Comment Re:Modern politics (Score 1) 76
(When I read this back to proofread, I sounded like George Takei in my head)
There's "gaming the system" and there's fraud.
That's a very, very, fine line. Gaming the system is in many ways fraudulent.
This isn't clipping Home Depot coupons and taking advantage of Lowe's willingness to accept competitor coupons.
Not sure if this is your example of gaming the system.. because it's not, it is the system, as intended. Lowes does that to attract more business.
If you think you'll come out ahead by suing for $100, you're sadly mistaken.
Well actually, they'd be suing to get the game console for $100, so the assumed net gain would be the difference between the bogus advertised price and the real price: closer to $300 or so; but yeah, that's still not even close to worth it.
They're most definitely both of those things.
Thank goodness coal-fired power plants are so aesthetically pleasing and pleasant to live around.
True, but coal produces much more energy, energy which is needed. If wind turbines produced more output, they might be more tolerable, but they aren't even close. And, as parent noted, they aren't even all that environmentally friendly when you take all things into consideration. I think they're better used in more extreme latitudes, where solar isn't as viable, and where the winds may be more regular.
Funny how both of you fail basic grammar. Even this non-native speaker spotted it.
Thats redeculous. Your such a looser. I english just find.
It doesn't matter that it's obviously fake. These images were all over Russian media to cause a flurry of indignant response in favor of the Russian military and political position.
For some reason I first read that as, "political prostitution", but same thing more or less.
Overall, the case is getting stranger with every relevation.
Giving this any credence by saying the case "gets stranger" is like reading some 9/11 truther's article and saying that it makes the truth behind the attacks "more puzzling." It doesn't. It just shows that some people are either disconnected from the truth or (in this case) willing to actively fabricate things to obscure it.
Well, there's no shortage of those kinds of people, including here. It makes life more "interesting" for them, I guess, to keep alive some mystery enveloped in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.. it's like some kind of "X-Files Syndrome".
Comcast is deep in bed with the Democrats, not the Republicans. GE is the same. Educate yourself a little before spewing your kneejerk rhetoric. They donate heavily to the left, not the right. Just google, "comcast democrats".
That's because you only have to make donations (bribe) the people who aren't already on your side. Corporate political donations seldom have anything to do with elections or supporting the candidate they hope will get elected. It's all about buying access when they don't already have access.
Democrats are just as big on corporate business when it suits them, just refer to the MPAA and the RIAA; or Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or George Soros.
Donations are often used to lobby for specific favors. The whole "Rs are only for big corporations while the Ds are for the poor downtrodden, common little guy" is a biased myth, prepackaged thinking for those who like things black and white.
Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught.