Why does deploying new more efficient technology need to cripple economies?
Ah... because they said so. And if you can't trust the captains of industry who can you trust?
Besides, without that straw man they have no reason not to start promoting safe and efficient technologies and stop making money hand over fist by slowly destroying the planet.
How insensitive of you not to submit to their obvious moral superiority.
Here's the problem: bombarding them with facts just confuses them. What you have to do is take a fact and dilute it with water until the fact is essentially no longer there. Then have them drink the water.
There's an idea... I bet we could bottle that stuff up and sell it, maybe call it "Holy Water" just to confuse people.
... it's likely that a large sub-set of chemophobes would confuse it...
Isn't that the point.
Back in grade school I used to get a kick out of calling the mouth breathers homo-sapiens so that they freak out and deny it. Even teachers thought that was funny 90% of the time.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the Irish are not a race.
That's arguable given the cultural history of Ireland, however you would be hard put to not identify the Irish as a Nation
A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history.[1] In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up.[2][3] In international relations, nation can refer to a country or sovereign state.[1] The word nation can more specifically refer to people of North American Indians, such as the Cherokee Nation that prefer this term over the contested term tribe.
Discriminating against an entire nation is a form of xenophobia which is largely akin to racism. (If I go any further someone will call Godwin and we can all go home...)
Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin) (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature.[1] Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is best known for English language novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, and The Third Policeman (written under the nom de plume Flann O'Brien) as well as many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish language novel An Béal Bocht (written under the name Myles na gCopaleen), O'Nolan has also been referred to as a "scientific prophet" in relation to his writings on thermodynamics, quaternion theory and atomic theory.
That's the real issue. The US is so conservative, our labels don't sync up well with the rest of the world, especially in the last 25 years. Case in point: Reagan's positions would make him center or left of center in the *Democrat* party these days. The US right has more in common now with the Taliban than what was traditionally considered "conservative" for most of the US' history.
I enjoy pointing out that a century ago you could destroy a Canadian politician's career by labeling him an "American Sympathizer" in the media.
That looks suspiciously short and way too readable to be a full statement of the actual law.
If it applied every time someone shouts at someone for driving like an asshole or when people get riled up in a pub the entire population would be locked up.
Fortunately Canadian judges are not elected. So you have to have a pretty good case.
I'm getting a distinct sense lately that we may be coming to the end of the era of innovation and the beginning of an era where it's essentially impossible to invent anything or innovate in any way unless you have a powerful corporate sponsor backing you.
Only in America and American colonies. The rest of the world isn't that dumb.
That's not fair, we're all dumb, just in different ways.
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
When they stop getting paid to do it. In other words when the alarmist media can stop selling advertising for it. Which all translates to: when the general public can no longer be fooled by the reactionaries.
Which will around the time that Joe Public finally realizes that "Reality TV" is anything but real, and that when anybody advertises themselves as "Fair and Balanced" the reality is probably something else.
In other words, don't hold your breath, the marching morons are coming... knee-deep in the water around Zanzibar.
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Why does deploying new more efficient technology need to cripple economies?
Ah... because they said so. And if you can't trust the captains of industry who can you trust?
Besides, without that straw man they have no reason not to start promoting safe and efficient technologies and stop making money hand over fist by slowly destroying the planet.
How insensitive of you not to submit to their obvious moral superiority.
Here's the problem: bombarding them with facts just confuses them. What you have to do is take a fact and dilute it with water until the fact is essentially no longer there. Then have them drink the water.
There's an idea... I bet we could bottle that stuff up and sell it, maybe call it "Holy Water" just to confuse people.
... it's likely that a large sub-set of chemophobes would confuse it ...
Isn't that the point.
Back in grade school I used to get a kick out of calling the mouth breathers homo-sapiens so that they freak out and deny it. Even teachers thought that was funny 90% of the time.
You bypassed the Maginot line of logic and rationality and annexed the Sudetenland of irrational comparisons!
