Well, how would I look up the reason you're not surprised? I can't just guess, and what if I'm in the Andes mountains and I remember this conversation and decide I want to do some Internet research to look for precedents, how would I look them up then?
God damn, you guys are so clever! I get it! Let me see if I'm right.
You're mocking the strawman that these silly "libertarians" just say "go build your own internet", because you're pointing out how crazy that is! Did I get it right?!
I love how you filthy nerds get all worked up anytime some deeply hypothetical limit to your "freedom" gets mentioned. I mean listening to you all crybaby, I'd think you can't go to YouTube and watch funny cat videos without paying some Fat Cat corporation at least $500 a month!
Youtube, Facebook, and 500 other Internet sites could drop off the face of the earth tomorrow and we'd be better for it but listening to you all go drama queen (smug, whiny drama queens) about it you'd think millions will die if the unthinkable happened and some corporations had to hash out some sort of pricing agreement to exchange goods or services.
What a bunch of little baby pukes. Christ, go talk to someone who lived through WW2 or the Great Depression before you carry on whining about someone theoretically charging you possibly as much as $.05 more per gigabyte per month of bandwidth you baselessly smug douches.
I don't have a persecution complex at all, I don't give a shit about the opinion of a bunch of neckbeards.
I find myself between worlds, when I'm hanging out in right-wing infested places I find the global warming deniers to be hilarious, and they're just so ironically mocking of those silly "scientists" (left wing moonbats, no less, they'll have you know!) and their fancy "science".
When I'm hanging out around here, I find naive neckbeard EuroSocialists to be equally smug about their laughably inane theories on economics.
What's most amusing is when the obvious happens, and you smug douches are so shocked and disappointed.
Wait, you mean Europe is collapsing under its own weight and the fuckers are rioting over some new bullshit every week? Wait, you mean a community organizer/Junior senator elected to President can't really solve all our problems?
So don't worry about my persecution complex, I'm having a god damn hoot!
Your willful ignorance amuses me greatly. There's this wonderful site called Google you can use to look up various facts and figures on issues like this. It takes literally 5 minutes to find multiple sources for the obvious fact that as much as a dirty spending whore as Dubya was, Obama will far, far outpace him in spending.
At least jump to the usual mealy mouthed whore excuse and claim it's because he had to clean up "Booosh"'s failures.
What's funny is even most of the Obama projections are lies, he'll end up spending far more than projected because it's the conservative (i.e. made up) numbers they tend to use, in real life we'll spend a lot more on everything - especially health care.
Damn, too bad I don't have any mod points to mod this insightful.
I mean, you like Democrats and don't like Republicans - that's deep shit right there!
So tell me, what are your feelings on Blue or Yellow - which one do you like and dislike? I think if we talk through these deep issues we can really get this whole national discussion kickstarted and lick these problems, by golly!
cut the military budget, it's the single largest section of the federal government weighing in at 800 billion a year.
This is untrue. Social security is the single largest section, though defense spending is a close second.
Realistically, _everything_ needs to be cut _and_ taxes raised a bit but left wing douchebags will never go for cutting free shit that buys them the vote of the rabble, and the right wing douches will never give up on their military spending or tax cuts.
Does anybody pay attention to those dipshits anymore?
I mean, we get it - you want to rattle your little cage and scare up some free shit. It's just that nobody takes you seriously anymore, North Korea.
You're the little twirp who gets all up in some guys face and then tells your buddies "hold me back, hold me back" because you know he'll beat you to death if you actually attack him.
If the penalty for some heinous crime was being publicly flayed and tortured to death for 3 days under medical supervision, it would almost certainly cut down on that crime. We tend to hide the death penalty behind a veneer of civility and it doesn't really imprint on people's minds. "Oh, if I get caught _and_ convicted _and_ they go for the death penalty _and_ I can't appeal out of it over 20 years, I might die if I do this". It's all too abstract.
Now, show some guy suffering the above torture on TV, might be a different story for some subset of the criminals.
Note I'm not advocating this by any means, though there are people I would like to see it done to it would never work in the real world and would do more harm than good overall.
