Youtube comments of guyonearth (@guyonearth).

  1. Contracts that can be unilaterally modified by one party are not contracts, they're extortion.
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  2. I have a theory that Seagal had like 20 cheesy scripts that he accidentally dropped on the ground mixing up all the pages. Rather than sort them out, he just created 20 roughly equal piles that have served as his shooting scripts ever since. This might explain the utterly illogical plots and wild continuity errors that seem to feature in all his movies.
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  3. What's all the fuss, goddammit! If bears and monsters are coming to take my pizza I have a right to know!
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  4. No wonder it didn't work. The resistor was upside down and all the electrons fell out.
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  5. These SpaceX launch videos have a definite cult meeting vibe going on.
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  6. Trump is an embarrassment, plain and simple. Question is, will he last 4 years?
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  7. Intelligent people understand that the universe is a complex mechanism, not fully understood or described by any means. Perhaps it never will be. But we don't have to make up a magic man in the sky to explain it all. There is no logic in faith. Faith is not logical. Logic does not require faith in the supernatural. It's only the weak-minded who need an invisible friend to watch over them, and to explain what they can't understand. Supernatural beings are delusions. They only exist in the realm of imagination. And it's really only the intellectually challenged that need to invent gods to explain what they don't understand, anyway.
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  8. So apparently he thinks it's good and just that the top 2% own 80% or more of this country...and the bottom 50% of the population own less than 1%. I guess this is a good thing in this fool's theology. The lessons of history show that societies that allow all the wealth to concentrate at the top are the least stable and most prone to unrest. That's why the hated "liberals" came up with ideas like progressive taxes and social programs, to even out the differences that capitalism never will. Capitalism must be tightly controlled, or it will consume everything it can, that is it's nature.
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  9. You can tell two things about her right away, one, she has contempt for these people the way she turns her back on them, and two, she's never been in any real fight, or she'd know you never turn your back on someone who might be a threat. She's an idiot.
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  10. Fatimah They don't want him there.
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  11. You want to have your MacBook and fix it too? Haha, you silly Apple people...🙄
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  12. Without in any way defending these bozos, there's a couple things people should understand. First, no business could stay in business doing $20 oil changes, it's economically impossible. The material costs for a 5 quart oil change would be around $12 alone. So it's to be expected that they will "upsell" to some extent, or try to get you to buy other services. Second, many cars now require synthetic lubricants, that's what their original fill is. Obviously, synthetic oils will cost more. This is not a scam, it's the correct fill for your vehicle. Third, smart people know you should do things like change your transmission oil, flush your coolant, and flush your brake system periodically. The vast majority of people neglect to do these things, ever. So getting that done on a car you've never had it done on is not being scammed. If you've not been to a particular shop before, they will have NO WAY to know whether you've ever had these services done. There is no reasonable way they can know a transmission was "just serviced". Looking at the fluid is not an indicator, by any means. Also, their mechanic is just wrong about the coolant. GM discontinued OAT Dexcool many years ago, this is the only Dexcool that would have compatibility issues. All modern HOAT coolants will mix with conventional coolants. And somebody needs to tell this mechanic that coolant colors mean nothing, and are only a brand identifier. Any replacement coolant at an auto parts store will most likely be green, whether it's conventional or HOAT long life. While you can buy orange Dexcool branded coolant, it is not any different, and can be used in any car. So the part about the coolant is just wrong. The real fraud being committed here is services being charged for and not performed. This is why I suggest either watching the work being done, or having things like brake and transmission services done at a more serious establishment than a lube place. Of course, this doesn't mean you won't get scammed there, too. Any sensible person should know you can't do all these services in 10-20 minutes. A brake flush requires attaching hoses and fittings to your master cylinder, and opening all bleeders, at each wheel, something that should be obvious by observation. A transmission flush requires disconnecting cooler lines and hooking up a large machine, something that should also be obvious. It would take a single mechanic an hour or more to change oil, transmission lube, and do a brake flush. If you don't see somebody doing these things, I would suggest that should at least raise some suspicions. If you are so non-car savvy that you have no clue, then avoid these scam places and go to a reputable shop or dealer, they usually have oil change and flush specials as well.
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  13. Another reason not to support the Apple money machine. I think I may have a new favorite channel though.
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  14. When you get Adobe CC working, give me a call. Till then, I'll pass.
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  15. What they practice in China isn't communism, regardless of what they call it.
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  16.  @howardbaxter2514  Possibly. But seawater would probably just have gone around the sea wall at some point. The plant layout was a compromise, a poor one. A facility that can't tolerate the ocean flowing through it should be built high enough so that possibility is not an issue.
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  17. The Macbook was designed to absorb large amounts of cash from people eager to make a fashion statement. It's certainly not any better than any other higher-end laptop, and a lot less capable than some. My Elitebook that I bought off eBay for $99 is a more useful tool to me. My Samsung tablets are more portable, have more software options, and are far cheaper to replace or repair. A macbook is no different than a thousand dollar watch, it doesn't do one goddamn thing better than a fifty dollar Casio, it just lets everybody know you've got money. I suppose somebody could tape a thousand dollar bill on their forehead, that would be equally as useful from my point of view, and get the point across just as well.
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  18. As you'll notice, the moron flat-Earthers are here with their stupid opinions. Pathetic.
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  19. Lots of Jeeps from the 60's-70's have that issue too.
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  20. Must have been the same guy that decided to put the NYC Office of Emergency Management in the WTC...after it had already been targeted. Smooth move, Rudy.
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  21. In the 70's people squinted at tiny text on green monochrome CRTs while entering arcane commands. Today people squint at their tiny cellphone screens while watching people eat Tide pods on YouTube. We've come so far.
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  22. There was no "war" or "victory" in Vietnam. This old fool is an idiot. You can't win a war you never declare. You can't win a war when you have no enemy. The military didn't "win" the war in Vietnam, they bungled it atrociously. They probably killed more "friends" than "enemies". You can't "win" against an idea, because an idea will always persist. Let's  go over this point by point. What was the goal in Vietnam? To defeat communism? Impossible. Communism is an idea, ideas can't be defeated by war. To conquer North Vietnam and put it under southern control? Fail. We never controlled or tried to control any significant part of North Vietnam, and would have run straight into China if we did. To promote "democracy" in the South? That was never a a goal, and the south was never democratic. It was just as oppressive as the regime in the north, and far more corrupt. What we should have done in Vietnam was....nothing. Let them fight out their issues and solve their own problems. There was absolutely no reason to fight a "war" in Vietnam. Vietnam was not a threat to the U.S., never attacked the U.S., and really just wanted to be left alone to manage it's own affairs. It's just another example of failed imperialism and really bad foreign policy.
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  23. I could care less what you spend your money on, or your obsession with flatulence. Your assumptions reveal a lot about you.
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  24. No, I mostly use old cheap second hand junk or PCs I put together myself from salvaged and bargain parts. I feel superior to no one whatsoever, and could care less what you think. Now, on the contrary, I've never met a Mac person who didn't immediately make their superiority known to all, subtly or otherwise.
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  25. Good catch, dude. You spotted the part where Louis edited the video while he left his store, rushed down to an Apple Store, had them fix the board, then brought it back and only PRETENDED to fix it, (like he always does). Pure genius. You should be working for NCIS, or maybe the CIA. I bet you could find Hillary's e-mails. You could probably find Hoffa's body, too.
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  26. The irony is that she was treated better in Japan than she would have been treated in her own country.
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  27. Yes, seriously. MacOS has nothing to do with traditional Unix. They grabbed FreeBSD because it was a working system they could use, they had nothing else. FreeBSD was purged of AT&T code decades ago, and therefore has nothing to do with the AT&T Unix discussed in this video. Linux is not Unix, never has been, it's a clone of Minix (originally), doesn't share a line of code, never did, dufus. Android forked from Linux 10 years ago, it's completely different thing now. You should really learn what you're talking about before shooting off your mouth. I was talking about COMMERCIAL Unix, which has mostly disappeared as an enterprise operating system, and was never relevant on the desktop. Tell me who you know is running a commercial Unix license?
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  28. The sad part about this is that any competent engineer, or for that matter anybody with a grasp of basic physics and rocketry could have told this guy that his tiny rocket powered by steam could not reach the Karman line. That, and the fact, I suspect, that nobody with any real experience in man-rated rocketry had anything to do with this crazy project. This was a tragedy waiting to happen.
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  29. Ran Moore If you change your oil on schedule you will never have oil breakdown, and never have a failure...and no need for Lucas bullshit. It was Rotella that saved your engines, not Lucas.
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  30. I get the feeling that nobody posting here actually makes much more than $15 an hour themselves...which is why you're all so pissed off about some other guy making that much. Sad. Keep the poor fighting amongst each other over pennies while the rich laugh all the way to the bank... guarded and worshipped by the poor saps all the way.
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  31. LOL, people who complain about Windows telemetry are funny. I bet you have a cellphone that logs every move you make, every call you make, and listens to everything you say. I bet you drive a car that geolocates you wherever you go. I bet you use credit cards that allow recording and analysis of every transaction you make. But you're worried Cortana will see the porn sites you browse. Funny.
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  32. So, another expert speaks. It amazes how little history some of you actually know about this system you claim to love. "UNIX was the first OS to have multitasking and multiuser"...This is simply not true. Multitasking was implemented in DEC Monitor, MULTICS, and OS/360 MFT years before Unix existed, and other systems as well. It was not a new concept in Unix. Multi-user was also developed years earlier, in systems like TOPS-10, for example. Unix did NOT create the concept of multi-user systems. Your other statements are highly debatable. I believe it is incorrect to say Unix gave birth to C, rather, they were parallel developments that synergized each other. The first Unix implementations were in assembly language, C was developed later. In fact, Unix was not rewritten in C until 1972. I'd suggest doing a little research before sounding off and looking foolish.
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  33. Name how many people you know personally who were born poor and became rich through their own initiative. I bet that number is zero. The vast majority of the rich were born rich and are rich because they are part of an oligarchy. Social "mobility" is a myth.
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  34. It's not and you don't.
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  35. I think you've got it backwards. Windows is on a billion computers. Unix as a commercial product has evaporated into nothingness.
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  36. What country routinely brags about new weapon systems? Russia. What country then fails to ever deploy these systems in any relevant numbers? Russia.
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  37. Gearhead1395 I can refute it easily by pointing out that Communism has nothing to do with social justice. Real communism has never been implemented in any country. What they had in the former Soviet Union and it's satellites was state totalitarianism with communism as it's professed GOAL, but not communism. What they have in China now is pure fascism with a Chinese twist to it. China is not a "communist" country, it's a statist capitalist country controlled by a combination of political and economic oligarchs all paying lip service to the Communist Party line and it's ideals in a system that is probably as corrupt as any purely capitalist system ever has been. The Communist Party in China has simply taken the place of the capitalist banker/investor class  that generally controls economies in the west. The schlub soldering circuit boards for two dollars a day in some Chinese factory has no more control over his destiny than the schlub mopping the floor at a McDonald's for $7.50 an hour does in this country. Sure, they can both quit their job or apply for another one, but where are they really going to go? They both have far more in common with each other than with the bosses they work for. You confuse political terminology, which is easy to throw around, with real ideals. Social justice is an ideal, not a political catchphrase. It's as important here in the US as it is anywhere else. People who speak against it are usually driven by some personal political agenda much more than anyone that speaks for it, in my experience.
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  38. 'Donald Trump may have blamed his inadequate response to the devastation in Puerto Rico on “this thing called the Atlantic,” but his own failed golf course may have made it worse. According to a report by Death & Taxes, the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club in San Juan (renamed to Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico in 2008) borrowed more than $26 million in “government-backed bonds” to pay for renovations and old debts — but then defaulted nearly $120,000, declaring bankruptcy and leaving Puerto Rican Americans to pay the $32.7 million bill. According to a PolitiFact Florida report from earlier this year, Trump’s complicated relationship with the failed San Juan golf course started in 2008, when he entered a deal with the club to re-license under his brand and turn the club around as it was “hemorrhaging money.” The resort hosted the PGA’s Puerto Rican Open that year, but by 2011, the “resort sought more bonds to repay the earlier bonds.” The following year, Trump pocketed more than $600,000 in profits. By the time the resort filed for bankruptcy in 2015, it had done so under it’s original name. At the time, Eric Trump claimed his family’s business had “zero financial investment in this course” and merely lent it their name and managed their golf course, but the report stated he “filed a bankruptcy claim for about $927,000 for unpaid fees on behalf of Trump Golf Coco Beach LLC.” Additionally, a BuzzFeed report from 2016 proved that the Trump Organization promised to turn the club around — and then left the Puerto Rican government with their defaulted payments.'
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  39. I agree. All vehicles have compromises in the suspension.
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  40. There are no government "handouts", another myth. Banks, corporations, and billionaires get way more in handouts than the "poor".
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  41. Chemtrails are a delusional meme. There are no such things.
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  42. dustin britton Bullshit. You're saying diluting your oil with gunk that has zero wear additives is somehow a good thing? If what you claim is true, then why isn't all oil thick and sticky to start with?
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  43. We are living in a dangerous time, the age of willful ignorance. Not just in science, but health, medicine, education, and politics, people are going off on tangents that will lead them nowhere good.
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  44. I'll post it now and see if anything happens. Nothing will.
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  45. A compelling statement, but largely irrelevant. At no point did North Vietnam ever attack the US anywhere near our territory or announce any attempt to destroy the US as a nation. At no time was North Vietnam ever a threat to the US militarily. Therefore, it is difficult for some of the more thoughtful among us to justify the loss of 58,000 American lives, approximately 2 million Vietnamese lives, and around 500 billion dollars of 1960's money to prop up a corrupt, incompetent, undemocratic, and unrepresentative dictatorship merely because they styled themselves as pro-US and anti-communist. Better we had NEVER intervened there to save the French colonial pride, a lot less people would be dead or maimed on both sides overall, and the area would not be any less stable than it is.Southeast Asia was and is a mess of mutually hostile nations, and taking sides in their conflicts that don't affect our fundamental security is just stupid. This is the 21st century, the Pacific is not our pond anymore, as if it was ever destined to be.
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  46. It's kind of pointless to recommend things because what one guy thinks is great another guy will think is junk. There are a million laptops out there, I find it hard to believe that they're all lacking in quality. People tend to think the system they're used to the most is the best. There's still people around who think that Windows XP is the best system. I had a guy tell me not too long ago that Windows 98 was the best OS ever made...both of which are funny, because people hated both of those systems when they came out. I remember when OS X came out, it was reviled by people used to System 8 and 9. Many of them swore they'd never upgrade. The point is, what seems like an awesome, easy to use system to you might not seem so to someone else. I've used about everything under the sun, and Windows is what I've stuck with because it just does the most stuff. If Garageband is important to you, then Mac may be the space that works for you. Apple has never had any interest in making it's signature software work on Windows, for obvious reasons. They don't sell software anymore, they sell an experience that they want people to buy into for the long term.
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  47. Apple users are such arrogant snobs at times. I could design a better laptop than the macbook, and it would sell for less. The housing would be polycarbonate, which is unbreakable. The backplate/hinge mechanism would be steel and never break. It would be easy to service, with no adhesives. Key mechanisms would be mil-spec and not wear out. all the electronics would be shielded by a membrane so spill damage would be impossible. Funny how what seems obvious to an old ex-product designer like me is completely beyond the geniuses at Apple, Inc.
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  48. Dunning-Kruger effect in action. This woman actually thinks she's smart.
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  49. Christopher Gibbs The negative logic is amazing, isn't it! "I put garbage in my engines for ten years and they didn't explode, so garbage must be good." Sounds like the guy who thinks cigarettes are good because he smoked ten years and hasn't gotten cancer yet.
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  50. Rumors of a Russian base at Mar-A-Lago remain unconfirmed.
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  51. Ba Lk You're confused. Witnesses are not required to be unbiased. Judges are.
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  52. +Ba Lk You're the one that doesn't make sense. Witnesses give evidence, they don't judge. Prosecutors present cases. They don't judge. Defense attorneys defend clients. They don't judge. They are ALL biased. The judge and jury are the ones required to be impartial. It has nothing to do with giving false evidence.
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  53. A lot of the problem can be boiled down to one phrase: "Made in China". All these companies farm out components and assembly offshore to suppliers who often don't really understand what they're building, or simply don't care. There's just no QA done, and the blame for this falls squarely on the people who decided to save a buck shipping everything involving manufacturing offshore.
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  54.  @apep7188  Communism has never been implemented successfully anywhere, and I'm highly skeptical it's possible at the current level of human development. All economic systems rely on coercion and exploitation to some extent, as do all political systems.
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  55. venkatesh nair You're a looney. Windows existed long before Linux.
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  56. ***** Now all you have to do is prove he exists.
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  57. Unfortunately the mechanisms required to observe this are huge and expensive, making the whole exercise somewhat ironic at this point.
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  58. Ben Carson, Doctor of Idiocy!
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  59. The KH-47 Kinzhal missile mentioned here is fairly expensive and not produced in large numbers. Neither is the Kalibr, their other "high tech" medium range missile. Russia has already expended most of it's stock of these missiles that cost about a million dollars each to build, and can only be produced at a rate of about 12-15 a month at the most. They were trying to buy some back from India and other countries as far back as May. Russia has expended over half it's stock of all the short and medium range missiles it has, most of what it has left are old, obsolete weapons that have been in storage for more than 30 years, and are not viable military weapons, because their accuracy is so poor.
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  60. I don't think at this point Russia has the industrial capacity to even begin to replace the equipment they've lost in Ukraine, much less whip up some new wonder weapons. It's a failed state with a shrinking economy.
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  61. dustin britton Nonsense. Oil doesn't drain out of bearings with a thousandth of an inch clearance. I've torn down engines that have been sitting in a field 10 years, they still had oil in the crank and rod bearings. I've never used your stupid gooey junk in 2 million miles of driving, and no engine of mine has ever failed. Show me a scientific blind test that proves Lucas extends engine life....oh wait, you can't.
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  62. Dirk Diggler Another stupid comment by a fatass loser who's never done a day of hard labor in his life.
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  63.  @shammy8703  Naw, Putin is yelling at his generals..."I TOLD YOU TO TAKE KIEV! THAT WAS AN ORDER!"
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  64. There is no fraud evidence, dumbass. The only people caught voting fraudulently so far voted for....Trump.
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  65. +Ba Lk I'm saying no such thing. It's up to the judge and jury to determine if it's "false evidence".
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  66. I like that Mark Felton is able to demolish a lot of the myths of WW2. I've seen that same photo of Gustav Weler passed off in old books as an actual photo of a dead Hitler, even edited to make it look like he's in a room. Much like the film of "dancing" Hitler, so much of what passed into popular mythology just never happened.
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  67. THAT WAS AN ORDER!
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  68. I'm not forgetting anything. There is no ATT code in FreeBSD. There is no Unix code in Linux. Linux is not Unix. "GNU is not Unix". FreeBSD is not System V. MacOS is none of them.
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  69. venkatesh nair You're a very confused person. Xenix and DOS were different products for different markets. Windows and Unix never competed on the desktop. Unix couldn't compete against Linux, so it disappeared. I have no idea why you sent me a link to a document 15 years old, it certainly does not support your claims, since it says nothing about "FreeBSD".
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  70. venkatesh nair Now you're even more confused. Root servers ran different versions (not FreeBSD like you claimed) 15 years ago. Whoopee. I bet most of the nodes run virtualized Linux now. Old versions of DOS or Windows are irrelevant to this discussion. And Android is neither Linux nor Unix. Android is not Unix-like and is not Posix-compliant.
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  71. venkatesh nair I know that. What's your point? The reality is that most of the internet runs on Linux, and most of Enterprise runs on Windows. That's just the reality you seem to have a hard time accepting.
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  72. The concept of buffer cache existed long before Unix.
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  73. The buffer concept dates back to at least 1952 and the SEAC system.
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  74. Lukas Graphen Linux was a clone of Minix. It never had a relationship to any of the traditional Unix systems, and did not evolve from them. Why you guys keep bringing that up baffles me.
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  75. entledigen You don't seem to have any problem with $3 trillion of your money being shoveled into Iraq, along with another trillion to Afghanistan. Apparently that's not a handout.
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  76. windumaster14 I'm not in school, unless you want to consider it the school of life. Anyway, I haven't seen the "empirical evidence" you speak of. Your argument sounds a little like justifying the rule of kings, because everyone has a chance to be born a prince.... If I've known 3000 people in my life, many intelligent and educated, and none has become a successful billionaire, I would consider that a good argument that becoming rich and successful is something the average person has a vanishingly small chance of achieving, and that chance is getting smaller and smaller all the time.
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  77. ***** Not so fast. If you mean the early forms of Taoism, that is more accurately described as a philosophy, not a religion. If you mean the later forms, there are many supernatural aspects involved there. Buddhism contains many concepts that involve the supernatural, not the least of which is reincarnation. Judaism involves the belief in one supernatural god. I'm not aware of a "Jewish" sect that omits God, but I don't claim to be an expert on the subject.
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  78. Gearhead1395 You're mistaken. Social Justice has nothing to do with the redistribution of wealth per se. Wealth does not need to be redistributed, it needs to be limited. Communism has largely failed because it redistributed nothing much, and certainly not any "justice". But it's not completely fair to blame all the failures in "communist" countries on communism, when virtually all of them were dirt poor and backward to start with, and had to suffer under brutal and unethical leaders. Virtually all these systems evolved into oligarchies that concentrated all wealth and power in the hands of a few, much as is the case in capitalist countries, the only difference being the relative standard of living. People don't have any problem living under dictatorships if they're comfortable, regardless of what they do. The system in China survives because enough people are getting crumbs, and the prosperity of the country is getting noticeably better. When that stops, then things there may change. Social Justice is about fairness, not political doctrines. Everyone that is part of a society should have access to what that society offers. Schooling and healthcare should not be limited to the rich and well off. Everyone should have equal access to the political process. Nobody is talking about redistributing wealth. Wealth should not be an unlimited tool for the  entrenchment of the ruling class, and the creation of economic oligarchy that stifles progress.
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  79. Funk Obama Of course they do. Produce an engineer who designs these engines who says otherwise. And quit posting links to your crank one-man bullshit site
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  80. Ha, look at all the Trumpsters downvoting.
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  81. I think you're the one that needs to wake up and realize that social media is what a lot of people use as their source of information these days, which is why we have so many problems in the "real world".
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  82. dustin britton Curious to hear you explain how Lucas gunk magically adds metal back onto worn parts.
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  83. +fragwits Redhat makes money from SUPPORT, of a rock-solid product with wide adoption and a huge community behind it. Nobody is going to support ReactOS, and if they did, nobody is going to pay for it, when they've got Windows, which already works.
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  84.  @SMSBJM1981  You'd be surprised how many jobs require no real skill, just a willingness to show up and do dreary boring work over and over again, day after day. People deserve decent pay for their work, whether it's glamorous or not.
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  85. +Ba Lk You're still confused. Prosecutors don't take any oath. Their job is to get a conviction.
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  86. Most small island nations are relatively poor. There are usually no real deposits of natural resources, land is at a premium, and everything has to be brought in from somewhere else. That is a simple economic reality.
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  87. Long live The Squad!
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  88. As tragic and pathetic as this is, it shows just how dangerous these stupid ideas can be when they infect people. What if this fool had taken other people with him? What if he crashed onto some innocent person? As silly and funny as we think the anti-science crowd is, these people have shown they're capable of killing themselves, so they're capable of killing others as well.
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  89. The guest on Un's right appears to be the president of Mauritania, Mohamed Aziz. Tall guy on his left is Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from China (Xi Jinping didn't show). Blonde woman is Valentina Matvienko, chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council.
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  90. My fear is that SpaceX is stumbling towards a major debacle that's going to get people killed and set the space program back years. It was a serious error on the part of NASA to give them the contract for the lunar lander. A serious error.
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  91. +Kriss Femmpaws There are no "NSA backdoors" in Windows. Some people have vivid imaginations and watch too much TV.
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  92. Nazism is a disease that still spreads death and corruption a hundred years after it's creation.
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  93. So you're making the same money, but you're offended. Hmm is right. The fact that your pay will probably go up doesn't occur to you either, I'm sure.
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  94. venkatesh nair Better go check your facts, cowboy, because you're just wrong.
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  95. venkatesh nair You seem confused about what caching actually is. You asked for an example, I gave one. Seriously, how long are you going to argue about this?
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  96. +David Dow Incorrect. Microsoft licensed it from AT&T, the way pretty much everybody else did.
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  97. ***** Now all you have to do is prove your "infinite, intelligent being" exists.
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  98. They loathe each other, yet they have to touch each other in a parody of friendship....how truly creepy...they are the Fred and Ethel Mertz of politics.
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  99. mark robertson Calm down, Superman, we don't need you to save the world. If you walk into something ignorant and clueless, and get stung, it's at least half your fault. When we encourage an economic system that rewards poor service and cutting corners, then poor service and cut corners is what you'll get. The stuff this place pulled is exactly what they were TOLD to do by their superiors, and the practices they used are exactly what is taught in a lot of business classes, and exactly what is done on a different scale all through business. Like I said, I don't condone it, but if you think firing some poor schlub who makes $7.50 an hour for doing what he was forced to do to keep his job is going to change anything, you're delusional. I find it hilarious people will piss and moan about a $20 oil change not done right, but they have no problem with hospitals charging $20 for an aspirin, as long as an insurance company pays for it.
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  100. MrJOE3D You apparently have some reading comprehension difficulty. I'm not defending this shop's crooked practices. What I was saying is that no shop can stay in business doing $20 oil changes. You're going to be upsold to some extent, that's to be expected. Every fucking shop out there is going to upsell and recommend other services, some of which you might actually need. Cars need more than just oil changes. If you're too dumb to understand the concept, maybe take a business course and learn something.
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  101. Masterown35 What difference does it make? They didn't take it to a good mechanic. They took it to a $20 oil change place. Oil change places DON'T HAVE MECHANICS WORKING THERE. They have technicians who get paid a little above minimum wage. You'd only go there because you wanted to save a buck, and you get what you pay for. The knife cuts both ways. If you don't know enough about your car to tell if things need to be changed, then you shouldn't be going to a $20 oil change shop, because THEY PROBABLY WON'T KNOW EITHER.
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  102. Tresvampireslayer That shows how ignorant you really are. Social Security is not a handout. It is an insurance program paid by premium, like any insurance program. It is completely separate from the "discretionary" budget. Medicare is the same thing. These are not "handouts", and a large proportion of this country simply could not exist without them. Besides, Social Security has funding for decades, it doesn't drain money from the budget by any stretch of the imagination. Quite the contrary, congress has been raping it for decades to overspend on the military without raising taxes. Get a fucking clue.
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  103. ***** You're becoming incoherent. Nothing of the fevered imaginings of the neo-cons and John Birchers has come to pass. The Soviet Union is gone. In it's place is a much weaker Russia that has more military hardware in scrapyards than in deployment, and really just wants to make some money selling oil and gas. China is becoming more capitalist than Japan, and it's favorite car is...Buick? Vietnam is busy making junk for Wal-Mart, and the only real fighting in SE Asia is over who gets to drill for oil where and who gets to catch the last of the few fish left in the ocean. There are much bigger imperatives facing the world these days than what political party is running what third world country.
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  104. Einstein isn't wrong. The speed of light is an absolute. There will never be an Enterprise flying at warp speed. Sorry Star Trek geeks. If we ever journey to the stars, it will be a long and difficult voyage.
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  105. cerhat Back in the day Apple used to build pretty good desktops and towers...though they were never really leading edge. Then came the iMacs and they started to put form ahead of function and make everything as cheap as possible. I've never been a fan of their laptops, they don't hold a candle to the rock solid serious products that IBM or Panasonic used to make. All the newer laptops just seem toylike to me.
