Should see if there's some sort of prize to be the billionth person to confuse socialism with communism.
People prefer to be lazy to working if they can get away with it.
People prefer having stuff and a future for their family far more. Otherwise you would have no professional class in ultra-capitalist countries like the U.S., because no one would strive to be anything more than a fry cook for Burger King.
Hillary Clinton is not stupid, and she's a lawyer. Before anyone is given access to classified information, my understanding is that they have to take a class in how to manage classified information and they have to sign an agreement saying they will abide by the rules governing classified information.
It goes well beyond that for Hillary. As another government employee has said of the information passed around on her server, "it was born classified". If this were a mid-level State Department employee, they would have been signing a plea deal by now for 5 to ten years in federal prison for mishandling classified information. Because Hillary was given special training on being a Original Classification Authority, as much of her work was automatically classified as Top Secret or higher.
Except they're not. Not even close. Wind and solar are already cost-competitive with coal, and that's ignoring the coal industry externalizing much of their costs. Mass transit is cheaper than highways and gridlock. Maglev trains move goods and people much faster than interstates and more efficiently than by air.
It's not the cost of moving to renewable energy standing in the way, when renewable energy costs the same or less. It's the profits of the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial-complex, which is primarily focused on regions and countries with fossil fuels to exploit.
Like I said, Zombie Lies. If it was about rape, then Sweden would make it about rape, and promise not to to hand Assange over to the United States if he returns to Sweden, as Assange has vowed to do if such a promise were made.
Even the top paid hack on the subject, Rei, has admitted on multiple occasions that Swedish law prevents extradition for "intelligence crimes", which obviously covers anything the U.S. would accuse Assange of doing with Wikileaks.
If the Swedish Justice System was so bad why did he go to Sweden instead of some other country?
Because he hadn't committed any crimes in Sweden before he went there????
Which is what my original post said before the Assange-niks started down-voting it en masse.
You mean people tired of correcting the willful stupidity of pretending the shit from the US/UK/Sweden here doesn't stink. Assange has offered to return to Sweden, if Sweden promises not to hand him over to the United States. Sweden has refused to make such a promise, which tells anyone without a hole in their head that this is not. about. rape. But that wont stop people from engaging in nonsensical hand waving:
Those other suspects were questioned in a place full of cops who were ready to arrest them if the Swedish Prosecutor said to do so. Ecuador's government has announced they will not let Assange be arrested. That is what Diplomatic Asylum means. Therefore the Questioning can't happen until he's left the embassy.
Stupid nonsense. Cops interview people all the time in the U.S. without having a prosecutor and a place "full of cops" ready to arrest on a moments notice. If you want to question him.....then fucking question him.
But it's nowhere near Apple-level of vendor lock-in without the possibility of paying for software/media that can only be used on their hardware.
Indeed, it's much tighter. You can't buy a commercially released Bluray disk that isn't DRM'ed up to the gills. Whereas with an iOS device you can listen to mp3's or read books purchased through Amazon or Google Play.
Also, you need to compare to the competition in the market.
Not if it's an actual principle as opposed to ad hoc reasoning. When Richard Stallman had his open-source epiphany, he didn't suddenly say "shucks, none of the competition in the printer industry is releasing the source code to their drivers, so I guess I'll go home".
Going back to that venn diagram, I'd wager there's a total overlap between the people who complain about Apple's "walled garden", then sign out of Slashdot to pick up his Android phone (which he rooted to get around Google-supported carrier locks) and call his buddies to come over and play some Grand Theft Auto on his Playstation 4.
About 200 meters down the street, their buddies were firing at a group of US troops.
"Their buddies?" You mean people living in the same country who look like them? Your racism is noted.
The vehicle that came in later was not marked with any neutral symbols
WTF? People minding their own business in their own country have to paint "neutral symbols" to drive? It wouldn't matter if they had, anyway, because then you would have just said it could have been an Al Queda trick, or some other BS.
Go home tonight and dig out your Bluray copy of Red Dawn to watch it again, only this time remember the kids were "insurgents" and "terrorists", and anyone within 200 meters of them could have been gunned down by a Soviet helicopter.