God it amuses me how internet people think they're so fucking important.
Net neutrality is a bunch of chicken little bullshit. I remember when we were trying to keep the government's hands off the Internet, now you idiots want to hand it to them on a silver platter because of paranoid delusions about Corporate Fat Cats being out to get you.
Rank idiocy. Please go read the article about the Microsoft funded study of IE's social engineering avoidance technology. The article responses were littered with "but, durr, I ignored it because it's MS funded!".
As for debating the topic, there's nothing to debate. I have strong fiscal right leaning tendencies (but left social), and I'll acknowledge a higher number Fox watchers are dolts, and "dolt" is being generous. Furthermore Fox "news" tends to be more editorial than actual news.
Associating your name with authorship of a document describing illegal activity is probable cause, and yes it is enough to arrest (at least in US, apparently Greece) someone, but probably not enough on its own for a conviction.
Which almost nobody with any sense cares about. If they have a good native implementation of the 3D API, there are painfully few valid reasons you'd want C/C++ on WP7.
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Well, how would I look up the reason you're not surprised? I can't just guess, and what if I'm in the Andes mountains and I remember this conversation and decide I want to do some Internet research to look for precedents, how would I look them up then?
God damn, you guys are so clever! I get it! Let me see if I'm right.
You're mocking the strawman that these silly "libertarians" just say "go build your own internet", because you're pointing out how crazy that is! Did I get it right?!
I love how you filthy nerds get all worked up anytime some deeply hypothetical limit to your "freedom" gets mentioned. I mean listening to you all crybaby, I'd think you can't go to YouTube and watch funny cat videos without paying some Fat Cat corporation at least $500 a month!
Youtube, Facebook, and 500 other Internet sites could drop off the face of the earth tomorrow and we'd be better for it but listening to you all go drama queen (smug, whiny drama queens) about it you'd think millions will die if the unthinkable happened and some corporations had to hash out some sort of pricing agreement to exchange goods or services.
What a bunch of little baby pukes. Christ, go talk to someone who lived through WW2 or the Great Depression before you carry on whining about someone theoretically charging you possibly as much as $.05 more per gigabyte per month of bandwidth you baselessly smug douches.
I don't have a persecution complex at all, I don't give a shit about the opinion of a bunch of neckbeards.
I find myself between worlds, when I'm hanging out in right-wing infested places I find the global warming deniers to be hilarious, and they're just so ironically mocking of those silly "scientists" (left wing moonbats, no less, they'll have you know!) and their fancy "science".
When I'm hanging out around here, I find naive neckbeard EuroSocialists to be equally smug about their laughably inane theories on economics.
What's most amusing is when the obvious happens, and you smug douches are so shocked and disappointed.
Wait, you mean Europe is collapsing under its own weight and the fuckers are rioting over some new bullshit every week? Wait, you mean a community organizer/Junior senator elected to President can't really solve all our problems?
So don't worry about my persecution complex, I'm having a god damn hoot!
Your willful ignorance amuses me greatly. There's this wonderful site called Google you can use to look up various facts and figures on issues like this. It takes literally 5 minutes to find multiple sources for the obvious fact that as much as a dirty spending whore as Dubya was, Obama will far, far outpace him in spending.
At least jump to the usual mealy mouthed whore excuse and claim it's because he had to clean up "Booosh"'s failures.
What's funny is even most of the Obama projections are lies, he'll end up spending far more than projected because it's the conservative (i.e. made up) numbers they tend to use, in real life we'll spend a lot more on everything - especially health care.
Haha, I love when these neckbeard SlashDweebs mod down anyone who says something reasonable.
OMG, he's not a EuroSocialist Johnny Trustbuster, quick mod him down!
It's an intersection of right-wing economic thought, which many of us around Slashdot approve of,
Huh? I'd be shocked if more than 20% of SlashDot subscribed to right wing economic thought. Did you just come back on after being away for 10 years?
Damn, too bad I don't have any mod points to mod this insightful.
I mean, you like Democrats and don't like Republicans - that's deep shit right there!
