You wish. If Truman wanted to avoid civilian casualties, he would have considered Japan's face-saving attempt to surrender while keeping their Emperor. Instead, he nuked them into submission....and then Japan keep Hirohito anyway, who kept his title until his death in 1989.
But at least it's a change of imperialistic hackery for you, after spending years insisting that Sweden can't promise it wont hand Assange over to the U.S. for the "intelligence crime" of running WikiLeaks with one side of your mouth. Only to then insist that Sweden can't extradite for intelligence crimes with the other.
The nineties were an era of innocence. Where the FBI were the good guys and 2-3 smoking men were the bad guys. This doesn't fly anymore. In this day and age the whole FBI/NSA/CIA are composed of crooks. Criminals, torturers you name it.
Huh? In the X-Files, once you got to a certain level in TPTB, everyone was a corrupt murderous Orwellian shitbag, or under the thumb of a corrupt murderous Orwellian shitbag.
Nah, there's relevance to modern times, where candidates that run on promises of transparency and protecting whisteblowers (Obama) end up being the most secretive and punitive presidents of all time, respectively (again, Obama). When what passes for "the left" these days (Sanders, Warren) are active participants of America's Global War of Terror.
In the same way a flaming bag of crap goes well with your new dress shoes.
It's not as bad as people make it out to be
But of course it is. It's actively hostile to end users, and tries to herd them back into the Metro interface at every opportunity unless you install a hack like Classic Shell. For no reason other than to satisfy Microsoft's asinine obsession of pushing desktop users into a touch-based UI.
I'm sure that, back in the day, there were people saying that Windows ME and Microsoft Bob were great advancements in the field of computing. They were objectively wrong as well.
Spot the guy who doesn't actually keep up with developments but has Dunning-Kruger'd himself into thinking he knows what he's talking about.
Spot the empty tautologies.
Besides much better support for newer devices and software
Case in point.
Win8x has a lot of performance improvements in such things as over-the-network copying
Except when it's slower because of malware scanning. The only thing "better" from the user's point of view is the accuracy of the time remaining guestimate. Molehill, not a mountain.
boot and reboot time
Reboots were quaint 10 years ago, outside of OS updates. And those are scheduled to run in the middle of the night.
You also get better multi-monitor support
Win7's multi-monitor support is just fine.
and the ability to use >2TB partitions and devices
Dynamic Disks have been supported since 2000 and GPT since 2003. You're only stuck with 2TB if you limit yourself to 512b cluster size.
You'd have to be an idiot to prefer W2K to a modern version of Windows.
Hardly. Vastly smaller hardware requirements and no activation crap. The only real improvement for the end user since then has been instant user switching, and that came with XP. Most everything else has been forced obsolescence. Well, there's also Bitlocker, but that came out with Vista.
Win8 is a flaming bag of crap. It is actively hostile to the end user. Win 7 is a no-holds-barred upgrade from 8, in the same way that XP was an upgrade over Vista.
In the same way a flaming bag of shit is a lovely lawn ornament. Win7 is a flat-out usability upgrade over Win8, in the same way that XP was an upgrade over Vista.
In it Obama is confronted with his tax policy reducing revenue
You mean choosing to continue most of the Bush Tax Cuts while arguing for years that the corporate tax rate - already at very low levels after deductions - should be cut some more? Randians should move to an island with the Obots and fight it out over who's revisionist history is more delusional.
Because Republican voters no more want Comcast double and triple charging for internet access than they want their social security benefits cut. Well, there's also the Randian fools which you can see around this story, but 1) they're idiots with an axe to grind against all things government and 2) are a minority even amongst teabaggers.
Not the AC. But of course the government created the internet. To argue otherwise because it has grown since the 80's and 90's is to argue that GM didn't create the first commercial electric car because a Tesla has greater power, range, and 3G.
You don't have a point, you have a Randian axe to grind. And that makes you a moron.
Government will fuck this up - it always does. In its own special way. My bet is on regulatory capture.
That's as asinine as a communist claiming that if you start your own business, it will be a given that you'll dump toxic waste into the river while sexually harassing your secretary. Because other business owners have done that and the communist has an axe to grind.
The government passed regulations on seat belts, lead paint, asbestos, DDT, and of course the FCC which has thus far prevented NBC from trying to edge out ABC with more powerful transmitters. It didn't cause civilization to collapse, capitalism to be banned, or Zombie Stalin to come for your stock options.