Many? According to Google, the lightest HP laptop is.17 pounds heavier than a Macbook. The lightest Lenovo laptop is 1.72 pounds, 8.5% lighter than the Macbook.
Where are you getting your information? Specs on Apple's web site say the MacBook is 3.48 pounds which is only true if you pick the lightest features.
From the Macbook specs: 2.03 pounds. You know, comparing apples to Apples: the ultralight from one company vs the ultralight from a compeditor.
And 8.5% should be a big deal if I base myself on you previous quote:
By being carried. You might not care of the laptop weighs 2 pounds or 8, but some people do.
8.5% is the same difference as 400%? Again, I must question your sense of proportion.
I'm happy you like your purchase but Apple isn't the only company with competitive quality products these days.
I think they make a great products but it's not the only product and they don't win in all categories no matter how hard to try to convince yourself.
Straw men.
I really wish we could have a unbiased conversation but you're clearly a fan boy trying to justify his purchase of a MacBook.
What gives you the right to extend the definition of marriage?
Just as complaining about Obama's birth certificate is an instant sign that someone is a hack, so is complaining about the "redefinition of marriage". That debunked ship has sailed so many times it's pathetic.
Anti-miscegenationists never changed the definition away from between one man and one woman. Wanting to keep keep the races separate, they restricted the right to marry who you want, but that's not the same as changing the definition of marriage.
Any tingling of self-awareness there? Marriage was once between one man and many women. Between an 80 year old man and 12 year old girls. Between a widow and the brother-in-law she's forced to marry.
"That's not tradition" and "that's not the way we do things" are the rationalizations used by every bigot throughout history, whether it be racists or homophobes protesting marriage equality.
For thousands of years across many cultures, marriages were frequently arranged by the parents of those to be married. How could the parents know what was in the best interest of their children? Because marriage was never about the people getting married. It was about the CHILDREN that marriage produced.
Nonsense. Marriage was a business deal between two families, not a procreation contract. That's why you'd have 80 year old men marrying 12 year old girls, which has long been verboten in civilized society. Did you protest that redefinition of marriage, that it may only be done by consenting adults?
Children raised by single parents, on average, do worse than children raised by a married mother and father.... Then SUDDENLY, gay marriage comes into the picture and it's "children raised by gay parents turn out just as good as heterosexual parents". That is obviously false, since how else do gay "parents" get their children except by divorce, buying them via surrogacy, or adoption? Thankfully honest research is starting to come out, exposing this lie for what it is.
The lie is your attempted slight-of-hand. You start talking about how children are better off with two parents, then suddenly move the goalposts to adoption. An ad hoc argument you wouldn't make to a heterosexual couple adopting a child, because this is merely a long exercise in rationalizing your homophobia.
Go read the briefs submitted, by Mr. Lopez and the other children of gay parents who are critical of gay marriage, to the supreme court.
Josh Duggar is heterosexual and married. Josh Duggar fondled his little sister and joined a paid site to cheat on his wife. Therefore, married heterosexual men are both cheaters and child molesters.
Or, basing an argument on logical fallacies and anecdotes is just stupid.
Am I right? Lets stop back in a few decades and find out.
Suffice to say, your bigoted support for a culture of child sacrifice on the altar of "equality" will not last. You and I will grow old and eventually die. The special interest money will move elsewhere, and the children raised under the system you are creating will grow up and tear down what you have created.
Blah blah blah blah. Fifty years ago, bigots were saying the same BS about children of interracial marriage. Same bigoted shit, different bile.
There's a nice meme going around on Facebook right now: would all the people defending Kim Davis's "religious freedom" be doing the same for a Muslim employee of a DMV who started denying drivers licenses to women, because Koran?
Of course not, because they're bigots and hacks, like yourself.
...in some alternate universe where Soviet bureaucrats had an enormous and direct incentive to cut corners, the way capitalists do.
And it's worth noting here that most developed world spending does nothing to help the environment.
Or maybe note your American Exceptionalist ass uses 30 times the resources of some poor shlub in a developing country. Or that the United States produces a quarter of the world's pollution while having 4% of the worlds population - and that's not including all the coal plants in China producing cheap crap in offshored factories for sale in Wal-Mart.
