> whites are responsible for most of the crap in the world.
Absolutely not. Rich people are responsible for most of the crap in the world. It's a sad fact, though, that most of the rich people are also white. There are also rich black people that serve up shit salad to poor people of all colors.
> The fact fact that you replied with "anonymous coward" speaks volumes about you and your position.
Then I will reply with a name in his place. I refuse to pay others for things that happened to their long-gone families which were not caused by me or my family.
> That is why the disadvantaged feel you are at fault still.
I am fairly sure this isn't what you meant, but that can be a sticky statement, in the given context: it could appear to say that "minority" == "disadvantaged" and "white" == "advantaged". What about the poor white people? There are plenty of them, and they are still stuck, generation after generation, in the same way that poor black families are. I believe that many problems stem from poverty or near-poverty, rather than race. It looks like a racial issue because due to horrific actions in the past, many "minorities" are poor. Then many people in that situation see that the "others" are white, and therefore that must be the reason why they are wealthy -- not because their parents' parents' parents were wealthy, and passed along money and opportunity.
Of course there is still a lot of racism, which does prevent some people from achieving what they want and/or deserve. I just don't think it's quite as prevelant as many would have you believe.
> Yes, because as we all know, [anglo-saxon Christians have done many very, very, VERY, bad things]
As the other reply pointed out, you are a bigoted moron. You seem to think that A-SC's caused "Native American" tribes didn't go to war and brutally kill each other before any white people landed in the "New World." Africa would be a peaceful, beautiful place, if only the dirty Xtians hadn't gone there and stolen the black man from his land (ignoring that they were "sold" by another black man). That Hitler was driven to genocide by Christianity, not because he was a fucking nutball with great persuasive abilities. That war would no longer exist, if only the Christians would go away.
It has nothing to being white, or religion, except that it is used as a justification for the greed and disgusting, blind ambition of [i]individuals[/i]. The powerful people were white because the white people in Europe were the ones who were able to advance faster, for longer. It probably would have been Arabs and/or Persians, had their sciences and progress not been castrated, early last millennium.
> it's a lot easier to turn the other cheek when your trade included [lumberjacking, basically]
Way to misunderstand the Bible. Completely. "Turn the other cheek" has NOTHING to do with economics, except that if someone steals half of your money, you should offer them the other half. Well, not exactly, but it's closer than passing it off as goat-herder logic.
> I'd rather live in a world where we're in power instead of fundamentalists or communists
Good post, although I'd like to point out that those in power in the US are fundamentalists. They may not be as overtly brutal as the fundamentalists you were actually referring to, though...
> Anyone who gets too vocal or decides to stand up for themselves against government or a big company will be thrown in prison, labelled a terrorist, and none of their fellow citizens will stand by them.
That's exactly why almost no one has heard of this guy named Michael Moore. Hopefully you can find a page or two about him through Google, although Big Brother may have wiped away all record of him by now. He tried to make a conspiracy-theory movie a few years back, but was jailed before he could finish it. Oh wait, that was a dream...
Cowardice and greed are attributes of individuals, not an entire "generation." If you have those attributes, fine -- that's your deal, it's not my place to judge that. However, there are still those willing to fight for what they believe is right, and most of them are not in jail. Unfortunately, the cowardly and greedy do consider those people to be nutty for not being cowardly -- they will then probably assume that the motivation must be greed or some other sort of personal/political agenda (besides freedom and justice, that is).
> > Most people aren't willing to put their families' lives at stake for the right to run Windows. > when software becomes a large part of our economy [...], I'm sure things will change. Wait...
Could you please finish that thought, as it doesn't make sense in this context. Are you seriously suggesting that now, or some time in the future, people do/will put their families at risk so they can run Windows?
> You could do it months in advance. You could feasibly kidnap someone's pet, implant a bomb with an altimeter in it
Of course, you would have to know that a particular animal is going to be on a plane a few months later... Might as well get your own dog, then you wan't have to bother stealing one and waiting for the fur to regrow to give it back. After all, if my dog disappeared, then came back suddenly, with 20 stitches in his stomach, I'd be a little concorned, and might think about taking it to the vet... where they have X-Ray machines.