Your solution is to let AT&T and Comcast double and triple charge anyone and everyone who connects through their network? GTFO with these Randian clown shoes.
Energy costs money, so saving energy means saving money. As solar is already cost-competitive with coal, the only ones to feel a serious financial pinch will be the fossil fuel industry and it's lackies. Well, and maybe the MIC as most of America's armed forces are "protecting" the world's fossil fuel sources.
Of course it is. It seems you might have been hanging around some arrogant partisan tribalists who think their party owns votes, cuz reasons, rather than having to earn them.
The way to have influence on the elections is to get involved in politics before the general election.
Not in this country. Supremely popular legislation (public option) lands on the chopping block, while supremely unpopular legislation (NDAA) sails through. The system is so thoroughly corrupted that no decent person is allowed near the office, or is thoroughly contained once they do.
If you've got some influence on who either the Democrat or Republican is, or what they think they should be doing, that's better than voting D/R/throwaway and doing nothing else
You're a mouse arguing that it's better to vote for the white cat over the black cat, when the solution is to stop voting for cats.
WTF is the federal government going to do about a drought?
WhoTF said anything about the federal government? I didn't, and neither did you.
You give an example that proves you are a moron who doesn't understand the feds can't repeal a drought.
How many times per day does one have to be dropped on the head as a child to become a Randian, anyway? You said government paralysis via gridlock == good. You know that CA has a government, right?
Why haven't all businesses been banned since businesses owners have shown they only care about dumping toxic waste into your aquifer while groping their secretaries? Or at least some of them.
Or was Stupid Bullshit Day yesterday, and I'm late?
There were twelve years between the release of the first Starcraft and it's sequel, yet it was the fastest selling strategy game of all time with millions of copies sold in it's first month. Four more years difference between the release of HL2:E2 and today. So, you were saying?
What Gabe really means is that Valve has gotten fat and lazy by collecting their percentages from the Steam store. Why do all that haaaard worrrrk (/dubbya) of putting out a game when you're making money hand over fist just sitting on your ass? Since I'm such a "fan" of sloppy reasoning I'll mock it some more:
"No one will go see Last Crusade! It's been too long since Raiders came out, and Temple of Doom sucked!"
"A Battlestar Galactica remake, are you kidding? That show was a joke even for it's time, and most of the people watching SyFy weren't even born when it was made!"
The obvious responses - DN4E, Crystal Skull, and Phantom Menace - aren't arguments against sequels. They're arguments against sloppy, half assed sequels - big difference.
No one who voted for Nader cared about his sanity - Burning the whole fucking thing down and start over looks a hell of a lot more appealing than yet another four years of the slow erosion of our rights.
Nader is a reformer, not a revolutionary. Night-and-day distinction....remember FDR? He wasn't a communist, nor was he a fascist. He was a reformer that still believed in capitalism. Same for Nader - he wanted auto companies to be forced to install seat belts, not nationalize their assets.
Those people who voted for Nader in 2000 were in effect voting for Bush. Those who voted for Perot in 1992 were in effect voting for Clinton
Pre-school math fail. If I have a choice of picking an apple, a banana or an orange, picking an apple means I....picked the fucking apple. Not one of the other two.
The GOP invented the ACA. It was first cooked up by the Heritage Foundation as the alternative to the Clinton plan, pushed again by Bob Dole in '96, and signed into law in Massachusetts by Romney. If the ACA is such a nightmare, did you vote for Clinton in 1992 and 1996? Didn't think so, anymore than Obamabots defending it today were die-hard Romney supporters in 2008.
That "liberal" Obamabots suddenly thought the ACA was the greatest thing since sliced bread, just because their guy was now pushing it, and that wingers like yourself suddenly hate it for the same reason (their guy now pushing it) is the greatest farce in the history of the human race.
White House e-mails must be released under the Presidential Records Act â" but not until at least five years after the end of the administration."
Nothing to see her folks.
Whatever it is you're smoking, did you bring enough for everyone? Now is infinitely more relevant than later. Case in point: Bush's illegal wiretapping, which the NYTimes sat on through the 2004 election. Case in point: Obama running around insisting that 'any bill I sign must have a public option' months after he'd already killed it for the hospital lobby. If the Megathatcher or Bush IIII wins the presidential election next year, you want to find out about their shady deals as they happen, or five years after they've left office when it's far to late to do anything?
