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Judged: 2 2 2 Just popping back in for a minute.. U have made my day Blue,,, Thanks., that was so kind.. My grandfather used to call me that when I was little , it brought back great memories today.... When I was younger and we would work in the garden , he would yell, get the maters, honeydew, it was so funny seeing how we never raised honeydew, only watermelons, but that was what he called me at times...:) You have made this unspoken heart of this country girls day...Have a great one.. May yours not be blue at all... |
Judged: 1 I left early morning yesterday and didn't get home until late last night. Too tired to even turn the laptop on. Don't look like I missed anything. Seems like a couple other people were missing too.."Nope", Hempburn? I sure am enjoying waking up and hearing the birds in full melody...Sounds of Spring...ahhhhhh Sunshine is bright, melting the frost and the sky is a beautiful blue, no chemtrails yet. haha I hope everyone has a sunshiny day!:) |
Judged: 1 1 1 These snow horses will make you ashamed of your childhood snowmen We can't snowboard, we can't ski, we can't make a decent snowman or even a half-decent snow angel. But these crazy-talented snow sculptors somehow managed to carve out four hulking, realistic-looking stallions into a hillside in northeast China as part of a snow sculpture festival there at the end of December. This photo of their masterpiece from that event, which has started going viral online now, perfectly captures the magic of the artists creation. It's the largest horse sculpture in the world, and these artists did it all in plummeting temperatures while their toes and fingers were going numb. Color us impressed ... and ashamed of our sad lack of talent.[Source] http://now.msn.com/horse-snow-sculpture-photo... I would love to see all their sculptures. These horses are beautiful. |
Judged: 1 1 1 And for Nope, check these big eyes out, I would freak if I seen this in my grill. Owl flies into truck's grill, then perches inside http://entertainment.msn.com/videopreview/... How Birds Got Their UV Vision If optimists see the world through rose-colored lenses, some birds see it through ultraviolet ones. Avians have evolved ultraviolet vision quite a few times in history, a new study finds. Birds depend on their color vision for selecting mates, hunting or foraging for food, and spotting predators. Until recently, ultraviolet vision was thought to have arisen as a one-time development in birds. But a new DNA analysis of 40 bird species, reported Feb. 11 in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, shows the shift between violet (shorter wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum) and ultraviolet vision has occurred at least 14 times. "Birds see color in a different way from humans," study co-author Anders Ödeen, an animal ecologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, told LiveScience. Human eyes have three different color receptors, or cones, that are sensitive to light of different wavelengths and mix together to reveal all the colors we see. Birds, by contrast, have four cones, so "they see potentially more colors than humans do," Ödeen said. To read more: http://news.yahoo.com/birds-got-uv-vision-131... |
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Judged: 1 1 1 The ONE that rejected me and my sisters for years, from a hospital bed still brings us tears. He was never there now he requests we be there. If all goes as planned surgeons will remove one of his feet today. Years of self abuse and ignoring diabetes and 73 years old have him in pretty bad shape right now. Removing the heel from his foot a week ago has failed to bring a staph infection under control. My sister still worships him. Bless her heart. The onlyway I could force myself to go visit was see it all from the perspective that he is just a sick possibly dying old man that wants me there for support...how could I deny that, right? |
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Judged: 1 Those sculptures were beautiful. Too bad they will melt. Oh, well, beauty is ephemeral, isn't it. |
Judged: 1 My mother walked away from her children. I do agree one cannot so easily forgive or forget. I would say though since he is an old decrepit man show him compassion. No one should die alone. You'll then find closure knowing that you were the better man and not like him. You have walked a rough road it appears, just remember somebody somewhere else might have been down a similar one. Enjoy the sunshine. We sure a a bright sun here today. Many Blessings to you:) |
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Judged: 1 1 1 I think I understand your situation. I was that "ONE" long, long ago. I did not visit. I closed the door. But now I wonder if I should have made a different decision. We cannot control others, only ourselves. A simple act of forgiveness may have kept my conscience clear. Now there is no turning back time nor tide. My advice to you is to follow your heart. Love and Prayers from Lala |
Haha. I swear, I think that dump was deliberate. Did you see how the horse galloped right over to the tree and then so carefully change directions? ROFL. Bad day perhaps. Funny, I agree. |
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Judged: 1 1 But time and tide has made you such a better person;) I gather this from how you care for both hubby and that grandson. You are one terrific person;) It's amazing how much we grow from all of our experience in life. I know it gives me strength when I need it. I have always taken everybody at face value as kind, truthful individuals, never conniving or manipulating. Boy, I learned quickly how you can be chewed up and spat out. This has changed me for the better, but sometimes I over think people and dump them if I feel like I'm being controlled and treated unfairly. I have trouble dealing with their personalities. |
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Judged: 1 1 1 The best way for me to deal with people is to give them the benefit of the doubt, and to treat them compassionately. If there is a reason to be wary of a new acquaintance, the person will show their true colors relatively early in the relationship. If the person is not who they portend to be, then I let the relationship slip away, before they have had the opportunity to do harm. I prejudge no one. For example, I have one friendship that others find peculiar. This individual is "from the other side of the tracks," has been involved in unsavory relationships and events, and who appears on the surface to be "tough," even criminal in nature. Over the passage of time, this individual has shown me "another side" who he protects from most people from seeing. He has been helpful, loyal, truthful with me, so I see no reason to avoid him. I am not naieve, so I do keep my guard up somewhat, but this person has never shown me the side that most people see. The moral of my story is that I take each person as they relate to me, and don't let preconceived notions influence me. |
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Like all the houses in the Cape Yamu development in Phuket, Thailand, this home, known as Villa 7, was designed to resemble a large Thai-style pavilion—but not too much. 'If you go with a full Thai style, that means you have to do nearly everything in wood, which suffers a lot in this kind of weather,' said Jean-Paul Cuvelier, the home's owner.
