"weak pun that's well worn enough to have both a Wikipedia entry (which notes its "shrill and excessive use") and an XKCD already in place?"
Golly gee, by that definition everything is a weak pun. Fact is, belittling someones writing(writing itself is thousands of years old so there's nothing new) just to ignore the facts, and they are facts if you had any kind of childhood, in the rest of the commentary is even more unoriginal. In other words, Stolpskott is right so stop being an asshole because you can't handle it. And if you're trolling, UP YOURS AND WHATEVER YOU CAME IN ON!!!!
"Do we need to turn our home into a greenhouse every winter ?"
As someone who just spent the last month with stiff joints, various other extremities issues, little sleep, etc., due to a 68 degree house in a 30 degree outside environment and now has no problems with the temperature at 78 F inside while it's minus 5 F with a blizzard going on outside I say YES!!!!!
"A much more simple way is to cut down on our wasteful lifestyle."
When self-torture is in and being wasteful isn't comfortable and fun then maybe. Until then: Fuck off you politically correct panty waist.
I learned long ago that it's not worth fucking yourself up if you don't have too.
"It's not so much as regulating a woman's body as it is to protect innocent -growing- unborn life."
It is unborn and therefore an extension of the female, created with contributions from the male, and still dependent on her to care for that is little different than an arm or leg at that point and does not require separate protection. Stop playing control games, it's no ones business but the future parents for it's their responsibility.
Would you say the same if she had an arm or leg grow back?
" I'm only saying that certain specific works traditionally listed among the greats don't actually deserve to be included."
It's been my experience that classical works of the 50's-60's was largely that generation kissing it's own ass. Very little of it was original or unique when viewed against previous works. It was just the selfishness of a generation looking at itself and going boo.
"intellectual works are treated like a turkey thrown into a pit filled with hyenas."
What's this intellectual works shit? Nobody is know for stupid works, they are just works period. The guy wrote those works with the idea of them being published, otherwise why write them at all. He's dead, the money factor of copyright is meaningless for him, publish the damn things already.
"Others, such as Google, however, believe the problem with Eclipse is that it's written in Java. If only it were written in something logical like CSS, maybe coupled with something readable like HTML, perhaps held together with something stable and feature complete like Javascript, which can control the other elements using something intelligently designed, standardized, and completely quirkless like the Document Object Model, you'd have an IDE that would truly shine."
You owe me a new keyboard as spewed cocoa all over this one as I was reading that. It wouldn't have been so bad if the cocoa hadn't dried up in the time it took me to stop convulsing/laughing/crying.
That's for Electric vehicles. The gas car has all three, I pick that.
Until EV stops forcing useless often artificial choices on us it will never take off as more than a specialized transport medium.
If these big companies wanted to get the market going they should be selling the cars under cost if necessary to gain entry and market development/dominance like what China often does. Right, it's all about ball-less waiting for the other guy.
"The backlash against Debian isn't that it's too mainstream. It's that they're making decisions that compromise privacy (Amazon search integrated into desktop search by default) and usability (Unity). Also, the plan to develop Mir instead of using Wayland as the replacement for X was a bit of "What are you doing Ubuntu? Ubuntu? Stahp." moment."
The backlash against Ubuntu isn't that it's too mainstream. It's that they're making decisions that compromise privacy (Amazon search integrated into desktop search by default) and usability (Unity). Also, the plan to develop Mir instead of using Wayland as the replacement for X was a bit of "What are you doing Ubuntu? Ubuntu? Stop." moment.
No!! This is a republic! One of the jobs of those elected representatives is just like that of the electoral college and that's to filter out potential bad decisions based on shallow public emotion and not on facts. It's one of the reasons we use a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. Security theater without real security is a response to a shallow public emotion which has been used as an excuse to grab power and that's all. Those representatives should be in jail for trying so hard to protect their jobs they didn't do their jobs.
I know I didn't want this security theater and neither did anyone I knew, so who did? I was screaming "papers, papers please"(hogans heroes, pre/WWII movies) when I heard about homeland security.
"Utilities are paid with old fashioned checks, drawn on an old fashioned checking account. Larger purchases are often paid for in CASH, with no paper trail left behind."
Like your name, number, license number, etc. isn't already on the check and most places won't process it without knowing it. As for large cash transactions, businesses are required to report large cash or credit transactions. The door about the freedom of cash you talk about was closed long ago. All cash is serialized so tracking is definitely possible. As for dealing with local banks, that only works as long as the locals have a good opinion of you.
"they can hang out with the guy that had the hardware store before Home Depot came to town. Or the people with the health food store before Whole Foods. Or the stationary store before Office Max. Or the printer before Kinko's. Or the computer store before Dell."