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  106. ***** You completely miss the context. I only used the word faith in a religious sense, referring to a belief in entities or processes beyond scientific definition, the supernatural. I could care less if some guy has "faith" in the Pythagorean Theorem or not, that's a completely different kind of issue.
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  107. Jacob Baumfalk You're delusional and misinformed. George Washington was a deist who probably wouldn't be considered a "Christian" by most modern evangelicals. Albert Einstein was a non-observant Jew who characterized himself as an agnostic. At no point did he become a "Christian". Emperor Constantine? He adopted "Christianity" to create a unifying religion to bind together a fracturing empire. He was no "Christian" by modern standards. You talk about killing? Constantine and Wallace between them killed more people than you can even imaging. Get a clue about history before you shoot your mouth off.
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  108. ***** There is no good argument to begin with. The idea that the universe is somehow the work of an anthropomorphic "god" who is all-powerful and who has created everything for the ultimate purpose of providing us, human beings with a playground to live our lives according to certain philosophical tenets only revealed to a few ancient prophets and only as analogies and vague dictums seems like rather an absurd starting point. You're starting your argument with a vast array of assumptions, most based on nothing more than subjective human mythology. Your "evidence" to support your argument is subjective existence itself, not any observed, testable event. You think that a god must exist because the universe exists and human beings exist in it. I make no such assumption. I assume that "gods" are a cultural phenomenon, a by-product of the increasingly complex human mind attempting to create a rationale for it's existence, and a "reason" for the existence of the universe, to the extent we can perceive it. Saying that "god did it" is a lot easier than finding out the real reasons, assuming it's even possible to do so within the scope of human technology and understanding. Once you decide to believe in a god and the attendant mythology, you have all the answers to the uncomfortable questions, and there is no need to look for any other answers. You "know" where the universe came from, you know what your own fate is, you know you will live "forever" in some heaven after you die, and all you have to do is exist in a state of happiness and joy. Too bad it's just a constructed fantasy perpetuated by the force of cultural continuity.
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  109. Why don't you ask the idiots that buy them?
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  110. There are around 500,000 Windows mobile apps. You're behind the times.
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  111. Always fresh and reasonably priced.
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  112. dustin britton LOL, you clearly know nothing about automobile engines. Main bearing clearance on a Honda 4 cylinder, as an example, is .0009 - .0013...in other words, a thousandth of an inch...dumb ass. "Never worked on an engine".. I've been working on them 40 years.
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  113. robbie turnbull You're a silly little boy, aren't you? In science you don't prove negatives you prove positives. Lucas has been able to convince enough morons that a ten dollar bottle of nothing but useless sticky gunk oil with zero protective additives, no SAE rating, and no proven capability at all can magically fix, repair, and salvage any engine. With dupes like you, they don't need to make any claims...aside from the fact the FTC would shut them down just like they did to Slick50. A test with two lawn mower engines being run without oil is as meaningless as two engines being run while two dogs piss on the carburetors. Absolutely nothing to do with the real world.
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  114. +Sam Tzam An open source Windows "replacement" will never be a product, because no one will ever support it, and without support, there will be zero interest from any businesses or enterprise users. Without that, it's just a hobby OS to play your old games from 1996 on.
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  115. Well, I guess if they had golf resorts, they could bill the taxpayers millions of dollars for Trump's trips there, just like Mar-A-Lago does. FYI, Hawaii is run by Democrats.
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  116. The sad and tragic Trump era is a glaring example of what happens when people are clueless enough to elect someone with: No experience in elected office. No understanding of government. No understanding of or respect for the law. No understanding of international diplomacy. No understanding of economics. Hopefully we won't make this mistake again.
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  117. THEEND123321 Stupid ass Trumpanzee, Trump lost the popular vote by 2.7 million exactly as predicted. Math and statistical analysis apparently aren't the strong suits of the Trump yards...self delusion is.
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  118. +Robert Reynolds You're mistaken, ARM architecture cores are indeed susceptible to variants of this exploit. But you can always pretend they're not, if that helps. https://meltdownattack.com/
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  119. Joe Black Moore's law was never anything other than a clever observation. All technology has physical limitations. Molecules of copper and silicon have a fixed size, there's only so small you can make things, only so many transistors you can fit on a core that can fit in reasonably sized hardware. We're in the era of refinement and optimization, not brute gigahertz anymore.
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  120. This substance has been analyzed scientifically: 32% dust 11% dried beverages 10% lint 9% human dandruff 8% human sweat residue 6% human hair 5% human skin oils 5% crumbled dried insects 4% vegetable matter 3% human sexual secretions 3% unidentified 2% 9/11 WTC residue 1% Chernobyl particulates 1% rodent feces
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  121. "The philosophy of Unix"...heh, well, I think operating systems like MacOS and the typical Linux distro are about as far from that "philosophy" as Windows is.
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  122. venkatesh nair Internet root servers are virtualized. The physical servers number in the hundreds and run all sorts of operating systems.
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  123. venkatesh nair My friend, you know BIND runs on Windows as well, right?
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  124. venkatesh nair You are completely missing the point. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are acknowledged geniuses and major players in the history of modern computing. I never disputed that. What I pointed out instead is that commercial, licensed, paid for Unix systems have largely disappeared, and they have.
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  125. That's like saying there's a relationship between a Kia and a Bentley because they both have 4 wheels, 4 doors, a steering wheel, a shift lever, a transmission with gears, an internal combustion engine that works on the same principle, and both use gasoline. Not really a valid argument. It's possible for two systems to share a directory tree, a set of utility commands, etc., yet still be different systems. Modern Linux does not share any code with Unix, and none of the architects of the original Unix systems had anything to do with the creation of modern Linux. A lot of Unix admirers actually hate Linux and what it's accomplished, how about that?
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  126. +Kalum Batsch Whether or not Linux is GNU is open to debate. The GNU project used LInux as it's kernel for lack of anything else being available. They wanted to use HURD, but HURD is not complete and probably never will be. There are serious philosophical disagreements between the various kernel, GNU, and Free Software groups. I never said Linux had anything to do with Windows or vice versa, you have me confused with someone else. Linux was not designed or intended as a Windows replacement, and never will be...but some people have convinced themselves otherwise.
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  127. +Kalum Batsch I get the same feeling in this thread.
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  128. Masterown35 In a perfect world, everybody knows what they are doing and does it right the first time, when they say they will, for the price they say they will, and nobody ever makes mistakes and is always conscientious. In the real world, not so much. People have unrealistic expectations. Upselling is a big part of business.
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  129. ***** No atheist will ever look as "dumb" as someone who believes in invisible all-powerful deities that do absolutely nothing. You're like all the solipsists that qualify everything they say, because on some level you really are afraid the big bad god is going to get you.
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  130. It's called condensation.
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  131. Everybody thinks insurance is stupid until that first trip to the hospital...then they kick themselves.
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  132. Holden Robbins I don't claim that conspiracies don't exist, they do. But they rarely shape history or change the world. I subscribe to the view that history is mostly organic, not the result of plots and plans, which almost never work. My point was that most conspiracy theorists have a hard time finding a conspiracy theory they don't like, they are prone to believe almost anything. If they buy into one, it's very likely they'll buy into others, more and more over time, till they're completely out of touch with reality.
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  133. I told my 6 year old that Little Foot wasn't a real dinosaur. She argued that he was and said I was stupid for not getting that. Arguing about God with the delusional religious is about equally futile, I would say.
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  134. ***** I think you're very misinformed about cars, if you really think an EV has 3 wearing parts. EVs have complex electronics, just like ICE cars. They have heating and cooling systems that are even more complex, because they cannot be driven parasitically off the engine, which always has power available. Heat and cooling for climate control is a major challenge in an electric car because all that waste heat from the engine isn't there, nor is the always-on rotational energy of an idling engine that can turn A/C compressors, hydraulic pumps, etc., all the things people take for granted. Engineering an electric car that does everything an ICE car can do does not result in a less complex vehicle. This was the same absurd argument for diesel engines back in the 70's and 80's...oh, they're less complex. Open the hood of an F-350 Super Duty and tell me it's "less complex" than the gasoline version...LOL. Electric cars need to have electric heaters and electric air conditioners, electric hydraulic systems for brakes, electric servos for steering, electric window motors, seat motors, door locks, power mirrors, seat heaters, etc., etc., all of which have to run off the same battery system that powers the traction motor. Both the battery packs and traction motors themselves need cooling systems to keep them from overheating, which means more electric pumps and blowers still. These are not less complex vehicles, in fact, I'd be willing to bet they have just as many "parts" as an ICE vehicle. Also, it should be pointed out, the $5500 battery cost for LEAF is actually subsidized by Nissan, they lose money on it. I wonder how long they'll be willing to keep losing money?
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  135. A. Apple hardware is not better than any other higher-end hardware on the market, and sometimes it's not as good. B. Apple makes stupid design decisions that make servicing and upgrading their hardware difficult to impossible. C.Apple intentionally designs obsolescence into their hardware to encourage sales. D. Apple relies on marketing, hype, and product mystique to drive sales far more than any other comparable product. E. Apple has consistently portrayed people who use competitive products as less hip, less smart, less cool, regardless of what they're using them for. Apple is 33% hype, 33% greed, and 33% substance, and 1% concerned about what their customers think.
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  136. A couple things: I doubt seriously that any of those men believed in the childish absurd Christian myth-god, they probably believed in some kind of deist entity instead, if they really believed in any such thing. Sometimes people write things and say things for public consumption, and because they can't really say what they think. Admitting you were an atheist or agnostic in years past could be dangerous, to say the least.  Now, as impressive as your list is, my list is pretty impressive too. Atheists  prominent in science and technology: Zhores Alferov (1930–): Belarusian, Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.[1][2] Jim Al-Khalili (1962–): Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator. He is professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey[3] Philip W. Anderson (1923–): American physicist. He was one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.[4] Jacob Appelbaum (1983-): American computer security researcher and hacker. He is a core member of the Tor project.[5] François Arago (1786–1853): French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.[6] Peter Atkins (1940–): English chemist, Professor of chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford in England.[7] Abhay Ashtekar (1949–): Indian theoretical physicist. As the creator of Ashtekar variables, he is one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and its subfield loop quantum cosmology.[8] Julius Axelrod (1912–2004): American Nobel Prize–winning biochemist, noted for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters and major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle.[9] Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS (1881–1965): British geologist, director of the British Geological Survey.[10] Sir Patrick Bateson FRS (1938–): English biologist and science writer, Emeritus Professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London.[11] William Bateson (1861–1926): British geneticist, a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he eventually became Master. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery.[12] John Stewart Bell (1928–1990): Irish physicist. Best known for his discovery of Bell's theorem.[13] Charles H. Bennett (1943–): American physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. He is best known for his work in quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation and is one of the founding fathers of modern quantum information theory.[14] John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971): British biophysicist. Best known for pioneering X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.[15] Paul Bert (1833–1886): French zoologist, physiologist and politician. Known for his research on oxygen toxicity.[16] Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907): French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances and disproved the theory of vitalism.[17][18] Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822): French chemist.[19] Hans Bethe (1906–2005): German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.[20] A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and astrophysics. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory which developed the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons, and did theoretical work on the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.[21] Norman Bethune (1890–1939): Canadian physician and medical innovator.[22] Patrick Blackett OM, CH, FRS (1897–1974): Nobel Prize–winning English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism.[23] Susan Blackmore (1951–): English psychologist and memeticist, best known for her book The Meme Machine.[24] Christian Bohr (1855–1911): Danish physician, He is the father of the physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr, as well as the mathematician Harald Bohr and grandfather of another physicist and Nobel laureate Aage Bohr.[25] Niels Bohr (1885-1962): Danish physicist. Best known for his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] Sir Hermann Bondi KCB, FRS (1919–2005): Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist, best known for co-developing the steady-state theory of the universe and important contributions to the theory of general relativity.[34][35] Paul D. Boyer (1918–): American biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1997.[36] Calvin Bridges (1889–1938): American geneticist, known especially for his work on fruit fly genetics.[37] Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961): American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.[38][39][40] Paul Broca (1824–1880): French physician, surgeon, anatomist, and anthropologist. Broca's work also contributed to the development of physical anthropology, advancing the science of anthropometry.[41] Rodney Brooks (1954-): Australian-American computer scientist and roboticist.[42] Sheldon Brown (1944–2008): Bicycle mechanic and technical authority on almost every aspect of bicycles.[43] Ruth Mack Brunswick (1897–1946): American psychologist, a close confidant of and collaborator with Sigmund Freud.[44] Robert Cailliau (1947–): Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.[45] John D. Carmack (1970–): American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels.[46] Sean M. Carroll (1966–): American cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity. James Chadwick (1891–1974): English physicist. He won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron.[47] Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995): Indian American astrophysicist known for his theoretical work on the structure and evolution of stars. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.[48] Georges Charpak (1924–2010): French physicist from a Polish Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.[49] William Kingdon Clifford FRS (1845–1879): English mathematician and philosopher, co-introducer of geometric algebra, the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry, and coiner of the expression "mind-stuff".[50] Frank Close OBE (1945–): British particle physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, known for his lectures and writings making science intelligible to a wider audience, for which he was awarded the Institute of Physics's Kelvin Medal and Prize.[51] Samuel T. Cohen (1921-2010): American physicist who invented the W70 warhead and is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb.[52] John Horton Conway (1937–): British mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He is best known for the invention of the cellular automaton called Conway's Game of Life.[53] Brian Cox OBE (1968–): English particle physicist, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Professor at the University of Manchester. Best known as a presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC. He also had some fame in the 1990s as the keyboard player for the pop band D:Ream.[54][55] Jerry Coyne (1949–): American professor of biology, known for his books on evolution and commentary on the intelligent design debate.[56] Francis Crick (1916–2004): English molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist; noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.[57][58][59][60][61][62][63] George Washington Crile (1864–1943): American surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion.[64] James F. Crow (1916–2012): American geneticist.[65] Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783): French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie.[66][67] Sir Howard Dalton FRS (1944–2008): British microbiologist, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from March 2002 to September 2007.[68] Richard Dawkins (1941–): British zoologist, biologist, creator of the concept of the meme; outspoken atheist and popularizer of science, author of The God Delusion and founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.[69] Jean Baptiste Delambre (1749–1822): French mathematician and astronomer.[70] Arnaud Denjoy (1884–1974): French mathematician, noted for his contributions to harmonic analysis and differential equations.[71] David Deutsch (1953–): Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by being the first person to formulate a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer.[72] Jared Diamond (1937–): American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is best known for his award-winning popular science books The Third Chimpanzee, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.[citation needed] Paul Dirac (1902–1984): British theoretical physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, predicted the existence of antimatter, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.[73][74][75][76][77][78] Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896): German physician and physiologist, the discoverer of nerve action potential, and the father of experimental electrophysiology.[79] Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933): Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem.[80][81] Thomas Eisner (1929–2011): German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology".[82] Albert Ellis (1913–2007): American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.[83] Paul Erdős (1913–1996), Hungarian mathematician. He published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory.[84][85] Richard R. Ernst (1933–): Swiss physical chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991.[86] Hugh Everett III (1930–1982): American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation.[87] Sandra Faber (1944–): American University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, also working at the Lick Observatory, who headed the team that discovered 'The Great Attractor.[88] Gustav Fechner (1801–1887): German experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics.[89] Leon Festinger (1919–1989): American social psychologist famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance.[90] Richard Feynman (1918–1988): American theoretical physicist, best known for his work in renormalizing Quantum electrodynamics (QED) and his path integral formulation of quantum mechanics . He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.[91][92][93] James Franck (1882–1964): German physicist. Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925.[94] Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Austrian neurologist and known as Father of psychoanalysis.[95] Erich Fromm (1900–1980): German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.[96] Christer Fuglesang (1957–): Swedish astronaut and physicist.[97] George Gamow (1904–1968): Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. An early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory.[98][99][100][101] Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1772–1850): French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for two laws related to gases.[102] Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009): Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb.[103] Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE (1950–): British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords, specialising in the physiology of the brain.[104] Herb Grosch (1918–2010): Canadian-American computer scientist, perhaps best known for Grosch's law, which he formulated in 1950.[105] Alan Guth (1947–): American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.[106] Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.[107] Jonathan Haidt (c.1964–): Associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, focusing on the psychological bases of morality across different cultures, and author of The Happiness Hypothesis.[108] E. T. 'Teddy' Hall (1924–2001): English archaeological scientist, famous for exposing the Piltdown Man fraud and claiming that the Shroud of Turin is a medieval fake.[109] Sir James Hall (1761–1832): Scottish geologist and chemist, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.[110] Edmond Halley (1656-1742): English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and physicist. Best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet.[111] Beverly Halstead (1933–1991): British paleontologist and populariser of science.[112] Frances Hamerstrom (1908–1998): American author, naturalist and ornithologist known for her work with the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin, and for her research on birds of prey.[113] W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000): British evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century. G. H. Hardy (1877–1947): a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis.[114][115] Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011): American mathematician. Along with Jerome Karle, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985.[116] Stephen Hawking (1942–): British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.[117] Ewald Hering (1834–1918): German physiologist who did much research into color vision, binocular perception and eye movements. He proposed opponent color theory in 1892.[118][119] Peter Higgs (1929–): British theoretical physicist, recipient of the Dirac Medal and Prize, known for his prediction of the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle".[120] Roald Hoffmann (1937–): American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[121] Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975): English experimental zoologist and medical statistician, now best known for his popularising books on science, mathematics and language.[122] Fred Hollows (1929 – 1993), New Zealand and Australian ophthalmologist. He became known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless thousands of people in Australia and many other countries.[123] Fred Hoyle (1915–2001): English astronomer noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally coined by him on BBC radio.[124] Russell Alan Hulse (1950–): American physicist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr..[125] Nicholas Humphrey (1943–): British psychologist, working on consciousness and belief in the supernatural from a Darwinian perspective, and primatological research into Machiavellian intelligence theory.[126] Sir Julian Huxley FRS (1887–1975): English evolutionary biologist, a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund.[127] François Jacob (1920–): French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.[128] Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958): French physicist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1935.[129][130] Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956): French scientist. She is the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie. She along with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935.[131][132] Steve Jones (1944–): British geneticist, Professor of genetics and head of the biology department at University College London, and television presenter and a prize-winning author on biology, especially evolution; one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution.[133][134] Paul Kammerer (1880–1926): Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the now abandoned Lamarckian theory of inheritance – the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime.[135][136] Samuel Karlin (1924–2007): American mathematician. He did extensive work in mathematical population genetics.[137] Stuart Kauffman (1939-): American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher concerning the origin of life on Earth. He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from self-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection, as well as for applying models of Boolean networks to simplified genetic circuits.[138] Ancel Keys (1904–2004): American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. He examined the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and was responsible for two famous diets: K-rations and the Mediterranean diet.[139] Lawrence Krauss (1954-): Professor of physics at Arizona State University and popularizer of science. Krauss speaks regularly at atheist conferences, like Beyond Belief and Atheist Alliance International.[140] Herbert Kroemer (1928–): German-American professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2000, he along with Zhores I. Alferov, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".[141] Harold Kroto (1939–): 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.[142] Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956): American biologist, sexologist and professor of entomology and zoology.[143] Ray Kurzweil (1948–): American author, scientist, inventor and futurist. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.[144] Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807): French astronomer and writer.[145] Lev Landau (1908-1968): Russian physicist. He received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of a mathematical theory of superfluidity.[146][147] Christopher Langton (1948 or 1949-): American computer scientist and one of the founders of the field of artificial life.[148] Richard Leakey (1944–): Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist.[149] Leon M. Lederman (1922–): American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint research on neutrinos.[150] Jean-Marie Lehn (1939–): French chemist. He received the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen.[151] Sir John Leslie (1766–1832): Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat; he was the first person to artificially produce ice, and gave the first modern account of capillary action.[152] Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856): Russian mathematician. Known for his works on hyperbolic geometry.[153][154] H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS (1923–2004): English theoretical chemist and a cognitive scientist.[155] Paul MacCready (1925–2007): American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the Kremer prize.[156] Ernst Mach (1838-1916): Austrian physicist and philosopher. Known for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves.[157][158][159] Andrey Markov (1856–1922): Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on stochastic processes.[160][161] Samarendra Maulik (1881–1950): Indian entomologist specialising in the Coleoptera, who worked at the British Museum (Natural History) and a Professor of Zoology at the University of Calcutta.[162] Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759): French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He is often credited with having invented the principle of least action; a version is known as Maupertuis' principle – an integral equation that determines the path followed by a physical system.[163] Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916): American-born British inventor. He was the inventor of the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun and an elaborate mousetrap.[164][165] John Maynard Smith (1920–2004): British evolutionary biologist and geneticist, instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution, and noted theorizer on the evolution of sex and signalling theory.[166] Ernst Mayr (1904–2005): a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. He was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.[167] John McCarthy (1927–2011): American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" in his 1955 proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth Conference and was the inventor of the Lisp programming language.[168] Sir Peter Medawar (1915–1987): Nobel Prize-winning British scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts tissue transplants.[169] Jeff Medkeff (1968–2008): American astronomer, prominent science writer and educator, and designer of robotic telescopes.[170] Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916): Russian biologist, zoologist and protozoologist. He is best known for his research into the immune system. Mechnikov received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908, shared with Paul Ehrlich.[171] Jonathan Miller CBE (1934–): British physician, actor, theatre and opera director, and television presenter. Wrote and presented the 2004 television series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world.[172][173] Marvin Minsky (1927–): American cognitive scientist and computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in MIT.[174][175] Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992): 1978-Nobel-laureate British biochemist. His mother was an atheist and he himself became an atheist at the age of 15.[176] Jacob Moleschott (1822–1893): Dutch physiologist and writer on dietetics.[177] Gaspard Monge (1746–1818): French mathematician. Monge is the inventor of descriptive geometry.[19][178][179] Jacques Monod (1910–76): French biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.[180] Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012): Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).[181] Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810): French chemist and paper-manufacturer. In 1783, he made the first ascent in a balloon (inflated with warm air).[182][183] Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945): American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.[184][185] Desmond Morris (1928–): English zoologist and ethologist, famous for describing human behaviour from a zoological perspective in his books The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo.[186][187] Luboš Motl (1973-): Theoretical physics and string theorist. He said he is a Christian atheist. [188] Fritz Müller (1821–1897): German biologist who emigrated to Brazil, where he studied the natural history of the Amazon rainforest and was an early advocate of evolutionary theory.[189] Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967): American geneticist and educator, best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis). He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946.[190] PZ Myers (1957–): American biology professor at the University of Minnesota and a blogger via his blog, Pharyngula.[191] John Forbes Nash, Jr. (1928–): American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. He shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.[192][193] Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006): Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. One of his greatest achievements in physics was his 1961 discovery of the classification of hadrons through the SU(3)flavour symmetry, now named the Eightfold Way, which was also proposed independently by Murray Gell-Mann.[194][195] Alfred Nobel (1833–1896): Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.[196] Paul Nurse (1949–): 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[197] Mark Oliphant (1901–2000): Australian physicist and humanitarian. He played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb.[198] Alexander Oparin (1894-1980): Soviet biochemist.[199] Frank Oppenheimer (1912–1985): American particle physicist, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. A younger brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer conducted research on aspects of nuclear physics during the time of the Manhattan Project, and made contributions to uranium enrichment.[200] Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932): Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. He, along with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff and Svante Arrhenius, are usually credited with being the modern founders of the field of physical chemistry.[201] Robert L. Park (born 1931): scientist, University of Maryland professor of physics, and author of Voodoo Science and Superstition.[202] Linus Pauling (1901–1994): American chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962)[74][203] John Allen Paulos (1945–): Professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia and writer, author of Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up (2007)[204] Ruby Payne-Scott (1912–1981): Australian pioneer in radiophysics and radio astronomy, and was the first female radio astronomer.[205] Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936): Nobel Prize–winning Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician, widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning.[206] Judea Pearl (1936–): Israeli American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He won the Turing Award in 2011.[207] Sir Roger Penrose (1931–): English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher[208] and refers to himself as an atheist.[209] Francis Perrin (1901–1992): French physicist, co-establisher of the possibility of nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy production.[210] Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942): French physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926.[211] Max Perutz (1914–2002): Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.[212] Massimo Pigliucci (1964–): Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the Stony Brook University who known as an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of science education.[213] Steven Pinker (1954–): Canadian-born American psychologist.[214] Norman Pirie FRS (1907–1997): British biochemist and virologist co-discoverer in 1936 of viral crystallization, an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA.[215] Ronald Plasterk (1957–): Dutch prize-winning molecular geneticist and columnist, and Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the fourth Balkenende cabinet for the Labour Party.[216] Derek J. de Solla Price (1922–1983): British-American historian of science.[217] Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930): British mathematician who also made significant contributions in philosophy and economics.[218] Marcus J. Ranum (1962–): American computer and network security researcher and industry leader. He is credited with a number of innovations in firewalls.[219] Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow (1942–): British cosmologist and astrophysicist.[220] Oscar Riddle (1877–1968): American biologist. He is known for his research into the pituitary gland and for isolating the hormone prolactin.[221] Richard J. Roberts (1943–): British biochemist and molecular biologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.[222][223][224] Jason Rohrer (1977-): American computer programmer, writer, musician, and game designer.[225] Steven Rose (1938–): British Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London, and author of several popular science books.[226] Marshall Rosenbluth (1927–2003): American physicist, nicknamed "the Pope of Plasma Physics". He created the Metropolis algorithm in statistical mechanics, derived the Rosenbluth formula in high-energy physics, and laid the foundations for instability theory in plasma physics.[227] Oliver Sacks (1933–): United States-based British neurologist, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings.[228] Meghnad Saha (1893-1956): Indian astrophysicist noted for his development in 1920 of the thermal ionization equation, has remained fundamental in all work on Stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. The Saha equation links the composition and appearance of the spectrum with the temperature of the light source and can thus be used to determine either the temperature of the star or the relative abundance of the chemical elements investigated.[229][230] Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989): Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. He gained renown as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honor.[231][232][233] Robert Sapolsky (1957–): American Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University.[234] Wallace L. W. Sargent (1935–): American astronomer.[235] Mahendralal Sarkar (1833–1904): Indian physician and academic.[236] Marcus du Sautoy (1965–): mathematician and holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science.[237] Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961): Austrian-Irish physicist and theoretical biologist. A pioneer of quantum mechanics and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics.[238][239][240][241][242][243] Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002): French mathematician, awarded the Fields medal for his work on distributions.[244] Claude Shannon (1916–2001): American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory.[245] Edwin Shneidman (1918–2009): American suicidologist and thanatologist.[246] William Shockley (1910–1989): American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.[247] William James Sidis (1898–1944): American mathematician, cosmologist, inventor, linguist, historian and child prodigy.[248] Stephen Smale (1930–): American mathematician.[249] Michael Smith (1932–2000): British-born Canadian biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1993.[250] Lee Smolin (1955–): American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo.[251] Alan Sokal (1955–): American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University. To the general public he is best known for his criticism of postmodernism, resulting in the Sokal affair in 1996.[252] Richard Stallman (1953–): American software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer.[253] Jack Steinberger (1921–): German-American-Swiss physicist and Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of the muon neutrino.[254] Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972): Polish mathematician and educator.[255] Victor J. Stenger (1935–): American physicist, emeritus professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. Author of the book God: The Failed Hypothesis.[256][257] Jack Suchet (1908–2001): South African born British obstetrician, gynaecologist and venereologist, who carried out research on the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal disease with Sir Alexander Fleming.[258] Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953): Israeli archaeologist and professor of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, undertaking excavations in Jerusalem, and recognising the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Israel.[259] John Sulston (1942–): British biologist. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[260] Leonard Susskind (1940–): American theoretical physicist; a founding father of superstring theory and professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University.[261] Aaron Swartz (1986–2012): American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site Reddit, in which he was an equal partner after its merger with his Infogami company.[262] Raymond Tallis (1946–): Leading British gerontologist, philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic.[263] Igor Tamm (1895–1971): Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation.[264][265][266] Arthur Tansley (1871–1955): English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of ecology.[267] Alfred Tarski (1901-1983): Polish logician, mathematician and philosopher, a prolific author best known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic.[268] Kip Thorne (1940–): American theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics and also for the popular science book, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy.[269] Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988): Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.[270] Gherman Titov (1935–2000): Soviet cosmonaut and the second human to orbit the Earth.[271] Linus Torvalds (1969–): Finnish software engineer, creator of the Linux kernel.[272] Alan Turing (1912–1954): English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer; often considered to be the father of modern computer science. The Turing Award, often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him.[273][274] Matthew Turner (died ca. 1789): chemist, surgeon, teacher and radical theologian, author of the first published work of avowed atheism in Britain (1782).[275][276] Harold Urey (1893–1981): American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. He played a significant role in the development of the atom bomb, but may be most prominent for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.[277][278] Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943): Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, corn, and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.[279] J. Craig Venter (1946–): American biologist and entrepreneur, one of the first researchers to sequence the human genome, and in 2010 the first to create a cell with a synthetic genome.[280] Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945): Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology. His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism.[281] W. Grey Walter (1910–1977): American neurophysiologist famous for his work on brain waves, and robotician.[282] James D. Watson (1928–): 1962-Nobel-laureate and co-discover of the structure of DNA.[283][284] Joseph Weber (1919–2000): American physicist, who gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser, and developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).[285] Steven Weinberg (1933–): American theoretical physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force.[286][287][288] Victor Weisskopf (1908–2002): Austrian-American theoretical physicist, co-founder and board member of the Union of Concerned Scientists.[289] Frank Whittle (1907–1996): English aerospace engineer, inventor, aviator and Royal Air Force officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine (some years earlier than Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain) and is regarded by many as the father of jet propulsion.[290] Eugene Wigner (1902–1995): Hungarian American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"; the other half of the award was shared between Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen. Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics as well as for his research into the structure of the atomic nucleus. It was Eugene Wigner who first identified Xe-135 "poisoning" in nuclear reactors, and for this reason it is sometimes referred to as Wigner poisoning. Wigner is also important for his work in pure mathematics, having authored a number of theorems.[291] Ian Wilmut (1944-): English embryologist and is currently Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.[292] David Sloan Wilson (1949–): American evolutionary biologist, son of Sloan Wilson, proponent of multilevel selection theory and author of several popular books on evolution.[293] Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS British FRSL (1929–): developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.[294] Steve Wozniak (1950–): co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple I and Apple II.[295] Elizur Wright (1804–1885): American mathematician and abolitionist, sometimes described as the "father of life insurance" for his pioneering work on actuarial tables.[296][297] Will Wright (1960–): American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis.[298] Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979–): American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the singularity and an advocate of friendly artificial intelligence.[299] Oscar Zariski (1899–1986): American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.[300] Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914–1987): Soviet physicist born in Belarus. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, physical cosmology, and general relativity.[301][302] Émile Zuckerkandl (1922-): French biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution, who co-introduced the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution.[303] Konrad Zuse (1910–1995): German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941.[304][305] Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974): Swiss astronomer and astrophysicist.[306][307]
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  137. Wayne Ekeh You're still a very confused person. Scientific theories are well-supported by experimental data and consistent theoretical models. God, devils, and angels are not. The fact that certain aspects of science are unknown at this point is not a justification to invent a creator. You're comparing apples and oranges.
