There is this article you might want to read before you try to post such mindless drivel again. Plus, what is wrong with his speaking style? I know, he sounds like a "robot". Well, when people try to carefully set forth a logical proposition and present a collection of facts, it can be a little dry. Get over it. Why not try to address the actual arguments instead of being such an idiot?
It's typical of wing-nuts to throw out stupid little rants like this and have the yahoos on their side guffawing. If someone tries to present facts in a logical manner, you right-wing nuts call him "robotic" and "boring". If someone is passionate about what they are saying, you go with the epithet "crazy" or "angry" or "having a breakdown". It's much easier to insult people than actually address the issues.
So the solution would be To ban all voting machine employees from voting.
How would that solve anything? It's not about the voting machine manufacturers voting. It's their right to vote however they want to vote. What they do not have the right to do is design their voting machines such that *my* vote is altered.
11. Americans abroad are patronising and arrogant in other countries, and look down on local customs and mores as being inferior, quaint, and/or silly - and make this opinion obvious and loudly
Although I must say, as a side note, Australians in Indonesia (esp. Bali) tend to be at least as bad. Going to a relatively conservative country and walking around bare chested (the men) or dressed like prostitutes (the women), acting like you are still in Australia, and treating the locals like servants doesn't bring about feelings of good will.
Ok gents, so what rumour are we starting this week?
You forgot the most important rumour:
Hu Jintao and Kim Il Jong discovered to be gay lovers when Condelleza Rice walked in on them during a recess at the multi-lateral negotiations. Rice then asked if she could join in this "diplomatic exchange which is helping to bring mutual understanding and cooperation in East Asia".
Welcome to slashdot where 'I know a guy who...' substitutes for actuall facts
I was simply giving an example based on personal experience. I was not attempting a complex statistical analysis of the phenomenon. However, the general tendency I have described has been well demonstrated.
And I find if you do make the time for peoples lives they generally become more loyal employees less likely to job hop, or flake out because they need the stability of a career
In the corporate world, they generally don't care about loyalty or about employees having job stability. Even in fields like chemistry, where jobs used to be very stable, such is no longer the case. Everything is being commoditized and jobs are being defined such that an employee can be replaced with another cog that they can find (or at least that is the goal). Perhaps it's not that way where you are, but your workplace is rapidly becoming the exception.
its just too comfortable to cohabit in sin and live it up
Or, to put it another way, it is far too burdensome to get married and have children (sometimes even in that order:-) ). It is much easier to stay single and not have kids. It takes a tremendous effort, along with some deception of one's employer, to get married, have kids, and raise a family in modern-day America. There are people I know who are married and are going to try to have kids, but they never even mention that they are married to their prospective employers. And, if a woman gets pregnant, it is more like "Oops! I didn't mean to. I guess I just wasn't careful" and even then they are given a difficult time. Corporations want people who are good cogs in the machine. People having families and real lives are too much of a burden and cut into the bottom line.
You're certainly right. There is nothing about America that is really family-values oriented, even though the term "family values" gets thrown around a lot, mostly to justify hating other people.
In all seriousness, though, those who are alive will want to survive any way they can, and those who have already inserted themselves at the top ("old money") will stay there and only occasionally boot the wealthy-but-not-quite-so-wealthy ones to the level of the proles as resources become more and more scarce.
Well everyone knows it's a modern-day oh-so-nuanced leftist codeword for "Jew"
Odd, I didn't realize that the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and so on, and so on, were all Jews. Also, does this mean in your imbecilic little world that Noam Chomsky (who, in case you can't tell, is Jewish) is an anti-Semite? WTF?
This is simply another pathetic attempt by ultra-right-wing nutbags to take a common conception of right-wingers and try to throw it on the Left ("Left" as defined by the right-wingers, which to the means anyone who isn't them).
This is really pathetic. Whoever dreamed this bullshit up really needs to have their head examined. Next thing I'll bet is that you'll be telling us that any American who opposes George W. Bush is an anti-American traitor.
B.b.b.but Clinton got a blowjob from some girl he wasn't married to, so we can bomb the shit out of anywhere and kill over 600,000 people! - Typical Neocon
While Gore will place that faith-based blood for oil program in a lock box:-)
Of course, Bush will then raid the blood for oil program and claim that it is in crisis.
Let's put them all on a shuttle and send to them collect billions of years of back taxes from the sun.
MP: I knew there was a perfectly good reason we are heading to the sun. It was all laid out clearly on the ballot initiative. If only I could remember...
Ford: You're all a bunch of useless bloody looneys!
MP: Oh, yes! That was the reason!
I've noticed this problem, too. Now, whenever I post anything even slightly anti-Bush, I get modded down into oblivion. I guess the right-wing nutballs have even gotten organized on slashdot.
sweden will be for filesharing what holland is for pot.
So where do you go when you want to smoke some weed and download some MP3's? If the EU is really serious about cooperation between member states, they really need to address this issue before any more progress can be made!
