The vast majority of "middle east" folks who are here are here because they're tired of all the shit in their home countries. The guy next to me is Iranian; he's here now with his family because he's not going to get dragged into the street by the secret police or arrested because he went to University.
Most people, no matter where they are from, don't want to blow things up or destroy buildings. (Personally, I realize that some buildings have to be blown up, but that's because of the work I do. Frankly, if you're getting shot at by the Navy, then it's probably not a big loss if we kick you off the planet.) They want to go about their lives without the fear of being blown up or shot at.
These "Muslims" (and just for the record, not everyone from the middle east is a Muslim.) emigrating to the Western world are often highly-educated (like the non-Muslim Professional Engineer next to me that I referred to earlier), young, and wanting to make a solid contribution to the countries that they are now calling home.
We were not attacked by Muslims. The attacks on the Cole, the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon were performed by brainwashed puppets controlled by a billionaire megalomanic sociopath who convinced them that they would be better off dead. They were no more Muslim than the Branch Davidians or Manson's followers were whatever religion they purported to be. The Koran is pretty clear about the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" rule, same as the Torah and the Bible. (There are parts like Leviticus in the other texts as well, so don't cut and paste something out of context from a website.) I've had Muslim co-workers, and they are as opposed to violence as anyone else. This includes hating Hamas for rocketing Israel and condemning 9/11 as a travesty.
The TSA is bullshit security theater, plain and simple.
We got into this mess from political gaming, not from "liberals". Liberals want the government out of people's lives, smaller government, and no deficit budgets.
Way to go completely off topic and try to turn the focus away from the fact that WTC, USS Cole, and many Embassy bombings were committed by men of Middle-Eastern descent, and most if not all were muslimy.
I never once tried to suggest people of other ethnic descent are not capable of, or have never committed terrorist acts of aggression. Merely these 3-4 specific incidents were perpetrated by the same groups of hostile muslimy people, and that they are organized by their ethnicity and faith.
Also, are you really trying to imply that a couple of red-neck hicks that pulled off a couple non-coordinated attacks is anything comparable to entire Middle-East countries supporting extremely coordinated militias that have, do, and will continue to attack us?
There are extremely clear distinctions between a couple of disturbed individuals, and entire muslimy countries. One major one being that you can't go to war against 3 people, but you CAN go to war against 3 countries.
No, it's more aptly explained by "black criminals are more easy to notice thanks to racism, so they tend to get more heat"
Thanks to racism? I think you need to read a bit about the history of what you are speaking about. White slave owners and traders from Britain and US were engaged in a game of genetics. Just as farmers today breed stock for certain traits, so did the slave owners with their slaves.
For a couple hundred years the former Africans were being paired by size and strength, and those who were caught reading or teaching were severely punished or killed.
This means the breeding stock of former African black Americans is less diverse, and currently contains a wealth of strong physical traits and a deficit of strong mental traits. Knowing this it's easy to see why the majority of people in prison are black; they physically lack the mental capacity to make the moral judgments required by modern society. This allows them to commit petty and violent crimes without conscience, and that is what makes them easy to notice.
I often wonder what the correlation is between being a successful and moral black person, and the genetic diversity of their ancestry. I would guess that the majority of violent blacks in prison would have fairly stagnant genetics and be directly traced to slave lineage, and the majority of peaceful moral successful blacks have a diverse lineage mixed with other ancestral lines.
So in summary, I hardly think racism has much to do with the fact that the majority of inmates are violent black men, and instead suggest it has much more to do with their genetics and the past selective breeding that was done on their lineage.
1) A bit hypocritical for you to be angry about me reflecting your own logic. You said, "if you don't like it, leave", but when the same thing is said to you, you get offended? Why would you say something that you consider offensive yourself? Aren't we supposed to set the standards of our own treatment by the way we treat others?
2) There is no law saying you can't name your enemies, but there are laws against libel and slander. If you name all of a people (Muslims) as terrorists, then you're committing libel/slander as not all are, in fact, terrorists.
