Those that believe already have a screw less and believing crazy stories is a part of their existing condition and will not make them worse, just send them down that particular rabbit hole ie Russia, Russia, Russia or another rabbit hole ie identity politics and self identifying yourself as what ever flips into your head be it a 200 year old female traffic light or a 6 month old male teapot cosy and hacking away at you genitals is a great idea.
What I find hilarious are the stupid videos that only have a million views because the thumbnail has a chick in a bikini. But the rest of the video is something completely unrelated and dumb. Men really are predictable.
Every now and then they will advertise something to you that is seemingly unrelated, even though there's an obscure connection. I was looking for game/spy cams and tracking devices at work to catch a copper thief. I guess Amazon/Google got the wrong idea and started showing my wife ads for divorce lawyers. She called, and was like, "uh... is there something I should know about??"
I remember seeing that episode and thinking, "that's dumb, why would anybody invest in that security risk?" And my son, the Shark Tank aficionado, said, "I can't believe Robert didn't make a deal!" Kids have a different perspective on these things.
I have high school tutoring students that cannot fit their handwriting on college-ruled paper. It's very interesting to see. My 5th grade son has basically the same handwriting skill that he had in 2nd grade. I remember spending like 20% of 3rd grade on handwriting; now the schools don't seem to teach it at any level. I don't think it's the fault of "technology" that curricula have morphed into a handwriting-free zone.
On the one hand, I think that spending hours each day practicing cursive was probably overkill. On the other hand, if a student can't tell whether he has just written x^7 or y^2 because his handwriting is THAT bad, it makes it hard to succeed. It seems like there should be some middle-of-the-road option that doesn't cause hand cramps. The really strange thing is that it's not like they have eschewed handwriting in favor of typing. They teach a little bit of typing, but not much.
In trying to convince my son the need for nice penmanship, I mentioned to that we used to pass notes in class. I was trying to imply that girls like it when boys have nice handwriting. He pointed out that nobody does that anymore. They just text each other.
hmmm.. I guess I like to use that time to talk to a fellow traveler and enjoy some random human companionship. Then again, not everybody's friendly after a redeye. I don't understand why they don't enforce the carry-on size rules, though. If they would, not nearly as many people would have to gate check. (or at least a different subset of people would)
agreed. I never understood why first class people want to get on the plane so early. Even if the seats are comfy, you're still in a tiny metal tube with stinky air. Plus you have to watch all the other people go by glaring at you. Same thing goes for getting off the plane. Everybody stands up as soon as the light goes off. Why? Especially if you have to wait for luggage anyway, there's just no point in trying to get off the plane ahead of the person in the seat in front of you.
You want to talk about industry bias? I'm in the oil and gas industry. It's not sufficient to be Republican at my place of work. You have to be full on, Alex Jones, nutjob. I have to be very circumspect about what I say and how I say it. When Republicans stifle free speech, it's automatically patriotic; if you disagree with them, you're a traitor. Before you tell me I'm exaggerating, we recently had the commander in chief flippantly call it "treason" when the Democrats didn't applaud his every platitude.
You may be right about Wheeler; he made the right call in the end. I guess that's why I got marked as flamebait. But I remember as recently as 2014 he was saying that fast lanes were a good thing. Kinda made me have my doubts. He also disregarded a lot of the traditional firewalls between the FCC and WH (or at least the appearance thereof). Granted, this sort of blurring the lines between executive and independent agencies had been getting more common, especially during W's reign. It's so quaint, the sorts of things that were shocking to us even three or four years ago.
That being said, the Baker thing seemed pretty fishy. Four months is not a lot of time to wait between approving a major merger and working for said company.
Nonsense, the republic has been refining definitions of things like "freedom," "speech," or "unreasonable" since its inception. Back then, "freedom" included the right to own brown people. When the radicals thought that they were defending "freedom" by actually setting people free, it pissed off a whole bunch of other people.
The courts have held on several occasions that the freedom of speech does not include speech that is so disruptive that it keeps people from pursuing their normal lives. You are allowed to peaceably assemble, but it is illegal to block somebody's driveway. You are allowed freedom of expression, but you can't violate sound ordinances. You can practice your religion, but if that religion involves keeping your kids locked in the basement, you can guaran-damn-tee that you'll face jailtime.
