Oh wait, that isn't a small bug, it's an erroneous, misplaced comma.
No, it's not. Constructions such as, "Here, let me help you with that" are punctuated as if they contain the pronoun or name that's inferred ("Here, Jim, let me help you with that"). The comma clues the reader into the pause that would be normal in the sentence were it spoken aloud. Try them out loud, right now:
completly... mosquito's are food and this just destroy's food
The mosquito population seems to be doing just fine. Why look, there's two of them right there hovering over my screen, right now! Oh, wait, those aren't small bugs, those are erroneous, misplaced apostrophes. If only we could invent a bacteria that would kill off the use of the possessive form when people actually mean to use the plural form. It would make their, "Here, I'm informed and intelligent - let me tell you why you're wrong on this topic!" scolds feel a lot more credible.
No, the vast majority of the people who label themselves "creative" are especially bad at it. Which, as someone who sounds like he owns a nerve that has just been struck, you know. Or should.
The reason that so many people turn to web-based begging sites to fund their lame creative endeavors and completely fail to produce anything of merit, is because they simply aren't cut out for it in the first place. The people who "create everything you ever use in your life" are - generally - gainfully employed, making an actual paycheck or running a profitable business producing those things.
Ordinary people are neither deep, original, nor articulate.
Right. And most of the people who run off to Kickstarter or GoFundMe to beg for money to launch their cupcake business, their dog collar design boutique, their wedding photography business, or their couture fashion line made of felt, are ordinary or (frequently) deluded and sub-ordinary. Which is why universally rewarding all of them wiht ONE DOLLAR is just the epitome of virtue signally hilarity. Which you know, but are pretending you don't so you can maintain your phony umbrage. You need to get more creative about your fake hurt feelings. That wan't very persuasive. Maybe you should go online and beg for some money so you can take a class?
Creative people are better than other people! See? We support all of them! With: a dollar! Now, pour a bunch of money into OUR account so we can signal some more, and, of course, draw a paycheck for the noble cause of administering this absurd bit of nonsense.
Here's an idea: actually VET the projects, and only support the ones that aren't utterly pointless. Otherwise they might as well say they're supporting all the artists at Burning Man by burning a pile of $1 bills in the parking lot outside their office. Or in the driveway outside mom's basement, wherever this is actually run.
Facebook and my front porch aren't the government, genius.
Right. Which is why they can do what they want with their platform, and you can do what you want on your front porch. Thanks for confirming that you're one of those who doesn't understand the Bill of Rights and what it does and doesn't cover. "There's no way... should be a permitted activity" in the context of the GP to whom I responded is pure nonsense. You seem to not understand that. Please don't do anything dangerous to other people, like voting.
Did this happen during the last administration? I don't think so. Now that the Notepad Tax has been reduced, this is exactly the sort of reinvestment we should expect.
ICE shouldn't be in the business of breaking up gangs.
That's not their mission, but it is a happy byproduct of their work when large numbers of people in certain especially violent international gangs happen to be in the country illegally. How are you not clear on this? A county cop can't kick an illegal alien career criminal out of the country. ICE can.
No, no they are not. Nobody is trying to establish policies that will prevent laws against gang violence from being enforced. So that's a lie.
Quit trying to be slippery. You know exactly what's going on here.
And, really, you think that rampant corruption and gang violence in El Salvador is the fault of the US? No, it's not. It's classic third world shit, as seen in countries all around the world. Someone making money smuggling money and people across our borders isn't "being hurt by our policies," they're being hurt when they get busted breaking the law.
Your eagerness to conflate genuine refugees, legal immigrants, and those who criminally cross the border means you have zero credibility on this entire topic.
Right. And lefty jurisdictions are busy establishing policies that prevent those laws from being enforced. Lefty politicians are calling for the very agency that enforces those laws to be "abolished," and for people who violate those laws to be given sanctuary, free legal services, housing, protection from prosecution, etc.
Yes, a person who's here illegally CAN be deported for committing felonies. At which point thousands and thousands of them routinely, and literally just walk right back across the border, over and over again - just the way that liberal politicians like it.
Of course most malls are really suffering, especially those that haven't moved towards food and entertainment as anchor activities. But some have special problems. One of ours, in the DC 'burbs, has essentially become an MS-13 clubhouse. Those remaining shoppers inclined to actually set foot in a mall to shop completely avoid the place during long periods of the evening, because the gang presence is so tangible. Rampant crimes including much worse than just property theft. The county police have essentially turned the mall into a substation, and that's only scratched the surface of the problem. To the extent that ICE can be aware that one of the repeat criminal deportees they're trying to once again lay hands on is routinely setting up shop in a particular stronghold, great. The local PD doesn't like to mix it up with those clowns because MS-13 knows where they live, where their kids go to school, etc. Bring on the feds to sweep.
