Awesome. In other news, alleged-rapist Barefoot Monkey was beaten to death by a throng of angry feminists today, after being ass-raped with 6' barbed-wire dildos. The women were apparently angered by his successful campaign to marginalize rape. Film at 11.
I believe there are plenty of old people who are too dumb to realize they are being taken in on the Nigerian scams. I believe there are plenty of people dumb enough to open email attachments.
Yes, but how many people even SEE those e-mails any more? For the last year or so, I assumed that the nigerian scammers had just given up, or at least that their attempts had massively declined. Then last week I went to check my spam folder for something, and found out that I was getting an e-mail of that type at least once a day - I just never see them. Given how effective the filters have become at all the major e-mail providers, the fraction of users who get to see the spam and scam e-mails has got to be marginal.
I did that for all my Kindle books after I discovered that the kindle sucks for any other use other than reading amazon ebooks
Hey, could you elaborate on this point? I was just looking at getting a Kindle, and I plan to use it for project-gutenberg e-books as well as some PDF publications for work. It would be good to know what exactly "sucked" for you when using non-Amazon books.
For the "future of life" bit, could be something cool relating to our ability to live in space.
Yeah. One of the Russian cosmonauts downed a bottle of vodka and accidentally ejected himself out of an airlock. Long story short, turns out the whole humans-need-an-atmosphere-to-survive thing was just a myth. I'm planning on opening the first patio-bar on the moon.
Right, clearly we should pack the supreme court with homeless vagrants, so that default judgments can be lowered to "$3.75 and half a bottle of Listerine".
Ok, we get it, you think all rich people are idiots with no empathy. Awesome. Can we move on now?
I reserve the right to respond when they post something interesting. In fact, I just did. But I find that 99% of AC comments are crap, so I'll skip over most of them, and certainly don't want to waste time acknowledging the few that I do read. I'm not sure how effective the sig is at deterring them, but I figured I'd give fair warning.
Also, "I almost never respond to Anonymous Cowards" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Hrm. Good point. I was thinking that hydrocarbons generally require more atoms in order to form a single molecule. But then I realized that methane is a single carbon atom with 4 hydrogen atoms, so I guess we should have an abundance of methane, at least.
Interesting. Guess I'll have to do a lot more reading. Thanks!
That would be why, AFAIK, water is the most common compound in the universe. From what I understand, Hydrogen and Oxygen are the two lowest elements on the periodic table which can react with each other. I tried to confirm that just now, but failed - I'd appreciate some confirmation from someone with a better grasp of chemistry:)
TFA is about stuxnet, and doesn't even mention Israel.
Which would be why I wasn't responding to TFA.
i would call the Hitler reference a definite Godwin.
You would be wrong. Look it up.
try take off the red mist goggles for a second and look at the world from an atheist's point of view.
I am an atheist, you fucking moron. Jackasses like you are why we get accused of being just another religion. There is no "atheist's point of view" on anything other than the question "is there a god".
i would regard bringing up the Israel v Palestine conflict a definite troll
When in doubt, kill the ones in US military uniforms. If nobody in target area is wearing a US military uniform, kill the white or black guys, and avoid killing the brown ones wearing shalwar kameez.
Actually, they have it far easier than that: if it's not supporting the Taliban, kill it.
Whereas the US troops just have to kill the wrong person and turns out the whole village is related to him/her, either by blood or by marriage.
Hardly. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a single person left in Afghanistan who supported our efforts. The far bigger problem is our inability to protect them from the Taliban. Despite the popular myth, losing a villager or two isn't really a big deal, especially when those yanks will shell out the green-paper as compensation. We've had Afghans (hell, Croatians and Bosnians, too) intentionally colliding with our vehicles in order to get compensation. No, what really gets them switching to the other side is when the Taliban shows up, executes a few families, and then tells the rest that if anyone cooperates with us, they'll come back and finish the job.
I hate to do a double post, but I figured I'd explain why I blew you off with a quick (though accurate) response. As soon as you start claiming that Israel is committing genocide, you lose all credibility. The population growth rate of Palestine is 2.2%. The population growth rate of Israel is 1.8%. Furthermore, the growth rate for Israeli Arabs is 2.6%, while the population growth rate for Israeli Jews is 1.7%. Therefore the are two possible conclusions here: either the Israelis are the most incompetent mass-murderers in history, or you're a fucking moron.
