Posts by Mooseman 1031 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2011
" someone's bound to play the race card and start accusations of it being a race-charged incident being covered up to look like a justifiable homicide."
Wow. It's incredible how terrified you seem to be of actual equality. What's next, some nice juicy misogyny to add a little extra on top?
Naive - what a good name you have! I havent seen so much garbage written out on a page in years. Well done. Unfortunately for you and your strange little world, nazi germany was not "socialist" for a start. In European countries we dont cower in terror of criminals - try looking up violent crime in the US and comparing it to any Western european country, you'll find that violent crime of all kinds is much higher in the US. Studies done in the USA confirm that the expectation of someone carrying a firearm leads to much higher levels of gun use in criminal acts.
To you, not being able to carry a gun (penis extension) is the mark of socialism (I'm laughing at the idea that you consider Democrats to be socialist but never mind) - in the civilised world we consider free healthcare, high standards of living, good education etc the mark of a social democracy. Socialism is not communism. Try reading a book or two.
"Taiwan had a contact tracing system in place before the COVID pandemic after their experience with SARS."
We have a contact tracing system here - it's run by the NHS and is used to trace contacts of people with infectious diseases, usually tropical ones. The omnishambolic one having cash hurled at it is under the auspices of SERCO.
"11 thumbs down at the time of this addendum, eh?, must try harder..."
Ypu seem proud of the fact that you are talking bollocks.
Yes, vaccines will "kill" a percentage of those who take it - an absolutely miniscule percentage but in purely mathematical terms its a percentage. The virus will also kill a percentage of those infected - around 2%, which in a population of about 65 million people, for example, would be around 1.3 million people.
Yes, humanity has survived similar and worse plagues in the past, and will no doubt do so again - I fail to see how this is in any way relevant. My grandparents survived the Spanish flu, millions of people did not, I'm quite willing to bet that had a vaccine been available they would have jumped at the chance.
You're happy to moan about the "superiority" of those commenting, and indeed some of the comments are a little crass, but yours are as bad or worse.
I work in school IT - when I first took on the role (it had been previously done by a part time volunteer) there was no password on the school network. Staff complained that files were going missing (this was the first hour I was there) and I found that all pupils had access to every part of the network, from reception ages (that's 4-5 years old) upwards. Things have improved somewhat!
I used to work for a laser display company. One of our outdoor gigs was to do advertising for a new nightclub, so we set up on the roof of a nearby building and did the show. Growing bored we fired some of our standard patterns over the nearby hill (20w laser) and then went home. Local newspapers later carried the story of some old boy who was cycling home from the pub only to be bathed in a mysterious green light and then saw a saucer shape flitting overhead (also in virulent green)....
"one of the engine manufacturers had a guy with a special stick pushing on the lathe so it would machine proper crankshafts."
That's why you could always spot a British motorbike parked up in a row of bikes - the Japanese ones sat there rather boringly while the British (world-beating probably) had a large puddle of oil underneath it.
I'm playing it on a fairly standard graphics card and it runs fine. Yes, there are few bugs, all of which have been solved for me by reloading the last save. No CTD yet!
I did think about the Voodoo boys section, and then smiled to myself when remembering Mr Pondsmith.
Loved the original RPG and the one thing this game has done that I bemoan is the lack of chances to play that game or similar with my friends.
I know 2 people who have died of covid in the last month. One was in his 80's, had diabetes and early signs of alzheimers. The other was my age, with no pre-existing conditions. I have never known anyone to die of influenza; most people who claim to have had flu simply have a heavy cold. No, it's not universally fatal, but to equate a disease that is much more infectious than flu, kills at least 50,000 peope in less that a year (compared to maybe 1500 from flu - and please don't quote me the Sun or "brexitfacts" figures) is daft.
"oh , wait no its only the old people, fuck them"
This is almost verbatim what I was told by an acquaintance who was whining about a second lockdown, the tier system, etc etc, all because he couldn't go and sit in the pub and rant about foreigners as usual. It seems selfishness has been allowed to become the new normal. Dunkirk? This lot would have said "sod 'em, they shouldnt have lost" and gone back to the pub.
"WHO officials were careful to say that the agency does not criticise countries who advise wearing masks. But at the same time, the agency was quick to stress that masks are commonly misused, and as a result, won't offer the intended protections.
For instance, wearing a mask can provide a false sense of security, say experts, leading some to become less vigilant in more important hygiene measures, such as hand washing. Additionally, removing a mask so it no longer covers your nose, or touching the outside of the mask can make it less effective."
This is from March. The WHO recommendation on mask wearing has been updated several times since. Saying "WHO say masks dont work" is like saying "smoking is healthy" and never letting updated information sink in to your head.
"Where did you get that figure from? I, and many others would not agree with that."
Just about any publication other than the aforementioned petro chemical company puff pieces will tell you the same. You don't believe in climate change? I have a lovely property by the sea to sell you...
"cientists on either side of global warming debate "
Ah. Well technically you are correct - 98% of scientists agree that man made climate change is real. The others work for petrochemical companies or for Trump. It's not actually a debate though.
You clearly have roughly zero idea of how "science" works. Any scientist who makes a claim without peer reviews and solid evidence to back it up is a charlatan. We have always had those, its not some modern phenomenon.
"it seems very fashionable to be lockdown and mask zealots this year."
Isn't it odd though, that countries where they actually had effective lockdowns and strict mask wearing are now living a pretty much normal life? Maybe they had fewer morons going "its a conspiracy" Masks don't work! Government control!" ?
South Korea - 35000 cases and 529 deaths
New Zealand - 2000 cases and 25 deaths
etc etc
Or, we could just carry on letting idiots wreck everyone else's life.