The truth is that our enemies are those who attack us. Those who support those who attack us are people we don't like. Those who say "all of category X" people are our enemies, just want your permission to do as they please.
3) Drop the whole "liberal/conservative" thing. This has nothing to do with over-simplified ideology. This is about facts. Exacting facts to get those who do harm and, with similar vigor, everything possible to protect the innocent. That's tough and requires much more effort than is required in the false dichotomy that is "liberal/conservative" banter.
Wrong, perhaps you should learn how to read before you go off ranting about something you inferred by your own misreading.
Here I'll quote myself so you can have another go at it:
Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave. I suggest you do. We don't want you here because you are a burden on our society.
Cue all the replies from people who think they should have the right to install software from a company onto any piece of hardware they want.
Apple sells systems. In the old days, nobody would even think about separating the software and hardware of an Atari, Apple, Amiga or Commodore computer.
The more you guys push to "free" Mac OS X, the more you guys risk of seeing the opposite laws being written, giving HP, Dell, Acer and others the ability to sign exclusive contracts with Microsoft. No more unlocked computers, no more OSS. Be very, very careful what you guys wish for.
Wah wah wah. The copyright laws are fucking ridiculous. Running a program constitutes an infringement since it transfers the data into memory, thus making an illegal copy.
Would a case against me memorizing my favorite book hold up in court? You can't legally force me to have a lobotomy, and I have an illegal copy of your work in my brain.
Profiling every single person from the Middle East.
Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave.
Actually, our laws and Constitution don't allow for it. If *you* don't like it, *you* need to leave.
Actually, it's assholes like you telling us what others *need*, that should probably leave. Seriously, you can leave if me not liking it bothers you that much, as I mentioned previously you have the *freedom* to do so.
I would rather change these supposed laws you speak of to allow us to defend ourselves properly without being subverted by the liberal nonsense called political correctness.
Btw, which law do you think specifically prohibits us from naming our enemies based on their country of origin, race, or religious beliefs? I want to know so I can bitch and moan about the right thing.
Certain demographics (such as young, black men) are also 'very highly over-represented' in prison.
You mean like, they are in prison, so they represent a black man in prison?
You probably meant to say something like "young black men commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes, leading to a disproportionate young black prison population."
On a wider note many such police/law enforcement databases need to be more thoroughly regulated, including things such as "Do Not Fly" lists and terrorism suspects.
You mean for people of middle east descent right?
There were no White, Black, or Asian terrorist attackers (for the 9/11, Cole, and Embassy attacks). The people we are fighting are Middle-East Muslims. The people that hijacked our planes, and blew them up or crashed them into buildings should be identified by their racial ethnicity.
Every time I fly, and see one of these God damned security assholes fucking with an old white/black/asian man or woman, I wish the TSA would all DIAF. Stop fucking pretending. Let the Middle-East Muslims cry racism/racial profiling. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. Profiling every single person from the Middle East.
Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave. I suggest you do. We don't want you here because you are a burden on our society. How fucking dare you make us act like whites/blacks/asians are our enemy simply because we've fallen prey to Political Correctness. Fuck you Middle-East Muslims, and fuck you liberals for getting us into this God awful mess.
So what I'm basically saying is that *I* should be the one controlling my content, not some other site or cloud service. Unite makes that easy for people.
On the other hand, it means that content on Unite is ephemeral and subject to the vagaries of hosting everything on one's computer(such as the information only being available while the PC is powered on and Opera is running, not 24x7). Also, does the app data stored on a computer running Unite survive a reinstall, which tends to happen often on Windows machines?
I really love how the zealots throw unsubstantiated slander around when it comes to Windows.
Either this guy is a complete retard, or is too thick-skulled to take some basic measures to ensure stability and reliability of a Windows system. For the record, I have 3 Windows workstations (XP, Vista, and 7). The XP box has a 280+ day uptime and has never had one of these 'reinstall often' things. Unless I have some "reinstall Windows gnomes" lurking about, that is the original install I did on it 4 years ago.
