Ah, but encouraging women to go into IT isn't for OUR benefit, it's for the benefit of the feminazi's (so called to separate them from people who actually desire gender equality) who think women trying to be rich and powerful and hating men is more important than women trying to be happy.
Situation 1: I make $15,000 a year. Milk is $2/gallon. It's a bit stiff, but I can stretch to make ends meet.
Situation 2: I make $0 a year because my job was outsourced. Milk is $1/gallon. As far as I'm concerned, it might as well be $.25/gallon or $6/gallon, because it's still out of my reach.
Simple mathematics show that bringing the prices down doesn't mean much if wages are brought down even further.
While I can't speak for the original poster, I can speak for me and mine...
I'm not a xenophobe. I like other cultures (as long as they aren't beheading people for stealing or beating their wives). I like other cuisines, other fashions, other songs and sculptures.
I have no problem whatsoever with anybody, Hispanic, Indian, or anything else, migrating to this country legally and becoming U.S. citizens. I don't even mind if they continue to cook curries and burritos and wear brightly colored clothing. In fact, I'd like to learn from them how to make curry. No cultural or racist problems here.
What I disagree with is the same thing the first poster disagreed with: people entering the country illegally to do substandard work, start gangs, mooch off the systems created for citizens, and ruin somebody else's good name through identity theft. They could be lily-white Englishmen and I'd feel the Same Way.
Let them come, like they always have. The culture of the U.S. is immigrant to it's core. Let them come... legally!
Actually, thanks to the serious changes that are decimating food production, my part of the world is able to grow hundreds of things previously out of our zone. They say in medieval times, that wine grapes used to come out of mid-to-northern Germany.
This is what I'm wondering... if we think climate change is rampant and coming fast, why haven't we started MOVING THE FARMS up a zone yet?
(I can give you one good reason... frosts have been threatening the California and Florida orange crops for the past several years. It's kind of weird that such rampant warming can cause frost in Florida and snow in Iraq.)
Yeah, they've been trying to keep their constituents from going into poverty paying for free school breakfasts, government-subsidized daycare for the middle class, government-subsidized healthcare for the rich, etc.
How dare they try to keep their constituents from going into poverty driving to work and heating their homes in the winter?
Exxon's profit margin - 10%
Microsoft's profit margin - 28%
Pfizer's profit margin - 25%
(and elderly are choosing between medication and food! But who cares? They're not Big Oil!)
I don't buy Exxon, though, because it's too expensive. So let me try the oil company I actually buy from:
Citgo's profit margin - 2%
How about that?
So let's take a look at a gallon of gasoline, ok?
Percentages are approximate and based on 2002/2003
13% - Distribution and marketing
14% - Refining costs and profits
30% - Federal and State Taxes
43% - Crude Oil
Assuming gasoline is $4/gallon:
Exxon's profit: $0.056
Government profit: $1.20
Go on, tell us more about these exorbitant profits... and feel free to bookmark this.
This is actually absolutely true. Each and every one of us should take responsibility for helping the poor and elderly in our neighborhoods.
Government aid is frequently misplaced, often inadequate, and always impersonal. Poverty will never end so long as we rely on a bunch of bigwigs in Washington to decide what a homeless person really needs. (Big-screen TV's and free zoo passes, anybody?)
No, actually, we want fewer laws. No laws need to be enacted to force oil companies to drill and refine.
What we'd like is for Congress to REMOVE some laws so that the people who know how to provide us with energy can do so. There's no dissonance involved, see?
I'd like them to do it before I have to fill my oil tank for the winter, please.
People keep claiming that, but in fact this person would be "making a copy of your ferrari" at between $20 and $100/month depending on his ISP. I know, nitpicking.
In my state, you have to break out of working class and even middle class and reach upper-middle-class or richer in order to...
...have the same food budget as someone on food stamps.
Seriously, this working-class family has been living on 2/3rds of what we would get if we were on food stamps. It isn't that they don't care about the poor or they don't care about the rich.. it's that nobody cares about the working class and middle class. I think when the Liberals are done impoverishing us to give the poor their cars and TV's, they just forget that we exist...
