Even people who drill for oil or mine coal for a living, people who make petrochemicals for a living, people who drive automobiles for a living (or at least to get to work), etc, etc.
You know who else doesn't like having their source of livelihood called into question? People who cook meth and sell it to high school kids. Pimps. Contract killers and mercenaries. People who run ransomware bots.
I really don't give a fuck if someone doesn't like having their livelihood called into question if their livelihood is fucking things up for everyone else.
When climate change/global warming comes up in the course of conversation, they have a lot to say, but one thing comes through quite clearly even when they don't say it outright. (And they have both said it outright to me at different times.) They're scared.
My wife is a mathematician who works in coastal areas modeling waves and often works with climate scientists. I've gotten to know several of them over the years and you're right: they're scared. You get them talking about climate change and their eyes take on an almost desperate, haunted quality. When they hear someone try to say "it's all a hoax", they just get ineffably sad or angry as hell.
We were at a barbecue some years ago and a fight almost broke out between a climate scientist and an economics major who had bought into some dienialist theory about how we should embrace climate change. I was one of the people who had to step in and calm it all down. Personally it was kind of a shame because it would have been satisfying to see the economics student get laid out by a guy twice his age, but my wife insisted and I was afraid they would knock over the table with all the liquor.
I don't pay state taxes. Why the fuck should I pay yours?
Because the states that do pay state taxes are underwriting your lavish hillbilly lifestyle.
And by the way, my mortgage is paid off. So why the fuck should I be covering the shortfall so you can write off your mortgage interest? Why the fuck should you be paying the taxes on the Trump family's private planes? Why should you be covering their carried interest for them?
You're so concerned about my taxes that you're ignoring the three-foot pole being inserted into your ass by the Grand Ol' Pedophile party.
Look up the definition of pedophile and then get on that evidence gathering.
If we accept that a child is a child from the ages of birth through puberty, then a 14 year old is most certainly a child because they haven't completed puberty. Here is the definition of pedophilia:
sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object
You always say a bunch of crazy shit with no references or evidence.
Tell you what: since you're brand new to Slashdot and you clearly don't know who I am, I'll help you out this one time. You pick any of the things I said in the above post that you consider "crazy shit with no references or evidence" and I will provide the references.
There's a new group loosely called "populists", which are being elected under the guise of Republicans at the moment. These are the ones who put the welfare of the citizens ahead of everything else.
The "populists" are the ones who are making sure those middle and working class people can still get a tax write-off for their private planes, and will now be able to bring back "trophies" when they go on their African safaris.
The "populists" are the ones laundering Russian drug money through their real estate deals. The "populists" are the ones trying to get $15,000,000.00 to kidnap and deliver a foreign national to a corrupt Turkish dictator. The "populists" are the ones who have been shown in the Paradise Papers to be involved in deals with Russian oligarchs worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Clearly, they're concerned about the well-being of the common American.
McConnell demanded that Moore leave the election
Because Moore is a pedophile. He diddled little girls to show what a staunch "populist" his is.
Then Al Franken was accused with photographic evidence and... crickets from McConnell.
Actually, McConnell immediately started a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into Franken. The same kind that got Bob Packwood tossed out of Congress not long ago.
So, that guy down the street who's running a modest landscaping business and will come out thousands of dollars ahead every year, the hell with him?
When the guy running the landscaping business finds out he can't deduct his family's medical expenses any more he's going to realize he just got screwed by the Republicans in congress. Especially since his landscaping business puts him in a category that usually has higher-than-average medical expenses
And when he realizes that he's no longer going to get ANY sort of help for his insurance premiums and can't afford insurance at all, he's going to be royally pissed.
It's doesn't levy a tax. It stops pretending that when a large business (a university) gives you something valuable that other people have to pay for, that it isn't compensation
Grad students don't get tuition waivers "given" to them. They earn them as RA's and TA's and work their asses off.
This is a tax hike on people making minimum wage. The GOP congress might give Donald Trump a win, but they will be ground to dust over this tax bill. It's even less popular than their disastrous "Repeal and Replace" that went down in flames so spectacularly earlier this year.
Graduate students are generally lazy and entitled. Grad student offices are generally places where very little work actually gets done.
Are you fucking high? You must never have been a grad student.
Nowadays, grad students mainly get their tuition waivers by being either teacher's assistants or research assistants and in both cases they're basically working their asses off for minimum wage. I know this because I just came from a meeting of TA's and they're teaching the classes, grading the papers and homework and entering all the grades. They are busting their butts for the measly tuition waivers.
Remember, what's happening here is that the GOP will be taxing people making less than 30k per year so they can afford to give their corporate donors a fat tax break.
And you're going to pay far more taxes under this new bill. Medical expenses will no longer be deductible (and more people will have medical expenses because 13 million people will lose health care the first year). Your local and state taxes will no longer be deductible (and if you live in parts of the country where people wear shoes and have access to dental care, that will mean a huge bite out of your bottom line). You don't have a clue about how fucked you are under the new bill. You've played yourself.
He's like the granddaddy of the modern nerd. He was the first hacker to be known as "Captain Crunch" and the hacker magazine 2600 is named after his whistle frequency.
That's because knowing how to read and write is a prerequisite for being a journalist.
