Fail Quotes

[Travis Retriever]

Even if he was an idiot for getting into that situation in the first place.

Maybe, but then, Martin didn't have a right to not be following for his loitering.  Nor did it justify Martin's violent attack on Zimmerman either.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Maybe, but then, Martin didn't have a right to not be following for his loitering.  Nor did it justify Martin's violent attack on Zimmerman either.

Well. this was a tragedy between two stupid people.
Zimmerman for getting into a situation he wasn't prepared for and Martin for thinking beating someone near to death was needed for being followed. 

[MrBogosity]

Well. this was a tragedy between two stupid people.
Zimmerman for getting into a situation he wasn't prepared for and Martin for thinking beating someone near to death was needed for being followed. 

Sorry, I don't really see much cause to blame Zimmerman. He WAS head of the Neighborhood Watch, and that IS what they're supposed to do. How was he supposed to predict that the guy would come after him and start pummeling him?

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html
Put here again because Wong put it "updated" on the front page.
#5:  Who told us that?  And what about the princess who was owed a perfect prince?  Why does that get a free pass?
#4:  And women are trained from birth to see men as working mules to support them and forgive their every fault.  Again, why does this get a free pass?
#3:  Considering the sexual standards are a two way street, but aren't treated as such by the whole of society, yeah.
#2:  Considering the institution of marriage today, yeah, we have, yeah.
#1:  Considering the bullshit with divorce laws and laws greatly favoring women over men, again, we have.

That's just from the titles of each item.  Way to use your position as Executive Editor of cracked.com to promote bullshit, Wong.

[AnCap Dave]

Just saw this on Facebook:

[MrBogosity]

Notice how they didn't put Obama's approval rating on that list...

[AnCap Dave]

Notice how they didn't put Obama's approval rating on that list...

Of course they wouldn't put that on there. As far as they're concerned that approval rating is because evil racist Republicans (which would be considered redundant according to them) used horrible brainwashing techniques to confuse the American people.

[tnu]

Conflating voluntary charity with forced, violent, coercive "redistribution"

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Sorry, I don't really see much cause to blame Zimmerman. He WAS head of the Neighborhood Watch, and that IS what they're supposed to do. How was he supposed to predict that the guy would come after him and start pummeling him?

Not blaming him. Just saying it was stupid to go by himself.
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[R.E.H.W.R.]

[MrBogosity]

And the post-WWII tax and spending cuts and the Bretton Woods system had absolutely nothing to do with it...

[Travis Retriever]

And the post-WWII tax and spending cuts and the Bretton Woods system had absolutely nothing to do with it...

IIRC, government was less than 1/5th of the size it is today.  Also, considering we've had nothing but more of their beloved progressive policies since, doesn't that mean THEY'RE the ones who failed?

[evensgrey]

From the comments on this recent video of Shane's:

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Comes this gem from CaseAgainstFaith1 we get this gem:

As far as caps, well, you do realize that if they had to be capable of giving you full speed 24x7, it would require more bandwidth than exists, right?  If they were to have to give you full speed 24x7, they would have to cap your max speed instead.

Second fail first:  ALL internet services are ALREADY speed capped, either by the nature of the connection hardware only having so much throughput (like any T# line, for example) or at some lower speed arbitrarily.

Bigger, first fail: There's more bandwidth available than anyone has any idea what to do with, left over from the tech bubble of the 90's. There were companies laying fiber to justify stock issues to pay for laying more fiber. (I even got my first tech job as a direct result of that fiber-laying binge when a side effect of one of those operations made my job at the time such a hell that working in an outsourced call center was preferable to keeping it.) On top of that, I happened to work (at that first tech job) with a guy who was on the team that developed the never-marketed OC-256 fiber hardware (the intended successor to the then-current top-of-the-line OC-192 fiber hardware). It wasn't put on the market because the company realized that there was no market at the time for a device that squeezed one third more capacity out of existing fibers when 90%+ fibers in existence were dark. (Since then, the far more capacious OC-768 hardware has come online, but that didn't happen until years after the tech crash. It still doesn't affect the huge amount of dark fiber in existence in most places, it just means it's cheaper to install one OC-768 link than the four OC-192 links it can replace.)

[MrBogosity]

Not to mention that caps are completely the wrong remedy, since bandwidth crunches are a moment-by-moment thing and don't have anything at all to do with what's happened the previous month. (And notice that they don't actually cut you off anyway, just charge you more money and possibly slow you down even more.)

No, this is something the internet was already built to handle. It's a non-issue, and caps have nothing to do with it.

[dallen68]

Plus, I would imagine the speed at any particular moment would be limited to the fastest speed of the slowest modem involved in any specific interchange. For example, if the company hosting the information you want has a 256k modem, your 30g connection isn't going to make it any faster than 256k.