So we make ends meet the same way the poor used to. When I heard the latest bunk about "we understand your pain", I said, "Call me when Michelle Obama starts reusing tin foil."
Well, no. In this case it involved people telling me it was illegal (it wasn't), followed by people tearing down my little notice put on the Student-Led Groups For Students bulletin board, which the school officials said was the proper place to put it.
How did I know it was torn down and not taken? The little bits of paper left under the pushpins. How often did it happen? At least twice daily for weeks.
So as I said, I wasn't flogged or anything, so it depends on whether being told what you're doing is illegal and having your notice torn down repeatedly is persecution or not. A Christian in China probably would laugh, but that doesn't mean it's valid behavior for a "free country", especially one that is "overwhelmingly Christian".
Try reading a Bible during recess at your local elementary school sometime. Or better yet, try starting a student-led, student-comprised Bible study at your local college.
Granted I've never been flogged. Does that mean I've never been 'persecuted'?
I've been reading the Koran. So far I've only got partway through it's "correction" of the Old Testament. The correction I've found most interesting so far is that Moses was told by God to strike the rock to bring forth water for the Israelites. In the manuscripts that both Jews and Christians follow, it says that God told Moses to speak to the rock. Moses struck it instead, and did not give the glory to God. He was punished for it.
Why is that at all significant? Well, Muslims believe that one way to be assured of Heaven is to follow the example of a "righteous man". Christians say that "there is none righteous" and point out that even the very best and most prized of God's people have gone astray. I found it interesting that at least one piece of evidence to refute the Muslim view has been mysteriously altered ("corrected?") in the Koran.
As I continue reading, I begin to wonder what else I will find in the 'history sections' that has been altered.. *ahem*.. 'corrected'.. in order to turn a very unusual and groundbreaking theology into Just Another Try To Be Good Enough Religion.
Or it would, if you've ever seen any pacifists claiming that people who aren't pacifists don't deserve to live.
C'mon, equating a creator of evil and a fighter of evil and contrasting them against those who choose to do nothing against evil is rather silly.
Some might disagree... in an affluent society, anyone and everyone will create, whether they're paid to or not. Sure it's every webcomic's dream to be self-supported, but how many actually are? How many of them quit?
All you need to make a movie is a computer and a $150 digital camera with vid capture. For some of us, even the camera is unnecessary.
Let's face it: the ability to make cool movies and great music is no longer only in the hands of The Big Companies. In this new world, anybody could be the next Michelangelo. And artists, true artists, create no matter what they're paid.
Indeed, experts generally agree that most -- but not all -- of the Arizona matches were to be expected statistically because of the unusual way Troyer searched for them.
In a typical criminal case, investigators look for matches to a specific profile. But the Arizona search looked for any matches among all the thousands of profiles in the database, greatly increasing the odds of finding them.
As a result, Thomas Callaghan, head of the FBI's CODIS unit, has dismissed Troyer's findings as "misleading" and "meaningless."
He urged authorities in several states to object to Arizona-style searches, advising them to tell courts that the probes could violate the privacy of convicted offenders, tie up crucial databases and even lead the FBI to expel offending states from CODIS -- a penalty that could cripple states' ability to solve crimes.
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I find it interesting that almost everyone here assumes that the FBI are blocking this because they've Got Something To Hide, instead of the conclusion that I, as a software engineer, automatically assumed - that they fear lawyers digging through a bunch of stuff that basically paralyzes their computer system and leaves large groups useless for their Real work.. apprehending real criminals who really do bad things.. just to prove that something unlikely really isn't so.
Well, he could've said "one had blond hair and the other had black hair" or "one had fine hair and the other had wiry hair" or "one of them was tall and one was short" or "one of them is a scientist and the other is a lawyer", but really "black vs. white" is a really quick way to be able to prove to the average listener that these two aren't the same person.
Or it could be that Virginia is tired of bogging down its court system every single time someone thinks they found a new piece of lint for the next twenty or more years that the guy's in jail. After all, as time goes on, most physical evidence degrades and it's harder and harder to prove precisely what happened.
