Comments on: Megan Megan Megan! http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html Poise! Poise! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:29:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Parrotlover77 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-957307 Parrotlover77 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:53:55 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-957307 Great article until the Microsoft/Oracle (Oracle still exists?) rant. When a cloud oriented operating system starts to exist then you might have an argument. * Until then, STFU. Apples and oranges. * That is not to say that I am against the cloud computing / SAS paradigm. It's just that it's nothing new. It is the 21st century equivelent of time sharing systems and mainframes with dumb terminals. It has its place and it's useful, but it will never replace all locally installed software because not all software lends itself to the "cloud" paradigm. Also, who buys boxed copies of Windows? If you have a company over zero employees, you can buy and download Microsoft products via eopen/open license systems. Great article until the Microsoft/Oracle (Oracle still exists?) rant. When a cloud oriented operating system starts to exist then you might have an argument. * Until then, STFU. Apples and oranges.

* That is not to say that I am against the cloud computing / SAS paradigm. It’s just that it’s nothing new. It is the 21st century equivelent of time sharing systems and mainframes with dumb terminals. It has its place and it’s useful, but it will never replace all locally installed software because not all software lends itself to the “cloud” paradigm. Also, who buys boxed copies of Windows? If you have a company over zero employees, you can buy and download Microsoft products via eopen/open license systems.

]]> By: Larkspur http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-957161 Larkspur Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:44:13 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-957161 Uh-oh, inkadu. I just browsed the unimpeachable knowledge base that is Wikipedia, and I am afraid that cloud computing is the socialized medicine of the intertubez, and that Megan McArdle will hate it. Or maybe she will love it. I didn't totally understand the article. Now I must go back and freakin <i>study</i> the subject. Jeepers. Uh-oh, inkadu. I just browsed the unimpeachable knowledge base that is Wikipedia, and I am afraid that cloud computing is the socialized medicine of the intertubez, and that Megan McArdle will hate it. Or maybe she will love it. I didn’t totally understand the article. Now I must go back and freakin study the subject. Jeepers.

]]> By: inkadu http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956977 inkadu Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:27:13 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956977 digitus- and how about cutting corn subsidies so we can affordably balance our diets? digitus- and how about cutting corn subsidies so we can affordably balance our diets?

]]> By: digitusmedius http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956933 digitusmedius Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:49:08 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956933 The greatest advances in health in history have not been made by new drugs or new surgical techniques/technologies. Creating clean water to drink has saved more lives and prolonged them longer and made them healthier than all other health care measures ever devised combined, and even today could do so if provided to the entire world rather than just the developed one. Countless millions more lives would be saved and enhanced each year by simply provided good maternal and infant nutrition programs. Even now in our "advanced" world we know that the way to being healthier will not come from new wonder drugs but from altering the way we live and how we get our water and food. We just don't like that as the answer. This "stifling technology" argument against universal, publicly funded health care is the consummate straw man. The greatest advances in health in history have not been made by new drugs or new surgical techniques/technologies. Creating clean water to drink has saved more lives and prolonged them longer and made them healthier than all other health care measures ever devised combined, and even today could do so if provided to the entire world rather than just the developed one. Countless millions more lives would be saved and enhanced each year by simply provided good maternal and infant nutrition programs. Even now in our “advanced” world we know that the way to being healthier will not come from new wonder drugs but from altering the way we live and how we get our water and food. We just don’t like that as the answer. This “stifling technology” argument against universal, publicly funded health care is the consummate straw man.

]]> By: inkadu http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956928 inkadu Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:31:25 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956928 I've reached the point on medical reform long ago where I've stopped listening to arguments. The point is so well settled at this point, it's like arguing against evolution or global warming. Anyone who doesn't agree with you a fucking loon, and having a point-by-point discussion about it is pointless. That said, I don't know ANYTHING about cloud computing and will be interested to hear more about the future of Microsoft. Also, is Windows 7 going to suck? Everyone I've talked to is cautiously optimistic. I’ve reached the point on medical reform long ago where I’ve stopped listening to arguments. The point is so well settled at this point, it’s like arguing against evolution or global warming. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you a fucking loon, and having a point-by-point discussion about it is pointless.

That said, I don’t know ANYTHING about cloud computing and will be interested to hear more about the future of Microsoft. Also, is Windows 7 going to suck? Everyone I’ve talked to is cautiously optimistic.

]]> By: Dragon-King Wangchuck http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956908 Dragon-King Wangchuck Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:41:08 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956908 MEgan opened this piece of shit column with a "joke": <blockquote>I know, most of you have already figured out why I oppose national health care. In a nutshell, I hate the poor and want them to die so that all my rich friends can use their bodies as mulch for their diamond ranches.</blockquote> Lawls. We all think MEgan is a horrible, horrible monster when really she's just... <a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/credible_threats_and_the_homel.php" rel="nofollow">Two posts back</a> she's arguing that kicking the homeless out of shelters is a good thing. <a href="http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/moral_quandaries_that_arent.php" rel="nofollow">A week ago</a> she used the guy who got busted in the organ-harvesting thing as an example of why we should be allowed to sell organs. Hey MEgan, we assume you oppose health care reform because of your hatred for the poor - well that assumption is <b>based on your own writing</b>. If you don't want people to think that you are a horrible monster, you could stop espousing horrific and monstrous views. MEgan opened this piece of shit column with a “joke”:

I know, most of you have already figured out why I oppose national health care. In a nutshell, I hate the poor and want them to die so that all my rich friends can use their bodies as mulch for their diamond ranches.