I've got an endless fund of similar stories; the user who swore her monitor had stopped working - she was a bright, sensible person, so I assumed she was correct and carried the massive CRT monitor up 4 flights of stairs and swapped out her old one. Nothing. "Did you unplug anything?" I asked. She denied having done anything, but I followed the tangled cables back under her desk and found that her monitor had been unplugged in favour of her phone charger.
Or the user who phoned IT support after a power cut to insist I fixed his PC. "Are the lights back on?" I asked. " what the **** has that got to do with it, rant rant do you know who I am...". Power was still off in his office, he was sitting in the dark using a torch ....
"ut what the calculation of armies fighting on the Eastern front ignores is factors like the circa 300,00 troops that the Germans kept in Norway (including quite a few mountain troops, equipped and trained to fight in freezing conditions, who would have been really quite useful to have on the eastern front), who where there from 1940, a year before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, right until the end of the war, because Hitler feared (not unreasonably) that Britain (et al) would liberate Norway and cut of an important (possibly critical) supply of iron ore (coming from Sweden)."
And the vast number of soldiers etc he kept in Denmark to offset any invasion from the North.
" The thing you really have to work out is how nice people are forced to do horrible things."
Or more accurately how normal people are convinced doing horrible things are necessary and that those they do them to don't matter. Nobody forced anyone to murder millions in WW2, nobody forced anyone in the IRA or UDF to murder people either.
"It has always been funny to me how Hitler was bad but churchill was good, at the start of the war Hitler was an idealist but Churchill was always a Cnut to anyone below him."
Oh please. Grow up you sad sack. Hitler was an "idealist"? Yes, if your ideals are mass murder, the oppression of millions of people and causing the deaths of millions more people. Idiot.
"But Dresden was hellish."
No more so than any one of a dozen cities bombed in the closing stages of the war. I assume you are still clinging to the fake death toll created by Goebbels, who simply took the official German figures for the raid (they were always good at record keeping) and multiplied it by 10.
By the way, there is a huge difference between a nationalist and a patriot.
"The examples shown are not at all credible to anyone using their brain"
Have you seen any of the raging and insane comments on social media ? The only flaw in these AI generated comments and diatribes is that they are not riddled with spelling and grammar errors, and have far too few exclamation marks.
"We won't follow your rules. So can we move on and talk about what we can agree on?"
That's the crux of the matter - we wont agree to adhere to the basic tenets of the EU and think we can somehow acquire all the benefits without actually either paying for any of them, or committing to keeping to the conditions that every other country in the EU ( and EEA) have agreed to. SO on one hand you have a group of adults saying that these are the basics of a negotiation, please stop running around with your fingers in your ears going "la la la", and on the other hand we have a bunch of delinquent toddlers demanding everything NOW.
Fisheries? Why is that even vaguely relevant? Les than 0.1% of our GDP, and we sold our fishing quotas to other EU countries years ago. Its been whipped up to some kind of nationally vital edifice by the likes of "give me the money" Farage and his brexit party wannabes, and our spineless government just agree.
"Indian is not a race, it is a country of origin, so it can't be racist."
Without getting into the whole "ooh that's racist" about your comment, saying "x isnt a race so it cant be racist" is the number one go-to excuse for, erm, racists. I'm not saying you are, just suggesting you're careful.
Funnily enough a lot of the thuggish behaviour was done by people pretending to be BLM protestors, like far right groups. Obviously they are fine people according to your president. A man, lets not forget, who mocked a disabled journalist on TV, so clearly he is of the highest moral calibre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lynching_victims_in_the_United_States
Lynching is not "just hanging" - it's mob violence, usually inflicted on someone from a minority without and actual "crime" other than being not white in the wrong place.
Being socially lambasted is not lynching either. The poor man is being called out for what he is, boo hoo. Unless a mob of people drag hi being a vehicle or string him up he isnt being lynched, sorry if that offends people who complain about language.
"People will always identify with one group more than others so "others" become the "enemy" at some level."
That's true for some people, certainly - I have never understood the utter tribalism of football supporters, or the conviction of people from one county in the north of England that they are better than people from another northern English county.
"Kids in kindergarten will often ostrasize and even attack any child who is markedly different to what they have been exposed to"
Really? I have never, ever come across an example of this behaviour without there being a parent influencing it. Young children are extraordinarily tolerant of others' physical differences, they don't seem to "see" the physical differences without it being pointed out to them by an adult (and I mean real physical differences, not a slightly different hair colour)
"Programmes like Blue Peter, Newsround" So you were a child in the 70s, and still claim to know all the science that was around. OK. What you are ignoring is that the science of global warming was in its infancy then, there were conflicting ideas, theories and concepts. You cite (sort of) various pieces of dodgy methodology (without actually giving citations other than "whoa, you missed that?") while ignoring the tsunami of evidence (other than the "science" funded by oil companies) that the world is indeed warming, glaciers are retreating, ice caps are becoming more fragile and thinner. Weather is becoming more extreme with the added heat in the atmosphere - in N Europe we had temperatures in the high 30s C (and above) where normal summer temps are around 25C, and this looks like a trend rather than a one-off.
You will probably come back with "oh but the Antarctic sea ice is bigger now" - it is in terms of area but it is far thinner. Climate change denial is akin to burying your head in the sand - the "science" disproving it is very much like the science that proved smoking was actually good for you in the 1950s
"Surely if your argument is right you don't need to lie?"
Funny. I get accused of lying when pointing out that your statement has holes you can drive a sizeable truck through. No doubt you will also say "You're lying" when I point out that Johnson did in fact unequivocally say the fictional £350 million would be spent on the NHS.
I have a couple of questions -
First. WTF is "dismal science"?
Secondly, who the hell do you think you are?
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