It seems fairly just on its face but say I have a product that is an oil for people with African phenotype hair. It would be crazy for me to be sued for targeting African Americans. What if I wanted sales people for my product? Shouldn't I be able to publish an ad that targets African Americans that will actually be able to successfully market it for me? A white chick with straight blonde hair probably isn't going to be my best salesperson.
This seems pretty nonsensical to me. The entire point of advertising is to reach those groups most likely to respond to your product. Life without discrimination isn't even really life.. you can't even acknowledge a difference between right and wrong, good or evil. It's like we're trying to unmake ourselves.
The average IQ in Saudi is 85.. They're holding onto being a semi functional (basically a non-african) country by their fingernails. They could possibly import East Asians en mass but I don't know many successful westerners that would want to live in a country where they behead people in the streets and might imprison you for flirting with a girl. Probably not a big deal though since we're talking about their investment in a western company. The work would likely occur in America and China.
Well, that's a good point. I think it is the inverse of the first comment about European guilt in the extraction of resources but it is a significant problem I've heard in parts of Africa and obviously the middle east suffers from a form of this also. The Congo specifically has had some articles written about how it is cursed by its natural wealth. I have trouble though with the notion that we should rationalize African countries instabilities as being due at once either:
a) to the extraction of resources we expropriated from them as colonies
or when that fails
b) they're so rich that they cannot succeed but anyway it is still probably due to colonialism.
What tide exactly? Are you referring to the walkaway movement or the record number of hispanics that support Trump? He has great economy and job numbers. Even if you don't credit the tax plan and his efforts to in-source labor once more to the US... He'll get credit for it. The media will be against him but people rely more on person to person spreading of stories now and no one trusts the media. Even then, their negative coverage of him will essentially be free advertising for him given that even those watching the media tend to automatically distrust what is presented to them.
This is just silly. Lets consider South Africa. The place was uninhabitable without dutch ingenuity and irrigation systems and then it became the wealthiest country in Africa. Take a look at this link these are countries ranked by income from natural resources as percentage of GDP. Would you want to live in many of those top ranked countries? Natural resources do not correlate to wealth except tangentially. Japan has virtually no natural resources. Somalia? Congo... quite rich in them.
Yeah best case most of the money gets to the poor. Even then you're basically subsidizing the regime in that country by offsetting the negative consequences. Africa has me really worried. We're pouring money into it and causing their population to boom dramatically assuming that they'll continue industrializing and then reach a point of less than the replacement rate of 2.x children per woman. They'll reach 2+ billion people in 2035 or thereabout. We're assuming a European or Asian type response but Africans are their own people. I hope the doom and gloom is wrong but I'm expecting massive famines once the west cannot sustain food donations and then a migration crisis the likes of which the world has never known.
It is irritating. There are a lot of cool apps that can take advantage of the standard 3.5mm headphone port... USB C is likely not going to be the standard in 20 years but we've got this 19th century standard going strong. Want a temperature sensor? No problem.
What I find amusing about that is that the first time I heard the phrase "low information voter", I was a kid riding in my dad's pickup truck as he listened to Rush Limbaugh. For years I assumed that was one of his coined phrases. I think it's natural whichever side you are on to assume the others on the other side of the line are the ignorant ones.
Besides, Damore's piece wasn't "conservative" by any rational definition of that word.
Would you argue it was liberal? What wasn't conservative about it? I guess it wasn't advocating for a pre 21st century outcome. He actually expressed the desire to increase female participation so it could be interpreted as progressive / liberal but it expressed the opinion that differences in outcomes among genders was due to fundamental differences between genders which is the traditional 20th century since beginning of time view.
Nah. For the most part science is a western phenomena. Ancient westerners established a certain level of technology in china and for the rest of their history they stayed pretty much at that level. Chinese are very intelligent capable people but they have never demonstrated a capacity for innovation.
