Amen. There's a lot of great trolling and off-topic humor that doesn't make it up to the surface at default. Also some pretty good posts come from people who are willing to post things that have killed their karma. I think most of the really useless trolls must be getting discouraged by our system, considering how many there actually aren't.
Wow. That would have made me laugh but the humor was completely and utterly overwhelmed by the jaw-dropping wonder of who would buy that. Do the audio x protocols not have redundancy? if a bit drops, can we hear it? wow.
Johnny Dilks told me they didn't re-master the vinyl version of "Acres of Heartache", but they went old-school and didn't compress/limit the album to death in the first place. I have to get a player if I want to hear my vinyl copy.
I've never asked my buddy, Joe Shea, how much it costs to run american-reporter; I only see a discrete google ad, and yet he manages to find a little bit of quality.
AFAIK the over- & under- mods are karma neutral, I use 'em to make threshold adjustments when I don't want to reflect a karma judgment. All my mods are as fact/opinion neutral as possible. I do use a little bias regarding logged-in vs: AC posts, I tend to be a little more lenient of registered users, and weigh intent more heavily when evaluating posts, to conserve (most folks) karma. ACs have a much higher threshold of funny to get a bump, also. The idea is to make the site more interesting and amusing, and less offensive, for un-logged-in or high-threshold users, whatever their divergent opinions or points-of-view. I never studied rhetoric, but a well-meant, clear and concise statement of incorrectness deserves rebuttal and correction rather than negation, IMO. This issue is a reflection of society at large; An awful lot of well-meaning, but unqualified, people making things less than they should be, whilst the spammers and vandals do egregious and disproportionate damage, and heroic coders seek new algorithms in the fight. Ethnic stereotypes DO indeed exist, as do people who speak in creoles and pidgins of their colonizers' language. I don't recall Jar-Jar craving watermelon, or anything that seemed overtly racist to me, but perhaps my antennae are tuned incorrectly.
A.C. Doyle was into this kind of stuff, and Chick would've had Satanic Gypsies menacing someone's eternal well-being in another of his droll pamphlets, I don't get the reference.
Forgive me for seeing a correlation and suspecting causation without the benefits of a properly administered and peer-reviewed double-blind study. Those of us who are not properly accredited researchers should just STFU, I reckon.
Ol' Dad was 92 when the cancer got him, and I still feel the humiliation of that last time we went hiking, when he left me behind, dizzy and panting, on the climb back to the car. He was a moderate with his eating, (coffee, bacon, and eggs every morning) and refused medication up to his last days. I don't know how much is genetic, but the Kentucky Mountaineer lifestyle, minus tobacco, seems to have been beneficial.
When I read that last paragraph, it seemed that they were saying that, rather than try to find the correct sort of diet, they were going to direct the research toward a drug therapy. Something a little easier to monetize, perhaps?
Sacramento is one of the more backward and reactionary counties in California, at least as regards the Courts. The judge is likely to max his sentence if he has the temerity to defend himself, particularly if he were to have the unmitigated gall of denying the charges as filed by honest, hardworking, FBI Servants of the Public. I think this guy is fucked.
Higley is in the Phoenix Valley in Arizona. In my limited experience that is the hottest part of the state. There could well be a hotter area, they get a surprising amount of weather blowing in from the Sea of Cortez. It aint Flagstaff, a skinflint could probably live there without any heat at all.
When the Elites control the government, the the State fails when it stops serving the Elite. When the People control the government, the State fails when it starts serving the elites. Pandering to the mob is a certain path to bankruptcy. Rise and fall, ebb and flow, we're fooked.
I used to repair televisions, and learned in the sixties that G.E. was on the cutting edge of the engineering push to expand the frontiers of "controlling product life cycles". Terrified does not begin to describe how I felt when I learned that they were in the Nuclear Reactor business.
Sorry, I can't find the quote and can't remember the attribution, but this brings up an analog; (Something like):"The way to know the truth about (a man), is to take the worst his friends say about him and the best his enemies will admit." I balance outlets like voanews and foxnews with english.aljazeera &c. like that. (I also note there seems to be an inverse relationship between # of ads vs: quality of information.) Broadcast news is simply too traumatic to take on any regular basis, so I stick with John Stewart's abridgements so at least I can laugh in the face of the horror.YMMV, but if more people could open their minds and see other perspectives, perhaps democracy would not be just another tool of oppression.
Actually that looked like sun leaf to me. It could be somebody's lame light-damaged excuse for bud though. Either way, looks like stuff I couldn't smoke if you paid me. Here in the ghetto, the tweakers would probably pay over $50 an ounce and swear it was worth it. morons.
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All that "careful crafting" is actually a lot of hard work. I can almost hear a thousand Hayden Christensen impersonators shouting in vendorland.
But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ye'.
Amen. There's a lot of great trolling and off-topic humor that doesn't make it up to the surface at default. Also some pretty good posts come from people who are willing to post things that have killed their karma. I think most of the really useless trolls must be getting discouraged by our system, considering how many there actually aren't.
