I actually might agree with you about affirmative action. The solution seems nearly as bad as the problem, and worse than doing nothing in the case of all non-racist employers. But I don't think it's a sign that the Dems are still racist.
Billy Mays here! Are you disappointed at current materials? Want a super-strong wonder material that will let you build a space elevator while generating solar power at the same time? Well now there's Graphene! Yes, Graphene! See how much stronger and lighter it is than steel! Look at how it outperforms a traditional solar panel! The uses are practically limitless!
How much do you think a sheet of this stuff would cost per square foot? 100 million dollars? 70 million dollars? Well you can order it right now at just $39.99 million dollars per square foot! Just pay separate shipping and handling!
*mental capslock off*
Orderyour graphenesheet rightnow! Justpay thirtyninemillion ninehundred and ninetyninethousand ninehundred and ninetyninedollars and ninetyninecents plusshipping andprocessing! Thisofferwontlastforever,buynow!
I was reading through a summary of the entire history of BitCoin on SomethingAwful and I lost any respect I ever had for that project and its participants. I made the right decision to not waste any electricity on it.
That argument is thinly veiled libertarian soapboxing, that by providing welfare (which AFAIK applies equally to all races, but would obviously be received in large part by blacks given the US' history) they are harming the welfare recipients by not forcing them to either work or starve to death in a gutter, and thus harming the black population.
So because the D and R parties still exist as organizations, with different people and different agendas, it's not comparable? That's little more than playing with nomenclature. I mean Germany and Japan still retain their names (two countries with very different names in English, but you know what I mean) and are even inhabited by the descendants of the people who committed and enabled so many war crimes, and yet we've been able to move on.
More of Reagan's sweet empty words, coming from the very same man who extended embargoes against Cuba. If he showed consistency by ending the Cuba embargo I could at least understand his position.
I'm sorry but I just can't swallow all these weak rationalizations and ignore the actions surrounding them. It's the same reason I don't consider Obama a liberal at all, despite what he says.
It's already there, just a low-tech version. Look at the RC plane bomber. A man with a dangerously nutty mind but not guilty of anything. The feds baited him into committing all his "crimes" so that they could lock up a potentially dangerous, but innocent man. It's entrapment, even if we feel good about putting the nutball behind bars.
So what they're doing is taking variables that are innocent and legal (changing the pitch of one's voice is not an inherently criminal act), and using it to justify increased surveillance of that individual.
<voice class="indian_accent">I am in some serious shit now my friend...</voice>
In the future this will be looked back on as being as stupid as McCarthyism. Looking for terrorists under every bed and around every corner, monitoring people's bodies for signs of terrorist intent...the terrorists have won beyond their wildest dreams. And if we examine Pearl Harbor as precedent, none of us will live to see the damage undone.
Being against affirmative action is one thing (and a very small part of the picture), but what could he possibly say to explain his support of an apartheid regime and opposition to various purely anti-discrimination acts? He paid a lot of lip service to civil rights and then tried to justify his lack of support of civil rights and even anti-civil-rights actions with hollow, specious arguments. I'm familiar with many of his speeches already and considered them in forming my opinion of him.
Loyalty never pays in the modern corporate world, the financial aspect of this decision is easy. It's a moral decision you have to make, so do whatever you feel is right.
I do know his history better than you. I was alive then. I lived it first person. I watched the propagandists attack him and I am telling you first hand that your "resources" are full of shit.
That makes you another second-hand source to me, why are you more reliable than all the others?
Which non-propagandist sources can I use? Everything I can find backs up everything I said in my earlier post. Clearly almost every source out there must be propaganda, and there is some massive conspiracy to repaint history, is this what you believe?
I have researched his actions. Are you saying those things didn't actually happen? That you know history better than me? Are your sources more authoritative?
How are the purported words of Reagan more real than his purported actions, since I've witnessed neither first-hand?
I hate advertisements, water marks, and disruptive in-show advertisements SO MUCH,
Product placement is getting really crazy these days. In some cases it's so in-your-face that it snaps you out of whatever you're watching, like a guy surprise-cock-slapping you in the face and yelling "YOU'RE WATCHING A MOVIE MADE TO GENERATE PROFIT MOTHERFUCKER!"
Agreed. If they were smart they'd sell their movies DRM-free and get the best of both worlds - they'd be selling a product as good as a pirated movie and wouldn't be giving up control (and profits) to some monolithic media store that could then take the entire industry by the balls.
Want to buy Captain America? Google it, it goes to whatever the studio's site is, you set up an account and punch in a credit card number and download your movie. Any service that wants to make itself a middleman then has to compete with that. Sell it cheap and most people would rather pay a few dollars than bother with the minor technical challenge and legal murkiness of piracy.
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A comedy site, yes, but the article was based on verifiable facts. And I did verify many of them because I was shocked at the level of stupidity.
I actually might agree with you about affirmative action. The solution seems nearly as bad as the problem, and worse than doing nothing in the case of all non-racist employers. But I don't think it's a sign that the Dems are still racist.
