Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

[Cyborg Girl]

I'm guessing nobody here was interested anyway. But the company's founder is supporting Trump, by literally funding Internet trolls. Yes really.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... chine.html

In other news, Hitler will be excellent for business owners!

[squ1d]

He sold the business in 2014.

Too late.

[squ1d]

P.s. the new VR is an earth shatteringly awesome experience i would recommend to anyone

[Cyborg Girl]

@squ1d

Ah right, wholly owned by Facebook now. Nice. I wish US corporations would stop backing a guy whose entire political agenda is racism.

[Swift]

@squ1d

Ah right, wholly owned by Facebook now. Nice. I wish US corporations would stop backing a guy whose entire political agenda is racism.

I'm sorry GJ, but that isn't true. He has a multi-pronged agenda, including promoting sexism, helping his buddy Vlad the Impaler, giving tax breaks to the rich.

[SciFiFisher]

@squ1d

Ah right, wholly owned by Facebook now. Nice. I wish US corporations would stop backing a guy whose entire political agenda is racism.

I'm sorry GJ, but that isn't true. He has a multi-pronged agenda, including promoting sexism, helping his buddy Vlad the Impaler, giving tax breaks to the rich.

Don't forget the wonderful awesome stance on immigration.

[Cyborg Girl]

Right then, his platform also includes sexism, classism, nativism, and vampirism. Hurray.

[code monkey]

what about zombies? why do people always forget the zombies?

[squ1d]

Exactly CM, what are they like?!

The best part of this thread was using 'pronged' in the same sentence as 'Vlad the Impaler'.

[SciFi Chick]

Exactly CM, what are they like?!

The best part of this thread was using 'pronged' in the same sentence as 'Vlad the Impaler'.

IKR?

[SciFi Chick]

what about zombies? why do people always forget the zombies?

I'm pretty sure those are the ones voting for Trump...

[Swift]

When I mentioned Vlad the Impaler, I was thinking more of this guy:


than this guy


though both would work.

[Cyborg Girl]

Heh, for some reason I was thinking Vlad -> Dracula -> Vampire -> Peter Thiel.

I blame lack of caffeine.

[geonuc]

Same guy, aren't they?

[Swift]

Heh, for some reason I was thinking Vlad -> Dracula -> Vampire -> Peter Thiel.

I blame lack of caffeine.

I blame everything on a lack of caffeine.

The historic Vlad the Impaler is thought by many to be the model for the fictional Dracula.

I had to google who Peter Thiel is. As best as I can tell he's just a rich jerk, one of many, and isn't in the same league as either of the Vladimirs.

[Cyborg Girl]

@Swift

For reference, see: http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter ... blood.html

[Swift]

@Swift

For reference, see: http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter ... blood.html

OK, he's a little weird (though I'm actually a little familiar with the animal studies they talk about). I assume however he is going to pay people for their young blood, not abduct them in the middle of the night and drain all the blood from their bodies.

Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people. Thiel isn't in the same conversation (and yes, I get the chain of thought and the Dracula reference now).

[vendic]

Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people...

So did many American Presidents.
Obama, Bush, the other Bush etc.
Killing people when you are high in office is part of the package. It's how many and why you do it that makes the difference.

[SciFiFisher]

Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people...

So did many American Presidents.
Obama, Bush, the other Bush etc.
Killing people when you are high in office is part of the package. It's how many and why you do it that makes the difference.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Swift]

Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people...

So did many American Presidents.
Obama, Bush, the other Bush etc.
Killing people when you are high in office is part of the package. It's how many and why you do it that makes the difference.

I see a difference between Putin and Obama. And no, I'm not going to explain it, or justify that opinion.

[vendic]

I see a difference between Putin and Obama. And no, I'm not going to explain it, or justify that opinion.

Most sane people do. There are those that are absolutists and to them, everyone that does something like that is the same.

[SciFi Chick]

I see a difference between Putin and Obama. And no, I'm not going to explain it, or justify that opinion.

Most sane people do. There are those that are absolutists and to them, everyone that does something like that is the same.

So true. And very annoying. There is a school of thought that thinks that any killing is evil, that there's never any justification for it. But, you and I don't subscribe to that school. Though we've been lucky - and I do consider it lucky - that we've never been forced to kill anyone, I wholeheartedly agree that there are times where people need killing. I think what most of us struggle with is determining which ones...