Russia hasn't done shit. Bush's mistake back in 2003 was in trying to provide evidence (all of which was fake) that Saddam planned 911 and was pursuing nuclear weapons. If he only knew he could have skipped that whole sending Powell to the UN and providing satellite photos, and just told a tall tale with no evidence whatsoever. Because people would eat it up with a spoon.
If so you should send me your money before some Nigerian prince steals it from you. The story went from Russia hacking servers and emails, to Russia colluding with Trump, and now we're down to talking about Pokemon and Facebook ads. But Russiagaters have to keep talking about this - if they stop, they'd have to admit they were a million megatons of bullshit crammed into a five pound sack.
Obama and Hillary are to Trump's right on corporate trade laws, cutting Social Security, and starting a new cold war with Russia for reasons entirely of America's making - like overthrowing Ukraine's democracy and starting a trillion dollar upgrade to America's nuclear arsenal. Democrats complain about Trump's travel bans, but DGAF when Obama was murdering teenagers with drones and allowing the military to throw their sycophantic asses in prison without a warrant.
P.S. To the "go home, Boris" shitbirds who already have half a comment written in response to this, go slink back to the hole you climbed out of after smearing anyone who questioned the invasion of Iraq as a Saddam lover.
You mean keep on merrily burning fossil fuels and pretending that climate change isn't a problem. Keep pretending that massive floods, droughts, forest fires and powerful are totally free, as opposed to costing hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
How about no.
You want to reduce oil spills? Then build more pipelines, they don't spill near as often as ships, trucks, or trains.
Uh, no. All pipelines spill. All the time. Spills where happening just in North Dakota during the DAPL protests. You want to avoid spills? Leave it in the ground.
Then build nuclear power plants.
You mean switch to the most obscenely expensive power source ever invented by man, saddling the next few hundred generations with cleanup costs? Let's say that nuclear power will never ever have another accident again, ever. It is still completely and utterly unjustifiable based on cost alone. Building out a network of wind and solar power with hydrostatic batteries to back it up - and then burning $50 billion dollars in the street - would be more justifiable than building a nuclear power plant.
I'm quite familiar with American Exceptionalists and how full of shit they are. If it wasn't whattaboutism, you would be jerking off with the canards of "moral relativism" or "two wrongs make a right.
The point, dumbfuck, is that if you whine about what you pretend others are doing, maybe you should doing that very thing yourself on a daily basis, mmmkay?
The United States has maintained a propaganda "news service" since 1942, broadcast in dozens of languages around the world. Before American Exceptionalists want to whine about what they pretend other countries are doing - there's as much evidence to support that Russia did buttkiss last year as there is that Bill Clinton sent a hitman after Vince Foster - maybe you should cease the hypocrisy first?
Are you suggesting that Apple doesn't have a few rabbid fans that treat the company like a religion? For fuck's sake there's a Slashdot user here by the name of TheFakeTimCook.
Name one. TheFakeTimCook is as much evidence of 'rabbid fans' as the picture of Obama in Kenyan garb means he has a fake birth certificate. This always go the same way:
Apple Hateboi: "Get a load of Apple's fanboys!"
"Ok, where are they"
Apple Hateboi: "Everywhere! Just look!"
"Ok, you'll have no problems finding some examples then."
Apple Hateboi: crickets.
I can't help but notice you weren't following the conversation
That's your problem, I was following the conversation. I also know the definition of "troll" is hardly limited to people spouting racist crap for S&G's on Facebook. It's any fuckwad who says stupid shit for yucks, to gain attention, or to divert conversation. Your original comment....
Just because a few fans will get upset that their favourite religion is attacked
...is you being just such a fuckwad. Because on one side of this is a group of people who harbor completely irrational feelings toward a company and the products it makes - and over there are people who buy iPhones and Macbooks. Because they do what the consumer wants them to do for the price they are willing to pay for, and don't care about other people paying what they want for the products they want.
You could try it some time.
It can't be that.... OMG you ARE one of those rabbid religious fans!
Or...maybe you're just being a fuckwad. Again. I don't love Obama (in fact I'd like to see him in the Hague for war crimes) but I'll go ahead and tell Birthers how full of shit they are. Doesn't make me an Obamabot, just someone who isn't batshit crazy.
Capital T trillion. Trillions in tax dollars over the decades to build streets and highways (tearing down consumer rail in the process) to support gas burning trucks and cars. Trillions given away over the years in either direct subsidies to oil and gas - tax breaks and letting them drill on public land for next to nothing - and indirect subsidies like not making them pay for environmental restoration.