*engage mental capslock*
Billy Mays here! Are you disappointed at current materials? Want a super-strong wonder material that will let you build a space elevator while generating solar power at the same time? Well now there's Graphene! Yes, Graphene! See how much stronger and lighter it is than steel! Look at how it outperforms a traditional solar panel! The uses are practically limitless!
How much do you think a sheet of this stuff would cost per square foot? 100 million dollars? 70 million dollars? Well you can order it right now at just $39.99 million dollars per square foot! Just pay separate shipping and handling!
*mental capslock off*
Orderyour graphenesheet rightnow! Justpay thirtyninemillion
ninehundred and ninetyninethousand
ninehundred and ninetyninedollars
and ninetyninecents
plusshipping andprocessing!
Thisofferwontlastforever,buynow!
Especially in electric cars, that would be great. The electric equivalent of turbocharging! MOAR BOOST!
I was reading through a summary of the entire history of BitCoin on SomethingAwful and I lost any respect I ever had for that project and its participants. I made the right decision to not waste any electricity on it.
I say the more potential energy cure-alls we have that are "20 years away" the better! :-P
Thanks, will have to check out the video later.
That argument is thinly veiled libertarian soapboxing, that by providing welfare (which AFAIK applies equally to all races, but would obviously be received in large part by blacks given the US' history) they are harming the welfare recipients by not forcing them to either work or starve to death in a gutter, and thus harming the black population.
I don't buy it for a second.
I saw it, and I don't see how that affects the big crunch theory. But then I'm not an astrophysicist.
I think you can tell a strawman from an analogy.
So because the D and R parties still exist as organizations, with different people and different agendas, it's not comparable? That's little more than playing with nomenclature. I mean Germany and Japan still retain their names (two countries with very different names in English, but you know what I mean) and are even inhabited by the descendants of the people who committed and enabled so many war crimes, and yet we've been able to move on.
More of Reagan's sweet empty words, coming from the very same man who extended embargoes against Cuba. If he showed consistency by ending the Cuba embargo I could at least understand his position.
I'm sorry but I just can't swallow all these weak rationalizations and ignore the actions surrounding them. It's the same reason I don't consider Obama a liberal at all, despite what he says.
I know. Heck look at the discussion in my sig.
It's already there, just a low-tech version. Look at the RC plane bomber. A man with a dangerously nutty mind but not guilty of anything. The feds baited him into committing all his "crimes" so that they could lock up a potentially dangerous, but innocent man. It's entrapment, even if we feel good about putting the nutball behind bars.
Technically there will always be a future (until the big crunch, at least).
So what they're doing is taking variables that are innocent and legal (changing the pitch of one's voice is not an inherently criminal act), and using it to justify increased surveillance of that individual.
<voice class="indian_accent">I am in some serious shit now my friend...</voice>
In the future this will be looked back on as being as stupid as McCarthyism. Looking for terrorists under every bed and around every corner, monitoring people's bodies for signs of terrorist intent...the terrorists have won beyond their wildest dreams. And if we examine Pearl Harbor as precedent, none of us will live to see the damage undone.
Being against affirmative action is one thing (and a very small part of the picture), but what could he possibly say to explain his support of an apartheid regime and opposition to various purely anti-discrimination acts? He paid a lot of lip service to civil rights and then tried to justify his lack of support of civil rights and even anti-civil-rights actions with hollow, specious arguments. I'm familiar with many of his speeches already and considered them in forming my opinion of him.
Loyalty never pays in the modern corporate world, the financial aspect of this decision is easy. It's a moral decision you have to make, so do whatever you feel is right.
I do know his history better than you. I was alive then. I lived it first person. I watched the propagandists attack him and I am telling you first hand that your "resources" are full of shit.
That makes you another second-hand source to me, why are you more reliable than all the others?
Which non-propagandist sources can I use? Everything I can find backs up everything I said in my earlier post. Clearly almost every source out there must be propaganda, and there is some massive conspiracy to repaint history, is this what you believe?
I have researched his actions. Are you saying those things didn't actually happen? That you know history better than me? Are your sources more authoritative?
How are the purported words of Reagan more real than his purported actions, since I've witnessed neither first-hand?
I hate advertisements, water marks, and disruptive in-show advertisements SO MUCH,
Product placement is getting really crazy these days. In some cases it's so in-your-face that it snaps you out of whatever you're watching, like a guy surprise-cock-slapping you in the face and yelling "YOU'RE WATCHING A MOVIE MADE TO GENERATE PROFIT MOTHERFUCKER!"
Agreed. If they were smart they'd sell their movies DRM-free and get the best of both worlds - they'd be selling a product as good as a pirated movie and wouldn't be giving up control (and profits) to some monolithic media store that could then take the entire industry by the balls.
Want to buy Captain America? Google it, it goes to whatever the studio's site is, you set up an account and punch in a credit card number and download your movie. Any service that wants to make itself a middleman then has to compete with that. Sell it cheap and most people would rather pay a few dollars than bother with the minor technical challenge and legal murkiness of piracy.
I lol'd XD
I like, mod parent Insightful.
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