Lawls. We all think MEgan is a horrible, horrible monster when really she’s just…
Two posts back she’s arguing that kicking the homeless out of shelters is a good thing.
A week ago she used the guy who got busted in the organ-harvesting thing as an example of why we should be allowed to sell organs.

Hey MEgan, we assume you oppose health care reform because of your hatred for the poor – well that assumption is based on your own writing. If you don’t want people to think that you are a horrible monster, you could stop espousing horrific and monstrous views.

]]> By: N__B http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956897 N__B Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:44:03 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956897 <i>The left is Democrats?</i> With the descent of the republicans into madness (starting with Goldwater and perfected with W), the Democrats are all that's left. The left is Democrats?

With the descent of the republicans into madness (starting with Goldwater and perfected with W), the Democrats are all that’s left.

]]> By: Substance McGravitas http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956896 Substance McGravitas Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:33:38 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956896 My latest poison dart frog just died half-heartedly and with all the fatalistic crap going on here a glowing phony poison dart frog story would make my week. I don't know how he got stuck in that can. My question is to Vishnu... Why did it have to be my Wad? My latest poison dart frog just died half-heartedly and with all the fatalistic crap going on here a glowing phony poison dart frog story would make my week. I don’t know how he got stuck in that can. My question is to Vishnu… Why did it have to be my Wad?

]]> By: Substance McGravitas http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956895 Substance McGravitas Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:25:54 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956895 <blockquote>Message discipline was never the left’s strong suit.</blockquote>The left is Democrats?

Message discipline was never the left’s strong suit.

The left is Democrats?

]]> By: OneMan http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956893 OneMan Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:12:58 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956893 <i>"So why are we letting them frame the issue the way they want to-AGAIN?"</i> You answered your own question a bit earlier: <blockquote>hell the dems can’t even get their own party to agree on a public OPTION </blockquote> Message discipline was never the left's strong suit. “So why are we letting them frame the issue the way they want to-AGAIN?”

You answered your own question a bit earlier:

hell the dems can’t even get their own party to agree on a public OPTION

Message discipline was never the left’s strong suit.

]]> By: Rightwingsnarkle http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956890 Rightwingsnarkle Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:01:27 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956890 <i>I hear this Ensure is an excellent product.</i> chocolate Ensure + vodka + Kalhua = Mocha Cobag I hear this Ensure is an excellent product.

chocolate Ensure + vodka + Kalhua = Mocha Cobag

]]> By: Danny Guam http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956889 Danny Guam Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:25:36 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956889 The sense of entitlement that drips from McCardle and other out of touch elites bugs me. Sorry to get all crazy and shit. The sense of entitlement that drips from McCardle and other out of touch elites bugs me.

Sorry to get all crazy and shit.

]]> By: British MP http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956887 British MP Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:58:46 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956887 I hear this Ensure is an excellent product. I hear this Ensure is an excellent product.

]]> By: Big Bad Bald Bastard http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956886 Big Bad Bald Bastard Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:26:09 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956886 <I>I thought money was merely tokens representing units of labour. Uh oh. That sounds disturbingly socialist.</I> The <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Princes" rel="nofollow">Standard Value Unit</A> is recognized throughout the Oikumene, but you'd better have a good deal of <I>strakh</I> if you want to get anything on <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Moth" rel="nofollow">Sirene</A>. I thought money was merely tokens representing units of labour. Uh oh. That sounds disturbingly socialist.

The Standard Value Unit is recognized throughout the Oikumene, but you’d better have a good deal of strakh if you want to get anything on Sirene.

]]> By: chimpevil http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956885 chimpevil Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:22:07 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956885 Uh, wait, everybody's missing the real issue with what's-her-face's sad piece of whatever. No it's not that she gets paid way more than probably everybody here to write such simplistic stupid=ass bullshit--though yeah that pisses me the fuck off. But do you see what she's doing here, she's arguing against National F'in Health Care, as if that' s what the big debate is about. I mean did Obama issue a proclamation closing down all the insurance companies and instituting ooga booga socialistic coverage for all and I missed it? otherwise, Megan baby is following the same wingnut script that sadly seems to be working (surprise!) in which the reform is painted as a government takeover of healthcare, when of course it's nothing of the sort. hell the dems can't even get their own party to agree on a public OPTION let alone even consider national health care! So why are we letting them frame the issue the way they want to-AGAIN? Uh, wait, everybody’s missing the real issue with what’s-her-face’s sad piece of whatever. No it’s not that she gets paid way more than probably everybody here to write such simplistic stupid=ass bullshit–though yeah that pisses me the fuck off. But do you see what she’s doing here, she’s arguing against National F’in Health Care, as if that’ s what the big debate is about. I mean did Obama issue a proclamation closing down all the insurance companies and instituting ooga booga socialistic coverage for all and I missed it? otherwise, Megan baby is following the same wingnut script that sadly seems to be working (surprise!) in which the reform is painted as a government takeover of healthcare, when of course it’s nothing of the sort. hell the dems can’t even get their own party to agree on a public OPTION let alone even consider national health care! So why are we letting them frame the issue the way they want to-AGAIN?