Machiavelli opined in/The Prince/ that an unarmed prophet was no prophet at all. And in fact, Christianity (which Machiavelli implicitly condemened with his observation) is rather exceptional in the marketplace of religions in this aspect.
Um, the Buddha immediately comes to mind. He was not a warrior. Although originally a prince and of the warrior caste, he was never armed after leaving home to become a mendicant, and he never fought anyone. In fact, he averted one war over water rights by asking both sides which was more precious, blood or water (a similar question could certainly be posed today). I'm sure there are others, such as the founder of the Jains (IIRC).
Jesus Christ himself is quoted in the Gospels that a king going to war estimates the size and power of enemy armies and sues for peace if his resources are insufficient for the task at hand
Um, this is a parable which uses an analogy that everyone can understand. This is not a case of Jesus condoning warfare.
Remember, these people sincerely beleive that 2/3 of the world's population is going to burn in hell for all eternity.
Oh, much more than that. They not only think all non-Christians are going to Hell, they think most other Christians are going to Hell (since they are not *real* Christians, i.e. Southern Baptists or similarly kookky people). Try being a Catholic, or even an Episcopalian, in the Deep South. They'll even ask you point blank "Why do you want to go to Hell?" And, while they've heard of Jews and Buddhists (well, about 20 years ago they hadn't even *heard* of Buddhists), they think of them more as some far off, mythical creatures, like unicorns. Hell, some of them still think they can start up the Civil War again, what with all their Confederate States t-shirts and hanging of Confederate flags out of their windows and on their cars (I still see this when visiting relatives).
Having had the misfortune of growing up in the old Confederacy, it scares the hell out of me to see all the Pat Robertson worshipping freaks running things. Perhaps we should politely ask them to secede again:-).
creating vast amounts of electromagnetic radiation
Yes, at least in the form of movies and shows.
via gravity-induced nuclear fusion following the Main Sequence?
Well, okay, you've got a point there. But, if her house gets burnt to ash and no one can approach it for a few billion years, we'll know that she finally became a star, albeit a rather minor one.
And what's really amazing is when a Democrat gets elected as the US President, immediately afterward, we never see homeless people in the news. We never hear about global warming on the front page of the news. It's amazing how by a political change in office, all the problems are just suddenly swept away.
Why is that?
Um, you stopped reading the papers when a democrat is in office? I read about these sorts of things a lot when Clinton was around. I guess you were hiding under a rock or something.
Basically if you get enough data, i.e. do enough experiments, you can tell the doubters to stick their unsubstanciated opinion where the maths don't shine.
The problem is that these sort of people will take all the data, logical explanation, and explanation of atmospheric physics and chemistry, and then with a wave of their hand say "bullcrap!" because it goes against their ideologies. Then, they will start making fun of Al Gore instead of actually addressing the science behind global warming. At least, this has been my experience with these nutjobs. It's really not worth the effort. If global warming gets such that we regularly have 80 degree (F) weather in January, it will only take one day of weather in January at 75 degrees for these nuts to start chortling "See, climate change is crap! Haw-haw ROFLMAO W00t W00t!"
Those are exactly the uneducated, unable to think for themselves, repressed people who DO think that a blowjob is worse than our children dying in Iraq for a lie.
I think a reasonable corrolary to this is that, if everyone could simply get a nice massage and some good oral sex once in a while, there would be no more war.
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It's typical of wing-nuts to throw out stupid little rants like this and have the yahoos on their side guffawing. If someone tries to present facts in a logical manner, you right-wing nuts call him "robotic" and "boring". If someone is passionate about what they are saying, you go with the epithet "crazy" or "angry" or "having a breakdown". It's much easier to insult people than actually address the issues.
How would that solve anything? It's not about the voting machine manufacturers voting. It's their right to vote however they want to vote. What they do not have the right to do is design their voting machines such that *my* vote is altered.
Although I must say, as a side note, Australians in Indonesia (esp. Bali) tend to be at least as bad. Going to a relatively conservative country and walking around bare chested (the men) or dressed like prostitutes (the women), acting like you are still in Australia, and treating the locals like servants doesn't bring about feelings of good will.
Or not feel them doing it.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
Never before has your sig been more appropriate
You forgot the most important rumour:
Hu Jintao and Kim Il Jong discovered to be gay lovers when Condelleza Rice walked in on them during a recess at the multi-lateral negotiations. Rice then asked if she could join in this "diplomatic exchange which is helping to bring mutual understanding and cooperation in East Asia".
I was simply giving an example based on personal experience. I was not attempting a complex statistical analysis of the phenomenon. However, the general tendency I have described has been well demonstrated.
And I find if you do make the time for peoples lives they generally become more loyal employees less likely to job hop, or flake out because they need the stability of a career
In the corporate world, they generally don't care about loyalty or about employees having job stability. Even in fields like chemistry, where jobs used to be very stable, such is no longer the case. Everything is being commoditized and jobs are being defined such that an employee can be replaced with another cog that they can find (or at least that is the goal). Perhaps it's not that way where you are, but your workplace is rapidly becoming the exception.
MMMMMMOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Or, to put it another way, it is far too burdensome to get married and have children (sometimes even in that order
You're certainly right. There is nothing about America that is really family-values oriented, even though the term "family values" gets thrown around a lot, mostly to justify hating other people.
But only 1% of them will have a good life and the other 99% are going to live very constrained existances.
There is already a good movie based on this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
In all seriousness, though, those who are alive will want to survive any way they can, and those who have already inserted themselves at the top ("old money") will stay there and only occasionally boot the wealthy-but-not-quite-so-wealthy ones to the level of the proles as resources become more and more scarce.
Odd, I didn't realize that the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and so on, and so on, were all Jews. Also, does this mean in your imbecilic little world that Noam Chomsky (who, in case you can't tell, is Jewish) is an anti-Semite? WTF?
This is simply another pathetic attempt by ultra-right-wing nutbags to take a common conception of right-wingers and try to throw it on the Left ("Left" as defined by the right-wingers, which to the means anyone who isn't them).
This is really pathetic. Whoever dreamed this bullshit up really needs to have their head examined. Next thing I'll bet is that you'll be telling us that any American who opposes George W. Bush is an anti-American traitor.
B.b.b.but Clinton got a blowjob from some girl he wasn't married to, so we can bomb the shit out of anywhere and kill over 600,000 people! - Typical Neocon
While Gore will place that faith-based blood for oil program in a lock box :-)
Of course, Bush will then raid the blood for oil program and claim that it is in crisis.
MP: I knew there was a perfectly good reason we are heading to the sun. It was all laid out clearly on the ballot initiative. If only I could remember...
Ford: You're all a bunch of useless bloody looneys!
MP: Oh, yes! That was the reason!
I've noticed this problem, too. Now, whenever I post anything even slightly anti-Bush, I get modded down into oblivion. I guess the right-wing nutballs have even gotten organized on slashdot.
So where do you go when you want to smoke some weed and download some MP3's? If the EU is really serious about cooperation between member states, they really need to address this issue before any more progress can be made!
Come on, this is slashdot! After the horses entrails have been pounded to dust, we start on the bones!
ICANN't believe it! Next thing you know, the US Govt. will start thinking it owns the world!
Um, the Buddha immediately comes to mind. He was not a warrior. Although originally a prince and of the warrior caste, he was never armed after leaving home to become a mendicant, and he never fought anyone. In fact, he averted one war over water rights by asking both sides which was more precious, blood or water (a similar question could certainly be posed today). I'm sure there are others, such as the founder of the Jains (IIRC).
Jesus Christ himself is quoted in the Gospels that a king going to war estimates the size and power of enemy armies and sues for peace if his resources are insufficient for the task at hand
Um, this is a parable which uses an analogy that everyone can understand. This is not a case of Jesus condoning warfare.
Remember, these people sincerely beleive that 2/3 of the world's population is going to burn in hell for all eternity.
Oh, much more than that. They not only think all non-Christians are going to Hell, they think most other Christians are going to Hell (since they are not *real* Christians, i.e. Southern Baptists or similarly kookky people). Try being a Catholic, or even an Episcopalian, in the Deep South. They'll even ask you point blank "Why do you want to go to Hell?" And, while they've heard of Jews and Buddhists (well, about 20 years ago they hadn't even *heard* of Buddhists), they think of them more as some far off, mythical creatures, like unicorns. Hell, some of them still think they can start up the Civil War again, what with all their Confederate States t-shirts and hanging of Confederate flags out of their windows and on their cars (I still see this when visiting relatives).
Having had the misfortune of growing up in the old Confederacy, it scares the hell out of me to see all the Pat Robertson worshipping freaks running things. Perhaps we should politely ask them to secede again :-).
Yes (especially if she gets stopped by a cop).
creating vast amounts of electromagnetic radiation
Yes, at least in the form of movies and shows.
via gravity-induced nuclear fusion following the Main Sequence?
Well, okay, you've got a point there. But, if her house gets burnt to ash and no one can approach it for a few billion years, we'll know that she finally became a star, albeit a rather minor one.
Why is that?
Um, you stopped reading the papers when a democrat is in office? I read about these sorts of things a lot when Clinton was around. I guess you were hiding under a rock or something.
The problem is that these sort of people will take all the data, logical explanation, and explanation of atmospheric physics and chemistry, and then with a wave of their hand say "bullcrap!" because it goes against their ideologies. Then, they will start making fun of Al Gore instead of actually addressing the science behind global warming. At least, this has been my experience with these nutjobs. It's really not worth the effort. If global warming gets such that we regularly have 80 degree (F) weather in January, it will only take one day of weather in January at 75 degrees for these nuts to start chortling "See, climate change is crap! Haw-haw ROFLMAO W00t W00t!"
And what is soylent green made out of? PEOPLE!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Exactly. This is like saying "The Romans used lead pipes for their water supply, so lead in water must be safe!" WTF???
I think a reasonable corrolary to this is that, if everyone could simply get a nice massage and some good oral sex once in a while, there would be no more war.