Is the average Xbox 360 player at all aware that drone strikes in countries like Pakistan cause a serious number of civilian deaths on a regular basis? Or do Xbox 360 gamers live in a parallel, game-inspired universe, where a real world 'Drone Strike' is something seriously cool, just like it is cool to use it in popular games like Call of Duty?
Or a bunch of people, a lot of them kids, gave some bullshit answer? Awesomely scientific survey there. Did they massage the numbers with four year out of date voting patterns like the big boy polling outfits?
But they are only half true: an artifact of the PC is dying, but the essence of the PC revolution is closer to realization than ever before, while also being closer to loss than ever before.
The alpha sociopaths will always claw their way to the top because they are unencumbered by conscience and morality. Anyone who thought the number of Parties mattered is either a fool or Pinkie Pie.
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It seems like a lot of these academic authors try to "out dense" one another and deliberately make their papers as unclear as possible, so I think it's not just "journal will accept anything" and a little "thickly worded paper no one wants to admit they don;t understand and it sounds like every other paper."
I've had papers about communications concepts where I have written VHDL cores and embedded software that work perfectly, yet I can't make heads or tails of papers on the topic because they are written in such an obtuse manner with bizarre symbol choices and shoehorning every blessed value into a matrix, no matter how inappropriate, because Matlab is the only tool they know how to use.
Just because you cannot wrap your head around evolving biological processes and vast, VAST expanses of time, doesn't mean that life is as rare as you assert.
That's the tickle I always have at the back of my mind- that the final, underlying nature of the universe is something we could *never* wrap our minds around. Like there's some other level to reality, and maybe its even staring us in the face, every day, all around us, but it's so alien and incomprehensible our minds just don't process it.
I'm not sure how to explain it. Like putting a bug in side a sculpture. The bug is not aware of the sculpture, has no idea anything out there made it or that it has a purpose other than a surface for it to scuttle around on. It knows nothing of marble or chisels or artistic intent. But if you could give the bug human awareness, it could just look around and think, wow, I'm on a freaking sculpture.
Yeah, silly speculation, but creepy fun sometimes.:)
I drew a card out of this deck, and oh look, it's the three of clubs. There are not enough three of clubs in this deck for this to be possible statistically (because there is only one) - the numbers will blow your mind if you look at them.
Wow. People you've already forgotten George W. Bush?
Oh, Bush had the No Fuck Given Syndrome for sure, but, holy bejeezus, it's almost visible as an aura with Obama. He hides it better more often than Bush did, but when it slips, yeesh.
Protip: Someone criticizing Obama is not necessarily Republican.
No. We just think he's going to screw it up less than the other guy.
If that helps you sleep at night, have at it.
You know. The one who thinks airplane windows should roll down, dogs like to ride strapped to the roofs of cars and cutting taxes magically fixes the deficit.
*shrug* I have no use for Romney.
All the decent charts I've seen appear to indicate little correlation at all between tax rates and GDP, so both sides of that issue are barking nonsense. Sometimes it looks like high tax rates leads to jobs, but who knows what the delay factors are. Do you compare current tax rates to current economic parameters, or did the tax rates 2, 5 or 10 years ago lead to what we have now? Do you know? Does anyone know for sure?
The real problem is looking at a mind meltingly complicated geopolitical and economic system and focusing on one number here or there. EVERYONE is guilty of that outside perhaps a few economists toiling away in think tanks here and there.
I've often wondered, however, if you could tie tax cuts or breaks or whatever to specific activities. A company's tax rate is a function of the number of jobs it created, and the coefficients are set to increase revenue as the company creates jobs. Maybe even reworjk the concept of personal income tax so it's tied into the employers taxes. But even speculation like that is too complicated for the average Party loyalist (94% of the country, it seems) so, meh, I keep my head down and try to retire early and just bug out to some quaint little countryside hamlet somewhere with a cottage and maybe an alpaca or two.