I have, on the other hand, had to re-install Linux several times because of some stupid driver crashing hard (related to ATI video usually), dependency-hell, or to upgrade to the newest filesystem every 3-6mo.
Sorry. We geeks playing World of Warcraft would not be engaged in killing each other if not for the game.
True. I wonder how many closet murderers indulge their taste for mayhem in a virtual world but avoid it IRL simply because it's permitted in one place and punished in the other. Or, to put it more plainly, how many would do it IRL if they were guaranteed they could get away with it.
"I once stabbed a man to watch him die. And also for 8 honor points."
Killing a mod point for this one (which will, in turn, kill some karma as well TEE-HEE!).
Homosexuals are guaranteed to get away with it in many parts of the USA now. Destroying the taboo certainly has caused an assplosion of gayness. At least on TV, Radio, Movies, Music, and publicly in metropolitan areas of the nation.
I would hope that the increased number of rapes, murders, and incest would not come as a surprise should one group of them become vocal enough to destroy those taboos. If so, perhaps I've put too much faith in my fellow heterosexual, non-rapist, non-murderer, non-incest committing mankind.
I used to work for a managed services provider and HP reseller. One of our bigger clients was Dunwoody College of Technology. One of my duties was refurbishing their HP laptops between semesters. They had a wide variety of issues ranging from Accidental Damage, wireless radio failures, to bad harddrives, etc... We even had one sent in that a drunk student vomited onto (we referred to that one as the "puke-top").
The overwhelming majority went through the refurbish process with little more than a thorough cleaning and re-imaging. HP's Channel Support was a pleasure to work with (I spent many unproductive hours on the phone with Dell Support at a previous job).
I now personally own an HP DV7 Pavillion laptop that cost me $1200 last February. It has better features than the Mac Book Pro had at the time and cost me $1400 less. Maybe I'm biased.
Hobbyist support my ass.
As a lawyer he's thinking "Ooh! 100,000 people banned, that's a big target to profit from!"
As a hobbyist, if I want to run whatever software, I pay: $100 for a motherboard, $130 for a small case and power supply, $50 for a hard drive, $30 for an optical drive, $0-200 for an operating system, $50 for a wireless keyboard and mouse, $80 for a wireless gaming controller, $15 for a DVI cable.
Anybody guess what I bought to run homebrew software? A fecking computer!
An xBox is not a computer, and if you want to change that, Microsoft is well within their rights to say they don't want xbox-like computers on Live!
An Xbox has a CPU, a GPU, RAM, a motherboard, USB, wireless, game controller, dvd-rom, a custom OS, and a pretty spiffy custom case and external PSU. How, exactly, is the 360 (or the Xbox1) not just a PC with custom DRM tailor made for gaming?
In what way is this a ZING. You are suggesting because a mistake was made once it should be made again?
Gregor
I am suggesting Barack Hussein Obama in no way has done anything to accomplish Global Peace. In fact, he has recently done A LOT to disrupt Tibet and Israel. Hence the ZING. I figured at least Monkeedude1212 would get it.
Granted, it's the Dad's right to be as much of a nitwit as he wishes, as long as he doesn't actually beat the kid up or some such.
Now, picture the difficulty this child will have conversing with the rest of humanity, hell let's just pick the English speaking world for now. How is he going to cope? I'm guessing he *can* speak English, but which language is his first, and hence his frame of reference? If he takes French classes at school, must he first go from French to English, then English to Klingon? Grammatical errors introduced from not understanding the complex nuances involved in speaking English fluently? Contractions, and contextual definition?
I'm not saying this kid is disadvantaged, but he is certainly not being set up for early success.
Obviously you've never heard of the fictitious language called Ebonics. Why isn't there a huge uproar of the English speakers to throw the child services book against the parents that perpetuate that nonsense?
