I'm sorry. But do Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly have some kind of dental infection that I'm not aware of? No? Then the "festering mouths" comment is a personal attack, an insult not to refute or forward arguments, but to insult these men personally.
So, yeah, that is what I'd call a hateful attack, or in more general terms, an attack based on hate. So, if it really was a hateful personal attack, then it was not a strawman, which is what your entire point was based on.
Here, let me try to say it in simpler terms so maybe you might understand:
Strange that every time I see an argument against the Tea Party or conservatives in general, it is almost always based on how hateful conservatives are. Yet, here are 300 comments, nearly all of which are based on personal attacks and insults.
After a Colbert rally, I am quite confident that there will be trash all over the place.
Huh... so I suppose you've done an in-depth survey, and have thus proven that Colbert Report viewers are slobs... or something?
Fuck, I'm saddened, yet unsurprised, you got modded up... apparently there are 3-4 idiots out there who believe that baseless opinions insulting groups they dislike qualifies as "interesting".
Wait, you think we were on track to win in Vietnam? And it was the protests that screwed things up?
Uh, yeah. We lost zero major battles in Vietnam. Exactly zero. Had the bombing campaign been allowed to continue and not been limited (again, due to liberal protests), we bet your ass we could have won that war.
And you think the citizens of Vietnam are 'relegated to live under communism?' Vietnam had one of the highest growth rates in the world since the government instituted free market reforms in 1986.
So, what you are saying is that Vietnam had one of the highest growth rates in the world since the government realized that communism doesn't really work and tossed aside all that "to each according to their need" bullshit.
Vietnam is a member of the WTO, and well respected in the international community. The human rights situation is still abysmal, but improving.
What gets me is the respect coming from you, even though you are fully aware that " The human rights situation is still abysmal...". A country with an "abysmal" human rights record is what we were there fighting to prevent. Populations don't want to be oppressed. They are forced to allow it to happen because the oppressor is stronger than they are and is either stronger or more staying power than those fighting for freedom.
Give it time and Vietnam will be indistinguishable from the free and prosperous hybrid socialist/free market economies of Europe.
You mean, like they could have had since 1975? How many souls spent their entire lives under oppression because someone thought that if we showed peace and love that the world would turn into a John Lennon song.
As of right now, their economy is doing quite a bit better than ours.
Really? While our economy sucks, it only sucks when compared to itself. Our economy grew more in the past year than the entire economy of Vietnam. The US GDP per capita is $46,381. Vietnam's is $2,942. Um, I think our economy is a bit better than Vietnam's. So, given your track record of "non-facts", I guess we can throw out your last point of "Funny how it was capitalism that imploded recently, not socialism."
"Colbert" is in fact a persona not a real person, that is the personality on screen is not as he is in real life. The whole thing is a sarcastic cynical look at Fox News talk shows and other self important talking heads. That's why some people think it's funny, others (without a sense of humor) are offended.
I don't find him funny. It's not that I don't have a sense of humor, it's that I no longer find a joke funny after hearing it over and over and over and over again. We get it. Colbert thinks Bill O'Reilly and what he believes are conservative talk show hosts are ignorant, racist, bigoted, self serving, pompous asses. I got it in the first ten minutes the very first time I saw his show. After that, it's been the predictable telling of the same joke over and over and over again.
As an example, compare that to South Park. In South Park, you have Ben Afleck with an ass-face, Tom Cruize packing fudge and won't come out of the closet, Mel Gibson smearing poo all over the walls, Cartman as Beck, Al Gore as himself warning us all about man-bear-pig, Scientologists as frauds, Jesus looking at porn and Mohammed in a pedo-bear costume. They piss off everyone. Even Stewart, who also spends much of his time roasting the right, will go after the occasional liberal on extremely rare occasion.
"Colbert" is nothing more than a repetitive constant bashing of O'Reilly via parody and it gets old really, really, really fast.
His shtick is funny and has more truth in it than O'Reilly/GB's festering mouth(s) could ever dream of.
Festering mouths? Really? Why the hatred? I mean, it's OK to disagree on the subject matter, but do you really need to literally HATE those with a different perspective on life? I believe yours and nearly every other post here, are proof that it's not the right that are the "hate mongers", but the left.
