Reagan was a moderate Republican.
Say what?! Reagan was a hardcore far right Republican. What we have now is not even mappable on the sanity chart. This shit is crazy. As in absolutely unbelievable, fiction can't even get this over the top crazy. Forget right and left. The needle has gone entirely off of the scales.
People who go into the military with the idea that they want to meet interesting people AND KILL them usually get weeded out in basic training/boot camp. If not, they get weeded out in AIT (occupational training). People like that simply aren't stable enough to get through training in the modern army.
Nobody else really goes into the military with the notion that they want to go out and kill people.
That is not true. Well, not entirely true even if for the most part it is true.
Ever been near the 18th Airborne? Yeah, those guys are killers. They are almost pure animals. They built a special compound on Camp Buehring (Udairi) for them to transfer into Iraq. That compound had barbed wire leaning in as well as out. Why in? To keep those monsters from escaping and causing trouble for all of the other units heading up to Iraq.
18th Airborne is not entirely unique in this matter either. That is why I say what you say is untrue.
Some Marines join so they can kill... but the Marines have a whole different set of discipline. They never had to be segregated. Neither did the 82nd Airborne.
There are lots of experiences that can be good for you as a person if you have the right personality and mindset. Serving in the military can teach you a lot about discipline, sacrifice, teamwork etc. but I would have been hopeless unsuited for such an experience.
I am the textbook case for someone who should never have joined the military. I did join despite the glaring fact that I am desperately unsuited to do so.
It has benefited me to a much larger extent that I would have ever imagined. No, I could do all the stupid "do this merely because we want to break you" crap. In some ways, that stuff was easy, so it was not discipline or teamwork or any of that stuff that benefited me. No. What the benefit was is the people that I met who opened doors for me later. Well, there were a few other benefits like making E5 in the shortest possible time proving that I had mettle and earning an honorable discharge proving that I can do what is required regardless of adversities.
In summary, any shared difficult experience (college? military?) can lead to incredible possibilities even if you are unsuited for those difficult experiences. The thing that is required is that you do the best that you can. I was once offered a driver position by UPS despite never doing the line work. Why? Because I did the best that I could, no excuses. Even after I turned them down the first time, they called me back again. I felt terrible turning them down the second time they called. An opportunity like that usually only knocks once.
Now that many peripherals hot-plug, that model is obsolete. Many people find it painful to switch to an "everything is dynamic" model, especially since, for many server applications, there is no hot-plugging.
You are normally not a moron, so it pains me to say this: You are being intentionally obtuse.
If systemd ONLY did what you are claiming everyone is so unhappy about, then NOBODY would be unhappy about systemd. Have you not been listening to the expressive and coherent descriptions of why people find systemd so fundamentally objectionable?
A shame. Despite me not liking your position/ownership on patents concerning ragdoll physics, I have always thought you were a reasonable person... but this intentional blindness, this willful ignorance of what makes people reject systemd at such a fundamental level... I just don't know man. I just do not know. I am sad.
I am a bad person. I ran across a bundle of these pics the other day and decided to look at them.
Honestly, there was nothing terribly exciting or shameful about the pics. They were pictures of people doing what people do. A couple of the pics almost rose to the level of porn as did a couple of the
It is shameful that anyone would see the pictures as scandalous. Everyone who considers the pictures to be scandalous are either terrible terrible people or people who are boring victims of society. No, the only scandal here is that someone is breaking in to other peoples' accounts and grabbing personal information. I really should not have viewed the pictures myself. I just wanted to see what all the yelling and screaming was about. The yelling and screaming is about the wrong thing, the pictures, rather than the right thing, the invasion of privacy.
You'll never see this kind of desperate hand-wringing over the lack of diversity in the nursing field for the last 100 years. But that's because we have a current sociological neurosis that says we have to force women into every field whether they want it or not.
Not EVERY field. Just the fields that tend to pay better than average and are physically easy. For example:
http://www.theguardian.com/mon...
Oil rig workers tend to earn a lot but the work is physically hard. How many women do you see yelling and screaming about the even worse numbers there than for "sitting at a computer typing all day" type jobs?