Everybody knows that there were no such diseases before the modern industrial food complex started shoveling processed crap down our throats. Ancient Egyptians were practically immortal. I mean, everything you ate back then was organic, there was no fluoride in the water and the ozone layer was fully intact.
You must be on of those people that sees parents beat their kids in a walmart parking lot and think they must be right and ignore it. Thanks for outing yourself, coward.
You must be one of those parents that are raising children with a sense of entitlement by not beating them when they deserve it. Thanks for outing yourself, asshole.
The older I get, the more I seem to be losing my ear for sarcasm & facetiousness.
Assuming that the story is true [which I doubt], then PLEASE tell me that you were being sarcastic/facetious.
I honestly can't tell anymore..
Here in the US, we tend to not care about such trivial things as which languages someone opts to teach their child. For you see, our Bill of Rights guarantees us the Freedom of Speech. The fictitious Klingon language undoubtedly falls under this category.
If you were the governor of my state (Minnesota, the state in question), and you used Child Services to have this guy throw in jail while being completely innocent of committing any crimes, I would have you impeached faster than you can say, "Klingon".
You must be from one of those countries where it's acceptable to think you know how to raise other people's children better than they do. Thanks for outing yourself, totalitarian prick.
Because the real world is a line from (-INF,0) to (+INF,0). The imaginary world is the entire complex plane EXCEPT that line where y=0i.
Because given a bounded area containing a road and a chicken, according to Brownian motion the probability of the chicken crossing the road rises to exactly 1.
Mod me redundant if need be, but I just had to comment that there appears to be a mod troll lurking about, modding non-trolling posts as Troll. Thanks.
Lesson learned? NEVER make a guess on the internets because there are jackasses like MaskedSlacker that take things WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. Just a guess though.
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Tim, Terry, and Ted would like a word with you.
That word would be "kaboom".
The vast majority of "middle east" folks who are here are here because they're tired of all the shit in their home countries. The guy next to me is Iranian; he's here now with his family because he's not going to get dragged into the street by the secret police or arrested because he went to University.
Most people, no matter where they are from, don't want to blow things up or destroy buildings. (Personally, I realize that some buildings have to be blown up, but that's because of the work I do. Frankly, if you're getting shot at by the Navy, then it's probably not a big loss if we kick you off the planet.) They want to go about their lives without the fear of being blown up or shot at.
These "Muslims" (and just for the record, not everyone from the middle east is a Muslim.) emigrating to the Western world are often highly-educated (like the non-Muslim Professional Engineer next to me that I referred to earlier), young, and wanting to make a solid contribution to the countries that they are now calling home.
We were not attacked by Muslims. The attacks on the Cole, the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon were performed by brainwashed puppets controlled by a billionaire megalomanic sociopath who convinced them that they would be better off dead. They were no more Muslim than the Branch Davidians or Manson's followers were whatever religion they purported to be. The Koran is pretty clear about the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" rule, same as the Torah and the Bible. (There are parts like Leviticus in the other texts as well, so don't cut and paste something out of context from a website.) I've had Muslim co-workers, and they are as opposed to violence as anyone else. This includes hating Hamas for rocketing Israel and condemning 9/11 as a travesty.
The TSA is bullshit security theater, plain and simple.
We got into this mess from political gaming, not from "liberals". Liberals want the government out of people's lives, smaller government, and no deficit budgets.
Way to go completely off topic and try to turn the focus away from the fact that WTC, USS Cole, and many Embassy bombings were committed by men of Middle-Eastern descent, and most if not all were muslimy.
I never once tried to suggest people of other ethnic descent are not capable of, or have never committed terrorist acts of aggression. Merely these 3-4 specific incidents were perpetrated by the same groups of hostile muslimy people, and that they are organized by their ethnicity and faith.
Also, are you really trying to imply that a couple of red-neck hicks that pulled off a couple non-coordinated attacks is anything comparable to entire Middle-East countries supporting extremely coordinated militias that have, do, and will continue to attack us?