If you're a Randian simpeton, sure. You think the answer to the worst-drought-in-a-century in California is government paralysis? Back to the subject at hand, the Obama Administration doesn't have to cite "executive privilege" or "national security" or whatever today's excuse is for corruption, all they have to do is claim they're too paralyzed to follow your request.
In reality, if the concept of DLC didn't exist, they would not create that content at all, and base games would actually probably be smaller, as the promise of future revenue from higher profit margin DLC will often make publishers more inclined to increase the budget on the base game.
Horseshit. As has already been pointed out, yes developers did exactly that when they were called "expansion packs". Which were used to boost sales of older games - your friends are playing this neat mod for a 2 year old game, want to join them? Well you're just gonna half to fork out some money for Half-Life/Unreal Tournament.
Especially for "zero day DLC", which by definition must have been in development along the original game, which by definition means it's planned grift by the publisher.
You mean the one that doesn't exist yet? No large screen phone is going to last 'several days' without charging, thus making them 'pieces of shit', according to you.
So, back to square one: either people buy what's available with today's technology, or they listen to you and do without. Cuz reasons.
Sort of. It's called wrestling and yes, lots of schools have wrestling programs
Eh? Off the top of my head, some of the gulfs between MMA and amateur wrestling:
Wrestlers and MMA fighters have win/loss records, but those for wrestlers aren't counted as KO's/TKO's
MMA fighters never start in the mounted position
Wrestlers want to pin while not getting pinned. Fighters want to KO without getting KO'ed
Wrestlers don't wear gloves, because they don't box when not actively grappling
As a coach I'm sure you could come up with some more ways wrestling is very, very, very different from mixed martial arts.
Serious long term injuries are actually rather rare in wrestling and even MMA despite the very physical nature of the sports. I've been a wrestler and coach of wrestling for over 30 years and I can show you the injury statistics for that sport. Certainly far safer than football on both an absolute and per-capita basis.
No argument there. It's a shame that wrestling programs are so often cut from high schools and colleges when funding gets tight. Aside from the competitive aspect, it teaches some practical self-defense with a lower chance of injury.
1) the rules are designed such that techniques likely to result in severe injury are illegal. 2) There is one official for two contestants and he is standing just a few feet away and is empowered to stop the match if an injury seems likely. That makes a HUGE difference.
Sure, it helps that there's a ref who can step in on a second's notice to break up the fight. But that's one second where three powerful punches can be unloaded on an already-unconscious chin. The flip side is it's rare to see an event where one of the fighters isn't pissed off at the ref for calling a TKO when he (or she) felt she was fine to go on, but better safe than sorry.
In football the rules are designed such that certain injuries (particularly knee injuries and concussions) are ludicrously routine.
Indeed. I'm sorry the NFL settlement didn't have another zero at the end of it, as it might have prompted a much-needed enema in the sport.
Go into any sports medicine clinic and I can almost guarantee the majority of the patients there will be football players with serious knee injuries.
A part of which is the disparity in involvement - if at some point in the future every college has an MMA team, you'll see a lot more MMA related injuries, even if football is more dangerous.
Why in the world you think we're in the same universe, post NCLB and RTTT? You wouldn't also happen to be one of those people who scoff at today's student loan debt because you got your BS in '94 while working part time at Home Depot - before a tenfold rise in tuition and the 2006 bankruptcy bill which makes even non-government backed education loans undischargeable in bankruptcy?
School funding depends on students doing well on these standardized tests. Otherwise the funding is lost, the school is closed, and charter is set up in it's place. So, just like I said, these tests go hand in hand with the charter school "movement", which is about privatizing public education.
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You wish. If Truman wanted to avoid civilian casualties, he would have considered Japan's face-saving attempt to surrender while keeping their Emperor. Instead, he nuked them into submission....and then Japan keep Hirohito anyway, who kept his title until his death in 1989.
But at least it's a change of imperialistic hackery for you, after spending years insisting that Sweden can't promise it wont hand Assange over to the U.S. for the "intelligence crime" of running WikiLeaks with one side of your mouth. Only to then insist that Sweden can't extradite for intelligence crimes with the other.
Huh? In the X-Files, once you got to a certain level in TPTB, everyone was a corrupt murderous Orwellian shitbag, or under the thumb of a corrupt murderous Orwellian shitbag.
