You are quite possibly the stupidest, most naive poster I have ever seen.
How, exactly, would you "not work with muderous tyrants" when those are THE ONLY PEOPLE TO WORK WITH?
And no, you don't get the option of "doing your own dirty work" because in cases like this, the dirty work is running the country.
It must be nice to live in a world like yours where reason and logic aren't considered.
"We train Osama in guerilla tactics, send him money and guns, and when he's done with his big evil (Russia in Afghanistan) he's free to focus on HIS "lesser of two evils", us. OMG!! WOW!!"
What's your point? We got one idiot to do our dirty work for us. Doing it ourselves could have caused WW3. If you think WW3 is better than what we got, then you're dumber than I thought.
I suppose that's what you meant though. Don't work with Osama, so you can have nothing to worry about from him when the Soviets nuke you. Don't work with Saddam, so your conscience is clean when he nukes Israel/Iran/whoever he pleases.
"You're holding the Left responsible for what the Vietnamese did?"
No, dumbass, he's asking why the left just shut up about vietnam after the US got out. If they were really as concerned as they play at, why weren't there any telethons? Why did the left run and hide after we pulled out?
THAT'S what he was asking, and the fact that such an obvious point escapes your notice calls your reading skills into question.
NOWHERE in his post did he say (or in ANY way imply) that the left was "responsible" for vietnam.
"Like, say, not supporting someone like saddam in the first place, under any circumstances."
ANY circumstances? Don't be stupid, I can post a hundred situations where you would leave saddam with your kids, because the other option is far worse. Don't be such a know-it-all revisionist asshat.
There are worse people out there than saddam, and sometimes it really is the lesser of two evils. If you believe otherwise, you're naive in the extreme.
Well, first it's "Iraqis" and second, I have yet to see a body count anywhere near the fake number you posted.
There was that stupid survey but as was previously reported
"The authors of a peer-reviewed study, conducted by a survey team from Johns Hopkins University, claim that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war. Yet a close look at the actual study, published online today by the British medical journal the Lancet, reveals that this number is so loose as to be meaningless."
So apparently that's where you got the made up number from.
"We have become fat, lazy and stupid."
No, YOU have, I on the other hand actually bother to understand the things I'm reading, so I know how useless that survey was.
So tell me then, is it because you're too fat to get to the computer, or too stupid and lazy to read? Because that's all it take to figure out your number is a pathetic attempt at yet more anti war propaganda.
If you EVER plan to be taken seriously, stop making up numbers to try and prove your point. You're embarassing yourself.
Share your name liar, so I can check your credentials.
Of course, you realize the first thing I'll do is email the person you claim to be.
Face it, you lied and got caught. Stop trying to cover up your ridiculous lies with more lies.
NAME loser. All it takes is a NAME, and an email.
But you're a coward, and a liar, and you'll never respond, much less tell me who you claim to be.
If you were who you claim you are, you would have told me your name already, especially if you're famous enough to have done what you lied about.
And please don't use that stupid "I need to stay anonymous" garbage. Anyone who knows you (or rather the individual you claimed to be) would be able to identify you already.
So fess up liar, or shut your damned lying mouth.
And how do you respond the the FACT that I've done the procedure, while still a Microbiology major? I notice you conveniently left that bit out when you were lying about who you are?
HOW IS IT THAT I HAVE DONE SOMETHING THAT YOU AS A SO CALLED EXPERT CLAIM CAN ONLY BE DONE BY 100 PEOPLE? WELL LIAR?
Ther's nothing worse than some pathetitc troll who has to get on a web board and lie to feel important.
"I'd say that makes them stupid AND corrupt, not to mention spineless, insecure, and weak-minded if their worldview is so fragile that someone else's behavior towards a third party that doesn't involve them in the slightest can shake them up so much."
You mean like all the people getting pissed off about the last elections, without being American? Or getting pissed off about how Katrina was handled, without being American?