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  138. +Rohan Tej What "services" are not available in Windows that are available on a mac? Windows 10 mobile is mostly identical to the so-called "PC" version, most of the apps overlap.
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  139. Windows 10 is the current version of the operating system. What does or doesn't work on older versions is irrelevant. If the phone is too old, it's too old. Almost anything that runs 8.1 has a digital entitlement to 10. Funny you would raise that argument, since Apple does not allow IOS apps to run on their desktops, period.
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  140. That depends what you consider a "PC" app. There are some apps that are universal there are some that are not. Whether an app can run, or not, in a given environment, depends on the app. Since I don't know what app you're talking about I can't really address it.
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  141. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/instagram/9nblggh5l9xt https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/youtube/9wzdncrfj3dl https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/easymail-for-gmail/9nblggh626nc https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/pinit/9nblggh187vr Snapchat is in development. Google maps is a competitor to Bing maps. Groupon is up to Groupon. It's up to developers to come up with apps.
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  142. I said they started it with that, and they did, later versions were more stripped down and non-upgradeable. I did actually have one. Apple II and Macintosh represented two different schools of thought, and the Macintosh school, led by Jobs, was the one that won out. And the most repairable, expandable machine ever built is the plain old IBM-compatible PC. Apple doesn't even come close.
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  143. Thank YOU for all your excellent, entertaining, and informative videos.
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  144. Frank Burns I'm sure communism sounded like a great idea to a landless peasant sweating under a Chinese warlord or Russian Czar. I'm equally sure it seemed really disappointing "in practice", but in fact it has never been practiced, and is not likely to be. What has been practiced is a clumsy "dictatorship of the proletariat" by a new breed of warlord. Humanity is infected with many highly evolved diseases, mental as well as physical. Greed, lust, megalomania, sadism, combine them with politics and any system becomes a nightmare. Claiming that capitalism has some moral high ground is absurd.
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  145. Joe Schmoe Replacing the current income tax system with a VAT would amount to everybody who actually works for a living paying an extra 20-25% for everything they buy. Great idea. Good luck getting that passed.
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  146. I'd be very interested to know where someone set their computer so that a cat could piss on it...and what they did to piss off that cat.
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  147. You've got to be pretty stupid to listen to someone like Trump ramble and rant and think he's saying anything intelligent....which says alot about his supporters. In conversations these people have literally no facts at their command, no ability to answer questions, no knowledge of history...so they rant and ramble just like their dear leader does. I personally think Trump has a personality disorder and some kind of cognitive deficit which makes it hard for him to read and absorb information, as well as making him sound largely incoherent when he's speaking extemporaneously. How embarrassing for the country.
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  148. 101 of Trump's greatest lies: http://www.dailywire.com/news/4834/trumps-101-lies-hank-berrien
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  149. t88taco88 Why does Trump get to mock anybody? Who does that but a weak little man with a closet full of skeletons?
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  150. Funk Obama Well, we all know if it's on the Internet, it must be true. And who are the "whistleblowers"? about chemtrails. I haven't seen any real pilots, planners, engineers, etc., who admit having ANYTHING to do with such a nonsensical program.
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  151. Funk Obama The "truth" is usually self-evident, verifiable, and provable. You're not interested in truth. You're interested in spinning lurid, absurd paranoid fantasies because it inflates your ego.
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  152. Funk Obama They work with the illuminati. Don't you know anything?
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  153. Funk Obama So you believe that?
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  154. +Funk Obama You want to rant about your imaginary hoaxes, then you quote the Bible, when religion is the biggest hoax of them all. Funny.
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  155. +Funk Obama LOL, too bad that's not a science website and no scientists write there. Too bad they don't actually allow any debate of discussion there either.
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  156. 445 is his weight, right?
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  157. Were you born stupid, or did you have to work at it?
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  158. Professor Dave is always the voice of stern reason...something we need so badly right now.
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  159. Victoria Will LOL..."succeed". Must have gone to school in the south.
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  160. Hey, they're projecting full ntfs support by 2050.
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  161.  @yuppy1967  The penalty for not doing so was death. Many of these men were rounded up at gunpoint.
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  162. Put up her statue were all those Confederate ones used to be.
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  163. I love when the camera pulls back and you see he's like the size of a hobbit....
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  164. You can get aluminum solder, but its fairly expensive and requires a torch. A small screw/terminal would probably be a better solution.
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  165. Please tell us how Republicans would make the island better. Maybe some golf resorts? A few WalMarts to work at? LOL.
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  166. 'Donald Trump may have blamed his inadequate response to the devastation in Puerto Rico on “this thing called the Atlantic,” but his own failed golf course may have made it worse. According to a report by Death & Taxes, the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club in San Juan (renamed to Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico in 2008) borrowed more than $26 million in “government-backed bonds” to pay for renovations and old debts — but then defaulted nearly $120,000, declaring bankruptcy and leaving Puerto Rican Americans to pay the $32.7 million bill. According to a PolitiFact Florida report from earlier this year, Trump’s complicated relationship with the failed San Juan golf course started in 2008, when he entered a deal with the club to re-license under his brand and turn the club around as it was “hemorrhaging money.” The resort hosted the PGA’s Puerto Rican Open that year, but by 2011, the “resort sought more bonds to repay the earlier bonds.” The following year, Trump pocketed more than $600,000 in profits. By the time the resort filed for bankruptcy in 2015, it had done so under it’s original name. At the time, Eric Trump claimed his family’s business had “zero financial investment in this course” and merely lent it their name and managed their golf course, but the report stated he “filed a bankruptcy claim for about $927,000 for unpaid fees on behalf of Trump Golf Coco Beach LLC.”' Report Advertisement Additionally, a BuzzFeed report from 2016 proved that the Trump Organization promised to turn the club around — and then left the Puerto Rican government with their defaulted payments.
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  167. You've obviously never looked at what was on Parler.
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  168.  @nonotorious1467  You seem a little unhinged...a little out of touch with reality. Perfect Parler boy.
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  169. Anybody who believes anything the Russians claim at this point has probably already purchased several bridges in Brooklyn.
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  170.  @apep7188  A completely nonsensical statement that ignores reality. You must be a Republican.
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  171. Currently at MicroCenter you can get the 265k for $70 off the sale price if you buy a mainboard. If you use their card you'll get an additional 5% knocking this price down to around $218. This is an unbeatable deal, I think, for a CPU that will get stronger over time with firmware and BIOS updates, and which runs a lot cooler than the previous generation. As far as the naming scheme, well, I don't get it either.
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  172. Maga and pedophilia go together like bread and butter.
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  173.  @johndorflinger2344  I get that. I understand how steering geometry works, but the relationship between the two front wheels (track width) is critical, not the distance to the rear axle.
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  174. I bet if you opened anything with the word "bar" in it involved in computer repair within a mile they'd sue. Remember, this is Apple. They sued over rounded corners on a phone.
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  175. +Eduardo Avila Stop misleading people. Linux patches are delivered through whoever maintains that particular distribution, otherwise they would need to be manually applied by the user, which requires a certain amount of technical knowledge. You seem to be remarkably well informed if you're claiming all of the literally thousands of Linux implementations have been patched. Microsoft cannot deliver patches when there are known compatibility issues with existing software. If a patch is possible, it will be delivered for any SUPPORTED operating system. What none of you people seem to understand is that software patches are a MITIGATION, not a hard and fast fix. There may still be exploits possible. However, since no in-the-wild exploit is known to exist, everybody is getting way ahead of themselves.
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  176. Cats mark their territory with scent. They have scent glands on their paws that release when they claw. Your old couch is already scented thoroughly. The new couch is not, and therefore Mr. Clinton views it as a challenge.
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  177. tetrabromobisphenol I'm well aware of that, they're just not the only way to interface with a computer anymore. Computing for the masses needs to be intuitive, and not require you to create scripts for mundane tasks.
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  178. I think Carson may be the first truly mentally ill candidate to run for president...
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  179. +Kalum Batsch Well, I wasn't thinking of Android, though I sure have a lot of Linux fanbois insist that it is indeed a version of Linux... And maybe the GNU project just bit off a little more than they could chew. Microkernels aren't the end all/be all they were proselytized to be, anyway.
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  180. Knuckler There you go with those annoying facts again. We could point out that Unix was developed in the 60's-70's as a mainframe operating system, while DOS/Windows evolved in the 80's-90's as a personal computer operating system, while Linux was a student college project that happened to spark interest because it was unencumbered by licensing, but they don't want to hear about it. The fact that Windows and Linux, two "inferior" products compared to the mighty Unix, have pretty much dominated computing for the last 20 years is a source of endless aggravation to the Unix crowd.
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  181.  @IHateYoutubeHandles615  With all due respect, I think you're mixing your metaphors. HP Vue and CDE were Motif-based window managers for X-windows based systems using an X server. MacOS is an evolution of NextStep, which was Postscript-based and quite different in it's approach. Whether or not there was some borrowing of UI elements/functionality is irrelevant, since all intuitively obvious concepts will emerge regardless of who gets credit. Jobs and Gates were both inspired by Xerox PARC, but who remembers that? Everybody remembers Apple suing Microsoft over resizable windows and context menus which neither of them invented, and thinks Microsoft was the bad actor. Reading through this thread gives me a headache, the ignorance is painful.
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  182. There is no such thing as a warp drive, and my Timex digital watch has more computing power than any "quantum" computer. Learn the difference between science and science fiction.
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  183. You don't have any facts or statements to verify anything you've said. I'm sure you think the UFOs are watching us and that Bigfoot is prowling in your backyard as well.
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  184. "Due to costs"? Huh?
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  185. Huh?
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  186. McFooger Building toys like iPads is easy, just a matter of engineering concepts that are already well known. Building a warp bubble is impossible, it would take more energy than there is in the universe. I know the difference between idea and application, some people apparently don't.
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  187. McFooger Your attitude is a common one, but still wrong. Hypothetical constructs of a "warp bubble" seem to show the energy requirements as approaching infinite, while there is no describable mechanism for escaping it once you create it, since you would be isolated from the outside universe. I suggest you do a little more research on the topic before sounding off on what we will and won't do in the future. Knowledge of something in theory does not equal the ability to do something. We can't "mess" with space and time because our very existence precludes that. We don't exist on a scale where these aspects of the universe are accessible to us. It's not a matter of building machines or computers better than what we have now, they still exist and work in the same scales we exist in. A starship the size of a quark would not be particularly useful. Until we gain, (if we ever do) the ability to exist within the quantum framework, these worlds are closed to us.
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  188. McFooger It is not "possible". If you are referring to the postulations of Michel Alcubierre, they are highly speculative and completely ignores the implications of quantum physics. "Although the metric proposed by Alcubierre is mathematically valid in that it is consistent with the Einstein field equations, it may not be physically meaningful or indicate that such a drive could be constructed. The proposed mechanism of the Alcubierre drive implies a negative energy density and therefore requires exotic matter, so if exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist then it could not be constructed.
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  189. McFooger Solutions that depend on exotic forms of matter that haven't been show to even exist are meaningless. These assertions that "warp drives" are possible are nothing but postulations, not based on any generally accepted physics. Your statement that the "fabric" of space and time has no speed limit is also meaningless. There is no evidence that it has a "fabric" at all. Time is only an illusion anyway, a convenient way to rationalize the entropy that characterizes the observable universe on the scale we happen to exist at, in the dimensions apparent to us.Until I hear even a theoretical description of the mechanisms by which a "warp drive" could be created, I'll regard it as science fiction fantasy.
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  190. Nick Nowlin Phesable? What's that? You mean feasible? Doesn't anyone know English anymore? Feasible for what? What I pointed out is that it's NOT CLEAR that the D-Wave is actually a true quantum computer, it does not exhibit TRUE entanglement of all bits. While it obviously does certain kinds of work very fast, it's a long way from what the hype talks about.
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  191. Masterown35 OK, so what if it had all "been done". You show up at an oil change place, they assume you want your oil changed. They're not going to look at it and say "oh, you don't need that". Who the fuck does that? How would they KNOW it had just been changed? How would they know how many miles were on it? Should they care? If you pull in for service, they expect you want the service. Nobody with a brain looks at oil to decide if it's "good" or not. What does that have to do with the fact they didn't do the work? Not doing the work is wrong, it's fraudulent and dishonest. Nobody's disputing that. But don't fill your fucking car up with "new" oil, then expect these guys to know it's new and send you on your merry way, that's idiotic.
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  192. ***** No, I just took the time to explain how business works to the twerp dropouts like you...otherwise how would you ever know?
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  193. Prager University = right wing bullshit.
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  194. windumaster14 Not everyone indeed. 99.999% of people will not only never become wealthy, they'll die about as poor as they were born. The myth of "social mobility" in action. But I guess for that oh-so-special .001% it's all worth it.
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  195. windumaster14 Let me know when you become a billionaire so I can realize how wrong I am.
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  196. Egg Bacon You sound like a paid shill for Fox News, the way you tout meaningless statistics. The middle class is smaller because more people have become wealthy? How absurd. The upper class doesn't start at $100k. $100k is a middle class job, despite your delusions. Do I defend 34% taxes on the poor? No. I defend 75% taxes on billionaires. I defend closing the loopholes that prevent many of them from ever paying taxes in the first place. Something I never understand is where nuts like you think the money to pay for things is going to come from. So you're a student working at a grocery store? But you're obviously an expert on economics, interesting. You think Reagan was a great president? Reagan cut off the money I depended on when I was going to college. Said I "didn't need it". Under Reagan I watched numerous companies close their doors and move to countries where there were no minimum wages or environmental regulations. That was "good business". Look where it's left us. In twenty years we won't be able to make a fucking screw in this country. But I'm sure we'll have lots and lots of lawyers and "engineers" like you who'll hire somebody in China to design something that a bunch of Mexicans working for $5 an hour will be happy to build for you. Welcome to Reagan's vision of America. That senile old fuck was the worst president of the century, after George W. Bush. You and all the other Fox-news-watching, neo-con, neo-confederate, young republican whatever-the-fuck you call yourselves can all go take a long walk off a short pier. You've fucked up this country enough, so much that at this point it's looking iffy if you'll ever elect another Republican president ever again. But I'm sure you can gerrymander the districts for a few more decades to keep that house majority limping along.
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  197. Egg Bacon If it pleases you to think you've won something, be my guest. I probably shouldn't be so hard on you since you're a young man who's obviously miseducated and misinformed, and you're going to learn some hard lessons later, I can tell. You've obviously been reading a lot of right wing nonsense and not any real history, but that's not surprising these days. If I had a dollar for every person I've talked to who THINKS they're smart because they've watched Fox or read a book by Glenn Beck, or know how Ayn Rand is, I'd be a millionaire myself by now. You didn't live in the decades you talk about, so you really have no idea what went on, do you? I know the difference between theoretical and actual tax rates. I also know that historical rates were much higher and people didn't bitch about it nearly as much as they do now. You know who Lee Iaccoca is? A fairly successful VP at Ford in the 60's and later CEO of Chrysler, a man who understood very well what it meant to be a worker in America. He understood too that the well-to-do have to pay a larger share than the less fortunate, because they can AFFORD TO. When he was VP at Ford, his salary was $600k, a lot of money in the 60's. He paid the 50% Federal tax rate for that income at that time, and never complained about it, because he felt it was FAIR. We need more Lee Iacoccas these days and less Mitt Romneys, self-serving assholes who salt their money away in some Caribbean bank so they don't have to pay tax on it. Pathetic. You're also kind of confused about what went on the 80's as well. Here's an article for you, short and to the point: http://www.thenation.com/article/158321/reagans-real-legacy You think creating 18 million jobs is impressive? How about the fact they were mostly low-paying service jobs, and that we lost millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs? You think your 11% increase in compensation is a meaningful statistic? It's not, if you don''t determine who ACTUALLY GOT IT. It sure wasn't me. If it all went to CEOs and millionaires, how is it relevant? How is it relevant anyway when inflation during the Reagan administration (1981-1989) was 37.23%? I think that means we were making about 26% LESS in real dollars that we were when he took office. Not so impressive, eh? You don't think American companies have been outsourcing since the 80's? Well, if you believe that, you're ignorant and delusional. But 10 or 15 years from now, when they give your engineering job to somebody in India who's working for 1/3 the money, and you can no longer pay your mortgage and debts because everybody else has done the same thing and you can't find a job, maybe it will all become clear to you. I should have known you were going to say you're a libertarian. How I cringe when I hear that. There are two kinds of libertarians, you know...the first kind is the "faux libertarian", or, more accurately, the Republican by another name. These hypocrites are really just Republicans who want to: A. Smoke dope, B. Fuck whores, C. Suck dick. Of course, since the Republican party platform says these things are bad and a no-no, they call themselves Libertarians. The second type is the "real" libertarians. Most of these people are actually crazy and wildy delusional, but there are a few that are intellectually well thought out, and almost make sense, except for one problem. They've never lived in the utopia they imagine, and would actually never want to, since virtually all of them depend shamelessly on the government they constantly deride. They drive on public roads, send their kids to public schools, go to publicly-funded hospitals when they're sick, and collect their Medicare and Social Security along with everyone else. When their kids go to college they expect to get government grants and government-guaranteed loans to do so. When somebody steals their shit they call the publicly funded government-run police, when their house is on fire they expect the publicly funded fire department to come put it out. When they lose their jobs they collect government unemployment and government food stamps like all the other schlubs. When someone does something bad to them, they sue and expect the government-run publicly-funded courts to hand down a decision in their favor. In fact, they'd be lost without these things, but they've convinced themselves they would somehow be fine. I wonder which category you fall into? And by the way, I am not a Democrat. I support Democratic candidates by default where they are the only option, but they don't really represent my views any more than the Republicrites do. They're just not as intolerant, greedy, stupid, and clueless.
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  198. Egg Bacon The 80's were not a decade of prosperity for most people. I know, I was there, you weren't. Don't tell me what did or didn't happen. All the statistics show that the working class suffered during that decade, while the wealthy go wealthier, no matter how you try to spin it.
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  199. ***** Well said. 99.99% of people born poor will stay that way regardless of how much they work. 99.99% of people born rich will die rich. Right now you can have two full time jobs and still be under the poverty level if you have a family. Work is meaningless if its not valued. Capitalism does not value work, it values PROFIT. 
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  200. Funk Obama So don't vote, nobody cares what you think.
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  201. ***** I'm not a crying liberal. As for the rest, I wouldn't know, never lived in a commune, or even been to one. I'm sure the number of child molesters is about equal to that in the typical church. I'm sure the number of addicts and people with AIDS is about par with the rest of society, whatever that has to do with anything.
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  202. ***** Whatever that means. Neocons always lapse into incoherence.
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  203. ***** You're an uninformed buffoon. The Nazis and Fascists were NOT socialists. They used the socialist catchphrases as a means to garner support. Both these movements were entirely right wing, nationalistic, and dictatorial in outlook. They didn't PRACTICE socialism. Quite the contrary, they were entirely capitalist in outlook and structure, giving heavy state support to capitalist cronies in industry. You should read some real history instead of the garbage you've obviously been swallowing, assuming you've read anything at all. And by the way, capitalism is an economic system, not a political one.
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  204. ***** What General Giap says is irrelevant. So we were supposed to occupy a hostile country after defeating it's army FOR the South Vietnamese, then turn that country over to them to what...lose again after a couple years? Or do you expect we would have continued to occupy it for the next 40 years? I'm curious just how many American lives and how many of your tax dollars you think North Vietnam (or South Vietnam, for that matter) was worth? None, to me. I always wonder where characters like you think we're supposed to get the men and money to rule the world as an American empire, which is what you seem to want.
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  205. ***** LOL, who is "FRD"? And how do you know Giap isn't just using his book to taunt fools like you who really think there was a prize to be won in Vietnam, or any war for that matter. Don't lose any sleep over it, there are still plenty of banana republics on this planet for American capitalism to exploit. You're probably wearing a shirt made in Vietnam anyway.
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  206. Zero ohm resistors are used so that a bridge can be made over a trace using the same automated equipment that places other passive components on the board. Creating a solder or wire bridge would require extra steps in production. Bridges are used as a design consideration to keep the board as small as possible. They're generally only used where current flow is small though, because normal variances mean that they're usually not actually zero, and for a critical circuit a very low value tight-specced resistor is a better choice because it will flow more current reliably.
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  207. Bad haircut to go with the bad tattoo.
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  208. Pinkie Pie Actually ironic is the correct word and the one I intended to use, but that's beside the point. Silicon chip dies are not made using lasers, they are made using an ultraviolet photo etching process. The internal grids are not gold, they are typically either aluminum or copper. While the traces are not on the atomic scale, they are very small, only a few molecules thick in some cases, which is not too far outside the atomic scale. Debugging is done with electron microscopes. Contrary to what is implied here, electron microscopes can observe individual atoms at times, though not internal processes.
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  209. ***** Chemtrails don't exist. Idiots like you made them up.
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  210. Carina There is no such thing as "Morgellon's disease". It is a purely psychosomatic condition.
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  211. Egg Bacon And I think it lifts some boats higher than others. You dispute that? You guys all sound like the plantation owner talking about how happy the slaves are while sipping mint juleps on the veranda.
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  212. Susan Ray Nice try, but you won't get through to this dimwit, he's convinced that Libertarianism is the way to go...probably listens to those father and son crypto-nazis Ron and Rand Paul, and they're re-filtered neo-con bullshit.
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  213. Sam Seder Practically? And I tried so hard.
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  214. ***** How would you know anything about how I live? And what would give you the right to judge? You're probably a young entitled white boy who wouldn't have a pot to piss in if your daddy didn't give it to you, I've known so many like you in my life. To some of us being free means more than being free to starve and freeze in a box under a bridge somewhere. What's funny is that one day you're going to need a lot of help, I wonder if you're going to just throw yourself out in the cold? I doubt it. I think you'll take your handouts along with the rest, and maybe not even have the bad grace to bitch about it, but with losers like you, who knows?
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  215. ***** ...a tale...told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.... He must have been thinking of you...
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  216. Probably a Trump supporter.
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  217. The lack of basic scientific and historical knowledge coupled with the sheer stupidity of most of the people posting here is what's really amazing.
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  218. Don't fall off the edge of your flat planet....
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  219. Except when your battery pack wears out and costs $4000 to replace. OOPS!
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  220. ***** LOL, your battery costs more than any car I've ever bought. Just bought a 2005 Town & Country for $2995. I fully expect it will last me at least 150,000 miles (3 years for me), and I will never spend that much repairing it, and that's the important thing, I actually CAN repair it, not stand there and stare at it when it decides not to work. I can also haul 6 people, tow a 2000 pound trailer, and carry a thousand pounds of freight when I feel like it, and take a non-stop drive across several states if I'm in the mood, and get 22 mpg doing it. Now, when you have an electric car or a plug-in hybrid that does all that for the same kind of money, you call me.
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  221. ***** Your implications about "pollution" are largely a myth. Building an electric or hybrid from scratch causes a massive environmental impact, far more than just driving a conventional properly operating vehicle. Where do they make these all these batteries? China. You been to China lately? I doubt it. It's one of the most polluted countries in the world. You think it saves the environment? Well, if we got our electricity from renewable energy, maybe...but we don't. Most power in this country has either a smokestack behind it, or comes from a nuclear plant. Both are environmental hazards for different reasons. You're just taking the carbon out of the tailpipe and sending it somewhere else, then pretending it's not there. It's not a solution.
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  222. ***** Sorry, I don't believe you. You don't even seem to understand how hybrids work. A Prius or similar hybrid can not run on battery power alone. A Prius would not make it 10-15 miles on it's battery pack without the gasoline component running, and I've been informed from reliable sources that attempting to operate one that way would destroy the battery pack, most likely. Current electric car designs never even fully charge the batteries as a kludge to extend their life. A new battery pack for a Nissan Leaf is $5500, and that includes the trade in of the old one. Batteries have no predictor for failure, there's no way to know how long one will last, and there is no incremental repair possible. If the valves wear out on my car, I can repair that for a few hundred dollars. Ditto a transmission, water pump, fuel pump, etc. If your electric car doesn't work, what are you going to do? Do you really think people are going to be taking out second loans to buy a battery pack? I doubt it. I think we're only at the beginning of a learning curve with these vehicles, and there are going to be a lot of unpleasant surprises for people down the road.
