No, we're just sick of the ass-backwards logic that the Greens spew. It's not because their agitators, it's because their agitators who scream and whine like children in a toy store whenever their severely faulty logic tells them to, and then they try to use that crapped-out logic by asking the government to regulate society in ways that are unrealistic and intrusive. It's because they scream and complain in every conceivable way about every conceivable thing in an attempt to force society to "adopt" their beliefs and practices (so much for freedom) through a combination of intimidation, harassment, legal harassment, governemnt regulation, and in extreme cases, even terrorism. Yes, the Greens use terrorism. If you think that is an extreme label, then go read about the pipe bombings, fire bombings, and arson that these eco-nutjobs use to try to get free society to do what they want.
"Good Greens", the ones who are civilized and are truly in it for the environment and understand the rights of other people, are very few in number compared to the radicalized individuals who use force and harassment and impede human life and existance through the extreme measures mentioned above. I include politicians in the "Bad Greens" category, since it is almost always clear that they are in it purely for their own self-interests.
Stereotypes don't happen for no reason: The bad image that Greens have is through their own ignorance, hypocrisy, and extremism.
Slashdotters use their brains instead of their mouths.
Nuclear waste doesn't need to be tossed away in parts of the world that aren't inhabited... It COULD be recycled, but that world-class assclown Jimmy Carter decided that he wanted to keep sleeping with the Greens and signed a bill that banned the construction and use of breeder reactors. Kinda ironic how the Greens DON'T want use to recycle nuclear waste back into useable reactor fuel, then complain about the Government having to bury it underground.
Whenever something tragic occurs, he victims, victims' families, and politicians, always look for something to blame.
In the case of the VT shootings, the shooter is dead, so now there is no one to blame. So, inevitably, people look for something that they can take their anger our on: Video games, guns, culture, TV, etc.....anything that can even be remotely violent. Victims are ALWAYS looking to blame their misfortune on something. With VT, the shooter is dead, so now the victims are searching for something else, and now they have hit upon "violent" video games, as the target of their grief, because the individual who committed the shootings is dead. Victims and the rest of society need to understand that just because a tragedy has happened, and the only person who can be truly blamed is dead, that they are wrong to go searching for something similar to blame their hardships on. The perpetrator, Cho, is dead, but blaming things in his place are not even the least bit justified.
Society has a problem with always finding someone or something to blame for every tragedy, or negative event, that happens, rather that coming to terms with the fact that sometimes, the only person who can be held accountable and blamed, is no longer able to be blamed because they are dead. Since they feel the need to blame something, they replace it with something that is still "alive" or available.
I feel sorry for their losses, and am glad the perpetrator punished himself with the only fit penalty for murder, but they are wrong to go out and blame everyday things as the root cause of their tragedy. That asshole butcher, Cho, is dead. Get used to it. He is the only one who can be blamed. Period. Not Spike TV, not gangsta rap (as lame and retarded and it is), not Duke Nukem 3D, or guns, or video games, or the Media.
I'm glad the worthless bastard shot himself. Otherwise, some pussy liberal would say that he is entitled to keep his life, despite having shot to death 32 unarmed and non-threatening students, and that putting him to death would be a violation of his civil rights because it would be cruel. I don't care how smart, intelligent, loved, or generous someone is: If you willfully kill an innocent person, you forfeit all of your rights to your own life.
People like Cho serve as an excellent justification for torture.
First it was the backfiring lawsuit against IBM. Now, it is the threat of lawsuits againt Joe Wifi. Every time I hear a "Think of the children" argument, I look to see who is giving it, and it almost alwaysturns out to be from someone with either clear political motivations, or someone who is deeply embattled in a lawsuit (and usually losing).
If this is the kinds of logic that SCO practices, then it comes as no suprisethat their lawsuit against IBM was a giant shot in the foot.
I wouldn't be suprised if SCO had a financial motivation for this. SCO needs a cash influx in the same waythe Donner Party needed food.