Or (love this, you set it right up) being involved in IRAQ without being Iraqi or American?
And, as soon as you try to rationalize some far fetched connection between Argentinians and Iraq, I'll come back with the silly connections I have with the groups you mentioned.
We're all connected. If you don't like other people's politics, don't use a stupid, easily disproven reason like you did.
And you know the WORST part? That you genuinely believe that people who disagree with your views are "stupid AND corrupt, not to mention spineless, insecure, and weak-minded". How sad that YOU'RE so weak minded and insecure that you can't allow for an alternative viewpoint that could possibly have some merit.
"I suspect many Americans are unaware of quite how much damage the current US administration has done to the reputation of their country."
No, we know. But what you don't understand is that many Americans are also aware that any time now, one or more of these complaining countries will need our help.
The countries that complain the loudest STILL accept our aid. How credible do they look when in one sentence it's "The USA is EVIL, and is run by a lying coward" while in the very next sentence saying "By the way, we need your help, money, and soldiers because of this job we can't do ourselves."
"Broadly, they were trusted.
No longer."
Funny, they trust our money to spend and our peacekeepers to fight. They trust our experts to advise, and our machinery to work. They trust that if there is a disaster, we will help.
"Too many Americans seem to take the criticism of their administration too personally"
You speak of the administration in your second sentence, but after that refer to " The USA ". Yes, I take criticsm of my country personally, if you mean the administration, stop generalizing that to "the USA".
"That said, too many people criticise the USA as a whole, when their criticisms are mainly to do with just the country's (current) administration."
You did it too. Re-read your post, and you'll see what I mean.
We'll see how much Europe (and the sub-European countries like canada and australia) dislike us the next time they need us.
Then they'll be back, hat in hand, hoping their years of insulting the US aren't enough to make us forget our benevolence.
"I watched with great sadness as people whom I know to have given very generously to things like the tsunami appeal openly refused to donate anything in the aftermath of Katrina, such was their loathing for the current state of affairs across the pond."
It's interesting that the people you know are so stupid and biased that they can't separate the government of a country from the citizens.
If they were as smart as they thought they were, they would take note of the last election results. The other guy got nearly half the votes.
"So, not only have you shown your self to be an idiot, but you are showing exactly why America is in the situation that it is; With an idiot at the helm, and more defending his actions."
You made a patently false claim abot a subject of which you're clearly ignorant .
The procedure for identifying avian flu has been around for nearly 50 years.
Do you understand that?
"In America, there are probably less than 100 who have direct experience with it"
Do you understand that anyone who makes it past intro level Bio courses (myself included) has to actually DO the procedure? I guess that makes me part of the special hundred (OR you're lying and have no idea what you're talking about)
Do you realize the equipment is easily available? Do you even KNOW what kind of equipment I'm talking about?
"With an idiot at the helm, and more defending his actions."
You know, I think it's funny that you criticize someone for doing exactly what you just did. That is, attack someone because they expose your ignorance, then pathetically defend yourself by spouting more nonsense and lies.
And really, the whole "access to the patients blood without any intervening possibilities" thing, that's just stupid. Mucus works, saliva works. You clearly haven't got the slightest damn idea what you're talking about.
"and finally put more money and thought into alternative energies (and I am talking about the entire gamut here - cold fusion, wind power, ocean power, limited nuclear power, solar power, etc..)"
Man you actually had a cogent point working there...
Most oil isn't used to produce electrical power. Our reliance on oil stems from the need for fuel, and the byproducts of petroleum which are in, well, just about everything.
The options you are suggesting we invest in are great, but do nothing to solve the car problem.
So, really, you're suggesting we begin "directing a huge amount of energy into the wrong direction", yet you complain about doing that already.
"Nice thing about that, is the feds can declare such, and only a very small percentage of ppl (with access to the right equipment) can confirm or deny it."
Bullshit. Anyone with the right information (which is freely available) and access to a university Biology lab can verify it. THOUSANDS of people.
