Those sources don't say anything about Clinton creating any law threatening to sue banks that didn't lend to minorities. It says he deregulated the industry, it says nothing about the law 'forcing' lenders to lend. So my allegation of right wing lies still stands.
Don't right wingers usually laud deregulation? Don't left wingers usually decry it? I do, and I think Clinton screwed up here, but it is the height of hypocrisy for pro-deregulation right wing trolls to call him on it.
You haven't repeatedly done anything. Your victories exist only in your own mind. Just to be clear, The Star Wars action figures you have lined up on your desk in your mom's basement are not 'your co-workers.' They are plastic dolls.
Tell me, gotten any positive moderations here? No? How's your karma? You seem to be out of touch as far as what the rest of Slashdot thinks of me, because I have excellent karma, and continue to get moderated up. And you don't. If I'm the idiot you claim to be, then everyone else here must be idiots too. So why waste your time posting on a web site full of idiots? Find something better to do.
You keep on losing pathetically in this argument, but you are too dumb to know it. But now I grow bored, my server installs are done and I don't have any more time to kill taunting you, so I'm afraid our little game here is done. Maybe you can find someone else to validate your pathetic existence.
Humans are social animals. Most of us are born with mirror circuitry in our brains that gives us empathy, the ability to feel what others are feeling. It hurts most people to take advantage of others. Our genes are selfish, and it is in their self interest that we do not normally act in ours. Our collective gene-pool strives towards species wide, not individual survival.
We are born not with a desire to out-compete all other humans, but with a desire to uphold fairness and reciprocity, and to punish selfishness. It is only when we find ourselves in a society that does the opposite that most people resort to selfishness, and the 'all people are inherently selfish' meme becomes self-fulfilling.
This has been proven through modern economic research. People do not act solely in their own self interest. They will act against their own self interest to punish unfairness. Look up the ultimatum game for an example of one such experiment.
Only sociopaths and psychopaths act entirely in their own self interest, because they are born without mirror circuitry.
Consensus (among psychologists) is that IQ scores are following a normal distribution, thus mean and median are the same.
Wow, psychologists must be forbidden to ever take a statistics class then. Remember, these people are usually just as fucked up as the people who pay them $$$ to listen and now we're trusting them to do math.
Tom Cruise is posting to Slashdot now? Don't worry, Tom, Saint Hubbard will protect you from the evil psychologists and the bad, gay thoughts they put in your head.
LOL. Classic psychological projection. You've got an obsession, dude. You are WAY too interested in me. I mean, in a way, I'm flattered. I can understand, you know I'm superior and you're drawn to me, like a moth to a flame.
It just gets better and better. Reread your post, I made you so mad, you can't even type correctly anymore. Super-sweet. Please, keep going, maybe you'll get so mad you have an aneurysm!
I'd say that this is more of a case of wishful thinking. People who are struggling get told that they are safe with an ARM because the housing market is so good and the good times are never going to end. So, they either believe, or they continue to rent from slumlords, in crime ridden neighborhoods. They are kind of screwed either way, just because they are poor and can be taken advantage of. It's a sad fact that humans often believe what they want to believe, not what the facts support. They may still be smart about many other things.
I think your suggestion would go a long way towards helping people like that see the truth, not what they want to believe is true.
I've heard this allegation from other sources too, but no one seems to be able to show any sources for it. It could be true, and it wouldn't be the only dumb thing Clinton did (NAFTA, for instance), but unless someone can show me the actual text of the law Clinton supposedly signed, I'm going to have to chalk this one up to more right wing lies.
I think you're reading too much into what I wrote, because I don't really feel like bailing people out either. If it were the poor that I were helping, I might be okay with it. But bailouts protect the rich, not the poor, and they really don't need our money, now do they?
Also, a difference between 'dumb' and 'uneducated about financial matters.' Is there a class on ARMS in high school people can take? I don't think those are covered in home ec.
People can't be experts on every field. Add to that fact that finances bring up survival fears in most people, and fear shuts down the brain, and you will see that many people may be smart in many areas, but uneducated about finance.
So people have to trust the experts they hire to do right by them. When those experts say, "Hey, you can own a house now and save that money you were putting into rent. Don't read the fine print, it's boring and it doesn't matter," people trust those experts. And they were misled.
Finally, I know you probably agree with me but I have to point it out: dumb people do not DESERVE to be taken advantage of by smart people. Social Darwinism is an inherently fascist, evil, and anti-social philosophy that destroys societies and people's lives. Don't subscribe to it. Society works because of trust, and social Darwinism destroys that trust.
Nice. I'm sure this whole mess boild down to 'idiots buying houses they can't afford' and the companies who enable them.
