Guardian: Apple would still be highly profitable if production was in U.S.

[garbon]

Turns out I was correct.  I provided counter examples and was ignored.

That's because you're on so many ignore lists.

They can't handle the truth!

I told him.  He didn't listen.  I said, "Raz, you're great, I like you, most people would like you, but you go at people till it crosses a weird line.  Yi and I get alone fine, Berkie and I get along fine; your problem is you don't let shit go."  Does he listen?  Of course not.  No one listens to me, especially when I'm right.

command: ignore ide

[Berkut]

Turns out I was correct.  I provided counter examples and was ignored.

That's because you're on so many ignore lists.

They can't handle the truth!

I told him.  He didn't listen.  I said, "Raz, you're great, I like you, most people would like you, but you go at people till it crosses a weird line.  Yi and I get alone fine, Berkie and I get along fine; your problem is you don't let shit go."  Does he listen?  Of course not.  No one listens to me, especially when I'm right.

The best part about having Raz on ignore is the occasional bit that pops up in a quote from someone else, and I remember "Oh yeah, Raz...kind of forgot about him...awesome!"

[Barrister]

Turns out I was correct.  I provided counter examples and was ignored.

That's because you're on so many ignore lists.

They can't handle the truth!

I told him.  He didn't listen.  I said, "Raz, you're great, I like you, most people would like you, but you go at people till it crosses a weird line.  Yi and I get alone fine, Berkie and I get along fine; your problem is you don't let shit go."  Does he listen?  Of course not.  No one listens to me, especially when I'm right.

As a leftist, you're never right.

[Eddie Teach]

As a leftist, you're never right.

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[grumbler]

Turns out I was correct.  I provided counter examples and was ignored.

That's because you're on so many ignore lists.

Disagree.  A lot of us ignore him, but many do not.  Even those not ignoring him, however, saw that he was providing examples to shoot down a mere strawman argument, and so recognized that his efforts were beneath notice.

If only those people extended their specific decision to a general rule, like the more advanced thinker have...

[grumbler]

The best part about having Raz on ignore is the occasional bit that pops up in a quote from someone else, and I remember "Oh yeah, Raz...kind of forgot about him...awesome!"

Is there an actual ignore feature here?  If so, does it work to block entire threads started by the person on ignore?

I can ignore raz as a poster without any technological help, but I'd like to be able to block any thread started by a given poster.  That's take either more effort, or a bit of technological help.

[Razgovory]

Disagree.  A lot of us ignore him, but many do not.  Even those not ignoring him, however, saw that he was providing examples to shoot down a mere strawman argument, and so recognized that his efforts were beneath notice.

If only those people extended their specific decision to a general rule, like the more advanced thinker have...

You and Marty, the advanced thinkers.

[Valmy]

Those regulations are still on the books.  When they were passed is irrelevant since they still function.

It is entirely relevent when we are talking about the ability of the current political class' ability to use government regulation to achieve positive and appropriate results.

[Razgovory]

Turns out I was correct.  I provided counter examples and was ignored.

That's because you're on so many ignore lists.

They can't handle the truth!

I told him.  He didn't listen.  I said, "Raz, you're great, I like you, most people would like you, but you go at people till it crosses a weird line.  Yi and I get alone fine, Berkie and I get along fine; your problem is you don't let shit go."  Does he listen?  Of course not.  No one listens to me, especially when I'm right.

I play rough.  It's who I am.  It's not my fault Berkut has a tantrum or Marty cries.  I suppose that's who they are.

[derspiess]

Ignorant Marti sounds like a ineffectual and ultimately disappointing gay sex technique (move?)

To me, Ignorant Marti sounds like what you'd call that one person in the office who just doesn't have a clue.  Sorta like a Debbie Downer.

[Admiral Yi]

I play rough.  It's who I am.  It's not my fault Berkut has a tantrum or Marty cries.  I suppose that's who they are.

One of the problems with measuring your success by how much you piss people off is that you can lose track of whether you're achieving your goal by triumphantly speaking truth to power or by being a dick.

[Razgovory]

Pissing people off is not the measurement I use.

[Razgovory]

Those regulations are still on the books.  When they were passed is irrelevant since they still function.

It is entirely relevent when we are talking about the ability of the current political class' ability to use government regulation to achieve positive and appropriate results.

I didn't know this was what we are talking about.  Since regulations are often designed to tackle large scale and long term problems data on them tends to be fairly old.  A more recent example could be the ban on CFCs which has decreased the amount of Chlorofluorocarbon in the atmosphere.  There is some good evidence that the Ozone layer has stabilized in the wake of regulations to protect it.

[Admiral Yi]

Pissing people off is not the measurement I use.

What is the measurement you use?

The extent to which you convince your interlocutors that they're wrong?  The extent to which you convince 3rd party observers that your interlocutors are not to be believed?

[Razgovory]

That I have convinced myself that I am correct.  I'm not going to convince anyone else of anything.