What good is your "heavy emphasis on black suffering, de-emphasis on white rights" attitude to a skinny, nervous white kid sitting in an all-black bar alone at 2 AM on Friday night?
actually so called affirmative action is pure example of racism (as in company has to have 10% of blacks or 50% of women in this position and you even when you have better grades or past experience do not get position just because you are unwanted white male.
Strawman. This is not "Affirmative action".
Affirmative action is that when two people have the same qualifications the minority candidate must be chosen.
I don't know of any places like that in real life; the closest I can think of are Atlanta and Detroit. But if a place like that did exist, things probably wouldn't be much different, except the white people would be getting the short end of the stick.
Yeah, I (adult white male) live in Taiwan. Very few whites or blacks here. I've had children very interested in me because I'm white. Just wanting to touch me-it also helps that I'm hairy. I've also had a child cry when I smiled at her.
Haha. One of my nieces screamed and hid behind the sofa the first time she saw me.
She's black and lives in the Ivory Coast - the only other white people she'd ever seen had been on the TV, usualy killing someone.(*)
((*) strange effects of TV - Africans mostly see white people in Columbo and Inspector Derrick, involved in sordid murders. Gives them a strange idea what most white people are like).
Any person who was actually following events in the Middle East could have easilly predicted that Egypt and Libya would be in the hands of terrorists a year after their respective 'regime change.
Well, since Egypt is clearly in the hands of the Egyptian army, I wonder who you think the "terrorists" are.
PS - Don't you get Al-Jazeera on your planet? I haven't seen anything credible on CNN since GW1.
Ahhhh... the classics. I don't mean Hemingway or Steinbeck. I mean: Common Sense by Thomas Paine. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. The United States Constitution
The only choices left are which depressing SF/SciFi/SyFy dystopia you like
SyFy != Sci Fi. Sci fi is Asimov and Heinlein and Star Wars and 2001. SyFy is stupid shit on a useless cable channel that is an embarrasment to anybody with half a brain.
Ugh.
SF is SF, mostly books.
Sci Fi is crap, mostly films.
SyFy is some sort of wreestling channel on cable TV, right?
And if the KGB put you on a list, they wouldn't prevent you from boarding, they'd haul you away to a prison.
A process which, you may rest assured, did not begin with pre-emptively hauling people away to prison. It began farther up the slippery slope of government (and human) behavior. The really bad stuff happened later, because nobody gave a fuck earlier.
That's what you'd think, isn't it.
Not true though - things started bad, and slowly got better. (With a few hiccups). The really bad stuff happended at the start.
Worked for me last summer. Got into the US from Mexico with just a driver's license. The border guard complained and fussed a bit, but let me through with a warning.
You may be right, given all that is going on. I'd like to point out, however, that under article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."
Yes, but the problem is proving that you're a US citizen - if you're not you have no "right" to enter the US. A passport is just the easy way of proving it.
People above bring up the idea of drives licenses - but a foreign resident could have a drivers license.
People in this discussion are also saying "well I did it and it was easy". I wonder how many of them are Hispanic?
Do you think the Wegman report has been "discredited" simply because it appears to have some "borrowed" descriptions of evidence?
No, I think it is crap.
The fact that parts of it are cut'n'pasted from Wikipedia is mere icing on the cake.
It's padded with crazy "references" like this "Valentine, Tom (1987) “Magnetics may hold key to ozone layer problems,” Magnets, 2(1) 18-26.". The only thing it's missing the the Iron Sun.
It also doesn't cite Watts - why do you think he had anything to do with it?
This isn't f**cking Wikipedia. But if you insist that somebody do your homework for you, look up "Wegman Report" and read the intro and conclusion, if you don't want to wade through all the rest.And guess who found those flaws in tse statistical methods in the first place (as credited by Wegman and others since)? Why, it was none other than Anthony Watts.
Watts himself, with a collaborator, was responsible for finding flaws in the statistical methods used by the Hadley Centre, CRU, and Mann in their research
Water ice is 7/8 the density of liquid water. Even at depth, this remains true. Therefore, if all the Arctic ice, which sits on an ocean, were to melt, then that 1/8 difference would be absorbed by the 7/8 if the ice that sits below sea level and global sea levels would actually *FALL* by 7/8 of the total original amount of Arctic sea ice divided by the surface area of the oceans. Shot in the dark number: -7 feet.
Sorry, wrong.
Wrong twice in fact.
Floating ice won't raise the level of fresh water - yes, it's less dense - that's why some of it is above the water line. But, per Archimedes, it displaces exactlt it's own weight of water - so when it melts back to denser water it fills exactly the same below water-level volume.
But ice is fresh water and the sea is salt water. Fresh water is less dense than salt water, so when it melts it takes up more volume than the volume of salt water it displaces.
Hence melting floating ice will cause sea level rise. (Not much, just a little).