But now it's a problem when we start talking a fraction of that sum to move away from CO2 production?
Alright, who are you and what have you done with the Uberbah that I've argued with on/. countless times over the years!? LOL!
Damn man, I find myself agreeing with your posts a lot lately! Well said. It's all about 'divide & conquer' using propaganda and disinformation while simultaneously dumbing-down the population so they are unable to think critically or possess any knowledge of history. Evil Kabuki theater.
Looks like we even broke Slashdot for a few days.:) My druthers would be to send Bush and Obama to the Hague, end illegal spying & civil forfeiture, then we can go argue amongst ourselves about the merits of capitalism and workers owning the means of production. Cheers.
Like devices that don't have removable batteries,bendy phones and most of all holding it wrong, it's only a problem when Apple is involved. Other manufacturers do the same or worse - Samsung Galaxy S6 cracked at the same pressure where the iPhone 6 bent - and people couldn't care less.
It will be the same with Androids that don't have headphone jacks. Sure sure, some people have said they wont buy them. And next Monday, they'll still not be buying the Pixel 2 and not caring about it. Also on next Monday, they'll still not be buying an iPhone 7 or later - but whining about it.
Hint: a Tesla running on electricity produced by the dirtiest coal power plant is still going to produce less CO2 than the most efficient gasoline car at the same weight.
Because not everyone is suffering from Apple Derangement Syndrome. Large screen format smartphones are way to big for some people - but they didn't whine and cry about it when Samsung released the first one because it wasn't something they wanted to buy.
People want to be able to watch Netflix all day and yet pay their ISP at a rate that was sized more for sporadic web browsing. That simply can't work as a matter of basic math, and this entire battle is little more than a tug-of-war over whether the heavy streamers pay for their own use, or whether the rest of us subsidize them.
Nonsense. Streaming video is part and parcel of modern web usage. ISP's are fully aware of the fact that people aren't just using their connections to read news and email anymore. Equally well known is that the larger oligopolies would rather impose rate caps to go on overselling connections (to pocket the profits) than invest in new hardware to allow for more bandwidth.
Look, racism is racism, no matter which way you point it; but white racism against blacks is different from black racism against whites because of the numbers involved. And white racism is relevant even when people never meet because of simple things like purchasing power. Where you spend your money is your most relevant vote (as rammed home by the story we're discussing right now) but how you actually vote is also important. And both where these racists spend their money and the way they vote are absolutely impacting black people.
Eh? This isn't some commentary based on "reverse racism" or whatever you were going with here. It's how elites manipulate the electorate to fight among themselves rather than uniting against the elite. We can look at two examples, from the same person, that cover both sides thanks to the wonderful Hillary Clinton:
When she was running around defending the draconian Clinton crime bill in the 90's, calling [minority] kids Superpredators. Playing up racist white resentment as well as any Dixiecrat. And then twenty years later on the flip side, her sycophants smeared Bernie Sanders as having a problem with minorities in the most brazen case of Swiftboating since the Bush Administration (almost entirely staffed with warmongering draft dodgers) smeared John Kerry as a coward for his Vietnam tours.
Just because a few fans will get upset that their favourite religion is attacked
Annnnd you were just talking about trolling, with some religious projection piled on top. If you don't want to buy Apple's products....don't buy their products. It's not like Zombie Steve is out there holding a gun to your heads.
So - not twice battery life? Meaning - you were wrong?
That's hilarious, coming from you. You're going to pick nits about half an hours difference when you've gotten everything else wrong in this thread, from XPS battery life to the 16 gig limitation coming from Apple? Maybe you should take some of that money you've saved in buying cheap plastic laptops and invest in a mirror.
Now you need ${SOFTWARE} combined with ${DONGLE} and a ${WEIRD_GESTURE) thrown in for good measure to do ${BASIC_STUFF}.
Hatorade Distortion Field. At no point has Apple bragged about or been known for having all software installed for all people. On video, specifically, when did Quicktime Player support all formats under the sun with a plethora of options? As long as Mac users have wanted to play matroska files, they've had to download apps like....VLC. Just like Windows or Linux users.
"they are making lots of money" is the only think Apple fans have left to brag about.
