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Comment Re: What the hell is wrong with Millennials?! (Score 1) 465

Oh, I see. You're confused, you think that the Germans, Japanese, and Italians are part of the greatest generation. No, the reference is to Americans of that era that took of the burden of defeating the Axis powers, among other things. Or did I get your point of confusion wrong?

Comment Re:Despicable Greenpeace (Score 1) 465

To be fair, the BP disaster wasn't an accident, it was the result of negligence - they ignored well-established safety protocols in the name of (marginally) bigger profits.

So really, both acts were malicious.

Accidents often occur due to negligence. "Malicious" implies willful intent, "negligence" doesn't. BP's actions were not malicious.

But hey, you got a +5 out of it.

Comment Re: What the hell is wrong with Millennials?! (Score 1) 465

\Neither fire, the wheel, the printing press or the spork came from the "greatest generation". I don't know what they achieved to deserve that moniker.

The defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy don't ring a bell? Ending the death camps and the Holocaust? Helping to rebuild Europe? Nothing?

Comment Re: What the hell is wrong with Millennials?! (Score 1) 465

What they achieved was naming themselves "The Greatest Generation".

The defeat of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy don't ring a bell? Ending the death camps and the Holocaust? Helping to rebuild Europe? Nothing?

Now I'm wondering about something, and trying to remember something. How old are you, and which genereation was it that was referred to as "the "Me" generation"?

Comment Re: What the hell is wrong with Millennials?! (Score 3, Informative) 465

Globally speaking, a good portion of "The Greatest Generation" were fucking Nazis.

There is no "globally speaking" about the greatest generation. The term refers to Americans of that era that assumed the burdens that they did. And in ordinary discussion I don't think that refernces to a particular generation in a culture are inclusive of all people across the globe that fall into a similar age bracket otherwise most of those discussion which are framed in terms of particular cultures and values would be meaningless. You've made a poor argument.

Submission + - Tanzania's Albinos 'Killed like Animals' for Body Parts Used in Potions (breitbart.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Breitbart reports, "As BBC explains, the tradition of cooking albinos into potions is not a new one in Tanzania, and the parents of albino parents are forced to fear that, at any minute, a band of men may kidnap their children to sell to wealthy sectors of society for use in witchcraft. It is estimated, the BBC notes, that 30,000 albinos live in Tanzania. Within that population, the number of violent attacks resulting in death in recent years is alarming: more than 70 albinos killed for their skin and hair. Of those, the BBC reports that only ten convictions have occurred, which activists attribute to the fact that well-connected and wealthy people were behind the attacks."

Comment Re:2% is nothing (Score 1) 121

And funny thing... "your friend" wouldn't be in debt at all if it weren't for that military spending (yeah, mixing metahphor...), and you'd find the could spend even more money on science. In fact, doubling his science budget would be no problem.

The "funny thing" is you don't know what you're talking about. Military spending in the US is dwarfed by social welfare spending, and that was before Obamacare.

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