"Your genetic material shows a predisposition to a certain inherited disease that is expensive to treat. We don't want our health coverage plan to have to deal with a claim for this sort of disease, so we will not hire you."
I'm sure the lawsuit for discrimination (which in this case is covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act) will be FAR less expensive.
The type of discrimination you describe is already illegal.
At which point you send them a copy of the ADA (in the US) and the notice from your attorney. The you wait for them to settle.
It's illegal to discriminate in such cases already. Just because better ways are being developed to find diseases, that doesn't mean employers can start discriminating.
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"2. We get paid for the full development cycle, and no pressure to get it done on time, or even close."
Of all the arguments I hear on this subject (and many of them are great) this one is just stupid.
EVERYONE has time pressure. That's no excuse for turning out crap.
You are quite possibly the stupidest, most naive poster I have ever seen.
How, exactly, would you "not work with muderous tyrants" when those are THE ONLY PEOPLE TO WORK WITH?
And no, you don't get the option of "doing your own dirty work" because in cases like this, the dirty work is running the country.
It must be nice to live in a world like yours where reason and logic aren't considered.
"We train Osama in guerilla tactics, send him money and guns, and when he's done with his big evil (Russia in Afghanistan) he's free to focus on HIS "lesser of two evils", us. OMG!! WOW!!"
What's your point? We got one idiot to do our dirty work for us. Doing it ourselves could have caused WW3. If you think WW3 is better than what we got, then you're dumber than I thought.
I suppose that's what you meant though. Don't work with Osama, so you can have nothing to worry about from him when the Soviets nuke you. Don't work with Saddam, so your conscience is clean when he nukes Israel/Iran/whoever he pleases.
Fucking genius.
"You're holding the Left responsible for what the Vietnamese did?"
No, dumbass, he's asking why the left just shut up about vietnam after the US got out. If they were really as concerned as they play at, why weren't there any telethons? Why did the left run and hide after we pulled out?
THAT'S what he was asking, and the fact that such an obvious point escapes your notice calls your reading skills into question.
NOWHERE in his post did he say (or in ANY way imply) that the left was "responsible" for vietnam.
Stop looking for straw men to swing at.
"Like, say, not supporting someone like saddam in the first place, under any circumstances."
ANY circumstances? Don't be stupid, I can post a hundred situations where you would leave saddam with your kids, because the other option is far worse. Don't be such a know-it-all revisionist asshat.
There are worse people out there than saddam, and sometimes it really is the lesser of two evils. If you believe otherwise, you're naive in the extreme.
"100 thousand Iraqies"
Well, first it's "Iraqis" and second, I have yet to see a body count anywhere near the fake number you posted.
There was that stupid survey but as was previously reported
"The authors of a peer-reviewed study, conducted by a survey team from Johns Hopkins University, claim that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war. Yet a close look at the actual study, published online today by the British medical journal the Lancet, reveals that this number is so loose as to be meaningless."
So apparently that's where you got the made up number from.
"We have become fat, lazy and stupid."
No, YOU have, I on the other hand actually bother to understand the things I'm reading, so I know how useless that survey was.
So tell me then, is it because you're too fat to get to the computer, or too stupid and lazy to read? Because that's all it take to figure out your number is a pathetic attempt at yet more anti war propaganda.
If you EVER plan to be taken seriously, stop making up numbers to try and prove your point. You're embarassing yourself.
Yes he was dickhead, the oath he took in order to become president.
"Don't like politicians lying to you? Better stop listening."
Don't like being an ignorant jackass? Don't try so hard.
And just for the pedants, he was also under oath in the deposition, where he tried to say getting his dick sucked wasn't sex.
You're a liar.
Share your name liar, so I can check your credentials.
Of course, you realize the first thing I'll do is email the person you claim to be.
Face it, you lied and got caught. Stop trying to cover up your ridiculous lies with more lies.
NAME loser. All it takes is a NAME, and an email.