]]> By: jim http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956882 jim Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:26:12 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956882 Someone commenting on Megan's magnum opiate of Randinista froth brought up <a href="http://exiledonline.com/journalism-face-off-russian-shadiness-vs-american-objectivity/" title="pay-to-play" rel="nofollow">this</a> illuminating link to make a point: the spirochete-riddled whorehouse that is "journalism" in America has a non-trivial vested interest in servicing the Not-So-Invisible Hand that keeps shelling out major wampum to their employers, so nobody need be shocked when they put their legs in the air on cue & commence moaning the "Ohh yeah, free markets, baby, ahh yeah, oooh, your profits are so-o-o-o BIG" script without any prompting - it's become second nature to them by now. <blockquote>It would be nice to be able to just ignore this kind of crap, but sadly, it’s often necessary to take it seriously.</blockquote> Reluctantly agree - Megan & her fellow ideology-pimping dipshits in academe are, first & foremost, intellectual vampires: they can't sow their havoc unless & until they're <b>invited</b> into a debate ... & sad to say, most of us are inclined to be generous when it comes to invitations to the brainstorm-buffet, whether out of naivete, a bias toward upholding freedom of thought at any cost, or simple good will, & the bottom-feeders know it. tl;dr - Megan is full of POOPY --- Rx: 2x4 enema. Someone commenting on Megan’s magnum opiate of Randinista froth brought up this illuminating link to make a point: the spirochete-riddled whorehouse that is “journalism” in America has a non-trivial vested interest in servicing the Not-So-Invisible Hand that keeps shelling out major wampum to their employers, so nobody need be shocked when they put their legs in the air on cue & commence moaning the “Ohh yeah, free markets, baby, ahh yeah, oooh, your profits are so-o-o-o BIG” script without any prompting – it’s become second nature to them by now.

It would be nice to be able to just ignore this kind of crap, but sadly, it’s often necessary to take it seriously.

Reluctantly agree – Megan & her fellow ideology-pimping dipshits in academe are, first & foremost, intellectual vampires: they can’t sow their havoc unless & until they’re invited into a debate … & sad to say, most of us are inclined to be generous when it comes to invitations to the brainstorm-buffet, whether out of naivete, a bias toward upholding freedom of thought at any cost, or simple good will, & the bottom-feeders know it.

tl;dr – Megan is full of POOPY — Rx: 2×4 enema.

]]> By: Interrobang http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956881 Interrobang Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:09:05 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956881 I thought money was merely tokens representing units of labour. Uh oh. That sounds disturbingly socialist. I thought money was merely tokens representing units of labour. Uh oh. That sounds disturbingly socialist.

]]> By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956880 ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:16:57 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956880 Thanks for the link, St. Bina. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/douglas-tommy.html" rel="nofollow">T. Douglas was one hell of a guy</a>. <i>He took his final and most controversial stand during the October Crisis of 1970, when he voted against the implementation of the War Measures Act in Quebec. The move was devastating to his popularity at the time, but he would be heralded years later for sticking by his principles of civil liberty.</i> That's what we need more of. ~ Thanks for the link, St. Bina.

T. Douglas was one hell of a guy.

He took his final and most controversial stand during the October Crisis of 1970, when he voted against the implementation of the War Measures Act in Quebec. The move was devastating to his popularity at the time, but he would be heralded years later for sticking by his principles of civil liberty.

That’s what we need more of.
~

]]> By: St. Bina, Queen of Sheba http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956879 St. Bina, Queen of Sheba Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:59:15 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956879 Meanwhile, there's a reason why Canadians picked Tommy Douglas as their <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/" rel="nofollow">Greatest Canadian</a>...a concept, I'm told, that glibertarians and flibbertigibbertarians just don't get. Glad we have so few of THEM up here, is all I can say. Meanwhile, there’s a reason why Canadians picked Tommy Douglas as their Greatest Canadian…a concept, I’m told, that glibertarians and flibbertigibbertarians just don’t get.

Glad we have so few of THEM up here, is all I can say.

]]> By: Big Bad Bald Bastard http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/23637.html/comment-page-2#comment-956878 Big Bad Bald Bastard Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:34:34 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=23637#comment-956878 Shorter Megan: Leave the Single Payer, take the cannoli. Shorter Megan:

Leave the Single Payer, take the cannoli.

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