holy shit. whatever man.

if your brother is still at ILM, tell him to say "hi". hopefully he's less of a pig headed asshat than you.

Rude, pig headed and lacking personal skills only in a political sense. Business man sense - shrewd- All those hard line positions are only starting negotiating positions. Time will tell If he can pull it off.

Paris accord- A joke and a money pit for America-let alone a false narrative. Trump did the right thing pulling out of it.

Asking European countries to step up and pay their NATO fees was a right think to do. American are sick of cheep ass lazy NATO partners who wont pay their bills.

Bob i hate to break it to you, but America has started to become a little bit of a joke in the rest of the world... Your rude, pig headed and frankly severely lacking in intelligence and personal skills president is taking you backwards. But that's no indictment on Americans, because many states have thankfully backed the climate accord, and if non-Trump aligned Americans are to blame for anything, it is only not being able to force the correct candidate through to beat Trump. If we want the drift of American political opinion in Europe these days, we have to watch late night talk shows rather than listening to the president.

Three things happened RE: Paris accord.
One - the American president has used a European stage to demand spurious money from Europe and turned them publicly into opponents rather than allies. Even the worst Brexiteers had the good grace to make that claim on smaller stages where they could be laughed at - it's banter, not a serious political point, except to Trump! Apparently friendship is now an issue of economics, so if Russia decided to start a war, America's involvement might depend on how much it costs to be involved (or who Trump's personal mates are, or what Russia has on him) despite being a key cause of war.
Two - other countries including China all came together to show international brotherhood *against Trump*. This is now Trump's position in the eyes of worldwide public opinion; Trump stands opposed to the entire rest of the world save two countries Syria and Nicaragua! America has *stepped away* from the rest of the world. So now the rest of the world is by definition leading America, showing her the way.
Three - Trump has shown us that he is not interested in listening to the best logical reasoning, the best mathematical models, from the combined talent of the best minds that this planet has produced. So he's completely unreliable.

I think even Trump's fiercest proponents must now start to admit, in private, that they didn't get what they thought they were getting. He is a psychological child with the arrogance of a rich grown man.

Wow. Joe Scarborough is such a condescending cunt, on top of being a pig headed, ignorant dick

Those peasants can be pig-headed when it comes to the law.

honestly, i don't give a shit about trying to sway you because i know how pig headed you are about the whole thing. especially when the crux of the discussion revolves around a semantic argument on the definition of "nothing". i just wanted to point out that the god of the gaps has been pushed even further out of the conversation.

Wow, I knew O'Reilly was obstinate, pig-headed and ridiculously one-eyed, but between this and the Jon Stewart interview on his show, he just comes across as a total dick. He's just rude for no reason, while Jon is being amiable and far nicer than he deserves.

I am literally on the other side of the planet, and I would almost consider going to the rally, just to piss off O'Reilly.

You gotta ask yourself though...is that T-shirt ripping on Obama, or is it an admission that America is so pig-headed and has its head so far up its collective ass that no one man could never steer the titanic away from the iceberg?

So while the idiots are pointing their fingers at Obama...I'm looking at the nation as a whole and asking, "what the fuck is wrong with you?" One man can not take us back from the brink of lunacy.
>> ^blankfist:

Wait, Obama wasn't the change we could all believe in?
And that's why I wear this shirt: http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/guess-he-cant-barack-obama/

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@NetRunner
The only reason we should stay with seconds, minutes and hours, days and nights, months and years, is convenience. The clock is, as far as I know, universally accepted so changing it to something arbitrarily would be silly. People have tried changing it (remember Beat? ) but people like their 12h clocks too much. I'm not in favor of changing that either, because switching from one arbitrary system to another for the sole reason of homogenizing seems silly to me.

AM/PM is not a huge deal for me either, I just don't like it.

Imperial vs. metric system is a big deal though. There are concrete disadvantages to using two different systems alongside each other (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_calculation_errors ). Now, I would accept a compromise of a third measurement system that was based on something a little more universal (planck scale?) which would probably make everyone unhappy, but of the two existing systems Metric is far more adopted and makes quite a bit more sense internally. Yes, it's also pretty arbitrary - 1 meters is something like 1 degree-second on the earths equator or something like that, can't remember how it was made) but internally it's easy to calculate.

People are being stubborn and pig-headed for no good reason, and not just in the US. In Denmark lots of people vote against the Euro for the sole reason that it "makes it hard to figure out what something costs". Familiarity is sadly a powerful force.

For the youngest country in the world, you sure are pretty bound in traditions. You'd think as the new kid on the block, you would want to stay hip and fresh. You started out so well and, with notable exceptions, it's just gone downhill from there.

I'll support your metric revolution as soon as you get on it.

>> ^gwiz665:

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Ounce makes no sense
Pounds make no sense
Miles make no sense
AM/PM is stupid
Fahrenheit makes no sense - 32F is the freezing point, wtf?
It is colloquially adopted everywhere EXCEPT certain third world countries and the US... goddamit, get with the program!


The value of a social safety net is also casually accepted everywhere except certain third world countries and the US.

We're different, and we're arrogant, and we're attached to old and outdated notions, even though we're arguably the youngest 1st world nation.