Desperate words from a desperate man. SCO is simply trying to do everything it can before their misplaced lawsuit against IBM puts the company out of business. Ibm should just finsh off SCO and put the executives in that company out on the street.
Truly "Smart Dust" would clean itself out of my computer case and rifle cabinet the moment it saw the irritated look on my face. At the very least, they should make it able to say "Gesundheit!" after someone sneezed from inhaling a cloud of it.
However, there is a Sexual Harassment liability that comes with it:
Some FemiNazi would most definitely complain the moment she finds out a female astronaut was sent out to collect it after the data collection was complete.
Ever notice how companies say using computers was supposed to make things cheaper and easier for people?
Just like t he credit card companies, Intuit has found a way to turn that cheapness into an expense.
Credit cad companies said that it would be very cheap to use your credit card, but they pass the buck to retailers by charging them exorbitant "Transaction Fees". Banks said the same thing, but charge fees if you use a different bank's ATM. Telephone companies said the same thing, and we all know about the zillions of fees they have. Now Intuit charges $30 dollars to take a file from one person, turn around, and hand it to the Government. If they are going to contract with a taxpayer-funded institution, they should not be allowed to nickel-and-dime the taxpayer like that when they try to pay their taxes.
I'm not big on Big Government, heavy regulation, or stacks of laws, but companies should only be allowed to charge the ACTUAL COST PER TRANSACTION, plus a reasonable convenience fee relative to the actual cost, if they are going to charge a fee. Seeing as how all of this is done electronically, the actual cost Intuit bears is probably more like a couple bucks per transaction.
In the end, TurboTax is just another fancy spreadsheet with alot of bells and whistles..... That charges $30 per use.
Exactly. Board of Education, and most notably, public school systems, have this kind of attitude that they are the keepers of all that is good. They also seem to be so desperate to make something of themselves that they try to implement this mentality that they can control and regulate students lives not just at school, but also at home or anything even remotely involving school. The school district that started expelling students (yes that happened) for having MySpace pages is a great example of Administrators' over-stepping of the line between private lives and school, and trying to make a name for themselves.
Administrators need to learn that their authority stops at the school property line. If they want to be more powerful, then they should have chose a different career.
School system administrators: An occupational example of "Small Man Syndrome".
They should just shovel all the B.S. that comes out of Congress into giant bioreactors, generating electricity AND excellent fertilizer at the same time.
In the winter, they should hold open-door meetings, so that all the hot air they blow can flow out through the doors into the city, and keep the Eastern Seaboard nice and cozy during those nasty winters.
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Dilbert: "If I do that, the Special Interests win. The integrity of out democratic process will be violated. Our Founding Fathers would spin in their graves!" PHB: "Spinning you say? We'll strap magnets to 'em and use them to generate electricity, if it makes you feel any better. It's CLEAN POWER!"
What the hell are you snorting?! Wikipedia better than textbooks? Ha! Wait until you sober up and then see if you still thin k that. There is absolutely NO way a publicly created encyclopedia written by the Average Joe is better than peer-reviewed textbooks written, edited, and reviewed by professors and doctors, usually collaboratively.
I'm glad I got my textbooks from a different school than you did. Where did you get yours from? The corner hotdog cart?
The Department Of Homeland Security has installed new solar panels throughout the United Stares. When asked about the new panels, DHS stated that it is part of the new Early Warning System. However, anonymous DHS insiders have leaked in formation that reveals far more deatils about the panels than is being officially disclosed.
"The new panels are designed to trap more light, so that we can trap it, and neutralize its threat to the American public. After the rougue photons are trapped, they are then sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they undego interrogations as to why they are violating sovereign American airspace, and why they are trying to enter the United States without the proper documentation." said a DHS source on condition of anonymity.
The only good thing that could come out of this is now Yakov Smirnoff will have a fresh supply of material for some fresh new "In Soviet Russia....." jokes.
First, the State took over the Oil industry. Now, they want to take over the media. But they maintain they are a democratic government. I call it "Stealth Communism": Communism that looks like something nice, but smells like something not-so-nice.
