There doesn't seem to be any good ones for sale anymore. Hopefully this recent incident will change that. I think it might finally be time for me to get into the political t-shirt game.
I didn't tell them that I'll no longer be watching, because I usually watch SP online anyway, but I do think it's important to write in and tell them just how angry you are with their cowardice and the missed opportunity to stand up for free speech.
I've been saying this since the Danish cartoon incidents caused such a flurry of self censorship. It's the duty of ever free speech and cultural openness loving American to demand that this episode be available. The only solution to those who say by threat of force that they are above mockery is to mock them ten fold more brutally until they learn unquestionably criticism and humor are a fact of life and no amount of crazy can stop them.
Of course South Park is already winning this one. They're not even mocking the religion, only the moronic nature of some of it's followers. The moderate Muslim community should thank them for this opportunity (which I believe they are missing) to tell the rest of the world "we can take a joke just like everyone else!"
Should a company that's asking for millions of Euros in government bailouts be paying for publicity stunts? I mean I know a single flight from Seattle to Frankfurt isn't going to cost the airline itself much of anything, but what kind of message does it send to the tens of thousands of people who have been stranded for the last week or all of the Germans who are going to pay the potential bailout money if Lufthansa starts handing out free flights to guys just because they like German beer.
P.S. Saying "German beer" is like saying "American beer". I'd honestly be curious what he was drinking, most of the interesting stuff is the local city brews and I can tell you some of them are every bit the flavorless piss water of Coors.
I have trouble explaining this to people from other countries. The only time I use cash is at bars, and only if it's too busy or I wont be there long enough to start a tab. The US will give credit cards to practically anyone, and practically every place of business takes them. I understand that there are some people who will never give up cash just like they never give up writing checks, but most of the nation has clearly voiced that we're not a cash based society anymore when vending machines started taking credit for $1 purchases.
I don't know why they bother to redo the currency every couple of years when the economy moves further and further away from cash every day.
Yeah I don't buy the 'but think of the machines!' argument against changing the design of the US currency.
Why do you think it's been such a struggle to bring in the dollar coins? Could it be that most vending machines don't take them, thus making them terribly inconvenient for one of their major uses? Do you think people are honestly just that against change just to be pointlessly spiteful?
Not to mention half of Europe which not only changed currency designs, but the actual currency (to the Euro) virtually overnight.
Try 10 years for inception through a period of value pegging (which didn't work terribly well) through introduction and into standardization with over two months spent with multiple currencies per country.
I wont even get into the rest of it because I don't feed trolls, but I can let you pass on the first as you're obviously not an American who would have personal knowledge of just how much Americans despise $1 coins, and the second I have to imagine you just never bothered to learn.
The scary thing about Turkey is that the only thing keeping it away from becoming a theocratic dictatorship is the secular military dictatorship it already has. It's an interesting place, town between being a "good Kamalist", drinking alcohol, not wearing head scarfs, western education; and a predominantly Muslim population that can't get enough of Protocols of the Elders of Zion and hiding its women behind closed doors.
If you ever get the chance take the train from Kars to Istanbul and count the military outposts. It's madness.
I think they give it to people whose comments are regularly rated up, and whose moderating is meta-moderated positively.
Not to mention they've got an entire FAQ on who gets points if anyone bothered to read the documentation, all sorts of things like visiting often but not too often, reading the comment section or articles, it's wheels within wheels!
I did read that, it's a really great story except that he could have just handed it to the bar tender because I bet when the guy found out it was missing that's in the top three of places he looked.
Now, do we assume that he's just to dumb to use the simplest and most effective plan, and that he couldn't use a machine purpose built for communication to call one of the engineers friends as soon as he found it, or do we assume that he made a really half assed effort (if any) then cashed in.
We've all lost things in our lives, it's nice to know that the reason we don't get most of them back is that everyone seems perfectly fine with someone who finds very clearly valuable things and sells them rather than trying to return them.
I don't understand all of these people who assume that Apple couldn't figure out who lost the phone anyway.
Don't they keep records of who's walking around with prototypes?
Shouldn't the phone by marked to prevent intentional leaking?
Can't they just go to whoever has them and say "everyone hold up your phone!" and see who can't?
So you're not bothered at all that someone found something that clearly didn't belong to him, and rather than trying to return it to the rightful owner, sold it to the third party at a profit?