So it's true. The left does project.
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From TFS:
All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."
Um... why not just click on the little link provided there?
Eh? It seems to me that it comes down to needing a subpoena in order to get access to a public employee's work product.
If you want to talk scary, that's scary. Mann worked/works for public universities paid for with tax dollars. Explain why getting access to anything that he does while on tax payer time isn't as simple as saying "hey dude, can we see your work?"
Good point. Any work paid for by public funds needs to be public information, national security stuff excluded.
May I also point out that if this had been research on anything, say, that Bush supported and this happened four years ago, you'd have everyone on here screaming, "CONSPIRACY!!!"
You could always use something like tinychat. Just create a room and password protect it so you don't a bunch of horny perverts telling your wife to show her boobs. It may not be completely private as I'm sure that someone at the provider could monitor, but who cares. If someone wanted to hear me talk to my kids about Mickey Mouse or my wife about the electric bill, I pity them because their life must suck.
The technology enables a single physical processor to execute two or more separate code streams (threads) concurrently using shared execution resources....
Each "execution resource" can only execute one instruction at a time, period, always and forever. What I am calling "instruction pipeline", Intel is calling "code stream". Their write up is careful to say "execute two or more separate code streams (threads) concurrently using shared execution resources". Notice the "execute two or more code streams", not "execute instructions". It also specifically points out "... using shared execution resources", meaning that each "code stream", or instructional pipeline, has to share the execution resource.
Think of it as two lanes merging on a highway. While both lanes move forward at the same time, only one car gets through at a time. If a car in one lane stalls, the other lane can still move freely until the stalled car is restarted. Only in computers, if you get a stall, everyone in that "lane" has to go home and start over.
A processor (or core) can only execute one instruction at a time, hyperthreading or not.
Uh, no. That hasn't been true for years.
Nehalem, I believe, can execute up to five instructions per clock per core; though you'll rarely be able to reach that limit.
I said one instruction at a time, not per clock. Still, the point was that when something went awry, the entire instruction chain would have to be dumped and reloaded. The processor would sit idle while waiting for this to complete. The P4 had an extremely long instruction pipeline that allowed it to clock at higher speeds, but choke when pipeline had to be flushed. This is why the Athlons of the day were much faster at lower clock speeds due to the shorter pipelines. Whenever a stall happened, the Athlon didn't have to sit idle for nearly as long as the P4.
Hyperthreading was patch for this. It was nothing more than a second instruction pipeline. When an instruction pipeline was flushed, rather than sitting idle, the CPU would run from just the secondary pipeline until the original pipeline was filled.
Regardless of the number of pipelines, the execution unit was not duplicated, only the instruction queue. I don't care if a processor can perform 5 instructions per clock or 1000, when it stalls, it performs exactly 0 instructions per clock until the pipeline is filled again. Remember, all processors wait at the same speed.
Intel's hexacore offering features hyperthreading technology, which allows each core to execute two threads simultaneously. This means that Intel's hexacore chips actually have twelve logical cores, while the AMD hexacore chips only have six logical cores.
I think you may be misunderstanding what hyperthreading is. A processor (or core) can only execute one instruction at a time, hyperthreading or not. All hyperthreading does is allow for two sets of instructions to be queued up, so if one thread (or queue) gets hung up for whatever reason, like waiting over a cache miss, the other instructional thread can proceed, rather than patiently waiting in line.
Think of it as one of those tumbling thingies you have to pass through to get into Six Flags or the subway. It's like that, but hyperthreading has two lines instead of one. If one moron has to stop to find his ticket at the front of the line, the other line may move until he finds it.
Your number of physical cores comparison is meaningless...
Um... no. I believe your "virtual" core comparison is meaningless. I'll take a quad core anything over a dual core hyperthreaded-anything-else any day, thank you. Virtual cores don't mean shit until a thread stalls.
and actual performance benchmarks show that the Core i7 980X is more than twice as fast as the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T. [1]
From the site you linked:
Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz: Score of 10,325 at $989.99* AMD Phenom II X6 1055T: Score of 5,146 at $194.99*
Hmmmm... Twice the performance at over 5x the cost. Strange, I don't know why you chose that AMD chip. It's odd that you would choose the fastest Intel chip and a middle of the road AMD Chip. Why not this one? AMD Phenom II X6 1090T: Score of 6,057 at $289.99*.