The architect for the project was Jean-Michel Gathy, who is based in Malaysia. Philippe Starck handled the interiors. The house spans nearly 23,000 square feet and sits on more than an acre of land.
Cape Yamu is on the east coast, which is the less developed side of Phuket. The house faces the Andaman Sea. 'I bought the land in the beginning because it was a great view. We believe in the east coast of Phuket because the west coast is overbuilt,' said Mr. Cuvelier, who was one of the development's investors.
The three-story villa is decorated in a modern style, with the furniture purchased in nearby Chiang Mai and Bali, Indonesia.
Mr. Cuvelier is based in Hong Kong and primarily rents out the property for long-term stays.
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Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), announced today that it has become the first commercial vendor to meet the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 requirements specified by the Linux Foundation. The CGL 4.0 specification necessitates that the company registering its Linux software meet all of the 135 priority one mandatory requirements outlined by the specification. Wind River Platform for Network, Linux Edition 2.0 is the first Linux distribution for the network and telecommunication industries that adheres to the most recent CGL specification and is available immediately to Wind River customers for project development.
"Wind River is committed to the delivery of leading Carrier Grade solutions for our customers and is proud to be the first vendor to register our Linux as Carrier Grade," said Vincent Rerolle, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Linux product division, Wind River. "Leading Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) are developing projects now or have already deployed on Wind River Carrier Grade Linux. Our networking customers appreciate the benefits of a stable and mature Carrier Grade Linux solution enabling them to accelerate their project's time-to-market, reduce development costs and improve vendor interoperability."
One of the key reasons that TEMs use the CGL specification is it provides a consistent Linux platform with known functionality to meet the varying demands of networking applications. The specification defines approximately 250 individual requirements divided into seven key categories for equipment providers: availability, clustering, serviceability, performance, standards, hardware and security. Requirements in each category are then split into priority levels of mandatory, desired and roadmap. The CGL specification, which started in 2002, has undergone several updates, and is now the standard choice for ATCA-based network equipment. It is also designed to support all hardware capabilities to create a foundation for a complete Carrier-Grade solution.
"Wind River is truly demonstrating their leadership and commitment to advancing Carrier Grade Linux for the industry," said Jim Einarsson, Leader, Nortel Common Platforms. "We have standardized on Wind River's Carrier Grade Linux, which has provided excellent performance in our most demanding high-performance Carrier Grade deployments. We are confident that Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition will be a cornerstone of our platform strategy, providing the essential capabilities to deliver timely and competitive products."
"Carrier Grade Linux is an important category for the Linux community, not only for Networking but for other industries requiring carrier grade functionality," said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation. "By being the first Linux distribution to register as CGL 4.0 compliant, Wind River has taken seriously the importance of providing a Linux solution of this caliber."
The CGL specification also forms the basis for the Scope Alliance Linux Profile. The Linux Profile from Scope Alliance provides guidelines to standardization bodies such as the Linux Foundation and to Linux distributors such as Wind River to understand which of the features defined by the CGL 4.0 specification are of particular importance to the Network Equipment Providers (NEPs). Platform for Network Equipment meets the mandatory requirements of the Scope Alliance Linux Profile. "The Scope Alliance is very happy that registration of Carrier Grade Linux for CGL 4.0 compliant distributions is starting," said Paul Steinberg, Chairman of Scope Alliance. "This is an indicator of the importance and traction of the Scope Alliance Linux profile in defining solutions profiles for the telecom market."
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MELVILLE - On Jan. 19, the second shift was just getting started when the conveyor belts ground to a halt deep inside the Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County.
