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morning [chat]
Well really it was more.
bob disagrees
unnecessary rage
bob: wtf is the point of this place?
but whatever
What kind of crazy moon land are you living in that it's morning?
Edit: More to the point, are you from the future or the past time traveler?
Okay I'm not claiming I was being nice to you, but you took the side of an absolutely batshit writer and I still don't know why.
Also, please see this which pretty much sums up the argument the writer of the article was trying to use.
I am from the future!
Night, [chat].
oh hey, maybe you could have just said that in the first place?
but no, of course not. not here.
after the retarded escalation of my argument with drez a few days I figured being more polite and calm would help matters but clearly it doesn't. you just can't a disagreeing viewpoint here without bringing the dogpile of rage.
If we shift from gas current tax revenue from gasoline sells will have to be found elsewhere.
And
Plugging into the wall doesn't make generation of energy perfect, awesome, and without impact on our environment.
Edit: My point being, I can see where evilbob is coming from, but I can see everyone else's point of view as well.
If you're going to play devil's advocate for a moronic viewpoint, you should be clear about what you're doing, or, yes, get ready for a dogpile.
If gas tax revenue falls the tax burden for road maintenance can be easily shifted. So easily that this doesn't constitute a "problem" by any definition. It's a non-issue.
As for the second, this is where the perfect solution fallacy comes in. No one advocating electric vehicles claimed they were carbon neutral, or somehow magically perfect. But they are better. They are less polluting. Attacking electric cars because they aren't perfect as a means of defending gasoline burning engines which are worse environmentally is a completely illogical argument.
Expect to get ripped apart if that's your argument.
For instance, if (for some unforeseen, unfortunate reason) the extra strain on our electrical grid causes people to foolishly delve into, say, coal for most of our power generation. That would presumably be not good.
But rather than an argument against electric vehicles I see this as an argument for paying attention to how we produce energy, make sure that development money for electric cars is matched by development and research for windmills etc. Basically, we could have a coordination problem, so we ought to look out for it.
I mean, I agree with you. But these aren't "what a stupid moron" points, they are, " well yeah, we should solve that and it'd be super easy", points.
What did the Mac thread provide you with?
a teleport behind me into a nine-hit combo into an ultra special move is not how an opponent should fight on "easy."
hints and tips and programs I would have never found out about (like Scrivener, which is amazing).
I actually got a lot out of it, but I can see why some would feel that it was not a necessary thread.
I would if they had one, this is fucking ridiculous.
What're you playing?
The writer of the article didn't take this track at all. There's a reason the article inspired hate.
I suppose because the switch to Linux isn't necessarily as easy as a switch to a mac. Also, with the coding and stuff.
It's every geek's worst nightmare.
You're right. There was that other woman he took on a date in the Holodeck but that turned out sour as well.
Man, Geordi. I feel for you.
High noon.
Night! Aaaand a meeting.
Awesome.
@Elki: I don't know that there are any free sites that do what you want, short of illegal means, but I think you can buy individual episodes on iTunes.
Sex thread and a Mac thread. Our sacrafices to Mod God have been plentiful today.
it is great. lots of classics too.
Will the harvest be bountiful this season?