There's your problem: lack of imagination. They're not running away from slightly warmer weather, they're running away from the secondary effects of that warmer weather: Too much rain/not enough rain, crop losses due to higher temps, etc.
You really need to broaden your horizons dude. Or maybe learn how to use Google.
Two things: You've misinterpreted the whole thread. My original post was agreeing with GP, not arguing against him. So when you say something like "I bet they voted more R with each passing election", you sound like an idiot, because I haven't once argued that point. The entire point was that they weren't that liberal in the first place.
Second, I already provided you a link. If you're too lazy to operate a couple of drop down menus, that's on you.
ROFLMAO. I cite 1980 to the present and your counter is 1972? Fucking weak beer dude. Not to mention that the boomer stats for that year are 52% for McGovern and 48% for Nixon, which is a couple hairs short of 'overwhelmingly'.
(And i'd love to see some discussion as to why Obama chose make that first appointment, but it's kind of secondary at this point)
That's easy. He had to slap two republicans on the council anyway, I don't think he cared who they were as long as McConnell wasn't going to make a big fuss.
Obama nominated him to the FCC, not the chair, because that's how the FCC works: Winning party gets three commissioners, losing party gets two, so Obama's hands were tied on that one.
After Trump was sworn in, he nominated Pai as chairman.
Ah, I see why you're confused: Snopes is not a source. Hope that helps.
Think of it as Breitbart but on crack.....
Snopes has a comments section that's at least an order of magnitude worse than Breitbart's? I'm pretty sure you'd have to invent a new physics model to make that a reality.
LOL. I know what my point is. Why you think I have to restate it to you because you're obsessed with missing it is beyond me. Have you thought about trying to read it again?
You are going to be put into a remedial education program to teach you how to clean toilets along with everyone else like you.
You do understand that if I have no point, you've now spent the last couple hours arguing with someone who has no point, right? How does that even work, anyway?
The internet does nothing but increase the scale of everything in proportion and you have no argument otherwise.
If you say so it must be true!
Yeah, typical, you can't argue so you try to win on a technicality of a typo. You're an animal, keep it up!
No, I was just making a topical joke. Keep your knickers on.
If there is a clan in your town and they are coordinating with another several clans several different places, those clans are were still in existence independently.
I'm not arguing otherwise, and that has nothing to do with my original comment.
You are apparently trying to articulate your perception that this allows them to grow more than they could locally by comparing notes and refining strategies or something to that effect.
Well yeah, unless you want to argue that the internet boom has not made global communications far easier and cheaper.
But whatever the advantages are, every other ideology on earth has the same advantages provided by the internet.
Something else we weren't arguing about. My point wasn't about advantages, it was about being able to forge connections that were near-impossible to do only two decades prior.
Why wouldn't the growth be proportional to the populations of the seed groups?
I dunno, this is something else I wasn't arguing about.
Dumbfuck retard.
As long as you keep it up, I'm still looking good here. Thanks!
So are you speaking from your experience as a bigot then?
Actually, I'm speaking from experience being an anime fan in the 70s and 80s. Even when we moved to a medium-sized city and a bigger school, finding people who'd even heard of it, let alone were into it was still like finding a needle in a haystack. I would have loved to be able to connect easily to other people on this topic.
Like people always gathered together. What do you think started these internet groups?
Why do you think the internet groups aren't proportional to real-life groups?
Because bigots are, by and large, a small minority of the population. It's one thing to have a 30-member Klan Klavern in your town. It's another thing entirely when you can co-ordinate with thousands of white supremacists all over the globe.
Sorry, but your comment is extremely stupid.
That's OK. Compared to your reply, I look like fucking Plato.
Mod parent up. Back in the day, if you were particularly bigoted, you tended to keep your mouth shut because even in your little bubble, there were very few like you. And no matter what the average slashdotter likes to believe, most people prefer not to be alone even if it means they can't share their theories on why women are so inferior.
Then along comes the internet. All of a sudden, not only are you not alone, but time and effort has gone into creating safe online spaces for you. Not only can you gab to your hearts content about The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, there's thousands of you to do it with!
So we've spent the last two decades knitting together every single little niche group into their own global enclaves, which is great when it brings together fans of an obscure anime, less so when hordes of fascist assholes start using their newfound power.
Your attitude, which is much too common within the Firefox community, is a big contributing factor to Firefox's ongoing decline.
What a rich fantasy life you lead. I post a couple snarky comments on a dead website, and all of a sudden I'm the poster boy for what's wrong with "the Firefox community".
Here we have users very clearly explaining
Clear as mud maybe. If only your standards for logical arguments were as high as your standards for web browsers.
without users even getting any benefit from this breakage.
Well, that's obviously false. Are you even trying, bro?