Finally, what's wrong with the environmental regulation of the past 40 years? Well, aside from being a job-killing morass that is.
Oh noes! All those jobs lost in the manufacture of asbestos, lead paint, and DDT! Will no one think of the poor beleaguered capitalist cock!
As much as Bill Nye was being unfair when he wouldn't consider the possibility that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
You are skipping over the magnitude of what is happening. The degree of certainty over what is happening. The magnitude of the effect it will have. Other uses of resources needed to mitigate out. There really is no serious denialism.
That's a combination of one through four in the aforementioned stages of climate denial.
Even if you believe global warming and fully accept IPCC summary for policy makers, there is basically no scientific reason to do anything about climate change.
#4, down to a T, but with more words.
Look, this isn't hard. Climate change is costing tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars right now, with record storms, forest fires, droughts and heat waves. When wind and solar are already competitive with coal, no one is served by this foot dragging other than top shareholders in the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial-complex.
The cost of mitigating climate change are insignificant next to the costs of ignoring it.
But there is no consensus on what the level of warming will be nor is there consensus on the idea that the changes are harmful/damaging to our interests
Troll tactic #2: pretend that climate change is some theoretical even that will happen in our future, as opposed to something having drastic costs right now.
Record storms, droughts, floods, forest fires, and heat waves are costing hundreds of billions and tens of thousands of lives right now.
Climate science discussion is so slippery, constantly confusing, conflating and switching in utterly different subjects of discussion
IOW: "we don't really knooooow, so lets not do anything!" Standard climate troll approach, going back decades.
Government has an overwhelming bias towards fossil fuel extraction. Solar City isn't raking in $40 billion each quarter in profits, Exxon is, and they hire lobbyists and former politicians. That's why Obama has opened far more land and sea for drilling than Bush, and spent years bragging that the U.S. is mining fossil fuels beyond it's capacity to transport them for processing or sale.
Anyone who repeats the "government-funded scientists are biased towards climate change" is a fool who hasn't thought about the issue for more than two seconds.
There is no comparison. For each person killed by nuclear power generation, 4,000 die from coal.
There's also no comparison in the amount of power generated by coal vs nuclear. Calculate deaths per megawatt generated, or a it's a lie of omission.
Nuclear is
...corporate welfare fluffing Tom Swift fanboys. It's by far the most expensive power source ever invented by man - billions to construct, billions more to supply and maintain, hundreds of billions more to insure and store the waste for thousands of years.
And that's if you're doing it the safest way possible: have all nuke plants run by the U.S. Navy, or force the CEO, managers, board of directors, and top 1000 shareholders of for-profit power companies to live on plant grounds, and forbid them from leaving in the event of a meltdown.
however a car or media player is not something that you buy, and then if you buy software it will only run on that car/media player.
Can you install any app you want on your Bluray player? Can you buy a car and swap out the navigation software for Waze? This "walled garden" canard only ever applies to Apple, like don't hold it wrong before it.
It's also possible for Apple to go back to single-button mice and cooperative multi-tasking. Lotsa people here still bitch about those as if they were current issues, too.
But it would braindead stupid to assume that Windows 10 isn't going to suffer drive-by malware just because Windows XP already did 10 years or so ago.
That's playing the Jump to Conclusions Game again. Especially before SP2 was rolled into install disks, it was possible to do a fresh install of XP and find your machine compromised before you could even download security updates. That 10 will have it's own patches doesn't mean it's going to be a flaming bag of crap like XP was.
That iOS 9 is going to have it's own patches doesn't mean you can have your phone rooted just by visiting a web site.
Why should other people throttle their use to suit your 1980's bandwidth needs? Just call up AOL and tell them you want a modem of moderate speed, nothing fancy.
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Should see if there's some sort of prize to be the billionth person to confuse socialism with communism.
People prefer having stuff and a future for their family far more. Otherwise you would have no professional class in ultra-capitalist countries like the U.S., because no one would strive to be anything more than a fry cook for Burger King.
