The lowliest of recruits in the US Army are taught, repeatedly, that they are to uphold the Constitution first and obey all lawful orders and that it is their duty to know what is a lawful order and what isn't.
That is the result of constantly being bashed over the head by liberals apushing political correctness and multiculturalism. I would agree that it tends to be mainly an American and possibly Canadian problem. However, I do see some aspects of it in various areas of the UK as well such as letting whole sections of a town be run nearly exclusively according to the "culture" of an immigrant group even when that means ignoring some aspects of British law and culture.
We do need to stop pretending that every culture is equal. For instance, I firmly believe that many aspects of Muslim culture are horrible and do lead to an increased tendency to engage in what the West has labelled terrorism. However, I also believe that some aspects of Muslim culture are superior, to a point, than most Western cultures. One example is in the area of modesty in dress. I believe that Western cultures are far to revealing but Muslims go way overboard the other direction.
Yes. This is where political correctness, multiculturalism and the notion that there is no absolute truth break down in the real world. It is not racist to point out that a strict adherence to a cultural norm is "a bad thing." Must we also accept honor killings and female genital mutilation as those seem to be culture based. Were we wrong to hold any German soldier below the highest echelons of power accountable for actions in WWII? After all, their culture (military and otherwise) dictated a strict adherence to orders from superiors. Do we now support skinheads and neo-nazis in the US in their hatred of Jews and Blacks because they have adopted a culture that informs them of the propriety of such views? Were we wrong to clamp down on racism in the American South? After all, white supremacy and segregation were very much a part of southern culture.
Everybody, including every Korean, that got on that plane expected that the pilots and crew would do everything in their power to keep them safe. That is a basic unwritten but widely accepted contract in commercial transport going back centuries (Captain going down with the ship and such). We held the Italian ship captain responsible and publicly ridiculed him for not honoring that contract.
Why then do we not have the same right and responsibility to do the same just because the crew are Korean. Are Koreans so superior that their cultural norms trump all others? Would that not also be a racist viewpoint?
Sometimes we simply need to admit that there is an ultimate truth and that one culture might be wrong if it is in violation of that ultimate truth. That is not the same as saying everything about that culture is wrong. It is simply saying that an aspect of that culture is wrong and needs to be left in the past.
Why don't we go back to effective ways of killing the mosquitos that carry the malaria instead of finding better ways to find out that the darkies* life is going to suck.
*Yes, that is quite racist but I feel that the liberals who basically outlawed the only method available to get rid of the mosquitos, and thus pretty much wipe out malaria, are basically racist and I am expressing how I think the liberals actually feel rather than how I feel.
In some parts of the country for certain specialties, it has approached $1 million US per year. It was so bad in Nevada that Ob-Gyns i Las Vegas were refusing new pregnancies and women were driving 120 miles to St.George, UT. You see, if they decided to no longer do baby deliveries, then their premiums went back down to the reasonable level in the 10s of thousands.
I had a doctor in Wisconsin (family practice in a small town) tell me about 4 years ago that he was paying around $30,000 for malpractice insurance. He has never even been sued for malpractice, let alone had to have his insurer pay out. That was roughly 12-15% of his gross. So yes, malpractice insurance is quite expensive.
But still... 137 acres to power a 2 acre facility? The facility is just under 1.5% of the used space possibly up to 2% when the parking lot is factored in.
That sounds like a horribly inefficient use of land. So much for being green.
As i and others have said before and will say again... you are still free to put up your own web-site, structured as you see fit with the data you see fit. Nobody is stopping you. Nobody is forcing you to put up anything other than straight text.
I guess you are a liberal then because a bunch of conservative politicians got into trouble for not paying those things back in the 1990s. Of course, liberals got a pass when caught doing the same thing.
They operate solely on cash because they are in the country illegally and can't have a bank account because they are in the country illegally and you pay them in cash because you know this and don't want to pay their FICA and withholdings.
So, why are we complaining about the evil employers trying to keep their costs under control and the only problems mentioned are because it will hurt idiots who have not grown up and learned how to be responsible for themselves.
I can see the future discussion of this in the political arena as the liberals realize that check-cashing is a "fundamental human-right" and pass a 1200 page bill restructuring the entire banking system without a single one of them ever reading a single page of the bill.
