"Reaching for the popcorn"?
I think you misspelled "Reaching for the lifeboats because if the US falls so will the entire fucking world."
In other news, Galileo has been exhumed and re-animated (with wires and stuff) to publically recant his belief that the Earth orbits around Sol.. in truth, it's America that the rest of the world revolves around; specifically, the state of Utah.
^This. The entire situation is completely and utter absurd, and a slap in the face of everything our country is supposed to represent. He's been in custody for how many months now without any word of a trial?
Exactly. However, I'd point out it's not merely custody he's been enjoying at the pleasure of the 'American people'; kind Uncle Sam laid on a full spread of psychological torture for the man who pointed out the Emperor's saggy bottom cheeks behind the 'cloth of finest gold'. He's suffering even now, as we post on the innertubes.
Ahh, America, land of the free.
Note: I don't think my little shit-splat country is any better - of course, New Zealand doesn't trumpet and parade itself as a bastion of freedom like the US of A does..
Once again you cut through to the heart of the issue and see it for what it is. I'm one of your fans for this very reason and I really enjoy your posts.
I find with stuff like this I tend to get caught up in the heat of the matter and lose perspective. Your comments are frequently modded to +5 and with good reason; thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Normally I try to explain my reasoning for taking issue with something and lay out my position
Well, whatever small amount of karma I have here be damned. You're an absolute arsehole, a genuine fucking cunt. Please, writhe in agony for hundreds of hours before expiring in puddle of your own goo, you fucking, fucking cunt.
No need for (x)AnalogyGuy or anyone else. I think that was the simplest, most visual and easily-digestible summation of the current US economic position I've heard, thank you.
From reading Alex Belits' response I'm not going to be popular when I say I largely agree with your summary. I would however add what we tend to discuss is Humanity's highly-visible behaviour, which is not representative of the species as a whole. Obviously, meditating monks don't get Press like suicide bombers do.
What is missing is a sense of community such as we have with our families. Military gung-ho types might enjoy killing enemy combatants but it's pretty obvious they wouldn't enjoy killing their own family or community members in the same way: it would be unthinkable.
If we want to put an end to violence as a way of resolving conflict, we must ensure that our children are educated to consider one another as part of their own extended family.
Our Homo Sapiens Sapiens-level suspicion of Others has assisted our survival in the past; now, many thousands of years later this same trait is the greatest threat to our survival.
People do not abuse political power because they are inhuman: quite the contrary.
Very well said.
It's interesting when an individual's humanity is questioned in response to their heinous actions.. such as a comment I heard spoken to a reporter who was garnering local feelings on the Egyptian Christian church bombing that happened recently.
The woman being interviewed said something to the effect that '[the terrorist bombers] aren't human, they're just animals'.
Although I wouldn't say our species is worthless, personally I find it a bit shameful that we (still) collectively consider ourselves superior to the other lifeforms on this planet.
yes, people who are capable of faltering on the side of trust have their fingers on the missile launch buttons that could destroy us all.
you'd rather some paranoid recluse who cowers behind a chosen pseudonym be given the responsibility?
cower some more feeb
...so said whilst cowering behind another ten sock-puppet accounts. In case it isn't obvious, this makes you the 'feeb'.
Oh, and as an aside, I always get a chuckle out of seeing your use of the word 'hypocrite'. It's almost as if the word was invented solely for your own personal, clueless use.
Are those the best case numbers or worst case? OCZ has a history of claiming huge numbers and terribly under-delivering. Oh, and at least for my use case MLC is a non-starter so the only OCZ card I'd be interest in is the Z-Drive e88 R2 which is ~$10k so 30% more for a two card solution (RAID1) and I only need ~120GB for the OLTP tables.
Here's another data point that agrees with you: I recently specc'd a machine for a client with a Core i7, 12GB RAM etc., including an OCZ RevoDrive. This machine is a massive beast, easily the most powerful I've worked with, yet it doesn't feel noticably faster than a machine equipped with a simple SSD such as one of Intel's offerings or even an OCZ Vertex2.
My experience with OCZ mirrors yours exactly; all mouth and no trousers. The reviews of the product don't help much because although the numbers look great, I find the devices don't get anywhere near the claimed performance by either manufacturer or the reviewer.
I'm fully prepared to accept that I might be doing something wrong but I've followed the usual block-alignment procedures etc. and have probably seen about a dozen of these things in the last year. As I understand it Windows 7 performs this alignment itself when conducting a fresh install.
I was wondering when you were going to do that. Predictably, you assume a failure to be modded up as an indication of a post's quality.
If that is your belief, then how do you explain your own posts typically languishing at -1?