It goes well beyond that for Hillary. As another government employee has said of the information passed around on her server, "it was born classified". If this were a mid-level State Department employee, they would have been signing a plea deal by now for 5 to ten years in federal prison for mishandling classified information. Because Hillary was given special training on being a Original Classification Authority, as much of her work was automatically classified as Top Secret or higher.
Are you claiming that hotter climate doesn't make for more severe droughts, storms, forest fires and heat waves?
Except they're not. Not even close. Wind and solar are already cost-competitive with coal, and that's ignoring the coal industry externalizing much of their costs. Mass transit is cheaper than highways and gridlock. Maglev trains move goods and people much faster than interstates and more efficiently than by air.
It's not the cost of moving to renewable energy standing in the way, when renewable energy costs the same or less. It's the profits of the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial-complex, which is primarily focused on regions and countries with fossil fuels to exploit.
Like I said, Zombie Lies. If it was about rape, then Sweden would make it about rape, and promise not to to hand Assange over to the United States if he returns to Sweden, as Assange has vowed to do if such a promise were made.
Even the top paid hack on the subject, Rei, has admitted on multiple occasions that Swedish law prevents extradition for "intelligence crimes", which obviously covers anything the U.S. would accuse Assange of doing with Wikileaks.
Like I said: a bigger and more pathetic liar.
Because he hadn't committed any crimes in Sweden before he went there????
You mean people tired of correcting the willful stupidity of pretending the shit from the US/UK/Sweden here doesn't stink. Assange has offered to return to Sweden, if Sweden promises not to hand him over to the United States. Sweden has refused to make such a promise, which tells anyone without a hole in their head that this is not. about. rape. But that wont stop people from engaging in nonsensical hand waving:
Stupid nonsense. Cops interview people all the time in the U.S. without having a prosecutor and a place "full of cops" ready to arrest on a moments notice. If you want to question him.....then fucking question him.
Indeed, it's much tighter. You can't buy a commercially released Bluray disk that isn't DRM'ed up to the gills. Whereas with an iOS device you can listen to mp3's or read books purchased through Amazon or Google Play.
Not if it's an actual principle as opposed to ad hoc reasoning. When Richard Stallman had his open-source epiphany, he didn't suddenly say "shucks, none of the competition in the printer industry is releasing the source code to their drivers, so I guess I'll go home".
Going back to that venn diagram, I'd wager there's a total overlap between the people who complain about Apple's "walled garden", then sign out of Slashdot to pick up his Android phone (which he rooted to get around Google-supported carrier locks) and call his buddies to come over and play some Grand Theft Auto on his Playstation 4.
TSTRT.
Being against minority rights makes one a racist. Being against gay rights makes you a homophobe.
It's not complicated.
"Their buddies?" You mean people living in the same country who look like them? Your racism is noted.
WTF? People minding their own business in their own country have to paint "neutral symbols" to drive? It wouldn't matter if they had, anyway, because then you would have just said it could have been an Al Queda trick, or some other BS.
Go home tonight and dig out your Bluray copy of Red Dawn to watch it again, only this time remember the kids were "insurgents" and "terrorists", and anyone within 200 meters of them could have been gunned down by a Soviet helicopter.
From the Macbook specs: 2.03 pounds. You know, comparing apples to Apples: the ultralight from one company vs the ultralight from a compeditor.
8.5% is the same difference as 400%? Again, I must question your sense of proportion.
Straw men.
Clear projection.
Just as complaining about Obama's birth certificate is an instant sign that someone is a hack, so is complaining about the "redefinition of marriage". That debunked ship has sailed so many times it's pathetic.
Any tingling of self-awareness there? Marriage was once between one man and many women. Between an 80 year old man and 12 year old girls. Between a widow and the brother-in-law she's forced to marry.
"That's not tradition" and "that's not the way we do things" are the rationalizations used by every bigot throughout history, whether it be racists or homophobes protesting marriage equality.
Nonsense. Marriage was a business deal between two families, not a procreation contract. That's why you'd have 80 year old men marrying 12 year old girls, which has long been verboten in civilized society. Did you protest that redefinition of marriage, that it may only be done by consenting adults?