The only problem then will be that all of us who used to get along fine with our finances will now have to report to the IRS all kinds of information about all of our accounts. And things like PayPal and Bitcoin exchanges will disappear as they won't be considered acceptable. And anyone getting a bunch of benefits without paying high enough annual fees will get taxed extra for having "cadillac" accounts.
So the problem really does seem to be the employee's fault. As for the minimum deposit, the CU my wife works at has a minimum of $5 and that gets waived on a regular basis.
No, its still there unless you altered it. "The internet we built, as hackers, as creatives, as professors, academics, researchers, scientists... it's being gutted." No! No! No! Nobody is taking away your ability to create your sites as you see fit. Just because a browser has no way to turn off JS does not mean that sites you author have to send any JS to the browser.
As for the internet others built and you used for (like a parasite), stop complaining, it was never yours in the first place.
If you're so damn smart, why don't you just build your own browser and stop worrying about what somebody else is doing. After all, everything you need is openly published for you.
And that is entirely different than what the kid did and I would consider what you did a credible threat.
What the kid did was to use hyperbole to point out that he is not, in fact, insane. For this situation to be the same thing you would need to be responding directly to someone suggesting that you were somehow being abusive and you responding with "Oh yeah..." [continue with your post] and then following it up by pointing out that you have no idea where he lives nor care to find out, thus making it obvious that you were using hyperbole.
Yes, but you are talking about the concept of free will.
The concept of freedom with respect to rights is that exercising those rights don't carry government imposed consequences. As Antipater pointed out, you can freely and properly exercise your rights and still face consequences from friends, spouses, family, etc.
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The lowliest of recruits in the US Army are taught, repeatedly, that they are to uphold the Constitution first and obey all lawful orders and that it is their duty to know what is a lawful order and what isn't.
"Or the white collar criminals who caused the 2008 financial crisis?"
Hell, a good chunk of them work for Obama, why would they charge themselves?
How did AC 1 cause AC 2 to lose a girlfriend?
That is the result of constantly being bashed over the head by liberals apushing political correctness and multiculturalism. I would agree that it tends to be mainly an American and possibly Canadian problem. However, I do see some aspects of it in various areas of the UK as well such as letting whole sections of a town be run nearly exclusively according to the "culture" of an immigrant group even when that means ignoring some aspects of British law and culture.
We do need to stop pretending that every culture is equal. For instance, I firmly believe that many aspects of Muslim culture are horrible and do lead to an increased tendency to engage in what the West has labelled terrorism. However, I also believe that some aspects of Muslim culture are superior, to a point, than most Western cultures. One example is in the area of modesty in dress. I believe that Western cultures are far to revealing but Muslims go way overboard the other direction.
Yes. This is where political correctness, multiculturalism and the notion that there is no absolute truth break down in the real world. It is not racist to point out that a strict adherence to a cultural norm is "a bad thing." Must we also accept honor killings and female genital mutilation as those seem to be culture based. Were we wrong to hold any German soldier below the highest echelons of power accountable for actions in WWII? After all, their culture (military and otherwise) dictated a strict adherence to orders from superiors. Do we now support skinheads and neo-nazis in the US in their hatred of Jews and Blacks because they have adopted a culture that informs them of the propriety of such views? Were we wrong to clamp down on racism in the American South? After all, white supremacy and segregation were very much a part of southern culture.
Everybody, including every Korean, that got on that plane expected that the pilots and crew would do everything in their power to keep them safe. That is a basic unwritten but widely accepted contract in commercial transport going back centuries (Captain going down with the ship and such). We held the Italian ship captain responsible and publicly ridiculed him for not honoring that contract.
Why then do we not have the same right and responsibility to do the same just because the crew are Korean. Are Koreans so superior that their cultural norms trump all others? Would that not also be a racist viewpoint?
Sometimes we simply need to admit that there is an ultimate truth and that one culture might be wrong if it is in violation of that ultimate truth. That is not the same as saying everything about that culture is wrong. It is simply saying that an aspect of that culture is wrong and needs to be left in the past.