No, I'm sure no normal people got hurt in this mess, only bad, dumb people or greedy people who deserved it. I'm sure no first time home owning, hard working parents with dreams of getting out of the ghetto were suckered into ARMS that would screw them over at the first downturn. Nope. Couldn't happen.
I'm sure no one with a job they thought was secure got laid off and found their finances spiraling out of control, then found themselves and their kids living in their car. Nope. Not in America.
Have a heart, man. Don't try to make reality fit your worldview that everything is fair, hard work is always rewarded, and only bad people have bad things happen to them. People are born with compassion and empathy circuits in our brain for a reason, and those that don't have them or can't use them are seriously handicapped.
Dude, who do you think is reading this thread? It's a day old and buried deep. It's just you and me here.
Are you Baghdad Bob? "The spuns are killing themselves at my gates! Haha! I are winning!" Just saying you are crushing me, doesn't make it true. That's why I say you need help, and I'm serious. You're very badly delusional. You think you're somehow destroying me and my arguments, but that's only in your own mind. No one else cares. No one else even knows.
No one else is reading this, you aren't showing me up in front of anyone. You aren't proving anything, except how delusional and full of yourself you are. You are imagining a victory in your own head. I can't stop laughing.
To tell you the truth, I'm not even reading your replies, I just kinda skim over it, have a good laugh at how sad and out of touch with reality you are, and poke you some more to get you to respond again.
Keep it up, I can use the entertainment. I love trolling angry conservative idiots on the Internet, it's my one vice. It makes me so happy knowing I can make a fool like you angry enough that he can't let it go. Really, you've made my whole week here. Thanks!
Creationism does not 'answer' these questions, it merely draws a line in the sand and says, 'stop here. Do not question what is beyond the line.'
The question of matter has been answered. Matter came from energy. That is as good an answer as saying it came from God. As for DNA and replication, the answer is also as simple. the entire world was the first primordial cell, chock full of all the basic building blocks, autocatalytic sets, and simple replicators. Given enough time, life was inevitable given this rich organic soup.
But you did pay attention, didn't you? You read my post, you replied, that means you paid attention. The fun thing is, I'm forcing you to keep responding, wasting more of your time and attention, getting your blood pressure up, making you rant and rave. I love it, please keep going.
You've only shut me up in your own, delusional world.
Just because you don't understand what his point was, does not mean the point was idiotic. 'Allowing illegal aliens into the country' is an idiotic statement. If it's allowed, it's not illegal. How can you not understand one simple sentence, conveying a simple and self-evidently true idea?
Now, you my not agree with his premise, but to call it idiotic is merely to display your own lack of comprehension. It is not an indictment of the parent post.
Otherwise, words like that just don't carry the same sting they once did, making them basically useless.
Speaking of useless, what is the difference between:
basically useless
useless
"Basically" is perhaps the most useless word in the English language. It is never needed, helpful, or useful. Watch how it's used and you'll see it never modifies meaning.
I'm not sure that's true:
Basically, the solution neutralized an acid.
Basically, the program was written in a crappy language from Microsoft.
she seems to be quite racist (probably exactly the sort of McCain voting lunatic who is going to condemn us to four more years):
Calling people who disagree with your political views "lunatics" isn't racist. But it sure is bigoted, arrogant, and insulting to people who have mental problems.
I know! At least people with mental problems have an excuse...
How can you listen to me, fool? Are you hiding in my office somewhere? Please. You can't shut me up, either. Have you invented a device to stab people in the face over the Internet? I thought not.
I think you might have some kind of manic disorder. Your thinking is disorganized and illogical, and you seem to have sever delusions of grandeur. You don't actually have the power to shut me up.
You might want to see a mental health professional. Manic disorders are serious.
If you accept that anything, even God, can exist without an original cause, then you must admit the possibility that the universe itself does not need an original cause. If you think that nothing can exist without an original cause, then God can't, either. If you put God in a special category of 'original and un-caused (or self-caused) cause,' then your theory answers no questions at all. You can not say why God is in that special category, and the Universe is not. You are essentially engaged in mental masturbation.
You did waste time reading my post, and you wasted even more time replying. And YOU seem to think everyone else gives a fuck about YOUR opinion, so we're in the same boat, eh? You know what I see when you post? "Wah wah wah, someone thinks differently than me, make them stop, wah wah!" Free speech: get used to it or get off the Internet, you freak.
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Those sources don't say anything about Clinton creating any law threatening to sue banks that didn't lend to minorities. It says he deregulated the industry, it says nothing about the law 'forcing' lenders to lend. So my allegation of right wing lies still stands.