All in all, Firefox 57 has been a hugely disruptive disaster for many Firefox nerds.
FTFY. I guarantee the other 99% of FF users, who are regular people and not crusty neckbeards, don't know and don't care.
You have basically told Firefox's users to "fuck off and die"
Whoo! You liked that "poster boy" argument so much you deployed it a second time!
they're moving away from Firefox to other browsers that work, and whose communities don't treat their users like shit.
As long as we're making shit up, how much is Google paying you to astroturf?
Firefox's extension system was its only competitive advantage.
Right, because talking about "competitive advantage" when discussing a free browser produced by a non-profit is totally the right way to frame it.
Now that Firefox has taken this away from them, these users have no reason to use Firefox.
Only if you ignore all the extensions over the years that became features, which you did.
It's far slower and more bloated than browsers like Chrome, Edge and Safari.
Fuck's sake, no it isn't. I've been using this fucker since before it was called Firefox. I'm never going to claim it's ever been perfect, but it is certainly a much better product than it was 15 years ago.
Open source software projects that treat their users like they're shit just don't survive, especially when there are numerous other compelling options available for users to switch to with little effort at all.
Numerous? ROFLMAO!
People with an attitude like yours just accelerates the process by driving away users at a faster and faster rate.
Third time's the charm! Nerds really do ruin everything.
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not slightly warmer weather.
There's your problem: lack of imagination. They're not running away from slightly warmer weather, they're running away from the secondary effects of that warmer weather: Too much rain/not enough rain, crop losses due to higher temps, etc.
You really need to broaden your horizons dude. Or maybe learn how to use Google.
Shit, I think I broke him.
Two things: You've misinterpreted the whole thread. My original post was agreeing with GP, not arguing against him. So when you say something like "I bet they voted more R with each passing election", you sound like an idiot, because I haven't once argued that point. The entire point was that they weren't that liberal in the first place.
Second, I already provided you a link. If you're too lazy to operate a couple of drop down menus, that's on you.
You prove the point you're arguing against.
ROFLMAO. I cite 1980 to the present and your counter is 1972? Fucking weak beer dude. Not to mention that the boomer stats for that year are 52% for McGovern and 48% for Nixon, which is a couple hairs short of 'overwhelmingly'.
Yeah, this whole "Boomers are hippies" thing is nonsense. their generation overwhelmingly voted for Reagan, both Bushes and Trump.
At best, your suggestion may achieve your desired ends for a few months.
I'm fairly certain that, absent the god-botherers, we could a shitload done in just a few months. I'll take it.
(And i'd love to see some discussion as to why Obama chose make that first appointment, but it's kind of secondary at this point)
That's easy. He had to slap two republicans on the council anyway, I don't think he cared who they were as long as McConnell wasn't going to make a big fuss.
Obama nominated him to the FCC, not the chair, because that's how the FCC works: Winning party gets three commissioners, losing party gets two, so Obama's hands were tied on that one.
After Trump was sworn in, he nominated Pai as chairman.
And now you know...the rest of the story!
Gee, I wonder who appoints FCC commissioners? Guess we'll never know!
Um, Snopes is just about the least credible
Source for that claim?
"source"
Ah, I see why you're confused: Snopes is not a source. Hope that helps.
Think of it as Breitbart but on crack.....
Snopes has a comments section that's at least an order of magnitude worse than Breitbart's? I'm pretty sure you'd have to invent a new physics model to make that a reality.
What, exactly, is it that I would have to feel bad about?
I don't know, but seeing as your "answer" had nothing to do with my jab, it's certainly illuminating.
So you don't even know your point.
LOL. I know what my point is. Why you think I have to restate it to you because you're obsessed with missing it is beyond me. Have you thought about trying to read it again?
You are going to be put into a remedial education program to teach you how to clean toilets along with everyone else like you.
I know.
What's the over/under on tech bros litigating every tiny, pedantic detail in TFA in order to make themselves feel better?
That's as good a punchline as I could have hoped for.
You have absolutely no point.
You do understand that if I have no point, you've now spent the last couple hours arguing with someone who has no point, right? How does that even work, anyway?
The internet does nothing but increase the scale of everything in proportion and you have no argument otherwise.
If you say so it must be true!
Yeah, typical, you can't argue so you try to win on a technicality of a typo. You're an animal, keep it up!
No, I was just making a topical joke. Keep your knickers on.
Your entire non-point was that these thought-criminals are gaining influence
Nope. Try reading my comment again.
but in order for them to do that they would have to tilt to proportions of their followers in the population
Ah, I see what the problem is, Ivan. Back to remedial English for you.
If there is a clan in your town and they are coordinating with another several clans several different places, those clans are were still in existence independently.
