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Author Topic: What the fuck?  (Read 329165 times)

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3621 on: June 13, 2013, 09:40:34 AM »

The sidebar on that site seemed awfully sensational, but it looks like the story is well corroborated: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52186904/ns/local_news-cleveland_oh/

I'm sure I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but... discharging live fire in public at kittens?  Really?  That shit is literally a first season South Park joke.

I'm starting to seriously relax my views on gun control, because the more I see what this country's finest call "nothing wrong" when it comes to firearm use, the more I want to have a bigger firearm than them.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3622 on: June 13, 2013, 09:42:17 AM »

Just a small point: The article states this was not an actual cop, but an animal control officer.

Which actually makes it worse, quite possibly.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3623 on: June 13, 2013, 09:47:09 AM »

Former police officer, and the PD is publicly defending his actions.

So the two obvious questions are:
1. Why "former"?
2. Does the answer to #1 raise more questions?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3625 on: June 14, 2013, 09:01:40 AM »

That's... bad.  That could potentially fuck over the reputation of the entire U.S. software community, not just Microsoft.

This recent (in scale) trend of MS doing shit that drags the entire industry down with them is very quickly getting on my special nerves.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3626 on: June 14, 2013, 09:21:56 AM »

Bit of background that may or may not matter here: My sister-in-law works for MS and so I get some day-to-day info once every couple of months. Basically over the past 2-3 years they're reeeaaally starting to regress down towards the special corporate hell reserved for stodgy established companies, with lame micromanaging, cutbacks on things like desk space, herding people into cubicle farms, etc.

I think their management is starting to think as if they were a utility (I think they even applied for utility-style tax classification), where they're just rent-seeking on established assets. Only they're not. They're still a tech company. And they're fucking up anyway by offering all kinds of upset-the-applecart drastic changes, which a utility has no business doing anyway.

There may also be some excessive corporate fiefdom crap going on too. I dunno.

Anyway, it's pretty clear that their recent track record is one of fairly unmitigated fuckups.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3628 on: June 18, 2013, 12:39:59 PM »

We can only hope that BoA gets fucked so hard in the ass they become another bank's subsidiary. By which I mean permanent bitch.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3631 on: June 25, 2013, 05:38:48 AM »

So, the IRS was also targeting applications of groups with "progressive" and "occupy" in their names.

There is, of course, no way in hell this is going to stop the right wing complaining about how Obama set out to persecute them personally. Fuck if I don't hate pulling taps in a redneck town sometimes.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3632 on: June 25, 2013, 01:04:59 PM »

And finally there IS some information in there worth being outraged about: "open source" and "medcal marijuana" were also phrases that got flagged.

While I'll grant medical marijuana is a political issue, it's a pretty big stretch to say it's associated with a particular party.  Let's put it this way: Arizona has legalized it by ballot initiative TWICE.  (The first time it got overturned by the legislature.  After which we passed a ballot initiative saying legislatures can't overturn ballot initiatives without a supermajority.)

And "Open Source" is, by design, an inherently apolitical descriptor.  The ENTIRE PURPOSE of the phrase is to avoid the political baggage associated with the Free Software Movement (which itself is still nonpartisan, though obviously the word "copyleft" carries certain implications beyond just wordplay).

I guess there IS an NPR-affiliated company called Open Source, Inc., which probably swings this into Hanlon's Razor territory -- I find it very easy to believe that the IRS just doesn't know what the fuck "Open Source" means.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3633 on: June 28, 2013, 01:31:30 PM »

okay, so, you guys remember Eternal Darkness, right? and how the guys who made that game have been trying to crowdfund a spiritual sequel called "Shadows of the Eternals"?

Welp, the co-writer for Eternal Darkness, Ken McCulloch has been arrested for child pornography possession and distribution.

So that's a thing.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3636 on: July 06, 2013, 03:36:13 PM »

well that escalated rather quickly. 
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3637 on: July 06, 2013, 05:24:25 PM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3638 on: July 10, 2013, 11:04:58 AM »

Two years ago a young farmer ran a stop sign and collided with a CN Rail train. He died. Today, two years after the accident, CN Rail is suing the dead boy's mother for damages.

She was not present at or involved with the accident in any way. They're just suing her because she's the executor of the estate.

I am just totally bewildered as to what CN Rail thinks they could possibly get out of this. WHEEEEE PUBLIC RELATIONS!
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3639 on: July 10, 2013, 12:09:05 PM »

All the details seem to indicate that they not only don't have a solid case but could very well be found liable for the incident if they really decide to press the issue.  I imagine someone in the legal department over there either has been or very soon will be special fired.
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