Oh, I know. Thenyou wouldn't be able to use the 2x faster line. I get it now.
Here, take a look at THIS chart and pay attention to the price/performace graph. You'll see that your chip performs about 2.5x less than the AMD Phenom II X5 965 when price is a consideration. Oh, and for nearly everyone that is not living off their mommy's credit cards, price is a consideration.
Golly gosh it is so awful when the owners of a corporation have to actually keep their contractual promises to their employees. Boodeehoodeehooo. I'm crying so many tears for those owners that ran the company into the ground.
Businesses expand and contract with the economy. When the economy is good and business is growing, businesses hire more people. When economy contracts, so does the business and people get laid off. The problem with the auto industry is that the unions had no problems with the growing part, but put their foot down on the contraction part. See, GM and the others were not allowed to shrink their labor force without violating union contracts. The unions failed to negotiate the point while management took a pay cut and stockholders took a bath.
So, tell me again, who ran these companies into the ground. I just gave you the facts. Will you acknowledge them or simply keep playing your class warfare talking points? (Ever notice, how it's only the broke and lazy that keep playing the class warfare card? I mean, why would rich people try that? Those that work hard for a living expect to keep what they earn and earn what they keep. Only those that expect something for nothing from those who earned because they think that is what's fair.)
So, it's OK for everyone else to negotiate the best price except workers. Is that what you're saying? Or are you saying it should be illegal for workers to organize and collectively bargain? Should it also be illegal for CEO's to negotiate their best salary and benefits package? Should it be illegal for cartels to set commodity prices? Under what statute or legal principle would you make the right to organize illegal?
It's amazing how free market purists suddenly don't trust the free market when it comes to workers' pay.
Actually, it is illegal for corporations to get together to fix prices. And, yeah, it should be.
Look, I don't have anything against unions until they get so powerful that they either take the company down (auto industry), endanger safety (airline industry), or cause the industry they represent to fail (teachers' union). When they look out for the safety and fair treatment of the actual employees, (fire union, police union), I don't have a problem with them.
There are definitely problems in the U.S. educational system. This article was pretty cool, and they do state that their metrics aren't perfect, but lead to some valuable insight. I'd like to see further studies on this.
Teacher's Unions are the biggest problem with the US educational system. They are more concerned with teachers' benefits than they are about students. Of course, that is their job, but they give campaign contributions and students don't, they've become a bit too good at it.
I love it when teachers bitch about pay (although, sometimes warranted) and we get the following conversation: "Haven't teachers always been underpaid?" "Yes, and we need to fix that once and for all." "Then why did you take the job?" "Because I love it!" "!??!!!?!!?"
Yeah the other guy is basically saying: "There haven't been known cases of identity theft from RFID use, therefore the system is secure and we should expand it!" despite being shown conclusively that it is not secure and widespread use of RFID could be a disaster.
There HAVE been case of cash and credit cards being stolen and/or duplicated. Should we do away with all forms of cash and credit? After all, it seems that these are more insecure than RFID since they have already been breached. Hell for that matter, homes have been broken into and things stolen and people killed. Should houses be banned?
Seriously, just because something has been or could be used for nefarious uses doesn't mean it should be avoided. Just be careful with it and keep it monitored (if possible).
Wow, I have to disagree with you, that site is amazingly ridiculous. At least HAARP is actually shooting radio waves at the upper atmosphere, which means there is at least something could fool the ignorant that the US may be messing with the weather (a basic understanding of radio waves will clear this up for you, though).
Alexi Chiu is just downright out there. Wear this ring and take my Gorgeouspil(tm) and within one day your bones will start to restructure! You will be beautiful and immortal!
The saddest part of the whole thing is he's actually got a patent on the ring, and is working on a patent on the pill.
His other site is even worse.
LOL!
How can you take seriously the inventor of the Gorgeouspil(tm) when he's so FUgly!?!
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay.
