Damn them for not selling or giving out competing products in their store. Tomorrow I shall trundle down to the local Lexus dealership and give them what ho! My desire to buy a BMW there should be paramount! Why no I don't own any stock in BMW's parent company! Gracious!
Seriously, since when did coattail riders get to play the free speech righteous card? No one is stopping anyone from going out and making a better product for another device.
Go use your tools to build a bridge and get over it.
I had been asleep (I had a lot to drink the night before and no early classes) and she rings me, tells me the WTC and the pentagon were blown up. I subconsciously always hated irrational fear to a level of disdain that would become almost paralyzing in the near future after 9/11, so I asked "Is NORAD ok? " "What?" "Ok, thanks, talk to you later."
I turned on the telivision and watched the towers fall from my bed thinking, "Wow, that's horrible." but never really "oh shit I'm going to die." The only thing that the new century has proven beyond our limitless ability to lose our shit is our equally limitless capacity to forget the things that didn't turn out to be real. Anthrax! Anthrax is everywhere! It's in the mail, the airport, they're putting it into the rivers!
Remembering is important because if you don't remember that the boy who cried wolf was a lying prick then he'd never get eaten and you'd never have a moments peace.
You know the guy was way out of line gunning the other fellows down. The 911 operator repeatedly told the man not to go out there, and not to shoot them, and the guy was very intent on doing just that. I find it highly disturbing that anyone cheered for this man. That being said there's an equally valid viewpoint that you don't break in to other peoples houses. As horrifying as it is, and perhaps because of that, people will know about it.
My little dejected one it is time to pick up that mouse, level a 70 and do what most children dream of doing: Going into Azeroth and grieving your mom. That's right, corpse camp her until she has to log onto her pathetic little alt, leveling is the greatest amount of suffering in the game. Hell I'm sure you have friends that play wow get them to help. This is perhaps the one time in your life you'll be a child that can discipline your mother. Fucking pwn her ass.
Before women were given the opportunity to do something other than spit out kids and sit at home they had absolutely boundless options to keep themselves from going crazy. Sure some of them were completely convinced of the "love my family, I'm a happy homemaker" idea, but most would develop unhealthy obsessions with (I'll start with the benign and work down) cleaning, reading, TV, eating, drinking, and whatever was the most legal version of morphine at the time. Did I mention sex/adultery?
Now if your mom goes to work and comes home to play wow instead of spend time with you, just go ahead and assume you're an unloved wretch of a child. Also, tell the bitch to get you an account and a computer then pwn her ass in the Arenas.
I can't think of any real trust busters since Teddy and Taft, and they were conservatives.
No, the current system works like this: give people incentive to make a lot of money while doing as little as possible and investing as little as possible. Wealth condenses and freezes at the top. When it cracks and falls back down to earth everyone shits kittens and instead of , I don't know, investing in infrastructure and skills, they fire, trim, and lobby their money back.
It's basically like there are a bunch of real life gold farmers running things and fucking it up for the rest of us.
prior to the biofuels initiative or that you are against agriculture in the midwest that produces huge amounts of untreated runoff every year and has been since probably the mid 50s if not before. Remember at one point in time, before gasoline was discovered to be perfect for the combustion engine, ford considered ethenol. As it happens he chose gasoline because it was dirt cheap and they were dumping it straight into the Mississippi (I honestly cannot fathom how that must have smelled) since it was a by product. Mind you I'm not trying to justify this as a perfect circle or some other kind of historical asshatery but I find your most compelling arguement not only contrary to your final statement about global warming but also tangential to the issue.ãã
Additionally, while oil will always be sold and burned off by someone else, decreasing the demand will decrease the price and also reduce the incentive for people to tap costlier reseviors.
Are you actually advocating that brazil not mechanize the nearly 500 yearold process of sugar cane harvest? Are you nuts? Was industrialization something you found "quaint"?
