Comment Re:Good! (Score 1) 996
It will certainly make designated drivers even more popular.
It will certainly make designated drivers even more popular.
You can't really make factor 10 improvements indefinitely. Eventually the numbers overwhelm you and you hit roadblocks. The only real solution will ultimately be new computing technology, such as quantum computers.
Owning a plushie and a couple of figures, watching the show, visiting internet forums would imply "big fan" to most people. None of those and even all of them together implies any kind of inteference with "life" as you put it.
None of these things are a bad thing to do with your life if you are an eight year old girl.
If you're a 40 year old man, sorry, it's just weird. I know at this point the slashdot libertarians will bring out the "you should be free to do anything you like as long as it doesn't harm others" card.
Fine, I didn't say it should be illegal. I just think that, taken seriously and not as a camp joke, being a brony is going to make people think you are weird. That's your right, but it is ridiculous to pretend you don't see why it's weird.
Still though I wouldn't be caught dead wearing pink.
I'm no fan of bronies, but that is just silly machismo bollocks.
A nice pink shirt and tie are part of every gentleman's wardrobe, unless he is a closet homosexual.
> In short, you can like my little pony all you want. But when you go so far as to modify your life such that it now revolves around that show, and you feel compelled to convert others to your obcesson, then there is a problem.
What about religious people whose lives revolve around the religion and they try to convert others to the religion?
You're right, that's a (slightly different) problem too.
Wish I had mod points.
Wish I had ponies...OH SHIT!
So if a girl likes a guy thing like football or wearing pants that aren't skirts, that's normal.
But if a guy likes a girl thing, it's clinical fixation disorder.
You are what is wrong with society.
There's a difference between an adult guy liking an adult girl thing and an adult guy liking a girl child thing.
I've watched all sorts of crap with my kids over the years, but I wouldn't search it out to watch in adult company. This applies equally to Barbie and Ben 10, it's not a sexist thing.
At 12000 feet, I exited the vehicle and went tracking for about half a mile before deploying my parachute.
Parachute? I bet it's made out of silk like a big girl's blouse.
Real men rely on chance interactions with trees or washing lines to break their fall.
It does what they want (sharing photos of kids and dogs, spreading incredibly dumb chain-letter type communications, and internet meme/groupthink)
So if it's some psychotic geek on reddit or 4chan it's cool to keep reduplicating memes, but if a pleb on facebook does it it's dumb?
I'm living in a podunk midwestern town at the moment, where it's normal for people in their 20s and 30s not to have a smartphone or even an iPod. Despite never going out besides the gym or groceries, I still managed to overhear a conversation about how the gym owner and another woman hate Facebook and even how the security policies change so often that setting things to private doesn't mean anything. I don't think Facebook comprehend how much reach their dickish behavior has had.
The almost hyper-realism of your anecdote certainly had me convinced. It was almost as though I was there listening to these two non-geeks bitch and whine about security policies and online privacy concerns. I'm surprised they didn't mention their favourite Linux distro and how fucking awesome bitcoins are too.
Oh yeah. You have a "work within the system" and "hope and change" response. Because that works out, so very well.
It's been working for hundreds of years, with degrees of success changing over time, in both the US and UK, and way better than the sort of socialist (or is that communist?) revolution you would prefer*. Why don't you try that in your native Canada first, so we can watch the results before it gets tried in the US?
A big part of the problem is that the news media isn't doing its job. They put their thumb on the scales in favor of Obama, and they still haven't really taken it off. Now, they are reaping their reward - multiple scandals breaking out at once, including the AP incident. It is a simple fact that about 90% of journalists in the US media contribute to Democrats, and probably vote the same. And that should be OK, as long as they report accurately and fairly even on policies they personally desire. But they aren't doing that. They are letting their personal political preferences interfere with their professional obligation. As a result, they cover for the Obama administration, ask friendly questions, continually post stories about "unexpected" outcomes that are bad when they can't otherwise be minimized. It is hard to make good choices for a country when the people and leaders aren't getting good, accurate, information, and that isn't happening. Well, their support of the Obama administration has become a bit strained recently, and it might very well turn shortly. When it does, it won't be pretty for the administration.
It may be already starting.
Obama knee-deep in Nixon-esque scandal (Note: As of posting, this is a front page story on the Boston Herald.)
Republicans could not even have scripted this one. The agency most hated by voters, the Internal Revenue Service, admits to going on a Nixonian witch hunt against Tea Party and conservative groups during the re-election campaign.
This is a story even the most partisan Massachusetts liberal cannot defend. It’s so bad that even Ed Markey is calling for heads to roll.
Now we learn that the Justice Department has secretly obtained the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors in what appears to be an investigation of an AP story that disclosed details of a CIA operation that stopped a terrorist attack.
Going after the Tea Party is one thing, but the media? What an outrage. Who knows, the press may get so mad they won’t laugh at Obama’s jokes during the next White House Correspondents’ Dinner. .
*No, this isn't a troll. The man is very left of centre.
HTC - Horrible Taiwanese Crap
Seriously has anyone ever had a positive experience with an HTC?
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My HTC One makes the Samsung Galaxy look like a kid's plastic toy in terms of construction quality. I've no idea why people rate Samsung so highly, their phones look as though they'd disintegrate if you put them down on a table too hard.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. - Seneca