I have a daughter. She has zero technical interests at all. I have a son. He has some technical interests, but just barely. It appears to me that the majority of people just have no interest in learning anything past about the 4th to 7th grades. After examining their friends to see if what I was seeing was normal, I found out that my children are fairly representative of their peers. In fact, they do have a slight edge on their peers because most of their friends have no interest at all in the society that has been left to them. There is nothing in it for them so why try? My children are at least trying somewhat but they do not appear to be hopeful at all about their futures.
Also, HP seems to be pushing rather aggressively to have Android run on business desktop systems. Lenovo, ASUS, and Acer seem to have similar goals, though not as much as HP.
This! This is what will be the downfall of Microsoft. It will be sudden and it will final. Microsoft burned ALL of their bridges getting to where they are now. Once the business desktop is lost, the rest of it will fall for Microsoft within a few years. They have a small prayer of staying alive with their Microsoft Office line of software after that... but I would not bet on it.
Yes, but if Microsoft says that the operating system only (only? really? I used to work on computers that had 4 kilobytes or RAM... but whatever) needs 863 megabytes of RAM then you can bet there will be a LOT of manufacturers out there that will find a way to get less than a gigabyte of RAM into their machines with millions of not very tech savvy customers buying them and getting upset at how crappy their experience is.
In other words, it is in Microsoft's best interest to set requirements ABOVE what the operating system itself requires.
Yeah, but... 32 bit? Oy. 32 bit was an awesome upgrade from 16 bit but it was still probable that we were going to hit limits quickly... which we did. 64 bit is a nice bit of breathing room. 128 bit should be the final change as with 128 bits, you can have more memory in the machine than there are atoms on this planet.
See? This one of the reasons why it is stupid to start your message in the subject box.
The subject:
The problem with legalize...
The comment:
...is that you force everyone to follow the letter of the law instead of the intent of the law.
Really. Just stop. Use the subject to tell us the subject. Use the body to discuss the subject. it is not THAT hard.
Thank you.
If teenagers voluntarily send each other nude or erotic pictures of each other, who is the victim? How much physical and psychical damage has (s)he suffered?
What the fuck are you talking about?! Sweet innocent little girls would NEVER take nude pictures of themselves if it were not for the perverted men they have innocently fallen in love with not mentally pressuring them to do so. Girls have no sexual desires until they are married and lose their virginity and even then, it is not sex they want, it is closeness and the creation of children that they want.
Those girls need the protection of society so that they are not forced into this degenerate behavior.
The poor oppressed straight white man. Saddest thing in the fucking universe.
Yeah, it is about time the white men got what was coming to them. I think they need a few centuries of oppression to really experience the misery they have put black men and all women through.
Hell, white men still have it so great. They get selected first for every job out there. They have laws enshrining their right to be selected first. They get the largest amounts of college scholarships. In every marriage dissolution, the woman has to pay back all of the money the man gave them during the marriage and she has to continue supporting his lifestyle afterwards. A white man can just yell, "discrimination", and have the police, courts, and HR departments immediately on their side.
We need to reverse all of that. Fuck the white man.
I am curious. What do the letters SJW stand for?
Steve Jobs Workplace?
Sexy Jehovah's Witnesses?
Stop Jumping Widely?
Hm. No. It has something to do with sex... so
Sex Junk Wins?
Sex Jews and Whiskey?
Sexy Jerk Women?
Sexy Jungle Women?
Slippery Jungian Women?
I dunno. I do not care enough about this shit to really research it myself. It is all absurd.
Um... hey. While I appreciate a good rant, it is wise to save it for where it matters.
Regardless of what you think about freedoms, liberty, etc. The rest of humanity is best served by keeping your ass quarantined regardless of the form of government. Even in an anarchy, you will be quarantined... probably permanently. Nobody wants to die because of you if you are a disease carrier.
Wow! I have NEVER seen the Civil War characterized that THAT before. Just wow. What kind of mental deformations did you have to experience before you could interpret past events in such a manner?
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.
