How can you spot a liberal? When unable to relate to facts on an issue, they break down into insults and run off into wild directions while using ad-hom's.
No. You're thinking of Obamabots, who by this point are as far from being liberals as their drone bombing, benefit cutting Dear Leader.
False. Any merchant selling a valuable product can be targeted by thieves. It has nothing to do with the former illegal status
Uh, no. It's because Obama's DOJ has made it clear that legal marijuana shops cannot use banking services. Including armored cars. Meaning pot shops not only have to deal in cash, but cannot transport said cash in armored cars. Meaning pot shops and pot shop operators have a giant "rob me" sign over their heads, curtsey of the federal government.
Personally, I don't see a very good future for the middle class (automation of pretty much every job is coming,)
Not so much automation as executive greed. The superrich have created a system where not only do they not have to worry about the state of the society in which they live, but where they profit in times of booms and busts. Reap the windfall of the housing boom, get bailed out when it tanks, and then snap up real estate to resell or rent.
On the other hand, I have actually had Macs. I've seen how really mediocre they are. It terms of reliability, they're bottom of the heap. The "lets cook our laptop parts" approach to system design can't help.
At least a Lexus has some upgraded innards when compared to a Toyota. With a Mac it's ZILCH. It's the same parts as you could get in a Dell.
You mean Dells that cost comparable prices when you compare comparable products, which negates your entire point. You're not comparing Chevy to Lexus, you're comparing Cadillac (made by the same company as Chevy) to Lexus.
IIRC up until a year or so ago, Apple was still selling Macbooks and even higher-end Macbook Pros with Core 2 Duo chips even though Sandy Bridge i{3,5,7} chips were spreading en masse
You assume that solitary confinement in the EU is as bad as it is in the US. You should read up on the Danish penal system before you make such sweeping statements.
You assume that someone wont notice your moral relativism. Solitary confinement isn't as bad in Amurica as in the (insert_dicatorship_of_choice), so STFU, you blame-America-firster, you.
Generally speaking the Scandinavian countries has one of the most fair justice systems in the world.
Not in Sweden, they don't. Their hippie health care and education system is counterbalanced by a positively medieval justice system. Suspects are held incommunicado, without rights or legal representation.
LOL. During the 60s the CIA, NSA and FBI were flagrantly abusing their powers and authority. Never learned about the Church Committee?
LOL, you think that was just in the 60's? One of the primary purposes of the FBI has always been to divide, persecute, and prosecute what passes for "left" in this country.
Now, was it political bullshit to get elected or did he really try to get these projects done?
Doesn't matter. He failed.
He didn't fail. He took a dive. It wasn't the Republicans who forced him to pack the Treasury department with Goldman Sacks alums or trade the Public Option away to the for-profit hospital lobby. Obama did that all on his own.
And don't give me Tea Party guff, either. They aren't a subset of Republicans
They're the definition of a subset of the Republic Party. The Teabaggers are the most radical, and most stupid, faction of the Republic Party. Nothing more, nothing less.
Say anything about gays that isn't genuinely flattering in a crowd of them today, for example, and see how fast you get tossed out.
Liar.
It used to be, Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility and small government.
At no point in time was that the case. The last fiscally responsible Republicans, Eisenhower and Nixon, believed in expanding the government through infrastructure and state agencies.
They haven't fought Obama's monetary policy. They haven't actually been trying (or not hard, anyway) to reduce government.
Because they are in solid agreement on most issues. Cut earned benefits while increasing military spending. Protect torturers and bankers from prosecution, while cracking down on dissent. Extend the Bush tax cuts while making the "sequester" cuts permanent. And so on. Obama brags about having Reagan as a role model for a reason.
It's simply not. The western world is dominated by democracies without democratic outcomes. 60% of the Canadian public votes against the Tories, yet they dominate the government. In the United States, massively popular policies like the Public Option are strangled in the crib by the very politicians who ran on supporting them, while deeply unpopular policies like telecom immunity and military detention sail through Congress.
You can say voting works when the corrupt motherfuckers are losing elections in droves, to be replaced by people who have some respect for the public and the rule of law.
It's even funnier when I meet idiots like you who think the only thing to vote on is the President. I had a dozen items to vote on in the last presidential election, including a local Sheriff who won by 3 votes. (yes, three) I guess I should've gone around and convinced four people that voting is pointless, because this guy is a real ass-clown.
It's even funnier if you pretend that voting for a local sheriff has fuck-all to do with national policy.
It was the free bread and circuses and other freebies designed to buy the votes of the citizenry.
It's pretty obvious when someone rides their hobby horse into various topics and tries to rewrite reality according to their ideology. In your case, the not-sublte-at-all implication that ZOMG money to poor to buy food, shelter and medicine will be the end of civilization.
It's not clever. It's you being a sociopath and a social darwinist.
