"Whatever happened to the Slashdot support for the American ideal that all men are endowed with inalienable rights regardless of what some elite says?"
I guess they realized that people like you vote too.
Well, there's a great way to earn credibility right off the bat. Why not just call them "doodyheads"?
Amazingly, though, it doesn't surprise. The kind of mind that thinks calling names like "Limburger" is the same kind of mind that thinks your politics make sense.
Go back to watching Spongebob.
"and show me ONE leftist with the same coverage as extreme right-wing Kato Inst."
"Yes, the US's democracy is totally not in a pretty fragile state"
You're right, it's not, as your example clearly proves. If you weren't such a misinformed tool you'd realize that free speech doesn't and NEVER HAS meant, "say whatever you want wherever you want". Your example, sadly for you, proves me right.
"So how does the US arming of Iraq with chemical weapons fit with your world? "
About the same as McDonald's selling cheeseburgers or Jack Daniel's selling whiskey. I fail to see how a long mooted example of poor behavior by one of our previous allies prov es anything other than your dearth of relevant arguments.
You know that old line, "guns don't kill people..." yeah, apparently, Mr. Apparently, you're too caught up in vomiting up your propaganda to place blame with those who actually did something.
It says a lot about you that you think those two ridiculous attempts at argument are anything but obvious reaches to find SOMETHING to spout off about.
Grow up, you'll stop looking like so much of a fucking loser.
"There are 750,000 proscribed people in the US who have been labled "terrorist" without trial."
No they haven't you fucking liar.
They've been placed on a watch list, which is nowhere near the same as being labeled a "terrorist" and your irresponsible misrepresentation of the facts depicts exactly what kind of propaganda spewing moron you are.
If you wonder why people "support Bush", maybe if you took a second to realize we despise ALL disingenuous fucks (like YOU AND Bush) you'd understand he isn't getting support, we're just tired of watching assholes like you lie and spout inflammatory rhetoric.
Shut the fuck up or learn to tell the truth, you lying pieces of garbage disgust me.
"If these deaths all were related to staph infections, the total would exceed other better-known causes of death including AIDS -- which killed an estimated 17,011 Americans in 2005 -- said Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft of the Los Angeles County Health Department, the editorial author."
The 17,011 is for AIDS deaths in 2005, not superbug deaths.
Regarding their number for the superbug, which is an extrapolation, they say this.
"There were 988 reported deaths among infected people in the study, for a rate of 6.3 per 100,000. That would translate to 18,650 deaths annually, although the researchers don't know if MRSA was the cause in all cases."
"As an interesting side note, our culture does teach that food is evil"
I'm not sure which culture you're describing, but if it's western culture, you're full of it.
1) stop redefining "evil", your example fails miserably because of your attempt at hyperbole.
2) stop misrepresenting what is actually occurring, your example fails miserably because you claim we teach food is evil because of all "the anorexics and bulimics we have in our society today". That's just idiotic. Anorexia are mental illnesses, which have their genesis is physiological disorders unrelated to food. A very large number of individuals with anorexia/bulimia exhibit co-morbidity.
In short, what, exactly, does a mental disorder characterized by distorted self image have to do with food? How does that in any way prove that we "teach that food is evil"?
In your rush to pontificate, you failed to realize that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
"Truthiness is a satirical term that U.S. television comedian Stephen Colbert popularized in 2005 to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts."
So yeah, it does have "truthiness" but I prefer truth. Different strokes I guess...
"The US in this case only bans it if you are not in the US. "
This is not accurate. The law in question bans interstate gaming as well, leaving the question of intrastate gaming to the individual states.
If you wanted to open a US wide online poker room, for instance, the law in question says that's not kosher. However, in light of the multi-state lotteries that have sprung up over the years, there has been an argument that the same procedures that allow pooling of contestants for lotteries in different states could be applied to the UIGEA.
There is one thing that is certain however, that the law is a mishmash of semi-legal pronouncements that has little chance of holding up under scrutiny.