This is based on an economic consequence. The infrastructure of America is built around the car, and not just any car, but a car that had 60 years of dirt cheap fuel. Our cities and towns are modeled around this. More importantly salaries are also adjusted for a much cheaper transportation cost.
You have several options and none of them are particularly appetizing, and none of them have anything to do with global warming. You can produce your own fuel through biofuels, switch to electric cars, or produce more oil from costly hard to access oil reseviors which represent the last of your domestic supply. Nothing else is feasible despite all the fairy farts, adament denials, and heartfelt praying that might be offered. If you don't want to live where public transportation can be possible, then do not expect people to cry for you when something clearly predictable damages your ONLY source of personal transportation.
Mind you I'm in Japan and I agree, price per gallon is nothing to rant about. What people in the US are ranting about is first, filling up for close to a hundred dollars because they have huge inefficient air conditioning suites on wheels, and second they live at least 15-20 minutes by drive from work. None of that is in an orderly fashion, the roads were never meant for the current level of traffic in most cases and so trying to build additional public transport or adding buses is a futile effort in the short run, and people do not wish to hear that it will be years or decades before their transportation woes are ammended.
And do you know how costly it would be for people who depend on oil for their work machines if everyone who is using oil to commute to work in an obscenely large air conditioned monstrosity was forced to bike their ass to a bus or train? Not a whole hell of a lot.
He started a War. Despite what FredThompson says, that the war was never over and it was a technicality, if you ask the average American when the war started, they'd say 2001,3, or 4 (whichever year the remembered having something to do with 9/11 Afghanistan or Iraq). You don't make the case for going to war when you are already in a war. Very few presidents have gone out of their way to put American soldiers in harms way when the real threat to the US or our allies was difficult to ascertain at best, and those that have are villified in history despite whatever greatness they might have done otherwise. Lincoln did not start the civil war, hell he didn't even promise to free slaves and I would argue that during a CIVIL war domestic spying is nearly unavoidable. I think you'd be hard fucking pressed to claim the terrorist threat was significantly lessened by the domestic spying, Iraq war,reckless spending, etc.
Bush is the modern day Grant sans the whiskey bottle.
Not true, and honestly there were quite a few presidents that yes, should have been impeached at one time or another. I really think Andrew Jackson should have been impeached for moving the indians despite a supreme court order telling him it was unconstitutional. Mind you I also think Andrew Jackson would have, with his popularity, promptly slaughtered every one in congress and declared himself the democratic king of America. Don't get me wrong, fantastic president for history and he knew how to keep his country in order, but really some horrible decisions.
The real problem isn't that many past presidents would have been impeached by this persons guidelines, rather, that future presidents will not be held accountable because of your logic.
The game is just now getting achievements, a lot of which sound interesting and some that sound a little more than acknowledgement of grinding prowess
The PvP BGs are a bit of a joke, given how long the game has been out. I also think it's an abject failure on Blizzards part to create new content in the old world for people purchasing the game for the first time (or just leveling a new toon).
They really need to open up more battlegrounds, give world PvP faction leaders drops or an achievement status, etc.
First, the proles elected him, they love him, and they find matters such as this to be the work of crazy bitter men. Their standards are for the president to be an extremely rich working class kinda guy (insanity knows no bounds) and that he be forgiven for trying to do "What's right" instead of doing anything actually right
It doesn't help that people give the president and his cronies credit for things that reek of blatent incompetance as opposed to conspiracy. One might even argue that he is grossly incompetant and that he should be removed for that reason alone. No one would have their job still if they fucked up as often and as profoundly as this president. When the world goes past wanting well meaning but stupid, goes past wanting devious and good at it, to devious and retarded, then Rome isn't burning. It's in ashes, in an urn, ejected into space on a course heading directly for the sun.
Godwin's Law somehow. Additionally there should be a contemporary SNL skit to parody "The chuch lady" but instead of an overweight forum poster say "Hitler!" instead of "Satan!".