Foreman Mike Plumley called to the surface to find out what was wrong. The main belt was burning, he learned. The mine had to be evacuated.
"We got to get out of here," electrician Mike Shull remembers Plumley telling his crew. "There's a fire."
Shull, Plumley and the rest of the miners quickly piled into their mantrip, a motorized train that ferries underground workers. They started out of the mine in their "primary escapeway," a separate tunnel that should have been clear of smoke.
But, the miners soon hit a wall of smoke, according to previously confidential investigation documents obtained by the Sunday Gazette-Mail. They had to find another way out.
The miners stopped, and climbed out of their mantrip. They scrambled to don emergency breathing devices, and stumbled through the smoke to a nearby airlock door. They hoped to find fresh air in an adjacent tunnel.
Investigators have learned that it was somewhere during this tunnel transfer that two Aracoma miners - Donald Bragg and Ellery Hatfield - got lost, the documents show.
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Miner Billy Lee Mayhorn told investigators that at least one stopping near the tail-end of the mine's main conveyor belt had been removed sometime before the fire.
"I know that there was a stopping there for a fact, because I was on the crew that built it," Mayhorn said during a Feb. 10 interview at the Holiday Inn Express in Logan. "We were the ones that isolated that whole belt off, our crew did. So I know that it was put there, but between then and now, something happened to it."
Federal and state investigators are trying to sort out who among the Aracoma Mine's management knew about the missing stoppings, why the walls were taken out, and why no one did anything about it before the fatal fire, according to the sworn statements.
"We've got a whole stopping that's not there," Terry Farley, administrator of the state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training, said during an interview with one of the Aracoma miners. "So unless I'm wrong, we've got a whole bunch of smoke that's coming up ... and turning right through that area where that stopping used to be."
Investigators from the state mine safety office are close to completing and making public their report on the Aracoma fire. Davitt McAteer, a mine safety adviser to Gov. Joe Manchin, has said that he would release his own Aracoma report sometime later this month.
Late last month, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration settled a lawsuit in which it alleged Aracoma's parent company Massey Energy was stonewalling the federal government's Aracoma probe. David Dye, acting MSHA chief, said the company agreed to provide his investigators with the documents they requested. No fines were involved in the settlement.
At the same time, federal prosecutors in Charleston are continuing a criminal investigation of the fire, started at MSHA's request.
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At the Aracoma Mine, dozens of tunnels stretch for miles under the Logan County hills, east of Stollings in the shadow of Blair Mountain.
Most underground mines contain a series of long, parallel passages, called entries, intersected by smaller tunnels called crosscuts. Coal mine managers must carefully design and maintain such tunnels to avoid fires, explosions and other disasters.
Miners use cinder blocks and other construction materials to block off crosscuts from entries with walls called stoppings. In some tunnels, huge fans blow fresh air for miners to breathe and to sweep dangerous gases away. In others, conveyor belts haul coal to the surface. In still others, track is run for trains that carry miners in to work.
One tunnel must always be designated as the key escape route for miners. Under the law, it must be fully isolated from belt entries, to avoid having them fill with smoke if there's a fire.
It was one such "primary escapeway" that Plumley's crew tried to use to get out of the Aracoma Mine fire.
At first, the miners hit only light smoke. They put their shirts over their mouths and noses. It was probably a minor belt fire, the miners thought. They'd be back to work in a few hours.
"One of the guys actually made a joke - 'I've got a pen and paper if anybody wants to leave a note,'" recalled shuttle car operator Pat Kisner.
The joking didn't last long. The smoke thickened.
Steve Hensley, a continuous mining machine operator, was driving the mantrip during the escape.
"It got thick in a hurry, right up on us, you know," Hensley told investigators.
So, Hensley stopped the mantrip. The miners got off, and headed for the airlock doors. Once they were through, Plumley did a headcount and came up two men short. Several miners went back through the doors and yelled for Bragg and Hatfield, but they weren't there.
Aracoma miners couldn't figure out for sure what happened to Bragg and Hatfield. Maybe they got turned around while trying to don their self-contained self-rescuers in the thick smoke, some said. Maybe they thought they knew a better way out, others said.
One thing was certain, Kisner said: "If your primary escapeway wasn't blocked, we could have stayed on the mantrip and rode the mantrip all the way outside."


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Mike Booth: @somegreybloke I've been informed that wasps sting while flies do not. If you need advice on animals or rape, @Thunderf00t should be your go-to-guy.
PZ Myers: @pzmyers I'm quite enjoying watching @somegreybloke school @Thunderf00t
Ophelia Benson: @OpheliaBenson @pzmyers @somegreybloke @Thunderf00t QUITE enjoying? It's the most beautiful thing I've seen in awhile
thunderf00t: @thunderf00t @OpheliaBenson OPHIE! There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere about u not looking in the mirror often.
