In the US Midwest. But I travel a lot and I can't ever recall having trouble finding it. Within the last year I found it in UT, IN, OH, KY, IL, MO, NM, TX that I can remember for sure. Maybe your local Pepsico bottler doesn't produce it?
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
Normally I might have unloaded on the people in these pictures but I just came home from a holiday weekend camping trip at the local state park. After watching a bunch of slack-jawed dolts blowing their fingers off with fireworks for the last few days, pictures of garden-variety nerds actually make me happy.
Any time Al-Qaeda is mentioned, it is to sell copy or to push an agenda. Preferably both.
That's an awfully broad brush for such a little fellow. No matter what you believe about Al-Qaeda, they have had quite an impact upon a great number of people worldwide. It's hard to fathom how you think that all news articles about them are somehow invalid or tainted.
When rights and statutes are being trampled upon all over the world with no proof that what we are giving up is worth less of that which we sacrifice, it is the duty of the populace to question their governance and its mouth, the media, in all its forms.
I agree with that, however, when you come down off of your high horse and read the article, you might find that there is no advocacy of giving up rights in the article.
If that makes me a skeptical little shit, then so be it.
No, what makes you a skeptical little shit is that you glibly dismissed a perfectly competent news article for absolutely no good reason.
It just seems that they pull stuff out of their arses and report on it.
It seems to me to be an interesting, reasonable article...sources, attributes and all of that. It doesn't even seem to me to have an alarmist tone. Is it earth-shattering news? No, but I guess I don't see what they pulled "out of their arses."
What we are implying is that Al-Qaeda might not be what we are told it is...
Very possibly. But, if I just wanted to be a skeptical little shit, I could always just quote the parent and reply, "Yawn. Proof please. Next."
Proof that it is something I should be overly concerned about.
Who is asking you to be overly concerned about it?
Proof that this isn't some prelude to removing the rights of ordinary citizens to use encryption, or to demand they give up their keys to the Government upon request, as in the UK. Proof that the propaganda I should be worrying about is the one from abroad, and not the harder-to-detect propaganda that comes from a reputable source.
1) How would one prove these?
2) Where is that mentioned in the article or summary?
I agree, proof please. It seems they want to scare the sheeple...ZOMGZORGZ you might die... soonish.
Again, what do you want proof for? That they would produce propaganda or that they're taking security measures? Or what? Of course, there will be people that will want to use this to create undue alarm, but I just can't figure out what you and the parent are skeptical of and need proof for.
As with motherboards, this is what you get in the price-is-the-only-factor world of consumer-level computer or network equipment. I install shitloads of these things and every brand is just as inconsistent. In the last year, I have had bad/malfunctioning units from the following:
* Netgear
* D-Link
* Linksys (never again)
* ZyXEL (I used to love them more than life itself)
* Hawking
* Belkin
The fact is that they're all shit and they all have an unacceptable level of bad units.
Trendnet makes one too. At ~$200, the price is good and it would probably use less electricity than an old computer running linux. I can't really vouch for Trendnet though.
Just think about all the white collar dug addict soccer mom types that can't live a day without one of the 10 pills they take, all of which severely augment their state of mind and do long term harm to their body. Ask them what they think about someone who occasionally smokes weed and you'll see what I'm saying.
OMG, when did you meet my boss' wife? The bitch is a fucking Percocet addict who sleeps until two in the afternoon every day and she goes to five different drug dealers, M.D. to get her fix. Of course she thinks that pot smokers are degenerates and should be put in jail for life.
I wonder if we could get them to do a study on slashdot rage...I think that I've noticed that people with sigs tend to fly off the handle more often than those without them.
If she is seen as reducing Obama's chances in the general election the
harm to her reputation and the resulting backlash will keep her from ever having
the support needed to try again.
If both candidates were white, I would probably have to agree with you. But,
as I indicated in another
post
in this discussion, there seems to be a huge undercurrent of support for trying
to keep Obama out just because he's black.
As a point of disclosure, I think that I should have indicated that I am
neither a Democrat or a Progressive, nor a likely Obama voter, but rather a
slightly right-leaning centrist.
Perhaps I am just too liberal, but I don't really think that race will keep Obama from winning.
