It's not illegal to possess cash. Not even large amounts of cash. If he never saw drugs, he had no actual knowledge that anything illegal was going on. His incarceration wasn't about upholding the law, it was about making an example so that next person would know that he better cooperate with the feds.
Perhaps not but in this context, it is synonymous with "Fucks you in the ass". Which is exactly what paypal is known to do with little provocation and even less justification.
Let me know when you recover from blaming other people for your problems.
When I was 30, I decided that the cause of the problem was less important than the solution. The pointless nonsense that I was subjected to may have made me dislike that environment but it was up to me to further my education. So, I did.
Busywork is a significant part of any job almost regardless of payscale. Meetings are busywork, charting is busywork. Strategy sessions are busywork. Recording results is busywork. Reading and signing documents is busywork.
If your meetings are busywork, then you shouldn't have them. Charting, strategy sessions, recording and reporting are not busywork. They allow an organization to be sure that resources are being spent in a most constructive manner.
In fact given your rant above, you come off sounding like someone who has to be constantly stimulated in your job. Which to your supervisor sounds a lot like we have to be constantly working to keep you entertained. No offense but I'll just hire the next guy who can handle being bored from time to time without blaming me for destroying his "love of work"
What yes men like you don't seem to understand is that when we're unhappy with employment, we can leave.
It has happened to me a few times. I've left over not getting a promotion or raise that I thought I deserved. (Admittedly, I'm not unbiased in this regard) I have left over unreasonably autocratic management.
While you find ways to cope with misery, we move on and find happiness.
I can only surmise they are arrogantly looking down their nose and their user community and scoffing "Stupid cretins, we are gods, do not anger us with your squealing like pigs.
Which is pretty much the same response one gets from Google when you ask them to make a traditional menu bar an option in Chrome.
My local public school nearly killed my love of learning.
I was in the gifted program and I nearly didn't graduate with my friends. Not because I couldn't learn the material or keep up, I did that and more. I quickly became bored with pointless busy work and ended up getting into trouble. I was admitted to a state school and after a terrible freshman year, I was kicked out of academic suspension.
It took until I was 30 years old for me to recover from the damage done to my love of learning as a child. Fortunately, I was able to return to college and get my B.S. and M.S. degrees in short order but I could have easily been a statistic.
So, from someone who has experience, I say fuck Allison Benedikt. Fuck her right in her stupid ass.
I can only afford to send my children to public school but I'm doing everything possible to get them into a charter school.
People should be able to believe or disbelieve as they wish. If I have questions, I'll ask you.
I have asked questions of my Christian, Muslim and atheist friends when I was looking for clarity on their world-view. What I don't want is to have my day interrupted with proselytizing from anyone.
Obviously, hot and heavy petting. Everyone is naked. Someone says "no", that means that it's a no. No queston about that.
"You absolutely need express verbal consent, or it's rape."
I'm going to have to disagree here.
This frames sex as something that men do to women or something that women give to men as opposed to an activity between two consenting equals.
Does he have to give verbal permission for her to not have raped him?
You cannot, in one breath, argue that the sexes are equal but in another argue that the level of responsibility in sexuality is unequal.
Moreover, it doesn't address that rape is sex against someone's will, regardless of verbal statements. If the words are all that matter, putting a knife to someone's throat and making them say "yes, you have my permission to begin sex" would absolve someone of criminal liability.
If you were paying attention, you'd have seen that it was a sponsored post. It appeared on my news feed despite the fact that I had never gone to their page before.
Agreed. We should do more to educate young men about consent and why rape is never ok.
That doesn't change the reality of human nature. We've been teaching people that it's not acceptable to murder and mug each other for thousands of years but murders and muggings still happen.
Just like we all know that it's wrong to mug someone, we also don't advise people that they should walk around in high crime areas in the middle of the night with expensive jewelry on and waving stacks of cash around.
We can't stop every mugging, we can't stop every rape, people can practice good judgment and try to avoid becoming a target.
That's what I'm saying about sexual violence.
You can go through life with that "You're not the boss of me, I'll do whatever I feel like!" mentality or you can wise up and think.
Please understand, I'm in no way saying that the victims are ever at fault. I'm saying that you can decrease your chances of being victimized.
In pretty much every region, there are males who can not suppress that urge.
It's common sense to not be the low hanging fruit. I'm not saying that women should wear burqas, I am saying that it's a good idea to not be the least clothed woman in any venue.
Earlier this month I explained to the admin of an evangelical atheist FB page that I didn't want to see his sponsored posts. He accused me of being an overly sensitive Christian and of being afraid that my faith couldn't stand a little self-examination. I explained to him that I'm not a Christian and merely found him to be as annoying as any other evangelical with the audacity to intrude upon my day with his proclamations of good news. He was, in essence, acting like a non-believing Jehova's witness.