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Phil Mason responds in the usual way
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Wait a minute, I thought Phil was supposed to be the height of rationalism! The pinnacle of reasoned debate. The champion of the intellectuals. The defender of the enlightenment…
Ah that's sweet. I think Thunderfoot just called you beautiful. Unless I'm not understanding his joke.
Jason Dick
So, apparently he intended to claim that you're ugly, but accidentally made an implied "joke" about you being incredibly beautiful?
I am in awe.
Jenna Stewart
Sorry, I just…I have to…
Okay, now that that's out of my system…what the actual fuck is wrong with Thunderfoot? Did I just not notice this when he was spending way too much time 'debating' creationists? Has he actually changed?
Oh well, I guess it doesn't really matter.
Classy. To think I used to look up to this guy back when he talked about creationism. -_-
That's hilarious. A man argues rings around Mason, and the best he can do in response is insult a woman's looks. And he does that incompetently.
Way to go, Phil.
You might want to invest in some shin guards to preempt the non-consensual impromptu leg-gnawing. TFoot just can't control himself and wouldn't want to spoil whatever mood he's attempting to cultivate.
Al Dente
I used to think that, in D&D terms, Thunderthud had high intelligence but low wisdom. Now I see I was overestimating his intelligence.
#10 Al Dente: Your first sentence is one that I have encountered among DnDers. It is apt. The second sentence, I think, encapsulates everything about that (insert scatological orifice reference).
You know this post and your last one appear in the FTB Recent sidebar right after one another, so it now kinda reads "Phil Mason responds in the usual way, which from my seat is just so bloody stupid"….
Aratina Cage
Typical sexist harassment: no logic, all about cutting you down as a woman for daring to have a laugh at his failed reasoning and denialism.
Francisco Bacopa
I used to love the Thunderf00t channel four years ago. But what the fuck happened? I met Phil at the Texas Freethought Convention two years ago, when Hitchens made his last public appearance before he died at MD Anderson. We were all one big happy family back then. I unsubscribed long ago
WTF Phil? You made VenomfangX post that shit. You were the coolest.
But WTF? You gotta post the lamest rape apologist BS like you're smart for doing so? You didn't even come up with your own intelligent angle on it? You always used to be able to do that.
And questionable consent? I've been in situations like that and pretty much figured that she might be raped and that I might be a rapist. I've been in a few situations like that and while things might have worked out OK, I viewed the outcomes as very negative for both of us.
And if she's incoherently drunk, you've got a medical situation requiring first aid. Prop her up with her head to the side and let her sleep it off if you can' t sent her home with someone you trust. And if you think fucking someone that for gone counts, yeah it counts. It counts as rape
Good lord, but Phil is an arsebiscuit.
No wonder the MRAs love him – he makes fuck-all sense and the little sense he does make is reprehensible, selfish, narcissistic, entitled, smugnorant, patriarchal and patronising.
Also, he fought a lion once by pretending to be a wasp. True story.
I can't see the iamge.
Could you please add img alt text, or put the text from the image into the post?
#13. Exactly. In my college days I conveyed several young ladies back to their residences. I got a lot of crap for doing so, from larger, more handsome, more appreciable males. I got crap from the associates of the young ladies, until they heard from the caretakers of the young ladies (and the young ladies themselves, most of whom appreciated it; several did not acknowledge the effort). It can be difficult to extract people from bars when they are drunk and defenseless, while battling drunk jerks (frat boys) when outnumbered. Decent guys do it anyway.
The only possible answer is "I know you are, what am I?"
And then throw his shoes in the girl's toilets.
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk-
Well, he clearly states in video that the best thing about unraped women is that they are more beautiful. So, if you're not conventionally attractive as a woman, TF has no use for you. But that's not misogyny, that's helpful advice, why are you getting mad at him?
I don´t know why I´m still subscribed to thunderf00t´s channel – masochism I guess. He made some really great and informative videos in the past, the guy is actually talented. But his obsessive hatred of everything related to FTB and feminism turns him into a blathering moron on Youtube and into a vicious scumbag on Twitter.
Like others here, I too used to watch his YouTube videos with relish. He was one of the first decent commenters on religion/creationism that I ever discovered. Now he seems to be an embarrassment. Perhaps he believed too much of his own positive press and felt somewhat untouchable.
