Comment My ass (Score 1) 94
Bender was her copilot, and he wants his shiny metal ass back.
Bender was her copilot, and he wants his shiny metal ass back.
Kinda. Thing is, the trend lately has been to decouple stuff. So for example, where Entity Framework used to be shipped in box with
I don't know if the same is going to happen with C# and VB command line compilers. Today, they also ship as part of
I admit that I don't know much about the F/OSS MS story outside of development and admin stack, but there it's very heavy - VS does ship with a bunch of F/OSS stuff in the box, including some of its own components, and more so as time goes by. A bunch of Azure stuff, SDKs and admin tools, is also open sourced.
By the way, most new MS open source projects (and some of the older ones) have moved to GitHub, so that's the latest and greatest, not so much CodePlex anymore.
Furthermore, the areas that will benefit the most from continued warming are in places like Canada and Siberia where there the population isn't gonna increase (due to societal habits) no matter how much food you can grow there.
I assure you, should Siberia really warm up and open large swaths of arable land, China will have a couple hundred million people to resettle in short order. Russia might object, but I doubt that will matter much.
You haven't been looking too closely for the past few years then. Quite a lot of
Microsoft is actively trying to move away from being a "software vendor", and become a hardware and services company. Services, in particular, means cloud. And to sell cloud, you need to offer people what they want in it, which includes open source, Linux etc.
Take it off and give the strap a sniff. Turns out, you do need to take it off from time to time.
I haven't worn a watch in many years thanks to cellphones, but this is easily remedied with alcohol (assuming you have a metal band).
It doesn't take me any real time to grab my phone from my belt holster (I use a Seidio case with clip holster). It's slightly more time than looking at my wrist, sure, but not that much. Plus it's accurate (since the time is set by the network), and also lets me see at a glance if there's anything else that needs my attention, such as missed calls, voicemails, etc. It also tells me the local temperature at a glance.
How about we give points to both sides:
Points to GOP: The Earth's temperature is volatile such that man-made changes to it are not really anything new or unique*.
Points to Dems: Increases in CO2 provably cause the temperature to rise.
* Sub-counter-point: The changes will f$ck over human society either way.
Denmark isn't known for abusing its citizens with a prison-industrial complex the way the USA is. It's also known for being an expensive place to live, with a very high standard of living, just under its cousins Norway and Sweden.
Combine this with the fact that Denmark only has about 5 million citizens (compared to USA's 310M+), and I imagine there was no hyperbole there at all, assuming he meant within the Danish legal system in recent years.
That's right..
And don't you remember your mom scolding you when you pulled some bone headed stunt and she ended up saying "I hope you are proud of yourself" in an attempt to shame you?
In this context, every time someone says they are proud of themselves, I think of the time I put a PB&J sandwich in the slot for the betamax tapes when I was 4 or 5 or the time I scotch taped a bunch of tampons to the family cat because I over heard dad saying something and took it the wrong way. And yes, strangely enough, I was proud of myself until I got the ass whipping I deserved.
I wouldn't consider that a homophobic asshole comment. I mean do people think their statements exist in a void where they only apply to some things but not all that they would otherwise fit generally tight with?
If you were born that way, others can be born "their" way too. If it is unconstitutional to ban gay marriage because of equal rights, it is also unconstitutional to ban polygamy, incest (without intent to reproduce) and possibly several other things. The arguments made simply are not limited to the topics of the arguments. Another example, abortion, Roe.V.Wade made it unconstitutional to ban abortions relying largely on the 14th amendment saying a right to privacy existed because of the due process clause in it. But what is uncertain is if government health care or Obamacare (PPACA) invalidates that right to privacy claim because it is now the government's concern about what health care you have and treatments that can be performed associated with it.
So it is a legitimate inquiry to want to explore and understand how these arguments and laws being passed impact other aspects of society that has been taboo or forbidden also. IF there is a legitimate reason why they cannot be used, then it is perfectly fine to state it. IF there isn't, then it is still fine, we just have to have another reason or way to discriminate against that which we do not like.
General abuse, because it happened does not mean acceptable. It was and still is illegal to beat anyone regardless of if they were gay or strait or black or white or chines. At least during any of our lifetimes. Hell, it is even illegal to beat the holy hell out of an enemy soldier who just spent the last half hour trying to kill you.
Hell, in 1998, there was a national/international outcry against the murder of Mathew Shepard- a gay 22 year old who was robbed, pistol whipped, and tortured, then left hanging on a fence to die because of a bad drug deal.
The problem is that there are still a lot of people who do care. In fact, they were the majority in this country until very recently, judging by public opinion polls on gay marriage.
Saying "I'm proud to be X" in the face of that is defiance of bigotry, not a statement of one's superiority.
Let me try to give an analogous example. In Turkey, they persecute everything Kurdish, to the point where Kurds often can't speak their own language or even publicly self-identify as Kurds. In the face of that, saying "I'm proud to be a Kurd" is an acceptable and understandable declaration of non-submission. On the other hand, in the same country, someone saying "I'm proud to be a Turk" would be more likely to be taken as an expression of nationalist supremacist sentiment - because there's no discrimination against Turks on account of being Turks.
Context matters.
In many states, you are forbidden from riding a motorcycle without a helmet. You will be fined if you do not have one.
In fact, there seems to be only 2 states that do not have restrictions on operating a motorcycle without a helmet.
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