You mean like when the media and political establishments spent a week freaking the fuck out over the fact that anonymous shmoes submitted a Bush=Nazi ad to move on, even though it was promptly pulled? Compared to when the biggest voice in the conservative movement made a Obama=Nazi comment and no one gives a shit.
Perhaps you should consider that if the Bush administration had issued a call for citizens to report negative opinions
Okay, let's consider it. Say that the Bush White House had asked that batshit insane 911 conspiracy theories be forwarded to them so they could be debunked. The "media, assorted liberal groups, and more" would not have complained because people who think the CIA planned the 911 attacks are just as fucking stupid as Republicans who think Obama wants to kill their grandmas.
Cell phone provider apologists are like conservatives and lunar conspiracy theorists: their ideas sound neat and make sense upon first glance - but are torn down when hit with the slightest bit of scrutiny.
The "Americka is ruural" argument does indeed seem to explain why you have shitty service in Bumfuck, Wyoming (though the rural Fins seem to have service just fine). But why do we have shitty service in the New York City to DC corridor, one of the most densely populated areas in the world? How about the Los Angeles metro area?
How about we stop being such arrogant, self centered fucks who get stuck on one theme and turn science into a religion, ousting anyone who disagrees and all but burning them at the stake because they don't agree with the guys that say the opposite.
Do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
Remember the vast majority of scientists who didn't believe in bacteria?
Remember that telescopes and microscopes haven't been around for thousands of years? How are you going to discover bacteria without being able to see it?
Or that the world was round?
When was that? Those videos you watched in school with scientists telling Columbus that he could sail around the world because it was flat? They lied to you, as most learned men at the time did believe the Earth was round. What they really told Columbus was that it was too far to sail from Spain across the Atlantic to the Spice Islands in Asia. Obviously the scientists were right and Columbus was wrong - his crew was running out of food by the time they made landfall in the Caribbean, and it would have been impossible for them to sail all the way to Asia if the American continents didn't exist.
Or that the sun was the center of the solar system?
See above. And some mathematicians managed to figure it out before they had telescopes.
The majority CAN be wrong you know.
The point you're willfully ignoring is that while yes, previously held theories have been proved wrong, but only because new information has become available. The climate change ostriches are insisting the scientific consensus is wrong, but they don't have evidence that that is the case. You're putting the cart before the horse.
What the ostriches do have, are pet little arguments that seem to make sense on the face, but are torn down under the merest scrutiny, like Intelligent Designers and Lunar Conspiracy theorists. Case in point: those that argue that climate change is a hoax because some polar ice is thickening. The part that they don't tell you is that said ice is thickening due to increased precipitation - brought on by warmer temperatures.
The point was, just as all of those things were proven wrong, there's equally as good of a chance that in 100 years people will laugh at the fact that scientists were foolish enough to think that man could change the climate and then destroyed entire societies trying to combat this non-existent problem.
Okay, let's test your theory as compared to other scientific theories. Take off your shoe, find the nearest hammer, and drop it on your foot from shoulder height. Let us know if you're laughing at Newton for being so foolish as to think that objects are pulled towards eachother through the force of gravity.
I'm assuming they're wrong because there's plenty of reason to question it
[Citation needed]
and instead of actually having intelligent discourse on the matter and see who has the better evidence, they resort to oppression to silence the dissenters
Yes, as evidenced by how AIE, the Heritage Foundation, Enron and Sen. Inhofe have been totally silenced on the subject.
Nice flamebait - it's great seeing your ignorant leftist hatred showing itself for what it really is, and truly shows what kind of a person you are. As an independent moron myself, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about
Nice projection there. Polls taken on Obama's birthplace and prove that you guys are actively opposed to reality.
I see you were born yesterday, or at least when you started reading Slashdot. Half a dozen people have scratched screens on their iPods and it's on the front page. Whereas it literally takes a Dell battery exploding and starting on fire to make it onto Slashdot.
but if Microsoft even hinted of this they'd get flamed.
...which is said EVERY time Apple does something remotely unpopular.
I'm a bit surprised at the negativity towards Apple, lately. Every day for weeks, there seems to be a story about how Apple is screwing its customers or developers. That's fine; I really don't like them or their products. But I wonder if there is now a buzz-driven backlash against the company?
This is nothing new...much like PETA, there are far more kool aid drinking detractors than kool aid drinking fanboys when it comes to Apple. Case in point: Kode, below. Every cell phone manufacturer puts those liquid sensing dots inside their devices, yet he's whining that Apple doing the same for their laptops is "strong arming their customers". On what planet?
And Microsoft gets flack because 1) they're a monopoly and 2) most of their products are shit. Whereas Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything and builds quality products.
This post, any many other replies to the original question, stink of one thing-- sexism.
Too bad it's reality.
Many geeks end up in extremely male dominated professions and inadvertently it becomes difficult to view women as equals in the workplace for the one reason that there aren't very many of them and the ones that are there are not peers.
Because women just don't work as hard as men. More than 3 times as many men put in 60+ hour weeks as women. Men make up over 90% of workplace fatalaties. Funny how you never see feminists demanding that those statistics be evened out.
Equal respect for equal work.
I think, unfortunately, that many guys want to be looked up to, not the other way around and have trouble accepting that their SOs are making more money than them or generally more successful... and society reinforces this stereotype.
As opposed to all the high powered female lawyers/doctors/businesswomen who are married to the assistant manager of a Burger King. You're right that there's an acceptance problem - you just have it completely backwards.
Except you guys are basically in agreement - he's says "look up to", you say "mutual respect".
Tomato, tomahtoe.
If most women really do want someone they can look up to, I can understand why the divorce rate is so high.
Pretty much. How many ladies do you know that are highly successful lawyers/doctors/businesswomen that are married to an assistant manager of a Burger King?
So long as that applies to the wife just as much as it does to you. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for a loss of respect. And with no respect, there's no relationship.
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Funny how there isn't a single comment pointing out how ridiculous "BusHitler" is
What's funny is how full of shit you are.
Nazism, as is Facism, are actually far left ideologies
Actually, you have no idea WTF you're talking about as those are polar opposites of "far left" governments.
Yes. It really is that simple.
No, you really are that stupid.
You mean like when the media and political establishments spent a week freaking the fuck out over the fact that anonymous shmoes submitted a Bush=Nazi ad to move on, even though it was promptly pulled? Compared to when the biggest voice in the conservative movement made a Obama=Nazi comment and no one gives a shit.
Okay, let's consider it. Say that the Bush White House had asked that batshit insane 911 conspiracy theories be forwarded to them so they could be debunked. The "media, assorted liberal groups, and more" would not have complained because people who think the CIA planned the 911 attacks are just as fucking stupid as Republicans who think Obama wants to kill their grandmas.
It is indeed.
Ice. Core. Samples.
Cell phone provider apologists are like conservatives and lunar conspiracy theorists: their ideas sound neat and make sense upon first glance - but are torn down when hit with the slightest bit of scrutiny.
The "Americka is ruural" argument does indeed seem to explain why you have shitty service in Bumfuck, Wyoming (though the rural Fins seem to have service just fine). But why do we have shitty service in the New York City to DC corridor, one of the most densely populated areas in the world? How about the Los Angeles metro area?
Excuses, excuses. Free market jihadists are like communists: it can never fail, it can only be failed.
The entire we reason we have regulations and oversight is that yes, we tried "the free market" - and it was called the Gilded Age.
[Citation needed]
It would be nice if someone who has evidence of global warming would actually produce it
Which of course they do, every. single. time. Or do you think scientists keep grant money while keeping the results secret? Pull your head out.
About 750,000 years.
Whoosh.
And like most nonlinear dynamic phenomena, ideas (even wrong ones) tend to resonnate if preventative dampening is not introduced.
Your "preventative dampening" is the fact that scientists love to prove eachother wrong.
As an operational meteorologist
Weather != climate.
How about we stop being such arrogant, self centered fucks who get stuck on one theme and turn science into a religion, ousting anyone who disagrees and all but burning them at the stake because they don't agree with the guys that say the opposite.
Do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
Remember the vast majority of scientists who didn't believe in bacteria?
Remember that telescopes and microscopes haven't been around for thousands of years? How are you going to discover bacteria without being able to see it?
Or that the world was round?
When was that? Those videos you watched in school with scientists telling Columbus that he could sail around the world because it was flat? They lied to you, as most learned men at the time did believe the Earth was round. What they really told Columbus was that it was too far to sail from Spain across the Atlantic to the Spice Islands in Asia. Obviously the scientists were right and Columbus was wrong - his crew was running out of food by the time they made landfall in the Caribbean, and it would have been impossible for them to sail all the way to Asia if the American continents didn't exist.
Or that the sun was the center of the solar system?
See above. And some mathematicians managed to figure it out before they had telescopes.
The majority CAN be wrong you know.
The point you're willfully ignoring is that while yes, previously held theories have been proved wrong, but only because new information has become available. The climate change ostriches are insisting the scientific consensus is wrong, but they don't have evidence that that is the case. You're putting the cart before the horse.