Ho and indeed hum… There are far better creationism dismantlers out there now by the way. For example, Potholer54, Phillhellenes… But I'm sure you are all aware of these people. And as far as I'm aware, they aren't misogynists…
I realize this isn't a comment on the content but…
When I first discovered atheism on youtube I naturally came across tfoot's creationism series. Before I knew who was what of anything, I tried to watch but could not stand to listen to him because he sounded like he was constantly nursing a giant oyster in the back of his throat and I just wanna scream at the screen "HOCK THAT LOOGIE ALREADY!" -
Kevin, 友好火猫 (Friendly Fire Cat)
Mike Booth: @somegreybloke
I've been informed that wasps sting while flies do not. If you need advice on animals or rape, @Thunderf00t should be your go-to-guy.PZ Myers: @pzmyers
I'm quite enjoying watching @somegreybloke school @Thunderf00tOphelia Benson: @OpheliaBenson
@pzmyers @somegreybloke @Thunderf00t QUITE enjoying? It's the most beautiful thing I've seen in awhilethunderf00t: @thunderf00t
@OpheliaBenson OPHIE! There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere about u not looking in the mirror often.So basically, Phil Mason is a rape apologist AND bad at insults.
A Hermit
MIke Booth is brilliant.
Thunderfart, on the other hand, has apparently converted to Islam as he has now embraced the whole "women should dress modestly 'cause men lose control and become rapists when they see a bare ankle" argument…
Online atheism is regressing to infancy at an alarming rate.
Narcissistic wounding seems to be rampant.
If it isn't the awful Phil Mason, it's the schoolyard meltdowns of Sara Mayhew. Meanwhile that daft atheistplus twitter block bot has apparently gone HAL, broadcasting denunciations of twitter accounts of people who have nothing to do with atheism or online harassment, and making snarky comments to boot. Then there's PZ, who when confronted with this latest Phil Mason travesty, chose to mock him as "Fubberf00t", "Dundert00t", and so on.
The online atheist community is pathetic.
A Hermit
Just noticed Taslima Nasreen had the same reaction I did…http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2013/10/03/video-and-tweets-of-a-rapeapologist-misogynist-atheist/
I felt I was listening to a Muslim fanatic, not an atheist or a humanist. Does thunder want women to wear burqas, in order to protect themselves from being raped? It seems so. He also wants women not to get drunk, because that may bring rapes. Women have to give up their freedom if they want to be saved from fellow humans!
A Hermit
Then there's PZ, who when confronted with this latest Phil Mason travesty, chose to mock him as "Fubberf00t", "Dundert00t", and so on.
Yes, PZ could do much better. I'm partial to "Thunderfart" or Thunderfool" myself.
Can we drop the "Thunderfart" thing. Leave the petulant name-calling to the slimepitters.
Ophelia Benson
Thanks Kevin @20 – I'll add that to the post.
Sorry for not doing it when I posted, I was rushing. My bad.
The online atheist community is pathetic.
Speak for yourself. MY online atheist community is chock full of fabulous!
And I don't get the problem with mocking Thunderwhatsit with silly names. "Thunderf00t" (with the zeros, not the Os, of course!) is patently ridiculous. I think Thomas Jefferson's advice–that the best response to the ridiculous is ridicule–applies here.
A Hermit
Can we drop the "Thunderfart" thing. Leave the petulant name-calling to the slimepitters.
I'm this case I see it more as an accurate description of the sound of the man's videos than petulant name calling…
Anthony K
Can we drop the "Thunderfart" thing. Leave the petulant name-calling to the slimepitters.
R Johnston
Al Dente @10:
I used to think that, in D&D terms, Thunderthud had high intelligence but low wisdom. Now I see I was overestimating his intelligence.
In D&D related terms Phil Mason is all threes and his only attack is a special attack of "be an annoying asshole" that causes each opponent in range to make a will saving throw or launch her most powerful flame attack at Phil, ignoring other opponents for a round and frying Phil to a crisp in the process. He is a variant on Noober:
Noober is the most irritating character in [Baldur's Gate].
You'll bump into him after crossing the bridge in Nashkel. He will then say something pointless to you every few seconds.
No one would judge you if you killed him or polymorphed him into a squirrel. You will lose no reputation if you choose to take drastic measures.
Should you decide to let him live, he'll eventually get bored and leave, granting you an easy 400 XP.
Spooky Tran
I am also confused. It sounds like Thunderfoot paid Ophelia a compliment.
Marcus Ranum
It might be mistaken for an argument? You know, like some slyme-pitters mistake photoshopping someone's head onto a goat's body for an argument? Calling someone "thunderfart" actually takes less skill and creativity than the photoshop approach, and it's about as effective.
Whatever value TF might have once had as a mocker of creationism (which I never saw, because my first and last exposure to him was his brief stint on FTB), he is now actively making the world a worse place with his rape apologist bullshit. What a pathetic excuse for a human being.
We have good quality locks on our house and we always lock up when we go out. Unfortunately someone we trusted (a former baby-sitter) knew just how to get in and where all the goodies were. I guess it was our own fault for looking like victims to the daughter of an old family friend.
