It's important to put Big Brother back into the ecosystem. In the old days you had to pay someone's Big Brother to get you this material, then the internet cut out that particular middle man.
Big Brother is back, and he's not just for booze and cigarettes!
You're talking like a 'road trip' is obscure like a 30" concrete cutoff saw; nice strawman. Aren't road trips part of the American way?
Not for me, but regardless, I'm not buying a car for the chance that I may want to take a road trip once or twice a year, or the off chance that I will need to haul 500lbs of granite slab. You rent that crap.
I buy my commute car for my commute: it needs to have no more than 100 miles of range (in fact 75 would be plenty), be comfortable, ideally has some self-drive since traffic is shit and I would rather a computer manage the stop and go, and it has to be totally, completely reliable. The family car primarily for holding between 4-6 people, and shuttling people around town, possibly with groceries and whatever sports equipment two kids might need tops.
My vacations, when I'm forced to do family vacations, usually involves flying on a plane to someplace. Losing a day (or two in my case) of travel each direction really cuts into the limited vacation time my corporate masters allow me, I don't see any particular value in driving through the parts of America that are best known to me as being archaic and hopelessly old fashioned.
There's a reason people don't listen to you, and you find yourself and your opinions not making it very far, and it has nothing to do with your politics.
When you can make your point without name calling and using racial or ethnic slurs, I might be inclined to support at least your right to speak. If you can't do that, then nothing you say has value.
When the points you make are not supportable by good data, people are inclined to filter you out because who cares what you say based on things you either made up or are just spreading around because your friend said it. If you have a valid argument that is being censored, make your case. Everything you posted here sounds like either pure bullshit, or highly political equivocations that if I weren't really bored right now, I would just ignore.
I like the "both sides are equally bad" arguments from liberals. Its them finally admitting liberals are shit and they know it. They use the "both sides are equally bad" to justify them staying liberal even thought they know it is shit.
Let's not talk about generalities then, go on to specifics.
Other great liberal positions: Support KKK member as VA gov Support serial rapist as VA lt. gov
I don't think it has been proven he is, or was in the KKK, just that he appeared that way in a play or something. I think his political career might, as a result, be limited from this point forward. However this wasn't known when he was elected.
Lt. Gov may also have a very limited future if the charges are true, again, not a known thing. It's bizarre to point this out as proof of liberal hypocrisy, I'm fairly certain if these were known beforehand, the candidates would not have even been on the ballot.
Support killing live born babies and calling it abortion
Reference? This sounds absurd.
Support illegals killing US citizens and protect them from consequences like jail or deportation in "sanctuary cities"
This sounds hyperbolic. Sanctuary cities aren't for harboring known criminals, and protection from deportation from an agenda standpoint extends only to resident illegal aliens who are otherwise not criminals.
There may be incidences of things not working that way, but that's not the talking point, you're either making that up or distorting the truth for some other purpose, and yes, people are going to ignore you or filter you out.
Fight against reducing taxes/regulation that has helped minorities get jobs or paid more
This is a highly political statement. You need to break it into distinct facts. The problem is that when you do, the evidence is not going to clearly support your thesis. The notion that xyz bill is good for, or bad for, some audience is usually complete bullshit no matter who argues it. Once you go through them, it becomes clear who the beneficiary is, it's almost never about the middle or lower classes.
Either way your statement on its own is worthless. I wouldn't print it.
Lie for 2 years about Russian collusion despite them knowing there was no evidence because they can't argue against Trump policy on merits
Russian collusion is a proven fact, there is no argument about this topic. There are good reasons they did not want Hillary to win, and there's no doubt the Trump presidency has held favorable policies towards Russia.
What is unproven is that Trump directly colluded, was at all aware of it, or that his policies towards Russia are at all related to this.
Attempt to remove meritocracy and raise people based on identity politics, then call themselves "Native American" to take advantage so they don't have to work hard
This is where you start to get censored. You are mixing ideas up and confusing them to make a bizarre point.
Meritocracy is a very dubious system even without mixing in affirmative action or identity politics. Competition, in general, as a form of producing optimal results is not in all or even most cases ideal. Competition without rules and without a referee tends to be destructive and counter-produ
Iâ(TM)m a big privacy advocate but even so, I can't really get worked up by this. A teacher should have the ability to manage content and focus in the classroom setting.