But you're a coward, and a liar, and you'll never respond, much less tell me who you claim to be.
If you were who you claim you are, you would have told me your name already, especially if you're famous enough to have done what you lied about.
And please don't use that stupid "I need to stay anonymous" garbage. Anyone who knows you (or rather the individual you claimed to be) would be able to identify you already.
So fess up liar, or shut your damned lying mouth.
And how do you respond the the FACT that I've done the procedure, while still a Microbiology major? I notice you conveniently left that bit out when you were lying about who you are?
HOW IS IT THAT I HAVE DONE SOMETHING THAT YOU AS A SO CALLED EXPERT CLAIM CAN ONLY BE DONE BY 100 PEOPLE? WELL LIAR?
Ther's nothing worse than some pathetitc troll who has to get on a web board and lie to feel important.
So the UN's reasoned response to our increasingly hostile nuclear super-power is to... THREATEN us?
Genius.
"I'd say that makes them stupid AND corrupt, not to mention spineless, insecure, and weak-minded if their worldview is so fragile that someone else's behavior towards a third party that doesn't involve them in the slightest can shake them up so much."
You mean like all the people getting pissed off about the last elections, without being American? Or getting pissed off about how Katrina was handled, without being American?
Or (love this, you set it right up) being involved in IRAQ without being Iraqi or American?
And, as soon as you try to rationalize some far fetched connection between Argentinians and Iraq, I'll come back with the silly connections I have with the groups you mentioned.
We're all connected. If you don't like other people's politics, don't use a stupid, easily disproven reason like you did.
And you know the WORST part? That you genuinely believe that people who disagree with your views are "stupid AND corrupt, not to mention spineless, insecure, and weak-minded". How sad that YOU'RE so weak minded and insecure that you can't allow for an alternative viewpoint that could possibly have some merit.
"I suspect many Americans are unaware of quite how much damage the current US administration has done to the reputation of their country."
No, we know. But what you don't understand is that many Americans are also aware that any time now, one or more of these complaining countries will need our help.
The countries that complain the loudest STILL accept our aid. How credible do they look when in one sentence it's "The USA is EVIL, and is run by a lying coward" while in the very next sentence saying "By the way, we need your help, money, and soldiers because of this job we can't do ourselves."
"Broadly, they were trusted.
No longer."
Funny, they trust our money to spend and our peacekeepers to fight. They trust our experts to advise, and our machinery to work. They trust that if there is a disaster, we will help.
"Too many Americans seem to take the criticism of their administration too personally"
You speak of the administration in your second sentence, but after that refer to " The USA ". Yes, I take criticsm of my country personally, if you mean the administration, stop generalizing that to "the USA".
"That said, too many people criticise the USA as a whole, when their criticisms are mainly to do with just the country's (current) administration."
You did it too. Re-read your post, and you'll see what I mean.
We'll see how much Europe (and the sub-European countries like canada and australia) dislike us the next time they need us.
Then they'll be back, hat in hand, hoping their years of insulting the US aren't enough to make us forget our benevolence.
"I watched with great sadness as people whom I know to have given very generously to things like the tsunami appeal openly refused to donate anything in the aftermath of Katrina, such was their loathing for the current state of affairs across the pond."
It's interesting that the people you know are so stupid and biased that they can't separate the government of a country from the citizens.
If they were as smart as they thought they were, they would take note of the last election results. The other guy got nearly half the votes.
"So, not only have you shown your self to be an idiot, but you are showing exactly why America is in the situation that it is; With an idiot at the helm, and more defending his actions."
You made a patently false claim abot a subject of which you're clearly ignorant .
The procedure for identifying avian flu has been around for nearly 50 years.
Do you understand that?
"In America, there are probably less than 100 who have direct experience with it"
Do you understand that anyone who makes it past intro level Bio courses (myself included) has to actually DO the procedure? I guess that makes me part of the special hundred (OR you're lying and have no idea what you're talking about)
Do you realize the equipment is easily available? Do you even KNOW what kind of equipment I'm talking about?
