Man, did someone beat ya'll with the stupid stick today???
Allow me to ask you the same question. If there was any free energy to be made out of 'gravity' best believe it would be harnessed one way or another. Which is not. In this occurence the energy is wasted because the plates go down. The extra energy spent by the car is in going back up/going up in the first place.
By the way, he's a thief for spending billions of your local currency in his campaigns? Really? Have you been paying any attention to how much money goes into an American presidential election?
Also, Mousavi "murdered" thousands of Iranians as a prime minister, with his bare hands? Or more like the way George Bush/Dick Cheney "murdered" thousands of Iraqi civilians?
You're giving us too much credit. Nobody gives a shit about Mousavi. I didn't know who he was until 5 days ago. What ticks us of is that someone would blatantly steal an election and get away with it, mainly when we don't even like the guy to begin with.
So, let's say we know for sure Ahmadinedjad stole the election. Then what? What does the international community do? Sanctions? A CIA-backed coup (for once that these would be anywhere near desirable)? What do Iranians do? Overthrow him? Riot until it gets nowhere and just accept their all-out dictatorship? Serious question, I'd really like to know, and that question is never seen addressed.
How about we compare what can be compared instead of comparing Iran to Canada? Iran has had paper elections before, how about we compare to how long it took them then to do it? Nowhere near as fast? And they didn't change anything to the way they count votes?
Right, so the eventuality of necessitating to eject a floppy as an electrical fire starts (really, a fire starts and all you're trying to do is get a damn floppy out?) matters more than thousands of users regularly corrupting their data and thus diminishing the reliability of the use of floppy disks for them?
If that philosophy was applied to anything you wouldn't have ramps in staircases, and elevators would have no walls because who knows maybe you'd want to jump out in a case of a fire, or whatever million things the architect didn't think of.
Yeah, usually the guys who have lots of sex with lots of different women totally don't brag about it. That is, except the ones who do it partially for the bragging rights and subsequent alpha male status.
Ha, I was about to comment on how you're just not gonna drop it. I'm self employed and bored, and Slashdot is the only place I know where I can have elaborate troll arguments. Maybe I should go to a pub instead...
Oh it doesn't, everybody makes mistakes, and the Treaty of Versailles is a long shot from being the worst we've done. But unlike you we don't always have to be "#1".
But you've drifted far away from any of the points previously made, so I suppose I can safely infer that you're conceding to all the other points I've made. I accept your apology.
What first world country is more violent than the US?
No, just no. Your question should be "Which first world country's culture is more violent", anything else is just off-topic, and then, I didn't make a point that the US didn't have the most violent culture, only that it was far from being as obvious, factual, objective and clear cut as it was being made out to be. If you'd care to read the parent posts a few levels up you'd see that I offered Japan as a candidate. Although I must say that as a Frenchman I really don't see what our culture has to envy to the American culture when it comes to violence, so consider it another candidate.
Just because I talk about the US does not make me myopic. I am allowed to talk about my own fucking country.
Nice strawman argument, sucker.
Because Europe is filled with elitist assholes whose only way to feel superior is take act like you know everything and we know nothing. It's nothing new and rather cliche at this point.
Why just Europe? You don't think people think like this anywhere else? Believe me, they do. The rest of the whole world's full of elitists. Although it maybe says more about you than it says about the rest of the world.
As for driver's seats, you had your chance. You guys are so fucking brilliant and knowledgeable that you couldn't hang on to it?
Yeah, it's called world wars, or as some historians call it, the European civil war. See the UK, France and Germany were like fucking huge, oppressing people in every continents and running this shit. Then they fought each other until they were in such deep shit that they had to give up their colonial empires, and reconstruct themselves as the modern countries that they are now, and let the world become bipolar, the two poles being USSR and the USA, which themselves have more or less recently fractured themselves to let the world become a clusterfuck of lesser poles. See, you guys couldn't hang on to being a super power either, these things never last. At least we have a good excuse, we shared borders with Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. You guys pretty much just fucked yourselves through poor management/leadership/flawed ideology.
Are you honestly arguing that a culture is not defined by the actions of its people?
I'm arguing that culture isn't at the origin of crime in America, and that therefore you cannot use crime to argue that the culture is violent. That answers to the rest of your points.
When did I ever say the US was "special" or "all that"?
You didn't use the words "special" or "all that", you made a point that the USA had unquestionably the most violent culture in the first world period. I grouped that sort of comment with other observed behaviours that I identified as having a pattern of thinking the US were "all that".
What I love about Europeans is that even when an American is willing to be critical about his own country you attack him for it and somehow construe it into the person having an ignorant myopic view of the world.
Oh yeah, and why do you think that is? Because Americans praising or criticising the US are the two sides of the same US-centric manichean coin, which is exactly the point I made about Americans always thinking that America is the most/least something. Manichean and US-centric, that's the problem with the way you guys see things. Criticising the US doesn't help you break out of this a bit.
It's why so many people in this country don't give a fuck what you people think because your still so fucking bitter about not running the world anymore.