Don't right wingers usually laud deregulation? Don't left wingers usually decry it? I do, and I think Clinton screwed up here, but it is the height of hypocrisy for pro-deregulation right wing trolls to call him on it.
Your mom isn't a large enough sample size to support that statement (but she's close).
Understanding biology FAIL.
You'll find more hypocrisy and close-mindedness in organized religion than anyplace else. It tends to be the rule, not the exception.
An ugly secret of the Internet is that most females are males pretending to be females.
You haven't repeatedly done anything. Your victories exist only in your own mind. Just to be clear, The Star Wars action figures you have lined up on your desk in your mom's basement are not 'your co-workers.' They are plastic dolls.
Tell me, gotten any positive moderations here? No? How's your karma? You seem to be out of touch as far as what the rest of Slashdot thinks of me, because I have excellent karma, and continue to get moderated up. And you don't. If I'm the idiot you claim to be, then everyone else here must be idiots too. So why waste your time posting on a web site full of idiots? Find something better to do.
You keep on losing pathetically in this argument, but you are too dumb to know it. But now I grow bored, my server installs are done and I don't have any more time to kill taunting you, so I'm afraid our little game here is done. Maybe you can find someone else to validate your pathetic existence.
Humans are social animals. Most of us are born with mirror circuitry in our brains that gives us empathy, the ability to feel what others are feeling. It hurts most people to take advantage of others. Our genes are selfish, and it is in their self interest that we do not normally act in ours. Our collective gene-pool strives towards species wide, not individual survival.
We are born not with a desire to out-compete all other humans, but with a desire to uphold fairness and reciprocity, and to punish selfishness. It is only when we find ourselves in a society that does the opposite that most people resort to selfishness, and the 'all people are inherently selfish' meme becomes self-fulfilling.
This has been proven through modern economic research. People do not act solely in their own self interest. They will act against their own self interest to punish unfairness. Look up the ultimatum game for an example of one such experiment.
Only sociopaths and psychopaths act entirely in their own self interest, because they are born without mirror circuitry.
I'd evolve wings and fly away. Got any more imaginary scenarios you'd like an imaginary answer to?
Consensus (among psychologists) is that IQ scores are following a normal distribution, thus mean and median are the same.
Wow, psychologists must be forbidden to ever take a statistics class then. Remember, these people are usually just as fucked up as the people who pay them $$$ to listen and now we're trusting them to do math.
Tom Cruise is posting to Slashdot now? Don't worry, Tom, Saint Hubbard will protect you from the evil psychologists and the bad, gay thoughts they put in your head.
LOL. Classic psychological projection. You've got an obsession, dude. You are WAY too interested in me. I mean, in a way, I'm flattered. I can understand, you know I'm superior and you're drawn to me, like a moth to a flame.
It just gets better and better. Reread your post, I made you so mad, you can't even type correctly anymore. Super-sweet. Please, keep going, maybe you'll get so mad you have an aneurysm!
I'd say that this is more of a case of wishful thinking. People who are struggling get told that they are safe with an ARM because the housing market is so good and the good times are never going to end. So, they either believe, or they continue to rent from slumlords, in crime ridden neighborhoods. They are kind of screwed either way, just because they are poor and can be taken advantage of. It's a sad fact that humans often believe what they want to believe, not what the facts support. They may still be smart about many other things.
I think your suggestion would go a long way towards helping people like that see the truth, not what they want to believe is true.
I've heard this allegation from other sources too, but no one seems to be able to show any sources for it. It could be true, and it wouldn't be the only dumb thing Clinton did (NAFTA, for instance), but unless someone can show me the actual text of the law Clinton supposedly signed, I'm going to have to chalk this one up to more right wing lies.
I think you're reading too much into what I wrote, because I don't really feel like bailing people out either. If it were the poor that I were helping, I might be okay with it. But bailouts protect the rich, not the poor, and they really don't need our money, now do they?
Also, a difference between 'dumb' and 'uneducated about financial matters.' Is there a class on ARMS in high school people can take? I don't think those are covered in home ec.
People can't be experts on every field. Add to that fact that finances bring up survival fears in most people, and fear shuts down the brain, and you will see that many people may be smart in many areas, but uneducated about finance.
So people have to trust the experts they hire to do right by them. When those experts say, "Hey, you can own a house now and save that money you were putting into rent. Don't read the fine print, it's boring and it doesn't matter," people trust those experts. And they were misled.
Finally, I know you probably agree with me but I have to point it out: dumb people do not DESERVE to be taken advantage of by smart people. Social Darwinism is an inherently fascist, evil, and anti-social philosophy that destroys societies and people's lives. Don't subscribe to it. Society works because of trust, and social Darwinism destroys that trust.