I agree, none of those measurements make sense, but they're familiar, and we're pig-headed enough as a society that we'll probably never give up on them entirely.

At best, we'll probably keep the words, and just make them equivalent to metrics (e.g. 1 mile = 1km, 1 gallon = 1 liter, etc.).

>> ^lavoll:
taser happy overweight pigs


You know who else is overweight? The black man in this video and 55% of Americans!

We could apply violent pig to anyone... Like to all the common thugs on the street, just like all the people in America... Of course, then who could we blame for brutality? Not the everyday man because that would take introspection as to why society as a whole fails...

Remember, all cops come from flesh and blood and some are stupid. What would have been the appropriate course though? Go after him? (Answer, no.) Wait him out (Possibly, but figure he can wait up to about two days... ) Tase him? (Answer, depends if you think you can safely take him down. Considering everyone thinks they are more capable than they truly are, these cops prolly did too.)

Also, if there is a suspected gun, the cops who want to return home disable as soon as possible. The cops that want to test their speed and accuracy wait until they are dead. When they hit him with the first taser, what was behind him? If it was land, they needed to try and tase him right then and there (While he was seated. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron... It was BECAUSE he was SEATED that the opportunity was right. Of course the view is bloacked...) If the first deployment would have succeeded, the man who threatened to take life would have been fine. You say lethal force wasn’t warranted and you are correct, but the taser is only a potentially lethal weapon. Just like the hands and feet are a potential lethal weapon… A gun on the other hand, if used correctly will nearly always be lethal (Cause death or great bodily harm...)

If I was in that situation, and I was law enforcement (which I am not,) here is a potential scenario:

Fat man on bridge threatens to off himself. May be packing due to his 50 page history, reports from family AND state of agitation (So, first thing I know is that he may murder himself and any "Pig headed mother-fing cops"--as come others call all cops here on this site.) We respond, try to wait him out. Looks bad, because he is saying f-you, I will do it. We wait till he sits, there is ground behind him (Cannot see from this camera footage,) and then deploy the less-than-lethal taser... It fails. He gets up, makes a dash for the security of the bridge but also a better drop point. Take him down or let him fall? Hrm, hard to say because now he knows what will happen to him if he stops and therefore, he prolly won't stop... Taser deployed... And he falls. Slightly better outcome than if he had done a head-first dive of his own accord, which is of course what he promised to do... But bad outcome anyways…

I'm glad this thing can take out pig heads. It's no fun being hambushed.

I've lusted after a Coldsteel katana for maybe a decade. Maybe I'll have the money to burn when I'm as old and rotund as those dudes demonstrating
That pig head was really nap, but going through nine rolled tatami mats in one strike is really impressive. Oh well, back to Mount and Blade
Also - did they fill those boots at about 3:00 with meat? These dudes creep me right out

^ Those surveys are of people who are fully covered! Great for them! What about everybody else?

I can't hold it in any longer. You, Winstonfiled_Pennypacker(P), make me sick. You are a closed minded, short sighted, cold hearted piece of human filth.

You want to keep the system the way it is because it benefits you, and everybody who doesn't get a great healthcare package through their employer can just suck it. You selfish prick. You can look at the millions of people who recently got laid off and say, "Fuck you, get a job."

I would be happy to pay more taxes so that everybody could get regular check ups instead of waiting too long and ending up in an emergency room. I would be happy to pay more so that people couldn't get dropped from their insurance when they are diagnosed with terminal illness. I would be happy to pay more so that we could re-open all the trauma centers that were shut down after being overwhelmed by illegals and the unemployed who can't afford to pay. I would be happy to pay more so that serious illness wouldn't continue to be the leading cause of bankruptcies in the US.

But if we look at all the empirical evidence from around the world, we could have universal coverage that would actually cost less, and you STILL would oppose it. Because you fear change, and you have no compassion for anybody but yourself.

Why is that I, a self-proclaimed atheist, care more about my fellow citizens than the right wing religious crackpots, who have a mandate from their lord and savior to be compassionate to all?

If they really had any sense of compassion rather than selfishness, they would be working with the Democrats to shape a healthcare system that benefits everybody. Instead, all we hear is NO NO NO - SOCIALISM BAD SCARY!!! Ok, Mr Pennypacker, if a public system is not necessary, then point to a country that has universal healthcare without a public system. I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist, because it would be the very first argument from every Republican right now, and I've never heard it. All I hear is FEAR FEAR FEAR!!!

Why is it that the US is the only industrialized country without universal healthcare? Because we are the only country being roadblocked by politicians owned by the healthcare industry and the idiots who believe their lies. Socialist systems are so bad, because Canadians love theirs, and we hate Canadians, right? We hate them Brits, who wouldn't touch the US system with a ten meter cattle prod. Talk to anybody from any country who has universal healthcare about how great the US system is and they will MOCK you. And rightfully so, because you are either a fool or a heartless selfish bastard. And I don't think you're a fool.

The simple fact is this: If the US had the best healthcare system, other countries would be copying us. That is clearly not the case, so... and I know this is the part you fear the most... maybe we should be copying them. Nobody is saying they are perfect, but they are a hell of a lot closer than we are, and it is the height of pig-headed arrogance not to try to learn from them.