Barely even matters, there are parents who insist they do so, and who are sue happy. If they think their little Sally was corrupted by some evil that happened at school, and the school had the ability to stop it but did not, it's lawsuit time. "Having the ability" ends up being construed as there exists a SW package with a feature-set that makes the broad claim that it could have stopped X behavior. School did not adopt said package (even if it was completely broken to begin with), thus is culpable.
It's ridiculous in many cases, and I would make the argument that particularly for older kids, they need some freedom to do mildly bad things and experience the consequences (that are hopefully also only mildly bad) unfiltered by supervision, to learn just how horrible life really is on their own. For young kids, consequences are being punished by authority in most cases. The older you get, the more the consequences arise directly from the source and are usually much worse. It's important to learn that while the consequences are not dire, not release a bunch of 18 year old naive brats upon universities or the workforce and watch what happens, that's not good parenting either.
While it is little consolation to the deceased, I fail to see how placing markers designed to deliberately cause a car wreck is not pre-meditated murder. Someone could easily be lying in wait in the woods with a rifle and shoot drivers, or waiting on overpass to drop bricks. That latter one, sadly, happens with some regularity. Murdering people is pretty easy.
I am more interested in cases where it gets confused by routine bad situations. Construction is one, although my experience is that the car is telling me to take over when it gets confused or cannot see markings. That said I have not trusted it enough to let it drive through construction on a freeway @85mph, I always take over.
I keep the windows key disabled. In games it only does bad things, and I pretty much only use Windows for games. I have linux and os x when I need to get work done.
Given their consistently bizarre positions on things like ribbons, the start menu, etc. there's no telling what particular brand of LSD they've been eating lately wherein they believe that alt-tab isn't the most important key combination in windows (arguably up there with ctrl-alt-del, which used to reliably lock the screen, now it does...something else not helpful).
There are a few sacred key combinations that just work, and they shouldn't ever fucking touch: ctrl-alt-del -> (with an option for task manager before screen blank & login) alt-tab -> select background applications in order of what was last recently used, continuously pressing alt allows you to continue to go through applications until you find the right one ctrl-c - Copy highlighted text ctrl-v - Paste text from clipboard ctrl-z - Undo (pressed 10 times in a row, uninstalls the OS and reverts back to Windows 2000, the last time they had the OS UI more or less correct)' alt-f4 - Kill this shit immediately
There are others, but there are wear marks on my keyboard here.
You read it here, workers who are at an employer more than 5 years steal twice as much! Gotta fire em quick.
I worked in a place once that provided free soda to employees. For a while it worked, then we crossed a threshold of about 70 employees and stupid shit started happening. People walking out with costco containers of soda, etc. We knew who it was and we did give them grief, but some people are immune to peer pressure, and the boss doesn't fire based on hearsay. So they put in a vending machine (I don't know where it came from), and charged $.01 per soda. You could still "buy" 36 packs of soda for far less than they cost at Costco, but nobody did. The transaction process was enough, and pennies were always around as a result, so it was no big deal and we could still have nice things.
The problem is that vending machines are designed for soda, but office supplies tax even the most flexible machine. There are software and tools that can provide a functional equivalent, but they usually cost more than the problem is worth. And thus this story isn't really that interesting: a decision was made, and the problem wasn't worth a solution.
They are quite sensitive to optics actually. Last year when it became clear that a Russian oligarch was actually the primary owner of their company, they also attempted to retcon the entire purchase history and ownership history of their company when it was acquired from Sony. That was also censored off their forums, possibly more thoroughly.
They see it, but they would rather make the problem disappear. Having something they can't disappear is valuable. They may still ignore it, that's their choice. But it is going to hurt them.
Possibly true, but not all things are political. I know of a particular situation on an old game (EverQuest) where the company is known for blatant, over the top censorship and sock-puppeting. An alternative, well known forum like this would be welcome. Just last week they did a mass ban and lockdown on anyone who disagreed with their particular "rebranding" of a long-awaited, but ultimately bizarrely out of touch pair of servers. After spending two weeks grappling with all the rants and negative feedback, they just started locking things down and banning, while issuing a very slight but inconsequential modification (and changing their words).
It is quite welcome to have contrasting points of view as up front as possible, quite often companies take a giant shit on something you are paying good money for, and try to silence all opposition. Sure, it undoubtedly will involve a lot of racism, trolling, off-topic posts and namecalling, so some form of meta moderation will be needed to squelch people who just cannot control themselves.