If you're in the world's driver seat and we think you're a myope who spends more time looking at himself in the mirror than looking at the road, perhaps you'll realise why we want the driver seat back.
Maybe one day you assholes will get off your fucking high horses and get a perspective that doesn't involve having a stick up your ass.
lol, you're not a moron, but close enough, you need to learn how to make a point. That's a hell of a stretch to say that a nation's crime is what constitutes its culture. That doesn't hold up, sorry, you have no point.
lol, yeah, the UN is going to make other countries start a nuclear war on the United States. That sounds so fucking likely. Plus everybody knows that the first thing the UN do when vexed is to shake its nuclear fist.
You're decidedly a moron. We're talking about culture, you triple puzzlewit. You're just assuming that crime stats correlate with violence in culture. Too bad for your point, the thing is that in the USA you have tens of millions of people in poverty, many of which join gangs, do all sorts of crimes and get addicted to drugs. If you have a huge lower class who lives in ghettos maybe, just maybe, it's not cultural. Goddamn, it's like having a debate with a youtuber.
lol are you kidding? You get all the same violence on French television plus naked people at any time of the day for no reason.
You kill more people because you have tens of millions of people in poverty and have the poor turned into organised gangs made of people who'll do anything from killing people to selling heroin to kids to mackin' hos to make ends meet or feed their crack addictions. That doesn't have a fucking thing to do with culture. You think that crack-headed negroes in Detroit kill each other over gas money just because they've watched too many action movies? You invade countries that haven't even attacked you? Big fucking whoop, that's nothing, we spent most of the 20th century occupying Africa and south-east Asia just for the sake of having the biggest fucking colonial empire, and we genocided the Armenians for no fucking reason.
You're not only delusional about America being all that, you're ignorant. Even Americans who think they have a clue don't know shit about the rest of the world. Americans no matter how educated always hold the belief that the USA are special in so many fucking ways. Well they're not that fucking special, sorry to burst your bubble.
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Let's all point and laugh at the parent for his lack of understanding of physics and his lack of common sense.
Good. Now let's laugh at whoever modded him underrated.
Man, did someone beat ya'll with the stupid stick today???
Allow me to ask you the same question. If there was any free energy to be made out of 'gravity' best believe it would be harnessed one way or another. Which is not. In this occurence the energy is wasted because the plates go down. The extra energy spent by the car is in going back up/going up in the first place.
In his defence he was legitimised by the US Supreme Court.
Who do you want to take the power then if Ahmadinejad leaves?
Whoever people actually vote for. That's the concept of democracy that you don't seem to grasp.
Oh well if Ahmadinejad said it it must be true. I mean why would he lie or distort the truth?
Hell yeah, Tricky Dick would have completed his two terms without a bump if it wasn't for his awkwardness and unlikeability.
By the way, he's a thief for spending billions of your local currency in his campaigns? Really? Have you been paying any attention to how much money goes into an American presidential election?
Also, Mousavi "murdered" thousands of Iranians as a prime minister, with his bare hands? Or more like the way George Bush/Dick Cheney "murdered" thousands of Iraqi civilians?
You're giving us too much credit. Nobody gives a shit about Mousavi. I didn't know who he was until 5 days ago. What ticks us of is that someone would blatantly steal an election and get away with it, mainly when we don't even like the guy to begin with.
So, let's say we know for sure Ahmadinedjad stole the election. Then what? What does the international community do? Sanctions? A CIA-backed coup (for once that these would be anywhere near desirable)? What do Iranians do? Overthrow him? Riot until it gets nowhere and just accept their all-out dictatorship? Serious question, I'd really like to know, and that question is never seen addressed.
It's historical. Nate Silver explained it quite well in his blog.
How about we compare what can be compared instead of comparing Iran to Canada? Iran has had paper elections before, how about we compare to how long it took them then to do it? Nowhere near as fast? And they didn't change anything to the way they count votes?
You should go ask on 4chan, I'm sure they'll be happy to help you out.
A dystopian prediction that sounds a lot like a an existing scifi novel/movie? In my Slashdot?!?
I'm being told that it's more likely than I'd think.
If the human race goes extinct, it certainly won't be because we didn't reproduce enough. So really, what's the point of fertility clinics?
lol, you make it seem like the reason why people reproduce is to make sure there's enough people on Earth. Aaaah, Slashdot...
Right, so the eventuality of necessitating to eject a floppy as an electrical fire starts (really, a fire starts and all you're trying to do is get a damn floppy out?) matters more than thousands of users regularly corrupting their data and thus diminishing the reliability of the use of floppy disks for them?
If that philosophy was applied to anything you wouldn't have ramps in staircases, and elevators would have no walls because who knows maybe you'd want to jump out in a case of a fire, or whatever million things the architect didn't think of.
Yeah, usually the guys who have lots of sex with lots of different women totally don't brag about it. That is, except the ones who do it partially for the bragging rights and subsequent alpha male status.