"The first time I went to a restaurant, they asked me 'How many in your party?' and I said "Six hundred million." ----- Yakov Smirnoff
Your missing the point of the post. I wasn't disputing the facts around global warming, I was disputing the use of Al Gore as a political gadfly. Gore is definitely NOT going to make the situation any better.
Listening to Al Gore babble over and over about global warming, and then seeing him act in complete contradiction to his preachings is what is wrong with the global arming argument. Politicians are already well-known as people who simply talk and say things for media and public attention. Preaching the evils of global warming, and then wasting gas and electricity to power your luxurious mansion is a classic example of the politician stereotype: All talk, no walk.
What I was getting at is that Al Gore's contradictory actions do not give the Anti-Global Warming movement any justice, and take away from it's social credibility by using a hypocrite as it's flag-bearer. I am certain that if scientists who just cared about hard data, facts, and studies and not about political, social, and professional reputations, or publicity, such as the scientists that are published in journals for their SCIENTIFIC, not political, contributions, society would be giving a whole lot more credit to the people who make the arguments. It's gotten to the point where Gore's reputation is so bad (read: politicized) that people are just dismissing the things he says rather than believing them. On the other had, believing something just because it was said by a politician, celebrity, someone you like or someone who's viewpoints you share isn't the way the make an intelligent decision either.
Al Gore is a politician. Plain and simple. He loves media attention, money, power, and luxuries. Just like Republicans. The only thing that makes him any different from a right-wing politician is his party affiliation. Politician are politicians. Period. Classifying politicians is like trying to classify shit: It's nasty, stinks up the place, and nobody likes it. The only difference is who put it there. . They are NOT SCIENTISTS. This isn't a left-wing, right-wing, red state, blue state, Republican or Democrat thing, it's an image problem. Global Warming is real. The problems with dealing with it are the talking head windbags that go on all the networks preaching about what to do about it. I wish I could see the actual scientists (NOT spokesmen, editors, or "supervisors") that go into the field, plug in the instruments, and collect raw data. That would make me support it a whole hell of alot more than I do now.
Did anybody notice all the news bits about how Al Gore's monthly gas and electricity usage is about equal to what the typical household uses in a YEAR. It's wasteful for the Average Joe to waste gas and leave energy-hogging incandescent lights on when they are not being used, but Political Bigwigs are perfectly fine when it comes to keep their mansions nice and comfy.
Pepole would probably pay much more attention to him if he wasn't so over-hyped and politicized. That, and he could give himself more credit if he practiced all the crap he preaches.
The death throes of a dying company. I think SCO is at the end of their rope with all of the lawsuits that they are throwing at people. Their case with IBM backfired, horribly, and now the whole company is at risk of going under as a result of trying to pick a (bad) legal fight with IBM. Now, I think SCO realizes that they need money, fast, and so they are left to do the only thing that people who need money but don't have the means to earn it: Sue.
SCO was too greedy in trying to sue IBM, and then realized that they were the one who screwed up but only after it was too late when IBM slapped them senseless with a very strong hefty countersuit.
SCO screwed up. Bad. And now they are trying to keep their company alive by suing anyone wh oso much as gives them a dirty look.
It's too late, SCO. Just throw in the towel. You pinheads messed up, and thanks to your overwhelming greed, your slimy tactics backfired and your company is going under.
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No, we're just sick of the ass-backwards logic that the Greens spew. It's not because their agitators, it's because their agitators who scream and whine like children in a toy store whenever their severely faulty logic tells them to, and then they try to use that crapped-out logic by asking the government to regulate society in ways that are unrealistic and intrusive. It's because they scream and complain in every conceivable way about every conceivable thing in an attempt to force society to "adopt" their beliefs and practices (so much for freedom) through a combination of intimidation, harassment, legal harassment, governemnt regulation, and in extreme cases, even terrorism. Yes, the Greens use terrorism. If you think that is an extreme label, then go read about the pipe bombings, fire bombings, and arson that these eco-nutjobs use to try to get free society to do what they want.