I think something like IB1owGoats would be better. That way, even if the hacker/cracker is a goat-blower, it's probably not the kind of thing they would be willing to admit. "Gay" just doesn't have the same stigma attached to it that it did when we were growing up.
(Although, I was basically done at the point I heard Darth Fucking Vader say, "Is Padme all right?" Then the infamous, "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Even thinking about the journey from Anakin to Vader makes my skin crawl now.
I realized after watching Empire during the Star Wars Marathon all weekend that the NOOOOOOOOOOO scene was a take-off/homage to Luke's scream when he found out Vader was his father (Oh, spoiler alert). You know, like father, like son kinda thing.
At least, that is what I'm going to tell myself as it makes the whole "Vader NOOOOO" scene much more palatable.
Now, it's OK to be a fanboy. I guess that's cool and all. But seriously, when you say something that incredibly stupid, you really just insult the product you are trolling for. I read a comment like yours and think, "Wow! Mac fans must be morons!" Then I realize that I know many Mac people and some of them are pretty bright. I too have used Mac's and enjoyed the experience. I even owned a Mac once, although I put Yellow Dog Linux on it. I ran much smoother on that old G3 than OSX.
Either way, when you are that big of a moron, it's best to keep your mouth shut. If someone who does not know any Mac people reads your comment, they stand a high chance of thinking that Macs must be crap if their users as so dim.
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I'm sorry. But do Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly have some kind of dental infection that I'm not aware of? No? Then the "festering mouths" comment is a personal attack, an insult not to refute or forward arguments, but to insult these men personally.
So, yeah, that is what I'd call a hateful attack, or in more general terms, an attack based on hate. So, if it really was a hateful personal attack, then it was not a strawman, which is what your entire point was based on.
Here, let me try to say it in simpler terms so maybe you might understand:
Strange that every time I see an argument against the Tea Party or conservatives in general, it is almost always based on how hateful conservatives are. Yet, here are 300 comments, nearly all of which are based on personal attacks and insults.
So, I ask again, project much?
After a Colbert rally, I am quite confident that there will be trash all over the place.
Huh... so I suppose you've done an in-depth survey, and have thus proven that Colbert Report viewers are slobs... or something?
Fuck, I'm saddened, yet unsurprised, you got modded up... apparently there are 3-4 idiots out there who believe that baseless opinions insulting groups they dislike qualifies as "interesting".
Um.... project much?
Wait, you think we were on track to win in Vietnam? And it was the protests that screwed things up?
Uh, yeah. We lost zero major battles in Vietnam. Exactly zero. Had the bombing campaign been allowed to continue and not been limited (again, due to liberal protests), we bet your ass we could have won that war.
And you think the citizens of Vietnam are 'relegated to live under communism?' Vietnam had one of the highest growth rates in the world since the government instituted free market reforms in 1986.
So, what you are saying is that Vietnam had one of the highest growth rates in the world since the government realized that communism doesn't really work and tossed aside all that "to each according to their need" bullshit.
Vietnam is a member of the WTO, and well respected in the international community. The human rights situation is still abysmal, but improving.
What gets me is the respect coming from you, even though you are fully aware that " The human rights situation is still abysmal...". A country with an "abysmal" human rights record is what we were there fighting to prevent. Populations don't want to be oppressed. They are forced to allow it to happen because the oppressor is stronger than they are and is either stronger or more staying power than those fighting for freedom.
Give it time and Vietnam will be indistinguishable from the free and prosperous hybrid socialist/free market economies of Europe.
You mean, like they could have had since 1975? How many souls spent their entire lives under oppression because someone thought that if we showed peace and love that the world would turn into a John Lennon song.
As of right now, their economy is doing quite a bit better than ours.
Really? While our economy sucks, it only sucks when compared to itself. Our economy grew more in the past year than the entire economy of Vietnam. The US GDP per capita is $46,381. Vietnam's is $2,942. Um, I think our economy is a bit better than Vietnam's. So, given your track record of "non-facts", I guess we can throw out your last point of "Funny how it was capitalism that imploded recently, not socialism."