Ha, I was about to comment on how you're just not gonna drop it. I'm self employed and bored, and Slashdot is the only place I know where I can have elaborate troll arguments. Maybe I should go to a pub instead...
Oh it doesn't, everybody makes mistakes, and the Treaty of Versailles is a long shot from being the worst we've done. But unlike you we don't always have to be "#1".
But you've drifted far away from any of the points previously made, so I suppose I can safely infer that you're conceding to all the other points I've made. I accept your apology.
What first world country is more violent than the US?
No, just no. Your question should be "Which first world country's culture is more violent", anything else is just off-topic, and then, I didn't make a point that the US didn't have the most violent culture, only that it was far from being as obvious, factual, objective and clear cut as it was being made out to be. If you'd care to read the parent posts a few levels up you'd see that I offered Japan as a candidate. Although I must say that as a Frenchman I really don't see what our culture has to envy to the American culture when it comes to violence, so consider it another candidate.
Just because I talk about the US does not make me myopic. I am allowed to talk about my own fucking country.
Nice strawman argument, sucker.
Because Europe is filled with elitist assholes whose only way to feel superior is take act like you know everything and we know nothing. It's nothing new and rather cliche at this point.
Why just Europe? You don't think people think like this anywhere else? Believe me, they do. The rest of the whole world's full of elitists. Although it maybe says more about you than it says about the rest of the world.
As for driver's seats, you had your chance. You guys are so fucking brilliant and knowledgeable that you couldn't hang on to it?
Yeah, it's called world wars, or as some historians call it, the European civil war. See the UK, France and Germany were like fucking huge, oppressing people in every continents and running this shit. Then they fought each other until they were in such deep shit that they had to give up their colonial empires, and reconstruct themselves as the modern countries that they are now, and let the world become bipolar, the two poles being USSR and the USA, which themselves have more or less recently fractured themselves to let the world become a clusterfuck of lesser poles. See, you guys couldn't hang on to being a super power either, these things never last. At least we have a good excuse, we shared borders with Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. You guys pretty much just fucked yourselves through poor management/leadership/flawed ideology.
Are you honestly arguing that a culture is not defined by the actions of its people?
I'm arguing that culture isn't at the origin of crime in America, and that therefore you cannot use crime to argue that the culture is violent. That answers to the rest of your points.
When did I ever say the US was "special" or "all that"?
You didn't use the words "special" or "all that", you made a point that the USA had unquestionably the most violent culture in the first world period. I grouped that sort of comment with other observed behaviours that I identified as having a pattern of thinking the US were "all that".
What I love about Europeans is that even when an American is willing to be critical about his own country you attack him for it and somehow construe it into the person having an ignorant myopic view of the world.
Oh yeah, and why do you think that is? Because Americans praising or criticising the US are the two sides of the same US-centric manichean coin, which is exactly the point I made about Americans always thinking that America is the most/least something. Manichean and US-centric, that's the problem with the way you guys see things. Criticising the US doesn't help you break out of this a bit.
It's why so many people in this country don't give a fuck what you people think because your still so fucking bitter about not running the world anymore.
If you're in the world's driver seat and we think you're a myope who spends more time looking at himself in the mirror than looking at the road, perhaps you'll realise why we want the driver seat back.
Maybe one day you assholes will get off your fucking high horses and get a perspective that doesn't involve having a stick up your ass.
Now THAT's some analysis! lol, sucker.
lol, you're not a moron, but close enough, you need to learn how to make a point. That's a hell of a stretch to say that a nation's crime is what constitutes its culture. That doesn't hold up, sorry, you have no point.
lol, yeah, the UN is going to make other countries start a nuclear war on the United States. That sounds so fucking likely. Plus everybody knows that the first thing the UN do when vexed is to shake its nuclear fist.
You're decidedly a moron. We're talking about culture, you triple puzzlewit. You're just assuming that crime stats correlate with violence in culture. Too bad for your point, the thing is that in the USA you have tens of millions of people in poverty, many of which join gangs, do all sorts of crimes and get addicted to drugs. If you have a huge lower class who lives in ghettos maybe, just maybe, it's not cultural. Goddamn, it's like having a debate with a youtuber.
lol are you kidding? You get all the same violence on French television plus naked people at any time of the day for no reason.
You kill more people because you have tens of millions of people in poverty and have the poor turned into organised gangs made of people who'll do anything from killing people to selling heroin to kids to mackin' hos to make ends meet or feed their crack addictions. That doesn't have a fucking thing to do with culture. You think that crack-headed negroes in Detroit kill each other over gas money just because they've watched too many action movies? You invade countries that haven't even attacked you? Big fucking whoop, that's nothing, we spent most of the 20th century occupying Africa and south-east Asia just for the sake of having the biggest fucking colonial empire, and we genocided the Armenians for no fucking reason.
You're not only delusional about America being all that, you're ignorant. Even Americans who think they have a clue don't know shit about the rest of the world. Americans no matter how educated always hold the belief that the USA are special in so many fucking ways. Well they're not that fucking special, sorry to burst your bubble.