The AC didn't specify that the video had to include an image of me personally or one of my loved ones. That is a narrower argument but doesn't address the story posted for Facebook. We're talking about "hurtful" content. I may feel some personal attachment to a certain idea. Say my parents died in a camp in WW2 or something of that sort. That doesn't mean I should be able to suppress holocaust denial. Say instead that someone was posting pictures of my dead parents in the camp, in that case I can see an argument but I'm not sure still which side of it I would end on. In this case we're not even talking about images themselves but ideas communicated in the images through text. So I don't think my comment the one going off on a tangent. I think the AC's comment was the tangent... unless I'm misunderstanding the story.
No. That seems very silly to me. What if the worst moment of my life was the towers coming down in NY? Does that mean that no one gets to post videos of that day? I may be able to get behind owning images of myself and taking down videos of me personally (though I doubt it) but I don't get to own and suppress ideas.
The only way I can see it being that high in the US would be due to immigrants not familiar with the native language. That isn't really a fair comparison. While literacy is still a problem in the US it is improving going by these 1992 vs 2003 numbers link. I just glanced at this study but I think it has gone from 9% below basic proficiency for whites to 7% and for blacks it has improved quite a bit from 30% below basic proficiency to 24%. Possibly higher now since those are 2003 numbers
Lynching was common in the US 100 years ago so I don't think this easily attributable to race but what is that such an objectionable thing to even consider? Societies do reflect the people that make them up. Are you arguing that there is no difference between races or that evolution only acts on various flavors of humans from the neck down and then from the neck up it is only skin deep?
Some idiot in the US shot up a pizza parlor because of that stupid PizzaGate stuff
Ah, no. As far as I am aware this did not happen. A man showed up armed to the Pizza parlor "rumored" to be involved in this activity but he didn't shoot anything up. Armed men.. kind of not a big deal in the US though in DC I'm sure it was illegal. Anyway those are different situations. One is an example of mob violence / lynching another is lone actors.
"very severe disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the gut, they completely inhibited the return of the indigenous microbiome which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment,"
Isn't that the entire point of taking probiotics? To populate the gut microbiome with whatever you are ingesting? Who in their right mind would have theorized anything else occurring? The entire point is to get those strains of bacteria in the guts. How is that a "very severe disturbance"?
I don't think anyone would argue otherwise.. I wasn't addressing "pro-white supremacy" which is obviously as wrong headed as say the notion that white people are neanderthal mutant cave monkeys that lack melanin which is the divine quality that defines a human being.
Black Americans are less likely in a given encounter to be shot by police than white Americans which makes perfect sense when you consider the spotlight of a police shooting involving a black american vs a white american. This has been born out in several studies, one: link. The only reason this seems not to be the case is that a disproportionate amount of young black men get into encounters (homicide numbers) with police in the first place. I'm not going to get into the President but to the third point, criminal statistics based on race and country of origin are well known these days. I'm assuming you don't need me to cite them
You cannot discriminate based on race. There is a good argument to be made that if these companies allow pro-[racial group] content but specifically exclude pro-white content that this is a violation of those people's civil rights. Now, I'm not a fan of the civil rights act in general but you must be even handed about it. Currently, they are not. They specifically target only a certain group.
Pretty much this. The entire Russian meddling thing is largely a sipe hunt but I do think there is a general concern among the establishment on both sides that they can no longer steer the ship. A world where people will vote for either Bernie or Trump but discard Bush and Hillary... is probably terrifying to a good portion of the "mainstream".
I don't really like separate offices but I agree the open floor plan can be a pain when you're trying to think. I bought a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones seeking some kind of isolation but... that just resulted in people walking over to my area and standing behind me awkwardly until I acknowledged them.
Can't you get the same experience by running some nature scenes on a 39" monitor?
No. You get some benefit that is measurable but not as significant. They've done studies that simply having x amount of trees in your neighborhood (controlling for wealth etc.) lowers cancer very risk significantly. Here's one study with a bunch of interesting references summary: When one ponders humans existing less than 0.01% of the species’ history in modern surroundings and the other 99.99% of the time living in nature, it is no wonder some humans yearn and are drawn back to where human physiological/psychological functions began and were naturally supported. The Biophilia Hypothesis [8] supports SY and NT because it is steeped in the idea humans have an inner biological attraction to nature and its importance in our human development...