I'd be fine with curbside delivery. It would save time and allow mail carriers to remain in their vehicles. That would speed things up. I don't like the idea of mail clusters. That's how mail is done in housing projects here and it's awful.
I might ask you the question of why you assume that a gay man is going to have sex with a child? If you are straight,, are you going to try to have sex with every feamale child you see? Do you assume Gay equals pedophile?
I do not assume that. I am straight and I don't want to have sex with any female child. I do not assume that gay equals pedophile.
I recognize that most pedophiles self-identify as heterosexual. I also recognize that a small subset of all people, heterosexual and homosexual, are pedophiles.
Even though I am not interested in little girls, I understand that it would be inappropriate for me to spend the weekend out in the woods with a troop of little girls. Not because of me being a threat, but because no heterosexual man should be in that position.
I'm not equating anything. I'm asking a simple question.
I have no sexual interest in 10 year old girls, I'm also not calling it discrimination and accusing people of bigotry for not wanting heterosexual men, like myself, to be out away from civilization in charge of young girls.
To recap. I am not a threat to 10 year old children of either gender. I'm also not naive. I understand that people who are interested in children seek out ways to get trusted access to them. Any heterosexual man would be looked at with suspicion if he were to make too much effort into gaining access to young girls. It's only normal to regard any gay man with suspicion if he's trying too hard to get access to little boys.
1. The BSA is a private organization, not the government. 1A. The BSA can't incarcerate anyone for violating the ban. 1B. The BSA ban isn't a law, it's a rule.
2. Why is it so important for gay men to get out into the woods with little boys?
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We don't know that unless we know where the order itself originated.
By waiting until the information was public, they weren't engaged in insider trading.
LK
Doubt and dissent aren't caused by doubt and dissent.
People respond to personalities every bit as much as they respond to the information presented.
Instead of "All of the evidence we've ever found supports the belief that natural selection leads to the evolution of new species."
A lot of trolls say things like "Evolution is real. God is fake. Darwin fucks the baby Jesus IN THE ASS! LOLOLOLOLOLOL"
In other words, being abrasive will cause people to oppose the ideas that you support, even if you're otherwise right.
LK
It's not illegal to possess cash. Not even large amounts of cash. If he never saw drugs, he had no actual knowledge that anything illegal was going on. His incarceration wasn't about upholding the law, it was about making an example so that next person would know that he better cooperate with the feds.
LK
do you have a citation for this?
He's most likely talking about this case.
Hits description isn't 100% accurate but he's close enough.
http://www.slashdot.org/story/184153
LK
I'm not having my children's DNA available to be cataloged and searched by anyone. I'll let them decide that when they're adults.
LK
Gay isn't a synonym for bad.
Perhaps not but in this context, it is synonymous with "Fucks you in the ass". Which is exactly what paypal is known to do with little provocation and even less justification.
LK
Let me know when you recover from blaming other people for your problems.
When I was 30, I decided that the cause of the problem was less important than the solution. The pointless nonsense that I was subjected to may have made me dislike that environment but it was up to me to further my education. So, I did.
Busywork is a significant part of any job almost regardless of payscale. Meetings are busywork, charting is busywork. Strategy sessions are busywork. Recording results is busywork. Reading and signing documents is busywork.
If your meetings are busywork, then you shouldn't have them. Charting, strategy sessions, recording and reporting are not busywork. They allow an organization to be sure that resources are being spent in a most constructive manner.
In fact given your rant above, you come off sounding like someone who has to be constantly stimulated in your job. Which to your supervisor sounds a lot like we have to be constantly working to keep you entertained. No offense but I'll just hire the next guy who can handle being bored from time to time without blaming me for destroying his "love of work"
What yes men like you don't seem to understand is that when we're unhappy with employment, we can leave.
It has happened to me a few times. I've left over not getting a promotion or raise that I thought I deserved. (Admittedly, I'm not unbiased in this regard) I have left over unreasonably autocratic management.
While you find ways to cope with misery, we move on and find happiness.
LK
I can only surmise they are arrogantly looking down their nose and their user community and scoffing "Stupid cretins, we are gods, do not anger us with your squealing like pigs.
Which is pretty much the same response one gets from Google when you ask them to make a traditional menu bar an option in Chrome.
LK
My local public school nearly killed my love of learning.
I was in the gifted program and I nearly didn't graduate with my friends. Not because I couldn't learn the material or keep up, I did that and more. I quickly became bored with pointless busy work and ended up getting into trouble. I was admitted to a state school and after a terrible freshman year, I was kicked out of academic suspension.
It took until I was 30 years old for me to recover from the damage done to my love of learning as a child. Fortunately, I was able to return to college and get my B.S. and M.S. degrees in short order but I could have easily been a statistic.
So, from someone who has experience, I say fuck Allison Benedikt. Fuck her right in her stupid ass.
I can only afford to send my children to public school but I'm doing everything possible to get them into a charter school.
LK
People should be able to believe or disbelieve as they wish. If I have questions, I'll ask you.
