Ah - so the joke is someone acting like some of the other people on this site, such as the high frequency trading and orbital beanstalk freaks, and I'm supposed to tell the difference in some way? Subtle.
There's infrasound - it affects people in the area who are not getting any financial benefit from a windmill and either want it to go away or get a cut themselves. It has the advantage of being impossible to detect (at least in the case of windmills) but people will tell you they "feel it". It causes lung conditions in smokers, heart problems in obese people and a very long list of other unlikely symptoms.
All we can do is read Don Quixote and laugh at how apt it is so many centuries later. People hate change and cling to a golden age that never happened - by charging at windmills!
Lasers were once thought to be a useless, pure-science-wonky invention, but they're now used to power satellites into orbit.
People have speculated about that, but "now used"? Can you give a single example of a satellite launched that way? I can think of dozens of real uses for lasers from supermarket scanners up without having to pretend a near-future SF thing has already happened.
I actually agree with you on every point other than throwing everything that isn't on the right into a single basket. Identity politics sucks. You'll probably like this, I did. It's written by someone very firmly on the left being critical of identity politics in an amusing and intelligent way: https://dailyreview.com.au/need-talk-lenin-lionel-shriver-identity-politics-loss-left/49227/ There are a few references to Australia and some well used profanity that you are probably not used to in that context but most is more general.
I just read an interesting article about an academic asking a student why he was voting for Trump, and part of his answer was:
"for those people who have no political voice and come from states that do not matter, the best thing they can do is try to send in a wrecking ball to disrupt the system."
Now I won't go into what I think that quote indicates (because I cannot think of a polite way to do it), but I will ask the above poster if that's why you decided to vote for an unstable elitist creep like Trump instead of the stable ones.
Fair enough, I was grouped with the nuts that thought Reagan was running covert military operations in Central America, and now that "nuttyness" is uncontested modern history.
Back on topic, since Trump is talking about ignoring the Constitution on torture the danger of him ignoring the Constitution on other matters is a little bit beyond tinfoil territory.
Seriously? I've got a bridge to sell to you rube:) OK I don't because I'm not a conman, and elitist creep like Trump.
start reading well anything else
Fiction?
I think the fashionable term now is "corporatism". Those people you are complaining about in the beltway were just paid stooges of people like Trump and others sending money their way.
crony capitalists
What the fuck do you think Trump is other than a crony capitalist? He's the poster boy for the problem. Did you decide to go for the guy bribing the beltway folks to cut out the middleman or something weird like that?
Special Religious Education? I'm ignorant of what you mean by SRE. OK, so that bullshit is spreading out from HR and into the general community - annoying.
I like your sig. The phlogiston theory fits it well because in just about every case it can be treated as negative oxygen.
It's not about me feeling better, it's about an utterly ridiculous example you should be ashamed of. If you'd written about what was going on there before the Saudi oil price war it would be a different story, but instead you chose an obvious failure from one cause and blamed it on another.
The thing that matters, as you will soon work out, is that utter trivialities are getting so much attention. That utterly pointless White House press conference to defend the lie was not done by people working for free.
HR people are sometimes... special. It's a job that seasonally requires a bit of time but otherwise often involves looking around for something to do so they can look busy and keep their jobs. That's why your HR people are busy spying on people's social media posts when a few years ago nobody gave a shit about it. Blaming others for what HR folks get up to, as many here do, is a bit of a cheap shot and almost certain to be inaccurate.
The only times I've ever heard that objection was in jokes about people doing pointless busywork to show that their middle management or HR jobs were necessary.
Woman hating gay boys being disgusting to attract attention or is there something more to it than that? I just can't see it from here.
I find it kind of funny that the same people who were calling Assange an attention seeking narcisist have as their idols people who far more obviously fit that description.
The news to take away from there is just that so many on the "right" made it so easy to fire somebody for even such a trivial reason.
It's also incredibly naive to pretend that "left" and "right" are two purely political monolithic things untempered by greed and ambition. People will say all kinds of shit they do not believe themselves to get others to vote for them.
It looks like that because the entire point of the book is that if you don't watch out you can have Stalinism at home. Orwell's friends didn't believe him when he told them how evil Stalin was so he wrote a book they could relate to.
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Ah - so the joke is someone acting like some of the other people on this site, such as the high frequency trading and orbital beanstalk freaks, and I'm supposed to tell the difference in some way?
Subtle.