There are extremely clear distinctions between a couple of disturbed individuals, and entire muslimy countries. One major one being that you can't go to war against 3 people, but you CAN go to war against 3 countries.
No, it's more aptly explained by "black criminals are more easy to notice thanks to racism, so they tend to get more heat"
Thanks to racism? I think you need to read a bit about the history of what you are speaking about. White slave owners and traders from Britain and US were engaged in a game of genetics. Just as farmers today breed stock for certain traits, so did the slave owners with their slaves.
For a couple hundred years the former Africans were being paired by size and strength, and those who were caught reading or teaching were severely punished or killed.
This means the breeding stock of former African black Americans is less diverse, and currently contains a wealth of strong physical traits and a deficit of strong mental traits. Knowing this it's easy to see why the majority of people in prison are black; they physically lack the mental capacity to make the moral judgments required by modern society. This allows them to commit petty and violent crimes without conscience, and that is what makes them easy to notice.
I often wonder what the correlation is between being a successful and moral black person, and the genetic diversity of their ancestry. I would guess that the majority of violent blacks in prison would have fairly stagnant genetics and be directly traced to slave lineage, and the majority of peaceful moral successful blacks have a diverse lineage mixed with other ancestral lines.
So in summary, I hardly think racism has much to do with the fact that the majority of inmates are violent black men, and instead suggest it has much more to do with their genetics and the past selective breeding that was done on their lineage.
1) A bit hypocritical for you to be angry about me reflecting your own logic. You said, "if you don't like it, leave", but when the same thing is said to you, you get offended? Why would you say something that you consider offensive yourself? Aren't we supposed to set the standards of our own treatment by the way we treat others? 2) There is no law saying you can't name your enemies, but there are laws against libel and slander. If you name all of a people (Muslims) as terrorists, then you're committing libel/slander as not all are, in fact, terrorists. The truth is that our enemies are those who attack us. Those who support those who attack us are people we don't like. Those who say "all of category X" people are our enemies, just want your permission to do as they please. 3) Drop the whole "liberal/conservative" thing. This has nothing to do with over-simplified ideology. This is about facts. Exacting facts to get those who do harm and, with similar vigor, everything possible to protect the innocent. That's tough and requires much more effort than is required in the false dichotomy that is "liberal/conservative" banter.
Wrong, perhaps you should learn how to read before you go off ranting about something you inferred by your own misreading.
Here I'll quote myself so you can have another go at it:
Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave. I suggest you do. We don't want you here because you are a burden on our society.
Try to get it right this time.
Cue all the replies from people who think they should have the right to install software from a company onto any piece of hardware they want.
Apple sells systems. In the old days, nobody would even think about separating the software and hardware of an Atari, Apple, Amiga or Commodore computer.
The more you guys push to "free" Mac OS X, the more you guys risk of seeing the opposite laws being written, giving HP, Dell, Acer and others the ability to sign exclusive contracts with Microsoft. No more unlocked computers, no more OSS. Be very, very careful what you guys wish for.
Wah wah wah. The copyright laws are fucking ridiculous. Running a program constitutes an infringement since it transfers the data into memory, thus making an illegal copy.
Would a case against me memorizing my favorite book hold up in court? You can't legally force me to have a lobotomy, and I have an illegal copy of your work in my brain.
Profiling every single person from the Middle East. Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave.
Actually, our laws and Constitution don't allow for it. If *you* don't like it, *you* need to leave.
Actually, it's assholes like you telling us what others *need*, that should probably leave. Seriously, you can leave if me not liking it bothers you that much, as I mentioned previously you have the *freedom* to do so.
I would rather change these supposed laws you speak of to allow us to defend ourselves properly without being subverted by the liberal nonsense called political correctness.
Btw, which law do you think specifically prohibits us from naming our enemies based on their country of origin, race, or religious beliefs? I want to know so I can bitch and moan about the right thing.