Women aren't houses you forgot to lock or wallets you left on a park bench. Please stop comparing us with objects and things that need locks. Rape is NOT LIKE theft. It's a violent, very personal crime against an actual human being. These analogies are nauseating.
theoreticalgrrrl, point taken. I wasn't trying to extend the analogy, I thought I was highlighting its inadequacy and in-applicability.
Blondin, I understand. I think well-intention people try to highlight its inadequacy and end up giving those analogies more attention than they're worth. That and trying to prove a particular woman wasn't "asking for it." If I never read or hear that phrase again I'll die a happy person. I hate that we have to use the language of pro-rapists and their enablers at all. Some things shouldn't even be dignified with a response or rebuttal.
Aratina Cage
Arthur #25,
Meanwhile that daft atheistplus twitter block bot has apparently gone HAL, broadcasting denunciations of twitter accounts of people who have nothing to do with atheism or online harassment, and making snarky comments to boot.
You can contact me about it on Twitter: @aratina
But Thunderfart has nice synergy with naval gassing :/
If I've learned anything from the pit, it's the importance of aesthetics.
By the way hyperdeath can I have a photo of you and a home address? No reason., just curious!
theoreticalgrrrl said it. Women are not objects or property. If you want to analogize rape to some other crime, analogize it to torture. That's what rape is: mental and physical torture.
Or, you could analogize it to lynching, a violent hate crime targeted against a subset of the population to resist the advancement of the laws granting them opportunity by making it too dangerous for them to use public spaces without fear. Rape, like lynching, is an extralegal method of intimidation to enforce the old, unequal social order even after the law no longer does. So is sexual harassment.
Rape is a human rights violation.
It's not theft. It's not mugging. It's not burglary. Why? Because women aren't objects.
This is really hard for a lot of people to understand.
Think about that. There's widespread cultural resistance to the idea that women are dissimilar to objects, money, property, possessions. When you compare rape to theft, that is the subtext to your communication. Is that really what you want to communicate?
Tony! The Fucking Queer Shoop!
Awww, that is so precious, arthur @25 thinks PZ is under some obligation to respond to ThunderingF00l in some 'proper' fashion (which evidently does not include mockery). Newsflash: PZ has written several detailed critiques of Blunderf00t in the past. You can search for them easily.
hyperdeath @28:
Can we drop the "Thunderfart" thing. Leave the petulant name-calling to the slimepitters.
In most circumstances, I'd agree with you. Given the existence of a strong rebuttal to TF, and the laughably horrible arguments he's making… I'll let the name calling slide this time. Besides, who wants to live a life of online perfection, in the fear that some haters will broadcast your mistakes in perpetuity?
Doing the wrong thing every once in a while is a subtle but satisfying way of thumbing your nose at the Slyme.
Looks to me as if it was a compliment. I don't understand your complaint.
I don't see how the form of address (even if it's one you don't particularly care for) has any bearing on the remainder of the message.
You said something was the most beautiful thing you had seen in a while. His response was that therefore you must not look in the mirror that often (because if you had then you'd have seen yourself, and the response would be less beautiful than your own visage).
The "you must not look in the mirror very often" (or similar) response is a not uncommon reply to comments such as the one you made. It's a joke, and it's closer to a compliment than a put-down.
You're letting your insecurity colour the content of an otherwise inoffensive message.
Sally is right, Bobo. It's perfectly, effortlessly clear that TF wasn't paying Ophelia a compliment. He didn't even have the courage to make it an outright, straightforward insult. It looks like he weasely wanted some 'plausible' deniability or – something I've seen a lot recently – made an ambiguous insult to generate a response so he could ridicule Ophelia for 'overreacting'.
I expect a response from TF doing just that. Ophelia is hardly overreacting. Her response is clearly measured and appropriate.
Sally said this best with "fuck you".
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The kids programs were a major disappointment. Sometimes they didn't open until late in the evening, sometimes they were locked up when they were supposed to be open, etc. It was so bad that kids were running up and down the hallways, knocking on cabin doors as a joke. The two tween-age boys who got into a fistfight by the Lido Pool really put the cherry on the disaster that was Carnival's kids program on this cruise.
There seemed to be a subtle disregard for the overall cleanliness of the ship. Stains on the seat cushions in the Lido Restaurant areas, grime and grunge around the bottoms of the tables in the pool area, etc. The crew was good at cleaning up the big stuff, but the whole Lido Deck could have used a good pressure washing...daily. Our Main Dining Room experiences were the one high point of the cruise. The food was good, and the service was attentive. However, a couple of nights we had to wait for beverage service. Our last night we didn't get drinks until we were almost done with dinner. And, they ran out of Coca Cola on day 6!