Being a U.S. citizen, I can point to a LOT of excellent things that the Bush Administration has done.:) My family suffered a great deal under the Clinton Administration, and it was only in the past about six or seven years that we've really begun to thrive again. (Unfortunately, the changes made when the Democrats retook Congress nearly two years ago have started to reverse that, and we are once again wondering how to make it through each month.:P)
But all that aside, you got my point exactly. The problem I see is less a matter of people disagreeing with what he's doing and more a matter of linking his name online to "miserable failure", trying to name a sewage treatment plant after him (...but those places take in a terrible mess and pump out cleanliness?), and other stupid elementary-school playground nonsense.
It reminds me of how the other kids treated me. Pick someone, almost as much at random as for any other reason, to hate so that you can congratulate each other on not being that person. I got pretty much the same treatment in sixth grade as Bush is getting now, and it sounded just as intelligent.
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Yes, I absolutely did, and I wondered if anyone else did too.
Unfortunately, too many people seem to be blinded by a curious form of hate to allow anything good to be connected with Bush. When people can't consider the possibility that someone who disagrees with them might be doing the best he can to do what he thinks is right, you begin to wonder about those people and what they're projecting.
Outside of big cities, white Americans can't GET to public transportation. My nearest bus stop is nearly 5 miles away. Let's see... an hour and a half long walk followed by an hourlong bus trip to get to the grocery store, or a 20min car ride and the back of the wagon to put groceries in when you're done? I'd like to get my milk home before it curdles, thankee.
The issue you're seeing is "white Americans are more likely to live further away from the public transportation system", not "white Americans have more of a problem with taking it than minorities".
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Ah, but encouraging women to go into IT isn't for OUR benefit, it's for the benefit of the feminazi's (so called to separate them from people who actually desire gender equality) who think women trying to be rich and powerful and hating men is more important than women trying to be happy.
Situation 1: I make $15,000 a year. Milk is $2/gallon. It's a bit stiff, but I can stretch to make ends meet.
Situation 2: I make $0 a year because my job was outsourced. Milk is $1/gallon. As far as I'm concerned, it might as well be $.25/gallon or $6/gallon, because it's still out of my reach.
Simple mathematics show that bringing the prices down doesn't mean much if wages are brought down even further.
While I can't speak for the original poster, I can speak for me and mine...
I'm not a xenophobe. I like other cultures (as long as they aren't beheading people for stealing or beating their wives). I like other cuisines, other fashions, other songs and sculptures.
I have no problem whatsoever with anybody, Hispanic, Indian, or anything else, migrating to this country legally and becoming U.S. citizens. I don't even mind if they continue to cook curries and burritos and wear brightly colored clothing. In fact, I'd like to learn from them how to make curry. No cultural or racist problems here.
What I disagree with is the same thing the first poster disagreed with: people entering the country illegally to do substandard work, start gangs, mooch off the systems created for citizens, and ruin somebody else's good name through identity theft. They could be lily-white Englishmen and I'd feel the Same Way.
Let them come, like they always have. The culture of the U.S. is immigrant to it's core. Let them come... legally!
Your own comment is racist in itself. Not everyone who's rich, powerful, and trying to inflame racism as a Divide and Conquer tool is white.
Actually, thanks to the serious changes that are decimating food production, my part of the world is able to grow hundreds of things previously out of our zone. They say in medieval times, that wine grapes used to come out of mid-to-northern Germany.
This is what I'm wondering... if we think climate change is rampant and coming fast, why haven't we started MOVING THE FARMS up a zone yet?
(I can give you one good reason... frosts have been threatening the California and Florida orange crops for the past several years. It's kind of weird that such rampant warming can cause frost in Florida and snow in Iraq.)
Yeah, they've been trying to keep their constituents from going into poverty paying for free school breakfasts, government-subsidized daycare for the middle class, government-subsidized healthcare for the rich, etc.
How dare they try to keep their constituents from going into poverty driving to work and heating their homes in the winter?