In this case, the court ruled that the memo was so disruptive that it could not be considered protected. Seems like a reasonable finding, and I seriously doubt that it is a death knell for free speech. We have a president actively threatening to loosen up libel laws, so let's not pretend like a court giving a whiny snowflake a tongue lashing is the biggest threat the first amendment faces right now.
If you really think that freedom dies just by being redefined, you should be really upset by that homophobic baker hiding behind "religious freedom." By your argument, they're diminishing the legitimacy of actual religious freedom. Embrace, extend, extinguish, just like Microsoft.
I don't know that Obama made any good decisions regarding the FCC. Just look at Meredith Baker and Tom Wheeler. Two industry stooges of the worst kind. I have no idea why Obama would have tried to appease anybody, least of all McConnell. That bastard literally said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
One more thing I don't get: Why do Republicans think that by saying Obama did it, that somehow makes it not Donald's fault when the problem isn't fixed, or gets made worse? It's not like he hasn't had time, or the congress at his disposal. He has been in office for one year, and the only thing he's succeeded at is getting rich people like me lower taxes, and deporting people who have been pillars of their communities for decades.
We still have one printer at work that uses continuous feed for triplicate forms. The paper is getting more expensive, though. Never jams, but getting the driver to work on a new computer is always exciting. I remember one program that you could make banners with that would just keep printing on multiple sheets of continuous feed paper. You can't do that with a DeskJet.
It's funny, back in 2016 Fox News was more than happy spouting conspiracy theories about Hillary's health citing unnamed sources. Back in 2011, none other than Donald Trump cited unnamed sources that there was conclusive evidence that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii. It's funny how naming sources only seems to matter when the story disturbs your worldview.
You choose to dismiss anti-Trump stories. Nothing "made" you do it. Please accept that you have completely shut down the thinking part of your brain and are relying on your amygdala to think for you. Sad!
I love the irony of your last line. It's hard to have trust in the right-wing media, because they have spent about 20 years shitting all over the facts and telling us it's truth compost. It's getting to the point where fact-checkers don't even bother anymore.
I'm pretty sure once Yellen leaves, they will completely (and quietly) undo the Wells Fargo thing. And there will be a new Twitter spasm by the orange rage machine that everybody will be talking about instead.
Edgar Welch still does not describe the Comet Ping Pong conspiracy as "fake news," and bristles at that characterization. He did say he should have handled it better, whatever that means. Humans are very good at taking any fact and using it to support their belief. Even when that fact contradicts said belief.
Having a conversation with somebody who disagrees with you is becoming more and more challenging. I'm not talking about winning an argument, but just discussing the viewpoint of others. One of the things a coworker and I have come to realize is that people are literally using different dictionaries than one another to define words. You wouldn't think that would matter, but when the very definition of "harassment" or "amnesty" or "crepuscular" are up for grabs, it makes it hard to see where the other person is coming from.
If you are a "descriptive not prescriptive" type of person, it makes little difference, because you can flex your mind around the definitions of others. Ironically, the person I have in mind considers himself very prescriptive, but he uses Webster's which is pretty well known for being descriptive. I'll use whatever definition somebody throws at me, so if they want to claim that the TSA is a terrorist organization, I'll just ask how he defines "terrorist" before we go too far down that rabbit hole.
It helps to get the definitions out of the way as early as possible, sort of like when your programming. I remember getting into a heated argument about sexual assault before. It was probably an hour before we realized that our jurisdictions had different definitions of the crime. Where I'm from, it's the same crime no matter what hole you stick it in (except ear, for some reason). Had we both known that ahead of time, the conversation would have been much more constructive.
GE was basically the American version of Siemens. I guess arguably it still is. Everything from light bulbs to medical devices to gigantic power plants. And let's not forget financial services (although that is less that it has been). The similarities are astounding. Hell, they're even getting investigated by the authorities, just like Siemens was 12 years ago. They really did copy everything!
There's also a tragedy of the commons waiting to happen. If everybody has an unlimited data plan and everybody tries to stream 4K video all the time, the cell network would struggle. I thought QOS was allowed even back under Net Neutrality rules. This isn't something insidious, just trying to make sure that their phone network keeps working as a phone network.
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Watch the kitties; laugh at memes. Most the web's not evil schemes.
Those that believe already have a screw less and believing crazy stories is a part of their existing condition and will not make them worse, just send them down that particular rabbit hole ie Russia, Russia, Russia or another rabbit hole ie identity politics and self identifying yourself as what ever flips into your head be it a 200 year old female traffic light or a 6 month old male teapot cosy and hacking away at you genitals is a great idea.