The age of this article is the only reason we're not both being moderated offtopic. You know damn well that your posts to fresh articles are moderated straight into the toilet where they belong. Face it, nobody wants to read your spiteful gibberings.
Formulaic rant ignored; you are clearly incapable of rational thought and I'm not interested in reading the same tripe over and over.
You toss your empty schoolyard insults and mis-use simple words with empty-headed glee, serving only to confirm you are of no value to sites like Slashdot.
The fact that you remain a prolific and vociferous poster is evidence enough that you just don't get it.
i claimed you made no assertion, moron. you didn't understand that, because you're a moron.
did your mother name you Sardaukar? what is your address? what is your phone number? what individual is responsible for the hypocritical ignorance broadcasted through the manipulated user on this internet web site chat room message board?
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
You barely comprehend the simplest posting. There's little point in engaging you further if this is the best response you can come up with.
just as your puppeteer would have you do, you've continued to make no claims whatsoever, while simultaneously and ignorantly and hypocritically asserting you have any power whatsoever to stop me.
you're an idiot.
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
Perhaps you'd like to point out where I made that assertion in my previous post.
You fail reading comprehension so hugely it's a wonder a singularity doesn't open inside your head.
You're less than worthless.. you're Michael Kristopeit!
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"Reaching for the popcorn"? I think you misspelled "Reaching for the lifeboats because if the US falls so will the entire fucking world."
In other news, Galileo has been exhumed and re-animated (with wires and stuff) to publically recant his belief that the Earth orbits around Sol.. in truth, it's America that the rest of the world revolves around; specifically, the state of Utah.
^This. The entire situation is completely and utter absurd, and a slap in the face of everything our country is supposed to represent. He's been in custody for how many months now without any word of a trial?
Exactly. However, I'd point out it's not merely custody he's been enjoying at the pleasure of the 'American people'; kind Uncle Sam laid on a full spread of psychological torture for the man who pointed out the Emperor's saggy bottom cheeks behind the 'cloth of finest gold'. He's suffering even now, as we post on the innertubes.
Ahh, America, land of the free.
Note: I don't think my little shit-splat country is any better - of course, New Zealand doesn't trumpet and parade itself as a bastion of freedom like the US of A does..
Once again you cut through to the heart of the issue and see it for what it is. I'm one of your fans for this very reason and I really enjoy your posts.
I find with stuff like this I tend to get caught up in the heat of the matter and lose perspective. Your comments are frequently modded to +5 and with good reason; thank you for sharing your thoughts.
since you are writing in support of a traitor
Normally I try to explain my reasoning for taking issue with something and lay out my position
Well, whatever small amount of karma I have here be damned. You're an absolute arsehole, a genuine fucking cunt. Please, writhe in agony for hundreds of hours before expiring in puddle of your own goo, you fucking, fucking cunt.
No need for (x)AnalogyGuy or anyone else. I think that was the simplest, most visual and easily-digestible summation of the current US economic position I've heard, thank you.
From reading Alex Belits' response I'm not going to be popular when I say I largely agree with your summary. I would however add what we tend to discuss is Humanity's highly-visible behaviour, which is not representative of the species as a whole. Obviously, meditating monks don't get Press like suicide bombers do.
What is missing is a sense of community such as we have with our families. Military gung-ho types might enjoy killing enemy combatants but it's pretty obvious they wouldn't enjoy killing their own family or community members in the same way: it would be unthinkable.
If we want to put an end to violence as a way of resolving conflict, we must ensure that our children are educated to consider one another as part of their own extended family.
Our Homo Sapiens Sapiens-level suspicion of Others has assisted our survival in the past; now, many thousands of years later this same trait is the greatest threat to our survival.
Very well said.
It's interesting when an individual's humanity is questioned in response to their heinous actions.. such as a comment I heard spoken to a reporter who was garnering local feelings on the Egyptian Christian church bombing that happened recently.
The woman being interviewed said something to the effect that '[the terrorist bombers] aren't human, they're just animals'.
Although I wouldn't say our species is worthless, personally I find it a bit shameful that we (still) collectively consider ourselves superior to the other lifeforms on this planet.
yes, people who are capable of faltering on the side of trust have their fingers on the missile launch buttons that could destroy us all.
you'd rather some paranoid recluse who cowers behind a chosen pseudonym be given the responsibility?
cower some more feeb
...so said whilst cowering behind another ten sock-puppet accounts. In case it isn't obvious, this makes you the 'feeb'.
Oh, and as an aside, I always get a chuckle out of seeing your use of the word 'hypocrite'. It's almost as if the word was invented solely for your own personal, clueless use.
MichaelKristopeit's ignorance FTW!
