Comment Living the Dream (Score 2) 452
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Seriously, this is like 1990s levels of ad spamming. First you have the full window click through ad, then you have ads on every 10 word slide, a click through in the middle of the slides, and then just for good measure the last slide isn’t a content slide but yet another ad!
I feel like I need 10 levels of toolbars and bonzo-buddy running in the background to really appreciate the experience of this site.
Why do you think that it is the rest of us don't bother to read the 'fing articles anymore.
If mammoths were wiped out by climate change, then resurrecting the species in a modern climate would be bringing it into an environment that it was not evolved to handle.
I suspect that there is a significant difference between sustaining themselves in the wild in a climate they have trouble handling and being raised in essentially what will be a zoo which is where they are going.
I wonder why they have not done this already. Okay, Apple spends a lot of money with them, but would it be more than what they would gain from seeing a massive shortage of Apple devices and potentially a reduction in quality/performance?
Because Samsung is really, really big and the section they are suing is not the same as the one they are buying things from. It's doubtful that the section being sued has enough pull to make another section take a hit to their finances. Besides, having a good deal with Apple provides leverage they wouldn't have if they dropped it and no reason to believe that dropping it would give any other benefit besides being spiteful.
Why is this a problem? You've outlined some interesting results here, but what makes you think there's an issue here?
Because they are paying people, when they should be paying corporations!
Because Northern California voters are beyond stupid. They'll unthinkingly vote for anyone who is "Democrat" even if he bankrupted the state twice already or if she has already been a downright awful senator for 3 or 4 terms already.
It's not that they'll vote for anybody that is a Democrat, but rather against anybody who is a Republican. No matter how bad their guy is, they're still better than the other guy's guy. I see the same thing for people voting for Republicans in OK. So long as they're not a democrat, they think they'll come out ahead.
I'll agree with all that but part of it is also that Crimea seems to be siding with Russia. I was reading an old thread on militaryphotos.net (they're really good at collecting photos of military actions and giving commentary on what exactly is being shown) dealing with the Kiev riots, and from months ago, the Crimea parliament said that Kiev better quell the rioters because it would come or go with Russia. This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody watching the situation.
But as it is, the meltdown has rendered a big swath of land uninhabitable.
It's not uninhabitable. People could live there perfectly fine for a long time I bet, just like some are around Chernobyl. It is probably more danger in the long run than other land, but we are just attempting death avoidance in levels far safer than other situations that we are ok with. Living in the evacuated zone is probably safer than being a coal miner.
WSJ is in the back pockets of big businesses. How can we be sure this is not anti-competition (i.e, pro-oligopoly) propaganda?
Because WSJs support to big businesses is in telling the people that run them the facts. That is why the WSJ can be trusted, because people (who make up the CEOs and boards of various big business companies) read it to determine where to put their money. If WSJ puts spin and prints propaganda and people base where they put their money on that info and lose it because it was falsified, there are going to be lots of mad billionaires. That includes honest criticism of same big businesses. WSJ may be pro-business, but they are about the best fact checking news provider that exists.
My grandmother refuses to upgrade because she's so in love with the greetings card workshop software that came with her first computer in the mid-90's. It's run fine on each computer since, but definitely won't run on Win 7 or 8 so she won't upgrade again. I don't think your solution is any better for her, and she's pretty representative of a large segment of the people still on XP.
Once again, computers and their OS are all dependent on the "Killer App".
The thing is that most of them weren't. Some originally joined Russian Empire completely voluntarily like Georgia. Some didn't even have a state when those territories were colonized and have them now simply because they weren't exterminated like American natives. Some are failed conquerors of Russia themselves, like Poland and Lithuania. Most post soviet countries are artificial. Some of peoples that stayed within Russian Federation have more claims to sovereignty than those states. Making them independent was pointless. Many of them got even worse regimes than the past soviet one. Russian Federation happens to be one of more democratic ones. I think all of them would be better off staying in the same state and building their post-soviet future together.
However, despite years of being joined and with time to all become on happy family that work well together, once given the chance, they not only separated, but almost all of them put out feelers and looked at joining the EU and NATO. NATO, whose only real point is to protect people from Russia. In the European family of nations, it really does seem like Russia is the drunk uncle who likes to abuse his wife and kids and gets mad when they try to move out and go to a shelter.
Homeopathy is not silly; it is a lie. If you sell it, you're lying to people. So it matters that Whole Foods sells it, as it casts doubt on their grasp of science, which indicates their "healthly" foods are just marketing to the credulous.
Why do you hate homeos? You sound very homeophobic.
You are confusing private property and a public place.
You're forgetting to define your terms, provide support for your definition, and gain agreement upon such definitions in the frame of reference upon which you are speaking. If you are speaking of legal definitions of terms, then you should state so as most people are using common argot.
What idiot thinks he is private on a sidewalk, a bar, or a grocery store!
The type that thinks that a bar is a private property that allows entrance to the public under the understanding that they follow the house rules for behavior?
Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