Of course, the Democrats thinks we should get rid of ICE, because arresting guys like that is something Trump thinks is good, and therefore it must be opposed no matter what.
You should just take your ad supported garbage off the internet.
Why do you care? You're not looking at it, right? You don't look at ANY content that is brought to you by people who pay for what it costs by selling some ads. Right? You would never do that.
The downside is that oceans of "free" content only makes itself available to you because the people publishing it manage to scrape together a few pennies through advertising to pay for the platforms that host it for you. Stop pretending you don't actually understand this, it's embarrassing.
Your inability to distinguish between someone residing in a country an enjoying the protections of their privacy from warrantless search... and someone who DOES NOT LIVE IN THAT COUNTRY and asking for the favor of being allowed to enter and become a special protected class with benefits paid for by the country's taxpayers is, well, typical. When you're outside the border and looking for the favor of being allowed in, different standards can and should apply. Nice strawman attempt, though.
Some genuine refugees lie, for a whole variety of reasons. They are still refugees and the system has to recognise that.
As opposed to NOT-genuine refugees? What separates the two? If someone who claims to be a refugee and is lying in order to pull off that fraud, that doesn't make them a refugee, it makes them a liar pretending to be one to scam the system. Tools that help to differentiate the scammers from the real thing are essential, since untold thousands of people continually attempt that scam.
I've never seen the value of a page being able to spawn a download dialog without an affirmative click on a download link to the resource being fetched. Not that dumb people will be saved from themselves if there's something to click on ("Oh! It says to click on this - I guess I better click on it!"), but the "if your download doesn't start automatically, click here" language always seemed unnecessary. Perhaps I'm missing something on why a cruise-control file download should ever be supported?
I know, it physically hurts you to read the recently released CDC study, because it takes all the fun out of your snark. But maybe you should get used to it anyway.
We can tell you're an expert, because instead of providing any actual insight or citations, you posted anonymously and went for the lazy, childish ad hominem. Congrats on ceding the point while also having a little foot-stamping fit to show that you really have nothing useful to say. Amazing how often that happens.
No, Japan's murderers tend to use knives a lot more.
But generally, you're right in a way. One of the reasons that law abiding people in the US need to preserve their constitutionally protected right to self defense is because we don't live in a police state where someone tasked with protecting your life is literally walking around with you wherever you go, and living in your home with you. Which wouldn't much matter, except that for a lot of reasons, we have a fairly high number of violent criminals who are routinely cut loose within days or hours of having been arrested for the LAST violent thing they did. When you have to deal with people like that, the cops are always a helpful several minutes away, ready to respond to take a report after you've been hurt or killed.
As for your strawman about not enough guns in Japan... sure, imagine I said all sorts of things I didn't say, if that makes you feel better about wanting to deprive, say, a 5'-0" woman from being able to defend herself. I know, you're thinking pepper spray, right? Or maybe that kickboxing class she took in high school?
No amount of self-defence training and no guns can save you from someone who wants to kill you.
And yet guns (with and without owners seriously trained in self defense strategies, tactics, and legalities) are legally and constructively used hundreds of thousands of times every year to prevent violent assault or to mitigate one in progress. Guns have saved the lives of countless people that someone else wanted to kill. You seem to think that most violent assaults that end in someone's murder are all carried out by rational movie hit-men who spent the previous scene flipping through a folder of photos and getting a briefing from their handler before heading out in a late model BMW to kill their target. Here's the thing: no, you can't stop everyone intentional murder. But people defending themselves from violence - including the murderous variety - successfully use guns thousands and thousands of times every month. You seem to be suggesting that because the average person isn't likely to be able to stop a carefully planned murder that, therefore, all of those people who DO defend themselves should just give up and let their attackers have their way.
Cool story, bro. Meanwhile, guns are used hundreds of thousands of times every year in the US to stop people from hurting others. Criminals using illegally possessed guns commit almost all crime involving guns. The left's favorite boogeyman, the "assault rifle," is used in a pale fraction of the number of murders as bare hands and baseball bats. But people legally defending themselves with guns (including "assault rifles" - a complete misnomer) mitigate or completely prevent violent assault and murder orders of magnitude more often than criminals using guns actually kill anyone. Most of those defensive uses don't even involve a shot being fired. All of which you know, and are carefully avoiding because it takes the fun out of your narrative.
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"I forgot" is a lame excuse. He should have said "I have no recollection of that".
Or, "I've been instructed by the FBI not to comment on that, because if I did it would be even more obvious that I'm lying my ass off."
Oh wait, that isn't a small bug, it's an erroneous, misplaced comma.