Are those the best case numbers or worst case? OCZ has a history of claiming huge numbers and terribly under-delivering. Oh, and at least for my use case MLC is a non-starter so the only OCZ card I'd be interest in is the Z-Drive e88 R2 which is ~$10k so 30% more for a two card solution (RAID1) and I only need ~120GB for the OLTP tables.
Here's another data point that agrees with you: I recently specc'd a machine for a client with a Core i7, 12GB RAM etc., including an OCZ RevoDrive. This machine is a massive beast, easily the most powerful I've worked with, yet it doesn't feel noticably faster than a machine equipped with a simple SSD such as one of Intel's offerings or even an OCZ Vertex2.
My experience with OCZ mirrors yours exactly; all mouth and no trousers. The reviews of the product don't help much because although the numbers look great, I find the devices don't get anywhere near the claimed performance by either manufacturer or the reviewer.
I'm fully prepared to accept that I might be doing something wrong but I've followed the usual block-alignment procedures etc. and have probably seen about a dozen of these things in the last year. As I understand it Windows 7 performs this alignment itself when conducting a fresh install.
I was wondering when you were going to do that. Predictably, you assume a failure to be modded up as an indication of a post's quality.
If that is your belief, then how do you explain your own posts typically languishing at -1?
The age of this article is the only reason we're not both being moderated offtopic. You know damn well that your posts to fresh articles are moderated straight into the toilet where they belong. Face it, nobody wants to read your spiteful gibberings.
Formulaic rant ignored; you are clearly incapable of rational thought and I'm not interested in reading the same tripe over and over.
You toss your empty schoolyard insults and mis-use simple words with empty-headed glee, serving only to confirm you are of no value to sites like Slashdot.
The fact that you remain a prolific and vociferous poster is evidence enough that you just don't get it.
So rant away, feeb. Nobody cares.
It's clear this is the best I can expect to see from you. Tell me, what's it like to be the weakest link?
you believe your mothers face begs to be insulted?
cower some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
What on Earth are you on about?
You've nothing to say for yourself; you are redundant, redundant, redundant.
ur mum's face repeats yourself.
you're an idiot.
cower some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
Yeah, that's a well thought-out argument right there that is.
i claimed you made no assertion, moron. you didn't understand that, because you're a moron.
did your mother name you Sardaukar? what is your address? what is your phone number? what individual is responsible for the hypocritical ignorance broadcasted through the manipulated user on this internet web site chat room message board?
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
You barely comprehend the simplest posting. There's little point in engaging you further if this is the best response you can come up with.
you've gone nowhere, as you are NOTHING. cower some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
Do you even read replies to your posts?
You forgot to eloquently insult my 'moms face' or similar. Are you slipping?
just as your puppeteer would have you do, you've continued to make no claims whatsoever, while simultaneously and ignorantly and hypocritically asserting you have any power whatsoever to stop me.
you're an idiot.
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
Perhaps you'd like to point out where I made that assertion in my previous post.
You fail reading comprehension so hugely it's a wonder a singularity doesn't open inside your head.
You're less than worthless.. you're Michael Kristopeit!
ur mum's face're a FUCKING ROBOT.
cower some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
..says the fool, ignorant of his own behaviour.
Who's completely pathetic? I think it best to let your karma answer that one for us, you bleating mechanical goblin.
ur mum's face = drivel = tiresome.
why do you cower? what are you afraid of?
you're completely pathetic.
Why do you repeat yourself?
Why are you so fucking redundant?
you're an ignorant hypocrite.
cower some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
...and you don't know what any of those words mean, as you repeatedly demonstrate.
the truth = "Flamebait"
gp's statement of obvious falsehood = THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF INSIGHTFULNESS.
slashdot = stagnated
Your drivel = tiresome
i was using the grandparents's (paiute) ignorant terms to further illustrate their ignorance... why are you responding to me?
Whatever flatus escapes your mouth only serves to further confirm your own total ignorance.. and world-class arrogance.
Run along now and don't forget to accuse us all of being 'nothing' and 'completely pathetic'.
WHY do you cower? WHAT are you afraid of?
you ARE completely pathetic.
And you're a FUCKING ROBOT.
ur mum's face think that is the best i have?
cower in my shadow some more, feeb.
Oooh, there we go again, caught cowering in MichaelKristopeit188's MIGHTY SHADOW.
You strike an awe-inspiring pose there, I've gone all weak at the knees...
i'm pretty sure that testing that there is enough matter for us to exist at all was already very testable. i'm here. hello. there is enough matter.
Hi, Fuckwad! Nice of you to weigh in with your inanity once again.
Figured out how to breathe through your nose yet?