The difference between the US and the UK is that we (in the UK) have a free press. You say this on the internet. The fucking worldwideweb. Fuck you troll, try HARDER.
the Catholic church and various Christian denominations have nearly taken over the country, killing those that would denounce them, suing others, and basking in the glow of righteous power. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Edit:And you're also incorrect, that person is trolling, and you're trying to defend that person on the basis of your own belief that all of religion is hogwash. You didn't say it explicitly, but the fellow you attacked and I can read between the lines. You don't have to lie to someone because they are offended by something that is meant to offend them. Notice I'm not telling you should grow a bigger brain because you misunderstood the fellow, I'm saying you did so deliberately and you should stop.
Your whole arguement is based on scemantics with someone who is telling you the meaning of what they believe. If you were to open up a dictionary, and read the definition of "dog" and you said "It could just as easily be a cat" and an English speaker said "No it's a dog" and you persist then you're really just being a douche for douches sake now aren't you?
Furthermore going on with historical points that do not describe current status, and then insisting in some abstract way that it does or that it should, is equally contrarian. When you describe how the catholic church or christianity was to justify how something is, and it is mutually agreed that it was bad, and that something currently is bad, then you're basically saying that finding a historical equivilant that dominated a period justifies it's existence in the modern world. Hey remember serfdom? Lets do that, AGAIN. Fun times.
And you're also incorrect, he is trolling, and you're trying to defend him on the basis of your own belief that all of religion is hogwash. You didn't say it explicitly, but he and I can read between the lines. You don't have to lie to someone because they are offended by something that is meant to offend them. Notice I'm not telling you should grow a bigger brain because you misunderstood the fellow, I'm saying you did so deliberately and you should stop.
How does bizarreness matter? The cult of scientology believes that evil space aliens murdered billions of other aliens by stuffing them into DC-10 like spaceships and blowing them up in earth's volcanoes with Hydrogen bombs. The cult of christianity believes that you can telepathically communicate with a dead god-fragment and tell him you love him and that he will accept you into his kingdom and cleanse you of a taint that was placed in all humanity by a rib-woman being tricked by a talking snake.
Scientology is insane, but so are pretty much all other religions. The difference being the first part of what you posted is almost a word for word explanation of how the leaders of scientology and the founder himself believe the earth, and humans to have originated. That is their current belief. That is what Mr. Hubbard wrote sometime in the latter half of the last century.
Christianity was formed WHEN exactly? The Old Testament stuff you are elementarily summerizing is how old? Do you even contemplate these things before you post them? Oh yes, a mythic monothestic religion founded at the dawn of written record that chooses to define an omnipitant creature that created everything as "God" is JUST as crazy as a modern man saying that you are the embodiment of a creature that was brought to volcanos millions of years ago (apparently tectonic shift does not factor in here) and blown up with atomic bombs. Written coinicidentally enough in the period of time when the threat of nuclear anhilation loomed high.
You know, fuck it, you guys can go get asspounded by Tom Cruise when he uses his telepathic powers to bend you over his top gun.
That was how long ago now? 600 years? Didn't they precipitate a massive divide in Christianity, various reforms, people speaking against purportedly infallible authority?
A majority of the events based in the Old Testament could have been based on some real events, mind you I am obviously excepting the talking bushes, donkeys, and other supernatural encounters. Even then there are some spectacularly strange phenomena that can be observed in the desert and certainly could merit an inclusion in embelished fashion in someones spiritual life prior the age of science. The rest is dramatic exposition that has a certain timeless quality with various influences from more existential fare to the fantastical both with their own peculiar logic at times but often lacking glaring points of outright insanity, in or out of context.
Scientology by contrast was concieved entirely by a SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR. It includes, among other things, provisions for erradicating a field of science (psychology and psychiatry), broad application of questionable behavioral improvements (various techs), and violence/agression towards even the slightest detractors.
Mind you I am perfectly aware that there are Christian Cults that are very close to the same thing AND worse. The thing people are protesting against is that Scientology is on a campaign to be what the Catholic church USED to be through influencing public and political leaders to forward their agenda.