No, it's not. Constructions such as, "Here, let me help you with that" are punctuated as if they contain the pronoun or name that's inferred ("Here, Jim, let me help you with that"). The comma clues the reader into the pause that would be normal in the sentence were it spoken aloud. Try them out loud, right now:
"Here let me help you with that."
"Here, let me help you with that."
completly... mosquito's are food and this just destroy's food
The mosquito population seems to be doing just fine. Why look, there's two of them right there hovering over my screen, right now! Oh, wait, those aren't small bugs, those are erroneous, misplaced apostrophes. If only we could invent a bacteria that would kill off the use of the possessive form when people actually mean to use the plural form. It would make their, "Here, I'm informed and intelligent - let me tell you why you're wrong on this topic!" scolds feel a lot more credible.
Creative people aren't better?
No, the vast majority of the people who label themselves "creative" are especially bad at it. Which, as someone who sounds like he owns a nerve that has just been struck, you know. Or should.
The reason that so many people turn to web-based begging sites to fund their lame creative endeavors and completely fail to produce anything of merit, is because they simply aren't cut out for it in the first place. The people who "create everything you ever use in your life" are - generally - gainfully employed, making an actual paycheck or running a profitable business producing those things.
Ordinary people are neither deep, original, nor articulate.
Right. And most of the people who run off to Kickstarter or GoFundMe to beg for money to launch their cupcake business, their dog collar design boutique, their wedding photography business, or their couture fashion line made of felt, are ordinary or (frequently) deluded and sub-ordinary. Which is why universally rewarding all of them wiht ONE DOLLAR is just the epitome of virtue signally hilarity. Which you know, but are pretending you don't so you can maintain your phony umbrage. You need to get more creative about your fake hurt feelings. That wan't very persuasive. Maybe you should go online and beg for some money so you can take a class?
Silly virtue-signalling PR campaign.
Creative people are better than other people! See? We support all of them! With: a dollar! Now, pour a bunch of money into OUR account so we can signal some more, and, of course, draw a paycheck for the noble cause of administering this absurd bit of nonsense.
Here's an idea: actually VET the projects, and only support the ones that aren't utterly pointless. Otherwise they might as well say they're supporting all the artists at Burning Man by burning a pile of $1 bills in the parking lot outside their office. Or in the driveway outside mom's basement, wherever this is actually run.
Facebook and my front porch aren't the government, genius.
Right. Which is why they can do what they want with their platform, and you can do what you want on your front porch. Thanks for confirming that you're one of those who doesn't understand the Bill of Rights and what it does and doesn't cover. "There's no way ... should be a permitted activity" in the context of the GP to whom I responded is pure nonsense. You seem to not understand that. Please don't do anything dangerous to other people, like voting.
Have you ever actually read the Bill of Rights?
Did this happen during the last administration? I don't think so. Now that the Notepad Tax has been reduced, this is exactly the sort of reinvestment we should expect.
ICE shouldn't be in the business of breaking up gangs.
That's not their mission, but it is a happy byproduct of their work when large numbers of people in certain especially violent international gangs happen to be in the country illegally. How are you not clear on this? A county cop can't kick an illegal alien career criminal out of the country. ICE can.
No, no they are not. Nobody is trying to establish policies that will prevent laws against gang violence from being enforced. So that's a lie.
Quit trying to be slippery. You know exactly what's going on here.
And, really, you think that rampant corruption and gang violence in El Salvador is the fault of the US? No, it's not. It's classic third world shit, as seen in countries all around the world. Someone making money smuggling money and people across our borders isn't "being hurt by our policies," they're being hurt when they get busted breaking the law.
Your eagerness to conflate genuine refugees, legal immigrants, and those who criminally cross the border means you have zero credibility on this entire topic.
We already have laws which address it.
Right. And lefty jurisdictions are busy establishing policies that prevent those laws from being enforced. Lefty politicians are calling for the very agency that enforces those laws to be "abolished," and for people who violate those laws to be given sanctuary, free legal services, housing, protection from prosecution, etc.
Yes, a person who's here illegally CAN be deported for committing felonies. At which point thousands and thousands of them routinely, and literally just walk right back across the border, over and over again - just the way that liberal politicians like it.
Yeah, those gay NY hairdressers are definitely all Russian operatives. You can't miss 'em.
Of course most malls are really suffering, especially those that haven't moved towards food and entertainment as anchor activities. But some have special problems. One of ours, in the DC 'burbs, has essentially become an MS-13 clubhouse. Those remaining shoppers inclined to actually set foot in a mall to shop completely avoid the place during long periods of the evening, because the gang presence is so tangible. Rampant crimes including much worse than just property theft. The county police have essentially turned the mall into a substation, and that's only scratched the surface of the problem. To the extent that ICE can be aware that one of the repeat criminal deportees they're trying to once again lay hands on is routinely setting up shop in a particular stronghold, great. The local PD doesn't like to mix it up with those clowns because MS-13 knows where they live, where their kids go to school, etc. Bring on the feds to sweep.
