A lot of the time a Vaccine does not guarantee your immunity to something but it does greatly reduce the chances of you getting it. However if more and more people become infected with the virus in question then even a Vaccinated person will have a greatly increased risk of being infected.
Fortunately we don't have a massive racist problem in NZ. It's there but it's not major.
Second, we require people to be paid a reasonable minimum wage (which could do with being a little better) instead of requiring customers to supplement peoples wages so we can get away with paying them like crap.
Unfortunately Uber is currently getting away with having drivers earn under minimum wage due to their "Ride Sharing" thing, hopefully that will change.
My point is, not everywhere is wherever you are. Just as you shouldn't assume that the color of someones skin means they will act a certain way you souldn't assume rampant racism and direct customer wage supplementing is global.
Though speaking as someone who also has a pile of games that I've never gotten around to, if a game is 10 years old and you still haven't been compelled enough to play maybe it wasn't all that worth creating in the first place? Maybe a short burn time like that would help drive up the average quality of content if you knew it had to be good enough that people just couldn't stand to wait that long?
Then if something does turn out to be a bit of a flop things open up a bit and maybe someone can muck around with what you did and generate something cool. I mean if you think of games that have kept themselves really open to modding that has given birth to some massive, massive stuff because people with good ideas had the barriers to entry lowered. Games like DOTA which started out as a Warcraft 3 game mode. All of the things that came out of the open nature of the Source engine.
Really I can see flaws with a 10 year cap like that it is interesting to think about what effect it might have. There will always be a market for games and if you can't make enough money off of it after 10 years to make it worthwhile was it really that good in the first place?
This is strange to me. I think losing money would be a good place to start in order to get people on board with Uber but they're way past that now.
If Uber cost the exact same as a normal Taxi in my area I would still go with Uber. The app is 10 times more convenient then phoning a taxi company and waiting 30 minutes for someone to show up but then they don't show up and I have to phone again where someone will assure me that they're coming but then they don't and I've missed my appointment.
With Uber I usually get a ride at my house in less than 10 minutes and I can see on my phone how far away they are.
It wont matter if Uber end up costing the same as a normal Taxi, I'll still take the convenience of the service every time.
What you're telling me is you don't know what racism is.
It's racist to imply that anything relating to skin color or heritage has anything to do with someones tendency to behave a certain way. Race and heritage have nothing to do with the culture or social situation someone was raised in and has no direct bearing on a persons behavior.
You complain about him pointing out black people get in trouble with the law, then bring in Hispanics which is an ethnicity and not a race.
1. I didn't bring in Hispanics, he did. It's a quote from him. 2. "According to a United Nations convention on racial discrimination, there is no distinction between the terms "racial" and "ethnic" discrimination." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The fact that someone is "Black" on its own has nothing to do with their tendency to commit crime. The fact that someone is Hispanic on its own has nothing to do with their tendency to commit crime. What drives someone to crime is their social environment, usually relating to lower socioeconomic status status.
Saying that people of a lower socioeconomic status commit the most crime is not racist. Saying that "Blacks and Hispanics" commit the most crime is racist.
Saying that is like saying "People with brown hair commit the most crime". While that may or may not be objectively true, having brown hair alone does not mean you have a higher likelihood of getting into crime. Perhaps people with brown hair are treated differently and THAT leads them to be more likely to commit a crime but the hair alone is not the cause and shouldn't be the focus.
Focusing on physical attributes and heritage that CANNOT BE CHANGED helps no one. Focus on what can be changed.
As for the criminal problem - just look at the numbers. Black groups point it out.
Yes, but so what. Black skin still has nothing to do with it. The only factor that matters is how people perceive them and treat them including how they perceive and treat themselves. Stop talking about "Black People committing crime" and just talk about "People committing crime". Black has nothing to do with it.
Trump had problems with people that happened to turn out to be black counting money. I'm sure there have been Jews that steal (Bernie Madhoff comes to mind), however I've worked with plenty of Jews and I've never had one steal a dime from me. I have plenty of black men & women steal from me doing business.