Believe it or not, all those are still around here in the middle of the United States. Many are doing business the way all small businesses do for communities by providing valuable services that people want and/or need right there and not miles and/or days away.
Are you a masochist? If you aren't, just use open source instead. You'll get roughly the same result, minus the pain and suffering Steve inflicts on others who listen to his rants as well as use his code.
FTFY
PS Steve Ballmer is still at Microsoft and Steve Jobs hasn't been dead that long so most of his decisions are still being used so it works for both Windows and Mac OSX.
"it was global warming. When that didn't work it became global cooling. When that didn't work, it became climate change"
They've also been studying this since the seventies. The data didn't change, just the name calling. To the rest of your BS, I'll use the common denier excuse.(weather denier, science denier, etc) It's a complex world.
"When a company submits a bit, especially for large contracts, they also have to show that they have the technical capabilities, staff and a history of completing similar work. The bids are scored, with the dollar value being one factor in the award process"
That's right before the whole thing is thrown out for who has the best political connections.
You know, if you or I threatened to shut down the government we would instantly be thrown in Guantanamo or gunned down by capitol police. But somehow these terrorists that occupy the 'Congress, Supreme Court, and the' White House can get away with this nonsense and even expect us to praise them for coming to an "agreement" at the last minute?
"Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another."
So every man and boy in a relationship is poor except for rapists, sexual predators, and every other form of 'degenerates'. Looks like the 'bad' guys had the right idea.
"This from the same person who decried "the unconscionable profits of drug companies"...which have saved hundreds of millions of lives over the past 80 years."
And bilked everyone out of trillions while killing millions in the chase for profits by the criminally overpricing of various drugs.
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"weak pun that's well worn enough to have both a Wikipedia entry (which notes its "shrill and excessive use") and an XKCD already in place?"
Golly gee, by that definition everything is a weak pun. Fact is, belittling someones writing(writing itself is thousands of years old so there's nothing new) just to ignore the facts, and they are facts if you had any kind of childhood, in the rest of the commentary is even more unoriginal. In other words, Stolpskott is right so stop being an asshole because you can't handle it.
And if you're trolling, UP YOURS AND WHATEVER YOU CAME IN ON!!!!
"Is it any wonder people are biased against someone who continually rocks their world, yet scores so infrequently?"
Yes, women want men who can consistently put food on the table.
"Do we need to turn our home into a greenhouse every winter ?"
As someone who just spent the last month with stiff joints, various other extremities issues, little sleep, etc., due to a 68 degree house in a 30 degree outside environment and now has no problems with the temperature at 78 F inside while it's minus 5 F with a blizzard going on outside I say YES!!!!!
"A much more simple way is to cut down on our wasteful lifestyle."
When self-torture is in and being wasteful isn't comfortable and fun then maybe. Until then:
Fuck off you politically correct panty waist.
I learned long ago that it's not worth fucking yourself up if you don't have too.
"It's not so much as regulating a woman's body as it is to protect innocent -growing- unborn life."
It is unborn and therefore an extension of the female, created with contributions from the male, and still dependent on her to care for that is little different than an arm or leg at that point and does not require separate protection. Stop playing control games, it's no ones business but the future parents for it's their responsibility.
Would you say the same if she had an arm or leg grow back?
" I'm only saying that certain specific works traditionally listed among
the greats don't actually deserve to be included."
It's been my experience that classical works of the 50's-60's was largely that generation kissing it's own ass. Very little of it was original or unique when viewed against previous works. It was just the selfishness of a generation looking at itself and going boo.
" with all the other books that can't be replaced if lost or damaged."
And is there some reason we can't replace them? When we as a people can scan, copy, and print anything easily and cheap what content is irreplaceable?
"intellectual works are treated like a turkey thrown into a pit filled with hyenas."
What's this intellectual works shit? Nobody is know for stupid works, they are just works period. The guy wrote those works with the idea of them being published, otherwise why write them at all. He's dead, the money factor of copyright is meaningless for him, publish the damn things already.
"No other runtime has these advantages."
And no security to boot.
"Others, such as Google, however, believe the problem with Eclipse is that it's written in Java. If only it were written in something logical like CSS, maybe coupled with something readable like HTML, perhaps held together with something stable and feature complete like Javascript, which can control the other elements using something intelligently designed, standardized, and completely quirkless like the Document Object Model, you'd have an IDE that would truly shine."
You owe me a new keyboard as spewed cocoa all over this one as I was reading that. It wouldn't have been so bad if the cocoa hadn't dried up in the time it took me to stop convulsing/laughing/crying.
