Like Socrates said, "be more aware of the man who thinks he is wise than the man who thinks he is a fool." OK he didn't say that exactly, but close.
The exact quote was "I pity the fool who trusts other fools who don't know they be fools". It's from his tell-all scroll "Socrates It To Me! - The Life And Times Of A Gonzo Philosopher" published in 402 BC by Spartan Press. It was rated 4 Zeus lightning bolts out of 5 by the most popular news runners of the day.
When your civilization depends on a technology, are you saying you trust a private, for profit corporation more than you trust a democratically controlled government?
Wow. You actually took the fuckheaded "get what you vote for" bullshit and made it several meters deeper!
Sorry, but I possess neither the money nor the sociopathy required to run for office in this day and age. I also have an interesting past of colorful experimentation that would not pass muster with dirt finding political assassination teams or with the religious cattle who also cast votes. Those good enough reasons for you? Not that I give a gnat's fart- just askin'.
*shrug* So is Michelle Obama. Your point? Oh, wait, it's the "my side is all angels who shit miracles and the other side is the worst devils in all of history" effect you ideology seized brain isn't it. You have my sympathies. When is the funeral for your intellect?
Or maybe you've just elected poor leaders who've squandered all your money.
Or maybe all the "leaders" available to vote for are dog crap. I'm sick of this "well, you voted for them" excuse when there's not a single person worth a drop of spit even at the primary stage anymore. You should have seen our election here in California. The ballots actually smelled like shit, and you couldn't wash the stink off for days. It's was a parade of human catastrophes posing as real people.
Anyone who calls them "leaders" is not thinking clearly, and is fully vested as part of the problem.
I can't imagine sitting on a jury and handing out an award like this, even if she is guilty of the charges. It's like people lose all sense of reality in the jury room. I wouldn't know for sure because when I give my occupation as "satellite communications engineer" I'm generally excused by the defense in the next breath.
However, you listen to the juror interviews after some recent high profile cases with questionable verdicts, and you can see how a lot of them get wrapped up in the pseudo-religious fervor of CIVIC DUTY[TM] and lose themselves in the minutiae of what are in many cases pretty clear situations if you just hold on to your common sense.
I love the "our hands were tied" excuse. So screw the jury instructions or whatever you imagine is tying your hands. It's *your* baby in that jury room. Give the correct verdict. Maybe it'll get overturned by another court, but at least you did the right thing.
Fuck, am I the only one who remembers the 2006 elections? You know, the ones where the Democrats swept into control in reaction to Bush's epic fail? What the hell is wrong with you people? Are you not taking your ginkgo biloba? Have I slipped in from a parallel Earth? What? What?
Wait... where's the EU delegation droning on about how we in the US are all right wing relative to the EU, and then usually something about joining the collective or the hive or the ubersack something.
Odd use of "demolished". Wasn't the bill, like, 218,000 pages by the time it went to vote?:-) People were measuring it using the "Libraries Of Congress" yardstick or, when faced with the physical copy, actual yardsticks.
Not to mention that they probably don't model things out of camera shot. I've done a lot of 3D art. Scene looks great. Turn the camera 10 degrees and suddenly you see the empty void of null space where unlucky rays trace off to infinity...
My point exactly! Can you imagine not getting a chance to see the amazing background which is the Coruscant in Starwars, or those amazing environments at The Lord of The Rings? I don't think so. Blurring everything other than whatever is the focus is a great idea for fascist film making, I suppose this was discovered in 1940s?
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Are Dr. Wilson and Dr. House still living together? I'm a season behind on DVD.
Like Socrates said, "be more aware of the man who thinks he is wise than the man who thinks he is a fool." OK he didn't say that exactly, but close.
The exact quote was "I pity the fool who trusts other fools who don't know they be fools". It's from his tell-all scroll "Socrates It To Me! - The Life And Times Of A Gonzo Philosopher" published in 402 BC by Spartan Press. It was rated 4 Zeus lightning bolts out of 5 by the most popular news runners of the day.
When your civilization depends on a technology, are you saying you trust a private, for profit corporation more than you trust a democratically controlled government?
Can't I distrust both equally?
Confessing to puffing a blunt once isn't exactly colorful.
I voted third party across the board.
Oh, look, didn't help. Instead we got the legislature with the single digit approval rating being voted right back in.
But, yeah, keep tossing out the tired old ideas of how I can "make a difference", guys.
I didn't see your name on the ballot.