I lived through the cassette era, and I really don’t get it. Setting aside the bad sound quality... it was not uncommon for the tapes to get “eaten” by players and recorders. It also was not uncommon for the tapes to get folded inside the cassette, and for the tapes to just break. I spent numerous hours, back then, attempting various repairs on cassettes which were messed up, one way or another... and even if you were “successful”, so to speak, your reward was a tape with fade outs or fuzzy sound or gaps...
You, sir, do not understand hipsters. They weren't alive back then, they don't know.
If someone said they preferred cassettes to CDs, I might not argue, they were certainly more robust physically and you could move around with a cassette player, even the really good CD players might skip. But comparing either one of them to an mp3 player is asinine, that technology spread like wildfire because it was clearly superior.
I do not have any particular desire to return to either vinyl or cassettes, they served their purpose, but other things do it better now.
Well for what it's worth I love my Tesla. For the money, they could have done a bit more I think in terms of interior design (is it a sports car? Or a sedan? Make up your mind. If sedan, think of families), and post-ownership the sales interaction I get is almost non-existent compared to other cars.
But it is fun to drive, and does exactly what it should do. It is far more fuel efficient than the gas car, and my transportation costs have decreased considerably. I've watched the gas station sign change 30% in the past month, but my electricity cost has not changed at all. The engineering is definitely sound, and I don't think I will buy another gas car again. Even when I drive the mini-van around for the kids, I feel like I'm getting in a buggy and slapping horses around.
I am not sure about Elon and his management. I think in the long run Tesla gets bought by someone. That will definitely make their car worse, particularly if that someone is say: GM. But hopefully enough EVs come on the market that I will have a choice to make next time around.
Given employer hiring patterns for this sort of work, they were probably high on the interview but would take the job for what it paid. I'm not sure it's so much as a descent as a condensate. But I also can't imagine wanting to do that job sober.
I expect this is a sign that Microsoft is planning to merge their Windows and Xbox operating systems to give them a single software ecosystem to mis-manage.
Fixed that for you.
Twice the suck at less than half the development cost.
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That would be the preferred option. I live in America, we don't do those things.
what an awkward montage, watch humanity go bald all over....
It's important to put Big Brother back into the ecosystem. In the old days you had to pay someone's Big Brother to get you this material, then the internet cut out that particular middle man.
Big Brother is back, and he's not just for booze and cigarettes!
You're talking like a 'road trip' is obscure like a 30" concrete cutoff saw; nice strawman. Aren't road trips part of the American way?
Not for me, but regardless, I'm not buying a car for the chance that I may want to take a road trip once or twice a year, or the off chance that I will need to haul 500lbs of granite slab. You rent that crap.
I buy my commute car for my commute: it needs to have no more than 100 miles of range (in fact 75 would be plenty), be comfortable, ideally has some self-drive since traffic is shit and I would rather a computer manage the stop and go, and it has to be totally, completely reliable. The family car primarily for holding between 4-6 people, and shuttling people around town, possibly with groceries and whatever sports equipment two kids might need tops.
My vacations, when I'm forced to do family vacations, usually involves flying on a plane to someplace. Losing a day (or two in my case) of travel each direction really cuts into the limited vacation time my corporate masters allow me, I don't see any particular value in driving through the parts of America that are best known to me as being archaic and hopelessly old fashioned.
He probably means a lot of money was wasted putting this guy in jail for a crime that doesn't necessarily hurt anyone else.
One...Two...FIVE!
There's a reason people don't listen to you, and you find yourself and your opinions not making it very far, and it has nothing to do with your politics.
Nope, the left is the censorship movement.
When you can make your point without name calling and using racial or ethnic slurs, I might be inclined to support at least your right to speak. If you can't do that, then nothing you say has value.
When the points you make are not supportable by good data, people are inclined to filter you out because who cares what you say based on things you either made up or are just spreading around because your friend said it. If you have a valid argument that is being censored, make your case. Everything you posted here sounds like either pure bullshit, or highly political equivocations that if I weren't really bored right now, I would just ignore.
I like the "both sides are equally bad" arguments from liberals. Its them finally admitting liberals are shit and they know it. They use the "both sides are equally bad" to justify them staying liberal even thought they know it is shit.
Let's not talk about generalities then, go on to specifics.
Other great liberal positions:
Support KKK member as VA gov
Support serial rapist as VA lt. gov
I don't think it has been proven he is, or was in the KKK, just that he appeared that way in a play or something. I think his political career might, as a result, be limited from this point forward. However this wasn't known when he was elected.