So tell me, what are your feelings on Blue or Yellow - which one do you like and dislike? I think if we talk through these deep issues we can really get this whole national discussion kickstarted and lick these problems, by golly!
I sort of agree, but let's stick to facts:
cut the military budget, it's the single largest section of the federal government weighing in at 800 billion a year.
This is untrue. Social security is the single largest section, though defense spending is a close second.
Realistically, _everything_ needs to be cut _and_ taxes raised a bit but left wing douchebags will never go for cutting free shit that buys them the vote of the rabble, and the right wing douches will never give up on their military spending or tax cuts.
Oh bullshit. Nobody's dying of starvation in this country except for the mentally ill homeless who are too god damn crazy to get help.
Math fail. Percentage rates are inherently progressive - the more you make, the more you pay.
Regarding the latter, Obama isn't spending at any greater rate than Bush Jr. did
Oh come on, at least don't post shit that's so easily disprovable with literally a 4 word google search.
Here's a nice explanation maybe you'll understand.
Please don't lie on the Internet, it's impolite.
He's a smart fucking guy, but he's borderline neo-con so that's a huge turnoff.
I trust his intellect, I just don't trust his character.
Please stop these silly lies. Madoff and Ponzi operated "in the black", too.. for a while.
SS is laughably unsustainable and needs to be changed.
Lol. Drop in the bucket.. I guess you're using the "new" definition of that saying that means "the single largest piece of the US budget", right?
Everything needs to be cut. I'd be all for a 25% cut in the military and a 20% cut on everything else.
Please, find out for me who exactly has been unable to access anything because of these "stunts".
I won't hold my breath, of course, as nobody has been affected by it.
This is just cynical manipulation of the Internet rabble by one set of companies to help them fight another set of companies.
You don't think paying the vast majority of the tax burden is enough "pain" for the much hated rich fat cats?
Poor people already pay little if any in taxes.
US reaction? What exactly has the US done? Oh, that's right - a whole lot of nothing.
says what now?
Does anybody pay attention to those dipshits anymore?
I mean, we get it - you want to rattle your little cage and scare up some free shit. It's just that nobody takes you seriously anymore, North Korea.
You're the little twirp who gets all up in some guys face and then tells your buddies "hold me back, hold me back" because you know he'll beat you to death if you actually attack him.
Oh how typical. So "Bush's fault", huh?
Yes, I'm joking.
If the penalty for some heinous crime was being publicly flayed and tortured to death for 3 days under medical supervision, it would almost certainly cut down on that crime. We tend to hide the death penalty behind a veneer of civility and it doesn't really imprint on people's minds. "Oh, if I get caught _and_ convicted _and_ they go for the death penalty _and_ I can't appeal out of it over 20 years, I might die if I do this". It's all too abstract. Now, show some guy suffering the above torture on TV, might be a different story for some subset of the criminals.
Note I'm not advocating this by any means, though there are people I would like to see it done to it would never work in the real world and would do more harm than good overall.
God it amuses me how internet people think they're so fucking important.
Net neutrality is a bunch of chicken little bullshit. I remember when we were trying to keep the government's hands off the Internet, now you idiots want to hand it to them on a silver platter because of paranoid delusions about Corporate Fat Cats being out to get you.
Rank idiocy. Please go read the article about the Microsoft funded study of IE's social engineering avoidance technology. The article responses were littered with "but, durr, I ignored it because it's MS funded!".
As for debating the topic, there's nothing to debate. I have strong fiscal right leaning tendencies (but left social), and I'll acknowledge a higher number Fox watchers are dolts, and "dolt" is being generous. Furthermore Fox "news" tends to be more editorial than actual news.
So I'm not sure what there is to "debate".
Yeah, you literally just repeated the parent post and somehow got a +5. I guess the parent wasn't explicitly smug enough?
Associating your name with authorship of a document describing illegal activity is probable cause, and yes it is enough to arrest (at least in US, apparently Greece) someone, but probably not enough on its own for a conviction.
C# only for Windows Phone 7
Which almost nobody with any sense cares about. If they have a good native implementation of the 3D API, there are painfully few valid reasons you'd want C/C++ on WP7.