Wow. You actually took the fuckheaded "get what you vote for" bullshit and made it several meters deeper!
Sorry, but I possess neither the money nor the sociopathy required to run for office in this day and age. I also have an interesting past of colorful experimentation that would not pass muster with dirt finding political assassination teams or with the religious cattle who also cast votes. Those good enough reasons for you? Not that I give a gnat's fart- just askin'.
Coulter isn't an asshole, she's a fucking cunt.
*shrug* So is Michelle Obama. Your point? Oh, wait, it's the "my side is all angels who shit miracles and the other side is the worst devils in all of history" effect you ideology seized brain isn't it. You have my sympathies. When is the funeral for your intellect?
Or maybe you've just elected poor leaders who've squandered all your money.
Or maybe all the "leaders" available to vote for are dog crap. I'm sick of this "well, you voted for them" excuse when there's not a single person worth a drop of spit even at the primary stage anymore. You should have seen our election here in California. The ballots actually smelled like shit, and you couldn't wash the stink off for days. It's was a parade of human catastrophes posing as real people.
Anyone who calls them "leaders" is not thinking clearly, and is fully vested as part of the problem.
With their usual understated style
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I can't imagine sitting on a jury and handing out an award like this, even if she is guilty of the charges. It's like people lose all sense of reality in the jury room. I wouldn't know for sure because when I give my occupation as "satellite communications engineer" I'm generally excused by the defense in the next breath.
However, you listen to the juror interviews after some recent high profile cases with questionable verdicts, and you can see how a lot of them get wrapped up in the pseudo-religious fervor of CIVIC DUTY[TM] and lose themselves in the minutiae of what are in many cases pretty clear situations if you just hold on to your common sense.
I love the "our hands were tied" excuse. So screw the jury instructions or whatever you imagine is tying your hands. It's *your* baby in that jury room. Give the correct verdict. Maybe it'll get overturned by another court, but at least you did the right thing.
Oh, piffle. A tie is sufficient because it's not that hard to get crossovers. There *are* liberal Republicans, Virginia.
Oh. They get to the airport OK?
Wait... WHO TOOK THE SILVERWARE!
I mean, the Democrats didn't get two years.
You are correct, sir.
They got four.
Fuck, am I the only one who remembers the 2006 elections? You know, the ones where the Democrats swept into control in reaction to Bush's epic fail? What the hell is wrong with you people? Are you not taking your ginkgo biloba? Have I slipped in from a parallel Earth? What? What?
Wait... where's the EU delegation droning on about how we in the US are all right wing relative to the EU, and then usually something about joining the collective or the hive or the ubersack something.
until it got demolished
Odd use of "demolished". Wasn't the bill, like, 218,000 pages by the time it went to vote? :-) People were measuring it using the "Libraries Of Congress" yardstick or, when faced with the physical copy, actual yardsticks.
I was so going to send them a resume. I'd be so overqualified they'd put me in charge, and I'd officially rename it the Fringe Division.
I was *THIS* close to being in charge of the Fringe Division! DAMN YOU, COLORADO VOTERS!!!!
+5 Funny for this being +4 Informative. So that's... +9 or 5+i4? Funny and informative are orthogonal, right?
Not to mention that they probably don't model things out of camera shot. I've done a lot of 3D art. Scene looks great. Turn the camera 10 degrees and suddenly you see the empty void of null space where unlucky rays trace off to infinity...
My point exactly! Can you imagine not getting a chance to see the amazing background which is the Coruscant in Starwars, or those amazing environments at The Lord of The Rings? I don't think so. Blurring everything other than whatever is the focus is a great idea for fascist film making, I suppose this was discovered in 1940s?
Holy shit! (hits breaks) SCREEEEEEEECH! BAM! AAAAAAAH! SMASH!
Damn! That Godwin just leapt into the road out of nowhere!
Wow. 10 years or so into the 21st century, and the Earth is still covered in a uniform 100 foot layer of bullshit. It's never going to end, is it?
You can put an Earth-sized planet where Pluto is and that's not going to mean anything.
Well, it will mean enough to make people say, "Holy shit! How'd you move that planet there like that!"
Dude, physics has moved on. There's several relatively new theories about what preceded the big bang and why the bang happened.
*shrug* My employer actually increases R&D budgets in bad times so we can have shiny new things to capture business.
But using some statistics,
Uh oh...
Man, you took my comment way too seriously.
You linked to evolution stuff. Does that always go hand in hand with Young Earth Creationism? I'm not religious, so I honestly don't know.