Can't tell if this is parody, or a cry for help.
What I find hilarious are the stupid videos that only have a million views because the thumbnail has a chick in a bikini. But the rest of the video is something completely unrelated and dumb. Men really are predictable.
Every now and then they will advertise something to you that is seemingly unrelated, even though there's an obscure connection. I was looking for game/spy cams and tracking devices at work to catch a copper thief. I guess Amazon/Google got the wrong idea and started showing my wife ads for divorce lawyers. She called, and was like, "uh... is there something I should know about??"
Dam, the GAA is goig to be pissed!
so everything looks like a:
Not sure how you intended to finish that one. :)
My coworker has it. The Samsung phone app is so non-laggy, you can have a conversation without frustration. But maybe he just got lucky.
2016. I know it feels like 5 years ago...
I remember seeing that episode and thinking, "that's dumb, why would anybody invest in that security risk?" And my son, the Shark Tank aficionado, said, "I can't believe Robert didn't make a deal!" Kids have a different perspective on these things.
I have high school tutoring students that cannot fit their handwriting on college-ruled paper. It's very interesting to see. My 5th grade son has basically the same handwriting skill that he had in 2nd grade. I remember spending like 20% of 3rd grade on handwriting; now the schools don't seem to teach it at any level. I don't think it's the fault of "technology" that curricula have morphed into a handwriting-free zone.
On the one hand, I think that spending hours each day practicing cursive was probably overkill. On the other hand, if a student can't tell whether he has just written x^7 or y^2 because his handwriting is THAT bad, it makes it hard to succeed. It seems like there should be some middle-of-the-road option that doesn't cause hand cramps. The really strange thing is that it's not like they have eschewed handwriting in favor of typing. They teach a little bit of typing, but not much.
In trying to convince my son the need for nice penmanship, I mentioned to that we used to pass notes in class. I was trying to imply that girls like it when boys have nice handwriting. He pointed out that nobody does that anymore. They just text each other.
hmmm.. I guess I like to use that time to talk to a fellow traveler and enjoy some random human companionship. Then again, not everybody's friendly after a redeye. I don't understand why they don't enforce the carry-on size rules, though. If they would, not nearly as many people would have to gate check. (or at least a different subset of people would)
agreed. I never understood why first class people want to get on the plane so early. Even if the seats are comfy, you're still in a tiny metal tube with stinky air. Plus you have to watch all the other people go by glaring at you. Same thing goes for getting off the plane. Everybody stands up as soon as the light goes off. Why? Especially if you have to wait for luggage anyway, there's just no point in trying to get off the plane ahead of the person in the seat in front of you.
I know of no finer fallacy; therefore it is the best one.
You want to talk about industry bias? I'm in the oil and gas industry. It's not sufficient to be Republican at my place of work. You have to be full on, Alex Jones, nutjob. I have to be very circumspect about what I say and how I say it. When Republicans stifle free speech, it's automatically patriotic; if you disagree with them, you're a traitor. Before you tell me I'm exaggerating, we recently had the commander in chief flippantly call it "treason" when the Democrats didn't applaud his every platitude.
You may be right about Wheeler; he made the right call in the end. I guess that's why I got marked as flamebait. But I remember as recently as 2014 he was saying that fast lanes were a good thing. Kinda made me have my doubts. He also disregarded a lot of the traditional firewalls between the FCC and WH (or at least the appearance thereof). Granted, this sort of blurring the lines between executive and independent agencies had been getting more common, especially during W's reign. It's so quaint, the sorts of things that were shocking to us even three or four years ago.
That being said, the Baker thing seemed pretty fishy. Four months is not a lot of time to wait between approving a major merger and working for said company.
Nonsense, the republic has been refining definitions of things like "freedom," "speech," or "unreasonable" since its inception. Back then, "freedom" included the right to own brown people. When the radicals thought that they were defending "freedom" by actually setting people free, it pissed off a whole bunch of other people.
The courts have held on several occasions that the freedom of speech does not include speech that is so disruptive that it keeps people from pursuing their normal lives. You are allowed to peaceably assemble, but it is illegal to block somebody's driveway. You are allowed freedom of expression, but you can't violate sound ordinances. You can practice your religion, but if that religion involves keeping your kids locked in the basement, you can guaran-damn-tee that you'll face jailtime.