There's infrasound - it affects people in the area who are not getting any financial benefit from a windmill and either want it to go away or get a cut themselves. It has the advantage of being impossible to detect (at least in the case of windmills) but people will tell you they "feel it". It causes lung conditions in smokers, heart problems in obese people and a very long list of other unlikely symptoms.
All we can do is read Don Quixote and laugh at how apt it is so many centuries later. People hate change and cling to a golden age that never happened - by charging at windmills!
People have speculated about that, but "now used"? Can you give a single example of a satellite launched that way?
I can think of dozens of real uses for lasers from supermarket scanners up without having to pretend a near-future SF thing has already happened.
Gah! If that's really the main thing that drives the economy we will soon be completely and utterly fucked.
And that people is why reading the summary tells you more than just reading the headline. The summary tells you how they made it into a metal.
I actually agree with you on every point other than throwing everything that isn't on the right into a single basket.
Identity politics sucks.
You'll probably like this, I did. It's written by someone very firmly on the left being critical of identity politics in an amusing and intelligent way:
https://dailyreview.com.au/need-talk-lenin-lionel-shriver-identity-politics-loss-left/49227/
There are a few references to Australia and some well used profanity that you are probably not used to in that context but most is more general.
Now I won't go into what I think that quote indicates (because I cannot think of a polite way to do it), but I will ask the above poster if that's why you decided to vote for an unstable elitist creep like Trump instead of the stable ones.
Fair enough, I was grouped with the nuts that thought Reagan was running covert military operations in Central America, and now that "nuttyness" is uncontested modern history.
Back on topic, since Trump is talking about ignoring the Constitution on torture the danger of him ignoring the Constitution on other matters is a little bit beyond tinfoil territory.
Yes, but it's also propaganda over something so mind numbingly trivial - not a good sign.
Thanks.
Seriously? I've got a bridge to sell to you rube :) OK I don't because I'm not a conman, and elitist creep like Trump.
Fiction?
I think the fashionable term now is "corporatism". Those people you are complaining about in the beltway were just paid stooges of people like Trump and others sending money their way.
What the fuck do you think Trump is other than a crony capitalist? He's the poster boy for the problem.
Did you decide to go for the guy bribing the beltway folks to cut out the middleman or something weird like that?
Special Religious Education?
I'm ignorant of what you mean by SRE.
OK, so that bullshit is spreading out from HR and into the general community - annoying.
I like your sig. The phlogiston theory fits it well because in just about every case it can be treated as negative oxygen.
You really think it's going to take that much with a compliant Congress if some once per four years crisis happens and is blown out of all proportion?
And it is?
I think I know what you are going to write but perhaps you are not going to suggest something as utterly idiotic as I think you are.
You do not appear to understand what rabbit hole we are heading down if you are expecting the Constitution to be automatically respected.
It's not about me feeling better, it's about an utterly ridiculous example you should be ashamed of. If you'd written about what was going on there before the Saudi oil price war it would be a different story, but instead you chose an obvious failure from one cause and blamed it on another.
The thing that matters, as you will soon work out, is that utter trivialities are getting so much attention. That utterly pointless White House press conference to defend the lie was not done by people working for free.
HR people are sometimes ... special.
It's a job that seasonally requires a bit of time but otherwise often involves looking around for something to do so they can look busy and keep their jobs. That's why your HR people are busy spying on people's social media posts when a few years ago nobody gave a shit about it.
Blaming others for what HR folks get up to, as many here do, is a bit of a cheap shot and almost certain to be inaccurate.
The only times I've ever heard that objection was in jokes about people doing pointless busywork to show that their middle management or HR jobs were necessary.
He's using it because fascist is far too long a word to use since you've fucked up your base level of education since Reagan came in.
Woman hating gay boys being disgusting to attract attention or is there something more to it than that? I just can't see it from here.
I find it kind of funny that the same people who were calling Assange an attention seeking narcisist have as their idols people who far more obviously fit that description.
Wrong. The election of birther boy says the opposite.
You appear to be using it yourself by attacking half on the political spectrum based on the tactics adopted by a few noisy extremists.
The news to take away from there is just that so many on the "right" made it so easy to fire somebody for even such a trivial reason.
It's also incredibly naive to pretend that "left" and "right" are two purely political monolithic things untempered by greed and ambition. People will say all kinds of shit they do not believe themselves to get others to vote for them.
It looks like that because the entire point of the book is that if you don't watch out you can have Stalinism at home. Orwell's friends didn't believe him when he told them how evil Stalin was so he wrote a book they could relate to.