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It seems fairly just on its face but say I have a product that is an oil for people with African phenotype hair. It would be crazy for me to be sued for targeting African Americans. What if I wanted sales people for my product? Shouldn't I be able to publish an ad that targets African Americans that will actually be able to successfully market it for me? A white chick with straight blonde hair probably isn't going to be my best salesperson.
This seems pretty nonsensical to me. The entire point of advertising is to reach those groups most likely to respond to your product. Life without discrimination isn't even really life.. you can't even acknowledge a difference between right and wrong, good or evil. It's like we're trying to unmake ourselves.
The average IQ in Saudi is 85.. They're holding onto being a semi functional (basically a non-african) country by their fingernails. They could possibly import East Asians en mass but I don't know many successful westerners that would want to live in a country where they behead people in the streets and might imprison you for flirting with a girl. Probably not a big deal though since we're talking about their investment in a western company. The work would likely occur in America and China.
Well, that's a good point. I think it is the inverse of the first comment about European guilt in the extraction of resources but it is a significant problem I've heard in parts of Africa and obviously the middle east suffers from a form of this also. The Congo specifically has had some articles written about how it is cursed by its natural wealth. I have trouble though with the notion that we should rationalize African countries instabilities as being due at once either:
a) to the extraction of resources we expropriated from them as colonies
or when that fails
b) they're so rich that they cannot succeed but anyway it is still probably due to colonialism.
What tide exactly? Are you referring to the walkaway movement or the record number of hispanics that support Trump? He has great economy and job numbers. Even if you don't credit the tax plan and his efforts to in-source labor once more to the US... He'll get credit for it. The media will be against him but people rely more on person to person spreading of stories now and no one trusts the media. Even then, their negative coverage of him will essentially be free advertising for him given that even those watching the media tend to automatically distrust what is presented to them.
This is just silly. Lets consider South Africa. The place was uninhabitable without dutch ingenuity and irrigation systems and then it became the wealthiest country in Africa. Take a look at this link these are countries ranked by income from natural resources as percentage of GDP. Would you want to live in many of those top ranked countries? Natural resources do not correlate to wealth except tangentially. Japan has virtually no natural resources. Somalia? Congo... quite rich in them.
Yeah best case most of the money gets to the poor. Even then you're basically subsidizing the regime in that country by offsetting the negative consequences. Africa has me really worried. We're pouring money into it and causing their population to boom dramatically assuming that they'll continue industrializing and then reach a point of less than the replacement rate of 2.x children per woman. They'll reach 2+ billion people in 2035 or thereabout. We're assuming a European or Asian type response but Africans are their own people. I hope the doom and gloom is wrong but I'm expecting massive famines once the west cannot sustain food donations and then a migration crisis the likes of which the world has never known.
It is irritating. There are a lot of cool apps that can take advantage of the standard 3.5mm headphone port... USB C is likely not going to be the standard in 20 years but we've got this 19th century standard going strong. Want a temperature sensor? No problem.
What I find amusing about that is that the first time I heard the phrase "low information voter", I was a kid riding in my dad's pickup truck as he listened to Rush Limbaugh. For years I assumed that was one of his coined phrases. I think it's natural whichever side you are on to assume the others on the other side of the line are the ignorant ones.
Given the tone of your post I think we can all be thankful for that.
Besides, Damore's piece wasn't "conservative" by any rational definition of that word.
Would you argue it was liberal? What wasn't conservative about it? I guess it wasn't advocating for a pre 21st century outcome. He actually expressed the desire to increase female participation so it could be interpreted as progressive / liberal but it expressed the opinion that differences in outcomes among genders was due to fundamental differences between genders which is the traditional 20th century since beginning of time view.
Nah. For the most part science is a western phenomena. Ancient westerners established a certain level of technology in china and for the rest of their history they stayed pretty much at that level. Chinese are very intelligent capable people but they have never demonstrated a capacity for innovation.