In this case, the court ruled that the memo was so disruptive that it could not be considered protected. Seems like a reasonable finding, and I seriously doubt that it is a death knell for free speech. We have a president actively threatening to loosen up libel laws, so let's not pretend like a court giving a whiny snowflake a tongue lashing is the biggest threat the first amendment faces right now.
If you really think that freedom dies just by being redefined, you should be really upset by that homophobic baker hiding behind "religious freedom." By your argument, they're diminishing the legitimacy of actual religious freedom. Embrace, extend, extinguish, just like Microsoft.
I don't know that Obama made any good decisions regarding the FCC. Just look at Meredith Baker and Tom Wheeler. Two industry stooges of the worst kind. I have no idea why Obama would have tried to appease anybody, least of all McConnell. That bastard literally said, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
One more thing I don't get: Why do Republicans think that by saying Obama did it, that somehow makes it not Donald's fault when the problem isn't fixed, or gets made worse? It's not like he hasn't had time, or the congress at his disposal. He has been in office for one year, and the only thing he's succeeded at is getting rich people like me lower taxes, and deporting people who have been pillars of their communities for decades.
We still have one printer at work that uses continuous feed for triplicate forms. The paper is getting more expensive, though. Never jams, but getting the driver to work on a new computer is always exciting. I remember one program that you could make banners with that would just keep printing on multiple sheets of continuous feed paper. You can't do that with a DeskJet.
They did this with roundworms already, and put it on a Lego robot.
It's funny, back in 2016 Fox News was more than happy spouting conspiracy theories about Hillary's health citing unnamed sources. Back in 2011, none other than Donald Trump cited unnamed sources that there was conclusive evidence that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii. It's funny how naming sources only seems to matter when the story disturbs your worldview.
You choose to dismiss anti-Trump stories. Nothing "made" you do it. Please accept that you have completely shut down the thinking part of your brain and are relying on your amygdala to think for you. Sad!
I love the irony of your last line. It's hard to have trust in the right-wing media, because they have spent about 20 years shitting all over the facts and telling us it's truth compost. It's getting to the point where fact-checkers don't even bother anymore.
I'm pretty sure once Yellen leaves, they will completely (and quietly) undo the Wells Fargo thing. And there will be a new Twitter spasm by the orange rage machine that everybody will be talking about instead.
Edgar Welch still does not describe the Comet Ping Pong conspiracy as "fake news," and bristles at that characterization. He did say he should have handled it better, whatever that means. Humans are very good at taking any fact and using it to support their belief. Even when that fact contradicts said belief.
Having a conversation with somebody who disagrees with you is becoming more and more challenging. I'm not talking about winning an argument, but just discussing the viewpoint of others. One of the things a coworker and I have come to realize is that people are literally using different dictionaries than one another to define words. You wouldn't think that would matter, but when the very definition of "harassment" or "amnesty" or "crepuscular" are up for grabs, it makes it hard to see where the other person is coming from.
If you are a "descriptive not prescriptive" type of person, it makes little difference, because you can flex your mind around the definitions of others. Ironically, the person I have in mind considers himself very prescriptive, but he uses Webster's which is pretty well known for being descriptive. I'll use whatever definition somebody throws at me, so if they want to claim that the TSA is a terrorist organization, I'll just ask how he defines "terrorist" before we go too far down that rabbit hole.
It helps to get the definitions out of the way as early as possible, sort of like when your programming. I remember getting into a heated argument about sexual assault before. It was probably an hour before we realized that our jurisdictions had different definitions of the crime. Where I'm from, it's the same crime no matter what hole you stick it in (except ear, for some reason). Had we both known that ahead of time, the conversation would have been much more constructive.
GE was basically the American version of Siemens. I guess arguably it still is. Everything from light bulbs to medical devices to gigantic power plants. And let's not forget financial services (although that is less that it has been). The similarities are astounding. Hell, they're even getting investigated by the authorities, just like Siemens was 12 years ago. They really did copy everything!
There's also a tragedy of the commons waiting to happen. If everybody has an unlimited data plan and everybody tries to stream 4K video all the time, the cell network would struggle. I thought QOS was allowed even back under Net Neutrality rules. This isn't something insidious, just trying to make sure that their phone network keeps working as a phone network.