If your network is overtaxed it doesn't mean there's necessarily a problem with the network, it means you OVERSOLD your network and are now pissed off that people are using the capacity they paid for. It's a faulty business model (and faulty thinking) that assumes everyone will use under 100% of their always-on connection's bandwidth. It's probably true, but if you rely on it, you will get burned.
Their system doesn't facilitate the actual transaction... If I pay by cash, money order, etc. eBay never sees any of it. If I were to pay via google's service they would never see it either. Neither way is it done "via their system."
> Communism was not a racist and sexist ideology. Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing for conservative Americans.
Hating someone because their parents are not white is bad, but hating someone because they were born in America and believe certain things is OK? What hypocritical bullshit! While we're throwing around wildly inaccurate statements: all Muslims are terrorists; all Liberals are anticorporate socialists; all Conservatives are rich, white, warmongering pricks; all Europeans are whiny bitches; and all Americans also drive SUVs while eating quintuple-stacked hamburgers smothered in BBQ sauce and drinking 144oz. beers.
> I'm half-surprised that MS hasn't [...] acted as the software gateway for other vendors. Maybe the other vendors don't want to be beholden to MS.
Sure, they have a lot of money and lawyers, but that's just saying "Hey, sue me again!" Not to mention that they would have to actually verify that the software works.
> called its janitors "Building Maintenance Technicians."
Not bad, but I prefer our Hospital's "Environmental Services" staff... "Housekeeping." I don't think they are called Technicians, though, which would make it better than yours, IMO:)
He said "Normally" which implies "most of the time, but not always." He still would have been correct if he would have left it at "Propaganda is marketing when trying to market a political agenda."
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> whites are responsible for most of the crap in the world.
Absolutely not. Rich people are responsible for most of the crap in the world. It's a sad fact, though, that most of the rich people are also white. There are also rich black people that serve up shit salad to poor people of all colors.
> Since when is anglo-saxon christian a derogatory racial group term?
When they are Protestants. See: WASP
> The fact fact that you replied with "anonymous coward" speaks volumes about you and your position.
Then I will reply with a name in his place. I refuse to pay others for things that happened to their long-gone families which were not caused by me or my family.
> That is why the disadvantaged feel you are at fault still.
I am fairly sure this isn't what you meant, but that can be a sticky statement, in the given context: it could appear to say that "minority" == "disadvantaged" and "white" == "advantaged". What about the poor white people? There are plenty of them, and they are still stuck, generation after generation, in the same way that poor black families are. I believe that many problems stem from poverty or near-poverty, rather than race. It looks like a racial issue because due to horrific actions in the past, many "minorities" are poor. Then many people in that situation see that the "others" are white, and therefore that must be the reason why they are wealthy -- not because their parents' parents' parents were wealthy, and passed along money and opportunity.
Of course there is still a lot of racism, which does prevent some people from achieving what they want and/or deserve. I just don't think it's quite as prevelant as many would have you believe.
> Yes, because as we all know, [anglo-saxon Christians have done many very, very, VERY, bad things]
As the other reply pointed out, you are a bigoted moron. You seem to think that A-SC's caused "Native American" tribes didn't go to war and brutally kill each other before any white people landed in the "New World." Africa would be a peaceful, beautiful place, if only the dirty Xtians hadn't gone there and stolen the black man from his land (ignoring that they were "sold" by another black man). That Hitler was driven to genocide by Christianity, not because he was a fucking nutball with great persuasive abilities. That war would no longer exist, if only the Christians would go away.
It has nothing to being white, or religion, except that it is used as a justification for the greed and disgusting, blind ambition of [i]individuals[/i]. The powerful people were white because the white people in Europe were the ones who were able to advance faster, for longer. It probably would have been Arabs and/or Persians, had their sciences and progress not been castrated, early last millennium.
> it's a lot easier to turn the other cheek when your trade included [lumberjacking, basically]
Way to misunderstand the Bible. Completely. "Turn the other cheek" has NOTHING to do with economics, except that if someone steals half of your money, you should offer them the other half. Well, not exactly, but it's closer than passing it off as goat-herder logic.
> I'd rather live in a world where we're in power instead of fundamentalists or communists
Good post, although I'd like to point out that those in power in the US are fundamentalists. They may not be as overtly brutal as the fundamentalists you were actually referring to, though...
