Yes, but I doubt it is because of its intrinsic music quality. Real musicians are expensive and they like paying. So if you are basically a guy or gal with a music idea, you can (1) form a band, practice your ass off, and shove the result in front of some clueless music exec., or (2) Buy a computer, some software, lay down some electonic tracks, and shove the result in front of some music exec.
If you are a clueless music exec., you get two submissions, one from an entire band who wants paying, or one from a guy and his synth. You cannot tell the difference because you are a clueless music exec. So you pick the electronic tracks.
Now you must promote. With a band that means expensive tours and venues. With Mr. Electro, you only need to pay DJs. You go with Mr. Electro.
If you are the public, you get fed a diet of Mr. Electro and fellow travelers. If you are young enough, you think it has always been this way. Bands...yeah you've heard of them...on oldie stations...to which none of your friends listen.
Fishing? Probably not. The oceans are acidifying and the lower parts of the food chain are already being eaten or destroyed. Hell, they won't even be able to sell tours to see whales after the Japanese have gutted them all for "science".
Seems about right. Company discloses some results of their investigation. You don't agree. Hence Fake News. You should run for President...oh, we already have a Fake President, oh well...maybe there is a job for you in the fast food preparation business...better grab it quick before a robot does.
I used to have two Siamese sisters before they went to the Great Food Bowl in the Sky. Once, I was busy and pushed Ariel away from me letting her know I was busy. She walked down the hall, turned and gave me (what I interpreted as) a reproachful look, and walked into the bedroom out of sight. She was miffed. When I called about 5 minutes later, she came running.
Relax, we won't be going anywhere except maybe to the Moon in another vain ego boost for la Presidanta Tweetie.
The space nutters conveniently forget about radiation. Even our Earth-orbiting astronauts are running into long term effects of radiation. I can see the advert for the Mars mission: Come see Mars in person today, enjoy dodging cancer for the rest of your life...sign up NOW!!!
If all the "research' you do is anti-vax research, then you will get a distorted picture. I think the anti-vaxers go in with mind-set waiting to be validated. So they "research" anti-vax stuff. Lo and behold, their preconceptions are confirmed. Now they are "informed" anti-vaxers.
They are not unlike the 9/11 conspiracy crowd. They band together for mutual recursive backscratching and no new scientifically vetted information is allowed. Try arguing with one and sooner or later you run into, "you haven't seen the soooper-secret evidence that I have". Oh, yeah, that must be it, I've not yet been gone through the double-secret initiation to receive the Valuable Truth. It's just another cult.
Well, it's been such a smashing success in Venezuela...and Cuba....and let's not forget the USSR, although I guess they can claim that thug Putin is a success. N. Korea is just an economic powerhouse.
I see, so learning foreign languages, which would make it easier for U.S. companies to compete with foreign companies, is now something to be avoided. Hello Mr. Foot, you won't mind if I shoot your ass off, will you? Yeah, I know it is connected to me but I'm too stupid to care.
Just for the record, the whole "Allah's will" bit is a bit overblown. First off, Allah is so other as to not actually have a will. And Allah isn't really a He, not even an it. To put a finer theological point on it, Allah doesn't really have a name which would mean an "it". You'd have to go into Early Christian and Jewish theology to get at the notion. It is more akin to Buddhism without the divine being internal. The way I understand the situation is that Allah is more akin to the fabric of space and time, but not as real, being outside of space and time.
Sound mysterious? It is. Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is. Most Muslims get it all wrong, so do Christians and Jews. But then the notions are more philosophical than real and most people have no tolerance to argue at that level. They'd prefer a G-d who comes a'smiting this and a'smoting that....or if you are a Prosperity Christian, G-d wants you to be rich so give to your favorite Preacher... a lot...yes it is paradoxical, G-d's one weird dude in modern Christianity. Or if you are an Evangelical, Trump is the new Christ and you can feel secure in hating them foreigners...especially the border hoppers.
Yah, nothing sez "I am standing here with my Big Dick" in Indiana politics like lighting off a sat. killer and helping to contribute to the crap in near Earth orbit. By gum, he'll show those Pakistanis just what will happen to their future satellites. Maybe the Pakistanis will get their China buddy to lend them one of their sat. killers...errr...and a satellite to aim at...and a ground launch pad...with some extra equipment it make it go.
Okay, Mr. Andresssen, put your money where your mouth has been. Open a small independent bookstore in Backwoods, Wisconsin (pop. 1500). Let's see you make payroll with the proceeds. Don't be shy now, get out there and show us how its done. Hint, get your neighbors to read.
How dare you call the President a con artist. A con artist is able to calculate secondary and ternary effects so as to get an outcome favorable to him. The President has the intellectual depth only sufficient to make him a con to fools and be a tool of the Russian mafia and their boss, Putin.
And the cost to dumping the CO2 into the atmosphere acidifying the oceans, melting the ice caps, causing more destructive storms, etc. is what, precisely?
More cost effective? Could you please tell us how you plan to cost out the amount of CO2 dumped into the atmosphere to run the AC necessary. Don't hold back, lay it on us.
Not an admission by the Texas grid operator, they've been big on wind for awhile. The problem is that the pols are big on wind too, but only when it issues from their mouths.
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Yes, but I doubt it is because of its intrinsic music quality. Real musicians are expensive and they like paying. So if you are basically a guy or gal with a music idea, you can (1) form a band, practice your ass off, and shove the result in front of some clueless music exec., or (2) Buy a computer, some software, lay down some electonic tracks, and shove the result in front of some music exec.