The lie is your attempted slight-of-hand. You start talking about how children are better off with two parents, then suddenly move the goalposts to adoption. An ad hoc argument you wouldn't make to a heterosexual couple adopting a child, because this is merely a long exercise in rationalizing your homophobia.
Josh Duggar is heterosexual and married. Josh Duggar fondled his little sister and joined a paid site to cheat on his wife. Therefore, married heterosexual men are both cheaters and child molesters.
Or, basing an argument on logical fallacies and anecdotes is just stupid.
Blah blah blah blah. Fifty years ago, bigots were saying the same BS about children of interracial marriage. Same bigoted shit, different bile.
Homophobe, that article has already been written.
There's a nice meme going around on Facebook right now: would all the people defending Kim Davis's "religious freedom" be doing the same for a Muslim employee of a DMV who started denying drivers licenses to women, because Koran?
Of course not, because they're bigots and hacks, like yourself.
Arrogant, butthurt American Exceptionalist is butthurt, and arrogant.
Or maybe note your American Exceptionalist ass uses 30 times the resources of some poor shlub in a developing country. Or that the United States produces a quarter of the world's pollution while having 4% of the worlds population - and that's not including all the coal plants in China producing cheap crap in offshored factories for sale in Wal-Mart.
Oh noes! All those jobs lost in the manufacture of asbestos, lead paint, and DDT! Will no one think of the poor beleaguered capitalist cock!
As much as Bill Nye was being unfair when he wouldn't consider the possibility that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
That's a combination of one through four in the aforementioned stages of climate denial.
#4, down to a T, but with more words.
Look, this isn't hard. Climate change is costing tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars right now, with record storms, forest fires, droughts and heat waves. When wind and solar are already competitive with coal, no one is served by this foot dragging other than top shareholders in the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial-complex.
The cost of mitigating climate change are insignificant next to the costs of ignoring it.
Troll tactic #2: pretend that climate change is some theoretical even that will happen in our future, as opposed to something having drastic costs right now.
Record storms, droughts, floods, forest fires, and heat waves are costing hundreds of billions and tens of thousands of lives right now.
IOW: "we don't really knooooow, so lets not do anything!" Standard climate troll approach, going back decades.
Government has an overwhelming bias towards fossil fuel extraction. Solar City isn't raking in $40 billion each quarter in profits, Exxon is, and they hire lobbyists and former politicians. That's why Obama has opened far more land and sea for drilling than Bush, and spent years bragging that the U.S. is mining fossil fuels beyond it's capacity to transport them for processing or sale.
Anyone who repeats the "government-funded scientists are biased towards climate change" is a fool who hasn't thought about the issue for more than two seconds.
Repeating Zombie Lies doesn't make them true, it just makes you a bigger and more pathetic liar for repeating them.
There's also no comparison in the amount of power generated by coal vs nuclear. Calculate deaths per megawatt generated, or a it's a lie of omission.
And that's if you're doing it the safest way possible: have all nuke plants run by the U.S. Navy, or force the CEO, managers, board of directors, and top 1000 shareholders of for-profit power companies to live on plant grounds, and forbid them from leaving in the event of a meltdown.
Are you allowed to run apps or play media formats on your Bluray player not approved by the manufacturer?
No. You're not. Which means it would be a "walled garden", but no one will actually use that term to describe Bluray players until Apple makes one.
Can you install any app you want on your Bluray player? Can you buy a car and swap out the navigation software for Waze? This "walled garden" canard only ever applies to Apple, like don't hold it wrong before it.
It's also possible for Apple to go back to single-button mice and cooperative multi-tasking. Lotsa people here still bitch about those as if they were current issues, too.
That's playing the Jump to Conclusions Game again. Especially before SP2 was rolled into install disks, it was possible to do a fresh install of XP and find your machine compromised before you could even download security updates. That 10 will have it's own patches doesn't mean it's going to be a flaming bag of crap like XP was.
That iOS 9 is going to have it's own patches doesn't mean you can have your phone rooted just by visiting a web site.
Why should other people throttle their use to suit your 1980's bandwidth needs? Just call up AOL and tell them you want a modem of moderate speed, nothing fancy.
You mean using the product he paid for, oh corporate bootlicking AC?