If someone did that with your phone, your wallet, hell a stuffed animal you wouldn't be too happy about it, I don't see why this gets a pass.
Wait, so the BBC is a better news source because they're willing to speculate in print what everyone already assumed? Did it really need to be explicitly stated that either no one knows where they are or whoever does isn't talking?
Never spoke out publicly against slavery. Signed an act that allowed hunters to enter free states to recover runaway slaves. Supported only whites to become citizens of the United States.
On this point he and the rest of the founding fathers had the choice between the ugly reality of slavery and half of the colonies not signing on to the constitution or agreeing to the fight for independence.
The result of the revolutions failure could have been Canada and they could have all been freed 20 years early, or it could have been apartheid South Africa. If you're going to Monday morning quarterback at least consider that this world of black and white you live in is often complicated by circumstance and in this case not even hindsight really clears things up.
Slavery is wrong, everyone gets that, but before before you lash a man for not trying hard enough to solve the injustices of the world consider the limitations to their power. He never had the authority or the support to rid America of slavery and any attempt to do so would have undermined the few things he could enact.
Exactly. The problem with WWI is that there were no good guys. Everyone thought war was just a fun way to kill a weekend and grab a little extra territory.
It's a very easy mistake to make, and given the large number of agglutinative characteristics in German it's not like he completely or even totally missed the boat.
The problem with that is that is if you drop or have your wallet stolen. Having to fight with a bank over $20,000 is a pain in the ass but I'd rather deal with that than losing my wallet with $200 in it.
I think it may also have something to do with Europe's generally different opinion of extending credit to anyone. I started receiving offers in the mail from anyone and everyone when I turned 18, my girlfriend (who is German) couldn't get a credit card with a limit over 200 Euros to save her life because she doesn't have established credit.
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There doesn't seem to be any good ones for sale anymore. Hopefully this recent incident will change that. I think it might finally be time for me to get into the political t-shirt game.
All the more reason to ignore them completely. Except now they've gotten what they wanted, and I think this makes it a real controversy.
I didn't tell them that I'll no longer be watching, because I usually watch SP online anyway, but I do think it's important to write in and tell them just how angry you are with their cowardice and the missed opportunity to stand up for free speech.
I've been saying this since the Danish cartoon incidents caused such a flurry of self censorship. It's the duty of ever free speech and cultural openness loving American to demand that this episode be available. The only solution to those who say by threat of force that they are above mockery is to mock them ten fold more brutally until they learn unquestionably criticism and humor are a fact of life and no amount of crazy can stop them.
Of course South Park is already winning this one. They're not even mocking the religion, only the moronic nature of some of it's followers. The moderate Muslim community should thank them for this opportunity (which I believe they are missing) to tell the rest of the world "we can take a joke just like everyone else!"
Should a company that's asking for millions of Euros in government bailouts be paying for publicity stunts? I mean I know a single flight from Seattle to Frankfurt isn't going to cost the airline itself much of anything, but what kind of message does it send to the tens of thousands of people who have been stranded for the last week or all of the Germans who are going to pay the potential bailout money if Lufthansa starts handing out free flights to guys just because they like German beer.
P.S. Saying "German beer" is like saying "American beer". I'd honestly be curious what he was drinking, most of the interesting stuff is the local city brews and I can tell you some of them are every bit the flavorless piss water of Coors.
I have trouble explaining this to people from other countries. The only time I use cash is at bars, and only if it's too busy or I wont be there long enough to start a tab. The US will give credit cards to practically anyone, and practically every place of business takes them. I understand that there are some people who will never give up cash just like they never give up writing checks, but most of the nation has clearly voiced that we're not a cash based society anymore when vending machines started taking credit for $1 purchases.
I don't know why they bother to redo the currency every couple of years when the economy moves further and further away from cash every day.
Yeah I don't buy the 'but think of the machines!' argument against changing the design of the US currency.
Why do you think it's been such a struggle to bring in the dollar coins? Could it be that most vending machines don't take them, thus making them terribly inconvenient for one of their major uses? Do you think people are honestly just that against change just to be pointlessly spiteful?
Not to mention half of Europe which not only changed currency designs, but the actual currency (to the Euro) virtually overnight.
Try 10 years for inception through a period of value pegging (which didn't work terribly well) through introduction and into standardization with over two months spent with multiple currencies per country.