"In the wake of Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, there were shortages of bread and basic supplies due to closure of the al Mentar/Karni border-crossing into Israel. Israel's offer to open other crossings was turned down by the Hamas-run Palestinian authority.[11]"
and this:
"Life expectancy is 73.4, placing the territories 77th in the world, compared with a life expectancy of 72.5 in Jordan, and 71.8 in Turkey.[15]"
Given the 90%+ literacy rate, the higher life expectancy as compared to other Arab neighbors, the millions of cellphones and hundreds of thousands of homes with internet access, and the abundance of vehicles, TV's, and all manner of electronic gizmos, I'm going to have to go with the "you're a fucking moron" conclusion on all aspects of your "argument".
And yes, as per your other comment, the animal side of humans comes out very quickly when they cannot even fulfill basic needs like food and shelter.
Sure. And you might have a point, if we were talking about the homeless population of any major city, even though the data would seem to disagree with you. But what's that got to do with Palestine? Do you honestly think that Palestinians don't have food and shelter, or are you just intentionally being an idiot?
As a figure of speech, it's a complete failure. I would expect an animal to act one way. I would expect a human being to act in a completely different manner.
But having read through your other posts, I think you are just a troll.
Yeah, these "figures of speech" of yours just aren't working at all.
Always soldiers, huh? Let me guess, you're one of those assholes who defines a 6 year old Israeli kid as a solider, because, had he survived, he would have been a soldier in the future.
Just come out with it: you hate Jews, and you wish Hitler had finished the job. That's all you really need to say. All this beating around the bush just muddles the issue. Stick up for your beliefs!
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If there are more educated people in the local populace and more jobs, this should help to distribute the wealth and stabilize the Saharan countries.
That's a pretty big "if". We've transfered plenty of technoogy to Iraq and Iran, also.
So, just like with oil and diamonds?
I'm pretty sure he's also assuming that the Western governments don't miraculously turn into butterflies.
You need help.
Awesome. In other news, alleged-rapist Barefoot Monkey was beaten to death by a throng of angry feminists today, after being ass-raped with 6' barbed-wire dildos. The women were apparently angered by his successful campaign to marginalize rape. Film at 11.
I believe there are plenty of old people who are too dumb to realize they are being taken in on the Nigerian scams. I believe there are plenty of people dumb enough to open email attachments.
Yes, but how many people even SEE those e-mails any more? For the last year or so, I assumed that the nigerian scammers had just given up, or at least that their attempts had massively declined. Then last week I went to check my spam folder for something, and found out that I was getting an e-mail of that type at least once a day - I just never see them. Given how effective the filters have become at all the major e-mail providers, the fraction of users who get to see the spam and scam e-mails has got to be marginal.
I did that for all my Kindle books after I discovered that the kindle sucks for any other use other than reading amazon ebooks
Hey, could you elaborate on this point? I was just looking at getting a Kindle, and I plan to use it for project-gutenberg e-books as well as some PDF publications for work. It would be good to know what exactly "sucked" for you when using non-Amazon books.
For the "future of life" bit, could be something cool relating to our ability to live in space.
Yeah. One of the Russian cosmonauts downed a bottle of vodka and accidentally ejected himself out of an airlock. Long story short, turns out the whole humans-need-an-atmosphere-to-survive thing was just a myth. I'm planning on opening the first patio-bar on the moon.
This seems to be blatant character assassination and should be beneath an international political body.
Yeah! They're doing the same thing to him that they did to Reiser!
Right, clearly we should pack the supreme court with homeless vagrants, so that default judgments can be lowered to "$3.75 and half a bottle of Listerine".
Ok, we get it, you think all rich people are idiots with no empathy. Awesome. Can we move on now?
I reserve the right to respond when they post something interesting. In fact, I just did. But I find that 99% of AC comments are crap, so I'll skip over most of them, and certainly don't want to waste time acknowledging the few that I do read. I'm not sure how effective the sig is at deterring them, but I figured I'd give fair warning.
Also, "I almost never respond to Anonymous Cowards" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Hrm. Good point. I was thinking that hydrocarbons generally require more atoms in order to form a single molecule. But then I realized that methane is a single carbon atom with 4 hydrogen atoms, so I guess we should have an abundance of methane, at least.
Interesting. Guess I'll have to do a lot more reading. Thanks!
Oh, ok, so you're working off some definition you pulled out of your ass. Cool.
That would be why, AFAIK, water is the most common compound in the universe. From what I understand, Hydrogen and Oxygen are the two lowest elements on the periodic table which can react with each other. I tried to confirm that just now, but failed - I'd appreciate some confirmation from someone with a better grasp of chemistry :)
The only way that could possibly be true is if you don't consider the atmosphere to be part of Earth. Which would be dumb.
Well, either that or you're working off some definition that you pulled out of your ass.