Certain demographics (such as young, black men) are also 'very highly over-represented' in prison.
You mean like, they are in prison, so they represent a black man in prison?
You probably meant to say something like "young black men commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes, leading to a disproportionate young black prison population."
On a wider note many such police/law enforcement databases need to be more thoroughly regulated, including things such as "Do Not Fly" lists and terrorism suspects.
You mean for people of middle east descent right?
There were no White, Black, or Asian terrorist attackers (for the 9/11, Cole, and Embassy attacks). The people we are fighting are Middle-East Muslims. The people that hijacked our planes, and blew them up or crashed them into buildings should be identified by their racial ethnicity.
Every time I fly, and see one of these God damned security assholes fucking with an old white/black/asian man or woman, I wish the TSA would all DIAF. Stop fucking pretending. Let the Middle-East Muslims cry racism/racial profiling. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. Profiling every single person from the Middle East.
Don't like it? Lucky for you the USA gives you the freedom to leave. I suggest you do. We don't want you here because you are a burden on our society. How fucking dare you make us act like whites/blacks/asians are our enemy simply because we've fallen prey to Political Correctness. Fuck you Middle-East Muslims, and fuck you liberals for getting us into this God awful mess.
Quite apart from anything else, this means that you are running an ancient, unpatched system...
You wrongly make the assumption that that somehow matters.
mod parent up, i burned my points and my karma for the day!
So what I'm basically saying is that *I* should be the one controlling my content, not some other site or cloud service. Unite makes that easy for people.
On the other hand, it means that content on Unite is ephemeral and subject to the vagaries of hosting everything on one's computer(such as the information only being available while the PC is powered on and Opera is running, not 24x7). Also, does the app data stored on a computer running Unite survive a reinstall, which tends to happen often on Windows machines?
I really love how the zealots throw unsubstantiated slander around when it comes to Windows.
Either this guy is a complete retard, or is too thick-skulled to take some basic measures to ensure stability and reliability of a Windows system. For the record, I have 3 Windows workstations (XP, Vista, and 7). The XP box has a 280+ day uptime and has never had one of these 'reinstall often' things. Unless I have some "reinstall Windows gnomes" lurking about, that is the original install I did on it 4 years ago.
I have, on the other hand, had to re-install Linux several times because of some stupid driver crashing hard (related to ATI video usually), dependency-hell, or to upgrade to the newest filesystem every 3-6mo.
Sorry. We geeks playing World of Warcraft would not be engaged in killing each other if not for the game.
True. I wonder how many closet murderers indulge their taste for mayhem in a virtual world but avoid it IRL simply because it's permitted in one place and punished in the other. Or, to put it more plainly, how many would do it IRL if they were guaranteed they could get away with it.
"I once stabbed a man to watch him die. And also for 8 honor points."
Killing a mod point for this one (which will, in turn, kill some karma as well TEE-HEE!).
Homosexuals are guaranteed to get away with it in many parts of the USA now. Destroying the taboo certainly has caused an assplosion of gayness. At least on TV, Radio, Movies, Music, and publicly in metropolitan areas of the nation.
I would hope that the increased number of rapes, murders, and incest would not come as a surprise should one group of them become vocal enough to destroy those taboos. If so, perhaps I've put too much faith in my fellow heterosexual, non-rapist, non-murderer, non-incest committing mankind.
Has science run out of steam?
Seconded.
I used to work for a managed services provider and HP reseller. One of our bigger clients was Dunwoody College of Technology. One of my duties was refurbishing their HP laptops between semesters. They had a wide variety of issues ranging from Accidental Damage, wireless radio failures, to bad harddrives, etc... We even had one sent in that a drunk student vomited onto (we referred to that one as the "puke-top").
The overwhelming majority went through the refurbish process with little more than a thorough cleaning and re-imaging. HP's Channel Support was a pleasure to work with (I spent many unproductive hours on the phone with Dell Support at a previous job).