I have asked questions of my Christian, Muslim and atheist friends when I was looking for clarity on their world-view. What I don't want is to have my day interrupted with proselytizing from anyone.
LK
We are mostly in agreement.
Obviously, hot and heavy petting. Everyone is naked. Someone says "no", that means that it's a no. No queston about that.
"You absolutely need express verbal consent, or it's rape."
I'm going to have to disagree here.
This frames sex as something that men do to women or something that women give to men as opposed to an activity between two consenting equals.
Does he have to give verbal permission for her to not have raped him?
You cannot, in one breath, argue that the sexes are equal but in another argue that the level of responsibility in sexuality is unequal.
Moreover, it doesn't address that rape is sex against someone's will, regardless of verbal statements. If the words are all that matter, putting a knife to someone's throat and making them say "yes, you have my permission to begin sex" would absolve someone of criminal liability.
LK
I didn't go there.
If you were paying attention, you'd have seen that it was a sponsored post. It appeared on my news feed despite the fact that I had never gone to their page before.
LK
Agreed. We should do more to educate young men about consent and why rape is never ok.
That doesn't change the reality of human nature. We've been teaching people that it's not acceptable to murder and mug each other for thousands of years but murders and muggings still happen.
Just like we all know that it's wrong to mug someone, we also don't advise people that they should walk around in high crime areas in the middle of the night with expensive jewelry on and waving stacks of cash around.
We can't stop every mugging, we can't stop every rape, people can practice good judgment and try to avoid becoming a target.
That's what I'm saying about sexual violence.
You can go through life with that "You're not the boss of me, I'll do whatever I feel like!" mentality or you can wise up and think.
Please understand, I'm in no way saying that the victims are ever at fault. I'm saying that you can decrease your chances of being victimized.
LK
In pretty much every region, there are males who can not suppress that urge.
It's common sense to not be the low hanging fruit. I'm not saying that women should wear burqas, I am saying that it's a good idea to not be the least clothed woman in any venue.
LK
THIS! A MILLION TIMES THIS!
Earlier this month I explained to the admin of an evangelical atheist FB page that I didn't want to see his sponsored posts. He accused me of being an overly sensitive Christian and of being afraid that my faith couldn't stand a little self-examination. I explained to him that I'm not a Christian and merely found him to be as annoying as any other evangelical with the audacity to intrude upon my day with his proclamations of good news. He was, in essence, acting like a non-believing Jehova's witness.
LK
And you are a shill.
LK
This is also the guy who advocated for forced abortions, forced sterilization and covert delivery of birth control to the unwitting.
To say he's batshit crazy is like saying that the Bush family "has been involved in politics".
LK
There are even recent import Chinese military SKSs but they're still more expensive than what the guys up in Canada are getting.
I held one of those M14s once but I didn't have the $1,000 in my pocket to buy it. It was sold before the week was out.
LK
I talk to some Canadian gun collectors and it's mind blowing how certain guns (Chinese SKSs) are significantly cheaper in Canada.
LK
I'd be fine with curbside delivery. It would save time and allow mail carriers to remain in their vehicles. That would speed things up. I don't like the idea of mail clusters. That's how mail is done in housing projects here and it's awful.
LK
And since you've touched on race, should the Boy Scouts be permitted to disallow Blacks, Hispanics or Muslims from joinning?
You do realize that they do prohibit non-christians from joining, right?
And can we please stop comparing race/ethnicity to sexual preference? It's offensive.
LK
I might ask you the question of why you assume that a gay man is going to have sex with a child? If you are straight,, are you going to try to have sex with every feamale child you see? Do you assume Gay equals pedophile?
I do not assume that.
I am straight and I don't want to have sex with any female child.
I do not assume that gay equals pedophile.
I recognize that most pedophiles self-identify as heterosexual. I also recognize that a small subset of all people, heterosexual and homosexual, are pedophiles.
Even though I am not interested in little girls, I understand that it would be inappropriate for me to spend the weekend out in the woods with a troop of little girls. Not because of me being a threat, but because no heterosexual man should be in that position.
LK
I'm not equating anything. I'm asking a simple question.
I have no sexual interest in 10 year old girls, I'm also not calling it discrimination and accusing people of bigotry for not wanting heterosexual men, like myself, to be out away from civilization in charge of young girls.
To recap. I am not a threat to 10 year old children of either gender. I'm also not naive. I understand that people who are interested in children seek out ways to get trusted access to them. Any heterosexual man would be looked at with suspicion if he were to make too much effort into gaining access to young girls. It's only normal to regard any gay man with suspicion if he's trying too hard to get access to little boys.
LK
It's nothing like that.
1. The BSA is a private organization, not the government.
1A. The BSA can't incarcerate anyone for violating the ban.
1B. The BSA ban isn't a law, it's a rule.
2. Why is it so important for gay men to get out into the woods with little boys?
LK