I wish that I could agree with you here, but I can't. Of the people I come into contact with who usually vote Democrat and are white (generally labor union types, government union employees and folks on the dole), most are willing to totally ignore the fact that they have the most to gain from Obama winning and yet will vote against him because they're convinced that he will do things like legalize black men raping white women
I realize that the above was something of an overstatement but I guess that I am reacting to the frustration of dealing with how to respond to the sheer hostility towards minorities that I deal with constantly. Example within the past month include:
-A neighbor who refers to the Starlings that live in his eaves as "nigger birds."
-Another neighbor who regaled me with stories of a weekend camping trip with his cop friends that including a fellow camper shouting "white power" as my neighbor arrived.
-A co-worker who said that she voted in the primary for the first time (age 50) so "that we could keep America from being overrun by niggers."
I sincerely wish that I were exaggerating, but, sadly, I'm not. And considering that my conscience and lack of good sense causes me to almost always rebuke people for this sort of thing, I can only wonder what these people say to each other in private.
But maybe it's because I live in the Midwest and people are supposedly more racist here, but my many conversations with people in other parts of the country have done nothing to disabuse me of the notion that this is very widespread.
The best thing for her to do if she really cares about the Democrats is to drop out now.
True, but if she only cares about being elected in 2012, the best thing for her to do is to stay in as long as possible so as to reduce Obama's chances in the general election, thereby saving herself from the nearly impossible task of wresting the Democrat nomination from a sitting president.
Unfortunately, the Clintons very often seem to default to the most politically expedient course of action, so this wouldn't surprise me.
Remind me, while Bush is campaigning and fundraising for McCain, who is
paying him to do that?
If you would have read the linked resource in the parent post that you responded to, you would have known
why that isn't a violation of the Hatch Act. This is
a list of who cannot
participate in partisan activities. You will notice that the president
does not fall into that heading. Not to mention that every US President
that I can remember has politicked for members of his party, so I don't know why you are singling out ole George.
...and the 65,000 different motherboard makers some work some are crap (I'll never buy PCChips and MSI again)...
It seems to me that if you ask a hundred PC techs about which brands of MOBOs are best and worst, you get a hundred and five answers. Not that I'm promoting MSI or PCChips, but I've had just about every brand fail at too high a rate for my tastes.
I can't say that I've seen many Intel brand boards fail, but that may simply be that very few consumer-level computers have Intels inside (I know, bad joke).
I think that it speaks more to the industry overall, as well as to consumers who are concerned mostly with price. It certainly wasn't always this way, at least not when a good desktop cost as much as a decent used car. I finally recycled about thirty P2 IBM Intellistations with the MOBO manufactured in Ireland. Of those, not one ever had a bad board.
After a quick skim of the material, I have to agree. IANAM (I am not a Mormon) but I can't see why the LDS cares that this handbook is out in the open. You would think that it would be publicly available, maybe on their own website.
All legitimate churches have some sort of bylaws they operate under. Maybe I'm missing something...
so what's your point? if in 100 years 99% of Europe are devout muslims, what's wrong with the majority in that country changing the laws to reflect the culture of the new society? The reasoning against that has been dealt with thoroughly by de Tocqueville and Mill. Please read Mill's thoughts on the "tyranny of the majority" in On Liberty--it's the most clearly thought out and understandable.
I am no fan of the police, but I wonder how a lone small policeman or policewoman is supposed to deal with a large belligerent person who might assault them or someone else.
The fact is that everyone experiences it and the more nonplussed by it you are, the more women will find you attractive.
Yeah, women love a guy who's "at a loss as to what to say, think, or do".... at least the same ones who like guys who use words without knowing what they mean. ...or guys who correct someone else and are themselves wrong. Please
see the Oxford
Dictionary's definition
Helping her throw a party wont impress her. It will only make her less attracted to you romantically. Amen. Being too available or too helpful turns the attraction switch off in the brain of most women. Ditto for the "White Knight in Shining Armor" and "Lance Romance" act.
I have a friend that always shoots himself in the foot with this stupid crap. First, he tries to impress them with how "deep" he is and then with how smart he is. He's actually a great guy until the women come around and then it's like he puts on this "artiste" persona, which comes off as creepy and contrived. Obviously it never works.
One more little tidbit: while men can be attracted to an unlimited number of women, there is some evidence to suggest that females are at least partially attracted (via smell) to males whose genetics (major histocompatibility complex) is the most dissimilar to theirs. So what does this mean? You probably can't make attraction happen if it's not in the genes.