"Good Greens", the ones who are civilized and are truly in it for the environment and understand the rights of other people, are very few in number compared to the radicalized individuals who use force and harassment and impede human life and existance through the extreme measures mentioned above. I include politicians in the "Bad Greens" category, since it is almost always clear that they are in it purely for their own self-interests.
Stereotypes don't happen for no reason: The bad image that Greens have is through their own ignorance, hypocrisy, and extremism.
Slashdotters use their brains instead of their mouths.
Nuclear waste doesn't need to be tossed away in parts of the world that aren't inhabited... It COULD be recycled, but that world-class assclown Jimmy Carter decided that he wanted to keep sleeping with the Greens and signed a bill that banned the construction and use of breeder reactors. Kinda ironic how the Greens DON'T want use to recycle nuclear waste back into useable reactor fuel, then complain about the Government having to bury it underground.
Whenever something tragic occurs, he victims, victims' families, and politicians, always look for something to blame.
In the case of the VT shootings, the shooter is dead, so now there is no one to blame. So, inevitably, people look for something that they can take their anger our on: Video games, guns, culture, TV, etc.....anything that can even be remotely violent. Victims are ALWAYS looking to blame their misfortune on something. With VT, the shooter is dead, so now the victims are searching for something else, and now they have hit upon "violent" video games, as the target of their grief, because the individual who committed the shootings is dead. Victims and the rest of society need to understand that just because a tragedy has happened, and the only person who can be truly blamed is dead, that they are wrong to go searching for something similar to blame their hardships on. The perpetrator, Cho, is dead, but blaming things in his place are not even the least bit justified.
Society has a problem with always finding someone or something to blame for every tragedy, or negative event, that happens, rather that coming to terms with the fact that sometimes, the only person who can be held accountable and blamed, is no longer able to be blamed because they are dead. Since they feel the need to blame something, they replace it with something that is still "alive" or available.
I feel sorry for their losses, and am glad the perpetrator punished himself with the only fit penalty for murder, but they are wrong to go out and blame everyday things as the root cause of their tragedy. That asshole butcher, Cho, is dead. Get used to it. He is the only one who can be blamed. Period. Not Spike TV, not gangsta rap (as lame and retarded and it is), not Duke Nukem 3D, or guns, or video games, or the Media.
I'm glad the worthless bastard shot himself. Otherwise, some pussy liberal would say that he is entitled to keep his life, despite having shot to death 32 unarmed and non-threatening students, and that putting him to death would be a violation of his civil rights because it would be cruel. I don't care how smart, intelligent, loved, or generous someone is: If you willfully kill an innocent person, you forfeit all of your rights to your own life.
People like Cho serve as an excellent justification for torture.
First it was the backfiring lawsuit against IBM. Now, it is the threat of lawsuits againt Joe Wifi. Every time I hear a "Think of the children" argument, I look to see who is giving it, and it almost alwaysturns out to be from someone with either clear political motivations, or someone who is deeply embattled in a lawsuit (and usually losing).
If this is the kinds of logic that SCO practices, then it comes as no suprisethat their lawsuit against IBM was a giant shot in the foot.
I wouldn't be suprised if SCO had a financial motivation for this. SCO needs a cash influx in the same waythe Donner Party needed food.
Desperate words from a desperate man. SCO is simply trying to do everything it can before their misplaced lawsuit against IBM puts the company out of business. Ibm should just finsh off SCO and put the executives in that company out on the street.
( Insert Dr. Strangelove Joke Here )
"Mr President, we must not allow..... A Bering Tunnel Gap!"
Truly "Smart Dust" would clean itself out of my computer case and rifle cabinet the moment it saw the irritated look on my face. At the very least, they should make it able to say "Gesundheit!" after someone sneezed from inhaling a cloud of it.
However, there is a Sexual Harassment liability that comes with it:
Some FemiNazi would most definitely complain the moment she finds out a female astronaut was sent out to collect it after the data collection was complete.