"The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th"
Now why don't you quote the part that says "Saddam Hussein was responsible for planning 9/11".
I'll wait.
OH SHIT! It's not there!!!
Do you see that? Does the part of you that refuses to admit you bought into something that never happened allow you to make a rational determination of what actually happened?
Quoting a speech where they were both mentioned is not by any measure (except yours) the same. Save your protest, it's not and you know it.
A specific question was asked, and you failed to answer it.
Care to try again?
"Someone here is full of shit. My money's on you."
Then you just lost your money. You made a post that didn't provide what was asked for, while pretending it did because being right POLITICALLY is more important to you that being factually correct.
"Principle. The store doesn't have the right to search,"
Always the bastion of people with no real foundation, "principle" is the source of more stupid behavior than can be accurately measured.
"Time. Mine's valuable."
But not valuable enough to avoid wasting it by engaging in a pissing contest with a Circuit City manager. Then there's the cop's time wasted (which pisses me off no end) the families time wasted, the time of the CC employees wasted, all so someone could "make a point" that, frankly, most people don't give two shakes about.
Why hasn't it occurred to you that being right and being a pompous twit are not mutually exclusive? He couldn't do this one of the dozens of other times it has happened, but when he has been alone? And WHY call the cops then be a dick about cooperating with them? Just because you CAN?
Do you honestly think CC gives two fucks about this petulant little "protest"? They'll pass the cost of the settlement on to customers, change not one fucking thing about their policies because they save money (presumably) and move on none the worse.
Meanwhile his family is traumatized, the cop was taken away from more pressing matters, and there's a lawsuit just waiting to be paid out of the tax coffers of the local community.
All so this guy could prove a point that will ultimately be disregarded anyway.
Good job guy, way to stand up for "principal".
None of which changes that he's right of course, but this unrepentant slurping of the guy that people are engaging in completely ignores that he was an asshole, and in being an asshole, did a tremendous disservice to the "principal" he was trying to uphold.
Looks like the budget is NOT less, yet you claimed otherwise.
Attack me all you want, you said something that is provably FALSE. And save that "adjusted for inflation" crap, you didn't say it, so don't claim that's what you meant after the fact.
Slashdot Mirror
"Whatever happened to the Slashdot support for the American ideal that all men are endowed with inalienable rights regardless of what some elite says?"
I guess they realized that people like you vote too.
"Speaking as a traffic engineer"
Maybe you shouldn't.
I have personally seen ALL of the things you say the cops won't do, or can't do, and have seen people lose their cases as a result.
I don't believe you're a traffic engineer, but even if you are, you're lying about everything else.
In all seriousness, you'd better learn WTF you're talking about or stop giving advice, cause you're full of shit.
I'm surprised there are losers like you who find it so important to parse out what you think are appropriate mods, and yet still get it wrong.
No, wait, I'm not surprised at all, I meant to say disgusted by how pathetic you are.
"Like Faux News, and Limburger"
Well, there's a great way to earn credibility right off the bat. Why not just call them "doodyheads"?
Amazingly, though, it doesn't surprise. The kind of mind that thinks calling names like "Limburger" is the same kind of mind that thinks your politics make sense.
Go back to watching Spongebob.
"and show me ONE leftist with the same coverage as extreme right-wing Kato Inst."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
There you go, hope that crow is YUMMY.
"Yes, the US's democracy is totally not in a pretty fragile state"
You're right, it's not, as your example clearly proves. If you weren't such a misinformed tool you'd realize that free speech doesn't and NEVER HAS meant, "say whatever you want wherever you want". Your example, sadly for you, proves me right.
"So how does the US arming of Iraq with chemical weapons fit with your world? "
About the same as McDonald's selling cheeseburgers or Jack Daniel's selling whiskey. I fail to see how a long mooted example of poor behavior by one of our previous allies prov es anything other than your dearth of relevant arguments.
You know that old line, "guns don't kill people..." yeah, apparently, Mr. Apparently, you're too caught up in vomiting up your propaganda to place blame with those who actually did something.