Nah, there's relevance to modern times, where candidates that run on promises of transparency and protecting whisteblowers (Obama) end up being the most secretive and punitive presidents of all time, respectively (again, Obama). When what passes for "the left" these days (Sanders, Warren) are active participants of America's Global War of Terror.
No relevance at all.
In the same way a flaming bag of crap goes well with your new dress shoes.
But of course it is. It's actively hostile to end users, and tries to herd them back into the Metro interface at every opportunity unless you install a hack like Classic Shell. For no reason other than to satisfy Microsoft's asinine obsession of pushing desktop users into a touch-based UI.
I'm sure that, back in the day, there were people saying that Windows ME and Microsoft Bob were great advancements in the field of computing. They were objectively wrong as well.
Spot the empty tautologies.
Case in point.
Except when it's slower because of malware scanning. The only thing "better" from the user's point of view is the accuracy of the time remaining guestimate. Molehill, not a mountain.
Reboots were quaint 10 years ago, outside of OS updates. And those are scheduled to run in the middle of the night.
Win7's multi-monitor support is just fine.
Dynamic Disks have been supported since 2000 and GPT since 2003. You're only stuck with 2TB if you limit yourself to 512b cluster size.
Hardly. Vastly smaller hardware requirements and no activation crap. The only real improvement for the end user since then has been instant user switching, and that came with XP. Most everything else has been forced obsolescence. Well, there's also Bitlocker, but that came out with Vista.
Win8 is a flaming bag of crap. It is actively hostile to the end user. Win 7 is a no-holds-barred upgrade from 8, in the same way that XP was an upgrade over Vista.
In the same way a flaming bag of shit is a lovely lawn ornament. Win7 is a flat-out usability upgrade over Win8, in the same way that XP was an upgrade over Vista.
Was this by chance typed on a Plays4Sure device or an Android cut off from updates 18 months out of release?
You mean choosing to continue most of the Bush Tax Cuts while arguing for years that the corporate tax rate - already at very low levels after deductions - should be cut some more? Randians should move to an island with the Obots and fight it out over who's revisionist history is more delusional.
Because Republican voters no more want Comcast double and triple charging for internet access than they want their social security benefits cut. Well, there's also the Randian fools which you can see around this story, but 1) they're idiots with an axe to grind against all things government and 2) are a minority even amongst teabaggers.
Not the AC. But of course the government created the internet. To argue otherwise because it has grown since the 80's and 90's is to argue that GM didn't create the first commercial electric car because a Tesla has greater power, range, and 3G.
You don't have a point, you have a Randian axe to grind. And that makes you a moron.
That's as asinine as a communist claiming that if you start your own business, it will be a given that you'll dump toxic waste into the river while sexually harassing your secretary. Because other business owners have done that and the communist has an axe to grind.
The government passed regulations on seat belts, lead paint, asbestos, DDT, and of course the FCC which has thus far prevented NBC from trying to edge out ABC with more powerful transmitters. It didn't cause civilization to collapse, capitalism to be banned, or Zombie Stalin to come for your stock options.
Your solution is to let AT&T and Comcast double and triple charge anyone and everyone who connects through their network? GTFO with these Randian clown shoes.
Energy costs money, so saving energy means saving money. As solar is already cost-competitive with coal, the only ones to feel a serious financial pinch will be the fossil fuel industry and it's lackies. Well, and maybe the MIC as most of America's armed forces are "protecting" the world's fossil fuel sources.
Of course it is. It seems you might have been hanging around some arrogant partisan tribalists who think their party owns votes, cuz reasons, rather than having to earn them.
Not in this country. Supremely popular legislation (public option) lands on the chopping block, while supremely unpopular legislation (NDAA) sails through. The system is so thoroughly corrupted that no decent person is allowed near the office, or is thoroughly contained once they do.
You're a mouse arguing that it's better to vote for the white cat over the black cat, when the solution is to stop voting for cats.
WhoTF said anything about the federal government? I didn't, and neither did you.
How many times per day does one have to be dropped on the head as a child to become a Randian, anyway? You said government paralysis via gridlock == good. You know that CA has a government, right?
Right?
Why haven't all businesses been banned since businesses owners have shown they only care about dumping toxic waste into your aquifer while groping their secretaries? Or at least some of them.
Or was Stupid Bullshit Day yesterday, and I'm late?
In some other universe where the concept of publically financed elections hasn't been around for decades.