I'm not arguing otherwise, and that has nothing to do with my original comment.
You are apparently trying to articulate your perception that this allows them to grow more than they could locally by comparing notes and refining strategies or something to that effect.
Well yeah, unless you want to argue that the internet boom has not made global communications far easier and cheaper.
But whatever the advantages are, every other ideology on earth has the same advantages provided by the internet.
Something else we weren't arguing about. My point wasn't about advantages, it was about being able to forge connections that were near-impossible to do only two decades prior.
Why wouldn't the growth be proportional to the populations of the seed groups?
I dunno, this is something else I wasn't arguing about.
Dumbfuck retard.
As long as you keep it up, I'm still looking good here. Thanks!
So are you speaking from your experience as a bigot then?
Actually, I'm speaking from experience being an anime fan in the 70s and 80s. Even when we moved to a medium-sized city and a bigger school, finding people who'd even heard of it, let alone were into it was still like finding a needle in a haystack. I would have loved to be able to connect easily to other people on this topic.
Like people always gathered together. What do you think started these internet groups?
Why do you think the internet groups aren't proportional to real-life groups?
Because bigots are, by and large, a small minority of the population. It's one thing to have a 30-member Klan Klavern in your town. It's another thing entirely when you can co-ordinate with thousands of white supremacists all over the globe.
Sorry, but your comment is extremely stupid.
That's OK. Compared to your reply, I look like fucking Plato.
Mod parent up. Back in the day, if you were particularly bigoted, you tended to keep your mouth shut because even in your little bubble, there were very few like you. And no matter what the average slashdotter likes to believe, most people prefer not to be alone even if it means they can't share their theories on why women are so inferior.
Then along comes the internet. All of a sudden, not only are you not alone, but time and effort has gone into creating safe online spaces for you. Not only can you gab to your hearts content about The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, there's thousands of you to do it with!
So we've spent the last two decades knitting together every single little niche group into their own global enclaves, which is great when it brings together fans of an obscure anime, less so when hordes of fascist assholes start using their newfound power.
1) Nerds complaining in a supersonic whine and 2) None whatsoever.
How dare you reply to me with a measured response! It's either the greatest thing ever or an insult to you and your whole tribe!
There needs to be a way to autowhitelist the top level domain of the site I'm visiting.
Well there's your problem. You don't want Noscript, you want someone to wipe your ass.
Notice how your posts keep getting modded down?
Notice how I don't care, coward?
With that much arrogance, you must be a FOSS programmer.
Incorrect.
No one else is dumb enough to think that a cost of "free" justifies shit software.
Nice strawman.
Judging by your level of butt-hurt-ness, you must be involved in developing firefox
Ooooh, strike two.
How much are the asshole, slap-the-monkey, shitbird advertisers of the world paying you to kill NPAPI and/or force HTML5 down our fucking throats?
Aaaand you're out!
A very precious few of us know what you're doing and why, and you can FUCK YOURSELF.
Wait, I thought I was the one who was supposed to be butthurt?
Your attitude, which is much too common within the Firefox community, is a big contributing factor to Firefox's ongoing decline.
What a rich fantasy life you lead. I post a couple snarky comments on a dead website, and all of a sudden I'm the poster boy for what's wrong with "the Firefox community".
Here we have users very clearly explaining
Clear as mud maybe. If only your standards for logical arguments were as high as your standards for web browsers.
without users even getting any benefit from this breakage.
Well, that's obviously false. Are you even trying, bro?
All in all, Firefox 57 has been a hugely disruptive disaster for many Firefox nerds.
FTFY. I guarantee the other 99% of FF users, who are regular people and not crusty neckbeards, don't know and don't care.
You have basically told Firefox's users to "fuck off and die"
Whoo! You liked that "poster boy" argument so much you deployed it a second time!
they're moving away from Firefox to other browsers that work, and whose communities don't treat their users like shit.
As long as we're making shit up, how much is Google paying you to astroturf?
Firefox's extension system was its only competitive advantage.
Right, because talking about "competitive advantage" when discussing a free browser produced by a non-profit is totally the right way to frame it.
Now that Firefox has taken this away from them, these users have no reason to use Firefox.
Only if you ignore all the extensions over the years that became features, which you did.
It's far slower and more bloated than browsers like Chrome, Edge and Safari.
Fuck's sake, no it isn't. I've been using this fucker since before it was called Firefox. I'm never going to claim it's ever been perfect, but it is certainly a much better product than it was 15 years ago.
Open source software projects that treat their users like they're shit just don't survive, especially when there are numerous other compelling options available for users to switch to with little effort at all.
Numerous? ROFLMAO!
People with an attitude like yours just accelerates the process by driving away users at a faster and faster rate.
Third time's the charm! Nerds really do ruin everything.