What part of "we already have extensive research on diets" did you not understand? There's data on low fat, vegitarian, seefood diets, etc etc etc, going back decades. That is not the case for GMO products.
Take your willful stupidity and pound sand, troll.
It's not. It's denialists being willfully obtuse. The whole point of AGW is that human-produced emissions are changing the climate faster than it would under natural conditions. Not that all climate change has happened as the result of human activity.
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No. You're thinking of Obamabots, who by this point are as far from being liberals as their drone bombing, benefit cutting Dear Leader.
That's the exact sort of Boomer rationalization that I'm talking about.
Uh, no. It's because Obama's DOJ has made it clear that legal marijuana shops cannot use banking services. Including armored cars. Meaning pot shops not only have to deal in cash, but cannot transport said cash in armored cars. Meaning pot shops and pot shop operators have a giant "rob me" sign over their heads, curtsey of the federal government.
And "this isn't 1960's pot" is a giant neon sign for "I used to smoke pot but if you kids do it's baaad, mkay?" hypocrisy.
Not so much automation as executive greed. The superrich have created a system where not only do they not have to worry about the state of the society in which they live, but where they profit in times of booms and busts. Reap the windfall of the housing boom, get bailed out when it tanks, and then snap up real estate to resell or rent.
Perhaps you should consider the fact that personal anecdotes are not statistical data, and thus utterly irrelevant to overall product reliability.
Hater.
Looks like what you actually have is Hatorade. Apple has been at or near the top of consumer and hardware reliability surveys for years.
You mean Dells that cost comparable prices when you compare comparable products, which negates your entire point. You're not comparing Chevy to Lexus, you're comparing Cadillac (made by the same company as Chevy) to Lexus.
If by "or so" you mean two thousand and ten, then yes.
And most PC buyers are replacing older PC's. WYP?
Until you started confusing actual political stances for party labels.
Do you have any smarter friends who could help you with this whole trolling thing, cuz you kinda suck at it.
You assume that someone wont notice your moral relativism. Solitary confinement isn't as bad in Amurica as in the (insert_dicatorship_of_choice), so STFU, you blame-America-firster, you.
Not in Sweden, they don't. Their hippie health care and education system is counterbalanced by a positively medieval justice system. Suspects are held incommunicado, without rights or legal representation.
1) He hasn't been found guilty yet
2) They want to nail him for enabling others to commit infringement
How so.
Congratulations for the fallacy fallacy. And for the tautology.
LOL, you think that was just in the 60's? One of the primary purposes of the FBI has always been to divide, persecute, and prosecute what passes for "left" in this country.
He didn't fail. He took a dive. It wasn't the Republicans who forced him to pack the Treasury department with Goldman Sacks alums or trade the Public Option away to the for-profit hospital lobby. Obama did that all on his own.
You didn't really bother to read his post, did you? Just couldn't wait to get your authoritarian apologia on.
Let's not be diversionary: TARP was proposed, demanded, planned and implemented by a Republican president and secretary of the treasury.
I see the Republic Party is still borish.
They're the definition of a subset of the Republic Party. The Teabaggers are the most radical, and most stupid, faction of the Republic Party. Nothing more, nothing less.
Liar.
At no point in time was that the case. The last fiscally responsible Republicans, Eisenhower and Nixon, believed in expanding the government through infrastructure and state agencies.
Because they are in solid agreement on most issues. Cut earned benefits while increasing military spending. Protect torturers and bankers from prosecution, while cracking down on dissent. Extend the Bush tax cuts while making the "sequester" cuts permanent. And so on. Obama brags about having Reagan as a role model for a reason.
Idealist bullshit.
It's simply not. The western world is dominated by democracies without democratic outcomes. 60% of the Canadian public votes against the Tories, yet they dominate the government. In the United States, massively popular policies like the Public Option are strangled in the crib by the very politicians who ran on supporting them, while deeply unpopular policies like telecom immunity and military detention sail through Congress.
You can say voting works when the corrupt motherfuckers are losing elections in droves, to be replaced by people who have some respect for the public and the rule of law.
It's even funnier if you pretend that voting for a local sheriff has fuck-all to do with national policy.
It's pretty obvious when someone rides their hobby horse into various topics and tries to rewrite reality according to their ideology. In your case, the not-sublte-at-all implication that ZOMG money to poor to buy food, shelter and medicine will be the end of civilization.
It's not clever. It's you being a sociopath and a social darwinist.
What part of "we already have extensive research on diets" did you not understand? There's data on low fat, vegitarian, seefood diets, etc etc etc, going back decades. That is not the case for GMO products.
Take your willful stupidity and pound sand, troll.
It's not. It's denialists being willfully obtuse. The whole point of AGW is that human-produced emissions are changing the climate faster than it would under natural conditions. Not that all climate change has happened as the result of human activity.
But, you trolls new that already.