$30 "Filing Fee"?
Ever notice how companies say using computers was supposed to make things cheaper and easier for people?
Just like t he credit card companies, Intuit has found a way to turn that cheapness into an expense.
Credit cad companies said that it would be very cheap to use your credit card, but they pass the buck to retailers by charging them exorbitant "Transaction Fees". Banks said the same thing, but charge fees if you use a different bank's ATM. Telephone companies said the same thing, and we all know about the zillions of fees they have. Now Intuit charges $30 dollars to take a file from one person, turn around, and hand it to the Government. If they are going to contract with a taxpayer-funded institution, they should not be allowed to nickel-and-dime the taxpayer like that when they try to pay their taxes.
I'm not big on Big Government, heavy regulation, or stacks of laws, but companies should only be allowed to charge the ACTUAL COST PER TRANSACTION, plus a reasonable convenience fee relative to the actual cost, if they are going to charge a fee. Seeing as how all of this is done electronically, the actual cost Intuit bears is probably more like a couple bucks per transaction.
In the end, TurboTax is just another fancy spreadsheet with alot of bells and whistles..... That charges $30 per use.
Outside of school?
Another example of school administrator Small Man Syndrome.
So if I fling my poop at someone and get into trouble, I can point to chimpanzees and blame evolution?
"I'm sorry officer..... Darwin made me do it."
What to you want the police to do? Put the little bastard in Time-Out for 15 minutes? Or, maybe they should take away his desserts for a week.....
Exactly. Board of Education, and most notably, public school systems, have this kind of attitude that they are the keepers of all that is good. They also seem to be so desperate to make something of themselves that they try to implement this mentality that they can control and regulate students lives not just at school, but also at home or anything even remotely involving school. The school district that started expelling students (yes that happened) for having MySpace pages is a great example of Administrators' over-stepping of the line between private lives and school, and trying to make a name for themselves.
Administrators need to learn that their authority stops at the school property line. If they want to be more powerful, then they should have chose a different career.
School system administrators: An occupational example of "Small Man Syndrome".
I guess you are not familiar with the fact that calling in a bomb threat, real or not, is illegal. And for good reason.
Checkmate.
They should just shovel all the B.S. that comes out of Congress into giant bioreactors, generating electricity AND excellent fertilizer at the same time.
In the winter, they should hold open-door meetings, so that all the hot air they blow can flow out through the doors into the city, and keep the Eastern Seaboard nice and cozy during those nasty winters.
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Dilbert: "If I do that, the Special Interests win. The integrity of out democratic process will be violated. Our Founding Fathers would spin in their graves!"
PHB: "Spinning you say? We'll strap magnets to 'em and use them to generate electricity, if it makes you feel any better. It's CLEAN POWER!"
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Maybe they should contracts Wernstrom's Kill Bots. I hear that Wernstrom's Kill Bots each come with Lotus Notes and a machine gun.
I wonder what Planet Express has in the works.....
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Farnsworth: "Oh shut up you glass-headed wallaby!"
Wernstrom: "Nobody calls me that! I'm having at you!"
What the hell are you snorting?! Wikipedia better than textbooks? Ha! Wait until you sober up and then see if you still thin k that. There is absolutely NO way a publicly created encyclopedia written by the Average Joe is better than peer-reviewed textbooks written, edited, and reviewed by professors and doctors, usually collaboratively.
I'm glad I got my textbooks from a different school than you did. Where did you get yours from? The corner hotdog cart?
The Department Of Homeland Security has installed new solar panels throughout the United Stares. When asked about the new panels, DHS stated that it is part of the new Early Warning System. However, anonymous DHS insiders have leaked in formation that reveals far more deatils about the panels than is being officially disclosed.
"The new panels are designed to trap more light, so that we can trap it, and neutralize its threat to the American public. After the rougue photons are trapped, they are then sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they undego interrogations as to why they are violating sovereign American airspace, and why they are trying to enter the United States without the proper documentation." said a DHS source on condition of anonymity.