I wont even get into the rest of it because I don't feed trolls, but I can let you pass on the first as you're obviously not an American who would have personal knowledge of just how much Americans despise $1 coins, and the second I have to imagine you just never bothered to learn.
The scary thing about Turkey is that the only thing keeping it away from becoming a theocratic dictatorship is the secular military dictatorship it already has. It's an interesting place, town between being a "good Kamalist", drinking alcohol, not wearing head scarfs, western education; and a predominantly Muslim population that can't get enough of Protocols of the Elders of Zion and hiding its women behind closed doors.
If you ever get the chance take the train from Kars to Istanbul and count the military outposts. It's madness.
If you listen to the tape for the extremists they made him behave "oddly".
I thought the explanation of why Matt and Trey deserve to die was hilarious in an of itself.
I think they give it to people whose comments are regularly rated up, and whose moderating is meta-moderated positively.
Not to mention they've got an entire FAQ on who gets points if anyone bothered to read the documentation, all sorts of things like visiting often but not too often, reading the comment section or articles, it's wheels within wheels!
I did read that, it's a really great story except that he could have just handed it to the bar tender because I bet when the guy found out it was missing that's in the top three of places he looked.
Now, do we assume that he's just to dumb to use the simplest and most effective plan, and that he couldn't use a machine purpose built for communication to call one of the engineers friends as soon as he found it, or do we assume that he made a really half assed effort (if any) then cashed in.
I may have gotten out of hand with my train of thought but I'll try to explain.
OP: If this was a laptop full of SSNs would you be mad he lost it? ->
You: It wasn't. He shouldn't get fired. ->
Me: Why are we talking about whether he's a bad person at all when we should be talking about what a dick the guy who found it is.
Not directed at you per se.
That's my point.
We've all lost things in our lives, it's nice to know that the reason we don't get most of them back is that everyone seems perfectly fine with someone who finds very clearly valuable things and sells them rather than trying to return them.
I don't understand all of these people who assume that Apple couldn't figure out who lost the phone anyway.
Don't they keep records of who's walking around with prototypes?
Shouldn't the phone by marked to prevent intentional leaking?
Can't they just go to whoever has them and say "everyone hold up your phone!" and see who can't?
This whole store is rotten.
So you're not bothered at all that someone found something that clearly didn't belong to him, and rather than trying to return it to the rightful owner, sold it to the third party at a profit?
If someone did that with your phone, your wallet, hell a stuffed animal you wouldn't be too happy about it, I don't see why this gets a pass.
Wait, so the BBC is a better news source because they're willing to speculate in print what everyone already assumed? Did it really need to be explicitly stated that either no one knows where they are or whoever does isn't talking?
Never spoke out publicly against slavery. Signed an act that allowed hunters to enter free states to recover runaway slaves. Supported only whites to become citizens of the United States.
On this point he and the rest of the founding fathers had the choice between the ugly reality of slavery and half of the colonies not signing on to the constitution or agreeing to the fight for independence.
The result of the revolutions failure could have been Canada and they could have all been freed 20 years early, or it could have been apartheid South Africa. If you're going to Monday morning quarterback at least consider that this world of black and white you live in is often complicated by circumstance and in this case not even hindsight really clears things up.
Slavery is wrong, everyone gets that, but before before you lash a man for not trying hard enough to solve the injustices of the world consider the limitations to their power. He never had the authority or the support to rid America of slavery and any attempt to do so would have undermined the few things he could enact.
Exactly. The problem with WWI is that there were no good guys. Everyone thought war was just a fun way to kill a weekend and grab a little extra territory.
It's a very easy mistake to make, and given the large number of agglutinative characteristics in German it's not like he completely or even totally missed the boat.
The difference is Obama said he would be transparent, Bush said he wouldn't. One of them was just keeping their word.
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Wait, what's the point?
I've lost two wallets. 1) Call Wells Fargo, cancel debit card and order replacement. 2) Call Chase, cancel credit card and order replacement.
The problem with that is that is if you drop or have your wallet stolen. Having to fight with a bank over $20,000 is a pain in the ass but I'd rather deal with that than losing my wallet with $200 in it.
I think it may also have something to do with Europe's generally different opinion of extending credit to anyone. I started receiving offers in the mail from anyone and everyone when I turned 18, my girlfriend (who is German) couldn't get a credit card with a limit over 200 Euros to save her life because she doesn't have established credit.
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