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Comment Re:Good Riddance to bad rubbish (Score 1) 532

by Crashmarik (#47334313) Attached to: NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks

No. My point, as I've made several times, is that you (feel better now?) shouldn't paint all NYers with such a broad brush. You said: "What saddens me is that the people of NYC tolerated Nanny Bloomberg so long and proved they didn't care the slightest about the concepts of liberty and personal freedom." [Emphasis Added]

You didn't say, "a plurality of NYers", or "a majority of NYers". If you didn't mean "The people of NY" you should have said so.

That was my point. I emphatically do not mean that because elections can be bought, all is well. In fact, I believe all elections should be completely publicly funded with free, equal media representation and no outside funds of any kind. That would make things freer and fairer, and would likely increase liberty.

Please show me where I said (or even implied) that "You complain that because he could buy the election it means that liberty is alive and well in NYC." You can't because it ain't there.

You're a troll. There is no way anyone could think that every person of the 8+ million in NYC was meant.

Comment Re:Good Riddance to bad rubbish (Score 1) 532

by Crashmarik (#47331461) Attached to: NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks

My point (seeing as you seem to have a problem with reading comprehension) was that the OP shouldn't paint all NYers with such a broad brush. Wait, I actually said that. In so many words. Which means you deliberately ignored what I wrote to make your own point. What does that say about you, friend?

I guess you don't know how elections work in the US, do you? He who has the most money, wins. Bloomberg outspent his opponent 4 or 5 to 1 in the 2009 election. He spent something like $174/vote.

As for "outliving" term limits, that's completely inaccurate. Bloomberg colluded with a City Council of which 85% of the members were serving their second terms to change the law allowing themselves (and not future elected officials) an extra term in office, over the clear judgement of the voters who, not once -- but twice, voted to limit elected NYC officials to two terms.

If you are going to a reading comprehension jackass, you might have noticed I was the original poster and was replying to you directly, or do you just make a habit of obliquely referring to people you are responding directly to ? You might also try not to read things in statements that aren't there, or take statements to obvious absurdities. There is no way any reasonable person could have read my initial statement as meaning every single person in NYC, and the fact you are arguing from this position implies you are in no way shape or form a reasonable person.

You complain that because he could buy the election it means that liberty is alive and well in NYC ? I see purchased elections as proof it is not.

Comment Good luck with this (Score 2) 208

by Crashmarik (#47309663) Attached to: The Simultaneous Rise and Decline of <em>Battlefield</em>

Gamers have always been willing to accept virtually non existent levels of software quality and never seem willing to hold the developers feet to the fire over the issues. If you look at most MMOs they seem to use design flaws as content these days balance problems and re-balancing combat/roles seem to be top design failures with very little legitimate cause.

Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 293

Well seeing as the comment got a down mod, which was then undone because the person modding couldn't stop themselves from posting, I think my point stands.
Most of what I see as moderation here constitutes either, I like your opinion, or I dislike your opinion the most moderated comments are those that are indeed the best reasoned.

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