Our cabins (2 of them) were clean and functional. The cabin stewards did a wonderful job working around my two boys, who finally gave up on the kids programs and chose to stay in the cabin and play on their Nintendo games. The steward finally had to come in and service the cabin when we dragged the kids to dinner with us at night.
While the problems we encountered tended to sour the mood for a little while, overall it was a good cruise. We drove over from Phoenix the day before, stayed with friends, and arrived at the port about 10:00am. Check-in went well. You could tell that Carnival has a lot of experience dealing with moving people around.
This was our second cruise (4 of us), but for the rest of our party (3 more), it was their first time on a ship. They loved it.
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2006 Jenkins, who originally combined his duties as Wales coach alongside his role as Scarlets director of rugby said, "After briefly discussing the framework and structure I will be working to as national coach with WRU chief executive Steve Lewis, and meeting with the rest of the full-time staff at the team's Vale of Glamorgan base, Alan presented his plan for the forthcoming tour of Argentina and we got straight on with the job in hand which is to select a squad of players for our two Test tour of Argentina." Jenkins' reign proved to be a difficult one, with the Argentina series lost 2-0 before a poor Six Nations in 2007 and a Pool stage exit from the Rugby World Cup caused his replacement by Kiwi Warren Gatland.
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Steve Cohen is the founder of SAC Capital Advisors, a Stamford, Connecticut,-based hedge fund managing ~$14 billion in assets. The firm has posted an enviable 30% average annual return for investors from 1992-2010.
His top tech picks are particularly interesting. His top five tech picks (see table below) have returned 32% on average versus Nasdaq's 16% YTD gains. The following is a list of five tech stocks in which SAC Capital has significant holdings. I believe Baidu and Google are good growth stories available at reasonable valuations, while eBay is a good turnaround bet. However, I am a bit skeptical about Apple's prospects after the recent rally and have a neutral rating on the stock. I also don't like LinkedIn because of its high valuations and increasing competition from Branchout. Hence I will avoid it.
Company Name | Ticker | Shares Held - 12/31/2011 |
Apple Inc. | AAPL | 1,068,503 |
Baidu.com, Inc. | BIDU | 1,216,600 |
Google Inc. | GOOG | 191,699 |
Linkedin Corporation | LNKD | 710,965 |
eBay Inc. | EBAY | 1,010,611 |
Source: 13F filing.
Google is the world's No. 1 search engine and online advertising company. Google has seen good growth since its IPO and if we go by consensus estimates, it is likely to post high teens plus growth rate in the near future.
Table: Google Inc. income statement/estimates (all figures in million except EPS data and gross margins)
FY-Dec.10 | FY-Dec.11 | FY-Dec.12 (Consensus Est.) | FY-Dec.13 (Consensus Est.) | FY-Dec.14 (Consensus Est.) | |
Revenue | 22,004 | 29,094 | 35,387 | 42,026 | 48,070 |
Gross Margin (%) | 86.23 | 78.11 | 76.03 | 75.85 | 77.73 |
Operating Profit | 11,757 | 14,216 | 17,328 | 21,047 | 24,202 |
Pre-tax Profit | 12,172 | 14,800 | 16,818 | 20,169 | 23,122 |
Net Income | 9,572 | 11,798 | 13,917 | 16,568 | 19,300 |
Reported Net Profit | 8,505 | 9,737 | 12,206 | 14,773 | 17,516 |
Reported Pre-tax Profit | 10,796 | 12,326 | 15,493 | 18,767 | 22,402 |
EPS - Fully Reported | 26.31 | 29.76 | 36.85 | 44.04 | 51.55 |
EPS - Growth Rates | 13.1% | 23.8% | 19.5% | 17.1% |
Source: Thomson Reuters.
In the near term, improving macros are likely to drive advertising revenues for Google. One of the big reasons for Google's year to date underperformance was poor Q4 results. I believe macro environment has significantly improved since Q42011 and this will likely reflect in the company's upcoming Q1 results, removing some of the overhang.
In the medium term the opportunities in mobile and display markets are likely to drive growth.
- Mobile is expected to be ~10% of Google's advertising sales in 2012. This segment has witnessed a huge growth in 2011 and there are now over 250 million Android devices in total across the world. Android's ecosystem is likely to continue expanding in the near term. Also, after the Motorola Mobility (MMI) acquisition, there is a possibility of Google coming up with an integrated hardware software product along the lines of products from Microsoft (MSFT)-Nokia (NOK) and Apple.
- Display is another big opportunity for Google. Last quarter, Google announced that its total display business (including YouTube) had reached an annual revenue run rate of $5B. This means that Display will account for at least 14% of Google's topline in the current year if we go by current consensus topline estimate of $35bn. Even in the display end market, I like prospects of YouTube the most. Only 3% of current YouTube videos are monetized through video advertising. Given the secular shift of viewers from offline media to online, I believe online video advertising on YouTube has big potential. Google's recent announcement regarding the launch of 100 online video channels on YouTube that would feature new original programming is a very important strategic step in the right direction in getting quality content to attract advertisers. I see YouTube becoming a major growth driver for Google in the next few years.
In addition to the growth prospects in mobile and display, there are several initiatives at a nascent stage like Google Maps and Google Play which can become meaningful growth drivers for Google in the longer term.
One of the concerns investors have with Google is its limited success in the social space and the threat from Facebook (FB). Investors are worried that Facebook will gain advertisement dollars at the cost of Google. However, I don't see investor fear materializing. Social media and search constitute two fundamentally different end markets, both for consumers and advertisers. There is not much to fear unless Google loses its leadership position in search.
Google is currently trading at just 11.5x forward earnings, if we adjust for $123 cash holdings per share. With over 23.8% expected earnings growth in the current year, a cash pile of over $40 billion, a secular tailwind in the form of online advertising growth and clear market leadership position, I find Google's current valuations very low and recommend buying the stock.
Along with Google, I am bullish on Baidu and eBay. However, I would like to avoid Apple (neutral-rated) and LinkedIn (sell - rated). Here is my brief analysis on these stocks.
Baidu is the market leader in the Chinese Internet search market, with an 80% market share. The business has high barriers to entry and even Google wasn't able to meaningfully challenge Baidu's dominance in the past. Going forward, I believe Baidu can continue to post 50% plus growth for the next several years. China's total online advertising spend to GDP ratio is still five to eight years behind the U.S.
There is a secular tailwind for the leading search company, Baidu, which will be the likely beneficiary as normalization occurs. According to consensus estimates, Baidu is expected to post EPS of $4.61 in the current year and $6.49 in the next year. It is trading at 22.8x forward P/E, which is reasonable given its 50% growth rate. I have discussed Baidu's growth prospects and valuations in detail in a previous article. Please visit it for my detailed long thesis on Baidu.
eBay's core retailing business - Marketplace - seems to be making a turnaround, as it revamped the website and invested in new technologies ,recasting it as an online mall. eBay's payments unit, PayPal, is also performing strongly. Last quarter, the active Paypal accounts increased by 13% YoY and Paypal showed a strong increase of 130 bp in its margins. Both these businesses, PayPal and Marketplace, have more than 100 million active users, and the user base is growing steadily.
In addition to strong trends in its PayPal and marketplace businesses, eBay's new mobile payment systems seem to be making headway along with the robust growth of the e-commerce businesses. The mobile payment volume was $4 billion in 2011, five times more than its previous year's volume and is estimated to reach $7 billion in 2012.
Although eBay's guidance for 2012 was mixed, this was mainly to do with conservatism on the part of management, particularly given the eurozone uncertainty. I recommend buying the stock from a medium-term perspective, as the turnaround of its core marketplace business continues to attract more and more consumers.
Apple is a good company and its business fundamentals are going in the right direction as it continues to gain market share in the fast growing smart phone and tablet space. However, I am a bit skeptical on the stock after its recent run-up. I believe most of the positives are now already priced into the stock. Going forward, my key concern with the stock is declining iPhone sales in the coming quarters, as I have described in a previous article. I have a neutral rating on the stock.
LinkedIn is a good sell candidate at current levels. I expect LinkedIn to see some serious competition from Branchout going forward. Branchout is LinkedIn's competitor and uses Facebook as a platform. It now has over 12.5 million monthly active users, up from just 1 million at the beginning of the year. Branchout's rapid growth poses a big risk to LinkedIn. Its user friendly interface and utility in terms of serving both the low-end, as well as high-end job market makes it worthy competition for LinkedIn.
In a recent article - LinkedIn Now Has Some Serious Competition - I detailed the risks Branchout poses to LinkedIn. The broader investment community is clearly ignoring this threat, as is evident from LinkedIn's 47% YTD rise. I believe we are in for a big surprise on the downside. I expect a correction in LinkedIn's price - sooner rather than later.


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The X.org project has some discussion ahead of it, instigated by developer Peter Hutterer's call for an ordered release strategy. The current rather unpredictable release schedule makes the work and test process harder, according to Hutterer.
In Hutterer's entry on the X.org mailing list he identifies some problems in the current development process leading to the current unpredictable release schedule. The most recent example was version 1.7 with its currently changing milestones and a code freeze and final release "out of nowhere."
Hutterer's suggestion is to introduce a three-stage model similar to that used in kernel development: feature merge, bugfix, and release freeze. Every stage should have its distinct milestones, thereby achieving predictable releases. The predictability should enable project and external developers to test their code more easily. Hutterer's suggestion is corroborated by others and discussion is likely to follow.
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