You don't slavishly follow a brand or a company and excuse it when it behaves badly or condemn it even when it does good.
Well, you're not supposed to behave that way. However, many people do exactly that. Just look at the Apple / Linux / Microsoft flamewars.
TFA is about stuxnet, and doesn't even mention Israel.
Which would be why I wasn't responding to TFA.
i would call the Hitler reference a definite Godwin.
You would be wrong. Look it up.
try take off the red mist goggles for a second and look at the world from an atheist's point of view.
I am an atheist, you fucking moron. Jackasses like you are why we get accused of being just another religion. There is no "atheist's point of view" on anything other than the question "is there a god".
i would regard bringing up the Israel v Palestine conflict a definite troll
Fine: go talk to the fucker who brought it up.
The Taliban in Afghanistan have it easier.
When in doubt, kill the ones in US military uniforms. If nobody in target area is wearing a US military uniform, kill the white or black guys, and avoid killing the brown ones wearing shalwar kameez.
Actually, they have it far easier than that: if it's not supporting the Taliban, kill it.
Whereas the US troops just have to kill the wrong person and turns out the whole village is related to him/her, either by blood or by marriage.
Hardly. If that were the case, there wouldn't be a single person left in Afghanistan who supported our efforts. The far bigger problem is our inability to protect them from the Taliban. Despite the popular myth, losing a villager or two isn't really a big deal, especially when those yanks will shell out the green-paper as compensation. We've had Afghans (hell, Croatians and Bosnians, too) intentionally colliding with our vehicles in order to get compensation. No, what really gets them switching to the other side is when the Taliban shows up, executes a few families, and then tells the rest that if anyone cooperates with us, they'll come back and finish the job.
"I disagree" != "troll"
and a hitler reference != godwin
but I suppose rewriting language is a small step when you're willing to rewrite the facts in order to ignore the mass-murder of women and children.
I hate to do a double post, but I figured I'd explain why I blew you off with a quick (though accurate) response. As soon as you start claiming that Israel is committing genocide, you lose all credibility. The population growth rate of Palestine is 2.2%. The population growth rate of Israel is 1.8%. Furthermore, the growth rate for Israeli Arabs is 2.6%, while the population growth rate for Israeli Jews is 1.7%. Therefore the are two possible conclusions here: either the Israelis are the most incompetent mass-murderers in history, or you're a fucking moron.
Here's some more stats on Palestine for you:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/palestine/information/population.html
and some more:
http://www.fafo.no/pub/rapp/433/index.htm
and yet more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_economy
There's some really fun bits, like this:
"In the wake of Israel's unilateral disengagement from Gaza, there were shortages of bread and basic supplies due to closure of the al Mentar/Karni border-crossing into Israel. Israel's offer to open other crossings was turned down by the Hamas-run Palestinian authority.[11]"
and this:
"Life expectancy is 73.4, placing the territories 77th in the world, compared with a life expectancy of 72.5 in Jordan, and 71.8 in Turkey.[15]"
Given the 90%+ literacy rate, the higher life expectancy as compared to other Arab neighbors, the millions of cellphones and hundreds of thousands of homes with internet access, and the abundance of vehicles, TV's, and all manner of electronic gizmos, I'm going to have to go with the "you're a fucking moron" conclusion on all aspects of your "argument".
So you've shown that they have both food and shelter. Were you planning on backing up YOUR claims, or have you decided to switch sides?
And yes, as per your other comment, the animal side of humans comes out very quickly when they cannot even fulfill basic needs like food and shelter.
Sure. And you might have a point, if we were talking about the homeless population of any major city, even though the data would seem to disagree with you. But what's that got to do with Palestine? Do you honestly think that Palestinians don't have food and shelter, or are you just intentionally being an idiot?
It is called a figure of speech
As a figure of speech, it's a complete failure. I would expect an animal to act one way. I would expect a human being to act in a completely different manner.
But having read through your other posts, I think you are just a troll.
Yeah, these "figures of speech" of yours just aren't working at all.
So that's a "yes" on the definitions, then? Good to know I was right. Cheers!
Sure they are all terrorists. What else would you expect from a wounded caged animal being backed into a corner with a stick?
You're calling Palestinians animals? WTF is wrong with you?
Always soldiers, huh? Let me guess, you're one of those assholes who defines a 6 year old Israeli kid as a solider, because, had he survived, he would have been a soldier in the future.
Just come out with it: you hate Jews, and you wish Hitler had finished the job. That's all you really need to say. All this beating around the bush just muddles the issue. Stick up for your beliefs!