No love for Bush here, but whatever. I reject the very notion that one person in one office has that much control of things. We're in a shithole because of the usual bipartisan clusterfuck events in D.C. Trying to pin this on one Party or even one man is the usual ideological delusion and mind cancer that affects most of the population.
Yes, some Libertarians take things too far. So do other people in the other ideological swamps. Nothing new.
For me with the Libertarians it's their wide open border stance. They honestly think that would work. It's mind boggling.
It's all just bullshit anyway. The power structure uses these ideologies like the Pied Piper used his music. Obama, Romney, all of them. They don't really care. They don't have to.
FFS, (just to pick one example) Obama has let slip more than any politician I can recall in years that even the NSA supercomputers cannot calculate the number of fucks he doesn't give, yet half the country still slavishly supports him, and thinks he's going to deliver them to some Nirvana of some sort- free from all suffering and, I dunno, rainbows and ponies or something.
Not sure how Koenig & Bauer and others refusing to sell the currency or equipment to Iran has fuck all to do with Iran getting equipment for other things like their nuke program. Seems like a non sequitur there, sport.
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At the end of the debate, you get a Paragon or Renegade score, and Tali'Zorah vas Normandy does a strip tease for Paragons.
The Renegades get Grunt. Unless you saved Wrex.
Nah, just shittin' ya. You choices don't matter in this election!
Will you vote for Obama or Romney?
Obama [ 72% ] Romney [ 23%] Not Sure [ 5%]
Where's the "Neither Of Those Assholes" option?
Is the average Xbox 360 player at all aware that drone strikes in countries like Pakistan cause a serious number of civilian deaths on a regular basis? Or do Xbox 360 gamers live in a parallel, game-inspired universe, where a real world 'Drone Strike' is something seriously cool, just like it is cool to use it in popular games like Call of Duty?
Or a bunch of people, a lot of them kids, gave some bullshit answer? Awesomely scientific survey there. Did they massage the numbers with four year out of date voting patterns like the big boy polling outfits?
But they are only half true: an artifact of the PC is dying, but the essence of the PC revolution is closer to realization than ever before, while also being closer to loss than ever before.
I... wat?
The alpha sociopaths will always claw their way to the top because they are unencumbered by conscience and morality. Anyone who thought the number of Parties mattered is either a fool or Pinkie Pie.
Sexbots. All other priorities are rescinded.
Wow. When did Ted Kaczynski escape from prison?
They joined forces, and are menacing us with their X-ray weapons of mass destruction! WE AMS TEH DOOMED!
Oh, no, wait. It's just more of Slashdot's slide into the World Net Daily sinkhole. Never mind.
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Wondered that myself. Even if you figure in all the little utility cars and carts out there... hundreds?
The J1772 beat out its Japanese competitor the CHAdeMO, used as an option on the Nissan Leaf."
I heard the fact that is was also a wise cracking robot with an obsessive fetish for "80081E5!" didn't help matters.
If you want to get the money out of politics, get the politics out of money.
You forgot to put "Confucius say" at the beginning.
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It seems like a lot of these academic authors try to "out dense" one another and deliberately make their papers as unclear as possible, so I think it's not just "journal will accept anything" and a little "thickly worded paper no one wants to admit they don;t understand and it sounds like every other paper."
I've had papers about communications concepts where I have written VHDL cores and embedded software that work perfectly, yet I can't make heads or tails of papers on the topic because they are written in such an obtuse manner with bizarre symbol choices and shoehorning every blessed value into a matrix, no matter how inappropriate, because Matlab is the only tool they know how to use.
Just because you cannot wrap your head around evolving biological processes and vast, VAST expanses of time, doesn't mean that life is as rare as you assert.
That's the tickle I always have at the back of my mind- that the final, underlying nature of the universe is something we could *never* wrap our minds around. Like there's some other level to reality, and maybe its even staring us in the face, every day, all around us, but it's so alien and incomprehensible our minds just don't process it.