The AC didn't specify that the video had to include an image of me personally or one of my loved ones. That is a narrower argument but doesn't address the story posted for Facebook. We're talking about "hurtful" content. I may feel some personal attachment to a certain idea. Say my parents died in a camp in WW2 or something of that sort. That doesn't mean I should be able to suppress holocaust denial. Say instead that someone was posting pictures of my dead parents in the camp, in that case I can see an argument but I'm not sure still which side of it I would end on. In this case we're not even talking about images themselves but ideas communicated in the images through text. So I don't think my comment the one going off on a tangent. I think the AC's comment was the tangent... unless I'm misunderstanding the story.
No. That seems very silly to me. What if the worst moment of my life was the towers coming down in NY? Does that mean that no one gets to post videos of that day? I may be able to get behind owning images of myself and taking down videos of me personally (though I doubt it) but I don't get to own and suppress ideas.
I apologize you are correct. I remembered reading the story but must have missed the shots fired.
The only way I can see it being that high in the US would be due to immigrants not familiar with the native language. That isn't really a fair comparison. While literacy is still a problem in the US it is improving going by these 1992 vs 2003 numbers link. I just glanced at this study but I think it has gone from 9% below basic proficiency for whites to 7% and for blacks it has improved quite a bit from 30% below basic proficiency to 24%. Possibly higher now since those are 2003 numbers
Lynching was common in the US 100 years ago so I don't think this easily attributable to race but what is that such an objectionable thing to even consider? Societies do reflect the people that make them up. Are you arguing that there is no difference between races or that evolution only acts on various flavors of humans from the neck down and then from the neck up it is only skin deep?
Some idiot in the US shot up a pizza parlor because of that stupid PizzaGate stuff
Ah, no. As far as I am aware this did not happen. A man showed up armed to the Pizza parlor "rumored" to be involved in this activity but he didn't shoot anything up. Armed men.. kind of not a big deal in the US though in DC I'm sure it was illegal. Anyway those are different situations. One is an example of mob violence / lynching another is lone actors.
"very severe disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the gut, they completely inhibited the return of the indigenous microbiome which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment,"
Isn't that the entire point of taking probiotics? To populate the gut microbiome with whatever you are ingesting? Who in their right mind would have theorized anything else occurring? The entire point is to get those strains of bacteria in the guts. How is that a "very severe disturbance"?
I don't think anyone would argue otherwise.. I wasn't addressing "pro-white supremacy" which is obviously as wrong headed as say the notion that white people are neanderthal mutant cave monkeys that lack melanin which is the divine quality that defines a human being.
Black Americans are less likely in a given encounter to be shot by police than white Americans which makes perfect sense when you consider the spotlight of a police shooting involving a black american vs a white american. This has been born out in several studies, one: link. The only reason this seems not to be the case is that a disproportionate amount of young black men get into encounters (homicide numbers) with police in the first place. I'm not going to get into the President but to the third point, criminal statistics based on race and country of origin are well known these days. I'm assuming you don't need me to cite them
You cannot discriminate based on race. There is a good argument to be made that if these companies allow pro-[racial group] content but specifically exclude pro-white content that this is a violation of those people's civil rights. Now, I'm not a fan of the civil rights act in general but you must be even handed about it. Currently, they are not. They specifically target only a certain group.
Pretty much this. The entire Russian meddling thing is largely a sipe hunt but I do think there is a general concern among the establishment on both sides that they can no longer steer the ship. A world where people will vote for either Bernie or Trump but discard Bush and Hillary... is probably terrifying to a good portion of the "mainstream".
I don't really like separate offices but I agree the open floor plan can be a pain when you're trying to think. I bought a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones seeking some kind of isolation but... that just resulted in people walking over to my area and standing behind me awkwardly until I acknowledged them.
Can't you get the same experience by running some nature scenes on a 39" monitor?
No. You get some benefit that is measurable but not as significant. They've done studies that simply having x amount of trees in your neighborhood (controlling for wealth etc.) lowers cancer very risk significantly. Here's one study with a bunch of interesting references summary: When one ponders humans existing less than 0.01% of the species’ history in modern surroundings and the other 99.99% of the time living in nature, it is no wonder some humans yearn and are drawn back to where human physiological/psychological functions began and were naturally supported. The Biophilia Hypothesis [8] supports SY and NT because it is steeped in the idea humans have an inner biological attraction to nature and its importance in our human development...