Perpetual I'm pi**ed off thread

rogue · 2009-04-05, 13:42

I'm in a bad mood today after reading the paper. I'm so pi**ed off over so many things that I cannot contain myself. I am sure to be a frequent contributor. I'll start the thread with this article on Ted Stevens and his conviction that was just thrown out this week. I'm hazarding a wild guess that the Justice Department deliberately withheld evidence knowing the conviction would get thrown out because of it. I'm also hazarding a guess that the former administration was involved. Call me cynic, but this one reeks of impropriety from above.

garo · 2009-04-05, 17:23

Yup! Pissed me off too when I read about it Friday. And then you have idiotic articles like this one: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879993742688425.html

Prime95 · 2009-04-05, 17:57

I'm PO'ed about new Freddie Mac bonuses: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/...giants_bonuses

I'd say "Go ahead and quit. Good luck finding a new job!". These screwups got nice bonuses when things were going well under the theory of "Our great ideas are causing these fat profits" and now they think they deserve bonuses because "We need an incentive to stay here in these tough times". Classic "heads I win, tails you lose" logic.

On second thought, if an employee came to me and said they wanted a raise/bonus or they'll quit, I'd say: "Go ahead and quit. Good luck finding a new job!" and if they don't quit then I'd fire their disloyal asses.

rogue · 2009-04-05, 18:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

On second thought, if an employee came to me and said they wanted a raise/bonus or they'll quit, I'd say: "Go ahead and quit. Good luck finding a new job!" and if they don't quit then I'd fire their disloyal asses.

Or as a some like to say, "Don't let the door hit in the ass on the way out."

One of my other items raising my ire today was the killings in Pittsburgh. The offender, who unfortunately did not kill himself or get killed, clearly has been following Rush Limbaugh and the NRA for a little too long. I've tried to debate some NRA members in the past about their idea that the government (or specifically the president) will revoke the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which will immediately result in the feds pounding on their doors to take their guns away. I've had threats of physical violence made against me because I've tried to explain that no individual branch of government (or the branches in unison) can revoke a Constitutional amendment. It requires 2/3's of the states as well. Anyways, if they search this guy's house and find some of this NRA propaganda, I hope that the families of the slain sues the dickens out of the NRA and win. I have the fortune that my best friend was once a member of the NRA and that my pointing out of simple facts to combat their fallacies has convinced him that they are fear-mongeringers. He still owns guns and uses them (at shooting ranges as he is not a hunter), but disavows their crap.

AES · 2009-04-07, 02:49

Do you honestly believe that a windbag and an association that's over 130 years old drove that young man to murder the LEOs?

rogue · 2009-04-07, 12:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by AES

Do you honestly believe that a windbag and an association that's over 130 years old drove that young man to murder the LEOs?

I don't know. If you have ever heard any of the die-hard NRA members speak, you will see that they are terrified that the second amendment will be repealed. I already mentioned that I have been threatened with physical violence by such people just because I disagree with their assessment. Maybe the people I've run into are at the fringe, but they seem more the norm for the group than the exception. If anyone disagrees (not violently of course) with me on this, I would like to have an idea regarding the percentage of NRA members who are not as radical as the ones I've experienced.

ewmayer · 2009-04-07, 18:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prime95

On second thought, if an employee came to me and said they wanted a raise/bonus or they'll quit, I'd say: "Go ahead and quit. Good luck finding a new job!" and if they don't quit then I'd fire their disloyal asses.

I'd take it one step further and fire the disloyal rest of them, as well.

Oh wait, forgot that attempts at humor - however feeble - are likely not apropos in an I'm-POed-at-the-and-I-m-not-gonna-take-it-anymore thread. So, getting into the spirit of things: What is up with sending the North Koreans more aid every time they threaten to burn the Korean peninsula and sell WMDs to rogue states? I say, sic the NRA on 'em, goldurnit!

rogue · 2009-04-07, 20:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewmayer

I'd take it one step further and fire the disloyal rest of them, as well.

Oh wait, forgot that attempts at humor - however feeble - are likely not apropos in an I'm-POed-at-the-and-I-m-not-gonna-take-it-anymore thread. So, getting into the spirit of things: What is up with sending the North Koreans more aid every time they threaten to burn the Korean peninsula and sell WMDs to rogue states? I say, sic the NRA on 'em, goldurnit!