What the ostriches do have, are pet little arguments that seem to make sense on the face, but are torn down under the merest scrutiny, like Intelligent Designers and Lunar Conspiracy theorists. Case in point: those that argue that climate change is a hoax because some polar ice is thickening. The part that they don't tell you is that said ice is thickening due to increased precipitation - brought on by warmer temperatures.
The point was, just as all of those things were proven wrong, there's equally as good of a chance that in 100 years people will laugh at the fact that scientists were foolish enough to think that man could change the climate and then destroyed entire societies trying to combat this non-existent problem.
Okay, let's test your theory as compared to other scientific theories. Take off your shoe, find the nearest hammer, and drop it on your foot from shoulder height. Let us know if you're laughing at Newton for being so foolish as to think that objects are pulled towards eachother through the force of gravity.
I'm assuming they're wrong because there's plenty of reason to question it
[Citation needed]
and instead of actually having intelligent discourse on the matter and see who has the better evidence, they resort to oppression to silence the dissenters
Yes, as evidenced by how AIE, the Heritage Foundation, Enron and Sen. Inhofe have been totally silenced on the subject.
As for principles, I have them
[Citation needed]
Nice flamebait - it's great seeing your ignorant leftist hatred showing itself for what it really is, and truly shows what kind of a person you are. As an independent moron myself, you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about
Nice projection there. Polls taken on Obama's birthplace and prove that you guys are actively opposed to reality.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Apple gets forgiven for everything
I see you were born yesterday, or at least when you started reading Slashdot. Half a dozen people have scratched screens on their iPods and it's on the front page. Whereas it literally takes a Dell battery exploding and starting on fire to make it onto Slashdot.
but if Microsoft even hinted of this they'd get flamed.
...which is said EVERY time Apple does something remotely unpopular.
What about option
4. Raise holy hell
I'm a bit surprised at the negativity towards Apple, lately. Every day for weeks, there seems to be a story about how Apple is screwing its customers or developers. That's fine; I really don't like them or their products. But I wonder if there is now a buzz-driven backlash against the company?
This is nothing new...much like PETA, there are far more kool aid drinking detractors than kool aid drinking fanboys when it comes to Apple. Case in point: Kode, below. Every cell phone manufacturer puts those liquid sensing dots inside their devices, yet he's whining that Apple doing the same for their laptops is "strong arming their customers". On what planet?
And Microsoft gets flack because 1) they're a monopoly and 2) most of their products are shit. Whereas Apple doesn't have a monopoly on anything and builds quality products.
This post, any many other replies to the original question, stink of one thing-- sexism.
Too bad it's reality.
Many geeks end up in extremely male dominated professions and inadvertently it becomes difficult to view women as equals in the workplace for the one reason that there aren't very many of them and the ones that are there are not peers.
Because women just don't work as hard as men. More than 3 times as many men put in 60+ hour weeks as women. Men make up over 90% of workplace fatalaties. Funny how you never see feminists demanding that those statistics be evened out.
Equal respect for equal work.
I think, unfortunately, that many guys want to be looked up to, not the other way around and have trouble accepting that their SOs are making more money than them or generally more successful... and society reinforces this stereotype.
As opposed to all the high powered female lawyers/doctors/businesswomen who are married to the assistant manager of a Burger King. You're right that there's an acceptance problem - you just have it completely backwards.
Huh? Ephesians 5:25-28: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her..."
Duh? How can you die for a church that doesn't exist yet?
Huh? "Christian ideas about marriage" like, "Husbands, love your wives?" Wow. Nasty stuff.
Duh? Like, polygamy? Like, selling your daughter into slavery?
Huh? "Love your neighbor as yourself." Oh, the cruelty. Dude, are you serious, or are you just spewing anti-Christian hate?
Duh? Stoning people to death for wearing clothes made from different cloths or planting different crops side by side.
The Bible is filled with slavery, torture, genocide, and rape. And it's disingenuous to imply that's all rainbows and lollypops.
Except you guys are basically in agreement - he's says "look up to", you say "mutual respect".
Tomato, tomahtoe.
If most women really do want someone they can look up to, I can understand why the divorce rate is so high.
Pretty much. How many ladies do you know that are highly successful lawyers/doctors/businesswomen that are married to an assistant manager of a Burger King?
Just keep in mind that there's something far worse than calling a woman a CU Next Tuesday, a b****, fat, ugly, etc.
The very worse thing you can say to a woman is..."you're just like your mother." Don't say it unless you're getting a divorce.
So long as that applies to the wife just as much as it does to you. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for a loss of respect. And with no respect, there's no relationship.