There were twelve years between the release of the first Starcraft and it's sequel, yet it was the fastest selling strategy game of all time with millions of copies sold in it's first month. Four more years difference between the release of HL2:E2 and today. So, you were saying?
What Gabe really means is that Valve has gotten fat and lazy by collecting their percentages from the Steam store. Why do all that haaaard worrrrk (/dubbya) of putting out a game when you're making money hand over fist just sitting on your ass? Since I'm such a "fan" of sloppy reasoning I'll mock it some more:
The obvious responses - DN4E, Crystal Skull, and Phantom Menace - aren't arguments against sequels. They're arguments against sloppy, half assed sequels - big difference.
Nader is a reformer, not a revolutionary. Night-and-day distinction....remember FDR? He wasn't a communist, nor was he a fascist. He was a reformer that still believed in capitalism. Same for Nader - he wanted auto companies to be forced to install seat belts, not nationalize their assets.
Pre-school math fail. If I have a choice of picking an apple, a banana or an orange, picking an apple means I....picked the fucking apple. Not one of the other two.
The GOP invented the ACA. It was first cooked up by the Heritage Foundation as the alternative to the Clinton plan, pushed again by Bob Dole in '96, and signed into law in Massachusetts by Romney. If the ACA is such a nightmare, did you vote for Clinton in 1992 and 1996? Didn't think so, anymore than Obamabots defending it today were die-hard Romney supporters in 2008.
That "liberal" Obamabots suddenly thought the ACA was the greatest thing since sliced bread, just because their guy was now pushing it, and that wingers like yourself suddenly hate it for the same reason (their guy now pushing it) is the greatest farce in the history of the human race.
Whatever it is you're smoking, did you bring enough for everyone? Now is infinitely more relevant than later. Case in point: Bush's illegal wiretapping, which the NYTimes sat on through the 2004 election. Case in point: Obama running around insisting that 'any bill I sign must have a public option' months after he'd already killed it for the hospital lobby. If the Megathatcher or Bush IIII wins the presidential election next year, you want to find out about their shady deals as they happen, or five years after they've left office when it's far to late to do anything?
If you're a Randian simpeton, sure. You think the answer to the worst-drought-in-a-century in California is government paralysis? Back to the subject at hand, the Obama Administration doesn't have to cite "executive privilege" or "national security" or whatever today's excuse is for corruption, all they have to do is claim they're too paralyzed to follow your request.
Horseshit. As has already been pointed out, yes developers did exactly that when they were called "expansion packs". Which were used to boost sales of older games - your friends are playing this neat mod for a 2 year old game, want to join them? Well you're just gonna half to fork out some money for Half-Life/Unreal Tournament.
Especially for "zero day DLC", which by definition must have been in development along the original game, which by definition means it's planned grift by the publisher.
You mean the one that doesn't exist yet? No large screen phone is going to last 'several days' without charging, thus making them 'pieces of shit', according to you.
So, back to square one: either people buy what's available with today's technology, or they listen to you and do without. Cuz reasons.
Eh? Off the top of my head, some of the gulfs between MMA and amateur wrestling:
As a coach I'm sure you could come up with some more ways wrestling is very, very, very different from mixed martial arts.
No argument there. It's a shame that wrestling programs are so often cut from high schools and colleges when funding gets tight. Aside from the competitive aspect, it teaches some practical self-defense with a lower chance of injury.
Sure, it helps that there's a ref who can step in on a second's notice to break up the fight. But that's one second where three powerful punches can be unloaded on an already-unconscious chin. The flip side is it's rare to see an event where one of the fighters isn't pissed off at the ref for calling a TKO when he (or she) felt she was fine to go on, but better safe than sorry.
Indeed. I'm sorry the NFL settlement didn't have another zero at the end of it, as it might have prompted a much-needed enema in the sport.
A part of which is the disparity in involvement - if at some point in the future every college has an MMA team, you'll see a lot more MMA related injuries, even if football is more dangerous.
Why in the world you think we're in the same universe, post NCLB and RTTT? You wouldn't also happen to be one of those people who scoff at today's student loan debt because you got your BS in '94 while working part time at Home Depot - before a tenfold rise in tuition and the 2006 bankruptcy bill which makes even non-government backed education loans undischargeable in bankruptcy?
School funding depends on students doing well on these standardized tests. Otherwise the funding is lost, the school is closed, and charter is set up in it's place. So, just like I said, these tests go hand in hand with the charter school "movement", which is about privatizing public education.