To be fair, the left-right distribution among freshman journalism students is more equal, but a lot of those on the right wash out when they get to the book-learnin' stage.
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Thanks a lot, Trump.
You know who else doesn't like having their source of livelihood called into question? People who cook meth and sell it to high school kids. Pimps. Contract killers and mercenaries. People who run ransomware bots.
I really don't give a fuck if someone doesn't like having their livelihood called into question if their livelihood is fucking things up for everyone else.
There was no gasoline on hand.
My wife is a mathematician who works in coastal areas modeling waves and often works with climate scientists. I've gotten to know several of them over the years and you're right: they're scared. You get them talking about climate change and their eyes take on an almost desperate, haunted quality. When they hear someone try to say "it's all a hoax", they just get ineffably sad or angry as hell.
We were at a barbecue some years ago and a fight almost broke out between a climate scientist and an economics major who had bought into some dienialist theory about how we should embrace climate change. I was one of the people who had to step in and calm it all down. Personally it was kind of a shame because it would have been satisfying to see the economics student get laid out by a guy twice his age, but my wife insisted and I was afraid they would knock over the table with all the liquor.
It doesn't sound like Pennsylvania understands the meaning of "upgrade".
You're right. Stocks and houses actually represent something of value.
hosts files can't melt steel beams.
Because the states that do pay state taxes are underwriting your lavish hillbilly lifestyle.
And by the way, my mortgage is paid off. So why the fuck should I be covering the shortfall so you can write off your mortgage interest? Why the fuck should you be paying the taxes on the Trump family's private planes? Why should you be covering their carried interest for them?
You're so concerned about my taxes that you're ignoring the three-foot pole being inserted into your ass by the Grand Ol' Pedophile party.
If we accept that a child is a child from the ages of birth through puberty, then a 14 year old is most certainly a child because they haven't completed puberty. Here is the definition of pedophilia:
Tell you what: since you're brand new to Slashdot and you clearly don't know who I am, I'll help you out this one time. You pick any of the things I said in the above post that you consider "crazy shit with no references or evidence" and I will provide the references.
Deal?
It's Apple, so it's probably fairy dust.
No, they work for that tuition waiver.
Have you ever been anywhere near an institution of higher learning?
The "populists" are the ones who are making sure those middle and working class people can still get a tax write-off for their private planes, and will now be able to bring back "trophies" when they go on their African safaris.
The "populists" are the ones laundering Russian drug money through their real estate deals. The "populists" are the ones trying to get $15,000,000.00 to kidnap and deliver a foreign national to a corrupt Turkish dictator. The "populists" are the ones who have been shown in the Paradise Papers to be involved in deals with Russian oligarchs worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Clearly, they're concerned about the well-being of the common American.
Because Moore is a pedophile. He diddled little girls to show what a staunch "populist" his is.
Actually, McConnell immediately started a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into Franken. The same kind that got Bob Packwood tossed out of Congress not long ago.
When the guy running the landscaping business finds out he can't deduct his family's medical expenses any more he's going to realize he just got screwed by the Republicans in congress. Especially since his landscaping business puts him in a category that usually has higher-than-average medical expenses
And when he realizes that he's no longer going to get ANY sort of help for his insurance premiums and can't afford insurance at all, he's going to be royally pissed.
Grad students don't get tuition waivers "given" to them. They earn them as RA's and TA's and work their asses off.
This is a tax hike on people making minimum wage. The GOP congress might give Donald Trump a win, but they will be ground to dust over this tax bill. It's even less popular than their disastrous "Repeal and Replace" that went down in flames so spectacularly earlier this year.
You just happen to be lucky enough to live in a place where they don't let Republicans anywhere near power.
Well, we all know what really matters is that there will be new tax breaks for people who own private planes. You know...the middle class.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...
Are you fucking high? You must never have been a grad student.
Nowadays, grad students mainly get their tuition waivers by being either teacher's assistants or research assistants and in both cases they're basically working their asses off for minimum wage. I know this because I just came from a meeting of TA's and they're teaching the classes, grading the papers and homework and entering all the grades. They are busting their butts for the measly tuition waivers.
Remember, what's happening here is that the GOP will be taxing people making less than 30k per year so they can afford to give their corporate donors a fat tax break.
And you're going to pay far more taxes under this new bill. Medical expenses will no longer be deductible (and more people will have medical expenses because 13 million people will lose health care the first year). Your local and state taxes will no longer be deductible (and if you live in parts of the country where people wear shoes and have access to dental care, that will mean a huge bite out of your bottom line). You don't have a clue about how fucked you are under the new bill. You've played yourself.
He's like the granddaddy of the modern nerd. He was the first hacker to be known as "Captain Crunch" and the hacker magazine 2600 is named after his whistle frequency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I think you mean, President Max Headroom.
2005: Nerds are the new cook kids
2017: Nerds suck
Only the ones who would believe that my political opinions are "degenerate" or "anti-working-class".
That's because knowing how to read and write is a prerequisite for being a journalist.
To be fair, the left-right distribution among freshman journalism students is more equal, but a lot of those on the right wash out when they get to the book-learnin' stage.
Yes, but at least we have the great success of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
What possible reason would Kaspersky have to lie?
Also, in Soviet Russia, antivirus software installs you.