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I'm a ****ing computer science major about to graduate. Are you seriously going to try to claim "computers" for your generation? Because "computers" have been around since the 40's. Most computer science research/advances took place in the 50's and 60's and yielded the tech advances we now see today.

The fact that computers are stronger now than they were 30 years ago is not a credit to your ****ing generation. We got better at making processors for cheaper. That's it.

Of course boomers get credit for the commercial aspect of computing. There were almost no non military/scientific applications for computers until boomers created some of the largest companies ever, based on selling compututing power to everybody (Microsoft, Apple, Oracle etc). Google, Facebook etc only exist because tech went from nothing to a quarter of the economy under boomer control.

12-08-2017 , 01:34 PM

#70053

raradevils

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Inventions:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS182429596720101222

to name a few.

But I guess without the boomers we wouldn't be posting right now. Yea someone else in time could have come up with it but it didn't happen.

12-08-2017 , 01:34 PM

#70054

ScreaminAsian

For President

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Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

There is zero chance the true results ever become public

i just imagine a random doctor working at walter reed isn’t in business to protect a mentally ill billionaire who more aggressively threatens nuclear war than any world leader outside of the dprk. but you’re right, it’s probably an outside chance

12-08-2017 , 01:35 PM

#70055

Jbrochu

banned

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Originally Posted by kerowo

Settle down Francis, it’s not that bad. Unhealthy? Definitely, but it’s not bag tasting.

Obviously taste is subjective, but yeah it all tastes pretty much like **** except maybe the chocolate shake.

12-08-2017 , 01:35 PM

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jmakin

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I’ll give them credit for taking other people’s ingenuity, profiting to excess, and outsourcing labor to chinese peasants who work for basically nothing, sure. Seems right up the boomer’s MO, actually.

12-08-2017 , 01:36 PM

#70057

Loki

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Originally Posted by DumBlaw

Fire in the hole!!!

I know this weirdly spamming account is going to start spamming people, I just don’t know when.

12-08-2017 , 01:38 PM

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d10

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Originally Posted by dinopoker

So what is their top priority then?

Should be obvious from my post. Same thing all but a handful of politicians are interested in to some degree.

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Originally Posted by d10

That's not the reason why they won't sit out. Do you think the Clinton's themselves would benefit more from staying in politics or getting out? Lol at thinking their top priority is the country or even the Democratic Party.

12-08-2017 , 01:39 PM

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ecriture d'adulte

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Originally Posted by jmakin

Lol. Well luckily our generation has a pure, selfless genius like Zuckerburg to lead us forward in tech!

12-08-2017 , 01:40 PM

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zikzak

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Originally Posted by NMcNasty

You can blame olds, but using the word "boomers" is incredibly stupid because it implies some sort of mechanism by which the US became more conservative due to the baby boom. Like not only did the 60s not happen but it had some sort of opposite effect.

There was a mechanism. It was post-war parents spoiling their children in ways that previous generations were never able to do. They meant well, but they created monsters.

And this constant association of Boomers with the 60's really needs to stop. Look at this graph. Do basic math.

The vast majority of them were children in the 60's.

12-08-2017 , 01:54 PM

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ecriture d'adulte

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Originally Posted by zikzak

Uhhh.....yeah. They were super spoiled in a way nobody before them was. That’s WHY they were important even as children in the 60s, when they made their parents buy them Beatles lunch boxes. This was an ongoing theme in Mad Men even.

12-08-2017 , 01:58 PM

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zikzak

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I'm fine with Boomers collectively taking credit for rampant consumerism. I'm not fine with some 60 year old telling me how awesome the counter-culture was and lecturing me on the importance of the civil rights movement.

12-08-2017 , 02:04 PM

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Paul D

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Shut your mouth zz. You wouldn't have OSHA without rara.

12-08-2017 , 02:05 PM

#70064

eyebooger

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

He's cherry picking polls...and the numbers still suck.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...89419386470401

12-08-2017 , 02:05 PM

#70065

raradevils

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Originally Posted by jmakin

You mean like all those tech start-up are doing you were raving about before?

12-08-2017 , 02:08 PM

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raradevils

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Originally Posted by Paul D

Shut your mouth zz. You wouldn't have OSHA without Boomers.

I wouldn't take credit for that any more than I would take credit for the Clinton's.

12-08-2017 , 02:12 PM

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Paul D

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Funny because it was Nixon who founded it.

12-08-2017 , 02:13 PM

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raradevils

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Originally Posted by Paul D

Funny because it was Nixon who founded it.

EPA also but what does that have to do with the price of eggs?

12-08-2017 , 02:17 PM

#70069

FlyWf

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The civil rights movement isn't a reason to credit the Boomers, the civil rights movement is in fact what radicalized a lot of Boomers to be future Trump voters. The dang gubmint made them go to school with coloreds and they'd be damned if they subjected their own kids to that fate, so we've seen 60 years of consistent attacks on the concept of public education.

It's that weird thing we keep doing for history where "we" make some hard fought progress and then suddenly it's retconned into being a universal movement. Look up opinion polls on what white people thought about MLK at the time and ****.

12-08-2017 , 02:35 PM

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Paul D

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Originally Posted by raradevils

EPA also but what does that have to do with the price of eggs?

You would've gotten behind both if you were even older.

12-08-2017 , 02:37 PM

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NMcNasty

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Originally Posted by zikzak

It was post-war parents spoiling their children in ways that previous generations were never able to do.

Using the world "spoiled" is such a tell. The unspoiled, war-hardened, greatest generation somehow managed to resist the pull of consumerism, due to their toughness, and therefore never followed their kids down the path that leads them to being deplorables.

Also civil rights just stopped in the mid 60s and there was no good music in the 70s, just disco.

12-08-2017 , 02:39 PM

#70072

ecriture d'adulte

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Originally Posted by zikzak

Good thing nobody is doing the thing you don’t like.

12-08-2017 , 02:41 PM

#70073

raradevils

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Originally Posted by Paul D

You would've gotten behind both if you were even older.

EPA for sure because rivers were burning and pollution was really nasty then, i know i know it's still nasty but nothing like it was then.

12-08-2017 , 02:44 PM

#70074

ecriture d'adulte

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Originally Posted by NMcNasty

The Greatest Generation was definitely deplorable filled....most overrated generation imo.

12-08-2017 , 02:47 PM

#70075

uDevil

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

He's cherry picking polls...and the numbers still suck.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...89419386470401

He forgot to add the no opinion number to his approval this time.

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