Whatever you do, please just relax a little and learn to put "rejection" in its proper context. The fact is that everyone experiences it and the more nonplussed by it you are, the more women will find you attractive. And, by the way, getting out in the sun a little, losing that tire around your middle and getting a little muscle tone will do wonders too.
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In the US Midwest. But I travel a lot and I can't ever recall having trouble finding it. Within the last year I found it in UT, IN, OH, KY, IL, MO, NM, TX that I can remember for sure. Maybe your local Pepsico bottler doesn't produce it?
Meet the web server you won't use in 2008.
Just what I wanted, a Diet Code Red Mountain Dew sinus rinse and keyboard wash.
Some interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of yeah right.
Actually, mostly a whole lot of 500 Internal Server Error.
I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.
Normally I might have unloaded on the people in these pictures but I just came home from a holiday weekend camping trip at the local state park. After watching a bunch of slack-jawed dolts blowing their fingers off with fireworks for the last few days, pictures of garden-variety nerds actually make me happy.
Any time Al-Qaeda is mentioned, it is to sell copy or to push an agenda. Preferably both.
That's an awfully broad brush for such a little fellow. No matter what you believe about Al-Qaeda, they have had quite an impact upon a great number of people worldwide. It's hard to fathom how you think that all news articles about them are somehow invalid or tainted.
When rights and statutes are being trampled upon all over the world with no proof that what we are giving up is worth less of that which we sacrifice, it is the duty of the populace to question their governance and its mouth, the media, in all its forms.
I agree with that, however, when you come down off of your high horse and read the article, you might find that there is no advocacy of giving up rights in the article.
If that makes me a skeptical little shit, then so be it.
No, what makes you a skeptical little shit is that you glibly dismissed a perfectly competent news article for absolutely no good reason.
It just seems that they pull stuff out of their arses and report on it.
It seems to me to be an interesting, reasonable article...sources, attributes and all of that. It doesn't even seem to me to have an alarmist tone. Is it earth-shattering news? No, but I guess I don't see what they pulled "out of their arses."
What we are implying is that Al-Qaeda might not be what we are told it is...
Very possibly. But, if I just wanted to be a skeptical little shit, I could always just quote the parent and reply, "Yawn. Proof please. Next."
Proof that it is something I should be overly concerned about.
Who is asking you to be overly concerned about it?
Proof that this isn't some prelude to removing the rights of ordinary citizens to use encryption, or to demand they give up their keys to the Government upon request, as in the UK. Proof that the propaganda I should be worrying about is the one from abroad, and not the harder-to-detect propaganda that comes from a reputable source.
1) How would one prove these?
2) Where is that mentioned in the article or summary?
Nothing is as easy as cheap skepticism.
I agree, proof please. It seems they want to scare the sheeple...ZOMGZORGZ you might die ... soonish.
Again, what do you want proof for? That they would produce propaganda or that they're taking security measures? Or what? Of course, there will be people that will want to use this to create undue alarm, but I just can't figure out what you and the parent are skeptical of and need proof for.
Yawn. Proof please. Next.
Proof for what? That they're producing propaganda? Do you really doubt that?
What an appropriate last name!
As with motherboards, this is what you get in the price-is-the-only-factor world of consumer-level computer or network equipment. I install shitloads of these things and every brand is just as inconsistent. In the last year, I have had bad/malfunctioning units from the following:
* Netgear
* D-Link
* Linksys (never again)
* ZyXEL (I used to love them more than life itself)
* Hawking
* Belkin
The fact is that they're all shit and they all have an unacceptable level of bad units.
Trendnet makes one too. At ~$200, the price is good and it would probably use less electricity than an old computer running linux. I can't really vouch for Trendnet though.
Just think about all the white collar dug addict soccer mom types that can't live a day without one of the 10 pills they take, all of which severely augment their state of mind and do long term harm to their body. Ask them what they think about someone who occasionally smokes weed and you'll see what I'm saying.
OMG, when did you meet my boss' wife? The bitch is a fucking Percocet addict who sleeps until two in the afternoon every day and she goes to five different drug dealers, M.D. to get her fix. Of course she thinks that pot smokers are degenerates and should be put in jail for life.
Pedant is also a noun.
I wonder if we could get them to do a study on slashdot rage...I think that I've noticed that people with sigs tend to fly off the handle more often than those without them.