"Colbert" is in fact a persona not a real person, that is the personality on screen is not as he is in real life. The whole thing is a sarcastic cynical look at Fox News talk shows and other self important talking heads. That's why some people think it's funny, others (without a sense of humor) are offended.
I don't find him funny. It's not that I don't have a sense of humor, it's that I no longer find a joke funny after hearing it over and over and over and over again. We get it. Colbert thinks Bill O'Reilly and what he believes are conservative talk show hosts are ignorant, racist, bigoted, self serving, pompous asses. I got it in the first ten minutes the very first time I saw his show. After that, it's been the predictable telling of the same joke over and over and over again.
As an example, compare that to South Park. In South Park, you have Ben Afleck with an ass-face, Tom Cruize packing fudge and won't come out of the closet, Mel Gibson smearing poo all over the walls, Cartman as Beck, Al Gore as himself warning us all about man-bear-pig, Scientologists as frauds, Jesus looking at porn and Mohammed in a pedo-bear costume. They piss off everyone. Even Stewart, who also spends much of his time roasting the right, will go after the occasional liberal on extremely rare occasion.
"Colbert" is nothing more than a repetitive constant bashing of O'Reilly via parody and it gets old really, really, really fast.
And your point is... what exactly?
His shtick is funny and has more truth in it than O'Reilly/GB's festering mouth(s) could ever dream of.
Festering mouths? Really? Why the hatred? I mean, it's OK to disagree on the subject matter, but do you really need to literally HATE those with a different perspective on life? I believe yours and nearly every other post here, are proof that it's not the right that are the "hate mongers", but the left.
So it's true. The left does project.
From TFS:
All software is available if you want to build one for your own living room. The largest obstacle in the project is to find original software."
Um... why not just click on the little link provided there?
Eh? It seems to me that it comes down to needing a subpoena in order to get access to a public employee's work product.
If you want to talk scary, that's scary. Mann worked/works for public universities paid for with tax dollars. Explain why getting access to anything that he does while on tax payer time isn't as simple as saying "hey dude, can we see your work?"
Good point. Any work paid for by public funds needs to be public information, national security stuff excluded.
May I also point out that if this had been research on anything, say, that Bush supported and this happened four years ago, you'd have everyone on here screaming, "CONSPIRACY!!!"
You could always use something like tinychat. Just create a room and password protect it so you don't a bunch of horny perverts telling your wife to show her boobs. It may not be completely private as I'm sure that someone at the provider could monitor, but who cares. If someone wanted to hear me talk to my kids about Mickey Mouse or my wife about the electric bill, I pity them because their life must suck.
Voice recognition is a difficult but interesting and fun research area that might appeal to some at google.
It's hard to wreck a nice beach.
From your quote:
The technology enables a single physical processor to execute two or more separate code streams (threads) concurrently using shared execution resources. ...
Each "execution resource" can only execute one instruction at a time, period, always and forever. What I am calling "instruction pipeline", Intel is calling "code stream". Their write up is careful to say "execute two or more separate code streams (threads) concurrently using shared execution resources". Notice the "execute two or more code streams", not "execute instructions". It also specifically points out "... using shared execution resources", meaning that each "code stream", or instructional pipeline, has to share the execution resource.
Think of it as two lanes merging on a highway. While both lanes move forward at the same time, only one car gets through at a time. If a car in one lane stalls, the other lane can still move freely until the stalled car is restarted. Only in computers, if you get a stall, everyone in that "lane" has to go home and start over.
A processor (or core) can only execute one instruction at a time, hyperthreading or not.
Uh, no. That hasn't been true for years.
Nehalem, I believe, can execute up to five instructions per clock per core; though you'll rarely be able to reach that limit.
I said one instruction at a time, not per clock. Still, the point was that when something went awry, the entire instruction chain would have to be dumped and reloaded. The processor would sit idle while waiting for this to complete. The P4 had an extremely long instruction pipeline that allowed it to clock at higher speeds, but choke when pipeline had to be flushed. This is why the Athlons of the day were much faster at lower clock speeds due to the shorter pipelines. Whenever a stall happened, the Athlon didn't have to sit idle for nearly as long as the P4.
Hyperthreading was patch for this. It was nothing more than a second instruction pipeline. When an instruction pipeline was flushed, rather than sitting idle, the CPU would run from just the secondary pipeline until the original pipeline was filled.