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  223. ***** You're living in a state of delusion, my friend, pure and simple. It has nothing to do with "oil and gas company talking points" either. In many parts of this country, on days of peak demand, the electric grid is strained to capacity, and you want to plug in thousands, maybe millions of cars. Not going to happen. That kind of demand is going to drive electric rates through the roof...and most of that electricity has a smokestack behind it. Increasing demand will only increase GHG pollution as new plants are built, IF they are built. Let's have a few blackouts and see what your public thinks of your electric car ideas. They'll probably be tipping them over and burning them in the streets. 
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  224. ***** Nonsense. If you have a single motor car, you need cv shafts, a differential, traction control mechanisms, in effect, all the parts that an "ICE" car would have. Electric motors have windings, bushings, bearings, lubricant, etc, etc. If they didn't, why am I always having to replace things like blower motors, window regulators, windshield wiper motors, etc., on various cars, that seem to stop working? According to you, none of these things should ever break, since they have so few "moving parts". I've seen many "ICE" cars run for 15-20 years without ever taking the engine or transmission apart...I wonder if your LEAF will do that?
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  225. GMbusa1 I think you hit the nail on the head, there. Most of these electric car aficionados are well-to-do yuppies who want to cruise around smugly in their electric green machines while the rest of us schlubs who can't afford one get to ride the bus. I'm sure they'll happily junk all our old clunkers and give us a few hundred bucks each in compensation, too.
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  226. ***** Sounds like salesman math to me. 50 mile commute? That's 100 miles a day or about 2200 miles a month, about 100 gallons of gas for the vehicle I drive. At $2.39 a gallon, that's $239 a month, not $400. Driving an economy car, it's more like $150 a month. You could buy a new economy car and drive that far for $400 a month. And last time I checked, electricity wasn't free.
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  227. ***** Why the hell would anybody lease a car? Do you lease your TV? Your refrigerator? Your pants? Leasing is a scam. Second, why would I trust Nissan after their CVT debacle? I think they've forgotten how to build good cars.
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  228. +Smedley Butler Jr. Nice speech, proves nothing. The government has never tried to debunk chemtrails, because chemtrails don't exist, and are absurd on the face of it. That people like Mick West take the time to try to set some of you cranks straight is merely out of a concern that a lot of technically and scientifically illiterate morons like you are so gullible as to believe any made-up internet meme that comes along, to the detriment of society as a whole. None of you cranks has any "proof" of what you claim, you just believe it, which puts you in la-la land territory. And there have been threats made lately by some of you loons, so it's obvious that if you can't be educated, you need to be watched.
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  229. Smedley Butler Jr. I'm not trolling. I'm trying to set a few idiots straight before they really embarrass themselves.
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  230. Smedley Butler Jr. The question is why do people like you devote so much time and energy to propagating a meme that is both scientifically and technically impossible to those who are scientifically and technically illiterate. Or are you just nuts?
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  231. Smedley Butler Jr. Why don't you make a video of these planes? Why don't you photograph them though a telescope so we can see what they are? You talk a lot of shit, but you have nothing to show.
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  232. Smedley Butler Jr. I don't see any of the nonsense you claim to see. I deny nothing. Show your "proof".
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  233. Smedley Butler Jr. You are a paranoid delusional technical illiterate who needs to get some help.
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  234. Smedley Butler Jr. Chemtrails don't exist, and therefore have no effect on the environment. Nutjobs like you, on the other hand, do exist, and therefore need to be watched, and hopefully educated.
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  235. Smedley Butler Jr. Nice speeches, but it doesn't change a thing. Chemtrails are not real, and you don't have a speck of evidence that they are.
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  236. +Ryan Tollmann Aluminum is one of the most common elements on Earth, and typically makes up 15-40% of ordinary soil and dirt. Idiot.
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  237. Jacob Baumfalk Washington's assessment was faulty, the Thirty Year's War had little to do with Christianity and everything to do with the political ambitions of the rulers of the time.
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  238. Wayne Ekeh Like most Christians you have no idea what an open mind means. You put belief in imaginary gods and demons on a plane above both science and logic, and then talk about rationality. How about starting from the assumption that something doesn't exist until proven to exist, or until reasonably well described by a supportable hypothesis?
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  239. Wayne Ekeh The Big Bang can not be "proven"...but it can be demonstrated to be plausible via physics and mathematics. The fact that things exist is not proof of a creator...that is a philosophical viewpoint, not a scientific one. The concepts of a "beginning" and "end" is a human invention to give perspective to how we perceive events, they may not have any meaning in the context of the universe as a whole. A möbius strip does not have a beginning or an end, yet it can be clearly shown to exist, and mathematically described in a precise way. As a matter of fact you can make one with paper and scissors. Things are not so cut and dried as you might like to believe. If the universe is a möbius strip in higher-order dimensions, then how can it have a "beginning" or an "end"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B6bius_strip
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  240. FYI, "Prager University" is not a real college or university, just a right wing sounding board.
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  241. Apple has been treating it's computing devices as appliances from basically day one. They have always offered their products as discrete devices, rather than something you can upgrade, change, or modify. Even in the earliest days of the Macintosh and Apple II, they would very often solder components to boards, components that other manufacturers might choose to make removable, or replaceable. It's simply their approach. They see their products very much as appliances, delivered finished and perfect, not as something that is meant to be changed or modified to suit the desires of the end-user. They don't like you changing what they've designed in their infinite wisdom. Now that they are reaching market saturation, more than ever they will need to push sales of new devices to existing users, and one way of doing that is forced obsolescence. The othrr way, of course, is making them so difficult and expensive to repair that replacement is the only option.
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  242. Prove it.
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  243. william johnson The earliest life forms were probably derived from organisms similar to viruses, (which by some definitions are not actually alive, but can reproduce themselves) complex protein structures that evolved from less complex compounds created by lightening strikes in the atmosphere of early Earth, among other theories. It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to know exactly how it happened, but that does not mean it didn't happen, especially since many experiments have duplicated the process by which it most likely did.
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  244. Charles Richmond Actually, I think Christ was Mary's last name, since Jesus was illegitimate, and Mary was a single mom. Jesus H. Christ and God W. Jehovah are their correct names I think.
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  245. Rhees Carter I see no evidence of a "creator". I think he exists only in your mind.
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  246. BV White Yeah, yeah. We all know God is going to get us. He's going to enjoy punishing us for what he made us do in the first place, like any sadistic child-god would. Since God knew us before we were born, as the Bible myth-book says, then he knew we would not believe, and he would of course, have to punish us. If he didn't know we weren't going to believe, then he is not all-knowing and therefore is not really God, but some other kind of malevolent being. Any being who "punishes" lesser creatures and makes them suffer and die is not a god, but a demon. Maybe it's a demon you've been worshipping all this time. Or maybe you're just delusional.
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  247. Gearhead1395 I find it ironic that you seem to oppose the measures that guarantee a greater measure of social justice in, for example, Europe, while condemning them here. Europe has guaranteed incomes, guaranteed health care, guaranteed education, higher taxes, and a much smaller gap between the haves and have nots...all of which benefit you immensely in spite of the fact that you're "white, male, and straight". It seems like what you really yearn for is the right to oppress and exploit those who are not white, straight, or male, as was typically done in the past. If I had a nickel for every European who has showed up here thinking they're going to be the next billionaire and ended up delivering pizzas. The fact is, the vast majority of people born poor, stay poor, regardless of how talented they are. The vast majority of people born rich stay rich, regardless of how stupid they are. Nobody has a right to limit wealth? Says who? The wealthy? Society has every right to limit the wealth of individuals, because the greater that wealth is, the more it distorts both society and the political process. The number one cause of strife and suffering in the world is the disparity of wealth in it, and the absurd uses to which it's put. Alot of us poor Americans are getting tired of paying trillions to police the world while you Europeans sit on your collective asses enjoying social benefits we can't afford because we spend more on the military than the entire EU. If it was up to me, you could fight the next three wars in the middle east yourselves...we'll see how that works out. I predict Europe will be a caliphate in about 50 years with the level of motivation you people have.
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  248. ***** Seriously, this is the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. The Republican party is the very definition of elite. It is Republican legislation over the last 30 years that has destroyed the middle class. There are no large "wealthy" contributors to Democratic candidates like you have with the Koch brothers on the Republican side. 
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  249. shlockofgod "Capitalism doesn't have a nature. It's just refers to respect for property rights and non-aggression." Non-aggression and property rights such as existed during the slave era? Or the colonial era, something driven totally by capitalism? You're pretty naive. "Did the soviet Union or North Korea or National socialist Germany allow the wealth to accumulate at the top? No, so why did they collapse or turn into nightmares?" No, they allowed power to accumulate at the top. Wealth follows naturally. One is a reflection of the other. Since wealth equals power, what we're seeing here is the same process by different methods. "If you're saying capitalism must be tightly controlled then you're saying people must be tightly controlled because all there is is people interacting. That idea fails the test of logical consistency because you create a group of people who must not need to be tightly controlled." Capitalism is not interaction, it's exploitation. The rich exploit the poor to make more money. The poor get nothing but a few bucks to hopefully hand over to more capitalists to hopefully get enough food and a place to live. The lucky ones get a house, a car, and a TV to relieve the tedium, and maybe a few other toys as well, but they never get either security or freedom. "What exactly is wrong with 2% of people owning 80% of a country? I mean if they own 80% doesn't that mean they are responsible for 80% too? Doesn't it mean that in an ideal capitalist environment (without coercive government) people paid those 2 percent voluntarily?" What's wrong with it is that it's largely the interests of the 2% that get looked after, not anyone else. You have what you have because there is a small excess of wealth to be shared. When that excess disappears you will have nothing. You will be a vagabond digging in the garbage cans of the haves, hoping for enough tidbits to keep you from starving till tomorrow, and hoping they're not so rotten that they kill you before then, which is essentially how a billion people on this planet live right now. When are you ready to stop catering to the interests of the billionaires and really start thinking about the condition of humanity as a whole...or do you just not care?
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  250. Egg Bacon Not only do I know who she is, I've actually read some of her garbage. If you had, you'd know that is essentially her fundamental message. I only mentioned it because Libertarians love to reference her psychotic bullshit, even though few of them have ever read any of it...ironic, since she hated libertarians.
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  251. 87kakel You've hit the nail on the head. Capitalism is NOT a method of government, although there are many who think it is. Capitalism is an economic system, that must be regulated by government, just as every economic system in the history of the world has been. Without that, you have anarchy.
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  252. Egg Bacon So you hate liberals, eh?  Do you believe in civil rights for minorities? Liberal idea. Do you think women should be allowed to vote? Liberal idea. That children should be educated and not forced to work before they are adults? Liberal idea. That we should have a 40 hour workweek? Liberal idea. Do you think every person should have a vote with equal weight in our political system? Liberal idea. Do you believe that people have fundamental human rights that should be respected? Another crazy liberal idea. Do you think people have the right to retire with some measure of dignity whey they can't work any longer, with an income at least adequate for a roof over their head and food to eat? Liberal idea. Do you think all children should receive a free public education regardless of their social or economic status? Liberal idea. Now, let me think of all the great conservative/libertarian ideas that have transformed our society over the last century or so..................................thinking..............................................still thinking...................................................................................hmm. Can't come up with anything. Seems to me like you live in society enjoying benefits largely defined by liberal "ignorance, hypocrisy, and hatred". Fancy that.
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  253. Egg Bacon "... a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition... --Merriam-Webster dictionary This does not describe the United States, which is a federal republic with sharply defined powers for it's leaders. Nor does it describe any of the developed democratic nations. Russia and China we can argue about, but that fact is no one person pulls all the strings in those countries either. Regarding social security, you apparently really believe that private for-profit corporations would actually be able to more efficiently, more stably, and for less cost run people's retirement...what a joke. I've watch IRA's go up in smoke more than once. I knew a guy who lost 80% of his portfolio in the last market "crash"...and this was a "reputable" company managing it. My wife lost almost 40% off hers in one year. Big name fund manager. Seriously, no, I don't want my retirement to depend on the vagaries of the stock market, futures market, or what have you, nor do I trust private companies to be responsible in the long term. History has shown they are not. There have been many cases of "reputable" investment firms going bankrupt either through incompetence or bad luck. Social security is not going bankrupt, in spite of the tales spun by the right. Your claim that people don't get out what they pay in is silly, as well, not to mention beside the point. I don't know a single person in the real world who doesn't want their social security...and I think you want yours, too.
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  254. Joe Schmoe The government is never going to shrink. There's nowhere for it to shrink. People like you that argue for "shrinking" government are usually the ones most dependent on it. You drive on government roads, go to and send your kids to government schools, draw your government pensions, use power and utilities subsidized by the government, and basically live under an umbrella provided by the government, while attacking it the whole time. It would be truly funny to see you flounder without it. The way I see it, the poor have bought the rich everything they have, so why shouldn't they pay more? Capitalism and free markets have shown again and again they can't regulate themselves, they turn into monopolies. Government needs to put the brakes on capitalism constantly, or it would just run over everybody. You talk about those who can't compete? I've got news for you. 97% of people can't compete, and I doubt you can either.
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  255. Joe Schmoe If the government didn't fund and plan roads, they would not exist, except between the castles of the rich. If the government didn't (under)fund education, nobody who wasn't rich would get much. Just enough to work on the plantation, I imagine. It's pretty clear you're just another libertarian dreamer who fancies himself the lord of some manor in some pseudo-feudal empire, with doughty serfs and smiling serving wenches to cater to you, lord of the manor, in all your independent, self-made resplendence. Of course, that's your fantasy, the reality would be a little different. You'd probably be drudging for peanuts while someone bigger, meaner, and way more ruthless than you cracks the whip on your pudgy ass. But I'm used to hearing this hypocritical libertarian fantasy bullshit. You want a weak, non-providing government? Go live where they have that. Try Haiti, or Liberia. Libertarian paradise, hardly any government at all, and low taxes, too. And if you don't pay them, nobody will care. It is sad though that so many people think they're entitled to so much from a society that they owe no loyalty and apparently, in their minds, no responsibility to.
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  256. EngineeringWizard11 Funny that you use him as an "example". A poor person who became rich, yet supports liberal/leftist causes...in contrast to the "born rich" crowd that almost never do. There's a big difference in philosophy between someone who knows what it is to be poor versus someone who's never had to be.
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  257. +Brandon Leger LOL, that's like asking which leg you'd rather have cut off.
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  258. Sha Voz Odds are two years at most before he's impeached.
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  259. Dave Philbeck Funny how you people have so much respect for a man who's not only a puppet for Russia, but likes to have women piss on him.
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  260. Mastermindvideos Trump's not going to deport anybody. Who'd work in his fucking hotels?
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  261. Mastermindvideos It has not been 'proven' anything. Given how many times Trump has been to Russia on mysterious business, it sounds very plausible to me. I could care less about "illegals", they're leaving faster than they're arriving. And there is no such thing as a "white race". It's all in your head. There is only the human race, that's the only one I'm aware of.
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  262. ***** That's really a matter of opinion. If you were as clever as you think you are you'd know that a public figure can not be slandered in the US. A man with real character and a thicker skin would have ignored it...but not Trumpie, he has to sound off like a spoiled 12-year old with  attention deficit disorder.
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  263. Dave Philbeck You're only proving how delusional you are...probably an Alex Jones listener, judging by the level of crazy. Donald Trump being elected president is like hiring a plumber to pull a tooth....it's not going to go well. Maybe you should note his record LOW approval rating, 40 points below Obama's. Yeah, he's REAL popular.
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  264. PezX Candy Because he's not a successful business man, and running the country is not a business. He's been bankrupt six times, and many of his biggest projects were costly busts that lost investors billions. He's defaulted on many loans. He's cheated his contractors and workers. He's been fined repeatedly for bad business practices. He's admitted to fraud and been fined for that. He's been fined for discrimination in housing. Look up his Moody's rating. It's so bad no bank in this country will ever lend him money. Why do you think he's making all these deals in foreign countries? Nobody here will do business with him. Nobody wants to be associated with him. Successful businessman? Please. He's an anathema in New York, everybody there detests him. He wouldn't dare walk the streets by himself. He has zero experience with government, foreign policy, and has never owned an industrial business. He's clueless, all his appointments are right-wing extremists who are going to play him like a puppet, and when they get tired of him, they'll probably impeach him for being the crook he is.
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  265. Dawn Wilkerson Successful for who? Real successful businessmen make money for everyone. Name one person who got rich with Trump. Nobody. Trump only helps Trump. Everyone else loses.
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  266. Dawn Wilkerson Sources for what? You must not do much reading. Not surprising. You claim he's "successful". Prove it. Who made billions with Trump? Nobody. He claimed a loss of $916 million in ONE year. That's success? I can name a lot of banks that lost hundreds of millions on his shady deals.
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  267. Jon Amendall I'm rude with dumbasses who are so ignorant they barely know what planet they live on. People like that voting is why Trump is in the White House. His life has been scrutinized for decades, but I'm supposed to provide a reading list for another clueless self-absorbed don't-get-it. What's the matter, honey, too busy getting tats and dying purple streaks in your hair this week? Pathetic.
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  268. Constitutional Crank You sound like the kind of guy who waits till his house burns down to see how bad the fire was. Fact: Donald Trump has less than half the people at his inauguration that than Obama had. Fact: Donald Trump's approval rating coming into office is the lowest in modern history and less than half of Obama's. Care to explain that?
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  269. Constitutional Crank So that part in the Constitution where they allotted 3/5 of a person to the slaves who were neither citizens nor could vote wasn't to protect the interests of slaveholders? You'd better go back and check that part again. And just what are you trying to say, that some people's vote should be worth more than others? You think that's right and fair? That mostly empty states like Montana or Wyoming with a few hundred thousand people get the same weight in the Senate as huge states like California, New York, or even Texas?
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  270. Constitutional Crank http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315223-poll-trump-approval-rating-hits-new-low-hours-before From Fox News, probably your favorite channel. Suck it up.
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  271. Constitutional Crank "No, the 3/5 rule had zero to do with the electoral college, it was about representation in Congress" Exactly my point, fucknut, since representation in Congress is what determines how many electoral votes you get, or have you conveniently forgotten that? There are no "two states" that could outvote all the others. You're making more shit up. Under your theory, the votes of 20 million people don't count, at all. since 20 million more people voted for Democrats in the Senate than voted for Republicans, and it's as equally skewed in the House, thanks to Republican gerrymandering. Nice system. Nice oligarchy. Nice dystopia. Enjoy it while it falls apart....assuming he's not impeached the first year. Nixon had his supporters too.
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  272. Constitutional Crank You keep talking all this bullshit about "illegal" voting, but the only person arrested for illegal voting was trying to vote for Trump twice. Funny how there are "millions" of them....but you can't name one. I call BULLSHIT. Admit it, your guy lost the popular vote because he's the biggest ASSHOLE ever to run, period.
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  273. ***** Fair and square, with lots of lies, lots of propaganda, lots of help from the Russians in "Wikileaks", which is now an arm of the FSB.
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  274. Dawn Wilkerson Lady, I'd make more sense reading the phone book with a mouth full of marbles.
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  275. ***** Why would a presidential candidate SINGLE OUT a reporter for mockery? Who has ever done that? Why would a presidential candidate tweet about a beauty pageant contestant? Why would he make fun of how one of his opponents looked? Because he's a deranged narcissistic asshole, that's why, with all the maturity of a schoolboy. Less in fact. Trump is a spoiled little princeling who's always had his way, or he has a tantrum. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......
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  276. Dawn Wilkerson Look who's talking...Punky Brewster...all grown up and crazy as a loon.
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  277. Bob Leroy Not to mention he has the lowest approval rating of any new president in history and almost half the country already wants him impeached....hilarious.
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  278. ***** I detest Donald Trump. Dawn is just a bubblehead, she can't help it.
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  279. Dawn Wilkerson Land of "marxism"? Where is that?
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  280. A long list of Trump's lies: https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/president-trump-lie-list?utm_term=.ns2yW7qyM#.srMmqBGmb
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  281. ***** I like Dawn, I think she's hot, but she's nuts, unfortunately.
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  282. Jacob Thorne Maybe, but I didn't curtsey to the king of Saudi Arabia.
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  283. Funk Obama You did claim that, and you haven't produced a speck of documentation to support what you're saying. Fail is your middle name, dumbass.
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  284. Funk Obama Nonsense. Making something up is no substitute for reality. Once again, the joke is on you. That quote is fake and is actually satire, somebody's idea of a joke. Of course, you fall for it, lock, stock, and barrel, you and your loony clique of conspiracy theorists.
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  285. Funk Obama He never said it. You can't point me to a page in his book where you claim he did say it. You're a LIAR, like all conspiracy theorists. What Kennedy said in a speech over 50 years ago is irrelevant, aside from the fact you're taking it far out of context.
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  286. Funk Obama IF you're claiming it's in his book "Memoirs", you're wrong, it's not.
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  287. Funk Obama The first quote is not in the book, and is bogus. The second one is in the book, but he's obviously being humorous. Being an idiot, you wouldn't get that.
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  288. Funk Obama He is making a joke aimed at the conspiracy crackpots like you. A joke you'll never get, because you don't see the absurdity of what you believe.
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  289. Funk Obama Off your medication again? Secret societies on the dollar bill? Cryptic speeches sixty five years ago? Amazing.
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  290. Funk Obama NO, it fucking doesn't you ignorant dumbass. It translates as "A new order for the ages", referring to a Republic where all men were equal before the law, and any man could rule if chosen, something that didn't really exist at that time. The green men fly the black helicopters you think are watching you.
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  291. Funk Obama Oh, you fell for that one too? Funny. https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-government-buys-30-000-guillotines.t1812/#post-159141
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  292. Funk Obama <--- still crazy after all these years....hey, they wrote a song about you.
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  293. +Funk Obama Rain, snow, and soil samples without controls over a span of years or decades prove nothing. Nobody involved in this sampling has any scientific credibility or indeed any ability at all to understand a controlled process. It's absurd, like janitors giving lectures on brain surgery.
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  294. +Funk Obama There are no "scientists" testing for chemtrails. If there were, you'd name them. There are no scientists writing on globalskywatch. It's a crank site written mainly by one loon. Why don't you stop lying?
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  295. +Justin Franks Funkie Obama is a sad case. He's a drug-addled dropout who lives on a disability pension in some rathole in southern Minnesota. He's extremely paranoid and easily buys into any conspiracy theory, no matter how absurd. I've yet to find one he won't go for lock, stock, and barrel. He really should be getting some help, but I doubt he ever will, at least until he does something crazy, which is probably only a matter of time. He's obsessed with the government he thinks is controlled by the illuminati and trying to kill everybody, but of course fails to see the irony of the fact he couldn't live without them.
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  296. I'm sitting here looking at my Thermaltake case feeling sad now.
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  297. What's the purpose of this thing?
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  298. LOL, you mean a marvel of hubris. VW actually engineered their cars to do what they were supposed to do. Beetles were over-engineered in a lot of ways, and the engines were actually indestructible as long as they had oil in them. Corvair engines were fragile, leaked, threw belts, and leaked exhaust into the cabin. Corvairs used a gas heater which was not only an explosion hazard, but reduced your "economy" car's mileage down to about 10 mpg. There's plenty of film available of these cars flipping at as little as 20 mph. Marvel of engineering indeed.
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  299. I'll say this...Lenovo is about a hundred times more repairable than Apple.
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  300.  @midnightsnack1306  True. A lot of the problems we're facing are directly because of the misinformation spread through Twitter, Facebook (the worst offender), and similar venues. If you don't stop the misinformation and hatemongering, it will get worse, not better.
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  301.  @khlamad  Twitter is a Sunday school poetry reading compared to what Parler was.
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  302.  @gordonwelcher9598  I think Ukrainian military intelligence knows a little more about what's going on in Ukraine at the moment, no disrespect to "Brandon".
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  303. Crashing two aircraft together at hundreds of miles per hour... what could go wrong?
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  304. Having worked with hydrogen years ago I understand how dangerous it is. Whenever I hear people talking nonsense about hydrogen cars I shut down the discussion with one question: where's your nearest hydrogen filling station?
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  305. Now, if we could only take the electoral college out of the equation...
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  306. Except they'll cast Tom Cruise as the lead, turn him into an American, and have him hunting John Wilkes Booth. That's about how Hollywood handles history.
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  307. I wish there was a company I could buy stuff from that didn't suck.
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  308. Nestor Pelayo Wrong. People are getting killed all the time because this country is swimming in guns. There is no other society on Earth as obsessed with owning weapons of war. The idea that you stop shootings by shooting more people is so absurd it doesn't warrant argument. You will never stop mentally deranged people or terrorists by threatening to shoot them, since escalated violence is their goal in the first place. You are only playing into their hands. Psychology 101, which you fail.
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  309. I am a strong believer in free speech and an open internet, and I heartily approve of Trump's deplatforming. It should have happened years ago. What most people are still failing to understand, is that there is no such thing as "free speech" on the internet, in any venue which is owned by a private entity, not here, not anywhere, and there never will be. The First Amendment applies to the government, not private companies or private spaces. As so many have pointed out, "actions have consequences", and Trump is experiencing the consequences of his actions...just as Parler is experiencing the consequences of their lack of action. I have no sympathy, none. Let the chips fall where they may. Any venue in a public space is going to reap what it sows and allows to grow. Parler was full of people spewing hate and threatening death, and it reaped what it sowed. Trump has spewed lies and misinformation for years, now he's reaped what he's sown. Goodbye and good riddance.
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  310. I'm curious where you would put them, assuming hospitals are jam packed with sick people?
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  311.  @dimitarmargaritov  The main person responsible is Donald Trump.
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  312.  @virtueofhate1778  Covid is a chronic condition for a lot of people, especially the elderly. You never really recover. But you do you, it's all a hoax, right? My SO's father is 78 and has a serious contagious infection after surgery. Know where they sent him? A NURSING HOME.
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  313. Nothing, because nobody operates an engine that way. If I greased one of the engines with axle grease and it ran longer than one with only an oil film (which it well might), does that mean we start dumping axle grease into our engines? Which auto manufacturer recommends using ANY additive in their engines? None.
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  314. The speed limit on that section of highway is 45 FYI .
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  315. There's actually no option to download a file to your computer. You can only download them to an Amazon device connected to your computer. This makes the whole thing pointless, since I don't even have an Amazon device and would only read these on one of my non-Amazon tablets or computers.
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  316. Ny Chan How many miles do they run before they blow up or are rebuilt?
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  317. dustin britton You "don't need to show me any scientific evidence"? Really? Then I wonder what you would show? I'll show you my daily driver which has almost 300,000 miles on it, original engine, original transmission, no additives or Lucas sticky gunk ever used.
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  318. dustin britton I call bullshit. First of all, no additives will silence an engine worn so badly it has bearing knock, nor will such an engine continue to run very long. Second, I think you are math-challenged. 31,000 hours is 15 years of running a constant 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. 1,700,000 miles would be the equivalent of driving 9 hours straight 7 days a week for over 10 years. You guys must be busy bees. Maybe try doing an overhaul once in a while?
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  319. All the wrong types are becoming cops.
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  320. 1K should be enough for anybody.
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  321. MattOGormanSmith You have very little understanding of what it takes to build an OS.
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  322.  @blacksage81  When has anyone ever had to?
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  323.  @yaimavol  Right, getting the upper middle class to brutally exploit and intimidate the working class has been a pretty successful tactic. The middle class, and especially the upper middle class, are some of the most reactionary and fearful people you'll find. They have the most to lose in any downturn.