Dismissing the criticisms of Scientology by saying "Christianity is just as crazy" is not only a remarkably questionable bit of reasoning, but it's a stubborness combined with a lack of history that seeks to silence those trying to raise the alarm.
In short, research your generic point before posting it and getting it modded 5 insightful by people that have the same fetish for "edgey" yet oft-repeated irony.
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Damn them for not selling or giving out competing products in their store. Tomorrow I shall trundle down to the local Lexus dealership and give them what ho! My desire to buy a BMW there should be paramount! Why no I don't own any stock in BMW's parent company! Gracious! Seriously, since when did coattail riders get to play the free speech righteous card? No one is stopping anyone from going out and making a better product for another device. Go use your tools to build a bridge and get over it.
I had been asleep (I had a lot to drink the night before and no early classes) and she rings me, tells me the WTC and the pentagon were blown up. I subconsciously always hated irrational fear to a level of disdain that would become almost paralyzing in the near future after 9/11, so I asked "Is NORAD ok? " "What?" "Ok, thanks, talk to you later." I turned on the telivision and watched the towers fall from my bed thinking, "Wow, that's horrible." but never really "oh shit I'm going to die." The only thing that the new century has proven beyond our limitless ability to lose our shit is our equally limitless capacity to forget the things that didn't turn out to be real. Anthrax! Anthrax is everywhere! It's in the mail, the airport, they're putting it into the rivers! Remembering is important because if you don't remember that the boy who cried wolf was a lying prick then he'd never get eaten and you'd never have a moments peace.
You know the guy was way out of line gunning the other fellows down. The 911 operator repeatedly told the man not to go out there, and not to shoot them, and the guy was very intent on doing just that. I find it highly disturbing that anyone cheered for this man. That being said there's an equally valid viewpoint that you don't break in to other peoples houses. As horrifying as it is, and perhaps because of that, people will know about it.
My little dejected one it is time to pick up that mouse, level a 70 and do what most children dream of doing: Going into Azeroth and grieving your mom. That's right, corpse camp her until she has to log onto her pathetic little alt, leveling is the greatest amount of suffering in the game. Hell I'm sure you have friends that play wow get them to help. This is perhaps the one time in your life you'll be a child that can discipline your mother. Fucking pwn her ass.
Before women were given the opportunity to do something other than spit out kids and sit at home they had absolutely boundless options to keep themselves from going crazy. Sure some of them were completely convinced of the "love my family, I'm a happy homemaker" idea, but most would develop unhealthy obsessions with (I'll start with the benign and work down) cleaning, reading, TV, eating, drinking, and whatever was the most legal version of morphine at the time. Did I mention sex/adultery? Now if your mom goes to work and comes home to play wow instead of spend time with you, just go ahead and assume you're an unloved wretch of a child. Also, tell the bitch to get you an account and a computer then pwn her ass in the Arenas.
I can't think of any real trust busters since Teddy and Taft, and they were conservatives. No, the current system works like this: give people incentive to make a lot of money while doing as little as possible and investing as little as possible. Wealth condenses and freezes at the top. When it cracks and falls back down to earth everyone shits kittens and instead of , I don't know, investing in infrastructure and skills, they fire, trim, and lobby their money back. It's basically like there are a bunch of real life gold farmers running things and fucking it up for the rest of us.
prior to the biofuels initiative or that you are against agriculture in the midwest that produces huge amounts of untreated runoff every year and has been since probably the mid 50s if not before. Remember at one point in time, before gasoline was discovered to be perfect for the combustion engine, ford considered ethenol. As it happens he chose gasoline because it was dirt cheap and they were dumping it straight into the Mississippi (I honestly cannot fathom how that must have smelled) since it was a by product. Mind you I'm not trying to justify this as a perfect circle or some other kind of historical asshatery but I find your most compelling arguement not only contrary to your final statement about global warming but also tangential to the issue.ãã Additionally, while oil will always be sold and burned off by someone else, decreasing the demand will decrease the price and also reduce the incentive for people to tap costlier reseviors.
