I am a fairly conservative guy with some libertarian leanings. I love the stuff NASA used to do. I want to see NASA attempting the things that no one else can. I want to see people become ok with risk. I also believe in spirituality. Some type of God that I do not understand very well. I believe that the teachings of Jesus were good. I think that the temperature of the earth changes. That the climate has and will change. I believe that at some point the earth will not support humanity and that we need to have permanent space colonies.
The left seems filled with hatred for the right. Truly spiritual christian types do not have a lot of time or room for hate.
Most of the hate I see comes from smelly people that that majored in Womens studies with a minor in Ethiopian tribal art and screaming about having student loan debit and no good prospects for a job.
You want higher education? Get a reasonable loan and work. Study something that can pay. Then take a bath.
While I respect your views I think that they are wrong. Making people less and less responsible for their community has (In my opinion) made things worse. People should handle the routine policing of their own communities. Police can not do it. Police solve murders, they almost never prevent them. Police solve crimes that have taken place. If people became more responsible for the safety of their communities then more crimes would be stopped. The idea that anyone and everyone can and will bust you would be a major crime deterrent. Also once you remove personal responsibility from the populace and give it all to the police you begin to get more and more corrupt police. You know. Police that get to arrest you for filming. "Contempt of Cop" Not only is this happening a lot. But even as we find out it is happening a large portion of the populace has not stood up and held their police accountable for these actions. This is (again in my opinion) the direct result of the police becoming "the" authority figure for most of us. I think that they should only be "an" authority figure. Not "The".
The people that made it liked it. They are all that really matters since they do not have to turn a profit. All they have to do is build the program they want and it is really awesome that they share it with the rest of us. Of course some would rather bitch at the developers of their free open source program than thank them for it. Whatever floats your boat.
The problem is that it is not the word. You just used the word. In what I consider a completely appropriate manner. But in almost every publication the use "The N-Word". That is incredibly stupid.
I am not saying that people don't get offended by the use of words. People are offensive sometimes and they use words to do it. Banishing of words has never and will never stop people from being offensive. If you look to getting rid of words to make you feel better you are not going to feel better.
What I stated were perfect examples of how the very same word can be used and not be offensive. That means that it is not the word that is offensive. If it were the word itself that was offensive there would be no non offensive ways to use it.
Regardless. I am sure that many people were offended that I used the word at all. The same people who are not offended but laugh when Chris Rock uses it.
Words can be used offensively. No one is saying that they can not be. "Non offensive" words can be used to offend. "Offensive" words can be used in "Non Offensive" ways. WORDS are not offensive. Faggot used to describe a bundle of sticks is not offensive. Midget used in Midget racing is not offensive. Nigger used by Chris Rock on stage is not offensive. Bitch used to describe my female dog is not offensive.
I could say "Your mothers rounded face and lack of any real intelligence has made me believe that she has no hope of ever achieving full human status." I am sure you would find that offensive. It would be. What offensive word did I use?
Words are not offensive, people are. Fix the problem, not the word.
I have to tell you. Large black trucks sitting in left hand turn lanes reminds me of a massively painful and debilitating situation I had. Does not mean that I can ban the ability for large black trucks to use left hand turn lanes.
Once we stop trying to fix what is not the problem we can start to fix what is the problem.
Though as long as people are focusing on evil words they will continue to just change as they always have.
You will need to show how exactly it is that it is the words themselves that are offensive. I have been quite clear about how it is that words are not the issue. I used actual examples and facts. I did not just say "You are wrong" If you would like to present some facts that back up your statement then I would be happy to hear them.
You can take your massively unsupportable and ill thought out position that could I can only assume be given to you by a three year old developmentally disabled child and place it securely in your anal cavity.
Let me know which of those words you found offensive.
Which means the submitter is the writer of the article and this is just a slashvertisement to get some hits on his site. And Timmothy is a fucking useless editor. What part of the "editor" job was done by Timmothy here? Clicking the "post this shit" button?
People are offensive or they are not. Words are not offensive. Midget racing. the word midget used this way it is in no way offensive. So the word midget is not offensive. Can be used offensively but it is not offensive in and of itself. Bitch. Used on your wife is offensive. Used to describe my female dog not offensive. The word bitch is not offensive. Nigger. Used by Chris Rock while doing stand up comedy is not offensive. Used by a white guy telling a black guy to move it is. The word is not offensive. You can keep going for yourself. You can try to fix ignorant offensive people by restricting language for all. But offensive people will just use new words.
If someone is calling your nephew "gimp" then they are being offensive. If some hick walk up to a black man and says "outta my way nigger", then he is being offensive. GIMP as the name of a program that has nothing to do with disabilities is not offensive. Nigger when used by a black comedian is not offensive.
Let me go slowly here. Words are not in and of themselves offensive. People can be. People who are being offensive use words.
If I were to say that "Your nephew is a strange looking person with limited intelligence and no hope of being a full human being." That would be highly offensive and a horrible thing to say to someone. What word there is at fault? Which of those words are "offensive"?
Words are not and never have been the problem. As long as we try to fix the words we will never fix the problem.
Be offended all you want about words that in and of themselves are not offensive.
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I am a fairly conservative guy with some libertarian leanings.
I love the stuff NASA used to do. I want to see NASA attempting the things that no one else can.
I want to see people become ok with risk.
I also believe in spirituality. Some type of God that I do not understand very well.
I believe that the teachings of Jesus were good.
I think that the temperature of the earth changes. That the climate has and will change.
I believe that at some point the earth will not support humanity and that we need to have permanent space colonies.
The left seems filled with hatred for the right. Truly spiritual christian types do not have a lot of time or room for hate.