I'm not sure how to explain it. Like putting a bug in side a sculpture. The bug is not aware of the sculpture, has no idea anything out there made it or that it has a purpose other than a surface for it to scuttle around on. It knows nothing of marble or chisels or artistic intent. But if you could give the bug human awareness, it could just look around and think, wow, I'm on a freaking sculpture.
Yeah, silly speculation, but creepy fun sometimes. :)
I drew a card out of this deck, and oh look, it's the three of clubs. There are not enough three of clubs in this deck for this to be possible statistically (because there is only one) - the numbers will blow your mind if you look at them.
52:1 is mind blowing?
Wow. People you've already forgotten George W. Bush?
Oh, Bush had the No Fuck Given Syndrome for sure, but, holy bejeezus, it's almost visible as an aura with Obama. He hides it better more often than Bush did, but when it slips, yeesh.
Protip: Someone criticizing Obama is not necessarily Republican.
No. We just think he's going to screw it up less than the other guy.
If that helps you sleep at night, have at it.
You know. The one who thinks airplane windows should roll down, dogs like to ride strapped to the roofs of cars and cutting taxes magically fixes the deficit.
*shrug* I have no use for Romney.
All the decent charts I've seen appear to indicate little correlation at all between tax rates and GDP, so both sides of that issue are barking nonsense. Sometimes it looks like high tax rates leads to jobs, but who knows what the delay factors are. Do you compare current tax rates to current economic parameters, or did the tax rates 2, 5 or 10 years ago lead to what we have now? Do you know? Does anyone know for sure?
The real problem is looking at a mind meltingly complicated geopolitical and economic system and focusing on one number here or there. EVERYONE is guilty of that outside perhaps a few economists toiling away in think tanks here and there.
I've often wondered, however, if you could tie tax cuts or breaks or whatever to specific activities. A company's tax rate is a function of the number of jobs it created, and the coefficients are set to increase revenue as the company creates jobs. Maybe even reworjk the concept of personal income tax so it's tied into the employers taxes. But even speculation like that is too complicated for the average Party loyalist (94% of the country, it seems) so, meh, I keep my head down and try to retire early and just bug out to some quaint little countryside hamlet somewhere with a cottage and maybe an alpaca or two.
No love for Bush here, but whatever. I reject the very notion that one person in one office has that much control of things. We're in a shithole because of the usual bipartisan clusterfuck events in D.C. Trying to pin this on one Party or even one man is the usual ideological delusion and mind cancer that affects most of the population.
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Wasn't that the villain Daring Do fought, or something?
Digging the owl logo.
They could serve Wise potato chips at their convention down at the Motel 6.
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I'd be quite ecstatic to see someone in real power step up and address this.
Yes, I know what you were actually going for with your post.
Oh, the politicians know exactly what Libertarianism is. If playing that tune got them votes, they'd play it, loud and proud.
Stop thinking these guys are ignorant. That makes them happy. :-P
Yes, some Libertarians take things too far. So do other people in the other ideological swamps. Nothing new.
For me with the Libertarians it's their wide open border stance. They honestly think that would work. It's mind boggling.
It's all just bullshit anyway. The power structure uses these ideologies like the Pied Piper used his music. Obama, Romney, all of them. They don't really care. They don't have to.
FFS, (just to pick one example) Obama has let slip more than any politician I can recall in years that even the NSA supercomputers cannot calculate the number of fucks he doesn't give, yet half the country still slavishly supports him, and thinks he's going to deliver them to some Nirvana of some sort- free from all suffering and, I dunno, rainbows and ponies or something.
Please say you're joking. Seeing Romney as Libertarian puts you to the Left of, well, the whole planet. ;-)
Does anybody else see something wrong here?
Yes. The priorities of the Iranian government.
Not sure how Koenig & Bauer and others refusing to sell the currency or equipment to Iran has fuck all to do with Iran getting equipment for other things like their nuke program. Seems like a non sequitur there, sport.