Are you actually advocating that brazil not mechanize the nearly 500 yearold process of sugar cane harvest? Are you nuts? Was industrialization something you found "quaint"?
This is based on an economic consequence. The infrastructure of America is built around the car, and not just any car, but a car that had 60 years of dirt cheap fuel. Our cities and towns are modeled around this. More importantly salaries are also adjusted for a much cheaper transportation cost. You have several options and none of them are particularly appetizing, and none of them have anything to do with global warming. You can produce your own fuel through biofuels, switch to electric cars, or produce more oil from costly hard to access oil reseviors which represent the last of your domestic supply. Nothing else is feasible despite all the fairy farts, adament denials, and heartfelt praying that might be offered. If you don't want to live where public transportation can be possible, then do not expect people to cry for you when something clearly predictable damages your ONLY source of personal transportation.
Mind you I'm in Japan and I agree, price per gallon is nothing to rant about. What people in the US are ranting about is first, filling up for close to a hundred dollars because they have huge inefficient air conditioning suites on wheels, and second they live at least 15-20 minutes by drive from work. None of that is in an orderly fashion, the roads were never meant for the current level of traffic in most cases and so trying to build additional public transport or adding buses is a futile effort in the short run, and people do not wish to hear that it will be years or decades before their transportation woes are ammended.
And do you know how costly it would be for people who depend on oil for their work machines if everyone who is using oil to commute to work in an obscenely large air conditioned monstrosity was forced to bike their ass to a bus or train? Not a whole hell of a lot.
He started a War. Despite what FredThompson says, that the war was never over and it was a technicality, if you ask the average American when the war started, they'd say 2001,3, or 4 (whichever year the remembered having something to do with 9/11 Afghanistan or Iraq). You don't make the case for going to war when you are already in a war. Very few presidents have gone out of their way to put American soldiers in harms way when the real threat to the US or our allies was difficult to ascertain at best, and those that have are villified in history despite whatever greatness they might have done otherwise. Lincoln did not start the civil war, hell he didn't even promise to free slaves and I would argue that during a CIVIL war domestic spying is nearly unavoidable. I think you'd be hard fucking pressed to claim the terrorist threat was significantly lessened by the domestic spying, Iraq war,reckless spending, etc. Bush is the modern day Grant sans the whiskey bottle.
Not true, and honestly there were quite a few presidents that yes, should have been impeached at one time or another. I really think Andrew Jackson should have been impeached for moving the indians despite a supreme court order telling him it was unconstitutional. Mind you I also think Andrew Jackson would have, with his popularity, promptly slaughtered every one in congress and declared himself the democratic king of America. Don't get me wrong, fantastic president for history and he knew how to keep his country in order, but really some horrible decisions. The real problem isn't that many past presidents would have been impeached by this persons guidelines, rather, that future presidents will not be held accountable because of your logic.
The game is just now getting achievements, a lot of which sound interesting and some that sound a little more than acknowledgement of grinding prowess The PvP BGs are a bit of a joke, given how long the game has been out. I also think it's an abject failure on Blizzards part to create new content in the old world for people purchasing the game for the first time (or just leveling a new toon). They really need to open up more battlegrounds, give world PvP faction leaders drops or an achievement status, etc.
First, the proles elected him, they love him, and they find matters such as this to be the work of crazy bitter men. Their standards are for the president to be an extremely rich working class kinda guy (insanity knows no bounds) and that he be forgiven for trying to do "What's right" instead of doing anything actually right It doesn't help that people give the president and his cronies credit for things that reek of blatent incompetance as opposed to conspiracy. One might even argue that he is grossly incompetant and that he should be removed for that reason alone. No one would have their job still if they fucked up as often and as profoundly as this president. When the world goes past wanting well meaning but stupid, goes past wanting devious and good at it, to devious and retarded, then Rome isn't burning. It's in ashes, in an urn, ejected into space on a course heading directly for the sun.