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  324.  @SMSBJM1981  Really? Well, next time something is taken from you, just tell yourself you didn't really deserve it in the first place.
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  325. Will never use Linux Mint. Mint has a history of blacklisting upstream security updates in the name of convenience. After the server hacking fiasco a couple years ago it's clear that security is an afterthought, as it is in most of the eye candy distros, just as it's clear their approach is amateurish. They had their chance, muffed it.
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  326. Wait, you mean Musk's personal hubris isn't a shield against all radiation? Here I thought he could deflect gamma rays merely through the force of his bullshit.
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  327. You admire slave owners and human traffickers? Interesting.
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  328. We don't waste time with nonsense like that.
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  329.  @TFOCyborg  Correct. These parades are intended for an internal audience. They are intended to build the mystique of the Kim family while enforcing discipline and programmed mass behavior. With such forced mass enthusiasm, anybody who is not giving it their all stands out like a sore thumb.
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  330. If it's not meant to be a living wage, what's it meant to be? why would you have a job if you can't live on what you make?
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  331.  @warthunderislife3355  Population of Russia 1991 148.4 million Population of Russia 2021 143.7 million Population of USA 1991 253 million Population of USA 2021 333.5 million Russia GDP $1.7 trillion $11,600 per capita USA GDP $23 trillion $69,400 per capita Russia is a failed state, slipping into poverty, that's been dying for years. People are fleeing it by the thousands.
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  332. The weak link in open source is the relatively tiny numbers of people actually maintaining a lot of software.
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  333. The Corvair was a stupid car, period. It was unsafe, and underengineered to save money. We won't even get into why an air-cooled car is a joke in the northern US. It was GM's attempt to copy European cars that were smaller and adapted for very different conditions, and as usual, they screwed it up. They knew they screwed up , because they came out with the Nova 2 years later, that was a vastly more reliable and predictable vehicle, not to mention much more amenable to being adapted for performance. The Corvair was an engineering dead end.
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  334. ..."If the development team gains some traction"....which I predict will happen right after Vladimir Putin and Theresa May elope together, are married by a pagan priestess, and run nude together down the Avenue Des Champs-Élysées...
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  335. +AwesomeSource Films If the project has source code that can be audited, and it can be sown that the project contains no source code from Microsoft, which I think has already been shown, then if they produced a working operating system, Microsoft could do nothing about it. The question would be if they can in fact produce a working, binary-compatible modern operating system that offers essentially the same functionality as an earlier version of Windows without violating any Microsoft patents. I myself do not think that is likely, given the current nature of this project. It would have to re-implement thousands of software functions from scratch, many of which are not fully documented publicly. I do not believe the ReactOS project has that kind of talent available. And then of course, one would have to ask whether a "working" re-implementation of Windows 2000, for example, would actually bother Microsoft that much or not. I don't think it would. Boxed operating systems are not a large part of Microsoft revenue these days, and something that old would not siphon off business. Besides, I have seen no evidence that ReactOS is intended to be something that would be sold for money. If it's free, why would they care? They gave away Windows 10 for free themselves. It still is free, if you have a valid serial from 7 or 8, as a matter of fact I just did an install a few days ago, didn't cost me anything. I think the reality is that at present this project is so rudimentary and so far behind the capabilities of the actual product, they see no threat whatsoever. Anybody could buy an old copy of Windows 2000 off eBay and have something much more useful than this OS is, and far more compatible.
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  336. "Only the best people".
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  337. Burine Bedford Yes, he "did so much" for this country...like trying to destroy it. Idiot.
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  338. Not necessary, I get it. Republican states get help, "Democrat" states and territories are ignored...especially when there's lots of those brown people there.
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  339. The only idiot here is you. Trump has a long history of breaking contracts, cheating workers, contractors, and partners, defaulting on loans, not paying his debts. Blame the victim doesn't work here.
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  340. You can ignore reality all you want, Trump is a crook, all the same. Hopefully the whole crew will end up in jail soon. Will Manafort be the first one to turn states? It will be interesting to watch.
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  341.  @lukem5202  Bullshit.
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  342. The internet died when they let the stupid people in.
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  343.  @casparhughey5651  Letting stupid people in ruins every party.
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  344. Makes me wonder how many brain dead Mac users would see this, then run down to the Apple store and demand a 5500 or even 5600 RPM drive instead of a 5400.
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  345.  @zakofrx  Yeah, they just didn't have any moderators. LOL.
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  346.  @nonotorious1467  Trump didn't make any peace deals. With anybody. He wouldn't have the first idea how. FYI he thinks all countries in Europe are shitholes, anyway.
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  347. It should be borne in mind that when black holes are described as being this or that many kilometers in diameter, that's really just the diameter of the Schwarzschild radius. Black holes are singularities, as far as they are understood by current physics. They have no dimension, being points where a singularity has occurred, while still having finite mass. So in that respect, regardless of mass, they are all the same, having no dimension at all.
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  348. It's not hard to understand why so many Nazi-associated artifacts were unceremoniously destroyed after WW2, everybody was sick of the Nazis and there was a very real fear that these things would become totemic objects and a focus for a resurgent Nazi movement. Given what's going on in the world right now, I don't think they were wrong.
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  349. Trump doesn't even know where Puerto Rico is on a map.
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  350. Trump didn't even know who the governor was till somebody told him. And just what help did he send "day one"??????????????
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  351. This is a really stupid idea that's going to backfire horribly. Mexico is not an enemy.
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  352. Sadly, we're closer than ever to a nuclear war. Instead of cold, calculating communists, Russia is run by hot-headed nationalists, many of whom are far out of touch with reality.
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  353. +tuber A completely meaningless statement/accusation, whatever it's trying to be.
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  354. +Joe Black You can blame the pirates for that.
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  355.  @chrizzle6222  Hardly.
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  356.  @chrizzle6222  1. Communism has never been implemented anywhere. Shabby dictatorships that masquerade as communist are not communism. 2. Communism calls for the end of the exploitation of man by man. Nazism is based on the concept of a master race exploiting all others. Communism is based on the equality of all races and peoples. Nazism is based on the subjugation of all peoples to a master race. Hardly the same thing.
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  357.  @chrizzle6222  What's the death toll from colonialism? Or religious intolerance?
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  358.  @chrizzle6222  Why do Nazis always bring up communism when we're talking about Nazism?
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  359.  @chrizzle6222  Maybe not. Nazis are quick to deflect what they can't defend.
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  360.  @chrizzle6222  Hold on there. My original remark was about Nazism. YOU are the one who brought up communism. This kind of deflection is very typical of Nazi apologists, because their only defense of Hitler is that he fought the communists, to "save Europe". Your deflection is an automatic defense of Nazism, otherwise you would have said nothing or simply agreed, since the video has nothing to do with communism. Why bring it up, EXCEPT to deflect to a different topic, and one that you clearly don't understand well?
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  361.  @chrizzle6222  You should quit while you're ahead, but like most people who think they're much more clever than they really are, you just can't. I never said I was a communist or anything else. You've never denied you're a Nazi. The fact that you somehow think the two systems can be conflated based on how "bad" they are shows you really don't have a clue about political systems. I have long experience dealing with Nazis, both in the closet and out of it, so I call it like I see it.
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  362. @fukthegoog Work for? No. Rely on? Yes, just like you and everyone else. Quit kidding yourself.
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  363.  @AhnafAbdullah  Lol, there's 10 times more telemetry in Android and IOS. Your ISP logs every site you visit, and filters your email for keywords, but you're worried that Microsoft knows how much time you spent playing Freecell.
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  364. +Aera Steele What does that fact that he WAS a surgeon have to do with it? Surgeons can be nuts too. Carson is a pathological liar with zero knowledge of politics or world history. He has no more business being president than Trump does being a surgeon. I'm always amused how you idiots think the leader of the most powerful country in the world, who has to deal with and understand extremely complex POLITICAL issues, should not be a politician. Funny.
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  365. +Aera Steele Well, if you think they all lie, cheat, and steal, maybe you should run for office yourself and bring some honesty to the playing field. Otherwise, shut up.
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  366. +Aera Steele I assure you, my view of the world is a lot more rational than yours. People who think everything is a conspiracy are deluded, if not crazy. You sound a little paranoid.
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  367. Kalum Batsch Right...Linux is not part of the GNU project, and Torvald's hate for GPL3 is well known... I should have been more clear.
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  368. Kalum Batsch Linux has prospered to the extent it has in spite of GNU, not because of it. If the GNU project had controlled Linux it would be as irrelevant as the Hurd currently is.
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  369. Kalum Batsch Linux without GNU is still Linux. GNU without Linux is irrelevant. Point taken.
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  370. +Kalum Batsch You can build a Linux OS without GNU. You can't build a functional OS with just GNU components. That's the point you're missing. GNU likes to claim they invented everything. They didn't. They haven't produced a production ready OS in 20+ years of supposedly trying, and it doesn't appear at this point that they ever will.
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  371. +Kalum Batsch I pointed out that GNU components are not necessary to create a working OS. You can't dispute that, so you divert the conversation to Android, which I never mentioned, and which I don't consider to be any kind of Linux distribution. You then claim the YouTube comments system apparently couldn't exist without GNU or gcc, which is absurd. Like most (for lack of a better word) fanbois, you don't debate all that well, so you resort to calling me a dumbass. Bravo.
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  372. +Kalum Batsch Better yet, give me a technical reason why you can't build a Linux system without GNU. I doubt you can.
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  373. +Kalum Batsch You're the one claiming "Linux is GNU", when it's really not, and owes nothing to the GNU project. Linux used GNU tools because they existed, not because it was ever bound to them in some arcane way. What is gNewSense, something like 15% actual GNU software? Just more proof that GNU needs Linux far more than Linux needs GNU and their FSF fanatics.
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  374. Kalum Batsch LOL, give me an example of a GNU OS with no Linux code.
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  375. Kalum Batsch Who are you again? Oh, I remember. GNU/Hurd is not a thing, and never will be. It's not finished, nobody uses it, it's another irrelevant hobby OS.
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  376. Kalum Batsch We live in a world of moving goalposts, not that you're actually correct, or anything. When you or Stallman or anybody else actually figures out how to do anything useful with Hurd, get back to me...
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  377. Kalum Batsch Well, I suspect you could run the Hurd wiki on an old laptop with Windows XP, but that's kind of beside the point. Stallman doesn't use it. Perens doesn't use it. Guess it's not that useful...and there are lots of C compilers.
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  378.  @Krush206  You're trying to split hairs all tied into a knot. NextStep is based on the Mach kernel and BSD components itself.
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  379.  @Krush206  MacOS is a amalgamation of a lot of things, the most SIGNIFICANT of which are; the Mach kernel, FreeBSD kernel layers and userland, and the GUI layer adapted from Next...and I'm not ignoring a vast amount of development by Apple. Satisfied?
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  380.  @Krush206  Android is a fork that happened over a decade ago. It doesn't use any recent version of the Linux kernel, nor is it posix compliant.
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  381.  @Krush206  Thanks for making my point for me. GNU by itself, mostly irrelevant, while Linux prospers with or without it.
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  382.  @Krush206  "Originally developed by NeXT for the NeXTSTEP operating system, XNU was a hybrid kernel combining version 2.5 of the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from 4.3BSD and an Objective-C API for writing drivers called Driver Kit." SMH.
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  383.  @Krush206  1. What version is the Android kernel? 2. What current Linux distro uses this kernel?
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  384.  @Krush206  What are you smoking? My phone has Android 8.0, security patch Jan 1, 2019, kernel version 3.18.71, compiled Jan 17, 2019. SMH.
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  385.  @Krush206  What do you mean, no longer supported? By who? Why would a phone kernel be changed, risking breakage? I've seen Android 7 phones using the version 2.6 kernel. And as of Android 9, Google IS laying down the law on which kernel version must be used...it's not up to manufacturers.
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  386.  @Krush206  Motorola e5. Just got it not too long ago.
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  387.  @IHateYoutubeHandles615  I won't argue that point, but I tend to think that the innovations that appeared with Unix would have appeared regardless.
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  388. Quantum computing is on a par with Warp Drive, fantasy technology that no one knows how to implement. There is no large scale practical implementation.
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  389. So, in other words, you have nothing to say, much as I suspected. No warp drives, no quantum-computer-time-machines. Here I was all excited.
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  390. Uberphat You're the one talking out your ass. D-Wave does not make true quantum computers and they've been called on it. Ever hear of snake oil? There's an oily smell over at D-Wave and I don't think much will come of it. Maybe YOU should look up D-Wave and exactly what they make.
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  391. Nick Nowlin You don't show enough pride in what you're saying to even appear to be fluent and coherent in what is apparently your native language...why should anyone take you seriously?
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  392. Uberphat Perhaps you could be so kind as to describe this "ironclad" evidence. In fact, based on my research, there are serious doubts as to whether the D-Wave is a true quantum computer at all, since it doesn't have complete entanglement of the qubits...but I wonder how much of this is over your head anyway. "Quantum" has become a very over-used term that most people simply have no idea what it means. I don't believe the future of computing or computing technology lies in giant blunderbuss approaches. It lies in super-miniaturized, super simple but highly parallel systems running highly optimized software. Software is far more important than hardware, to the point where hardware may now be irrelevant. Anybody can build a computer, buy how many people can write an operating system? It remains to be seen if "quantum" computing will ever be meaningful outside of a very narrow subset of problems conducive to this approach. "D-Wave's architecture differs from traditional quantum computers (none of which exist in practice as of today) in that it has noisy, high error-rate qubits. It is unable to simulate a universal quantum computer and, in particular, cannot execute Shor's algorithm."
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  393. Uberphat They don't entangle all the qubits, therefore it is not a "true" quantum computer, plain and simple. If it was a true quantum system, it would have 2^128 states, (assuming 128 qubits). Since they entangle each qubit only six times, you get something like 128 x 2^6. Therefore a true quantum computer with 128 qubits has 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 possible states, where the D-Wave One has 8192, if my math is right. Quite a difference.
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  394. Uberphat I never said anything about math skills. I'm not surprised that Google and others would want to buy one of these computers. There's a lot of research to be done. You just need to understand what the context actually is, research, not commercial or consumer applications.
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  395. Nick Nowlin I wasn't the one who brought D-Wave up in the first place.
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  396. Nick Nowlin You spelled writing wrong.
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  397. Nick Nowlin I think I understand the concepts well enough, thank you.
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  398. historyskyz The cost of the oil would only be a small part of their expense.
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  399. ***** Actually, I'm not in the car repair business.
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  400. TheSmileyFacedPizza Thank you. Everybody has heard the expression: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is", but surprisingly few people seem willing to believe it. They really think they're going to drive into a business and get their oil and filter changed for $20, and that the shop is somehow making money on that. Well, either they're going to get upsold, or somebody else is, and that's the only way the $20 oil change can exist, plain and simple.
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  401. TheSmileyFacedPizza Well, it costs them around $10-11 for the materials, leaving them $9 in income. You do the math and see how much money they would make from that.
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  402. windumaster14 We don't need to bring other "economic models" into it. They are barely a factor in history. The majority of the world's population for the last century has lived under capitalism, or a near approximation of it.
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  403. Egg Bacon Right, but what are the amounts we are talking about here? If that 43% represents 1% of the actual money, you've made my point for me. It's why there should be a stiff inheritance tax, to prevent the formation and perpetuation of economic oligarchies that squeeze everybody out. Amazing how nobody gets that.
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  404. Egg Bacon How sad that they have to get their "wealth" as yo call it, from their dead relatives, rather than being able to earn it from the value of their work. Oh, wait, I forget, work has no value anymore.
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  405. Egg Bacon Capitalism is about making profits, not providing employment. If a company can make more money with less people working for cheaper wages, they will choose that option every time. What point are you trying to make? Why has real income in the US been declining for over 30 years? Because our economy is bad? Nonsense. It began it's slide with the Reagan tax cuts and has been continuing ever since. Why was it that up to the 70's a guy with an average job like a deliveryman, cab driver, or cook could own a home, raise a family, and send his kids to school, when that is manifestly impossible now. Nowadays we have families where everybody works and they still can't afford new cars or college tuition? I thought capitalism brought prosperity. The stock market is at record highs, taxes on the wealthy and corporations are at historically low levels, yet poverty is worse than ever, and the middle class is dying...what's wrong with this picture?
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  406. Egg Bacon YOU haven't destroyed anything. Your statistics are meaningless, Fox news bullshit. The CONSENSUS among virtually every economist and social commentator is that things got worse in the 80's, a lot worse. REAL poverty increased dramatically. Homelessness increased. Jobs disappeared. You live in a right-wing fantasy land. You're like the morons who tell someone who lived through the Holocaust that it never happened. Or the people that lived through the Depression that it wasn't so bad. You're an arrogant young fool with no grasp of subtlety, or apparently even basic mathematics. "Compensation increased". Sure it did. At the top. 999 people make $10,000 a year. One guy makes a million dollars a year. Their total income is $10,990,000 dollars. Now the millionaire makes 10 million dollars the next year, while everybody else still makes $10,000. Their average income just went from $10,990 to $19,990, yet they're all still poor and making exactly the same, except the millionaire. Typical Republican/Libertarian bookkeeping.
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  407. Egg Bacon Ooooh, more statistics out of context again. Republitarians love this shit. Let's not consider the fact that Obama inherited a near-depression from GW, that basically took almost his first term to turn around...not to mention two wars that drained $100 billion a month from the budget. All things considered, it's amazing how well he's done with so little to work with. But of course to you he's a bad guy because he's not as good at creating economic bubbles as some Republicans are. That's fine. Like I said, you'll learn your hard lessons later. I notice you had nothing at all to say about the other points I raised, maybe they hit a little too close to home.
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  408. Egg Bacon Yes, indeed,  illiterate enough to know that libertarians are irrelevant, since they've never elected anybody, their "policies" are opposed by a large majority of the public, and they have no consistent platform anyway. They're as pointless a political group as the Revolutionary Communist Party is, maybe less so, since they have no social agenda at all.
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  409. Egg Bacon I wonder where numbskulls like you get these ideas. Medicare and Medicaid have helped tens of millions. They don't "create poverty". Without Medicare my mother would have died many years before she finally did. She could not afford insurance, she was uninsurable. Better hope someday you're not uninsurable, superman.
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  410. Egg Bacon We won't even get into the scandals, the record number of administration appointees investigated or indicted, Iran-Contra, the Alzheimer's, etc.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2011/01/president_reagan_suffered_from.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lesley-stahls-book-weighs-in-on-reagan-alzheimers-controversy/
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  411. Egg Bacon Please. You people keep trying to rewrite history to make yourselves feel better, but it can't be done. History has already marked FDR as probably one of the top three or four presidents this country has ever had. This country probably would not have survived in any recognizable form without him, just as it would not have survived without Lincoln or Washington. Your slurs against Obama are driven by nothing but racist hatred. I've never heard anybody offer an legitimate criticisms of Obama that aren't tinged by racism or some odd cognizance of the fact he's a black man with ancestors from Africa. If Obama was a white guy from Virginia named Smith and had done exactly the same things and enacted exactly the same policies, nobody would be saying much of anything. Instead we hear how he's a communist/socialist/terrorist/illegal immigrant/traitor blah blah blah. It's really getting a little old and lame at this point, don't you think? Thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act, Obama will probably be ranked as one of our better presidents by future generations. I'm sure the millions of people who can actually have insurance for the first time in their lives will agree. So regardless of Reagan's senile incompetence and embarrassing cronies, you still think he's a "good guy". Well, being a "good guy" doesn't cut it. A lot of us don't remember him fondly. At all. I remember being forced to register for the draft, or risk having my student aid suspended...wonder what you "Libertarians" make of that? Oh wait, you don't believe in student aid. Oh wait, you GET student aid! Another hypocrite.
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  412. Egg Bacon I'm aware of Carter's action, by the way. Carter made a lot of dumb mistakes. He did it under "conservative" pressure, and Reagan was happy to keep it in place. More than happy.
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  413. Egg Bacon You're such an arrogant little shit in so many ways. If it hadn't been for the big, bad government you despise so much, you'd be pickin' cotton somewhere while a guy with a big stick watched. If it hadn't been for the stupid liberals you hate so much, you'd be shining shoes or carrying bags somewhere...permanently. You might THINK that's not the case, but you're delusional, like most people are. Change doesn't come by sitting around singing Kumbaya, it requires laws and people willing to pass those laws. You seem to think you can get people to come around to your way of thinking just because it's morally right. How many times has history proved that wrong? You can't legislate morality? Perhaps not, but you can legislate correct behavior by morally flawed people. You don't think people have a fundamental right to make a living wage? Explain how paying people too little to live on enhances their life or society at large? I'm well aware that the minimum wage is only actually earned by a small number of workers...but I'm also very aware that it is gauge that sets a lot of lower wages in general. Your claim that "burger flippers" only deserve minimum wage because "anybody can do it" is absurd and insulting. Perhaps anybody can do it, but would they want to, and can they do it well? I don't really like the idea that the guy making my burger probably hates his job, hates hamburgers, and probably hates me too. I used to work in the fast food business. I could tell you some stories about what people did that might make your skin crawl. Is that really what you want? A workforce that hates their work, doesn't care, and doesn't earn enough money to contribute to the economy anyway? Your argument seems to be that companies are forced to pay a prevailing wage to have a workforce. That may be true in the larger sense, but they aren't necessarily willing to pay higher wages if they don't have to. Costco pays much higher wages than Wal-Mart, but that hasn't forced Wal-Mart to raise it's wages. I worked for a fast food place in the 80's that only paid around minimum, they didn't care how long you'd been there or how good you were. They were ALWAYS short-staffed, sometimes by a factor of 50%, but that didn't make them raise wages, because the owner wouldn't allow it. If we had all demanded higher wages or staged a walkout, they would have fired everybody and closed the place till they could re-staff it. Supply and demand doesn't work when large companies have the economic power to do what they want. Wal-Mart has the economic power in a lot of areas now, since they've destroyed most of the competition, to do pretty much what they want. The smug defenders of big corporations given free rein to do what they want will not realize till it's much too late that they've shot themselves in their own feet. They never do. You can save your spiel about tax cuts, too. Tax cuts have never boosted the economy. Windfalls don't create jobs, or even spur investment. It's never worked. You know what tax cuts spur? Capital flight. Money flowing offshore into tax havens. You know what high taxes spur? Investment, and re-investment. Our stock market used to be an instrument for investors to invest. Now it's a gimmick for day traders and speculators to make a quick buck. Same with the futures markets. A few speculators working mainly with credit and not real money, get to determine our oil, gas, and food prices. How wonderful to see capitalism in action, making all that profit for people that produce exactly nothing. Ayn Rand would be so proud.
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  414. Egg Bacon Don't really know where to start with you, like everybody under 30 these days, you're just utterly clueless about the real world. You call me a racist? That's pretty funny, considering. I won't get into it, though. Think what you want, but the truth hurts. Without the government you abhor and revile, you'd still be a slave, simple fact. Slavery was a very profitable facet of capitalism, and would have remained so if other people for whom profit was not a motivator, who actually had morals, had not been willing to stand up to the capitalist oligarchy that perpetuated the slave phenomenon. But you don't get that. You think it's all just business. How sad. You seem to think people should just be able to do what they want. Discriminate? OK. Ban blacks and gays from their businesses? OK. Ban minorities, women, Muslims from their clubs and social organizations? OK. Apparently all fine ideas according to your libertarian viewpoint...but I wonder how you would really like living in a world like that? The trouble with libertarians in general, as I've said before, is that they're kind of like Maoist communists, or radical Christian fundamentalists, good at imagining some ideal world they would never really want to live in. You're showing your true colors when you use the term "homos", though, sounds like there's a little problem there. Apparently you haven't made the cognitive leap in discerning that discrimination is discrimination, no matter who it's leveled against. Apparently equal access isn't a term you've had to learn yet, or doesn't appear in whatever crap you read for you political perspective. If only you knew how pathetic it is to hear a black man use slurs against gays. You've made the faulty determination that freedom to choose somehow equates with freedom to deny, when the two are mutually exclusive and can never coexist. You can't have rights at the same time others have the right to deny those rights, it's an obvious oxymoron. It's interesting how you're so quick to pigeonhole me as this or that thing, when in fact you know nothing about me. I wish you'd stop that. Funny too how you insist on calling me economically illiterate in the same paragraphs that show you to be socially and historically illiterate. There's an irony in that. I stand by my statement that "low" taxes have little to do with economic prosperity. They don't. When taxes are high, the wealthy have a much greater incentive to invest their money. When taxes are low, they have a much greater incentive to extract capital from enterprises and shelter it elsewhere, as well as a greater incentive to make unwise acquisitions. This pattern is very clear in recent decades. You don't have to keep painting Reagan as the great tax-cutter, he raised taxes 11 times after his big "cut" in 1981, a cut that actually bumped a lot of lower income people into a higher bracket. My mother went from the 11% to the 14% bracket. I guess she wasn't one of the great "wealth creators". You should really call Reagan the Great Borrower, since it was he who set the pattern of running huge deficits and borrowing the difference, a pattern that later presidents have had a real hard time breaking out of, since they would have no choice but to raise taxes or drastically cut spending in ways that simply aren't feasible. You also aren't impressing anyone by equating the economic bubbles capitalism is so good at creating as somehow being related to this or that tax rate. What really gives the lie to you is that government tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been pretty steady in the last century, regardless of the existing tax rate. What is an embarrassment is that people who make their money from investments actually get to pay less than people who actually have to work for their money. Funny too that you mention the Koch brothers, two crooks who've been trying like crazy to buy control of Congress for years now. Maybe after the last election they've finally done it, and your libertarian capitalist utopia will finally be realized.
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  415. Egg Bacon You're kind of naive and misinformed. Not surprising, since you're an engineer and not a historian, obviously. The importation of slaves into the US did not stop because a law was passed. It continued for many years, aside from the fact there were already at least 10 million African slaves in the Americas to draw stock from. Second, you actually seem to believe that slavery in the United States was divorced from race. You really think that if slavery had not been abolished, that blacks would have been able to achieve civil rights? That's an amazingly unrealistic view. Slavery in the US was race-based, blacks were slaves and enslavable, whites were not. Asians and Natives were a gray area, but nobody really wanted them as slaves, they were not viewed as valuable workers. They certainly had no rights as citizens, however. The abolition of slavery was the first step towards elevating blacks to the level of citizens. While there were "free" blacks in the US during the slave era, they did NOT have civil rights, and generally did not enjoy either the freedoms of protections that whites would have. If you had emigrated here in the 1930's to a slave-holding nation (assuming you were even allowed to), you would have not done so as citizens, certainly. You're also ignoring the fact that black people could be seized as "runaways" during the slave era, whether they were free or not, with very little chance of recourse. If your family had arrived here to a slave-holding nation in 1930, they could have been grabbed off the dock and hauled away to a plantation, and nobody would bother to do anything about it. If you don't see that, you're laboring under some severe delusions. You're also wrong about slavery not being a capitalistic phenomenon. This is not surprising given your thus-far demonstrated defective knowledge of history. Slaves were property. They could be bought, sold, and invested in. They were a business, to generate a profit, they were an asset, to do work. There was nothing "feudal" about it. Feudal serfdom was not race-based, and was not chattel slavery. It was a system of enforced patronage to a noble class, with responsibilities that extended both ways. Your remarks about the Koch brothers are off the mark as well, they dump far more money into right wing political campaigns than ANYONE on the left by a large margin. I like how you guys always bring up George Soros, who first of all has never made a habit of contributing to individual political campaigns, and second of all, isn't 1/10 as rich as the Kochs are. The Kochs dumped as much as $40 million into the recent election cycle, trying to get their cronies elected.