> Anyone who gets too vocal or decides to stand up for themselves against government or a big company will be thrown in prison, labelled a terrorist, and none of their fellow citizens will stand by them.
That's exactly why almost no one has heard of this guy named Michael Moore. Hopefully you can find a page or two about him through Google, although Big Brother may have wiped away all record of him by now. He tried to make a conspiracy-theory movie a few years back, but was jailed before he could finish it. Oh wait, that was a dream...
Cowardice and greed are attributes of individuals, not an entire "generation." If you have those attributes, fine -- that's your deal, it's not my place to judge that. However, there are still those willing to fight for what they believe is right, and most of them are not in jail. Unfortunately, the cowardly and greedy do consider those people to be nutty for not being cowardly -- they will then probably assume that the motivation must be greed or some other sort of personal/political agenda (besides freedom and justice, that is).
> > Most people aren't willing to put their families' lives at stake for the right to run Windows.
> when software becomes a large part of our economy [...], I'm sure things will change. Wait...
Could you please finish that thought, as it doesn't make sense in this context. Are you seriously suggesting that now, or some time in the future, people do/will put their families at risk so they can run Windows?
Please perform maintenance on your sarcasm detector: it has failed.
> Have you even read things like the Hezbollah Charter
I'd be interested in seeing what it says, but unfortunately, it appears to be nearly impossible to find online. Got a link?
> You could do it months in advance. You could feasibly kidnap someone's pet, implant a bomb with an altimeter in it
Of course, you would have to know that a particular animal is going to be on a plane a few months later... Might as well get your own dog, then you wan't have to bother stealing one and waiting for the fur to regrow to give it back. After all, if my dog disappeared, then came back suddenly, with 20 stitches in his stomach, I'd be a little concorned, and might think about taking it to the vet... where they have X-Ray machines.
You are ignoring the many thousands of tablets that DIDN'T make it this long...
Tables.
If your network is overtaxed it doesn't mean there's necessarily a problem with the network, it means you OVERSOLD your network and are now pissed off that people are using the capacity they paid for. It's a faulty business model (and faulty thinking) that assumes everyone will use under 100% of their always-on connection's bandwidth. It's probably true, but if you rely on it, you will get burned.
> They don't, unless you do it via their system.
Their system doesn't facilitate the actual transaction... If I pay by cash, money order, etc. eBay never sees any of it. If I were to pay via google's service they would never see it either. Neither way is it done "via their system."
> The Ebay auction system is theirs. When you choose to use it, you agree to use one of their approved payment options
That argument is only valid for debts/payments to eBay itself. eBay should have no say in how two people settle debts between themselves.
> Communism was not a racist and sexist ideology. Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing for conservative Americans.
Hating someone because their parents are not white is bad, but hating someone because they were born in America and believe certain things is OK? What hypocritical bullshit! While we're throwing around wildly inaccurate statements: all Muslims are terrorists; all Liberals are anticorporate socialists; all Conservatives are rich, white, warmongering pricks; all Europeans are whiny bitches; and all Americans also drive SUVs while eating quintuple-stacked hamburgers smothered in BBQ sauce and drinking 144oz. beers.
That must have gone *whoosh* over the mods' heads, cuz that's funny :)
> All it takes is a jackass with a laptop brought into a network
And all it takes to prevent that from being a problem? Knowing how to secure a damned network and maybe an hour of work.
> I'm half-surprised that MS hasn't [...] acted as the software gateway for other vendors. Maybe the other vendors don't want to be beholden to MS.
Sure, they have a lot of money and lawyers, but that's just saying "Hey, sue me again!" Not to mention that they would have to actually verify that the software works.
> It still riles me up when I see someone in IT with a title of Engineer
Hey, I drive the IT Train, you insensitive clod!
> called its janitors "Building Maintenance Technicians."
:)
Not bad, but I prefer our Hospital's "Environmental Services" staff... "Housekeeping." I don't think they are called Technicians, though, which would make it better than yours, IMO
He said "Normally" which implies "most of the time, but not always." He still would have been correct if he would have left it at "Propaganda is marketing when trying to market a political agenda."
Now, a FLAMEBAIT??? I was replying to myself, who could I possibly be baiting!?!? Geez, someone needs to lay off the caffiene, or something...