Again, the point is that someone's religious background or skin color has nothing to do with their tendency to steal. Also you're not looking at the end of that quote from him. "And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks"
Being Black has nothing to do with that and saying that ANYTHING is a trait of someone who is Black other then having Black skin is racist.
I don't really see how your personal actions have any bearing here. We're talking about Trump. I don't know you and as far as I'm aware you're not a public servant/"leader of the free world" who says damaging things in massive public forums. I'm sure you behave in a way that you believe shows respect to your fellow man and that's all we can do at the end of the day.
Sure you want to go into the immigrants? Especially the muslim bit. They have a history and they'll tell you that's how they take over countries. Come in, they don't assimilate, they take over. That's what they're doing in Europe with their enclaves and that's what they're doing here. Not that far from me in Virginia there's an enclave that I can't go to. Even though it's supposedly a public area. Little by little they take over areas, governments, put in Sharia law and then it's theirs. Resist and they kill you. In France there are a
In his 1991 book Trumped! John O'Donnell quoted Trump as saying:
I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes.... Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else... Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that's guy's lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.
In an interview in 1997, he admitted that the information in the book was "probably true". Two years later, when seeking the nomination of the Reform Party for president, he denied having made the statement.
In August 2016 Trump campaigned in Maine, which has a large immigrant Somali population. At a rally he said, "We've just seen many, many crimes getting worse all the time, and as Maine knows — a major destination for Somali refugees — right, am I right?" Trump also alluded to risks of terrorism, referring to an incident in June 2016 when three young Somali men were found guilty of planning to join the Islamic State in Syria.
In Lewiston, home to the largest population of Maine Somalis, the police chief said Somalis have integrated into the city and they have not caused an increase in crime; crime is actually going down, not up. The mayor said Lewiston is safe and they all get along. At a Somali support rally following Trump's comments the Portland mayor welcomed the city's Somali residents, saying, "We need you here." Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins commented, "Mr. Trump's statements disparaging immigrants who have come to this country legally are particularly unhelpful. Maine has benefited from people from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and, increasingly, Africa — including our friends from Somalia."
"Sadly, the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and hispanics-a tough subject-must be discussed."
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best,” he said. “They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
I will admit that a lot of the stuff on this page is people just running their mouths but there is plenty of pretty solid stuff on their that indicate racism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While he's may not be overtly racist I think he's very good a turning a blind eye to racism and allowing it to happen.
Really though I think he just plays a game where he takes no clear stance on anything and just says what feels right in the moment. The difficulty confirming any stance results in a high level of discourse and people just go with whatever they happen to glean from really poor media coverage.
Lots of other countries have systems that allow the popular vote to have a large impact but acknowledge that living in certain high-density population centers can blind you to issues that other areas might be having that need to be addressed. They deal with this buy having a certain number of seats in government dedicated to representatives elected for specific areas so even if they don't get the people in power that they would like they can still get their voice in the room.
Having the majority of peoples preference ignored just because they live in a city is crazy. It's like deciding on your government by acres rather then people.
Huh? Chess pieces aren't trying to elect a government. Chess pieces aren't trying to have a say in the way their country is run. Chess pieces are for use in a game with a structured set of rules.
While what you said sounds clever it's a gross over-simplification.
Lots of other countries have systems that allow the popular vote to have a large impact but acknowledge that living in certain high-density population centers can blind you to issues that other areas might be having that need to be addressed. They deal with this buy having a certain number of seats in government dedicated to representatives elected for specific areas so even if they don't get the people in power that they would like they can still get their voice in the room.
Having the majority of peoples preference ignored just because they live in a city is crazy. It's like deciding on your government by acres rather then people.
I put off buying a Smartphone for a long time because I didn't like Android or iOS.
They always felt to me like they'd taken the basic idea of a computer desktop (shortcuts on screen and a start menu) and crammed it down onto a phone. While that works fine when you have a mouse and a good size screen it just didn't feel very nice on a phone and I still don't really like Android at all.
It works but it's not that nice to look at and there's generally very little information on your home screen. Yes you can use widgets but they don't really blend into any consistent aesthetic so they just look like an unappealing blob. Also if you want a good overview of several things you either end up with a screen cluttered with unappealing blobs or unappealing blobs scattered over a few panels on your home screen. Or you have to rely on push notifications but that can get very cluttered and noisy very fast.