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  416. Egg Bacon Your arguments don't wash. Capitalism is an economic system, not a means of government. Without government control it would simply do what is expedient, rights be damned. It already infects government far too much. We've already had corporations declared "persons", with rights. Absurd. We have corporations seizing people's property to build pipelines and oil facilities with government collusion. A few years ago an entire neighborhood was condemned and bulldozed to build a corporate headquarters not far from here, just because it's a big company and they wanted that location. Without control capitalism will overrun all "rights", without strong government to say otherwise, capitalists (like the Kochs) will simply do what they want. I don't know if your link about the Kochs is true, but it overlooks one small fact. Unions are collectives, working on behalf of their collective membership. The Kochs are just two super rich guys acting on their own behalf.
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  417. Egg Bacon No, that's not what I'm saying. Corporations, or at least some of them, would like to control the government. They haven't achieved that yet, but they have far too much influence.The government should protect the people, not the assets of the wealthy.
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  418. Egg Bacon Well, who owns what percentage of the wealth has a lot to do with how you define that wealth. I've seen it divided up a lot of ways. What's clear is that the money, assets, and capital is flowing uphill and has been for decades. Statistics can be served up many ways. The key term in the first part of what you said is income "groups"...which is....what? And what does "income" consist of? Wages from work, or capital returns? I have an income, but I get no wages, nor do I have investment returns, and my income hasn't increased since the 90's. Am I a statistical outlier? I know a lot of people like me. It's not all as cut and dried as you would like to think. You can chop up "groups" in such a way that there will always be mobility across them. The fact that "households" changed "quintiles" over a 10 year span does not negate my argument. What I said was, people born poor will most likely stay poor, and vice versa. I'm not talking about what income "group" they belong to. Since you're so fond of percentages, just what percentage of people living under the poverty line move into a wealthy bracket in a ten year span? I bet it's miniscule. Your bandying statistics almost sounds like a Republican commercial, it's certainly Republican-think, however you characterize it. The woman who made $7 an hour in 1996 working at McDonald's in 2005 makes $13 an hour as an assistant manager at Walgreens, wow, looks like she "made it", given that she's moved out of that bottom quintile. People like that really pump up those income mobility statistics, I bet. Oops, she's still poor? No she's not, she's in a higher income bracket. How can she be poor? It's almost like you don't live in the real world. I don't know a single person who's become wealthy in their life. Not one. Zero. I know a lot of people who THOUGHT they were going to be wealthy. I bet you think you're going to be wealthy too...certainly never POOR. Well, we'll see. I appreciate how you always remind me how "stupid" I am in all your posts. I appreciate that, when you get older, sometimes you forget these things.
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  419. Egg Bacon I don't think corporations control the government. (Not yet, anyway). I think they wield too much influence over government and the political system. Corporations are not people and should never be granted the "rights" that people are. You come across as a remarkably arrogant ass at times. You dismiss all anecdotal experience as irrelevant, because you've got some statistic that says something different (at least in your interpretation). I guess you're just part of this snotty new "millennial" generation that sneers at the experiences of their parents and those that lived before them. It does't surprise me that it's a generation simultaneously technically adept while being clueless historically. It doesn't surprise me that guys like you spout libertarian bullshit and cherry-picked statistics while plotting your future takeover of Apple from your job bagging groceries, it's the typical fantasy-delusion that substitutes for a commodity that used to be called practicality and common sense. It doesn't surprise me that some of you watch satellite TV while thinking you're clever by questioning whether the Earth is really round or not... You mock my experience and observations, even though they come from a scope of experience much larger than yours, simply because you read a book that says they can't be true. I say I don't know anybody who's ever become rich, and for that matter I can't even think of anyone who's become reasonably well off. How many people like that do you know? None, I bet. Becoming a rap star or pro basketball player doesn't count, those aren't careers, nor do they constitute a durable enterprise. Those kinds of things are flukes of popular culture, here today, gone tomorrow. Rather than mocking the anecdotes of your elders as being irrelevant, perhaps you should consider that they actually have some meaning, and tell a different side of the story that some statistics you found on some right-wing website.
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  420. Is it rational to believe in Santa Claus? How about Peter Pan? Easter Bunny?
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  421. Great way to start your "campaign", Donald, by insulting and pissing off the one group you don't have a prayer in hell's chance of winning an election in this country without, the Hispanics.
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  422. ***** Then by your logic all people who "don't believe" in things that have not been disproven or can't be disproven are irrational. If I think there is a giant purple dragon living in the atmosphere of Jupiter who eats diamonds the size of mountains and controls the solar system with graviton rays, then I could call you irrational for not believing the same thing on the basis that it has not been "disproven", just as your god has not been disproven. Absurd...like all logical attempts to defend religion.
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  423. ***** By making that claim, you essentially kowtow to those who do believe in a god or gods, by giving it any weight as a point of consideration. From a standpoint of rationality, there is no difference between a "God" and a Flying Spaghetti Monster, or any other imagined deity or supernatural being. None of them can be proven. None of them need by disproven. You only say God is different because of the cultural baggage that goes with him. There are many people who will gladly kill you for saying that God is not real. There are many more who will gladly persecute you, fire you, or just plain refuse to have anything to do with you for simply expressing your rational belief. Nobody is going to kill you for saying the Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't real. So that being the case, the real issue is how much you're willing to antagonize the religious by denying the reality of their deities...or bowing to their demands that they need to be disproven? How much are you willing to bend your rationality to accommodate the sensitive feelings and mythical beliefs of the faithful?
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  424. ***** False choice? You said it yourself, that "God" was a more legitimate belief than a flying spaghetti monster, so you've already made a choice between two absurdities, the one nobody seriously believes in, and the one billions believe in. Now you're asking for a negative proof, when none can exist, nor should one have to. Negative proofs are logical absurdities. One could invent a billion gods and demand negative proofs of all of them. If I claim something unproven does not exist, I am under no obligation to "prove" that, you must prove it does. The logical fallacy is your entire method of thinking, that everything must be "proven" absolutely, when there are an infinite number of postulations that never could be. This is the completely illogical refuge that theists, religionists, and all the irrational persons of the world hide in. They claim belief in something utterly unproven and unprovable, then mock the doubters for not believing in it, and not being able to disprove it.
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  425. ***** "There is a huge difference between someone believing in a god and a flying spaghetti monster, so the argument is based on a disingenuous false comparison." Your own words. Since there is a "huge difference", as you put it, I took it that you were implying the one had more validity than the other. Now you deny that. Be more clear next time.
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  426. Here's a hidden message for you. See if you can decipher it. FzUzCzKzYzOzUzDzUzMzBzAzSzSzEzSzWzHzOzBzEzLzIzEzVzEzTzHzIzSzSzTzUzPzIzDzSzHzIzT.
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  427. +Anonymous X No, fuckstick, are you? Do you actually know how an airplane works?
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  428. +Anonymous X There are no "chemtrails" in this video. Chemtrails as you conspiracy theorists describe them are technically impossible.
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  429. +Anonymous X Prove what you claim, or YOU get lost.
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  430. +Gerrit Boverhof Sure there is, and proof of aliens, proof of Bigfoot, proof that the moon is made of green cheese. Sure there is.
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  431. +Gerrit Boverhof Chemtrails don't exist. There is no such phenomenon. It is an internet meme.
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  432. +Gerrit Boverhof Geoengineering is a theory, not a practice. Nobody is spraying aerosols in a giant secret program. The only thing that exists is your paranoia. If something was real, you could prove it unconditionally, and you can't.
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  433. +Anonymous X You could convince me anytime, just prove it.
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  434. Gerrit Boverhof Like I said, if you could prove it, you would.
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  435. +Anonymous X Funny how you can't articulate any of your "prove"...nor can any of the other conspiracy theorist friends. You're like children watching things you don't understand.
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  436. +dutchdevil1970 Where is your proof? I asked before...all you have is videos presented out of context by crackpots who don't know one end of an aircraft from the other. No government is discussing chemtrails, because they don't exist. You might as well discuss ghosts and goblins.
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  437. dutchdevil1970 "Naief"? What the hell is that?
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  438. ***** Lack of education? Ignorance? As opposed to the typical conservitard who laps up Faux News like manna from heaven? Or are you a fan of the crypto-fascist neo-confederates like Pat Buchanan and Rand Paul who masquerade as "traditional conservatives" or "Libertarians"? Are you only considering accidental ignorance, or does wilful ignorance fit your definition as well?
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  439.  @jasonk8775  LMAO, and now you have a president who represents oligarchs, arrests his enemies, openly accepts bribes, and is best friends with Putin and Kim Jong Un. How the worm has turned.
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  440. Louis, god of BGA.
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  441. Neo-nazis are always both sad and funny. I've frankly never really understood the obsession of American white supremacists with the Nazi regime. The neo-confederate thing is not hard to understand, it's home-grown, but the Nazi thing has never really made sense. The crimes committed by the Nazi regime and it's open contempt for American values should make it anathema forever, and an object lesson in failure...or so one would think, yet fools like this seem to want to identify with it. I will say that his "uniform" is good for some laughs, it's too silly to be really offensive. He appears to be wearing a badly-fitting M44 Wehrmacht uniform (probably a reproduction, judging by the cheap look). I can't see his shoulderboards to see what rank he's claiming, but it appears to be an enlisted man's uniform of the type that would be worn by a private or noncom, but he's wearing the armband of a Nazi Gauleiter, which is absurd. Wehrmacht troops never wore swastika armbands, and for one to get caught wearing something only worn by a civilian leader of roughly the rank of governor would be hilarious, to say the least. He has the divisional emblem of "Der Fuhrer", an SS division, on the sleeve of his uniform, which is kind of silly, since it's an army uniform, not an SS one. He's also wearing an infantry assault badge, which I find offensive, since this clown was obviously never in the German army and has no right to wear a legitimate military award, even an obsolete one from an enemy army. His "Iron Cross" pendant looks like a cheap toy bought off eBay. If this is supposed to be a proud Aryan warrior, he needs to get his act together. He looks like a real eBay warrior in that phony getup.  He's about as convincing a Nazi as Funky Rat in the Bugaloos.
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  442. Yahtonio Cites?
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  443. Holden Robbins Cloud seeding is not "chemtrails", and seeding clouds with a few hundred pounds of chemical salts does not produce contrails a hundred miles long. Amazing how stupid you conspiracy theorists are, sometimes. Military "chaff" hasn't been used since WW2, and also did not produce "chemtrails". You can not "spray" coal ash from an aircraft. Contrails do persist. If they could not persist, then clouds themselves could not exist.
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  444. Holden Robbins Who do you know that does this? What equipment is used? Where would I buy it? You may as well claim it's pixie dust, for all the proof you loons have.
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  445. Holden Robbins Cloud seeding, when it''s done, is usually done from small propeller driven aircraft. It's not done from 747s flying at 40,000 fucking feet.
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  446. Holden Robbins Nobody is spraying chemicals or coal ash or Chanel No5 out of any jet airliners, black helicopters, flying saucers, or any other goddamn thing. If you believe they are, prove it.
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  447. Holden Robbins So your proof is a patent? Very funny. There are patents for perpetual motion machines. Do they exist? I rest my case.
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  448. Holden Robbins There is no burden of proof on me. You claim it's happening, prove it. I don't claim anything.
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  449. Holden Robbins There is no "evidence". I could care less what Russia and China "claim", or what you think they claim. Funny, you people never have any actual SOURCES for your claims.
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  450. Holden Robbins None of that is EVIDENCE. It's your faulty interpretation of trivia and hearsay. If you can't prove it in a court of law, it never happened. Where is your EMPIRICAL evidence? Where are your witnesses? You can't even show me an airplane. Absurd.
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  451. Holden Robbins When it comes to conspiracy theories, there are no "reasonable people". You hear a rustle in the bushes, to you that's proof of Bigfoot. You see a reflection in a mirror out of the corner of your eye, it must be a ghost. When you're predisposed to believe hoodoo, finding evidence is never a problem. It's pure confirmation bias.
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  452. Holden Robbins The FBI has never investigated "chemtrails", because no such phenomena exist. Ted Gundersen stopped working for the FBI in 1979, long before the internet and chemtrail meme appeared. He later became senile and delusional, unfortunately, and involved in all sorts of crazy ideas. I have no confirmation bias. I am skeptical of things that have no empirical proof and no plausibility. You haven't shown me a "chemtrail" plane. You haven't shown me anybody who's claimed to fly one. You haven't given a plausible explanation how such a program could even exist. I'm sure you think they have alien bodies at Area 51 too, but I doubt you have proof of it. My skepticism of conspiracy theories is based on the simple fact that none of them have ever been revealed to be "true". Ever.
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  453. Holden Robbins Yes, yes, I’ve seen your list before, it’s been thrust in my face more than once. Unfortunately, very little on that list would really qualify as a “conspiracy”. The first item, the supposedly poisoned alcohol, is not a conspiracy. It was a legitimate attempt to prevent people from drinking industrial alcohol, something that is still done today. The second item, the Tuskegee airmen, does not in my mind qualify as a “government conspiracy”...rather, a case of malicious or perhaps just indifferent neglect. I doubt more than a couple of people ever even knew about this at any one time. The third item, the SV40 incident, is also not a “conspiracy”, but there was probably a conspiracy to cover it up. I took those vaccines, I’m not dead yet. The fourth item, the Tonkin Gulf incident, is also not a conspiracy. The Maddox actually engaged North Vietnamese boats in combat. The second encounter was acknowledged at the time by the captain as probably having been an overreaction to misleading radar echoes. How the Johnson administration chose to present it to the public has nothing to do with the validity of the incident itself. The fifth item, Operation Northwoods, is just wrong. This “operation” was never approved, and was explicitly rejected by the officials of the time. There was never any plan to kill American citizens in a false flag attack. The sixth item, MK Ultra, is probably the closest thing to an actual conspiracy, but it’s really more of a poorly thought out and implemented study of a type which would certainly be illegal today, and highly unethical at best. There was probably a conspiracy to cover it up later, though. The seventh item, Project Azorian, was not a conspiracy. A covert operation to recover a sunken Soviet submarine’s nuclear weapons is hardly conspiratorial, given the times. It would actually be the responsible thing to do. The eighth item, Iran Contra, might be considered a conspiracy, though I think the participants would be more likely to characterize it as a covert operation aimed at recovering American hostages, though I’d concede it’s ethically questionable at best. The ninth item is not a conspiracy, either, just hearsay. These stories circulated at the time, but there was never any proof that they were true.
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  454. eloundainfo Those are called "flight patterns", nincompoop.
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  455. eloundainfo The flight patterns of normal commercial flights...
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  456. henry first Says someone who depends shamelessly on government infrastructure.
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  457. ***** Says someone who depends shamelessly on government infrastructure.
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  458. ***** That's right I do....
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  459. Joseph Ang Yeah, they're speculating and driving up everyone else's prices and crashing the economy every few years...the housing bubble, that was a good thing? How about their 700 billion dollar bailout?
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  460. henry first Nope.
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  461. Egg Bacon We've been in a race to the bottom ever since Reagan took office...not that you were around to notice.
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  462. henry first That's because like all Libertarians you live in an imaginary la-la land, and not the real world.
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  463. Egg Bacon There is no such thing as a free market, and never will be. Free markets automatically create monopolies, just like the game does. Without some government intervention, we'd end up with one big company controlling all commerce. With companies like Wal-Mart, we're getting close to that now, since they have the economic power to destroy their competition. I grew up in a small town with about ~30-40 small businesses on Main street. Know how many of those businesses are left now? Less than 10. All thanks to the "free market" and Wal-Mart. I'm guessing in another 20 years there will be maybe two gas stations and a convenience store or two. Goodbye America, the "Free Market" has arrived. The thing is, morons like you will never know what's gone because you never saw it in the first place.
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  464. Egg Bacon Ever heard the expression the jokes just write themselves? http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/252/857/a9d.gif http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/239/699/4e9.png http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/458/375/101.png http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/the-committee-to-reelect-barack-obama.jpg http://t.qkme.me/35uv35.jpg https://leftwingnutjob.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/ronpaul1.jpg http://ct.fra.bz/ol/fz/sw/i50/5/4/24/frabz-does-not-believe-global-warming-is-man-made-but-believes-911-was-464123.jpg
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  465. ***** I think you're the one with the...problem. Part of which is reading comprehension in context, and part of which is a failure to recognize reality.
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  466. Egg Bacon Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness for all......if you can afford it.
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  467. ***** Sounds like somebody failed at being a human being.
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  468. Egg Bacon Very revealing that you don't castigate him for calling for murder and suicide as a solution to what he sees as a problem....actually says a lot about the way both of you guys think. Completely self absorbed, completely in contempt of everyone else...except conservitarians like Ron Paul, or crypto-fascists like Pat Buchanan, whose asses you would both probably crawl up if you could fit your fat heads through their respective bungholes.
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  469. Tears of joy, perhaps?
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  470. +Stephen watts Wrong.
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  471. +Yager Bomb It depends what you consider an 'army'. China, like a lot of countries, has regional "army" units which are really just militias with a uniform, rifle, backpack, and minimal training. They are not mobile. China has around 850,000 fully-equipped, mobile, regionally positionable troops, if that. They are still only a regional power. The US can deploy hundreds of thousands of troops anywhere in the world in a matter of days. No other country has that capability. That's the difference.
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  472. Fuck this bastard up his tight dry ass.
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  473. There will always be people who love throwing their money away on boutique products.
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  474. Jim Gord Oops, I need to do a 400 mile round trip...will that battery last that long? Doubt it....I usually drive 200 miles a day...think that electric will work for me?
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  475. ***** I'd be willing to bet you that they emitted more pollution, toxic chemicals, and greenhouse gases making your electric gem than I will ever emit in the entire lifetime of my poor old fossil fuel clunker.
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  476. ***** My point is that simply repairing and preserving and older vehicle is both far more economical and far more environmentally friendly. Barring some radical new developments, electric vehicles will never supplant internal combustion, for the simple reason that when they run out of power, they're useless, you can no longer move. A gasoline/diesel powered vehicle has no such limitation. I've seen Teslas, and I'm not impressed. They could never compete against what most people consider a realistic price point, and they don't even try. Hybrids are the worst of both worlds, twice as complex, more expensive, ludicrously expensive to repair, and they still need gas. The real kicker is yet to come, though, the first time a hybrid or electric is involved in an accident with a battery explosion or fire, and somebody gets killed. The outcome of the lawsuits will determine the future of these cars as much as anything else.
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  477. ***** The water situation in the Southwest has little to do with climate change and a lot to do with 40 or 50 million people deciding to move there in the last 100 years. There is not enough water in that part of the country, period, and that situation is only going to get worse. Power monopolies in this country will not change. Business interests are far too entrenched in the political process and can pour unlimited funds into electing who they want, so good luck with that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_h5ld3skM
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  478. ***** I don't think electric cars will save humanity. The biggest threat to humanity is not GHG but the vast and increasing gap in wealth between the "developed" world and the rest of it, and the corresponding massive culture gap as well, something we see being played out in the middle east and Africa right now. How will your electric car fix that? It's the height of absurd arrogance to think that buying electric car parts and solar cells from people in one part of the world who hold us in contempt will be any more beneficial than buying oil from people in another part of the world who hold us in contempt for different reasons. I can only marvel at the brazen indifference of people who think they're saving the world by smugly driving some little imported toy while our workers line up for food stamps because our own car companies are bankrupt and downsizing, while our core industries fade away, and while our bridges fall down  and our roads crumble through utter neglect.
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  479. ***** LOL, you think there is no "computer" in an electric car...that's rich. It has a PCM of the same or greater complexity as any other car. I think you should call up Nissan and check some prices on these parts you think your car doesn't have.
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  480. Texas, land of the stupid and home of the lame.
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  481. Smedley Butler Jr. Maybe we should ask who is paying you to lie and discredit this country?
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  482. Smedley Butler Jr. I don't know if you're a liar or just a confused old man. Does it matter? You're wrong, comically wrong, and making a fool of yourself. 
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  483. Smedley Butler Jr. You're a legend in your own mind, I'm sure.
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  484. +dildosurfer1 How do you do research to debunk something that hasn't been shown to exist? That's what I'd like to know. Where are your chemtrail planes and pilots? Show me one.
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  485. +dildosurfer1 "Countless"? I don't know of any. There isn't a single reputable research organization that supports the idea of chemtrails. There isn't a single person involved with such a program who's ever come forward. Geoengineeringwatch was caught faking all their photos. It's all bunk.
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  486. Lookit Demskies Chemtrails don't exist, period. There is no such scientifically recognized phenomenon. You'd be better off chasing Bigfoot.
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  487. Lookit Demskies The subject here is chemtrails, which you can not prove exist, because they don't, fruitloop. Stay on topic.
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  488. Lookit Demskies No.
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  489. L. Ron Hubbard had contempt for humanity, Scientology is his joke on it.
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  490. Let's see you turn off the camera and microphone on your iPhone. Get back to me when you can do that. Then show me how you can customize the interface. That should keep you busy for a while.
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  491. You miss the point. Apple can watch you, take pictures from your phone, and listen to you any time they want....or anyone who hacks their software can...and you can't do a thing about it.
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  492. +dildosurfer1 "Untrue"? On what basis. The prevalence of aluminum in the Earth's makeup is well known and easily demonstrated. Your made-up science to support a made-up meme is not.
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  493. Ryan Tollmann Most admins know how to use the shift key.
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  494. Ryan Tollmann http://fas.org/terrorism/wmd/agents/anthrax-mcpr.htm
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  495. Jacob Baumfalk Absurdities. None of these men were "Christians". The Roman empire was brutal and ruled by oppression and mass murder. Constantine brutally repressed those who dissented from his views, as well as those who sought to be free from Roman rule. He murdered his wife and his own son. He was not a "kind" man. He pursued war and conquest till the end of his life. Please point out the part of the Bible where Christ says it's acceptable to kill anyone, or indicates that people should stage revolutions or fight wars. I don't think you can. "Christianity" is a hypocritical religion that has never tolerated competition. Wherever "Christians" have power, they abuse it. This is the reason that the founding fathers chose to have a state free from religion, they knew well the problems it would cause. We don't need religion in government, it's a recipe for disaster, disaster for anyone who is not a "Christian".
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  496. And just what are you "informed" about?
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  497. ***** Atheism was never "fashionable". That's ridiculous. Atheists don't bother anybody. Christians never leave anybody alone. They always have an agenda which involves somehow getting everybody else to be Christians, whether they want to or not...the Muslims too. When Madeleine Murray O'Hair succeeded in getting Bible readings in school stopped, she had to flee for her life from all the death threats from loving christians. Your numerous quotes from people don't prove anything to me, I don't care what anybody believes, regardless of how "smart" they are.
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  498. ***** Your argument is absurd. God is not provable. Period. Therefore a belief in a god or gods is irrational, at least in the sense you can't prove they are real. Atheism is simply the lack of belief in invisible imaginary gods...a perfectly rational position. Atheism doesn't need a proof. You don't prove a negative, it's a negative till proven a positive. "Fashion" doesn't enter into it. You walk around proclaiming your belief in god and Jesus and you get a pat on the back and are considered a fine person. You walk around claiming to be an atheist and you might get a brick thrown at you. I wonder why that is? Who's really "rational" here? Who's the bigot?
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  499. Jacob Baumfalk There is no basis to assume it was "created".
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  500. Jacob Baumfalk That's a philosophical view, not a scientific one. The present universe may be merely the result of a random event occurring at fundamental levels of existence we don't yet understand...a quantum fluctuation that inverted a space of subatomic size and massively high energy to one of increasing size and decreasing energy, or perhaps a cyclic event involving higher order dimensions intersecting and "releasing" the physical dimensions that seem to define the universe we live in. I don't need to believe in oversimplifications and mystical speculations to accept reality, nor do I need an "answer" to it all to sleep at night.
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  501. Wayne Ekeh Nonsense.
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  502. Wayne Ekeh Duh. You don't even grasp the concepts, so you invent a bogey man to explain it. Typical.
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  503. supercoolio120 Prove any of them exist. Pure fantasy delusion at it's finest here folks.
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  504. supercoolio120 Well, if it's so obvious, prove it. Sounds like someone's a little bit upset.
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  505. supercoolio120 Do you really believe I'm 10 years old? The only one here who SOUNDS like a frustrated 10 year old who's upset that someone doesn't believe in his magic sky-man is...YOU.
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  506. supercoolio120 I'm not upset, nor have I deleted anything. You're the kid who believes in magic tricks, not me. Nobody over 20 who hasn't failed English calls anybody "bro" in written communication.
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  507. supercoolio120 More than one god? So which one is the boss god? If one god is more powerful than the others, then they're not really gods, are they? If they're all equal, then once again they can't be gods, because god by definition is all-powerful...because if he's not, he's not God. And you call me stupid? How ironic.
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  508. supercoolio120 There you go, talking about evidence, but you can't explain what it is...typical "believer" nonsense. And of course, you completely missed the logical conundrum I mentioned before, it's apparently beyond you.
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  509. supercoolio120 I get it, there is a "heaping amount" of evidence...none of which you can think of at the moment. How compelling and life-changing it must be.
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  510. supercoolio120 I guess the great enlightenment will have to wait.
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  511. Puglous I really don't care what argument they make as long as they don't claim absolute knowledge.
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  512. Thomas Baldwin Someone sounds pissed off about something. Maybe your god isn't blessing you all that much.
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  513. paul dickinson There is plenty of evidence that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. There is none that it is substantially less. Atheism has nothing to do with it.
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  514. Puglous Absolute knowledge is never possible. Your definition of "faith" is obviously different.
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  515. Abc 123 Theists are usually very confused about their morals. I'm not.
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  516. Puglous Because I don't need absolute knowledge to explain anything about the world. Their whole philosophy is based on the idea you do.
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  517. The biggest danger to humans is and always will be...humans. We hunt for sport, wage war over politics, commit murder over religion, bigotry, or simply to indulge insane fantasies. Machines will never be as large a threat no matter how smart they are, because they will never be subject to the defect of the biological brain, namely psychosis...the paranoia, fear, and delusion that drive so much of human behavior.
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  518. What are you talking about? There are thousands of apps. Windows mobile works identically to the desktop version, they're functionally identical.
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  519. What does?
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  520. Nerds can't throw worth a shit.
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  521. Whenever I pick up anything Apple I get an almost irresistible urge to buy a latte and a pair of really tight jeans.
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  522. Sea Foam is just kerosene and some light solvent. You could use kerosene to do the same thing, or just make your own. 2 gallons kerosene + 1 quart mineral spirits + 1 quart naphtha + 1 quart ATF + 2 bottles HEAT fuel system drier, and you've got yourself 50 bucks worth of "Seafoam".
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  523. Rhees Carter The creation of the universe by a supernatural entity is a myth believed by those who lack the intellect to grasp the complexity and scope of the actual physical processes that gave rise to the universe as it currently exists. It is only the simple-minded and unimaginative that need to invent gods, ghosts, demons, and the like to explain the events that make up reality.
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  524. Rhees Carter That's just stupid. Your pretend god doesn't scare me. And who are you to know what "crimes" people have committed? "Religious" people are some of the worst offenders.
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  525. Rhees Carter I don't believe in an afterlife, so I guess I'm screwed out the door.
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  526. The endless scamming that originates out of India is a side effect of the caste system, which is still very much an influence on Indian society. If you are viewed by an Indian as an equal or superior, you will be generally treated with cautious respect. If you are viewed as an inferior, it is considered quite acceptable to exploit or cheat you any way possible. Foreigners, as in many societies, are viewed very much as prey to be exploited. There's also the perception that all Americans are rich, or relatively so, and don't mind being robbed of hundreds of dollars by scammers.