I now personally own an HP DV7 Pavillion laptop that cost me $1200 last February. It has better features than the Mac Book Pro had at the time and cost me $1400 less. Maybe I'm biased.
Hobbyist support my ass. As a lawyer he's thinking "Ooh! 100,000 people banned, that's a big target to profit from!"
As a hobbyist, if I want to run whatever software, I pay: $100 for a motherboard, $130 for a small case and power supply, $50 for a hard drive, $30 for an optical drive, $0-200 for an operating system, $50 for a wireless keyboard and mouse, $80 for a wireless gaming controller, $15 for a DVI cable.
Anybody guess what I bought to run homebrew software? A fecking computer! An xBox is not a computer, and if you want to change that, Microsoft is well within their rights to say they don't want xbox-like computers on Live!
An Xbox has a CPU, a GPU, RAM, a motherboard, USB, wireless, game controller, dvd-rom, a custom OS, and a pretty spiffy custom case and external PSU. How, exactly, is the 360 (or the Xbox1) not just a PC with custom DRM tailor made for gaming?
In what way is this a ZING. You are suggesting because a mistake was made once it should be made again?
Gregor
I am suggesting Barack Hussein Obama in no way has done anything to accomplish Global Peace. In fact, he has recently done A LOT to disrupt Tibet and Israel. Hence the ZING. I figured at least Monkeedude1212 would get it.
Granted, it's the Dad's right to be as much of a nitwit as he wishes, as long as he doesn't actually beat the kid up or some such. Now, picture the difficulty this child will have conversing with the rest of humanity, hell let's just pick the English speaking world for now. How is he going to cope? I'm guessing he *can* speak English, but which language is his first, and hence his frame of reference? If he takes French classes at school, must he first go from French to English, then English to Klingon? Grammatical errors introduced from not understanding the complex nuances involved in speaking English fluently? Contractions, and contextual definition? I'm not saying this kid is disadvantaged, but he is certainly not being set up for early success.
Obviously you've never heard of the fictitious language called Ebonics. Why isn't there a huge uproar of the English speakers to throw the child services book against the parents that perpetuate that nonsense?
Lets see Obama's as well...
ZING!
Everybody knows that there were no such diseases before the modern industrial food complex started shoveling processed crap down our throats. Ancient Egyptians were practically immortal. I mean, everything you ate back then was organic, there was no fluoride in the water and the ozone layer was fully intact.
Citation needed.
You must be on of those people that sees parents beat their kids in a walmart parking lot and think they must be right and ignore it. Thanks for outing yourself, coward.
You must be one of those parents that are raising children with a sense of entitlement by not beating them when they deserve it. Thanks for outing yourself, asshole.
The older I get, the more I seem to be losing my ear for sarcasm & facetiousness. Assuming that the story is true [which I doubt], then PLEASE tell me that you were being sarcastic/facetious. I honestly can't tell anymore. .
Here in the US, we tend to not care about such trivial things as which languages someone opts to teach their child. For you see, our Bill of Rights guarantees us the Freedom of Speech. The fictitious Klingon language undoubtedly falls under this category.
If you were the governor of my state (Minnesota, the state in question), and you used Child Services to have this guy throw in jail while being completely innocent of committing any crimes, I would have you impeached faster than you can say, "Klingon".
You must be from one of those countries where it's acceptable to think you know how to raise other people's children better than they do. Thanks for outing yourself, totalitarian prick.
Last post!
Because the real world is a line from (-INF,0) to (+INF,0). The imaginary world is the entire complex plane EXCEPT that line where y=0i.
Because given a bounded area containing a road and a chicken, according to Brownian motion the probability of the chicken crossing the road rises to exactly 1.
Mod me redundant if need be, but I just had to comment that there appears to be a mod troll lurking about, modding non-trolling posts as Troll. Thanks.
Lesson learned? NEVER make a guess on the internets because there are jackasses like MaskedSlacker that take things WAY TOO SERIOUSLY. Just a guess though.