That and having a phone twice as fast, being the consumer not the product, and enjoying years of dependable updates before their device is orphaned. Fandroid.
iPhones are a small fraction of the smartphone market compared to Android,
Which includes a huge amount of cheap shit phones, a cutthroat market Apple has never competed in, for good reason.
Samsung sells more phones than Apple every year (and has for quite a while now)
And yet makes far less money despite charging similar prices for their high end phones.
The newest iPhones still haven't reached feature parity with 2-3 year old Android devices
Now you're just chugging the Hatorade by the barrel. The iPhone 7 is still faster than most Androids on the market, wanker. Look, if you don't want an iPhone....don't fucking buy an iPhone. Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head. When Samsung released the first large-screen smartphone, I had no use for a phone that large, but you didn't see me whining like a bitch about it. Because I didn't. have. to. buy. one.
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Russia hasn't done shit. Bush's mistake back in 2003 was in trying to provide evidence (all of which was fake) that Saddam planned 911 and was pursuing nuclear weapons. If he only knew he could have skipped that whole sending Powell to the UN and providing satellite photos, and just told a tall tale with no evidence whatsoever. Because people would eat it up with a spoon.
If so you should send me your money before some Nigerian prince steals it from you. The story went from Russia hacking servers and emails, to Russia colluding with Trump, and now we're down to talking about Pokemon and Facebook ads. But Russiagaters have to keep talking about this - if they stop, they'd have to admit they were a million megatons of bullshit crammed into a five pound sack.
https://consortiumnews.com/201...
AC, do you also know the definition of "pedant"?
Obama and Hillary are to Trump's right on corporate trade laws, cutting Social Security, and starting a new cold war with Russia for reasons entirely of America's making - like overthrowing Ukraine's democracy and starting a trillion dollar upgrade to America's nuclear arsenal. Democrats complain about Trump's travel bans, but DGAF when Obama was murdering teenagers with drones and allowing the military to throw their sycophantic asses in prison without a warrant.
P.S.
To the "go home, Boris" shitbirds who already have half a comment written in response to this, go slink back to the hole you climbed out of after smearing anyone who questioned the invasion of Iraq as a Saddam lover.
You mean keep on merrily burning fossil fuels and pretending that climate change isn't a problem. Keep pretending that massive floods, droughts, forest fires and powerful are totally free, as opposed to costing hundreds of billions of dollars every year.
How about no.
Uh, no. All pipelines spill. All the time. Spills where happening just in North Dakota during the DAPL protests. You want to avoid spills? Leave it in the ground.
You mean switch to the most obscenely expensive power source ever invented by man, saddling the next few hundred generations with cleanup costs? Let's say that nuclear power will never ever have another accident again, ever. It is still completely and utterly unjustifiable based on cost alone. Building out a network of wind and solar power with hydrostatic batteries to back it up - and then burning $50 billion dollars in the street - would be more justifiable than building a nuclear power plant.
I'm quite familiar with American Exceptionalists and how full of shit they are. If it wasn't whattaboutism, you would be jerking off with the canards of "moral relativism" or "two wrongs make a right.
The point, dumbfuck, is that if you whine about what you pretend others are doing, maybe you should doing that very thing yourself on a daily basis, mmmkay?
No and no. Any more thoughtful questions?
The United States has maintained a propaganda "news service" since 1942, broadcast in dozens of languages around the world. Before American Exceptionalists want to whine about what they pretend other countries are doing - there's as much evidence to support that Russia did buttkiss last year as there is that Bill Clinton sent a hitman after Vince Foster - maybe you should cease the hypocrisy first?
Name one. TheFakeTimCook is as much evidence of 'rabbid fans' as the picture of Obama in Kenyan garb means he has a fake birth certificate. This always go the same way:
Apple Hateboi: "Get a load of Apple's fanboys!"
"Ok, where are they"
Apple Hateboi: "Everywhere! Just look!"
"Ok, you'll have no problems finding some examples then."
Apple Hateboi: crickets.
That's your problem, I was following the conversation. I also know the definition of "troll" is hardly limited to people spouting racist crap for S&G's on Facebook. It's any fuckwad who says stupid shit for yucks, to gain attention, or to divert conversation. Your original comment....
...is you being just such a fuckwad. Because on one side of this is a group of people who harbor completely irrational feelings toward a company and the products it makes - and over there are people who buy iPhones and Macbooks. Because they do what the consumer wants them to do for the price they are willing to pay for, and don't care about other people paying what they want for the products they want.
You could try it some time.