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  527. Gearhead1395 I haven't proposed an alternative. You read way too much into what's said. And if you seriously think there would be a world anything like what exists today without US involvement in WW1 and WW2, you're seriously deluded about history.
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  528. shlockofgod Something tells me that you've never been hungry, homeless, or out of work wondering where your next meal is coming from...probably explains why you defend those who would sell your wife and children for hamburger if it was legal and profitable.
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  529. shlockofgod Capitalism is not trade. Trade has existed since two cavemen swapped a club for a piece of flint, it has nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism is the generation of profit by the exploitation of labor and resources through the use of capital. Only the wealthy have capital. The poor provide the labor. The resources are bought, stolen, swindled, or conquered as necessary. Every square foot of land in the United States was stolen from the indigenous people who lived here before Europeans arrived with "capitalism". Labor was provided by slaves kidnapped from Africa or other places, or by poor people who were indentured and functionally enslaved, if not legally. Idiots who defend capitalism never seem to have any knowledge (or choose to ignore) the actual history that made the "achievements" of capitalism possible. 
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  530. shlockofgod So people who became rich by expropriating the property of others (under the thin excuse that it was not legally defined, communally held, or something of that nature) are really just good capitalists? How is the expropriation of the continental US by European settlers any different than the expropriation of eastern Europe by the Nazis, except that the Nazis were defeated and destroyed while the US prospered? The actual number of deaths involved was actually similar. Slavery is the opposite of capitalism? Slavery BUILT capitalism, unless it is your contention, for example, that the US was not in fact a capitalist country until after the abolition of slavery. Besides, like most capitalist apologists, you undoubtedly create painfully fine distinctions between traditional chattel slavery of the type in the antebellum South, and the de facto slavery that exists in much of the world today, under many regimes that style themselves under many political ideologies. It is all the same, the exploitation of people's labor to create wealth for an individual not doing the work. Call me an insane idealist, marxist, or what have you, I take the view that people forced to work (under conditions you never would) or face starvation in order to build products they can never afford to buy, are, in fact, exploited, and the people who profit by this activity, benign or not, are exploiters.
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  531. shlockofgod "These are all the actions of coercive states, not capitalism." Yes, coercive capitalist states. "No it didn't. If anything slavery held capitalism back (just like socialist slavery does). Because slave owners rejected capitalist principles in that area they created a situation were agriculture stagnated. Only when slavery is ended do the incentives for new and advanced solutions arise. When you have slaves there's not much reason to invest in creating combine harvesters." Go back and read your history. Are you contending that the slaveholding oligarchy of the old south was not capitalistic? Slaves were durable assets purchased with capital. There were, in the purest sense, a capital investment, much like an expensive factory machine might be to a factory owner. Claiming that the southern planters didn't follow "capitalist principles" is silly. Capitalism doesn't have any principles...except to produce a profit for investors. Capitalism will willingly destroy the environment, pauperize it's workers, lay them off, fire them, replace them, bankrupt itself, bankrupt it's competitors, suppress technology, corrupt government, and wipe out entire nations if it will create profit. If you don't believe that you are a naive fool. "Okay then, what were these people doing BEFORE the evil capitalist showed up? What were Chinese peasants doing BEFORE tech factories and coca-cola showed up? Were they doing something BETTER? If so then why the fuck did they go work for Coca-cola?  I do not presume to speak for these people or dare to tell them they are better of withOUT capitalism."  What they were doing before the capitalists showed up is being exploited, by the chieftains and warlords and emperors who held power and controlled wealth and production. They were exploited again later by capitalist colonialists and their fellow travelers, then again by Japanese imperialists, then by a ruthless Maoist regime, not so much for profit, but for political and military purposes, and now they're being exploited again by economic overlords favored by a cynical, corrupt "communist" party that is rapidly evolving into a fascist economic/political oligarchy concerned with nothing but wealth and power, so once again things have come full circle. Would they be better off without capitalism? I don't know. I do know what happens under unfettered capitalism with no control. Look at what's happening in Africa if you want some good examples.
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  532. shlockofgod They choose to go to work for a pittance in conditions you wouldn't consider rather than starve. What kind of choice is that? You keep talking about capitalist "principles". There are none. It's not socialists that are cutting down the rain forests, it's capitalists. It's not the pathetic tree-hugging liberals that are fomenting wars to control oil fields in the middle east, it's capitalists. It wasn't the communists who sold millions of people predatory mortgages, dumped the money offshore, then all declared bankruptcy, it was capitalists. It's not leftists that salt their money away in  Cayman Islands tax shelters like Romney and his ilk, it's capitalists. I believe in universal healthcare, universal education, and universal employment. If that means the 2% can't make as much money, I don't give a shit, I'm not one of them. Anybody who works for a living because they have to and defends the 2% needs to get their head examined. It's like the chickens voting for the fox.
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  533. You're the one who needs to read more history. All empires based on conquest fall, because they are always hated by the people they conquer. The "fall" of Rome was largely because of this...
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  534. Joseph Ang The top 20% pays exactly what they should. The top 2% usually don't pay anything, certainly not any real fair value based on what they have. The bottom 80%, who have maybe 3 or 4% of the country's wealth, what do you THINK they should pay? Warren Buffett's secretary has to pay more taxes as a percentage of her income than he does.
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  535. aseredy It's decided by a consensus in all civilized modern societies. The wealthy and well to do can afford to pay more, so they should. I frankly don't understand people who think it's fair to take 25% from someone who can barely make rent and take the same 25% from someone who has a billion dollars. It's absurd.
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  536. ***** It has nothing to do with "evening things out".
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  537. ***** "Evening out" doesn't mean everybody has to have exactly 49 dollars and 75 cents in their pocket. It means that the average person has a chance at a comfortable life with a reasonable measure of happiness, and that the people who have everything don't get to call ALL the shots.
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  538. Eric Johnson Right, they had it all figured out in the antebellum South and Dickensian England. No interference, just good 'ole business. Maybe that's the world you want to live in, not me.
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  539. ***** That must make it OK then.
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  540. AnthonyMazzarella Whatever. Try taking an English class.
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  541. AnthonyMazzarella I've heard it all before: the rich are rich because they're better and smarter and deserve to be rich, and by being rich, they give all the rest of us jobs. Bullshit, useless Ayn Rand-type bullshit.
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  542. AnthonyMazzarella Yes, I can. I don't like it. It's unjust. Economic oligarchies are no better than political oligarchies. Economic enslavement is no better than political enslavement. Capitalism needs to be controlled, or it will consume all resources available. Improvement of society, the advancement and betterment of civilization, the elevation of moral and ethical standards, the advancement of knowledge, are all thing accomplished through the social collective via a political system, not by an economic hierarchy.
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  543. Egg Bacon As I said before, you know nothing about me. The only history you know is the sanitized neo-con paid-for-by-the-Kochs reinvented libertarian fantasy history that get pushed out over right wing channels these days. The only economics you know, ditto. Delusion is easy when there are no negatives to compare to. It's very revealing that people like you use terms like "ignorant", "uninformed", "brainwashed", etc., whenever you encounter someone who actually thinks different than you do. It tells me your "education" isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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  544. Anthony Haller You're an idiot. Anarchy is not a political system, but the lack of one. It has no rules, no policies, and nothing to offer. You're the one who's deluded.
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  545. Egg Bacon Deluded right-wing bullshit, by and large. Every developed country in the world has a public education system and a social security system, these are the bedrocks of modern society...I guess that means all developed countries are fascist dictatorships? Right. You don't even know what fascism is. I suggest you look it up. Fascism is the Koch brothers buying seats in the senate with their billions of dollars. Fascism is big banks getting their investments backed by the government, and bailed out when they fail...the very same banks you want to manage our social security, apparently. That sounds like a great idea....let's turn our future over to the Bernie Madoffs and Lehman Brothers cliques to manage, I'M SURE THAT WILL WORK OUT WELL. Perhaps you really want to live in some libertarian paradise where everybody "pays their own way", no thanks, I prefer a society where collective resources are used to help the collective population. I suggest if you really hate it so much you find a "non-fascist" country to live in.
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  546. Egg Bacon Social Security has performed it's functions for over 70 years now without fail. It should not be criticized because Congress has abused it. The trust fund should never have been allowed to be borrowed against, plain and simple. The main point is that it works, without people having to do anything. Expecting everybody to manage "investments" is absurd. Half of this country can't manage their checkbooks. It would be a recipe for disaster and a huge windfall to the vultures in the "investment" business.
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  547. jeffiek Yup, handing your money to an "investment group" to dump into the stock market and pay 10% commissions is a MUCH better way to provide for the average person's retirement....not. Worked great for Bernie Madoff's customers.
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  548. jeffiek How sweet. You think you had an argument.
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  549. jeffiek Don't confuse mockery with imitation. I'm not flattering you. You're flattering yourself.
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  550. Kei Loerop Define "earned". The Mafia "earns" a lot of money. So do drug cartels. Al Capone "earned" millions. What is earning? Wages from work? Most of the really wealthy don't depend on that.
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  551. Marky Mark False analogies? So, then, are cigarette companies that earn billions valid? What about companies that sell pornography? What about gambling casinos? Do all these things create "Value"? They all earn money, certainly.
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  552. Marky Mark Bullshit. If people are willing to buy something, then it has value, regardless of what you think of it. Libertarians are such hypocrites. Heroin is a commodity that people are willing to buy, willing to steal for, willing to kill for. The fact that it's bad for you should be irrelevant in your Randian world. Cigarettes are addictive and do nothing but make you sick and kill you, but you defend them? Absurd.
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  553. Marky Mark I defend nothing. I point out your hypocrisy. Cigarettes don't add value. They kill and injure hundreds of thousands of people every year and rack up billions in healthcare costs....but YOU claim they "add value". Typical delusional libertarians who NEVER SEE CAUSE AND EFFECT.
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  554. Marky Mark Neither of them add "value". If they added value they would improve society in some way. They don't. Only a libertarian or typical delusional capitalist would claim they add value because somebody somewhere makes a profit off them.
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  555. Marky Mark I don't hate capitalism, and there are no socialist countries.
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  556. ***** Name a country where this works in practice. Just one.
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  557. Marky Mark Never happened. Almost everything got worse in this country during the Reagan era. The rich got richer, the poor got poorer, manufacturing tanked, companies moved offshore, criminals made more money that ever, deficits skyrocketed, infrastructure was neglected to the point where this country is falling apart, etc., etc. Don't tell me it didn't happen, I lived through it. You're living in delusional la-la land like most neocons do. Reagan was a lousy president who delegated way too much to his crooked cronies...who I think still hold the record for the largest number of investigations and indictments for criminal activity. The "Reagan legacy" is a joke.
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  558. ***** If it works, what are you complaining about? If you think there's too much government here I suggest you move to where they have one that does nothing at all...try Haiti or Liberia, you can do pretty much whatever you want there....which means they must be great places to live...right?
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  559. ***** Same difference when you're on the bottom of the heap, you get nothing.
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  560. ***** You seem to have missed the fact that most of the world is, in fact, on the bottom.
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  561. ***** Why not just keep everybody at the bottom fighting over basic necessities while an elite takes all the rest?
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  562. ***** Or, the maintenance of a lower class is the easiest way to maintain a pool of military recruits...it all depends on your viewpoint.
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  563. ***** Really? More trustworthy than Lynndie  England? Charles Graner? How about William Calley? I think you need a reality check.
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  564. ***** But they're all military people, aren't they automatically more trustworthy, according to you? Even though they're criminals?
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  565. ***** Anything.
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  566. ***** I think military service is irrelevant, it has nothing to do with how trustworthy someone is, you're the one that raised the issue.
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  567. ***** It's irrelevant in judging character. And you know nothing about me.
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  568. ***** Only you can decide that.
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  569. Puglous I was probably being conservative. In the world as a whole, the top 1% actually control about 98% of the world's wealth.
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  570. Joe Schmoe So let's not tax the rich, cancel all social programs, and everything will be hunky-dory, is that it? Funny, I've heard that before.
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  571. Joe Schmoe You're living in la-la land. First of all, it would take at least a 25% tax to maintain the current level of revenue. Second, I don't pay much of anything under the current system, why would I support one that makes me pay 12%?
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  572. EngineeringWizard11 I wasn't thinking of any of those people at all, actually. You do a good job of failing to refute anything I said, instead being an apologist for "the worst form of government on Earth" when in fact I'm not talking about forms of government at all. Capitalism is not a form of government, it's an economic system. The fact that you fail to realize that shows you've already failed history 101.
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  573. EngineeringWizard11 You've got your facts mixed up. Soros doesn't donate to political campaigns, and he doesn't have a fraction of the money of people like the Koch brothers who are willing to dump hundreds of millions of dollars directly into the pockets of Republican candidates.
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  574. EngineeringWizard11 How much do the Kochs donate?
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  575. EngineeringWizard11 Apparently you don't read the details. Soros has donated about $10 million over 15 years, very little of it to actual campaigns, most is to general funds not for a specific candidate. The Kochs and their group kicked in $86 million in anonymous donations in the 2012 cycle alone, and they openly pledged $60 million just to get rid of Obama. They dump huge amounts of money into the Tea Party as well. "An organization with ties to the Koch Brothers, Freedom Partners, gave grants worth a total of $236 million to conservative organizations, including Tea Party groups like the Tea Party Patriots and organizations which opposed The Affordable Care Act prior to the 2012 election. A majority of Freedom Partners board of directors is made up of long-time employees of the Koch brothers, and has been called "the Koch brothers' secret bank" for its function as a vehicle to provide large donations to external organizations that advance causes supported by the Kochs."
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  576. EngineeringWizard11 The hypocrisy is that the VAST majority of political contributions on the Democratic side come from small individual contributors. The majority on the Republican side come from large wealthy donors, by far. Why the fuck would an ordinary working person donate money to a guy like Romney? It's absurd on the face of it.
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  577. EngineeringWizard11 It takes a special kind of idiotic delusion to believe those myths. "Made it this far?" Really? Romney was born rich. He made much of his money destroying companies and throwing people like you out on their asses. If you do a little checking, you'll find the majority of the wealthy were born that way. The number of people who become truly wealthy starting with nothing is very small. The fact that you would donate money to a man caught with tens of millions of dollars tucked into tax havens shows that you completely lack the ability to understand economic reality...kind of sad, really, but not surprising. Worshiping the money god never goes out of style.
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  578. EngineeringWizard11 You keep trying. And I don't donate money to anybody. Bill Gates was from an upper middle class family. Zuckerberg came from a well-to-do family that could afford to send him to Harvard, but he was a prodigy that could probably have got a scholarship anywhere. Jobs was also middle class. None of these guys were "poor" in the sense that a lot of people I know are. They are not good examples because they're all highly intelligent prodigies that were able to catch the crest of a wave which probably won't be happening again any time soon. I'd love to hear you tell me how any of these men have anything in common with a man like Mitt Romney, or any prominent Republican, for that matter.
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  579. +bowser123ism Guess what, you can't even spell.
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  580. Glenn Beck: Living proof that middle aged white men make the biggest, best crybabies...
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  581. +Cody Red You're another nonsense-believing idiot.
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  582. Lucas products are a joke, complete waste of money...just thick oil.
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  583. Peter Kapica "Worked for you" how? What did it do? What's the magic ingredient, because testing has shown there isn't any, it's just thick oil.
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  584. I live in Minnesota...not her district. Everybody here has completely forgotten about her.
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  585. sebb sibb You must be reading a different Bible than the rest of us.
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  586. Mastermindvideos I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
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  587. ***** The intent is to manipulate and bully a political neophyte (Trump). Trump has zero political experience, zero foreign policy experience, zero experience as a public servant, and just going by his own rhetoric, a fairly dim understanding of any of these things. Trump will be a blank slate they can work to best advantage. They'll play him like a fiddle and he'll probably never figure it out. Russia has only one foreign policy goal regarding the US: to disrupt our economy, weaken our political system, screw up our relationships with our allies, and anything that will weaken us or NATO...and that's exactly what they're doing.
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  588. Dave Philbeck You're deranged and delusional. You'd vote for Hitler if he was on the ballot. Typical no-mind Tea Party lamebrain.
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  589. Jon Amendall Guess you're just a moron.
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  590. Jon Amendall I got news for you, powderpuff, it's going to get worse, not better.
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  591. Dawn Wilkerson​ He won using a mathematical glitch in an archaic electoral system designed to keep and protect slave owners in power from a burgeoning urban industrial population. But that's okay. I sincerely hope, after hearing from people like you, that he completely trashes this country, breaks every social system that you depend on, plunges us into a depression, and starts world war three at the same time. Then you'll have the world that you seem to want. However, I think it's more likely that the Republican party will simply find a way to get rid of him, and put their boy pension power instead. Whether it's done by impeachment, or by getting him to resign, the result will be the same.
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  592. Dawn Wilkerson Real change only comes from catharsis. It took a war and hundreds of thousands killed to get rid of slavery. It took a world war to break the power of fascist dictators and world empires. It took a massive depression to create real social programs that give people a measure of security. I don't know what it'll take to get rid of the broken electoral system, but it will need to be seen to be a really bad failure for it to go. And as for the hate mongering, that only happens on the right...All those Trump supporters screaming at Mexicans, blacks, Jews, you name it. It's all what he unleashed, and I hope it comes back to haunt him.
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  593. Constitutional Crank Stop lying. Obama's SECOND inauguration had 200,000 more people than Trump's extravaganza of hate. And how about that speech? Sounds like something Hitler would have wrote. The "polls" said Hillary would win, and she did, in the popular vote, WHICH IS ALL THEY ARE INDICATORS FOR. The results were well within the margin of error. I'd suggest some classes in comparative statistics, as well, then you'd understand the statistical noise inherent in attempting to do a 4-way poll (which most of them were) when a significant number of respondents were not being truthful.
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  594. Constitutional Crank Well, actually the electoral college was supposed to be a stopgap against a lunatic or dictator being elected, but we see that didn't work, since the electors, far from being apolitical overseers, are just political hacks who do what they're told. I see the Trumpanzees have no problems defending absurdly undemocratic systems....as long as they work on their behalf. Is Trump going to have blacks be 3/5 of a person again? How about the Indians? Will they be stripped of their citizenship? It would have to be that way, since the US of the 19th century seems to be your ideal. FYI, your math is a little broken (Repub math always is, it seems), the two largest states are California and Texas, which together do not constitute a block that could outvote all the other states, or even part of them. Of course, what you nuts really fear is Texas swinging Democrat next time...which would kind of spell the end of your new Reich, wouldn't it? 37% approval rating. What a way to storm into office...LOL.
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  595. Brandon D. Cox Another lamebrain speaks. Donald Trump has lost more money than he's made. He's a lousy "businessman". Name me one person who's gotten rich with Donald Trump. You can't. Look up his Moody's credit rating. He couldn't get a loan to buy a used car. He's a bully, and always has been, a spoiled brat who has to have his way or he has a Twitter tantrum. He's the worst possible choice. And your ranting about the national debt shows how little you really know. That debt is a measure of investor confidence. People bought that debt. Nobody in their right mind would buy Trump's junk bonds today. Just ask the people who bought them back in the day....LOL. Great businessmen make profit. Donald Trump makes bankruptcies. Ask the people he's cheated out of their wages and pay. And where the fuck are his tax returns? Is he ashamed to show them?
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  596. Dawn Wilkerson Try making sense, lady.
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  597. ***** What "issues" are those? Trump acts like an ill-mannered boy and treats people like shit. Case closed.
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  598. ***** Debt is irrelevant to the discussion. Debt is a measure of investor confidence. Investors are CONFIDENT in US currency and bonds. The "facts" are simple. Unemployment is at historical lows. Unemployment is always low under Democrats, and high under Republicans. I wonder why that is? No Republican has ever reduced the national debt, and none ever will. Debt under Trump will skyrocket, you just watch.
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  599. Dawn Wilkerson I'm 54, space cadet, got any more dumb conspiracy theories you want to bring up?
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  600. ***** You're' an idiot. The drone attacks will continue at a higher pace with greater risks.
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  601. Trump told almost 500 lies during campaign: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/05/toronto_star_compiles_list_of_almost_500_trump_lies_during_campaign.html
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  602. ***** Not if it has anything to do with Trump.
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  603. ***** What are you, 8 years old?
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  604. ***** You're a delusional crackpot.
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  605. ***** Don't follow the news, much, do you?
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  606. ***** Then you'd know what an utter embarrassing incompetent fuckup Trump has been, and how he's done NOTHING at all in his first three weeks, other than pick fights with everybody.
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  607. ***** You're delusional. Name one "felon" that is off the street due to anything Trump did. Name one job he's created. Tell me how we're "safer".
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  608. Egerwer Better relations? You're joking. Russia is rebuilding it's empire. How many countries will you hand over to them? Trump is threatening a trade war with China. Relations with the rest of the world are as bad as ever. He's a clown, like his supporters, you all have one thing in common, you're clueless.
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  609. Egerwer You sound like the kind of guy that would sell his own children for the right price.
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  610. Egerwer Trump would sell you for a dollar, that's for sure.
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  611. KoBe Versus That doesn't even make sense...but then that's not unusual.
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  612. In other words, Obama did all the things Republicans seem to enjoy, except grope women and throw tantrums...funny, I wonder why they didn't like him?
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  613. Scott Levitz Contrails.
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  614. Funk Obama As usual, you've got nothing. Show me one jet engine designer or engineer, who actually works on these engines who says they don't produce contrails. You can't do it, and that makes you a LIAR.
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  615. Funk Obama What page of what book? When will YOU get a clue?
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  616. Funk Obama Stop lying. If you don't have a recording of him saying it, it didn't happen. As for being humorous, how would you know? You're the guy who never gets a joke, and most of what somebody as smart as David Rockefeller says would go way over your pointy head anyway, that much is clear.
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  617. Funk Obama Nothing is up. How many joints did you smoke before you started seeing little green men and secret messages on dollar bills?
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  618. Funk Obama You wouldn't know Latin from a crossword puzzle you idiot. Tells us about the guillotines now, that sounds interesting. Tell us how your "illuminati" are going to chop all our heads off, you delusional, insane jackass.
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  619. Funk Obama Because they are delusional idiots. Your "guillotines" exist only in your imagination, just like your stacks of "coffins" you were blathering about before.
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  620. Funk Obama There are no "guillotines", just like there are no stacks of coffins, just like there is no Bigfoot, no aliens at Roswell, no man on the on the "grassy knoll", no bomb in the Hindenberg, etc., etc., etc....all in your imaginations.
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  621. Funk Obama Tell me where they are so I can go see them for myself.
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  622. Funk Obama There's a contradiction in terms here. You say it's a "black op", top secret, and that nobody knows about it, but you also say anybody can see it on Google? Which is it?
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  623. Funk Obama Says the jet engine expert....the idiot that believes in orgone energy and reptilian aliens.
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  624. Funk Obama Got any pictures or video of these "demons"?
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  625. Funk Obama You don't know, alright. At least you got that part correct. ¿Comprendes?
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  626. Funk Obama You'd be more funny if you weren't so pathetic. Oh, wait, I forget you have that 150 IQ.
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  627. Funk Obama If it helps you to think that. It's not improving your condition any, though.
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  628. +TheSeattlegreen Sorry, but they're all contrails, regardless of what you think they "expand" in to.
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  629. +Funk Obama Still smoking weed and not taking your paranoia meds? Not much has changed.
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  630. +TheSeattlegreen And may I ask just how the fuck you know what contrails are "supposed to do"? Which atmospheric expert told you that?
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  631. +Funk Obama The real thing I want to know, Funkie, is are you this crazy in real life, or is this just an act for the internet?
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  632. Funk Obama If you really think you're seeing chemtrails in Rochester, you have been toking up too much. The only "chemtrails" there are the smoke from your bong.
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  633. +Funk Obama Seen any today?
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  634. There's probably things Mr. Rossman and myself would likely not agree on, but one thing I will say without reservation is that he is probably the most relentlessly ethical and honest person you're likely to encounter in life, much less on YouTube. I've never met Linus or had any dealings with him, and he certainly seems like a nice enough guy, but I definitely get a vibe off him that I've gotten off any number of other "entrepreneurs" (for lack of a better term). He gives off a manipulative vibe, definitely. I think Steve Burke is a good guy too, but sometimes I get the sense he's getting overwhelmed with his own success and is ramping up the drama for the clicks. It's OK, I'll still watch GN. Louis is always interesting...he thinks things out VERY thoroughly.
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  635.  @1992AC  One of the Armatas broke down during rehearsal. They did get it going eventually.
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  636.  @KrisHandsome  How do you "accidentally" turn on a hand brake? How does the crew not know where the handbrake is, or see the warning it's enabled? Makes me doubt that story. But then again, it's Russia.
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  637.  @KrisHandsome  Where are you getting this crazy story? The parade was rehearsed for weeks. Only elite crews would ever be allowed to operate something as new and expensive as an Armata, and you can bet he damn well knew where the brake was. It's a big lever on the right side of the drivers seat. I don't think he or any of the other crew members would not know how it works. It's also not possible to apply it while the drive gears are engaged, it's interlocked.
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  638.  @KrisHandsome  I've seen pictures of the inside of the Armata series, it's very similar to existing vehicles.
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  639. Unfortunately Mr. Tesla had a very misguided understanding of electromagnetic radiation and how it works. You can't transmit power through the air as a spherical broadcast, because it dissipates at a rate of the square of the distance for each doubling of the distance. This is why your iPhone charges while it's laying on the charger but not across the room. Even so, the charger is only 70-80% efficient, whereas wired chargers are 90-95% efficient.
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  640. Sorry, but this kind of test is completely meaningless. The bearing score test is irrelevant, because it doesn't reflect any real world operating conditions, and running engines without oil is equally meaningless. STP and Lucas are nothing but thick oil, although STP does at least put in a small amount of anti-friction additive. I fail to see the point of this exercise.
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  641. The actual case is somewhat more complicated than Louis makes it sound here. The discs were printed in China, for one thing, and there were 80,000 of them, and they were going to be sold for money....all red flags (no pun intended). While I mostly detest both Microsoft and Apple, and this guy should not be in jail, there is a lesson here...do not print large numbers of OS discs in China, then try to import and sell them...it will not end well. The guy also pled guilty.
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  642. Nazis are corrupt as hell...no surprises there.
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  643. I've watched Mitchell play Donkey Kong. He's good, just not world-champion good. These days he'd be a top-25 level player at best.
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  644.  @zeening  He thinks it's cool.
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  645. If you're putting cameras in your almost teenaged daughter's room, you may be a pedophile.
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  646. Musk can't build a working windshield wiper on a $100k car, but he's going to colonize Mars. FFS, I'm surprised they haven't hired the Shamwow guy, he at least has products that sort of work.
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  647. Imagine if those sad-ass pilgrims who just walked in around 1620 ran into some land mines. SMH.
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  648. The exact same thing goes on in the car lockout business too. Always have insurance to cover this thing, or you're at their mercy. I called a mobile locksmith to make me a spare key once (I was not locked out). Price listed was $79. A guys shows up in a beat up dirty car with no signage or anything, no uniform or ID badge, and worst of all, doesn't have the right key fob! Says he'll make me a "key that will work" for $300. I told him to get off the property after calling the service. They said they "contract" with various "providers" who can charge whatever they want. I said not in my world, BYE.
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  649. He'll just go work for some other shitass police department.
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  650. Just more proof that there's a lot of people working on cars who should not be working on cars.
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  651. At this point I'm starting to think that Russia and China are paying Musk under the table to sabotage the US lunar landing program. HLS is a pipe dream that's years behind schedule. They should have given the money to Blue Origin and Dynetics 5 years ago.
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  652. Being drunk while white.
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  653. You'd have nothing without the government.