Windows Phone 7 and the Metro UI was the first time I saw a Smartphone UI that looked like someone had sat down, thrown out the conventional idea of a desktop and built it to work for a Smartphone. My first and still my favorite Smartphone was the Nokia Lumia 800. Lack of apps meant nothing to me, my needs were simple. Internet, phone calls, messaging, calendar. All I needed.
Live tiles let me have plenty of information from calendar, weather, messaging apps at a glance in a way that was clean, uniform and simple.
All the home screen of my phone entailed was one page of Live tiles with all the information I needed and shortcuts to everything I used daily and I had it to the point where I didn't even need to scroll up and down, it all fit on my screen at once.
If I needed something else then a quick swipe to the left and I had my full app list sorted alphabetically. If I tapped on one of the headings for a certain letter then it would bring up a quick navigation menu that let me jump to the letter I was after. This was brilliant for one-handed operation.
Nokia Maps was as good as or better than the google maps of the time.
I can never quite get people to understand how amazing the messaging app was before facebook created their own and shut off access for the windows messaging app. Texts, facebook, hangouts, all in the same stream of messages for the same person.
Windows Phone was gorgeous, clean, easy to use and made extremely good use of limited screen real-estate. At the time everyone said app support limitations was a drawback but this was during the time when people were writing crazy apps that were fun for a day before the novelty wore off. I didn't really care about whatever fad app everyone was freaking out about. I just wanted a Smartphone that performed the basic functions of a Smartphone as best it possibly could and nothing has ever beat Windows Phone in my eyes.
I have and will continue to defend it as a brilliant phone OS ever since I first laid eyes on it. I'm complacent with my more recent Android phones but I will never be really happy with them as long as I'm comparing them to Windows Phone.
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A lot of the time a Vaccine does not guarantee your immunity to something but it does greatly reduce the chances of you getting it. However if more and more people become infected with the virus in question then even a Vaccinated person will have a greatly increased risk of being infected.
Hi, Kiwi here.
Fortunately we don't have a massive racist problem in NZ. It's there but it's not major.
Second, we require people to be paid a reasonable minimum wage (which could do with being a little better) instead of requiring customers to supplement peoples wages so we can get away with paying them like crap.
Unfortunately Uber is currently getting away with having drivers earn under minimum wage due to their "Ride Sharing" thing, hopefully that will change.
My point is, not everywhere is wherever you are. Just as you shouldn't assume that the color of someones skin means they will act a certain way you souldn't assume rampant racism and direct customer wage supplementing is global.
Yea probably far to short a time period
Though speaking as someone who also has a pile of games that I've never gotten around to, if a game is 10 years old and you still haven't been compelled enough to play maybe it wasn't all that worth creating in the first place? Maybe a short burn time like that would help drive up the average quality of content if you knew it had to be good enough that people just couldn't stand to wait that long?
Then if something does turn out to be a bit of a flop things open up a bit and maybe someone can muck around with what you did and generate something cool. I mean if you think of games that have kept themselves really open to modding that has given birth to some massive, massive stuff because people with good ideas had the barriers to entry lowered. Games like DOTA which started out as a Warcraft 3 game mode. All of the things that came out of the open nature of the Source engine.
Really I can see flaws with a 10 year cap like that it is interesting to think about what effect it might have. There will always be a market for games and if you can't make enough money off of it after 10 years to make it worthwhile was it really that good in the first place?
This is strange to me. I think losing money would be a good place to start in order to get people on board with Uber but they're way past that now.
If Uber cost the exact same as a normal Taxi in my area I would still go with Uber. The app is 10 times more convenient then phoning a taxi company and waiting 30 minutes for someone to show up but then they don't show up and I have to phone again where someone will assure me that they're coming but then they don't and I've missed my appointment.
With Uber I usually get a ride at my house in less than 10 minutes and I can see on my phone how far away they are.
It wont matter if Uber end up costing the same as a normal Taxi, I'll still take the convenience of the service every time.
Local Restaurants should work to make their food so damn good that people would rather go their and pay a bit more instead of eating at work.
