly ironic here. If you want information to be free, you're welcome to offer to pay the salaries of all the journalists, reporters, cameramen, sound crews, and support folks who are out there all over the world collecting it. Go ahead and put your money where your mouth is.
I am.
I'll be launching a service in the new year to help actively creating artists make a profit off selling original works, leveraging the copyleft and mashup cultures to generate a fanbase and simultaneously devalue the global copyright pool.
For the right types of creators, the strategy of increasing the amount of budgets available for custom work by annihilating the cost of existing bodies of work is a valid one, and I intend to make it very easy for those types of people to do so as a side effect of their making money off the things that you cannot copy.
You'll excuse me if I wait till the new year to slashdot myself, but I assure you, I have sunk hundreds and hundreds of man hours and a lot of my own dough into putting my money where my mouth is, and when I'm ready, you will know all about it whether you like it or not, because it will be some noteworthy stuff.
So no. I don't think I'm overreacting at all. I like to think when it all pans out in the end I'm going to play some small but important personal role in bringing the old things crashing down as a matter of fact. And have the people doing the real work be richer for it.
As it is, I don't care if the publishers rot.
I do. Every time I hear about something like this, the site goes on my CustomizeGoogle blacklist, never to be seen again. It was the slashdot policy of posting "registration required" links to the New York Times that got me started on this path, and honestly, I'm better informed for it. All these big "news" publishers deliver is sanitized, oversimplified, dumbed down, biased and superficial stories blended with propaganda and outright lies concocted by private interests who stand to gain by your being misinformed. They make you stupider for having been exposed to them. Anyone with integrity has already adapted or left long ago, and those that are left are personally responsible for the wreckage. I hope airplanes land on their heads.
Oh so it's okay to pirate movies, TV shows, books, etc. because they are all publicly available?
No, it's obligatory. If you pay for them, you're part of the system of oppression, which makes you an enemy. If you're not with us, you're against us, and a part of the Axis of Evil, and no longer subject to the bounds of common morality and ethics. People who pay for media should be caned.
Tough shit. If you don't want your shit out there, keep it to yourself. No one is forcing you to participate. If you don't like it, go quietly freeze to death in the woods.
Isn't it great? My girlfriend started downloading documentaries to make up for the lack, and we've learned about a whole host of different things. It's amazing how little you miss the crap they churn out.
Did you hear the one about the crack dealer who went on strike? Where all his clients cleaned themselves up and the market disappeared?
No, me neither. Guess crack dealers are smarter than the Writers Guild.
Do I care that information about me might have been released amongst all the rest? Not at all.
Do I care that massive companies and governments get to amass all this data and not share it with the rest of us? A great deal.
There is too much privacy. No one cares about your guilty little sexual encounters, no one cares what the doctor says is going to kill you, and there are truly evil people hiding terrible things while you concern yourself with such trivialities.
Get over yourself. Stop fighting for secrecy and start fighting against ignorance and the hypocrisies it breeds.
Homosexuality isn't biological in basis. Passivity and submissiveness may be, but neither quality has stopped a great many gay men from having and raising families. And if they choose not to do so, then they have chosen not to be involved in society.
There is a difference between going out of your way to attack someone because they are not useful and empowering them to pursue their selfishness at the expense of other people. Yes, I think we should definitely bias against those who cut themselves off from the ongoing human society to pursue personal desire, be it base, intellectual, doesn't matter.
If you're a big fag and end up married to a lesbian wife, have a few kids, raise them right, get a babysitter and go swing both ways on the weekends, no big deal. You're not hurting anyone, and you're still a part of the ongoing fabric of society.
Personally, I think the way modern civilization turned out makes a strong argument for arranged marriages at a young age and an abandonment of the concept of lifelong marital sexual fidelity.
People should have kids while they're young enough to chase em around and flexible enough to relate to them. Then, when they start to think wistfully of what they might have missed, they should just go explore it without shame or resentment after they have started a family.
Why does everyone have to have a "Pro" in their name?
Why can't anyone say "I'm anti-abortion, because for thousands of generations the existence of the human race has relied on population created by women who didn't feel ready, and we're not going extinct just so you can spend another decade in childhood."
Breeding ought to be a prerequisite to voting. No person without material social ties to the future of the civilization ought to be put in a position of power over it.
To put it another way, all those rich lawyers and doctors and executives who don't have kids ought to be cast down from their authority to the very lowest class of our society. Their kids aren't going to play with my kids, or help keep my lights on, or wipe my ass for me when I'm too old to reach it. Let them die scrambling for an existence on the edge of civilization.
Facebook has already got this figured out... they're testing a new feature that lets you create alternate personalities to keep your various personalities away from each other...
Schizophrenia is a perfectly reasonable response to modern society, if you've accepted that you can't change it and you want to live at any cost, I suppose...
In other news, NASA spends 1 million on a pen that writes in space.
Because, you know, pencils are so lower class.
It's a calender. You can buy them at the department store, complete with beach bunnies or half naked firefighters, depending on how you swing.
Lets not pretend that there's anything particularly special about anything MS has done with calenders that you couldn't do yourself, ok? It's a fucking calender.
Personally, I like the ones with the half naked girls much better than anything made software, be it commercial or open source.
Take out the word "terrorist", put in the word "subversive", and you've actually pretty much defined the part of the internet that makes us care about it, and the thing they're afraid of.
Of course, it's absolutely true, and wise for them to be afraid of it. Their position has always relied on information and environmental control.
Look, over there in the parlor. It's an elephant!
Coal, and fossil fuels in general, are widely recognized to be almost at, at, or past peak production on a global level, and will therefore become increasingly scarce, and therefore increasingly expensive, as time goes by.
Therefore, anyone wishing to create renewable energy more cost effective than coal doesn't need to do anything beyond keep trying and not get worse, and they will get there eventually.
As far as technical challenges go, this is right up there with "hitting the ground".
I bet if the sarcastic doofus reviewing it had read the instructions before starting his review, he might have gotten more out of it.
Good on yer ! And how about the doofus reviewing the review of the doofus overrunning his attention span and overlooking the fact that actually there had not been any instructions in the first place ?
So, you don't think there's something stupid about someone buying a product used, then publishing a video about how much it sucks because he can't figure it out?