They didn't mention any of the smaller tech operations in Pennsylvania. I mean, sweet suffering Jebus! Who wants to work in Pittsburgh or State College, Pennsylvania other than rednecks and KKK sympathizers?
Last I checked, Hitler never played Grand Theft Auto or listened to Marilyn Manson.
Yes. Instead, he listened to Wagner, was a vegetarian, a non-smoker, and a teetotaler. You could say that mass murder and warmongering were his only real vices.
Considering this is a Roland article (and even more particularly silly than usual), I think you have summed up quite succinctly all the discussion that needs to be had on it here.
This goes for the other comments I see a lot on the internet too... "Shoot the tires out" and "Shoot them in the leg".
If you discharge your firearm in someone's direction, you had better be able to explain why you killed someone. Always.
True. Even if you go for the silly "Shoot them in the leg" television nonsense (and assuming you actually shoot them in the leg), there is this little thing called the femoral artery that you might hit. The person you shot there will be long dead before you can really do anything about it.
It's a communist plot! They're trying to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Actually, since this is about computers, they are trying to sap and impurify all of our precious source codes. That's why MS Vista sucks. It's not Microsoft's fault. They were infiltrated and subverted by communist conspirators!
You haven't really hurt anyone or anything, you just irritate people, so we're locking you in a jail cell for half a childhood.
He's not a child, so don't play the thinkofthechildren card. If you wish to discuss this further, please post your email address in response to this post.
Well, this is ultimately why copyrights should be limited. Everyone borrows. Or, in the case of Disney, outright pilfers and then claims to own what they pilferred (say, Snow White or Cinderella).
Historically speaking, communist states have all been big brother police states. So, I don't think the reference is too far off.
So were fascist states and any other form of authoritarianism. It is the authoritarianism that leads to be big brother police state. Now, supposed democratic-republics (USA and UK) are running lemming-like into big brother police states.
Keeping meticulous records dates back to the Romans.
And they also became vicious, tyrannical despots. As an aside, that is one thing I really liked about Deep Space Nine is how one of the hallmarks of Cardassian society was the meticulous collection, organization, and filing of information on everyone and everything. In real Earth history, this is what tyrants want and need. The government of a free society does not need to know every frigging thing everyone is doing.
And to think, when I was in grade school, they taught us about all these horrible, despotic places in the world that watch everything you do, have video cameras everywhere monitoring everyone, and so on. But, of course, America was better because we don't have all that crap. Now, look how everything has changed.
You know, if you simply remove the first two sentences of your reply, it still makes sense but in an entirely different way:-p
After the children were born she demanded I get rid of my balls alltogether, said she "never wanted to see those hairy monstrosoties again".
I stood firm, I told her "I would rather leave her with my balls intact, than stay and suffer the pain of eternal seperation". Eventually we compromised, we built a shed so that I could keep my balls out of her face. It worked well, to this day I can still play with them (or simply stand and admire), them whenever I feel like it. Now that they are worth money I bet she will want to display them on the mantlepeice and pretend she always loved them.
Of course, that may have been your intention and I missed the big "woosh!" of a joke flying over my head.
So change a few to "JoeBidenHavingSexWithPreteens.mpg" and watch the fun begin!
Well, given the appalling level of hypocrisy in Congress (the anti-homosexual with a wide stance, the anti-homosexual anti-paedophile who goes after 16-year boys, etc.), and the fact that Biden is the one pushing for this, it wouldn't surprise me if he is involved in raping preteen girls. There is something truly disturbing about Congress. It seems like they not only choose the wrong person for any given job, but they specifically choose the exact opposite of what is needed for the job.
Disarm an intrusion?! Because the intrusion is armed?
Of course. Once they [Iranians, al-Qaeda, whoever "they" are this week] get their troops and armaments loaded onto their trucks and start driving them through the tubes, there is no telling how much havoc they can wreak. Unless, of course, the tubes become clogged.
Sorry for the nitpicking, but die Weisse Rose was actually in action in wartime Nazi Germany (42-43), not pre-war.
GP may have been thinking of the Edelweiss Pirates (yar!) which did begin just prior to WWII. They were also largely non-violent and enjoyed hiking, singing, and sex.
We don't need to *shoot* all the lawyers (although I'm sure it would be fun). We just need to make them wear a brightly colored "L" and keep a bell around their neck so they can ring it and shout "Unclean! Unclean!" whenever they go out in public.
Why is there a call for a cease-fire, anyway? Are Microsoft employees strapping dynamite on themselves and blowing up people at ISO meetings? I can just see a MS code monkey shouting "Ballmer is Great!" before blowing himself and twenty others to smithereens.
then we will inevitably have a/. story about long delays getting the product developed, and the whole idea of new smelly flowers will get tagged as vaporware, which would be an entirely inappropriate tag.
Well, if you can tell me what part of a) opening up dialogue with pinko, commie China and b) getting OUT of Vietnam where Kennedy and Johnson (both "liberals," last time I checked) makes Nixon a "conservative," then please let me know.
Nixon was not a leftie by any stretch of the imagination. Opening up a dialogue with Communist China was about realpolitik, not ideology. Plus, Communist China was hardly a bastion of liberalism. It was/is an autocratic regime. You seem to be confusing Communism and Socialism, which are two incredibly different ideals (Sweden and Canada, for example, are not going to be opening up any re-education camps anytime soon). As far as getting out of the Vietnam War, that was something Kennedy likely wanted to do, but Johnson didn't. While Johnson supported a lot of liberal causes (civil rights and so on), the Vietnam War was something *liberals* were protesting him about. It was the *conservatives* in the US who were all for the war and had the whole "America, love it or leave it" mentality, without pausing to ask why we were even in Vietnam (sound familiar?).
Frankly, I'd have thought the bastard would be more palatable to lefties than to the Buckley crowd -- then again, it may just be that the neocons have confused the definitions so much as to make them meaningless.
Again, you are cherry picking. And Buckley liked Nixon. Sure, Nixon looks like a liberal now compared with the neo-Nazis we have running the country, but at the time he would be considered very conservative. In the US, we don't have a liberal party anymore. We have the right-wing party (Democrats, with a few being so "liberal" as to be centrists) and the neo-Nazi party (Republicans).
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They didn't mention any of the smaller tech operations in Pennsylvania. I mean, sweet suffering Jebus! Who wants to work in Pittsburgh or State College, Pennsylvania other than rednecks and KKK sympathizers?
Considering this is a Roland article (and even more particularly silly than usual), I think you have summed up quite succinctly all the discussion that needs to be had on it here.
1. Throw Chair
2. Fucking kill Google
3. ???
4. Profit!
And last, but not least and certainly more relevant:
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Well, this is ultimately why copyrights should be limited. Everyone borrows. Or, in the case of Disney, outright pilfers and then claims to own what they pilferred (say, Snow White or Cinderella).
And to think, when I was in grade school, they taught us about all these horrible, despotic places in the world that watch everything you do, have video cameras everywhere monitoring everyone, and so on. But, of course, America was better because we don't have all that crap. Now, look how everything has changed.
"I say, unhand me you confounded, unsanitary homonid!"
Why is there a call for a cease-fire, anyway? Are Microsoft employees strapping dynamite on themselves and blowing up people at ISO meetings? I can just see a MS code monkey shouting "Ballmer is Great!" before blowing himself and twenty others to smithereens.