Awesome line... sadly those who I would love to use it on myself will simply not understand its bunt aptness.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the Irish are not a race.
That's arguable given the cultural history of Ireland, however you would be hard put to not identify the Irish as a Nation
A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history.[1] In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up.[2][3] In international relations, nation can refer to a country or sovereign state.[1] The word nation can more specifically refer to people of North American Indians, such as the Cherokee Nation that prefer this term over the contested term tribe.
Discriminating against an entire nation is a form of xenophobia which is largely akin to racism. (If I go any further someone will call Godwin and we can all go home...)
Brian O'Nolan
Brian O'Nolan (Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin) (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature.[1] Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is best known for English language novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, and The Third Policeman (written under the nom de plume Flann O'Brien) as well as many satirical columns in The Irish Times and an Irish language novel An Béal Bocht (written under the name Myles na gCopaleen), O'Nolan has also been referred to as a "scientific prophet" in relation to his writings on thermodynamics, quaternion theory and atomic theory.
Incidentally, I've heard that the late Mr. Bin Laden was a big enthusiast of the right to keep and bear arms...
However I've heard he's secretly a Muslim and born outside the US, so your mileage may vary.
... there may also be human rights violations in Australia.
Who knew?
That's the real issue. The US is so conservative, our labels don't sync up well with the rest of the world, especially in the last 25 years. Case in point: Reagan's positions would make him center or left of center in the *Democrat* party these days. The US right has more in common now with the Taliban than what was traditionally considered "conservative" for most of the US' history.
I enjoy pointing out that a century ago you could destroy a Canadian politician's career by labeling him an "American Sympathizer" in the media.
Using eclipse for C++ is madness, for Java it's great.
Mature language and environment, vast number of open source third party libraries, runs literally anywhere. (Well... except iOS ...)
That looks suspiciously short and way too readable to be a full statement of the actual law.
If it applied every time someone shouts at someone for driving like an asshole or when people get riled up in a pub the entire population would be locked up.
Fortunately Canadian judges are not elected. So you have to have a pretty good case.
To where? There isn't a country out there that isn't corrupt to the whims of the US that isn't ruled by someone just as bad.
Sure, but we do have a better health plan ;-)
That's not saying much.
Uttering threats is a criminal act in Canada.
What is M$? Some childish, retarded as fuck way of writing MS?
Yes, get over it.
Well if you don't ever let the physical cat out of the bag, then you'll just end up with a bag with a dead cat in it. And that's no fun for anyone.
Tell that to the dog.
I hope that was deliberate irony, because it's the funniest thing I've read all day.
I'm getting a distinct sense lately that we may be coming to the end of the era of innovation and the beginning of an era where it's essentially impossible to invent anything or innovate in any way unless you have a powerful corporate sponsor backing you.
Only in America and American colonies. The rest of the world isn't that dumb.
That's not fair, we're all dumb, just in different ways.
... from what I hear, C Sharp is a very nice programming language...
It is, unfortunately it's a case of "nice video, shame about the song". (But then Java is sort of the opposite.)
I am yet to find a language that really makes me happy, maybe I'm going about this all wrong...
When will these fuddy-duddies/ idiots die-off so that this constant fear-mongering can stop?
When they stop getting paid to do it. In other words when the alarmist media can stop selling advertising for it. Which all translates to: when the general public can no longer be fooled by the reactionaries.
Which will around the time that Joe Public finally realizes that "Reality TV" is anything but real, and that when anybody advertises themselves as "Fair and Balanced" the reality is probably something else.
In other words, don't hold your breath, the marching morons are coming... knee-deep in the water around Zanzibar.
These day Brown's stuff is more plausible than reality. (ok, not really, but recent headlines keep reminding me of Stand on Zanzibar)
Never get involved in a software project where the team leader says either "agile" or "scrum" in every second sentence.
As I said "in this case Steam thinks they are a different SKU and therefore separate products"