retard

Only a retard would have to work so much, I thought, but I was determined to be the best I could. I ended up at the top of the class.

Instead of going full nerd retard, shouldn't you be keen on understanding what is going on? Why Apple is breaking records?

If NSA is trying to retard cryptography, why are they getting people to migrate from RSA-1024 to ECC? Can you find a cryptographer that believes RSA is the future?

Because it assumes you're a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons. What most techies don't get is that this is an extremely reasonable assumption.

Out of interest, could you enlighten me as to why the word "retard" is a slur but "dumb" isn't? Putting colloquial use aside, both are valid words that describe conditions, so if one is a slur, isn't the other?

I feel like we've gone full retard about the potential of VR again. Facebook has bought a promising headset technology, but we're a long way off people living in a virtual world controlled by Facebook.

To respect that line, and not try to promote good or retard evil any further than that, is just an abdication of ethics. With that said, I respect Less Annoying CRM for trying to think about the issue at all and post about it, which most companies don't.

What would happen is there would be 10 replies in the first minute, all sages, calling the OP a retard and reminding everyone to sage and report the thread. These replies would just feed him, to which he would reply to the sages and egg people on even more - to which he would receive even more replies.

Describing the typical new user as "a complete retard who can only click shiny buttons" is extremely rude and misguided. Not everyone is a terminal guru, and not everyone uses Ubuntu.

I think Dan is incredibly talented, but I've seen he is very quick to use the words dumb, idiot and retard in his Twitter stream. As a mid-level developer that uses mainly CodeIgniter, there is a lot about Fuel that is new to me and I don't fully understand.

This one sentence sums up the sociological and psychological problems that retard progress in the tech industry: "Experiments that show that Erlang is N times better than "something else" won't be believed if N is too high." That is exactly it.

For me, the most depressing part is that I, as a Republican [not a retard "movement" conservative, but a non-Progressive [yes, I believe in Climate Change]], voted for Obama and his message of transparency. I shouldn't have "believed" in a politician, but I did.

More abstractly, a "men's rights" movement would, I think, offer very little gain to humanity as a whole, and would threaten to destabilize and retard the advancement of human rights and greater gender and sexual equality in social relations. This would be a terrible regression to allow to happen.

That is that the handset manufacturers do not want to repeat the PC experience of comoditizing the hardware market - What has happened before will happen again - unless we try to retard things. The only way Google can reduce manufacturer freedom is to become truly non-free, on the day that happens, Android will fork.

I'm a liberal Democrat and I'm queasy about enforced net neutrality; these are rules that govern what companies can do with their own infrastructure, and rules that could unintentionally retard progress instead of protecting it. Further, Congress has a legitimate gripe here.

At that point, we can no longer even pretend to be honoring the founders' intents, so we might as well go full retard. I rather like the Bill of Rights the way it was written, but I would understand if the nation decided to hold serious discussions about if, and how, amendments such as the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth should be modified and adapted to better accommodate modern society's needs.

As an American who went to university in Montreal and holder of the rare distinction of being called a "retard" by an officer in front of a crowded lobby at the Canadian Border, I have more opinions than healthy about the American-Canadian crossing experience. But as the officer who called me a retard told me in the back room, if you aren't a citizen, they are under no obligation to let you in.

If we take the view that all tech providers are culpable for the use of their tech, we stifle innovation and retard the pace of development--if the morass of patent claims is bad, consider what happens if every product has to go through a strict liability filter to make sure it can't hurt anyone. We don't even stop the bad uses of tech--we can still be saddened to find that someone has found an illegal use for our tools that simply had never occurred to us.

Instead of thinking critically about how we use technology and its impact on our lives -- good and bad -- let's just make some arbitrary restriction that'll actually probably retard our kids in this modern technological world more than it'll help them. Because, as we know, the best way to get children to do anything safely -- from driving to drugs to sex, or all three at once -- is to give them absolutely no preparation or understanding of these things in advance.

Doing things like swapping out the N word for "african american," dropping the word "retard" from your vocabulary, referring to adult women as "women," and referring to people of non-european descent as more than "oriental" and "mexican" is not "being politically correct," it's doing something that takes you no effort that makes you less of an asshole.