Then I had better start running...

cheesehead · 2009-04-07, 20:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewmayer

What is up with sending the North Koreans more aid every time they threaten to burn the Korean peninsula and sell WMDs to rogue states? I say, sic the NRA on 'em, goldurnit!

Reminds me of a comment from a young right-winger in another forum in December 2000. Jubilant about the election of Bush, he predicted something like: "Yeehah! Here we go bombing North Korea!"

He was only about a quarter-hemisphere off.

__HRB__ · 2009-04-08, 12:38

I'm p'p'd off about the definition of Pi. It should be defined as the circumference/radius, not circumference/diameter, since most important formulas involving Pi have the factor 2 in front of it. The period of sine/cosine sould be Pi, unit roots should be fractions of Pi, h-bar should be h/Pi, ...

It would also mean that the area of a circle would be 1/2*pi*r^2 so the 1/2 tells us that we've integrated something to get the r^2, and it would look more like 1/2*m*v^2, 1/2*a*t^2, etc.

CADavis · 2009-04-09, 07:11

yeah... my brother is taking geometry right now and asked me the formula for surface area of a cylinder.. I was like ummm isn't it circumfrence times height, and add the area of the top and bottom circles? Then he said "circumference is pi times diameter right?" and I said "well it's 2pi*r so yeah.."

2009-04-05, 13:42	#1
rogue "Mark" Apr 2003 Between here and the 5×7×199 Posts	Perpetual I'm pied off thread I'm in a bad mood today after reading the paper. I'm so pied off over so many things that I cannot contain myself. I am sure to be a frequent contributor. I'll start the thread with this article on Ted Stevens and his conviction that was just thrown out this week. I'm hazarding a wild guess that the Justice Department deliberately withheld evidence knowing the conviction would get thrown out because of it. I'm also hazarding a guess that the former administration was involved. Call me cynic, but this one reeks of impropriety from above.

2009-04-05, 17:57	#3
Prime95 P90 years forever! Aug 2002 Yeehaw, FL 41×199 Posts	I'm PO'ed about new Freddie Mac bonuses: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090403/...giants_bonuses I'd say "Go ahead and quit. Good luck finding a new job!". These screwups got nice bonuses when things were going well under the theory of "Our great ideas are causing these fat profits" and now they think they deserve bonuses because "We need an incentive to stay here in these tough times". Classic "heads I win, tails you lose" logic. On second thought, if an employee came to me and said they wanted a raise/bonus or they'll quit, I'd say: "Go ahead and quit. Good luck finding a new job!" and if they don't quit then I'd fire their disloyal asses. Last fiddled with by Prime95 on 2009-04-05 at 17:58

2009-04-08, 12:38	#10
__HRB__ Dec 2008 Boycotting the Soapbox 2⁴·3²·5 Posts	Pi sucks donkey ass I'm p'p'd off about the definition of Pi. It should be defined as the circumference/radius, not circumference/diameter, since most important formulas involving Pi have the factor 2 in front of it. The period of sine/cosine sould be Pi, unit roots should be fractions of Pi, h-bar should be h/Pi, ... It would also mean that the area of a circle would be 1/2pir^2 so the 1/2 tells us that we've integrated something to get the r^2, and it would look more like 1/2mv^2, 1/2at^2, etc.

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2009-04-05, 17:23	#2
garo Aug 2002 Termonfeckin, IE 2⁴×173 Posts	Yup! Pissed me off too when I read about it Friday. And then you have idiotic articles like this one: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879993742688425.html

2009-04-07, 02:49	#5
AES Jul 2007 Tennessee 1001100000₂ Posts	Do you honestly believe that a windbag and an association that's over 130 years old drove that young man to murder the LEOs?

2009-04-09, 07:11	#11
CADavis Jul 2005 Des Moines, Iowa, USA 2·5·17 Posts	yeah... my brother is taking geometry right now and asked me the formula for surface area of a cylinder.. I was like ummm isn't it circumfrence times height, and add the area of the top and bottom circles? Then he said "circumference is pi times diameter right?" and I said "well it's 2pi*r so yeah.."