Regardless of the number of pipelines, the execution unit was not duplicated, only the instruction queue. I don't care if a processor can perform 5 instructions per clock or 1000, when it stalls, it performs exactly 0 instructions per clock until the pipeline is filled again. Remember, all processors wait at the same speed.
Wikipedia has a pretty good write up on this.
Intel's hexacore offering features hyperthreading technology, which allows each core to execute two threads simultaneously. This means that Intel's hexacore chips actually have twelve logical cores, while the AMD hexacore chips only have six logical cores.
I think you may be misunderstanding what hyperthreading is. A processor (or core) can only execute one instruction at a time, hyperthreading or not. All hyperthreading does is allow for two sets of instructions to be queued up, so if one thread (or queue) gets hung up for whatever reason, like waiting over a cache miss, the other instructional thread can proceed, rather than patiently waiting in line.
Think of it as one of those tumbling thingies you have to pass through to get into Six Flags or the subway. It's like that, but hyperthreading has two lines instead of one. If one moron has to stop to find his ticket at the front of the line, the other line may move until he finds it.
Your number of physical cores comparison is meaningless...
Um... no. I believe your "virtual" core comparison is meaningless. I'll take a quad core anything over a dual core hyperthreaded-anything-else any day, thank you. Virtual cores don't mean shit until a thread stalls.
and actual performance benchmarks show that the Core i7 980X is more than twice as fast as the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T. [1]
From the site you linked:
Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz: Score of 10,325 at $989.99*
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T: Score of 5,146 at $194.99*
Hmmmm... Twice the performance at over 5x the cost. Strange, I don't know why you chose that AMD chip. It's odd that you would choose the fastest Intel chip and a middle of the road AMD Chip. Why not this one?
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T: Score of 6,057 at $289.99*.
Oh, I know. Thenyou wouldn't be able to use the 2x faster line. I get it now.
Here, take a look at THIS chart and pay attention to the price/performace graph. You'll see that your chip performs about 2.5x less than the AMD Phenom II X5 965 when price is a consideration. Oh, and for nearly everyone that is not living off their mommy's credit cards, price is a consideration.
Golly gosh it is so awful when the owners of a corporation have to actually keep their contractual promises to their employees. Boodeehoodeehooo. I'm crying so many tears for those owners that ran the company into the ground.
Businesses expand and contract with the economy. When the economy is good and business is growing, businesses hire more people. When economy contracts, so does the business and people get laid off. The problem with the auto industry is that the unions had no problems with the growing part, but put their foot down on the contraction part. See, GM and the others were not allowed to shrink their labor force without violating union contracts. The unions failed to negotiate the point while management took a pay cut and stockholders took a bath.
So, tell me again, who ran these companies into the ground. I just gave you the facts. Will you acknowledge them or simply keep playing your class warfare talking points? (Ever notice, how it's only the broke and lazy that keep playing the class warfare card? I mean, why would rich people try that? Those that work hard for a living expect to keep what they earn and earn what they keep. Only those that expect something for nothing from those who earned because they think that is what's fair.)
Meh to the teacher's union being the sole problem.
"You get what you pay for!"
True, I can't blame the teacher's union for your reading comprehension skills. Here is what I said:
Teacher's Unions are the biggest problem with the US educational system
Biggest, meaning there are others, as in not the "sole problem". I would say parental apathy being a very close second.
So, it's OK for everyone else to negotiate the best price except workers. Is that what you're saying? Or are you saying it should be illegal for workers to organize and collectively bargain? Should it also be illegal for CEO's to negotiate their best salary and benefits package? Should it be illegal for cartels to set commodity prices? Under what statute or legal principle would you make the right to organize illegal?
It's amazing how free market purists suddenly don't trust the free market when it comes to workers' pay.
Actually, it is illegal for corporations to get together to fix prices. And, yeah, it should be.
Look, I don't have anything against unions until they get so powerful that they either take the company down (auto industry), endanger safety (airline industry), or cause the industry they represent to fail (teachers' union). When they look out for the safety and fair treatment of the actual employees, (fire union, police union), I don't have a problem with them.