Lt. Gov may also have a very limited future if the charges are true, again, not a known thing. It's bizarre to point this out as proof of liberal hypocrisy, I'm fairly certain if these were known beforehand, the candidates would not have even been on the ballot.
Support killing live born babies and calling it abortion
Reference? This sounds absurd.
Support illegals killing US citizens and protect them from consequences like jail or deportation in "sanctuary cities"
This sounds hyperbolic. Sanctuary cities aren't for harboring known criminals, and protection from deportation from an agenda standpoint extends only to resident illegal aliens who are otherwise not criminals.
There may be incidences of things not working that way, but that's not the talking point, you're either making that up or distorting the truth for some other purpose, and yes, people are going to ignore you or filter you out.
Fight against reducing taxes/regulation that has helped minorities get jobs or paid more
This is a highly political statement. You need to break it into distinct facts. The problem is that when you do, the evidence is not going to clearly support your thesis. The notion that xyz bill is good for, or bad for, some audience is usually complete bullshit no matter who argues it. Once you go through them, it becomes clear who the beneficiary is, it's almost never about the middle or lower classes.
Either way your statement on its own is worthless. I wouldn't print it.
Lie for 2 years about Russian collusion despite them knowing there was no evidence because they can't argue against Trump policy on merits
Russian collusion is a proven fact, there is no argument about this topic. There are good reasons they did not want Hillary to win, and there's no doubt the Trump presidency has held favorable policies towards Russia.
What is unproven is that Trump directly colluded, was at all aware of it, or that his policies towards Russia are at all related to this.
Attempt to remove meritocracy and raise people based on identity politics, then call themselves "Native American" to take advantage so they don't have to work hard
This is where you start to get censored. You are mixing ideas up and confusing them to make a bizarre point.
Meritocracy is a very dubious system even without mixing in affirmative action or identity politics. Competition, in general, as a form of producing optimal results is not in all or even most cases ideal. Competition without rules and without a referee tends to be destructive and counter-produ
I imagine your newsletter and website are not making it to the whitelists?
Iâ(TM)m a big privacy advocate but even so, I can't really get worked up by this. A teacher should have the ability to manage content and focus in the classroom setting.
Barely even matters, there are parents who insist they do so, and who are sue happy. If they think their little Sally was corrupted by some evil that happened at school, and the school had the ability to stop it but did not, it's lawsuit time. "Having the ability" ends up being construed as there exists a SW package with a feature-set that makes the broad claim that it could have stopped X behavior. School did not adopt said package (even if it was completely broken to begin with), thus is culpable.
It's ridiculous in many cases, and I would make the argument that particularly for older kids, they need some freedom to do mildly bad things and experience the consequences (that are hopefully also only mildly bad) unfiltered by supervision, to learn just how horrible life really is on their own. For young kids, consequences are being punished by authority in most cases. The older you get, the more the consequences arise directly from the source and are usually much worse. It's important to learn that while the consequences are not dire, not release a bunch of 18 year old naive brats upon universities or the workforce and watch what happens, that's not good parenting either.
While it is little consolation to the deceased, I fail to see how placing markers designed to deliberately cause a car wreck is not pre-meditated murder. Someone could easily be lying in wait in the woods with a rifle and shoot drivers, or waiting on overpass to drop bricks. That latter one, sadly, happens with some regularity. Murdering people is pretty easy.
I am more interested in cases where it gets confused by routine bad situations. Construction is one, although my experience is that the car is telling me to take over when it gets confused or cannot see markings. That said I have not trusted it enough to let it drive through construction on a freeway @85mph, I always take over.
The cure is worse than the disease.
Most of the members of the auto dealer association aren't even local themselves. It's pay to win government at its finest.
...because that type of content was banned!
ba-dump ching
I keep the windows key disabled. In games it only does bad things, and I pretty much only use Windows for games. I have linux and os x when I need to get work done.
windows key disabled... does more harm than good.
Given their consistently bizarre positions on things like ribbons, the start menu, etc. there's no telling what particular brand of LSD they've been eating lately wherein they believe that alt-tab isn't the most important key combination in windows (arguably up there with ctrl-alt-del, which used to reliably lock the screen, now it does...something else not helpful).