If she is seen as reducing Obama's chances in the general election the harm to her reputation and the resulting backlash will keep her from ever having the support needed to try again.
If both candidates were white, I would probably have to agree with you. But, as I indicated in another post in this discussion, there seems to be a huge undercurrent of support for trying to keep Obama out just because he's black.
As a point of disclosure, I think that I should have indicated that I am neither a Democrat or a Progressive, nor a likely Obama voter, but rather a slightly right-leaning centrist.
Perhaps I am just too liberal, but I don't really think that race will keep Obama from winning.
I wish that I could agree with you here, but I can't. Of the people I come into contact with who usually vote Democrat and are white (generally labor union types, government union employees and folks on the dole), most are willing to totally ignore the fact that they have the most to gain from Obama winning and yet will vote against him because they're convinced that he will do things like legalize black men raping white women
I realize that the above was something of an overstatement but I guess that I am reacting to the frustration of dealing with how to respond to the sheer hostility towards minorities that I deal with constantly. Example within the past month include:
-A neighbor who refers to the Starlings that live in his eaves as "nigger birds."
-Another neighbor who regaled me with stories of a weekend camping trip with his cop friends that including a fellow camper shouting "white power" as my neighbor arrived.
-A co-worker who said that she voted in the primary for the first time (age 50) so "that we could keep America from being overrun by niggers."
I sincerely wish that I were exaggerating, but, sadly, I'm not. And considering that my conscience and lack of good sense causes me to almost always rebuke people for this sort of thing, I can only wonder what these people say to each other in private.
But maybe it's because I live in the Midwest and people are supposedly more racist here, but my many conversations with people in other parts of the country have done nothing to disabuse me of the notion that this is very widespread.
Great, now I've gone and depressed myself...
The best thing for her to do if she really cares about the Democrats is to drop out now.
True, but if she only cares about being elected in 2012, the best thing for her to do is to stay in as long as possible so as to reduce Obama's chances in the general election, thereby saving herself from the nearly impossible task of wresting the Democrat nomination from a sitting president.
Unfortunately, the Clintons very often seem to default to the most politically expedient course of action, so this wouldn't surprise me.
If you would have read the linked resource in the parent post that you responded to, you would have known why that isn't a violation of the Hatch Act. This is a list of who cannot participate in partisan activities. You will notice that the president does not fall into that heading. Not to mention that every US President that I can remember has politicked for members of his party, so I don't know why you are singling out ole George.
...and the 65,000 different motherboard makers some work some are crap (I'll never buy PCChips and MSI again)...
It seems to me that if you ask a hundred PC techs about which brands of MOBOs are best and worst, you get a hundred and five answers. Not that I'm promoting MSI or PCChips, but I've had just about every brand fail at too high a rate for my tastes.
I can't say that I've seen many Intel brand boards fail, but that may simply be that very few consumer-level computers have Intels inside (I know, bad joke).
I think that it speaks more to the industry overall, as well as to consumers who are concerned mostly with price. It certainly wasn't always this way, at least not when a good desktop cost as much as a decent used car. I finally recycled about thirty P2 IBM Intellistations with the MOBO manufactured in Ireland. Of those, not one ever had a bad board.
After a quick skim of the material, I have to agree. IANAM (I am not a Mormon) but I can't see why the LDS cares that this handbook is out in the open. You would think that it would be publicly available, maybe on their own website.
All legitimate churches have some sort of bylaws they operate under. Maybe I'm missing something...
I am no fan of the police, but I wonder how a lone small policeman or policewoman is supposed to deal with a large belligerent person who might assault them or someone else.
Now, don't you feel like an ass?
I have a friend that always shoots himself in the foot with this stupid crap. First, he tries to impress them with how "deep" he is and then with how smart he is. He's actually a great guy until the women come around and then it's like he puts on this "artiste" persona, which comes off as creepy and contrived. Obviously it never works.
One more little tidbit: while men can be attracted to an unlimited number of women, there is some evidence to suggest that females are at least partially attracted (via smell) to males whose genetics (major histocompatibility complex) is the most dissimilar to theirs. So what does this mean? You probably can't make attraction happen if it's not in the genes.
Whatever you do, please just relax a little and learn to put "rejection" in its proper context. The fact is that everyone experiences it and the more nonplussed by it you are, the more women will find you attractive. And, by the way, getting out in the sun a little, losing that tire around your middle and getting a little muscle tone will do wonders too.