Yes, I was wrong to question the bravery of a white man who ran from a truck full of fertilizer to level a building full of Government Workers With Some Sort Of Direct Control Of Denying Him Amorphous Freedoms. Not to mention all of those bastard children in the day care center.
Oh please — you Blame America First types are making me sick.
Look, WE didn't put all of that delicious oil under their land, GOD did. So if you wish to cast your lot with those that blasphemed Our Lord by denying us access to his mildly inconveniently placed bounty, then go right ahead, sinner. I will pray for your unworthy soul as I fill my tank with His Love.
Not using the flimsiest of intelligence to justify fighting aggressive, offensive foreign wars against nations which are not a threat to us would be a drastic improvement
The intelligence that pushed us into the Iraq War was not flimsy. It was of the finest construction, lovingly spun by the talented hands of Dick Cheney and Company.
The fact that this argument cannot be dismissed as ridiculous, hyperbolic poppycock is testament to how far the United States has fallen in the world's estimation.
I see your 1970s and raise you the 1950s. I've known a professor or two with boxes of Hollerith cards containing their graduate-school era FORTRAN code.
Also, you wouldn't even have to type anything in, assuming you could find a reader or could afford a student to scan them in and write an imaging code to interpret it.
Because, hey, what's more useful than Version 1.0 of the code on which you made your bones?
When I was in graduate school one of my tasks was to read old astronomical CCD images that were written on magnetic tape (and there were a lot of them, since my advisor had been testing CCDs for the Hubble). So for a couple of months I sat in a small workroom with the department's only working Kennedy drive reading tapes.
Because of age and prior use, many of the tapes were shedding oxide, making the drive rock back and forth over many segments in an attempt to retrieve the blocks thereon. After every few tapes I had to wipe the oxide from the read heads. Then, just to make the process a little more tedious, the data itself had to be byte-swapped. As a reward for all of that, I found one image to use in my dissertation.
The data was written to CD-ROM in the late 90s, so I expect there's someone right now trying to figure out how to read the data off of the decade-old, decaying archive. If they're lucky, they'll find the backup DATs in the filing cabinet and the last working drive in the department.
Have you ever seen a conservative on Olbermann? Not much balance there.
Sure — Dave Weigel. Unless you meant "conservative"-as-in-partisan-Republican, in which case, not regularly.
Have you ever watched Maddow? Nothing but shill.
She used to have Pat Buchanan on there, and and had several interesting discussions with him. Then he went completely batshit crazy (even for him) during the '08 elections and one of them decided they were no longer worth it.
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Yes, I was wrong to question the bravery of a white man who ran from a truck full of fertilizer to level a building full of Government Workers With Some Sort Of Direct Control Of Denying Him Amorphous Freedoms. Not to mention all of those bastard children in the day care center.
My approach is to suggest to anti-environmentalists a program to reduce population growth. It goes something like this...
Go fuck yourself.
So your argument is that Muslim terrorists are braver than American terrorists?
Oh please — you Blame America First types are making me sick.
Look, WE didn't put all of that delicious oil under their land, GOD did. So if you wish to cast your lot with those that blasphemed Our Lord by denying us access to his mildly inconveniently placed bounty, then go right ahead, sinner. I will pray for your unworthy soul as I fill my tank with His Love.
I know this one. The ability and legality of the US Government to levy and collect taxes is directly codified in the Constitution.
The intelligence that pushed us into the Iraq War was not flimsy. It was of the finest construction, lovingly spun by the talented hands of Dick Cheney and Company.
And Generalissismo Francisco Franco is still dead. Your point?
If there were a God of Justice, Wakefield would be felled by polio and end up in an iron lung.
And if there were a God of Irony, a study would be published that conclusively demonstrated that autism is caused by breast implants.
"Symbiosis". A decent ep, but more notable as having Kirk's son from the movies in one of the guest roles.
The same case can be made against Microsfot, given that "X Windows" predates "Microsoft Windows" by about a year.
The fact that this argument cannot be dismissed as ridiculous, hyperbolic poppycock is testament to how far the United States has fallen in the world's estimation.
"Well, it's been a long time, Stargate Defender." "Indeed. It. Has. Dave."
Now if you'll excuse me, I have an old sandwich waiting for me on the porch.
Yes, but did you find a way to exploit the in-game slot machines? I need money to get to Icebox.
Maybe whooping cough is just one of Oprah's Favorite Things?
"And you get pertussis! And YOU get pertussis! And YOU get pertussis!"
And that would also be the Lalla Ward who was married to 4th Doctor Tom Baker. Which I think means she'll be her own ex-mother in law?
True, but I'd rather we see a planet with an intelligent lifeform that I might not look down on quite so often.
[Non right-wing makey-shitty-uppy citation needed]
Perhaps, but not nearly as much. It has accomplished its goal, which was to elect Republicans and cow any moderates into full capitulation.
I see your 1970s and raise you the 1950s. I've known a professor or two with boxes of Hollerith cards containing their graduate-school era FORTRAN code.
Also, you wouldn't even have to type anything in, assuming you could find a reader or could afford a student to scan them in and write an imaging code to interpret it. Because, hey, what's more useful than Version 1.0 of the code on which you made your bones?
When I was in graduate school one of my tasks was to read old astronomical CCD images that were written on magnetic tape (and there were a lot of them, since my advisor had been testing CCDs for the Hubble). So for a couple of months I sat in a small workroom with the department's only working Kennedy drive reading tapes.
Because of age and prior use, many of the tapes were shedding oxide, making the drive rock back and forth over many segments in an attempt to retrieve the blocks thereon. After every few tapes I had to wipe the oxide from the read heads. Then, just to make the process a little more tedious, the data itself had to be byte-swapped. As a reward for all of that, I found one image to use in my dissertation.
The data was written to CD-ROM in the late 90s, so I expect there's someone right now trying to figure out how to read the data off of the decade-old, decaying archive. If they're lucky, they'll find the backup DATs in the filing cabinet and the last working drive in the department.
Less so than corn? So, when's the last time we invaded a country to protect the flow of ethanol?
Just being able to pronounce the word "nuclear" properly instead of like a fucking inbred is an improvement over the last guy.
Who, I might add, also did not show us his grades.
Weigel's a liberal? Don't tell REASON magazine that, or the person overseeing Republican registration in the District of Columbia.
Sure — Dave Weigel. Unless you meant "conservative"-as-in-partisan-Republican, in which case, not regularly.
She used to have Pat Buchanan on there, and and had several interesting discussions with him. Then he went completely batshit crazy (even for him) during the '08 elections and one of them decided they were no longer worth it.
FTFA:
I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail. [emphasis to aid jackasses who can't fucking read]
But hey, look at me quoting what a person actually says he did instead of trusting the headline written by a Slashdot editor.