Of course, the Democrats thinks we should get rid of ICE, because arresting guys like that is something Trump thinks is good, and therefore it must be opposed no matter what.
You should just take your ad supported garbage off the internet.
Why do you care? You're not looking at it, right? You don't look at ANY content that is brought to you by people who pay for what it costs by selling some ads. Right? You would never do that.
Removing advertising from the Internet would leave us basically with the parts that have value.
No, it would leave us with the parts that the people willing to pay for it find valuable. Are you willing to pay for it?
What's the downside here?
The downside is that oceans of "free" content only makes itself available to you because the people publishing it manage to scrape together a few pennies through advertising to pay for the platforms that host it for you. Stop pretending you don't actually understand this, it's embarrassing.
Your inability to distinguish between someone residing in a country an enjoying the protections of their privacy from warrantless search ... and someone who DOES NOT LIVE IN THAT COUNTRY and asking for the favor of being allowed to enter and become a special protected class with benefits paid for by the country's taxpayers is, well, typical. When you're outside the border and looking for the favor of being allowed in, different standards can and should apply. Nice strawman attempt, though.
Some genuine refugees lie, for a whole variety of reasons. They are still refugees and the system has to recognise that.
As opposed to NOT-genuine refugees? What separates the two? If someone who claims to be a refugee and is lying in order to pull off that fraud, that doesn't make them a refugee, it makes them a liar pretending to be one to scam the system. Tools that help to differentiate the scammers from the real thing are essential, since untold thousands of people continually attempt that scam.
I've never seen the value of a page being able to spawn a download dialog without an affirmative click on a download link to the resource being fetched. Not that dumb people will be saved from themselves if there's something to click on ("Oh! It says to click on this - I guess I better click on it!"), but the "if your download doesn't start automatically, click here" language always seemed unnecessary. Perhaps I'm missing something on why a cruise-control file download should ever be supported?
I know, it physically hurts you to read the recently released CDC study, because it takes all the fun out of your snark. But maybe you should get used to it anyway.
We can tell you're an expert, because instead of providing any actual insight or citations, you posted anonymously and went for the lazy, childish ad hominem. Congrats on ceding the point while also having a little foot-stamping fit to show that you really have nothing useful to say. Amazing how often that happens.
No, Japan's murderers tend to use knives a lot more.
... sure, imagine I said all sorts of things I didn't say, if that makes you feel better about wanting to deprive, say, a 5'-0" woman from being able to defend herself. I know, you're thinking pepper spray, right? Or maybe that kickboxing class she took in high school?
But generally, you're right in a way. One of the reasons that law abiding people in the US need to preserve their constitutionally protected right to self defense is because we don't live in a police state where someone tasked with protecting your life is literally walking around with you wherever you go, and living in your home with you. Which wouldn't much matter, except that for a lot of reasons, we have a fairly high number of violent criminals who are routinely cut loose within days or hours of having been arrested for the LAST violent thing they did. When you have to deal with people like that, the cops are always a helpful several minutes away, ready to respond to take a report after you've been hurt or killed.
As for your strawman about not enough guns in Japan
No, I don't think anyone with your obvious ignorance of the subject should go anywhere near any dangerous object, including guns.
No amount of self-defence training and no guns can save you from someone who wants to kill you.
And yet guns (with and without owners seriously trained in self defense strategies, tactics, and legalities) are legally and constructively used hundreds of thousands of times every year to prevent violent assault or to mitigate one in progress. Guns have saved the lives of countless people that someone else wanted to kill. You seem to think that most violent assaults that end in someone's murder are all carried out by rational movie hit-men who spent the previous scene flipping through a folder of photos and getting a briefing from their handler before heading out in a late model BMW to kill their target. Here's the thing: no, you can't stop everyone intentional murder. But people defending themselves from violence - including the murderous variety - successfully use guns thousands and thousands of times every month. You seem to be suggesting that because the average person isn't likely to be able to stop a carefully planned murder that, therefore, all of those people who DO defend themselves should just give up and let their attackers have their way.
Cool story, bro. Meanwhile, guns are used hundreds of thousands of times every year in the US to stop people from hurting others. Criminals using illegally possessed guns commit almost all crime involving guns. The left's favorite boogeyman, the "assault rifle," is used in a pale fraction of the number of murders as bare hands and baseball bats. But people legally defending themselves with guns (including "assault rifles" - a complete misnomer) mitigate or completely prevent violent assault and murder orders of magnitude more often than criminals using guns actually kill anyone. Most of those defensive uses don't even involve a shot being fired. All of which you know, and are carefully avoiding because it takes the fun out of your narrative.