It says a lot about you that you think those two ridiculous attempts at argument are anything but obvious reaches to find SOMETHING to spout off about.
Grow up, you'll stop looking like so much of a fucking loser.
"There are 750,000 proscribed people in the US who have been labled "terrorist" without trial."
No they haven't you fucking liar.
They've been placed on a watch list, which is nowhere near the same as being labeled a "terrorist" and your irresponsible misrepresentation of the facts depicts exactly what kind of propaganda spewing moron you are.
If you wonder why people "support Bush", maybe if you took a second to realize we despise ALL disingenuous fucks (like YOU AND Bush) you'd understand he isn't getting support, we're just tired of watching assholes like you lie and spout inflammatory rhetoric.
Shut the fuck up or learn to tell the truth, you lying pieces of garbage disgust me.
"Are you that fucking dense that you can't comprehend that your test-case is an Iranian court."
Are you that fucking dense that you can't comprehend that Iran is a theocracy, and it's courts are therefore MISLIM courts?
Shut your dicksucker now.
You have a beard and run Linux, so you hate that they're right about you.
"This is not the quote of a professional review."
Hmm, it was a review, by a profesional, so what exactly made you think it was disqualifued since it meets all the criteria.
What I think you meant to say was
"WAHHHHHHHHHHH I'm an uptight beard wearing virgin who runs Linux, stop making fun of me WAHHHHHHHHH"
I think that has more to do with the fact that France has some idiotic laws on the books.
Using France as your example was incredibly stupid.
In other words, you're jealous that you're not an American.
"It seems that you do not know that the largest age group of gamers is 40+. And that their sex is female."
Source this please, because everything I've found says you've misunderstood the report.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003220685
"While women are dominant among online gamers, men still outnumber women in the overall video game space by more than 2-to-1 (70%-30%)."
That most certainly is not what Fox news says.
"If these deaths all were related to staph infections, the total would exceed other better-known causes of death including AIDS -- which killed an estimated 17,011 Americans in 2005 -- said Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft of the Los Angeles County Health Department, the editorial author."
The 17,011 is for AIDS deaths in 2005, not superbug deaths.
Regarding their number for the superbug, which is an extrapolation, they say this.
"There were 988 reported deaths among infected people in the study, for a rate of 6.3 per 100,000. That would translate to 18,650 deaths annually, although the researchers don't know if MRSA was the cause in all cases."
"As an interesting side note, our culture does teach that food is evil"
I'm not sure which culture you're describing, but if it's western culture, you're full of it.
1) stop redefining "evil", your example fails miserably because of your attempt at hyperbole.
2) stop misrepresenting what is actually occurring, your example fails miserably because you claim we teach food is evil because of all "the anorexics and bulimics we have in our society today". That's just idiotic. Anorexia are mental illnesses, which have their genesis is physiological disorders unrelated to food. A very large number of individuals with anorexia/bulimia exhibit co-morbidity.
In short, what, exactly, does a mental disorder characterized by distorted self image have to do with food? How does that in any way prove that we "teach that food is evil"?
In your rush to pontificate, you failed to realize that you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.
I get it, when YOU like how they violate the Constitution, it's ok, but when you don't like it, it's not.
How long have you been a Democrat?
"Something about physics - it has a truthiness"
At least you admit you don't care about evidence or facts, that's progress for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
"Truthiness is a satirical term that U.S. television comedian Stephen Colbert popularized in 2005 to describe things that a person claims to know intuitively or "from the gut" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts."
So yeah, it does have "truthiness" but I prefer truth. Different strokes I guess...
"The US in this case only bans it if you are not in the US. "
This is not accurate. The law in question bans interstate gaming as well, leaving the question of intrastate gaming to the individual states.
If you wanted to open a US wide online poker room, for instance, the law in question says that's not kosher. However, in light of the multi-state lotteries that have sprung up over the years, there has been an argument that the same procedures that allow pooling of contestants for lotteries in different states could be applied to the UIGEA.