He can join the Free/Open Source Shoes movement.
but the point is that it didn't used to describe most 17 year olds.
How could NYC have such horribly high rent with all that government regulation about rent?
Nope. The most effective method we had for killing mosquitos was outlawed because of liberals and environmentalists making crap up.
Why don't we go back to effective ways of killing the mosquitos that carry the malaria instead of finding better ways to find out that the darkies* life is going to suck.
*Yes, that is quite racist but I feel that the liberals who basically outlawed the only method available to get rid of the mosquitos, and thus pretty much wipe out malaria, are basically racist and I am expressing how I think the liberals actually feel rather than how I feel.
Heresy! That sounds very similar to TANSTAAFL and we all know that is heresy in these here parts.
but that's what they are doing. It is called the Affordable Care Act.
In some parts of the country for certain specialties, it has approached $1 million US per year. It was so bad in Nevada that Ob-Gyns i Las Vegas were refusing new pregnancies and women were driving 120 miles to St.George, UT. You see, if they decided to no longer do baby deliveries, then their premiums went back down to the reasonable level in the 10s of thousands.
I had a doctor in Wisconsin (family practice in a small town) tell me about 4 years ago that he was paying around $30,000 for malpractice insurance. He has never even been sued for malpractice, let alone had to have his insurer pay out. That was roughly 12-15% of his gross. So yes, malpractice insurance is quite expensive.
But still... 137 acres to power a 2 acre facility? The facility is just under 1.5% of the used space possibly up to 2% when the parking lot is factored in.
That sounds like a horribly inefficient use of land. So much for being green.
As i and others have said before and will say again... you are still free to put up your own web-site, structured as you see fit with the data you see fit. Nobody is stopping you. Nobody is forcing you to put up anything other than straight text.
I guess you are a liberal then because a bunch of conservative politicians got into trouble for not paying those things back in the 1990s. Of course, liberals got a pass when caught doing the same thing.
They operate solely on cash because they are in the country illegally and can't have a bank account because they are in the country illegally and you pay them in cash because you know this and don't want to pay their FICA and withholdings.
So, why are we complaining about the evil employers trying to keep their costs under control and the only problems mentioned are because it will hurt idiots who have not grown up and learned how to be responsible for themselves.
I can see the future discussion of this in the political arena as the liberals realize that check-cashing is a "fundamental human-right" and pass a 1200 page bill restructuring the entire banking system without a single one of them ever reading a single page of the bill.
The only problem then will be that all of us who used to get along fine with our finances will now have to report to the IRS all kinds of information about all of our accounts. And things like PayPal and Bitcoin exchanges will disappear as they won't be considered acceptable. And anyone getting a bunch of benefits without paying high enough annual fees will get taxed extra for having "cadillac" accounts.
So the problem really does seem to be the employee's fault. As for the minimum deposit, the CU my wife works at has a minimum of $5 and that gets waived on a regular basis.
No, its still there unless you altered it. "The internet we built, as hackers, as creatives, as professors, academics, researchers, scientists... it's being gutted." No! No! No! Nobody is taking away your ability to create your sites as you see fit. Just because a browser has no way to turn off JS does not mean that sites you author have to send any JS to the browser.
As for the internet others built and you used for (like a parasite), stop complaining, it was never yours in the first place.
If you're so damn smart, why don't you just build your own browser and stop worrying about what somebody else is doing. After all, everything you need is openly published for you.
I believe a poster above had something to say about living in the past.
but he wasn't conveying a threat. He was using hyperbole to point out that he wasn't like those who do actually use violence.
And that is entirely different than what the kid did and I would consider what you did a credible threat.
What the kid did was to use hyperbole to point out that he is not, in fact, insane. For this situation to be the same thing you would need to be responding directly to someone suggesting that you were somehow being abusive and you responding with "Oh yeah..." [continue with your post] and then following it up by pointing out that you have no idea where he lives nor care to find out, thus making it obvious that you were using hyperbole.
Yes, but you are talking about the concept of free will.
The concept of freedom with respect to rights is that exercising those rights don't carry government imposed consequences. As Antipater pointed out, you can freely and properly exercise your rights and still face consequences from friends, spouses, family, etc.