There are definitely problems in the U.S. educational system. This article was pretty cool, and they do state that their metrics aren't perfect, but lead to some valuable insight. I'd like to see further studies on this.
Teacher's Unions are the biggest problem with the US educational system. They are more concerned with teachers' benefits than they are about students. Of course, that is their job, but they give campaign contributions and students don't, they've become a bit too good at it.
I love it when teachers bitch about pay (although, sometimes warranted) and we get the following conversation:
"Haven't teachers always been underpaid?"
"Yes, and we need to fix that once and for all."
"Then why did you take the job?"
"Because I love it!"
"!??!!!?!!?"
Yeah the other guy is basically saying: "There haven't been known cases of identity theft from RFID use, therefore the system is secure and we should expand it!" despite being shown conclusively that it is not secure and widespread use of RFID could be a disaster.
There HAVE been case of cash and credit cards being stolen and/or duplicated. Should we do away with all forms of cash and credit? After all, it seems that these are more insecure than RFID since they have already been breached. Hell for that matter, homes have been broken into and things stolen and people killed. Should houses be banned?
Seriously, just because something has been or could be used for nefarious uses doesn't mean it should be avoided. Just be careful with it and keep it monitored (if possible).
Wow, I have to disagree with you, that site is amazingly ridiculous. At least HAARP is actually shooting radio waves at the upper atmosphere, which means there is at least something could fool the ignorant that the US may be messing with the weather (a basic understanding of radio waves will clear this up for you, though).
Alexi Chiu is just downright out there. Wear this ring and take my Gorgeouspil(tm) and within one day your bones will start to restructure! You will be beautiful and immortal!
The saddest part of the whole thing is he's actually got a patent on the ring, and is working on a patent on the pill.
His other site is even worse.
LOL!
How can you take seriously the inventor of the Gorgeouspil(tm) when he's so FUgly!?!
Costs too much money (over $40/month)
Hate to continue this off topic thread here, but...
If you can't afford $40/month, you are not the kinda guy that the ladies on e-harmony are looking for.
My password is IAMGAY. That way, even if it got found out I can be confident no one will want to use it, because that would mean they are gay.
I think something like IB1owGoats would be better. That way, even if the hacker/cracker is a goat-blower, it's probably not the kind of thing they would be willing to admit. "Gay" just doesn't have the same stigma attached to it that it did when we were growing up.
(Although, I was basically done at the point I heard Darth Fucking Vader say, "Is Padme all right?" Then the infamous, "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Even thinking about the journey from Anakin to Vader makes my skin crawl now.
I realized after watching Empire during the Star Wars Marathon all weekend that the NOOOOOOOOOOO scene was a take-off/homage to Luke's scream when he found out Vader was his father (Oh, spoiler alert). You know, like father, like son kinda thing.
At least, that is what I'm going to tell myself as it makes the whole "Vader NOOOOO" scene much more palatable.
Those suppositories you gave me tasted really terrible, doctor. And for all the good they've done me I might as well have shoved them up my ass.
I did before I gave them to you. They didn't do me any good either.
If you're having it, you know that it's really not that special after all. Honestly, sex is the second most overrated thing in our cultural landscape.
Sex is like oxygen. When you're not getting it, nothing else matters. When you are getting plenty of it, you don't pay attention to it.
You have a $320 Comcast bill!? How is that even possible?
Lots of Pay-per-view.
I have to agree with the GP here. Well, unless I'm one of the ones who gets to leave in the event of a disaster. If that's the case, I'm all for it.
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Now, it's OK to be a fanboy. I guess that's cool and all. But seriously, when you say something that incredibly stupid, you really just insult the product you are trolling for. I read a comment like yours and think, "Wow! Mac fans must be morons!" Then I realize that I know many Mac people and some of them are pretty bright. I too have used Mac's and enjoyed the experience. I even owned a Mac once, although I put Yellow Dog Linux on it. I ran much smoother on that old G3 than OSX.
Either way, when you are that big of a moron, it's best to keep your mouth shut. If someone who does not know any Mac people reads your comment, they stand a high chance of thinking that Macs must be crap if their users as so dim.