The controls were hideous and unbindable, quite a dissappointment on an otherwise neat game.
Godwin's Law somehow. Additionally there should be a contemporary SNL skit to parody "The chuch lady" but instead of an overweight forum poster say "Hitler!" instead of "Satan!".
the Catholic church and various Christian denominations have nearly taken over the country, killing those that would denounce them, suing others, and basking in the glow of righteous power. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Edit:And you're also incorrect, that person is trolling, and you're trying to defend that person on the basis of your own belief that all of religion is hogwash. You didn't say it explicitly, but the fellow you attacked and I can read between the lines. You don't have to lie to someone because they are offended by something that is meant to offend them. Notice I'm not telling you should grow a bigger brain because you misunderstood the fellow, I'm saying you did so deliberately and you should stop.
Your whole arguement is based on scemantics with someone who is telling you the meaning of what they believe. If you were to open up a dictionary, and read the definition of "dog" and you said "It could just as easily be a cat" and an English speaker said "No it's a dog" and you persist then you're really just being a douche for douches sake now aren't you?
Furthermore going on with historical points that do not describe current status, and then insisting in some abstract way that it does or that it should, is equally contrarian. When you describe how the catholic church or christianity was to justify how something is, and it is mutually agreed that it was bad, and that something currently is bad, then you're basically saying that finding a historical equivilant that dominated a period justifies it's existence in the modern world. Hey remember serfdom? Lets do that, AGAIN. Fun times.
And you're also incorrect, he is trolling, and you're trying to defend him on the basis of your own belief that all of religion is hogwash. You didn't say it explicitly, but he and I can read between the lines. You don't have to lie to someone because they are offended by something that is meant to offend them. Notice I'm not telling you should grow a bigger brain because you misunderstood the fellow, I'm saying you did so deliberately and you should stop.
Christianity was formed WHEN exactly? The Old Testament stuff you are elementarily summerizing is how old? Do you even contemplate these things before you post them? Oh yes, a mythic monothestic religion founded at the dawn of written record that chooses to define an omnipitant creature that created everything as "God" is JUST as crazy as a modern man saying that you are the embodiment of a creature that was brought to volcanos millions of years ago (apparently tectonic shift does not factor in here) and blown up with atomic bombs. Written coinicidentally enough in the period of time when the threat of nuclear anhilation loomed high.
You know, fuck it, you guys can go get asspounded by Tom Cruise when he uses his telepathic powers to bend you over his top gun.
Seriously, that I could get behind.
That was how long ago now? 600 years? Didn't they precipitate a massive divide in Christianity, various reforms, people speaking against purportedly infallible authority?
Current Events are just a fad to you aren't they?
A majority of the events based in the Old Testament could have been based on some real events, mind you I am obviously excepting the talking bushes, donkeys, and other supernatural encounters. Even then there are some spectacularly strange phenomena that can be observed in the desert and certainly could merit an inclusion in embelished fashion in someones spiritual life prior the age of science. The rest is dramatic exposition that has a certain timeless quality with various influences from more existential fare to the fantastical both with their own peculiar logic at times but often lacking glaring points of outright insanity, in or out of context.
Scientology by contrast was concieved entirely by a SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR. It includes, among other things, provisions for erradicating a field of science (psychology and psychiatry), broad application of questionable behavioral improvements (various techs), and violence/agression towards even the slightest detractors.
Mind you I am perfectly aware that there are Christian Cults that are very close to the same thing AND worse. The thing people are protesting against is that Scientology is on a campaign to be what the Catholic church USED to be through influencing public and political leaders to forward their agenda.
Dismissing the criticisms of Scientology by saying "Christianity is just as crazy" is not only a remarkably questionable bit of reasoning, but it's a stubborness combined with a lack of history that seeks to silence those trying to raise the alarm.
In short, research your generic point before posting it and getting it modded 5 insightful by people that have the same fetish for "edgey" yet oft-repeated irony.