Seriously. The simple yellow circle with expressions are perfect because the are nonspecific and can be assumed to apply to everyone.
Now we are adding skin tone... Why? That just opens the door to people complaining about hair color, hair style, eye color, face shape and a ton of other things. Where is the identical set of emojis for people wearing an eye patch. Left or right eye? Scars? Bald people? Glasses? People who lost their noses in tragic plastic surgery incidents?
They have family emojis. Where is the mixed race family? Same Gender couple? Family with 2 boys, family with 2 girls. How about the family with 4 boys, 2 girls a parrot and a lama?
Exactly right. And while we are at it, lets stop wasting our tax money on the whole judicial system and police! I mean, how many years have we been trying to stop crime and yet there are STILL people out there committing crimes! Its obvious that doing the right thing for its own sake is completely pointless....
Every parent spends so much effort to get their kids to clean up their own messes. But for some reason when it comes to corporations we give them a pass because "it would cut into our profits." Just like a kid whining "But mom, I have to study for this test so I just dont have time to clean that up!"
There is a difference between "weather" and "climate."
Yes, weather changes all the time. The climate tells you what the expected variations of weather should be. If you are seeing weather consistently outside of those patterns, then either your understanding of the climate is wrong (i.e. its based on 100 years of weather, but there is a 200 year cycle of weather patterns) or the climate is changing.
..or you could read the summary where it says "This change occurred when the oldest vehicle, SVN 23, was removed from the constellation." and generously assume that SVN 23 was removed because of a hardware failure and the removal of a satellite from the constellation triggered the software defect and thus both interpretations are correct.
But then you would have no excuse to complain, and where is the fun in that?
Yeah, there is absolutely no value in pointing out our failures as a society. We should just accept life as it is and move on. White men with power will make certain that women and minorities will never get the vote!
I really wish I had points to give you. The snark in that made me smile, but more importantly any bastion of science in Missouri needs to be supported.
Yeeeessss.... They clearly should have spent 5 times the money to get further into space even though that would in no way help the validity of their test of recovery systems.
Why? Because that money would have helped shut up people who completely miss the point. It would have been well worth it.
Not sure I follow. The comparison is "perceived health effect of marijuana smoke vs perceived health effects of cigarette smoke." Maybe its only tar as you say, maybe its not. I make no claims either way. If its just tar than my statement holds up: Despite marijuana having more tar, pot smokers use a smaller volume of product than tobacco smokers so there is less of a marijuana tar problem regardless of the per gram tar ratios. If its more than just tar than the statement still holds up for those as well.
No no no, you uninformed ninny! As Fox news will tell you solar radiation is actually a lie spread by the UN as part of their plans for world government.
Its unclear to anyone, including the UN, exactly what one has to do with the other, but its in the plan, so....
What Im going with is that the previous commenter was not able to correctly parse the words in the article. Apparently you have the same inability to read the written word.
Where exactly in my post did I say anything for or against global warming? However, your inability to understand what people say makes it really hard to take you or your arguments seriously.
Where in the article did it state anything about the timeframe of the "major impact on core business?" It doesnt. It states a timeframe for making decisions that will prevent the major impact without needing "hard decisions."
Where did you go wrong? I would guess it was in elementary school, but who knows....
Ah. OK. So basically what you are saying is that because we have not been engaged in a major conflict with an industrial equal in 50 years we should base all of our military planning on the assumption that we never will?
Awesome idea. Do you work for the Russians or the Chinese?
Dont fool yourself. People have thought that the carnage of every major conflict was enough to prevent it from happening again. It never does. Some group always thinks they have the key to an easy victory which, right or wrong, commits them to a series of actions.
China is on track to meet Americas military power by 2020. I just saw a story somewhere (sorry, Im not going to dig it up) about how the majority of Chinese assume that war with America is inevitable. The Russians will be more than happy to keep Europe to occupied to help. The Ukraine is a sideshow. They just wanted to secure their naval base in preparation for whats coming.
Im not normally a conspiracy theory type nut job, but I really think its coming and its going to be ugly.
You are absolutely right, but.... American companies are starting to feel the paranoia about this hit their bottom line. People are trying to find alternatives to american products. And THAT means that the lobbyists are jumping into the game. The US government may not listen to the little people's fears, but they will listen to corporate America and we will see changes to the laws.
Thank goodness America is run by the corporate elite, otherwise we might be in trouble.....
I was with you right up until you went all stupid with your political rhetoric. You should have stopped while you still sounded smart. WTF? Why not just let your argument stand instead of throwing stupid crap like that in and loosing your audience?