Nice. I'm sure this whole mess boild down to 'idiots buying houses they can't afford' and the companies who enable them.
No, I'm sure no normal people got hurt in this mess, only bad, dumb people or greedy people who deserved it. I'm sure no first time home owning, hard working parents with dreams of getting out of the ghetto were suckered into ARMS that would screw them over at the first downturn. Nope. Couldn't happen.
I'm sure no one with a job they thought was secure got laid off and found their finances spiraling out of control, then found themselves and their kids living in their car. Nope. Not in America.
Have a heart, man. Don't try to make reality fit your worldview that everything is fair, hard work is always rewarded, and only bad people have bad things happen to them. People are born with compassion and empathy circuits in our brain for a reason, and those that don't have them or can't use them are seriously handicapped.
Dude, who do you think is reading this thread? It's a day old and buried deep. It's just you and me here.
Are you Baghdad Bob? "The spuns are killing themselves at my gates! Haha! I are winning!" Just saying you are crushing me, doesn't make it true. That's why I say you need help, and I'm serious. You're very badly delusional. You think you're somehow destroying me and my arguments, but that's only in your own mind. No one else cares. No one else even knows.
No one else is reading this, you aren't showing me up in front of anyone. You aren't proving anything, except how delusional and full of yourself you are. You are imagining a victory in your own head. I can't stop laughing.
To tell you the truth, I'm not even reading your replies, I just kinda skim over it, have a good laugh at how sad and out of touch with reality you are, and poke you some more to get you to respond again.
Keep it up, I can use the entertainment. I love trolling angry conservative idiots on the Internet, it's my one vice. It makes me so happy knowing I can make a fool like you angry enough that he can't let it go. Really, you've made my whole week here. Thanks!
Creationism does not 'answer' these questions, it merely draws a line in the sand and says, 'stop here. Do not question what is beyond the line.'
The question of matter has been answered. Matter came from energy. That is as good an answer as saying it came from God. As for DNA and replication, the answer is also as simple. the entire world was the first primordial cell, chock full of all the basic building blocks, autocatalytic sets, and simple replicators. Given enough time, life was inevitable given this rich organic soup.
But you did pay attention, didn't you? You read my post, you replied, that means you paid attention. The fun thing is, I'm forcing you to keep responding, wasting more of your time and attention, getting your blood pressure up, making you rant and rave. I love it, please keep going.
You've only shut me up in your own, delusional world.
Just because you don't understand what his point was, does not mean the point was idiotic. 'Allowing illegal aliens into the country' is an idiotic statement. If it's allowed, it's not illegal. How can you not understand one simple sentence, conveying a simple and self-evidently true idea?
Now, you my not agree with his premise, but to call it idiotic is merely to display your own lack of comprehension. It is not an indictment of the parent post.
Otherwise, words like that just don't carry the same sting they once did, making them
basically useless.
Speaking of useless, what is the difference between:
"Basically" is perhaps the most useless word in the English language. It is never needed, helpful, or useful. Watch how it's used and you'll see it never modifies meaning.
I'm not sure that's true:
Basically, the solution neutralized an acid.
Basically, the program was written in a crappy language from Microsoft.
See? There are uses for 'basically.'
Calling people who disagree with your political views "lunatics" isn't racist. But it sure is bigoted, arrogant, and insulting to people who have mental problems.
I know! At least people with mental problems have an excuse...
How can you listen to me, fool? Are you hiding in my office somewhere? Please. You can't shut me up, either. Have you invented a device to stab people in the face over the Internet? I thought not.
I think you might have some kind of manic disorder. Your thinking is disorganized and illogical, and you seem to have sever delusions of grandeur. You don't actually have the power to shut me up.
You might want to see a mental health professional. Manic disorders are serious.
Some churches are actually about intellectual freedom, though that statement too may contradict an orthodoxy.
And some prostitutes have a heart of gold. Some thieves only steal from the rich. Some politicians are honest. What's your point?
If you accept that anything, even God, can exist without an original cause, then you must admit the possibility that the universe itself does not need an original cause. If you think that nothing can exist without an original cause, then God can't, either. If you put God in a special category of 'original and un-caused (or self-caused) cause,' then your theory answers no questions at all. You can not say why God is in that special category, and the Universe is not. You are essentially engaged in mental masturbation.
And here I was thinking the purpose of the Earth was to create Rick Astley videos...
You did waste time reading my post, and you wasted even more time replying. And YOU seem to think everyone else gives a fuck about YOUR opinion, so we're in the same boat, eh? You know what I see when you post? "Wah wah wah, someone thinks differently than me, make them stop, wah wah!" Free speech: get used to it or get off the Internet, you freak.