"Fast, cheap, long range.
Pick two."
That's for Electric vehicles. The gas car has all three, I pick that.
Until EV stops forcing useless often artificial choices on us it will never take off as more than a specialized transport medium.
If these big companies wanted to get the market going they should be selling the cars under cost if necessary to gain entry and market development/dominance like what China often does. Right, it's all about ball-less waiting for the other guy.
"The backlash against Debian isn't that it's too mainstream. It's that they're making decisions that compromise privacy (Amazon search integrated into desktop search by default) and usability (Unity). Also, the plan to develop Mir instead of using Wayland as the replacement for X was a bit of "What are you doing Ubuntu? Ubuntu? Stahp." moment."
The backlash against Ubuntu isn't that it's too mainstream. It's that they're making decisions that compromise privacy (Amazon search integrated into desktop search by default) and usability (Unity). Also, the plan to develop Mir instead of using Wayland as the replacement for X was a bit of "What are you doing Ubuntu? Ubuntu? Stop." moment.
Fixed that for you.
"this IS a democracy"
No!! This is a republic! One of the jobs of those elected representatives is just like that of the electoral college and that's to filter out potential bad decisions based on shallow public emotion and not on facts. It's one of the reasons we use a representative democracy and not a direct democracy. Security theater without real security is a response to a shallow public emotion which has been used as an excuse to grab power and that's all. Those representatives should be in jail for trying so hard to protect their jobs they didn't do their jobs.
I know I didn't want this security theater and neither did anyone I knew, so who did? I was screaming "papers, papers please"(hogans heroes, pre/WWII movies) when I heard about homeland security.
"Utilities are paid with old fashioned checks, drawn on an old fashioned checking account. Larger purchases are often paid for in CASH, with no paper trail left behind."
Like your name, number, license number, etc. isn't already on the check and most places won't process it without knowing it. As for large cash transactions, businesses are required to report large cash or credit transactions. The door about the freedom of cash you talk about was closed long ago. All cash is serialized so tracking is definitely possible. As for dealing with local banks, that only works as long as the locals have a good opinion of you.
"they can hang out with the guy that had the hardware store before Home Depot came to town. Or the people with the health food store before Whole Foods. Or the stationary store before Office Max. Or the printer before Kinko's. Or the computer store before Dell."
Believe it or not, all those are still around here in the middle of the United States. Many are doing business the way all small businesses do for communities by providing valuable services that people want and/or need right there and not miles and/or days away.
Are you a masochist? If you aren't, just use open source instead. You'll get roughly the same result, minus the pain and suffering Steve inflicts on others who listen to his rants as well as use his code.
FTFY
PS Steve Ballmer is still at Microsoft and Steve Jobs hasn't been dead that long so most of his decisions are still being used so it works for both Windows and Mac OSX.
"You fucking nerds"
They're not nerds otherwise they'd know. They're just users playing the cool game.
"it was global warming. When that didn't work it became global cooling. When that didn't work, it became climate change"
They've also been studying this since the seventies. The data didn't change, just the name calling. To the rest of your BS, I'll use the common denier excuse.(weather denier, science denier, etc)
It's a complex world.
"it also has to be expensive and inconvenient"
And maybe they didn't want the US stealing industrial and research information like they were doing from the 70's onwards.
"Anybody recall how the Japanese ended up with this constitution?"
Yes. They attacked us, we nuked them, then rammed our values down their throat.
"When a company submits a bit, especially for large contracts, they also have to show that they have the technical capabilities, staff and a history of completing similar work. The bids are scored, with the dollar value being one factor in the award process"
That's right before the whole thing is thrown out for who has the best political connections.
You know, if you or I threatened to shut down the government we would instantly be thrown in Guantanamo or gunned down by capitol police. But somehow these terrorists that occupy the 'Congress, Supreme Court, and the' White House can get away with this nonsense and even expect us to praise them for coming to an "agreement" at the last minute?
Fixed that for you!!
" Feminists may be a lot of things, but they're usually literate."
Depends on how you define literate. Book literate but often not psychologically or emotionally literate.
"Sex is wrong unless done through a hole in a bed sheet."
Or a wall.
"Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another."
So every man and boy in a relationship is poor except for rapists, sexual predators, and every other form of 'degenerates'. Looks like the 'bad' guys had the right idea.
"This from the same person who decried "the unconscionable profits of drug companies"...which have saved hundreds of millions of lives over the past 80 years."
And bilked everyone out of trillions while killing millions in the chase for profits by the criminally overpricing of various drugs.