Maybe some genius thought that sending them to the Recycle Bin would recycle their old emails into new, springtime fresh emails.....
The only good thing that could come out of this is now Yakov Smirnoff will have a fresh supply of material for some fresh new "In Soviet Russia....." jokes.
First, the State took over the Oil industry. Now, they want to take over the media. But they maintain they are a democratic government. I call it "Stealth Communism": Communism that looks like something nice, but smells like something not-so-nice.
"The first time I went to a restaurant, they asked me 'How many in your party?' and I said "Six hundred million." ----- Yakov Smirnoff
Marxist revolution already is here. It's called Berkeley. And they both suck.
You can thank Nanny Politics.....
Your missing the point of the post. I wasn't disputing the facts around global warming, I was disputing the use of Al Gore as a political gadfly. Gore is definitely NOT going to make the situation any better.
Listening to Al Gore babble over and over about global warming, and then seeing him act in complete contradiction to his preachings is what is wrong with the global arming argument. Politicians are already well-known as people who simply talk and say things for media and public attention. Preaching the evils of global warming, and then wasting gas and electricity to power your luxurious mansion is a classic example of the politician stereotype: All talk, no walk.
What I was getting at is that Al Gore's contradictory actions do not give the Anti-Global Warming movement any justice, and take away from it's social credibility by using a hypocrite as it's flag-bearer. I am certain that if scientists who just cared about hard data, facts, and studies and not about political, social, and professional reputations, or publicity, such as the scientists that are published in journals for their SCIENTIFIC, not political, contributions, society would be giving a whole lot more credit to the people who make the arguments. It's gotten to the point where Gore's reputation is so bad (read: politicized) that people are just dismissing the things he says rather than believing them. On the other had, believing something just because it was said by a politician, celebrity, someone you like or someone who's viewpoints you share isn't the way the make an intelligent decision either.
Al Gore is a politician. Plain and simple. He loves media attention, money, power, and luxuries. Just like Republicans. The only thing that makes him any different from a right-wing politician is his party affiliation. Politician are politicians. Period. Classifying politicians is like trying to classify shit: It's nasty, stinks up the place, and nobody likes it. The only difference is who put it there.
. They are NOT SCIENTISTS. This isn't a left-wing, right-wing, red state, blue state, Republican or Democrat thing, it's an image problem. Global Warming is real. The problems with dealing with it are the talking head windbags that go on all the networks preaching about what to do about it. I wish I could see the actual scientists (NOT spokesmen, editors, or "supervisors") that go into the field, plug in the instruments, and collect raw data. That would make me support it a whole hell of alot more than I do now.
Did anybody notice all the news bits about how Al Gore's monthly gas and electricity usage is about equal to what the typical household uses in a YEAR. It's wasteful for the Average Joe to waste gas and leave energy-hogging incandescent lights on when they are not being used, but Political Bigwigs are perfectly fine when it comes to keep their mansions nice and comfy.
Pepole would probably pay much more attention to him if he wasn't so over-hyped and politicized. That, and he could give himself more credit if he practiced all the crap he preaches.
Al Gore, Media Whore.
Billions face risks from climate change?! .....Ya don't say?
Ahhh.....
The death throes of a dying company. I think SCO is at the end of their rope with all of the lawsuits that they are throwing at people. Their case with IBM backfired, horribly, and now the whole company is at risk of going under as a result of trying to pick a (bad) legal fight with IBM. Now, I think SCO realizes that they need money, fast, and so they are left to do the only thing that people who need money but don't have the means to earn it: Sue.
SCO was too greedy in trying to sue IBM, and then realized that they were the one who screwed up but only after it was too late when IBM slapped them senseless with a very strong hefty countersuit.
SCO screwed up. Bad. And now they are trying to keep their company alive by suing anyone wh oso much as gives them a dirty look.
It's too late, SCO. Just throw in the towel. You pinheads messed up, and thanks to your overwhelming greed, your slimy tactics backfired and your company is going under.