Unless demand continues to increase despite the price rise. Your profit percentage can even fall and you can still make a higher profit.
Exxon's profit margin - 10%
Microsoft's profit margin - 28%
Pfizer's profit margin - 25%
(and elderly are choosing between medication and food! But who cares? They're not Big Oil!)
I don't buy Exxon, though, because it's too expensive. So let me try the oil company I actually buy from:
Citgo's profit margin - 2%
How about that?
So let's take a look at a gallon of gasoline, ok? Percentages are approximate and based on 2002/2003
13% - Distribution and marketing
14% - Refining costs and profits
30% - Federal and State Taxes
43% - Crude Oil
Assuming gasoline is $4/gallon:
Exxon's profit: $0.056
Government profit: $1.20
Go on, tell us more about these exorbitant profits... and feel free to bookmark this.
This is actually absolutely true. Each and every one of us should take responsibility for helping the poor and elderly in our neighborhoods.
Government aid is frequently misplaced, often inadequate, and always impersonal. Poverty will never end so long as we rely on a bunch of bigwigs in Washington to decide what a homeless person really needs. (Big-screen TV's and free zoo passes, anybody?)
No, actually, we want fewer laws. No laws need to be enacted to force oil companies to drill and refine.
What we'd like is for Congress to REMOVE some laws so that the people who know how to provide us with energy can do so. There's no dissonance involved, see?
I'd like them to do it before I have to fill my oil tank for the winter, please.
People keep claiming that, but in fact this person would be "making a copy of your ferrari" at between $20 and $100/month depending on his ISP. I know, nitpicking.
In my state, you have to break out of working class and even middle class and reach upper-middle-class or richer in order to...
...have the same food budget as someone on food stamps.
Seriously, this working-class family has been living on 2/3rds of what we would get if we were on food stamps. It isn't that they don't care about the poor or they don't care about the rich.. it's that nobody cares about the working class and middle class. I think when the Liberals are done impoverishing us to give the poor their cars and TV's, they just forget that we exist...
So we make ends meet the same way the poor used to. When I heard the latest bunk about "we understand your pain", I said, "Call me when Michelle Obama starts reusing tin foil."
I'm nearly 32, and it was in place when I was a teenager.
According to studies as well as psychologist opinion, girls largely base their self-worth on their fathers.
Well, no. In this case it involved people telling me it was illegal (it wasn't), followed by people tearing down my little notice put on the Student-Led Groups For Students bulletin board, which the school officials said was the proper place to put it.
How did I know it was torn down and not taken? The little bits of paper left under the pushpins. How often did it happen? At least twice daily for weeks.
So as I said, I wasn't flogged or anything, so it depends on whether being told what you're doing is illegal and having your notice torn down repeatedly is persecution or not. A Christian in China probably would laugh, but that doesn't mean it's valid behavior for a "free country", especially one that is "overwhelmingly Christian".
Try reading a Bible during recess at your local elementary school sometime. Or better yet, try starting a student-led, student-comprised Bible study at your local college.
Granted I've never been flogged. Does that mean I've never been 'persecuted'?
Not all of America is "the Bible belt".
I've been reading the Koran. So far I've only got partway through it's "correction" of the Old Testament. The correction I've found most interesting so far is that Moses was told by God to strike the rock to bring forth water for the Israelites. In the manuscripts that both Jews and Christians follow, it says that God told Moses to speak to the rock. Moses struck it instead, and did not give the glory to God. He was punished for it.
Why is that at all significant? Well, Muslims believe that one way to be assured of Heaven is to follow the example of a "righteous man". Christians say that "there is none righteous" and point out that even the very best and most prized of God's people have gone astray. I found it interesting that at least one piece of evidence to refute the Muslim view has been mysteriously altered ("corrected?") in the Koran.
As I continue reading, I begin to wonder what else I will find in the 'history sections' that has been altered.. *ahem*.. 'corrected'.. in order to turn a very unusual and groundbreaking theology into Just Another Try To Be Good Enough Religion.