"With an idiot at the helm, and more defending his actions."
You know, I think it's funny that you criticize someone for doing exactly what you just did. That is, attack someone because they expose your ignorance, then pathetically defend yourself by spouting more nonsense and lies.
Here's a link, educate yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-Time_PCR
And really, the whole "access to the patients blood without any intervening possibilities" thing, that's just stupid. Mucus works, saliva works. You clearly haven't got the slightest damn idea what you're talking about.
There is an old anti-depressant like this.
Trazodone, an old medication generally used for sleeplessness these days, has the annoying habit of causing priapism.
Or, so I heard from a... friend.
"and finally put more money and thought into alternative energies (and I am talking about the entire gamut here - cold fusion, wind power, ocean power, limited nuclear power, solar power, etc..)"
Man you actually had a cogent point working there...
Most oil isn't used to produce electrical power. Our reliance on oil stems from the need for fuel, and the byproducts of petroleum which are in, well, just about everything.
The options you are suggesting we invest in are great, but do nothing to solve the car problem.
So, really, you're suggesting we begin "directing a huge amount of energy into the wrong direction", yet you complain about doing that already.
Funny
"Nice thing about that, is the feds can declare such, and only a very small percentage of ppl (with access to the right equipment) can confirm or deny it."
Bullshit. Anyone with the right information (which is freely available) and access to a university Biology lab can verify it. THOUSANDS of people.
Stop lying, you're embarassing yourself.
1. perhaps "its" been too long in the lab tonight
Should be "it's", contraction for "it has", no apostrophe is incorrect.
2. "But he y, thats just me"
Obvious
3. "begining"
Again, obvious
4. "similar systems are setup at other institutions."
Should be "set up"
That was 4 in your last 5 posts. Are you sufficiently chastised yet jackass?
Very well, let's call it like it is.
I made a typo, which can be easily corrected.
You're a colossal asshole, and you're stuck with that forever.
I guess I got off lucky.
Awesome
"I bet this new version"
This is awesome. We have a reviewer who can give an "insightful" commentary on software BEFORE USING IT!!!!
Where do you go to school for that?
Is it too much to ask that you save your ridiculously biased commentary on MS until after you've actually tried the product?
"Is there something wrong with the name Bubba?"
Not at all.
"Is it wrong or bad to watch Nascar, Jerry Springer, or Reality TV shows?"
They're vapid and generally unredeeming, but no, nothing inherently wrong there either.
"What exactly is bigoted about the GP post?"
The implication that parent is somehow more informed/better than individuals who are named Bubba and watch those shows.
Did you miss that part, where the parent said
"We may be a motivated army of geeks, but we're no match for American apathy.
It won't be until Bubba goes out and buys"
Did you catch it that time?
See, the problem here, that the parent makes in a... confrontational manner is that "direct democracy" is NOT true democracy.
I understand your point, but you need to stop referring to your form of government as "true" democracy.
Insightful my eye.
Parent displays open, unadulterated bigotry, and you idiots mod it insightful.
Shut up.
It is idiotic to think you have some fundamental "right" to make a business insure you.
Your case is exactly what medicare/medicaid and other similar government run health care options should be used for.
"And if I get tested they will want to withold both life and health insurance, since I would be proven to be a poor risk."
You ARE. Why should a business be forced to take such a risk? Because you feel like you need it?
"Your genetic material shows a predisposition to a certain inherited disease that is expensive to treat. We don't want our health coverage plan to have to deal with a claim for this sort of disease, so we will not hire you."
I'm sure the lawsuit for discrimination (which in this case is covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act) will be FAR less expensive.
The type of discrimination you describe is already illegal.
At which point you send them a copy of the ADA (in the US) and the notice from your attorney. The you wait for them to settle.
It's illegal to discriminate in such cases already. Just because better ways are being developed to find diseases, that doesn't mean employers can start discriminating.