Seems a bit backwards to ban something a workplace has already invested in if the local places to eat can't even outdo Cafeteria food.
What you're telling me is you don't know what racism is.
It's racist to imply that anything relating to skin color or heritage has anything to do with someones tendency to behave a certain way. Race and heritage have nothing to do with the culture or social situation someone was raised in and has no direct bearing on a persons behavior.
You complain about him pointing out black people get in trouble with the law, then bring in Hispanics which is an ethnicity and not a race.
1. I didn't bring in Hispanics, he did. It's a quote from him.
2. "According to a United Nations convention on racial discrimination, there is no distinction between the terms "racial" and "ethnic" discrimination." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The fact that someone is "Black" on its own has nothing to do with their tendency to commit crime. The fact that someone is Hispanic on its own has nothing to do with their tendency to commit crime. What drives someone to crime is their social environment, usually relating to lower socioeconomic status status.
Saying that people of a lower socioeconomic status commit the most crime is not racist. Saying that "Blacks and Hispanics" commit the most crime is racist.
Saying that is like saying "People with brown hair commit the most crime". While that may or may not be objectively true, having brown hair alone does not mean you have a higher likelihood of getting into crime. Perhaps people with brown hair are treated differently and THAT leads them to be more likely to commit a crime but the hair alone is not the cause and shouldn't be the focus.
Focusing on physical attributes and heritage that CANNOT BE CHANGED helps no one. Focus on what can be changed.
As for the criminal problem - just look at the numbers. Black groups point it out.
Yes, but so what. Black skin still has nothing to do with it. The only factor that matters is how people perceive them and treat them including how they perceive and treat themselves. Stop talking about "Black People committing crime" and just talk about "People committing crime". Black has nothing to do with it.
Trump had problems with people that happened to turn out to be black counting money. I'm sure there have been Jews that steal (Bernie Madhoff comes to mind), however I've worked with plenty of Jews and I've never had one steal a dime from me. I have plenty of black men & women steal from me doing business.
Again, the point is that someone's religious background or skin color has nothing to do with their tendency to steal. Also you're not looking at the end of that quote from him. "And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks"
Being Black has nothing to do with that and saying that ANYTHING is a trait of someone who is Black other then having Black skin is racist.
I don't really see how your personal actions have any bearing here. We're talking about Trump. I don't know you and as far as I'm aware you're not a public servant/"leader of the free world" who says damaging things in massive public forums. I'm sure you behave in a way that you believe shows respect to your fellow man and that's all we can do at the end of the day.
Sure you want to go into the immigrants? Especially the muslim bit. They have a history and they'll tell you that's how they take over countries. Come in, they don't assimilate, they take over. That's what they're doing in Europe with their enclaves and that's what they're doing here. Not that far from me in Virginia there's an enclave that I can't go to. Even though it's supposedly a public area. Little by little they take over areas, governments, put in Sharia law and then it's theirs. Resist and they kill you. In France there are a
In his 1991 book Trumped! John O'Donnell quoted Trump as saying:
I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes.... Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else... Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that's guy's lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.
In an interview in 1997, he admitted that the information in the book was "probably true". Two years later, when seeking the nomination of the Reform Party for president, he denied having made the statement.
In August 2016 Trump campaigned in Maine, which has a large immigrant Somali population. At a rally he said, "We've just seen many, many crimes getting worse all the time, and as Maine knows — a major destination for Somali refugees — right, am I right?" Trump also alluded to risks of terrorism, referring to an incident in June 2016 when three young Somali men were found guilty of planning to join the Islamic State in Syria.
In Lewiston, home to the largest population of Maine Somalis, the police chief said Somalis have integrated into the city and they have not caused an increase in crime; crime is actually going down, not up. The mayor said Lewiston is safe and they all get along. At a Somali support rally following Trump's comments the Portland mayor welcomed the city's Somali residents, saying, "We need you here." Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins commented, "Mr. Trump's statements disparaging immigrants who have come to this country legally are particularly unhelpful. Maine has benefited from people from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and, increasingly, Africa — including our friends from Somalia."
"Sadly, the overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and hispanics-a tough subject-must be discussed."