I hate the phone because its synchronous. Everytime it rings its someone saying "HEY... YOU! Stop whatever you are doing and answer the phone because I want to talk to you right now."
Texting is asynchronous. When my phone buzzes with a text its saying "Hey. When you have time there is a message here." much better.
Voicemail... Well, if voicemail worked like texting I wouldnt mind it. But no. Instead of just glancing at my phone to see the latest text on the screen I have to unlock my phone, press the voicemail button, wait for it to pick up, enter a pin number, listen to any messages that are about to be deleted (including the phone telling me when it was left and what number left it) and THEN I get to listen to my wife say "oh, never mind I found it myself". Sure, I could pay verizon for a monthly service that gets me a better interface to my voicemail, but why the hell would I do that? So yeah, I hate voicemail too.
What!??!!? There is no profit? KILL IT! We shouldn't spend any money on anything that doesn't show a first quarter profit.
That includes killing funding for any schools you attended because they all apparently failed to explain to you (and a lot of the general public) the value of general science research that isn't chasing a short term profit.
Are you sure that is the final source? Is it possible that this is the code for validating the USB interaction and he didn't want to actually brick his computer with every test?
While I don't disagree, Im waiting for people to realize that this doesn't HAVE to be true. Right now we live in a world where the internet sometimes sees something go "viral." Its just possible that one of these days a video will go viral around election time with someone with NO money getting on the stump and telling people why they should vote for him/her as a write in candidate. That is the path to breaking the money cycle in american politics. But it only works as long as we have a free internet. I sure hope the rich never think about this and start trying to monetize and divide the internet to secure their power....
YOU don't like Minecraft? Why didn't anyone tell me!??!?!?! Now that I know that YOU don't like it I will stop playing it and make my kids stop playing it! I had NO idea it had been judged unworthy by YOU. I am so sorry. Obviously NO ONE should play a game YOU don't like.
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Seriously. The simple yellow circle with expressions are perfect because the are nonspecific and can be assumed to apply to everyone.
Now we are adding skin tone... Why? That just opens the door to people complaining about hair color, hair style, eye color, face shape and a ton of other things.
Where is the identical set of emojis for people wearing an eye patch. Left or right eye? Scars? Bald people? Glasses? People who lost their noses in tragic plastic surgery incidents?
They have family emojis. Where is the mixed race family? Same Gender couple? Family with 2 boys, family with 2 girls. How about the family with 4 boys, 2 girls a parrot and a lama?
Specificity is not always helpful.
Exactly right.
And while we are at it, lets stop wasting our tax money on the whole judicial system and police!
I mean, how many years have we been trying to stop crime and yet there are STILL people out there committing crimes!
Its obvious that doing the right thing for its own sake is completely pointless....
Every parent spends so much effort to get their kids to clean up their own messes. But for some reason when it comes to corporations we give them a pass because "it would cut into our profits." Just like a kid whining "But mom, I have to study for this test so I just dont have time to clean that up!"
There is a difference between "weather" and "climate."
Yes, weather changes all the time. The climate tells you what the expected variations of weather should be. If you are seeing weather consistently outside of those patterns, then either your understanding of the climate is wrong (i.e. its based on 100 years of weather, but there is a 200 year cycle of weather patterns) or the climate is changing.
There are serious important issues in the world that need our attention.
Worrying about people who enjoy pranks is not one of them.
Am I the only one concerned about the Australian sharks ability to hack the shark spotting drones?
Whats next? Lasers?
If you don't like the quality of comments here why don't you just move along?
..or you could read the summary where it says "This change occurred when the oldest vehicle, SVN 23, was removed from the constellation." and generously assume that SVN 23 was removed because of a hardware failure and the removal of a satellite from the constellation triggered the software defect and thus both interpretations are correct.
But then you would have no excuse to complain, and where is the fun in that?
Yeah, there is absolutely no value in pointing out our failures as a society. We should just accept life as it is and move on.
White men with power will make certain that women and minorities will never get the vote!
Drivel indeed.
I really wish I had points to give you.
The snark in that made me smile, but more importantly any bastion of science in Missouri needs to be supported.
Yeeeessss....
They clearly should have spent 5 times the money to get further into space even though that would in no way help the validity of their test of recovery systems.
Why? Because that money would have helped shut up people who completely miss the point.
It would have been well worth it.
Not sure I follow.
The comparison is "perceived health effect of marijuana smoke vs perceived health effects of cigarette smoke."