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  654.  @bingus3582  Doesn't take the Russian trolls long to show up here. "Gaining value"...LOL, you mean the Russian ruble that's now worth a whopping 1.6 cents, as opposed to 1.4 cents last year? OMG, watch out.
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  655.  @bingus3582  Given that the average Russian makes about $300 a month, you claims are comical.
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  656. Google is desperately schmoozing both China and Trump. They want everybody to love them when everybody hates them.
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  657. I read that the newest MacBook Pros and iMacs cannot be repaired without access to software which Apple does not release to third parties. If you attempt to replace any mundane hardware without access to their configuration software, the computer will not reboot. It becomes bricked. I wonder what all the Apple Fanboys think about that.
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  658. Why was he wearing a dress?
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  659. Louis...you have to stop this. I can't take it anymore, the waves of grief and sadness that wash over me and provoke me to fits of hysterical crying over the pitiful fate of all these Apple customers who've spent more on their MacBook Pros than I've ever spent on a car...what will happen to them? Will they be forced to buy new laptops EVERY time they have a problem? Or forced to buy a...OMG....CHEAP SUBSTITUTE? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! My tears of sorrow for these poor, poor, Apple customers are flooding my floor, ruining my tile, and washing over my cheap Motorola phone (leaving it completely unaffected, by the way). If you persist with these heartbreaking tales of woe, I may be forced to take legal action to recover the costs of flooring water damage.
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  660.  @1MinuteMovies42  So I've seen. Mostly uncompetitively priced and specced, and not really aimed at a casual user. Laptops are irrelevant, anyway, because any hardcore Linux user can easily install and set up his own laptop, like I have done many times. There is no real serious option in phones, as far as a relatively high-performing modern phone with an accessible application ecosystem, and I don't expect to see one any time soon. You're stuck running buggy custom android roms, assuming you even have hardware that can load them.
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  661. I despise religion.
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  662. When in doubt, grind.
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  663. They already have automatic car washes.
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  664. Back the blue!😂
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  665.  @virtueofhate1778  At the height of the crisis they were jammed. People laying in hallways. It's pretty obvious that not only do you not work in a hospital, but you don't really understand how the healthcare system works... hospitals don't want and don't treat chronic cases. You go to a long term care center (nursing home).
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  666.  @saikanonojutsu  You can't treat seriously ill people in motels and field hospitals. The idea is absurd.
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  667.  @virtueofhate1778  The only misinformation is coming from Trumpsters, right wing demagogues, and conspiracy nuts.
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  668.  @virtueofhate1778  And you go on blaming DiBlasio for all your problems.
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  669. Did he make this movie on his phone?
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  670. @blue-vu1ek  There's no such option on my computer.
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  671. dustin britton When they're knocking and burning oil they need it.
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  672. robbie turnbull You're way off base. Lucas has never been shown to do anything beneficial, period. How can you abuse a product that does nothing? How do I know it does nothing? Because it's been independently analyzed, and there's nothing there but thick oil, not even a detergent. Why not just dump gear oil in your engine? Not only is it cheaper, it actually has real anti-wear additives as well. Why not pack your engine with axle grease... that'll really quiet those knocks down...LOL!
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  673. robbie turnbull Your "argument" is irrelevant, and has nothing to do with the topic. Nobody fills their engine full of Lucas. Nobody fills their engine full of cow shit, either. Nobody drains out their oil and drives around, unless they're insane, or really stupid. In any case, the test is meaningless, and proves nothing...get it?
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  674. Sandor Clegane Yeah, you dump a bottle in and your odometer resets to zero.
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  675. Aaron Cubitt You mean it gummed up the bearing so you didn't hear it as much. It was still a bad bearing.
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  676. You're full of shit. No Democrats have called for the overthrow of Congress or the election. Stupid Trumpster.
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  677.  @DanKop2  Hey dumbass, they're talking about PROTESTS against a real PROBLEM, not an insurrection against the Congress of the United States by people who wanted to KILL Pence and Pelosi. It's not the same thing, and it's not motivated by hate or racism. Jesus Christ, get a fucking clue and get out from behind your privilege.
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  678. I think you meant noble gas, not nobel gas.
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  679. The fix seems easy. You cut a small groove from the waist to the roller pivot on each side, uprate the flow and pressure on the oiling system, problem should be solved.
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  680. This is one of those guys, the more he talks, the deeper he digs himself in.
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  681. That car needs a new wiring harness.
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  682. The Armata is an embarrassing piece of junk. In any actual conflict it would be quickly dealt with by tanks like the Abrams, Leopard, and Challenger, which have better optics, better sights, better armor, and much better redundancy and situational awareness. More importantly, they actually exist in large numbers, while the Armata is a group of 8 prototypes that guard a garage in Moscow.
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  683. Another flight to oblivion. 0-3.
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  684. Florida Man car.
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  685.  @GoodToGoIndustries  Prove it. The internet is full of idiots who are "pretty sure" about one thing or another, but the only thing that's for sure is that they're full of shit.
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  686. Nothing has changed.
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  687. Unfortunately the war ended while Steiner was still searching for the correct ammunition.
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  688. Nobody involved with "black power" started a war that killed 60 million people.
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  689. He tried to start one a few days ago.
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  690. The only reason we're NOT in another war right now is because Iran held back after their 2nd in command was killed by a strike Trump approved, looking for some military stroke (he has none, he's a draft dodger, just like his whole family).
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  691. Mustangs are unibody vehicles, they don't have a "frame". Try learning about cars before posting videos about them.
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  692. This is what happens when people who don't know that much about rocket science build rockets. And from one mile up, you're not going to see the curve of the Earth, what you're going to see is a few seconds of the ground rushing up towards you at 200 miles an hour.
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  693. I'm constantly amazed that random guys from Missouri who worked on a farm and in a bar have so much insider knowledge about what's going on in the intelligence community, not to mention retrovirus technology.
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  694. Jeff Bezos needs to buy that and put up affordable housing for his horribly underpaid workers.
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  695. The Pinto, Vega, and Gremlin all had their gas tanks in exactly the same location, basically, and so did a lot of cars in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. I had a Datsun that put the gas tank behind the back seat, but the only thing protecting it was a piece of black cardboard. Safety wasn't something on people's minds back then.
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  696.  @jacyborreaux919  No, I've actually worked for incompetent dumbasses like you who can't make payroll, because you don't know how to run a business. You're not nearly as clever as you think you are, and not nearly as important to the economy. Maybe it's you he should be looking for another line of work.
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  697.  @SMSBJM1981  I bet that $11 an hour you earn really buys you a lot of fine things, too.
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  698.  @SMSBJM1981  Considering that you have so far been unable to write a complete, properly punctuated sentence with all the words spelled correctly, one might wonder about that claim.
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  699.  @SMSBJM1981  I could care less how much you make, cowboy. What I do find hilarious, I must admit, is the idea that a ten word sentence needs to be proofread.
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  700.  @SMSBJM1981  You took the bait every time, like I knew you would. Guys like you can't help it, you think you are way smarter than you really are, and you always have something to prove...
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  701.  @SMSBJM1981  If you didn't have anything to prove you wouldn't be here bragging about what you've "earned", and implying that others somehow don't do that. The fact that you, like others here, are obsessed with the idea that "lazy" people somehow get paid too much is pretty revealing as to how you think.
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  702.  @SMSBJM1981  I can tell you're going to learn some hard lessons later in life. But that's the way it always is. You may end up washing those cars yourself, so don't get too smug about your superiority.
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  703.  @SMSBJM1981  Sorry, don't really believe you. Your story is creative, but it doesn't add up. Even the first part sounds like BS. The average cost of a year of college is $10,000 dollars just for tuition. It's unlikely you'd save that much working at minimum wage, just not plausible, given that your take home pay working full time would be just barely more than that. I think you're the one with the ego problem here, and it's starting to make you look foolish, not me...after all, I'm not the one who's made any claims.
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  704.  @SMSBJM1981  Yes, we are. I knew you were foreigner, I was just waiting for you to drop a clue. You're not an American, so you're not qualified to speak about the American experience, which is significantly different than what the situation in Canada is. Also, talking about what happened 20 years ago is simply not relevant to the situation today. And to top it all off, you have the luxury of living with your parents. SMH.
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  705.  @SMSBJM1981  You are the very embodiment of entitled smugness. "Oh I did it, so anybody else should be able to do it too". "Never mind that you did it 20 years ago in a different country while living with your parents who paid all your expenses and served you supper every night as well. A year of college here costs a minimum $10-12,000 US dollars. Minimum wage is $7.65. Do the fucking math, Mr. Engineer.
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  706.  @SMSBJM1981  You're so entitled you don't even see the fallacy in your own logic. This whole thread has been about you, hasn't it, your amazing accomplishments? Nobody is entitled to anything? Really. You must be one of those Randian "libertarians" who thinks it's fashionable to mock anybody who's not completely "self-sufficient"...when most of them can't wipe their own asses without help. Pathetic.
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  707.  @SMSBJM1981  Who are you to determine what a "low skill" job is? What entitles you to decide what someone is worth? You must be some kind of genius. You're certainly inspirational, telling that story about you cleaned up the car wash and washed dishes to earn money for college...I'm sure nobody has ever tried something so novel before. We need to send you to places like West Virginia so you can lecture 50 year old laid off coal miners on how they need to get off their asses and reinvent themselves as IT consultants or app developers. We need to send a guy like you to Detroit to tell those old, lazy, laid off autoworkers to get busy washing dishes so they can afford the tuition for law school. Right on! Enough of this fuckin' slackin'.
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  708.  @SMSBJM1981  You finally got something right. You're definitely not a genius.
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  709.  @SMSBJM1981  Your logic is flawed again. Your ego imagines you are being attacked, when I am merely deriding your smug attitude and hilariously self-centered view of the world. You think this conversation is about you, when it is actually for anyone but you.
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  710.  @AlbredaWelde  Increasing the minimum wage tends to push up other wages as well. It has nothing to do with utopianism. The problem you just described shows how ass backwards this country is. You're complaining about unskilled workers getting too much pay, instead of skilled workers not getting enough. This is what I was talking about earlier... keeping workers at each other's throats over pennies, instead of recognizing their common interests.
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  711. She reeks of karenism and white privilege.
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  712.  @chillywilly5258  You admire criminals and murderers.
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  713. I'm keeping my Ryzen 5 1600.
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  714. There's a reason why you never see old Subarus, they're impossible to keep on the road.
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  715. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Where have I heard this before? I thought it was a Kindle book, but I must be mistaken, because it's not there. It must have gone down the memory hole.
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  716. He lies because nobody calls him on it, and it's always worked for him. Musk is a neo-fascist, and they all firmly adhere to the idea that if you keep repeating a lie long enough people will believe it. It's worked for him, so he has no reason to stop now.
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  717.  @CFFarm  You're a little mixed up. High school and college kids still have these jobs. Immigrants do jobs no American wants to do. You're going to pick vegetables 10 hours a day in the blazing sun for $10 an hour? I doubt it. Cut carcasses in a filthy slaughterhouse covered in blood and cow shit? Not likely. Scrub toilets somebody pissed or vomited all over? Equally unlikely. These are exactly the jobs "uneducated" immigrants do, and unless you're prepared to start doing them yourself, don't sound off about it. If immigrants were removed from the agricultural and dairy industries alone, those industries would collapse. Automation is no threat to any of those jobs. Automation is a threat to the people assembling cellphones in China for $1.50 an hour. Once the automated methods cost less than the labor, those people will likely be unemployed. Automation has already eliminated most of the jobs it's going to eliminate here. You're the exact kind of buffoon that shoots themselves in the foot, when you say things like "employers don't owe anybody a job". OK, fine, then shutup when they get rid of you. You have nothing to complain about.
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  718.  @billymcfadden9226  You're just pissed nobody will pay your dumb ass that much.
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  719. Keystone kops strike again.
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  720. I don't really miss that era. These people trying so hard to be cool and rebellious...did they think it was something new? And in the end managing mainly to look ignorant and repulsive...like the dumb fuck on the left with the yarmulke and swastika armband...moronic. For all their hype and calculated offensiveness, the Sex Pistols managed only one badly produced album before they imploded. Their legacy is more legend than substance. I'll give Lydon props, though, his later work with PiL was much better, at least before that imploded too.
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  721.  @diesirae8954  I think your analysis is flawed. Nobody is declaring war on Russia, and Russia knows nobody is declaring war on Russia. The only countries that brag about weapons (primarily to their own populations) are Russian and North Korea. This is just more of Putin puffing himself up as a tough guy. Russia has a history of developing advanced weaponry which they either don't take out of the prototype phase, or they don't build in any large numbers, such as the Su-57 "fifth genration" fighter, or the T-14 Armata tank. The Russian economy can't sustain the production of large numbers of expensive weapons, so they brag instead.
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  722.  @warthunderislife3355  So?
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  723. Note to self: don't volunteer to stand under nuclear explosion.
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  724. This guy is embarrassing.
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  725. "John Lieberman"? I think you mean Joe Lieberman, Senator from Connecticut 1989-2013.
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  726. 30mm is very effective against the back and sides of most tanks. ERA is useless against it.
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  727. Trump talks like a dumbass high school dropout, which is not surprising, since that's essentially what he is.
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  728. Learn to spell moron.
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  729. What a strange story.
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  730. So true. Without regulation, capitalism eats itself. And the only people it ever serves are the wealthy.
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  731. Yup, they're back. Back in their graves.
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  732. I think Terrence actually has a super power, the ability to drain your intelligence away gradually the longer you listen to him.
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  733. There's been a long-running delusion that technology solves all problems. When electric vehicles with real range and performance showed up a lot of people just assumed they would immediately supplant the existing status quo, conveniently forgetting that when cars first really showed up in relatively practical form in the 1890s it took over 50 years before they supplanted horses in all areas. When computers became ubiquitous everybody predicted we'd have a wireless society in a few years, and instead the opposite is true...computers just make it easier to generate vast amounts of paperwork cheaply, and we're more inundated in documents than ever before. The irony of EVs that charge from coal and gas-fired power plants, of Supercharger stations with diesel generators hidden out back, of lithium for batteries mined by huge diesel vehicles, delivered by huge diesel vehicles, and the cars themselves delivered by fossil fuel is not lost on me, though it seems to be lost on a lot of people.
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  734. Grumpy ol' Boot Vista worked fine. People were just pissed they couldn't run it on their 486's they ran Win 98 on.
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  735. +SilentDeathStrike Yes, Vista was so bad KDE copied it's look and feel...
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  736. Windows 10 works fine. Windows 7 will not be supported soon. SMH.
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  737. Small cheap cars like the VW Beetle and Model T were subjectively awful even compared to other contemporary vehicles...yet they sold in vast numbers, because they were inexpensive to buy and own. There will always be a market for such vehicles, regardless of the scorn heaped on by "enthusiasts".
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  738. @asdrubale bisanzio I am a random nobody, true, but I've been suspended from Twitter 3 times nonetheless. Twitter has rules about what you can and can't do. It's that simple. Once you understand the rules, as I now do, and avoid the pitfalls, there is no problem.
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  739.  @Fraggr92  You hit the nail on the head. It's a race to the bottom, and has been for 40 years now, and it centers on the workers, because the workers are the most expensive part of the equation. Nobody is going to open any factories in the US making any kind of low-priced consumer product they can get from offshore, not when it's going to cost them $50+ an hour for workers that cost less than $5 an hour in Mexico or less than $2 an hour in China or Vietnam...and workers in Mexico and China complain less and are willing to work more hours. Until people wake up and figure out that these companies couldn't give a tinker's damn about the working man in America, nothing is going to change. Until these companies are forced to invest in America instead of being allowed to simply stash the cash in some foreign bank, nothing is going to change.
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  740. When Apple strikes, they strike hard.
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  741. As long as you keep any really heavy people out of the store, you'll be fine.
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  742.  @vk2ig  It was just a loop of him stomping his foot.
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  743. I'm fairly certain if the Russians take over they'll allow the UK to retain it's king, so it won't be a total loss.
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  744. At least someone tried to get him.
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  745. There's actually two aspects of this saga that continue to intrigue me, and they're both completely different things. One, for the people that keep saying that Stefan should just apologize, they really don't get it. Stefan is determined to be "that guy". This is his 15 minutes and he's determined to ride that wave as long as he can. There's a million videos on YouTube about how to build PCs. If he had done a video where everything was done correctly and turned out great, nobody would remember it a year and a half later...but everybody is still talking about HIS video. But dumping all the blame on him really isn't fair...I place most of the blame for this fiasco on the Verge. These people must seriously have some of the most clueless content producers around. If they were going to do a video on building a PC, much less a "performance" PC, it would only make sense, since they don't have any expertise in this area, that they would utilize a partnership with someone who does. Instead, they grab poor Stefan, and shove him out there to do this without any vetting, without any oversight, without any apparent real knowledge of the topic, and let him take the heat. Who knows, maybe he was the one that sold them on the idea...but it speaks volumes about the incompetence of the producers at that company.
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  746.  @nonotorious1467  You're overlooking one thing. Twitter removes that stuff and bans the people that post it. Parler did nothing.
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  747.  @nonotorious1467  You don't grasp that the alternative is much worse. And honestly, I don't think you'd understand propaganda if you saw it. You seem tainted by it. The only reason Trump ever became president is propaganda. There's literally nothing positive about the man, everything is negative, everything is somebody else's fault, everything has to be about him or it's not important. He's never said or done a positive thing in his life, and what's sad is 74 million deluded dumbasses thought he was a better choice.
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  748.  @nonotorious1467  Colin Kaepernick never called for violence against anyone, and there are no such tweets. You can't point to a single one. This kind of shit is so typical of you right-wing loons. You live in an echo chamber of lies, and you repeat them till you believe them. You're a perfect example of everything wrong with social media and a perfect example of why it needs to be controlled.
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  749. You're an idiot if you think labor is the main factor in a restaurant. When I worked in the fast food business the company had a food/labor/coupon cost goal of 46-48%...which they met almost every night. 54% gross profit was the norm.
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  750.  @unclehousy-leotardo  Another clueless idiot. They're installing the kiosks because most locations are understaffed during rush periods, and the lines are out the door in some places. The kiosks are clunky and much slower to order from.
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  751.  @mandykarevicius9746  Bullshit.
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  752.  @clarky23  Why are you shopping at WalMart in the first place?
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  753.  @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739  If you actually had a clue about the fast food industry, you'd know they are typically understaffed, and never lay people off.
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  754.  @mandykarevicius9746  A Happy Meal is 3.99 plus tax here, don't know what planet you're on.
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  755.  @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739  It's obvious that not only do you not run such a business, but you never will. Wages are market driven.
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  756.  @unclehousy-leotardo  Part time jobs are the only job millions of people will ever have, for a variety of reasons. And pretty much every store I shop in doesn't have enough cashiers.
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  757.  @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739  So, you're saying that you'd pay your workers LESS than $7.65 an hour if you could? Just how many fucking people do you think you'd be able to hire? I'm curious just what "business" you'd get by with that in? Most fast food restaurants here are starting people at $12-13 dollars an hour. Convenience stores are offering $14 an hour or more.
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  758.  @unclehousy-leotardo  You lack experience and perspective. As a college graduate with a degree my first job paid $8.41 an hour. I could barely pay rent, buy food, or pay my student loans. When I was eventually laid off I moved into the service economy and actually made much more. It's a myth that merely having a degree guarantees big pay...though obviously not having one locks you out of many jobs. What you don't seem to grasp is that some people have to work around children, school, medical issues, and other situations that prevent them from being locked into an 8 to 5 career. Should they be penalized for that?
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  759.  @mandykarevicius9746  Same one. Just had breakfast at McDonald's. Happy meals are still $4.
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  760.  @unclehousy-leotardo  It's amazing how you self-righteous little crypto-fascists who've probably never kissed a girl (at least with permission) much less had a child or taken care of a sick family member still deign to tell everybody else how to live their lives. I suggest you take yourself to one of the incel forums on Gab, you'll find a friendlier reception there, I'm sure. You can talk about how much liberals suck and how great Ayn Rand is while you stroke each other's erect egos.
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  761.  @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739  What you're talking about really isn't the same thing, but I would say this, if you really can't afford to pay people to work for you, you shouldn't be starting a business. If you've got someone working for you in exchange for "experience" or tutoring, then that is really a different kind of relationship. In my experience bartering really doesn't work all that well, as one party always ends up feeling cheated. Back in the day, these bartering exchanges were touted as the wave of the future. I actually worked with a guy that belonged to one...for a short time. The problem was that none of the barters were really on an equal basis. Someone wants you to rebuild their car engine, and in return they'll give you yoga lessons. What? Labor is not that different. People who work for cheap for big companies are enabling the CEOs and stockholders to earn millions or billions. They're being exploited, plain and simple. I don't like seeing people exploited, even when it seems to be to my advantage. I think people should be paid fairly for their work, whether that work is intellectual, or physical, whether it's creative, or just sheer drudgery.
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  762.  @dostthouevenlogicbrethren1739  Well, I've really only run one, I haven't "ran" any. I suggest you run down to the library and pick up a book on elementary grammar.
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  763.  @unclehousy-leotardo  well, aren't you special? I'm Little curious though is there a mortgage on your house? There's none on mine, although I'm sure yours is much larger and fancier. Are there loans against those two cars? There's none on mine. Who really owns you? When you get divorced, which is statistically likely, what will you have left? Also, I don't work at Starbucks.
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  764.  @mandykarevicius9746  Minnesota, not that it should matter. I don't believe Happy Meals cost 2 or 3 times as much anywhere else in the country.
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  765.  @unclehousy-leotardo  That's another really stupid observation. Walmart pays the lowest wages in the industry and tells their employees to apply for Medicaid and Welfare. Just more proof that you're clueless, and not a particularly creative liar...a great success who spends his spare time arguing with losers on YouTube...LOL.
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  766.  @mandykarevicius9746  Go ask for your money back.
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  767. @Cuzeg Spiked No.
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  768. The Trumps are running Spectrum now?
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  769. These laws wouldn't exist if landlords weren't so greedy, abusive, and crooked. Laws don't just appear, they have a reason. A lot of these sad cases are just due to people being stupid and careless. These days it's absolutely trivial to set up security and cameras to monitor a property. If you have property worth millions of dollars and you don't take steps to protect it, well, that's kind of on you. That being said, pulling fuses on A/C units, pulling meters, shutting off gas, this stuff is also pretty trivial.
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  770. I encountered someone the other day still using Windows Millennium as their daily OS. Wrap your head around that.
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  771.  @mrivard81  No, it isn't.
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  772.  @Pocket-Calculator  It was intended to be a phase, necessitated by the violent reaction of the ruling classes. The fact that it never progressed beyond that phase in societies that had never known any real individual freedom doesn't necessarily indicate a fallacy in the underlying idea. The failings of men does not mean the failing of an idea.
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  773.  @Pocket-Calculator  Capitalism and human rights haven't been that compatible either.
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  774. I suppose Oreo cookies are out of the question then.
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  775. LOL Wait till those tariffs hit.
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  776. Why doesn't Defender treat it as a malware attack?
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  777. The Russians made it REALLY CLEAR they wanted Trump, he was their man. They even referred to him that way openly. Get a clue, dufus.
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  778. The conveyor belt would have no effect on the aircraft, because it doesn't traction with the ground to move, i.e. how fast it's wheels are turning or if they're turning at all has nothing to do with it, it's being moved by the thrust from the jet engines.
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  779. Forbes loves con men. Bankman-Fried, Trump, Holmes, Musk, Madoff, they’re all great until they’re not.
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  780. Russia lost 8000 men taking over Crimea with "almost no resistance". Stop repeating stupid myths.
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  781. I detect a hint of sarcasm in Louis's voice.
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  782. In other news, Trump spent the weekend golfing, tweeting, and pardoning criminals.
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  783. Yikes. Sad to see people still getting ripped off on web design.
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  784. Hackintoshes are still a thing? Who knew.
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  785. Repetitive data bursts are probably routine transmissions that repeat over and over because reception is uncertain. Submarines or covert operators are good candidates for this kind of thing.
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  786. I may be in the minority, but I think if you're going to have a 1300 horsepower car you better have 1400 horsepower of brakes on it. So many souped up cars driving around out there are insanely under-braked. I've seen idiots in T-buckets with 454 big blocks and single-master drum brakes on the axles. Insane.
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  787.  @Ciferz  Shut up, Elon.
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  788. When all the money flows to a king that's not hard to do.
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  789. Here's the deal, and yes, I delivered pizzas for years. You don't ever assume you're getting a tip, because not everybody tips. Surprisingly, a lot of people don't care if you're underpaid and struggling to get by, they want their change. It's just a reality...and while more affluent persons are more likely to tip, usually, that's not always the case. I delivered multi-hundred-dollar orders to people like major music acts and got nothing but a see-ya-later. I would never take money and book it out the door assuming I was being tipped....except for one thing here....they gave him two twenties and two fives. The bill is $43, so if they didn't want to tip him, why hand him an extra five? In this circumstance I might assume that I WAS being tipped, but I always did a move where I'd reach for change, so they'd have to say, "keep the change". That way there's no confusion. Working in the service industry, and delivering food, is where you really see the worst of people. I wish I could say it's where you see the best of people, but honestly, you don't.
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  790. What, no ads for fake lordships or cheap Chinese kitchen knives? Refreshing!
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  791. Lol, crime in the US is historically low, except for the insane Republican mass shooters who keep popping up.
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  792.  @deborahchesser7375  You can do both really well, actually, but not with a '70's Dodge Truck chassis, or any 70's technology.
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  793. As usual, Dave is 103.141592% correct. Sabine has shifted from talking about actual physics to "commentary". I wonder if she's got some "consultant" pushing her this way, or she really has nothing else to say at this point?
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  794. Unfortunately, while impressive as a programming exercise, ReactOS will never be a "product". It has languished as an alpha for ~15 years, lacking both direction and qualified programmers willing to work on it for free. The most it will ever develop into will be a sort of retro-Windows emulator. If you think you're going to replace your Windows 7 box with this in two years, I'd say you're hopelessly optimistic. Either migrate to Linux with the attendant headaches or learn to live with Windows 10.
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  795. I actually downloaded it and tried to install a few things to see if it had any viability as an alternative OS. Office 2007 froze during installation, locking the whole system up. I burned a CD of installers to try some different programs, it wouldn't even read the CD (it worked fine in Windows and Linux). In it's present state, ReactOS is useless.
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  796. I worked as a pizza delivery driver in the 80's, after being laid off from my day job. Ended up doing it for 5 years, full and then part time. I can tell you it is a miserable job. The amount of abuse and threats you get is amazing. And you can NEVER assume you're getting a tip, only about 1/3 to 1/2 the orders ever generated a tip, and we got paid nothing for the delivery. You'd be amazed how many people would hand you $18 on a $17.90 order and say "keep the change". Wage was minimum, $3.35 an hour to start. After 5 years I was making $5.00 an hour. Moments of note: I delivered a $150 dollar order to Madonna's tour crew. No tip. 38 Special tour bus (with the band sitting right there) No tip. Downtown Julie Brown's dance group, Julie Brown sitting right there. No tip. People are just clueless. We won't go into the many robberies and assaults we had to deal with, or people throwing stuff at your car, or vandalizing it. Most people who were hired quit within a week, sometimes after one day.
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  797. But he can play at 700 fps!
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  798. Adobe Photoshop 5.5 is 19 years old, FYI.
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  799.  @MeesterVegas  Ask yourself that question, with a slightly different emphasis.
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  800.  @user-gu5cs2wt9g  What's it like when you wake up alone in the dark and realize nobody cares?
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  801.  @user-gu5cs2wt9g  Couldn't tell you. My wife snores too loud.
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  802.  @TheRealFobican  Let's tell everybody how bad Windows is. I'm sure nobody will want to use it anymore.
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  803. I like this car.
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