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From his 2015 announcement speech:
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best,” he said. “They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I will admit that a lot of the stuff on this page is people just running their mouths but there is plenty of pretty solid stuff on their that indicate racism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While he's may not be overtly racist I think he's very good a turning a blind eye to racism and allowing it to happen.
Really though I think he just plays a game where he takes no clear stance on anything and just says what feels right in the moment. The difficulty confirming any stance results in a high level of discourse and people just go with whatever they happen to glean from really poor media coverage.
Lots of other countries have systems that allow the popular vote to have a large impact but acknowledge that living in certain high-density population centers can blind you to issues that other areas might be having that need to be addressed. They deal with this buy having a certain number of seats in government dedicated to representatives elected for specific areas so even if they don't get the people in power that they would like they can still get their voice in the room.
Having the majority of peoples preference ignored just because they live in a city is crazy. It's like deciding on your government by acres rather then people.
Wrangell-St. Elias for President 2020!
Huh? Chess pieces aren't trying to elect a government. Chess pieces aren't trying to have a say in the way their country is run. Chess pieces are for use in a game with a structured set of rules.
While what you said sounds clever it's a gross over-simplification.
Lots of other countries have systems that allow the popular vote to have a large impact but acknowledge that living in certain high-density population centers can blind you to issues that other areas might be having that need to be addressed. They deal with this buy having a certain number of seats in government dedicated to representatives elected for specific areas so even if they don't get the people in power that they would like they can still get their voice in the room.
Having the majority of peoples preference ignored just because they live in a city is crazy. It's like deciding on your government by acres rather then people.
Something ate all my newlines and it does not look like I can edit this. Sorry about the wall of text I guess.
I put off buying a Smartphone for a long time because I didn't like Android or iOS. They always felt to me like they'd taken the basic idea of a computer desktop (shortcuts on screen and a start menu) and crammed it down onto a phone. While that works fine when you have a mouse and a good size screen it just didn't feel very nice on a phone and I still don't really like Android at all. It works but it's not that nice to look at and there's generally very little information on your home screen. Yes you can use widgets but they don't really blend into any consistent aesthetic so they just look like an unappealing blob. Also if you want a good overview of several things you either end up with a screen cluttered with unappealing blobs or unappealing blobs scattered over a few panels on your home screen. Or you have to rely on push notifications but that can get very cluttered and noisy very fast. Windows Phone 7 and the Metro UI was the first time I saw a Smartphone UI that looked like someone had sat down, thrown out the conventional idea of a desktop and built it to work for a Smartphone. My first and still my favorite Smartphone was the Nokia Lumia 800. Lack of apps meant nothing to me, my needs were simple. Internet, phone calls, messaging, calendar. All I needed. Live tiles let me have plenty of information from calendar, weather, messaging apps at a glance in a way that was clean, uniform and simple. All the home screen of my phone entailed was one page of Live tiles with all the information I needed and shortcuts to everything I used daily and I had it to the point where I didn't even need to scroll up and down, it all fit on my screen at once. If I needed something else then a quick swipe to the left and I had my full app list sorted alphabetically. If I tapped on one of the headings for a certain letter then it would bring up a quick navigation menu that let me jump to the letter I was after. This was brilliant for one-handed operation. Nokia Maps was as good as or better than the google maps of the time. I can never quite get people to understand how amazing the messaging app was before facebook created their own and shut off access for the windows messaging app. Texts, facebook, hangouts, all in the same stream of messages for the same person. Windows Phone was gorgeous, clean, easy to use and made extremely good use of limited screen real-estate. At the time everyone said app support limitations was a drawback but this was during the time when people were writing crazy apps that were fun for a day before the novelty wore off. I didn't really care about whatever fad app everyone was freaking out about. I just wanted a Smartphone that performed the basic functions of a Smartphone as best it possibly could and nothing has ever beat Windows Phone in my eyes. I have and will continue to defend it as a brilliant phone OS ever since I first laid eyes on it. I'm complacent with my more recent Android phones but I will never be really happy with them as long as I'm comparing them to Windows Phone.
Yea then you have to put up with super lame loading times as all the data has to come off the disk. So much fun.