I often find myself modding up posts I disagree with, to undo an unearned "troll". Was that you?
Wow. That would have made me laugh but the humor was completely and utterly overwhelmed by the jaw-dropping wonder of who would buy that. Do the audio x protocols not have redundancy? if a bit drops, can we hear it? wow.
Johnny Dilks told me they didn't re-master the vinyl version of "Acres of Heartache", but they went old-school and didn't compress/limit the album to death in the first place. I have to get a player if I want to hear my vinyl copy.
I've never asked my buddy, Joe Shea, how much it costs to run american-reporter; I only see a discrete google ad, and yet he manages to find a little bit of quality.
AFAIK the over- & under- mods are karma neutral, I use 'em to make threshold adjustments when I don't want to reflect a karma judgment. All my mods are as fact/opinion neutral as possible. I do use a little bias regarding logged-in vs: AC posts, I tend to be a little more lenient of registered users, and weigh intent more heavily when evaluating posts, to conserve (most folks) karma. ACs have a much higher threshold of funny to get a bump, also. The idea is to make the site more interesting and amusing, and less offensive, for un-logged-in or high-threshold users, whatever their divergent opinions or points-of-view. I never studied rhetoric, but a well-meant, clear and concise statement of incorrectness deserves rebuttal and correction rather than negation, IMO. This issue is a reflection of society at large; An awful lot of well-meaning, but unqualified, people making things less than they should be, whilst the spammers and vandals do egregious and disproportionate damage, and heroic coders seek new algorithms in the fight.
Ethnic stereotypes DO indeed exist, as do people who speak in creoles and pidgins of their colonizers' language. I don't recall Jar-Jar craving watermelon, or anything that seemed overtly racist to me, but perhaps my antennae are tuned incorrectly.
scam.
old news.
A.C. Doyle was into this kind of stuff, and Chick would've had Satanic Gypsies menacing someone's eternal well-being in another of his droll pamphlets, I don't get the reference.
I find this amusing, in an idle sort of way. Easier than making crop circles perhaps?
Looks like the price is going up.
Forgive me for seeing a correlation and suspecting causation without the benefits of a properly administered and peer-reviewed double-blind study. Those of us who are not properly accredited researchers should just STFU, I reckon.
You have been modded, have a nice day.
Seriously, someone's got a cockroach in their knickers. This thread is old enough, you might not get rescued, either.
I think there's a market for Can-D.
I liked when Shepard went golfing.
Ol' Dad was 92 when the cancer got him, and I still feel the humiliation of that last time we went hiking, when he left me behind, dizzy and panting, on the climb back to the car. He was a moderate with his eating, (coffee, bacon, and eggs every morning) and refused medication up to his last days. I don't know how much is genetic, but the Kentucky Mountaineer lifestyle, minus tobacco, seems to have been beneficial.
When I read that last paragraph, it seemed that they were saying that, rather than try to find the correct sort of diet, they were going to direct the research toward a drug therapy. Something a little easier to monetize, perhaps?
Sacramento is one of the more backward and reactionary counties in California, at least as regards the Courts. The judge is likely to max his sentence if he has the temerity to defend himself, particularly if he were to have the unmitigated gall of denying the charges as filed by honest, hardworking, FBI Servants of the Public. I think this guy is fucked.
Higley is in the Phoenix Valley in Arizona. In my limited experience that is the hottest part of the state. There could well be a hotter area, they get a surprising amount of weather blowing in from the Sea of Cortez. It aint Flagstaff, a skinflint could probably live there without any heat at all.
Unlike many Americans, I have read a few accounts of a certain event at Rorke's Drift, so that evokes quite an image. Thanks.
When the Elites control the government, the the State fails when it stops serving the Elite. When the People control the government, the State fails when it starts serving the elites. Pandering to the mob is a certain path to bankruptcy.
Rise and fall, ebb and flow, we're fooked.
I used to repair televisions, and learned in the sixties that G.E. was on the cutting edge of the engineering push to expand the frontiers of "controlling product life cycles". Terrified does not begin to describe how I felt when I learned that they were in the Nuclear Reactor business.
Sorry, I can't find the quote and can't remember the attribution, but this brings up an analog; (Something like):"The way to know the truth about (a man), is to take the worst his friends say about him and the best his enemies will admit." I balance outlets like voanews and foxnews with english.aljazeera &c. like that. (I also note there seems to be an inverse relationship between # of ads vs: quality of information.) Broadcast news is simply too traumatic to take on any regular basis, so I stick with John Stewart's abridgements so at least I can laugh in the face of the horror.YMMV, but if more people could open their minds and see other perspectives, perhaps democracy would not be just another tool of oppression.
Actually that looked like sun leaf to me. It could be somebody's lame light-damaged excuse for bud though. Either way, looks like stuff I couldn't smoke if you paid me. Here in the ghetto, the tweakers would probably pay over $50 an ounce and swear it was worth it. morons.