Or...maybe you're just being a fuckwad. Again. I don't love Obama (in fact I'd like to see him in the Hague for war crimes) but I'll go ahead and tell Birthers how full of shit they are. Doesn't make me an Obamabot, just someone who isn't batshit crazy.
Capital T trillion. Trillions in tax dollars over the decades to build streets and highways (tearing down consumer rail in the process) to support gas burning trucks and cars. Trillions given away over the years in either direct subsidies to oil and gas - tax breaks and letting them drill on public land for next to nothing - and indirect subsidies like not making them pay for environmental restoration.
But now it's a problem when we start talking a fraction of that sum to move away from CO2 production?
Looks like we even broke Slashdot for a few days. :) My druthers would be to send Bush and Obama to the Hague, end illegal spying & civil forfeiture, then we can go argue amongst ourselves about the merits of capitalism and workers owning the means of production. Cheers.
Because we're not Jeff Bezos fart-sniffers?
Like devices that don't have removable batteries, bendy phones and most of all holding it wrong, it's only a problem when Apple is involved. Other manufacturers do the same or worse - Samsung Galaxy S6 cracked at the same pressure where the iPhone 6 bent - and people couldn't care less.
It will be the same with Androids that don't have headphone jacks. Sure sure, some people have said they wont buy them. And next Monday, they'll still not be buying the Pixel 2 and not caring about it. Also on next Monday, they'll still not be buying an iPhone 7 or later - but whining about it.
Amazing how no one else realized the same thing, and taken over the market with their superior products if all they do is produce overpriced crap.
Apple Derangement Syndrome lives.
Hint: a Tesla running on electricity produced by the dirtiest coal power plant is still going to produce less CO2 than the most efficient gasoline car at the same weight.
Wanker.
Because not everyone is suffering from Apple Derangement Syndrome. Large screen format smartphones are way to big for some people - but they didn't whine and cry about it when Samsung released the first one because it wasn't something they wanted to buy.
Nonsense. Streaming video is part and parcel of modern web usage. ISP's are fully aware of the fact that people aren't just using their connections to read news and email anymore. Equally well known is that the larger oligopolies would rather impose rate caps to go on overselling connections (to pocket the profits) than invest in new hardware to allow for more bandwidth.
Eh? This isn't some commentary based on "reverse racism" or whatever you were going with here. It's how elites manipulate the electorate to fight among themselves rather than uniting against the elite. We can look at two examples, from the same person, that cover both sides thanks to the wonderful Hillary Clinton:
When she was running around defending the draconian Clinton crime bill in the 90's, calling [minority] kids Superpredators. Playing up racist white resentment as well as any Dixiecrat. And then twenty years later on the flip side, her sycophants smeared Bernie Sanders as having a problem with minorities in the most brazen case of Swiftboating since the Bush Administration (almost entirely staffed with warmongering draft dodgers) smeared John Kerry as a coward for his Vietnam tours.
Annnnd you were just talking about trolling, with some religious projection piled on top. If you don't want to buy Apple's products....don't buy their products. It's not like Zombie Steve is out there holding a gun to your heads.
That's hilarious, coming from you. You're going to pick nits about half an hours difference when you've gotten everything else wrong in this thread, from XPS battery life to the 16 gig limitation coming from Apple? Maybe you should take some of that money you've saved in buying cheap plastic laptops and invest in a mirror.
How much wankery. As if people are born with knowledge of Windows or Linux shortcuts inherited.
Hatorade Distortion Field. At no point has Apple bragged about or been known for having all software installed for all people. On video, specifically, when did Quicktime Player support all formats under the sun with a plethora of options? As long as Mac users have wanted to play matroska files, they've had to download apps like....VLC. Just like Windows or Linux users.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric)
That and having a phone twice as fast, being the consumer not the product, and enjoying years of dependable updates before their device is orphaned. Fandroid.
Which includes a huge amount of cheap shit phones, a cutthroat market Apple has never competed in, for good reason.
And yet makes far less money despite charging similar prices for their high end phones.
Now you're just chugging the Hatorade by the barrel. The iPhone 7 is still faster than most Androids on the market, wanker. Look, if you don't want an iPhone....don't fucking buy an iPhone. Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head. When Samsung released the first large-screen smartphone, I had no use for a phone that large, but you didn't see me whining like a bitch about it. Because I didn't. have. to. buy. one.
You mean you're a another right wing wanker who expects protestors to climb the side of a mountain with any signs, because reasons.