Most of the hate I see comes from smelly people that that majored in Womens studies with a minor in Ethiopian tribal art and screaming about having student loan debit and no good prospects for a job.
You want higher education? Get a reasonable loan and work. Study something that can pay. Then take a bath.
While I respect your views I think that they are wrong.
Making people less and less responsible for their community has (In my opinion) made things worse.
People should handle the routine policing of their own communities. Police can not do it.
Police solve murders, they almost never prevent them.
Police solve crimes that have taken place.
If people became more responsible for the safety of their communities then more crimes would be stopped.
The idea that anyone and everyone can and will bust you would be a major crime deterrent.
Also once you remove personal responsibility from the populace and give it all to the police you begin to get more and more corrupt police.
You know. Police that get to arrest you for filming. "Contempt of Cop"
Not only is this happening a lot. But even as we find out it is happening a large portion of the populace has not stood up and held their police accountable for these actions. This is (again in my opinion) the direct result of the police becoming "the" authority figure for most of us.
I think that they should only be "an" authority figure. Not "The".
So is protecting yourself from a robber in your own home in California.
The people that made it liked it.
They are all that really matters since they do not have to turn a profit.
All they have to do is build the program they want and it is really awesome that they share it with the rest of us.
Of course some would rather bitch at the developers of their free open source program than thank them for it.
Whatever floats your boat.
One was on time. The next was two days late. The third was 6 days late.
They gave back the site almost a month after the third extension expired.
The FBI is a wholy owned subsidiary of The **AAs.
Fuck them.
The problem is that it is not the word.
You just used the word. In what I consider a completely appropriate manner.
But in almost every publication the use "The N-Word". That is incredibly stupid.
I used to hold it wrong ... Till I took an arrow to the knee.
Sorry.
If I was still a Nokia shareholder I would be stupid.
lols
I am not saying that people don't get offended by the use of words.
People are offensive sometimes and they use words to do it.
Banishing of words has never and will never stop people from being offensive.
If you look to getting rid of words to make you feel better you are not going to feel better.
What I stated were perfect examples of how the very same word can be used and not be offensive.
That means that it is not the word that is offensive.
If it were the word itself that was offensive there would be no non offensive ways to use it.
Regardless. I am sure that many people were offended that I used the word at all.
The same people who are not offended but laugh when Chris Rock uses it.
Slashdot has been horrible today.
Windows 2008 Server?
They probably could make it a better name.
Never thought it was a great name.
My issue is with people who think that words are offensive.
Words can be used offensively. No one is saying that they can not be.
"Non offensive" words can be used to offend.
"Offensive" words can be used in "Non Offensive" ways.
WORDS are not offensive.
Faggot used to describe a bundle of sticks is not offensive.
Midget used in Midget racing is not offensive.
Nigger used by Chris Rock on stage is not offensive.
Bitch used to describe my female dog is not offensive.
I could say "Your mothers rounded face and lack of any real intelligence has made me believe that she has no hope of ever achieving full human status."
I am sure you would find that offensive. It would be. What offensive word did I use?
Words are not offensive, people are.
Fix the problem, not the word.
I have to tell you. Large black trucks sitting in left hand turn lanes reminds me of a massively painful and debilitating situation I had.
Does not mean that I can ban the ability for large black trucks to use left hand turn lanes.
Once we stop trying to fix what is not the problem we can start to fix what is the problem.
Though as long as people are focusing on evil words they will continue to just change as they always have.
You will need to show how exactly it is that it is the words themselves that are offensive.
I have been quite clear about how it is that words are not the issue. I used actual examples and facts. I did not just say "You are wrong"
If you would like to present some facts that back up your statement then I would be happy to hear them.
You can take your massively unsupportable and ill thought out position that could I can only assume be given to you by a three year old developmentally disabled child and place it securely in your anal cavity.
Let me know which of those words you found offensive.
Which means the submitter is the writer of the article and this is just a slashvertisement to get some hits on his site.
And Timmothy is a fucking useless editor.
What part of the "editor" job was done by Timmothy here?
Clicking the "post this shit" button?
Why not educate people.
If they can not be educated then they are not worth (in my opinion) worrying about.
Fix people not words.
My guess at the time was that anal rape could not have felt much worse than my experience with Dell at that time. :)
GIMP was not considered all that offensive when it started.
Language has become much more PC over the years.
People are offensive or they are not. Words are not offensive.
Midget racing. the word midget used this way it is in no way offensive.
So the word midget is not offensive. Can be used offensively but it is not offensive in and of itself.
Bitch. Used on your wife is offensive. Used to describe my female dog not offensive. The word bitch is not offensive.
Nigger. Used by Chris Rock while doing stand up comedy is not offensive. Used by a white guy telling a black guy to move it is. The word is not offensive.
You can keep going for yourself.
You can try to fix ignorant offensive people by restricting language for all. But offensive people will just use new words.
Read the comment you are replying to.
If someone is calling your nephew "gimp" then they are being offensive.
If some hick walk up to a black man and says "outta my way nigger", then he is being offensive.
GIMP as the name of a program that has nothing to do with disabilities is not offensive.
Nigger when used by a black comedian is not offensive.
Let me go slowly here.
Words are not in and of themselves offensive. People can be. People who are being offensive use words.
If I were to say that "Your nephew is a strange looking person with limited intelligence and no hope of being a full human being."
That would be highly offensive and a horrible thing to say to someone.
What word there is at fault? Which of those words are "offensive"?
Words are not and never have been the problem. As long as we try to fix the words we will never fix the problem.
Be offended all you want about words that in and of themselves are not offensive.