. But, we're talking about the chicken little global warming narrative here, so

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/business/insurers-stray-from-the-conservative-line-on-climate-change.html?_r=1&

Insurers, whose money comes from making a valid judgment about risk, are also now weighing in on the damage being wrought by GW. But, I guess to you, they're just "chicken littles."

What's so interesting about stupid cunts like you is how even when the evidence is literally raining down on your heads, you still deny it. Literally as the proof you demand comes into view, you insist that a different proof is required, or something. We in the real world call it "moving the goalposts." I'm not sure what you call it.

But, I guess you can't fix fucking stupid, can you, Emag? I mean, I'm not sure if you've tried, but trust me, you haven't succeeded. You're godawful fucking dumb, and it shows.

I mean, the harm done, according to them, is anywhere from $400 Billion to $75 Trillion. $7500 is comparatively cheap.

According to them, we are grinding up their babies in our stew.

But, I don't believe anything the corporate system says these days, especially when they're whining about lost revenues. I'd think they can fuck off and go cry in a bag of money.

This is the course almost all manufacturing and industry seems to be taking. Turn their product into SHIT, charge a ridiculous amount of money for it, and then scream at us the public that we don't appreciate them properly.

Well, not knowing anything about the tests, I don't know what they were made up of. Were they people who were drinkers of cheap wine, or actual oneophiles

That actually doesn't matter. If only self-selected "wine tasters" can taste the best wines, it still only matters to them, and the rest of us can do just fine with a bottle of Ripple or whatever.

It's the same in the world of expensive musical instruments. Blind testing by experts, virtuosos, and violin-makers all revealed that given the choice they'd take home a $100 violin that was made three days ago, over a million dollar Stradivarius, because honestly there is no difference in the quality of the sound, or the playability of the instrument. This is in fact true of just about everything.

One way people sucker each other out of lots of money is by making you think you're getting the elite, cream of the crop product. See also expensive stereo equipment where people blow $10,000 on a turntable because it's got vacuum-sealed rotary overhead cams and a fucking flux capacitor built in, but it still turns the record at 33 and 1/3 rpm, no more, no less. There's a lot of money in prestige, and perception is more important than reality.

If you are comfortable with your perceptions that's great, but please don't kid yourself. You are paying many times the needed price for a difference that is proven to not be real.

I can't answer for anyone else, but my dislike of Thatcher has everything to with her economic policies within the United Kingdom and absolutely nothing to do with what happened to the Soviet Unio

But see, if you criticize a conservative, they just change the fucking subject and like small children, behave as if nobody else is talking. So, of course a criticism like "Thatcher/Reagan fucked the working class in the keister" turns into "BUT THEY SAVED US FROM COMMUNISM!!!!"

Because there's no actual answer, or excuse, for the damage these people did to our nations.

toether with Ronald Reagan and John Paul II she finished Soviet Union without going to war.

Why is this garbage being modded "insightful?" The myth that Reagan had anything to do with ending the Cold War is just that -- a myth. The Soviet Union collapsed because of its internal failures, not because we "bankrupted" them. The very idea is silly as all fuck.Our reckless screwing around with our military across the globe caused a ton of suffering and misery, but it didn't materially change the balance of power and there's exactly zero credible data suggesting some kind of witty "master plan." Ditto for Thatcher's useless contribution.

The bellicose conservatives of the 1980's mostly shone sunlight out of their asses, while they were busy selling off our very country out from under our feet. Fuck them. They were failures then, failures now, and a mistake we should never allow to be repeated.

We had NERVA in the 1960's. Well, we still do, now. It would also take us to Mars.

The issue is not the technology. We have had the technology to do Mars and reasonably for over 30 years. It is national willpower and getting our priorities sorted out.

Maybe NASA can program Curiosity to look for gold, or oil, on Mars. Then we could use the military to invade. That seems to be a project Americans can easily get behind, over and over again, regardless of the total lack of results.

It was the NERVA rocket. it wasn't fusion, but it was a nuclear-powered rocket, and it would have easily made Mars our bitch.

It was canceled to, fucking get this, no seriously, wait for it. It was canceled TO SAVE THE BUDGET because the politicos at the time were afraid a successful Mars rocket would "drag" the US into this huge "space program" where we'd explore the solar system and stuff. And that would cost a lot of money.

Instead, we killed the NERVA rocket and saved our budget for Vietnam, which was a roaring success that paid incredible dividends . . . . oh, fuck.

Anyway, this is nice to hear, but I'm not going to hold my fucking breath. Our national priorities are far too ass-backwards for something forward-looking like a Mars mission. I suspect the first people to land on Mars will likely be an international team, and America will be riding along in the back begging for a look out the front window from time to time.

Most people want to pay only the minimum amount of taxes that they are legally required to pay.

And many would like to pay next to nothing and still enjoy all the benefits of a functioning democracy.

We call those people freeloaders.

So it's only a justice system when it's convenient for you

No, we have bigger fish to fry.

You clearly don't comprehend the issue, especially your commentary about banks . . . you obviously don't fucking read the news at all and are 100% ignorant of the issues with the banking industry, so shut up.

This was one of the most absurd glibertarian experiments in "free-market" bullshit I've ever read. I did not finish the story. Stopped when we had shareholders considering whether Merril's life insurance policy belonged to them or not.

I hope Mr. Merrill likes his philosophies. They are fucking ruining his life.

So that whole thing about "do unto others as you would have them do to you" is, according to you, complete bullshit and not worth considering?

No, it's just really easy to figure that out without having it spoon-fed to you out of a contradiction-riddled book.

I must just be having that kind of day. So I install cloud-to-butt, and then I go read the Wikipedia entry on Cloud computing.

Beavis immediately appeared in my cube and started snickering.

Come on, this is Slashdot. Actually knowing about a Microsoft product is forbidden.

I knew a Gartner analyst for awhile. She focused on one of our particular vendors and it seemed as if she was far, far, far too cozy with them.

One of my co-workers believed she was on the take, and I found it hard to dispute him. She would emit the most insane bullshit, obviously promoting the company she was supposed to be critically analyzing.

I personally think the entire company functions on favors and bribes, and has zero integrity at all. Gartner people made me feel kind of slimy every time they visited.