There are a few sacred key combinations that just work, and they shouldn't ever fucking touch:
ctrl-alt-del -> (with an option for task manager before screen blank & login)
alt-tab -> select background applications in order of what was last recently used, continuously pressing alt allows you to continue to go through applications until you find the right one
ctrl-c - Copy highlighted text
ctrl-v - Paste text from clipboard
ctrl-z - Undo (pressed 10 times in a row, uninstalls the OS and reverts back to Windows 2000, the last time they had the OS UI more or less correct)'
alt-f4 - Kill this shit immediately
There are others, but there are wear marks on my keyboard here.
But no money in it.
You read it here, workers who are at an employer more than 5 years steal twice as much! Gotta fire em quick.
I worked in a place once that provided free soda to employees. For a while it worked, then we crossed a threshold of about 70 employees and stupid shit started happening. People walking out with costco containers of soda, etc. We knew who it was and we did give them grief, but some people are immune to peer pressure, and the boss doesn't fire based on hearsay. So they put in a vending machine (I don't know where it came from), and charged $.01 per soda. You could still "buy" 36 packs of soda for far less than they cost at Costco, but nobody did. The transaction process was enough, and pennies were always around as a result, so it was no big deal and we could still have nice things.
The problem is that vending machines are designed for soda, but office supplies tax even the most flexible machine. There are software and tools that can provide a functional equivalent, but they usually cost more than the problem is worth. And thus this story isn't really that interesting: a decision was made, and the problem wasn't worth a solution.
They are quite sensitive to optics actually. Last year when it became clear that a Russian oligarch was actually the primary owner of their company, they also attempted to retcon the entire purchase history and ownership history of their company when it was acquired from Sony. That was also censored off their forums, possibly more thoroughly.
They see it, but they would rather make the problem disappear. Having something they can't disappear is valuable. They may still ignore it, that's their choice. But it is going to hurt them.
Possibly true, but not all things are political. I know of a particular situation on an old game (EverQuest) where the company is known for blatant, over the top censorship and sock-puppeting. An alternative, well known forum like this would be welcome. Just last week they did a mass ban and lockdown on anyone who disagreed with their particular "rebranding" of a long-awaited, but ultimately bizarrely out of touch pair of servers. After spending two weeks grappling with all the rants and negative feedback, they just started locking things down and banning, while issuing a very slight but inconsequential modification (and changing their words).
It is quite welcome to have contrasting points of view as up front as possible, quite often companies take a giant shit on something you are paying good money for, and try to silence all opposition. Sure, it undoubtedly will involve a lot of racism, trolling, off-topic posts and namecalling, so some form of meta moderation will be needed to squelch people who just cannot control themselves.
I lived through the cassette era, and I really don’t get it. Setting aside the bad sound quality... it was not uncommon for the tapes to get “eaten” by players and recorders. It also was not uncommon for the tapes to get folded inside the cassette, and for the tapes to just break. I spent numerous hours, back then, attempting various repairs on cassettes which were messed up, one way or another... and even if you were “successful”, so to speak, your reward was a tape with fade outs or fuzzy sound or gaps...
You, sir, do not understand hipsters. They weren't alive back then, they don't know.
If someone said they preferred cassettes to CDs, I might not argue, they were certainly more robust physically and you could move around with a cassette player, even the really good CD players might skip. But comparing either one of them to an mp3 player is asinine, that technology spread like wildfire because it was clearly superior.
I do not have any particular desire to return to either vinyl or cassettes, they served their purpose, but other things do it better now.
Well for what it's worth I love my Tesla. For the money, they could have done a bit more I think in terms of interior design (is it a sports car? Or a sedan? Make up your mind. If sedan, think of families), and post-ownership the sales interaction I get is almost non-existent compared to other cars.
But it is fun to drive, and does exactly what it should do. It is far more fuel efficient than the gas car, and my transportation costs have decreased considerably. I've watched the gas station sign change 30% in the past month, but my electricity cost has not changed at all. The engineering is definitely sound, and I don't think I will buy another gas car again. Even when I drive the mini-van around for the kids, I feel like I'm getting in a buggy and slapping horses around.
I am not sure about Elon and his management. I think in the long run Tesla gets bought by someone. That will definitely make their car worse, particularly if that someone is say: GM. But hopefully enough EVs come on the market that I will have a choice to make next time around.
Given employer hiring patterns for this sort of work, they were probably high on the interview but would take the job for what it paid. I'm not sure it's so much as a descent as a condensate. But I also can't imagine wanting to do that job sober.
I expect this is a sign that Microsoft is planning to merge their Windows and Xbox operating systems to give them a single software ecosystem to mis-manage.
Fixed that for you.
Twice the suck at less than half the development cost.