If you are a clueless music exec., you get two submissions, one from an entire band who wants paying, or one from a guy and his synth. You cannot tell the difference because you are a clueless music exec. So you pick the electronic tracks.
Now you must promote. With a band that means expensive tours and venues. With Mr. Electro, you only need to pay DJs. You go with Mr. Electro.
If you are the public, you get fed a diet of Mr. Electro and fellow travelers. If you are young enough, you think it has always been this way. Bands...yeah you've heard of them...on oldie stations...to which none of your friends listen.
In a word: Jazz. Learn some history.
Hehehehehe...good one!!
So the are going to build new prisons on high ground around Houston and wait.
Fishing? Probably not. The oceans are acidifying and the lower parts of the food chain are already being eaten or destroyed. Hell, they won't even be able to sell tours to see whales after the Japanese have gutted them all for "science".
C'mon, he's talking about the cast of Fox News as the third chamber. Whining there is considered a job requirement.
Seems about right. Company discloses some results of their investigation. You don't agree. Hence Fake News. You should run for President...oh, we already have a Fake President, oh well...maybe there is a job for you in the fast food preparation business...better grab it quick before a robot does.
I used to have two Siamese sisters before they went to the Great Food Bowl in the Sky. Once, I was busy and pushed Ariel away from me letting her know I was busy. She walked down the hall, turned and gave me (what I interpreted as) a reproachful look, and walked into the bedroom out of sight. She was miffed. When I called about 5 minutes later, she came running.
Yeah, there is. MIT and the rest don't want their government funding cut because Bozo got his knickers in a twist over Chinese gear.
Relax, we won't be going anywhere except maybe to the Moon in another vain ego boost for la Presidanta Tweetie.
The space nutters conveniently forget about radiation. Even our Earth-orbiting astronauts are running into long term effects of radiation. I can see the advert for the Mars mission: Come see Mars in person today, enjoy dodging cancer for the rest of your life...sign up NOW!!!
If all the "research' you do is anti-vax research, then you will get a distorted picture. I think the anti-vaxers go in with mind-set waiting to be validated. So they "research" anti-vax stuff. Lo and behold, their preconceptions are confirmed. Now they are "informed" anti-vaxers.
They are not unlike the 9/11 conspiracy crowd. They band together for mutual recursive backscratching and no new scientifically vetted information is allowed. Try arguing with one and sooner or later you run into, "you haven't seen the soooper-secret evidence that I have". Oh, yeah, that must be it, I've not yet been gone through the double-secret initiation to receive the Valuable Truth. It's just another cult.
Well, it's been such a smashing success in Venezuela...and Cuba....and let's not forget the USSR, although I guess they can claim that thug Putin is a success. N. Korea is just an economic powerhouse.
I see, so learning foreign languages, which would make it easier for U.S. companies to compete with foreign companies, is now something to be avoided. Hello Mr. Foot, you won't mind if I shoot your ass off, will you? Yeah, I know it is connected to me but I'm too stupid to care.
I don't know, I checked it out on Amazon's clips and thought it merely repellent. Sort of like Eat Static with no artistry meets Rap.
Just for the record, the whole "Allah's will" bit is a bit overblown. First off, Allah is so other as to not actually have a will. And Allah isn't really a He, not even an it. To put a finer theological point on it, Allah doesn't really have a name which would mean an "it". You'd have to go into Early Christian and Jewish theology to get at the notion. It is more akin to Buddhism without the divine being internal. The way I understand the situation is that Allah is more akin to the fabric of space and time, but not as real, being outside of space and time.
Sound mysterious? It is. Sound like bullshit? I tend to think it is. Most Muslims get it all wrong, so do Christians and Jews. But then the notions are more philosophical than real and most people have no tolerance to argue at that level. They'd prefer a G-d who comes a'smiting this and a'smoting that....or if you are a Prosperity Christian, G-d wants you to be rich so give to your favorite Preacher... a lot...yes it is paradoxical, G-d's one weird dude in modern Christianity. Or if you are an Evangelical, Trump is the new Christ and you can feel secure in hating them foreigners...especially the border hoppers.
And there could be pink unicorns as well...and they too could also destroy satellites.
Yah, nothing sez "I am standing here with my Big Dick" in Indiana politics like lighting off a sat. killer and helping to contribute to the crap in near Earth orbit. By gum, he'll show those Pakistanis just what will happen to their future satellites. Maybe the Pakistanis will get their China buddy to lend them one of their sat. killers...errr...and a satellite to aim at...and a ground launch pad...with some extra equipment it make it go.
Okay, Mr. Andresssen, put your money where your mouth has been. Open a small independent bookstore in Backwoods, Wisconsin (pop. 1500). Let's see you make payroll with the proceeds. Don't be shy now, get out there and show us how its done. Hint, get your neighbors to read.
Well, if the Russians claim they are uninterceptible, then then they must be. The Russians always tell the truth.
Bullshit, they simply announced what they'd done.
Actually, it is an exercise in engineering more than science, but the same aspect of try and try again applies.
How dare you call the President a con artist. A con artist is able to calculate secondary and ternary effects so as to get an outcome favorable to him. The President has the intellectual depth only sufficient to make him a con to fools and be a tool of the Russian mafia and their boss, Putin.
And the cost to dumping the CO2 into the atmosphere acidifying the oceans, melting the ice caps, causing more destructive storms, etc. is what, precisely?
More cost effective? Could you please tell us how you plan to cost out the amount of CO2 dumped into the atmosphere to run the AC necessary. Don't hold back, lay it on us.
Not an admission by the Texas grid operator, they've been big on wind for awhile. The problem is that the pols are big on wind too, but only when it issues from their mouths.