There is one thing that is certain however, that the law is a mishmash of semi-legal pronouncements that has little chance of holding up under scrutiny.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen such an obvious sock puppet from an editor before.
It's pretty sad that you're posting AC KDawson, but what's worse is that you actually think we won't know it's you.
"It's fairly obviously"
As I've said before, anyone claiming anything is "obvious" in regards to Constitutional is "obviously" full of shit.
And I have read the whole sentence, and there's nothing obvious about it, and certainly not in the way you claim.
So now what?
Oh right, we ask the court, whose job it is to settle such agreements.
They say you're wrong.
"The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th"
Now why don't you quote the part that says "Saddam Hussein was responsible for planning 9/11".
I'll wait.
OH SHIT! It's not there!!!
Do you see that? Does the part of you that refuses to admit you bought into something that never happened allow you to make a rational determination of what actually happened?
Quoting a speech where they were both mentioned is not by any measure (except yours) the same. Save your protest, it's not and you know it.
A specific question was asked, and you failed to answer it.
Care to try again?
"Someone here is full of shit. My money's on you."
Then you just lost your money. You made a post that didn't provide what was asked for, while pretending it did because being right POLITICALLY is more important to you that being factually correct.
What does that say about you?
"Principle. The store doesn't have the right to search,"
Always the bastion of people with no real foundation, "principle" is the source of more stupid behavior than can be accurately measured.
"Time. Mine's valuable."
But not valuable enough to avoid wasting it by engaging in a pissing contest with a Circuit City manager. Then there's the cop's time wasted (which pisses me off no end) the families time wasted, the time of the CC employees wasted, all so someone could "make a point" that, frankly, most people don't give two shakes about.
Why hasn't it occurred to you that being right and being a pompous twit are not mutually exclusive? He couldn't do this one of the dozens of other times it has happened, but when he has been alone? And WHY call the cops then be a dick about cooperating with them? Just because you CAN?
Do you honestly think CC gives two fucks about this petulant little "protest"? They'll pass the cost of the settlement on to customers, change not one fucking thing about their policies because they save money (presumably) and move on none the worse.
Meanwhile his family is traumatized, the cop was taken away from more pressing matters, and there's a lawsuit just waiting to be paid out of the tax coffers of the local community.
All so this guy could prove a point that will ultimately be disregarded anyway.
Good job guy, way to stand up for "principal".
None of which changes that he's right of course, but this unrepentant slurping of the guy that people are engaging in completely ignores that he was an asshole, and in being an asshole, did a tremendous disservice to the "principal" he was trying to uphold.
"Nevermind that simply being arrested and not charged will appear on your record and any background check."
Could you support this with some sources please, because I know it's not true, yet no one ever challenges people like you when you claim it is true.
So, sources please, or admit you don't know WTF you're running off about.
"I like you. But not enough to eat your asshole."
Then you don't really like me at all.
"I do own a hamster though, would you care to borrow it?"
Are you sure you'd want it back?
"I know what I did to piss SIIHP off, what did I ever do to you?"
You failed to eat my asshole as instructed. Then there's that being born thing...
"Evidently you are just an irresponsible asshole."
Didn't you say something earlier about childish insults.
Jelly, not syrup, now get in there!!!!!!!!!!
"Yes, I know it's you."
And you're wrong. So much for being intellectually superior.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
Now eat my asshole.
"No one is thinking about how, when he came into office, he slashed the NASA budget to the BONE."
Well? This is from Wikipedia, but it checks with other sources too.
1999 13.665 12.999 1.0512
2000 13.601 12.618 1.0779
2001 14.253 12.884 1.1062
2002 14.902 13.305 1.12 (est)
2003 15.00 13.158 1.14 (est)
2004 15.470 13.452 1.15 (est)
2005 16.043 13.711 1.17 (est)
Looks like the budget is NOT less, yet you claimed otherwise.
Attack me all you want, you said something that is provably FALSE. And save that "adjusted for inflation" crap, you didn't say it, so don't claim that's what you meant after the fact.