Maybe its only tar as you say, maybe its not. I make no claims either way.
If its just tar than my statement holds up: Despite marijuana having more tar, pot smokers use a smaller volume of product than tobacco smokers so there is less of a marijuana tar problem regardless of the per gram tar ratios.
If its more than just tar than the statement still holds up for those as well.
Pot is considered less dangerous because the typical pot smoker smokes way less than your typical cigarette smoker. YMMV.
No no no, you uninformed ninny!
As Fox news will tell you solar radiation is actually a lie spread by the UN as part of their plans for world government.
Its unclear to anyone, including the UN, exactly what one has to do with the other, but its in the plan, so....
What Im going with is that the previous commenter was not able to correctly parse the words in the article.
Apparently you have the same inability to read the written word.
Where exactly in my post did I say anything for or against global warming?
However, your inability to understand what people say makes it really hard to take you or your arguments seriously.
Where in the article did it state anything about the timeframe of the "major impact on core business?"
It doesnt. It states a timeframe for making decisions that will prevent the major impact without needing "hard decisions."
Where did you go wrong? I would guess it was in elementary school, but who knows....
I mean, if they can take a game like Battleship and make a great movie of it surely..... oh. wait....
Never mind.
Ah. OK. So basically what you are saying is that because we have not been engaged in a major conflict with an industrial equal in 50 years we should base all of our military planning on the assumption that we never will?
Awesome idea.
Do you work for the Russians or the Chinese?
Dont fool yourself.
People have thought that the carnage of every major conflict was enough to prevent it from happening again. It never does. Some group always thinks they have the key to an easy victory which, right or wrong, commits them to a series of actions.
China is on track to meet Americas military power by 2020. I just saw a story somewhere (sorry, Im not going to dig it up) about how the majority of Chinese assume that war with America is inevitable. The Russians will be more than happy to keep Europe to occupied to help. The Ukraine is a sideshow. They just wanted to secure their naval base in preparation for whats coming.
Im not normally a conspiracy theory type nut job, but I really think its coming and its going to be ugly.
You are absolutely right, but....
American companies are starting to feel the paranoia about this hit their bottom line. People are trying to find alternatives to american products.
And THAT means that the lobbyists are jumping into the game. The US government may not listen to the little people's fears, but they will listen to corporate America and we will see changes to the laws.
Thank goodness America is run by the corporate elite, otherwise we might be in trouble.....
I was with you right up until you went all stupid with your political rhetoric. You should have stopped while you still sounded smart. WTF? Why not just let your argument stand instead of throwing stupid crap like that in and loosing your audience?
I hate the phone because its synchronous. Everytime it rings its someone saying "HEY... YOU! Stop whatever you are doing and answer the phone because I want to talk to you right now."
Texting is asynchronous. When my phone buzzes with a text its saying "Hey. When you have time there is a message here." much better.
Voicemail... Well, if voicemail worked like texting I wouldnt mind it. But no. Instead of just glancing at my phone to see the latest text on the screen I have to unlock my phone, press the voicemail button, wait for it to pick up, enter a pin number, listen to any messages that are about to be deleted (including the phone telling me when it was left and what number left it) and THEN I get to listen to my wife say "oh, never mind I found it myself".
Sure, I could pay verizon for a monthly service that gets me a better interface to my voicemail, but why the hell would I do that?
So yeah, I hate voicemail too.
What!??!!? There is no profit? KILL IT! We shouldn't spend any money on anything that doesn't show a first quarter profit.
That includes killing funding for any schools you attended because they all apparently failed to explain to you (and a lot of the general public) the value of general science research that isn't chasing a short term profit.
Are you sure that is the final source?
Is it possible that this is the code for validating the USB interaction and he didn't want to actually brick his computer with every test?
While I don't disagree, Im waiting for people to realize that this doesn't HAVE to be true.
Right now we live in a world where the internet sometimes sees something go "viral." Its just possible that one of these days a video will go viral around election time with someone with NO money getting on the stump and telling people why they should vote for him/her as a write in candidate.
That is the path to breaking the money cycle in american politics.
But it only works as long as we have a free internet. I sure hope the rich never think about this and start trying to monetize and divide the internet to secure their power....
YOU don't like Minecraft?
Why didn't anyone tell me!??!?!?!
Now that I know that YOU don't like it I will stop playing it and make my kids stop playing it!
I had NO idea it had been judged unworthy by YOU.
I am so sorry. Obviously NO ONE should play a game YOU don't like.
Clearly we both need to be back on our meds.