Or it would, if you've ever seen any pacifists claiming that people who aren't pacifists don't deserve to live. C'mon, equating a creator of evil and a fighter of evil and contrasting them against those who choose to do nothing against evil is rather silly.
Some might disagree... in an affluent society, anyone and everyone will create, whether they're paid to or not. Sure it's every webcomic's dream to be self-supported, but how many actually are? How many of them quit?
All you need to make a movie is a computer and a $150 digital camera with vid capture. For some of us, even the camera is unnecessary.
Let's face it: the ability to make cool movies and great music is no longer only in the hands of The Big Companies. In this new world, anybody could be the next Michelangelo. And artists, true artists, create no matter what they're paid.
From the article:
Indeed, experts generally agree that most -- but not all -- of the Arizona matches were to be expected statistically because of the unusual way Troyer searched for them.
In a typical criminal case, investigators look for matches to a specific profile. But the Arizona search looked for any matches among all the thousands of profiles in the database, greatly increasing the odds of finding them.
As a result, Thomas Callaghan, head of the FBI's CODIS unit, has dismissed Troyer's findings as "misleading" and "meaningless."
He urged authorities in several states to object to Arizona-style searches, advising them to tell courts that the probes could violate the privacy of convicted offenders, tie up crucial databases and even lead the FBI to expel offending states from CODIS -- a penalty that could cripple states' ability to solve crimes.
_______________________
I find it interesting that almost everyone here assumes that the FBI are blocking this because they've Got Something To Hide, instead of the conclusion that I, as a software engineer, automatically assumed - that they fear lawyers digging through a bunch of stuff that basically paralyzes their computer system and leaves large groups useless for their Real work.. apprehending real criminals who really do bad things.. just to prove that something unlikely really isn't so.
Well, he could've said "one had blond hair and the other had black hair" or "one had fine hair and the other had wiry hair" or "one of them was tall and one was short" or "one of them is a scientist and the other is a lawyer", but really "black vs. white" is a really quick way to be able to prove to the average listener that these two aren't the same person.
Or it could be that Virginia is tired of bogging down its court system every single time someone thinks they found a new piece of lint for the next twenty or more years that the guy's in jail. After all, as time goes on, most physical evidence degrades and it's harder and harder to prove precisely what happened.
Being a U.S. citizen, I can point to a LOT of excellent things that the Bush Administration has done. :) My family suffered a great deal under the Clinton Administration, and it was only in the past about six or seven years that we've really begun to thrive again. (Unfortunately, the changes made when the Democrats retook Congress nearly two years ago have started to reverse that, and we are once again wondering how to make it through each month. :P)
But all that aside, you got my point exactly. The problem I see is less a matter of people disagreeing with what he's doing and more a matter of linking his name online to "miserable failure", trying to name a sewage treatment plant after him (...but those places take in a terrible mess and pump out cleanliness?), and other stupid elementary-school playground nonsense.
It reminds me of how the other kids treated me. Pick someone, almost as much at random as for any other reason, to hate so that you can congratulate each other on not being that person. I got pretty much the same treatment in sixth grade as Bush is getting now, and it sounded just as intelligent.
Yes, I absolutely did, and I wondered if anyone else did too.
Unfortunately, too many people seem to be blinded by a curious form of hate to allow anything good to be connected with Bush. When people can't consider the possibility that someone who disagrees with them might be doing the best he can to do what he thinks is right, you begin to wonder about those people and what they're projecting.
A fanatical agnostic goes like this: "I don't know if what God is like and NEITHER DO YOU! NOBODY CAN! And if you think you know, then YOU'RE WRONG!"
Outside of big cities, white Americans can't GET to public transportation. My nearest bus stop is nearly 5 miles away. Let's see... an hour and a half long walk followed by an hourlong bus trip to get to the grocery store, or a 20min car ride and the back of the wagon to put groceries in when you're done? I'd like to get my milk home before it curdles, thankee.
The issue you're seeing is "white Americans are more likely to live further away from the public transportation system", not "white Americans have more of a problem with taking it than minorities".