See "The Melting of Floating Ice will Raise the Ocean Level", Noerdlinger, Geophysical Journal International.
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were two of the strongest supporters of Fannie Mae in Congress. If the Republicans get power in 2012, I bet they would love to hammer Chris Dodd. Hopefully he will have plenty of rope to hang Dodd on in 2012.
If Newt is the candidate he's going make a fuss about people supporting Fannie Mae?
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What good is your "heavy emphasis on black suffering, de-emphasis on white rights" attitude to a skinny, nervous white kid sitting in an all-black bar alone at 2 AM on Friday night?
Dunno? Maybe he'll get laid?
actually so called affirmative action is pure example of racism (as in company has to have 10% of blacks or 50% of women in this position and you even when you have better grades or past experience do not get position just because you are unwanted white male.
Strawman. This is not "Affirmative action".
Affirmative action is that when two people have the same qualifications the minority candidate must be chosen.
If you think that white parents should instruct their children to avoid events that might attract a lot of black people and,
I never said or implied anything of the sort
You said:
I agree with all those statements.
One of the statements you said you agreed with was:
Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.
I think your claims of being "fiercl independant" and "scientific" look pretty dodgy.
I think you're mistaking "culturally" and "genetically"
Nope, I'm pretty sure I meant exactly what I said
Well since you claim:
at my core I am fiercely independent and more of a scientific, less artistic thinker.
I assume you have some evidence of this "genetic" effect.
Or maybe you're just a racist idiot.
I don't know of any places like that in real life; the closest I can think of are Atlanta and Detroit. But if a place like that did exist, things probably wouldn't be much different, except the white people would be getting the short end of the stick.
Sez who? Based on what evidence?
Yeah, I (adult white male) live in Taiwan. Very few whites or blacks here. I've had children very interested in me because I'm white. Just wanting to touch me-it also helps that I'm hairy. I've also had a child cry when I smiled at her.
Haha. One of my nieces screamed and hid behind the sofa the first time she saw me.
She's black and lives in the Ivory Coast - the only other white people she'd ever seen had been on the TV, usualy killing someone.(*)
((*) strange effects of TV - Africans mostly see white people in Columbo and Inspector Derrick, involved in sordid murders. Gives them a strange idea what most white people are like).
I live in South Africa, it's not that bad people.
But, but, that nice Mr Derbyshire said to leave any place run by those nasty blacks.
> Citation or it didn't happen.
Do you get CNN on your planet?
Any person who was actually following events in the Middle East could have easilly predicted that Egypt and Libya would be in the hands of terrorists a year after their respective 'regime change.
Well, since Egypt is clearly in the hands of the Egyptian army, I wonder who you think the "terrorists" are.
PS - Don't you get Al-Jazeera on your planet? I haven't seen anything credible on CNN since GW1.
Ricky Ricardo, that's you?
I guess not.
I made no comments on his economics.
I'm talking about The Road to Serfdom which is simply wrong.
Nobody's suggesting putting apt-get on phones;
Why not? It's on mine.
That "authoritative Dictionary of Islam" would be A DICTIONARY OF ISLAM Being A CYCLOPAEDIA OF THE DOCTRINES, RITES, CEREMONIES, AND CUSTOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE TECHNICAL AND THEOLOGICAL TERMS, OF THE MUHAMMADAN RELIGION BY THOMAS PATRICK HUGHES, B.D., M.R.A.S., published 1895. Obviously the last word in islamic scholarship.
(BD = Bachelor of Divinity, MRAS = Member of the Royal Asiatic Society).
Ahhhh... the classics. I don't mean Hemingway or Steinbeck. I mean: Common Sense by Thomas Paine. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. The United States Constitution
One of these is not like the others.
Hayek was an idiot.
The only choices left are which depressing SF/SciFi/SyFy dystopia you like
SyFy != Sci Fi. Sci fi is Asimov and Heinlein and Star Wars and 2001. SyFy is stupid shit on a useless cable channel that is an embarrasment to anybody with half a brain.
Ugh.
SF is SF, mostly books.
Sci Fi is crap, mostly films.
SyFy is some sort of wreestling channel on cable TV, right?
And if the KGB put you on a list, they wouldn't prevent you from boarding, they'd haul you away to a prison.
A process which, you may rest assured, did not begin with pre-emptively hauling people away to prison. It began farther up the slippery slope of government (and human) behavior. The really bad stuff happened later, because nobody gave a fuck earlier.
That's what you'd think, isn't it.
Not true though - things started bad, and slowly got better. (With a few hiccups). The really bad stuff happended at the start.
Worked for me last summer. Got into the US from Mexico with just a driver's license. The border guard complained and fussed a bit, but let me through with a warning.
What do you look like? What accent do you have?
You may be right, given all that is going on. I'd like to point out, however, that under article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."
Yes, but the problem is proving that you're a US citizen - if you're not you have no "right" to enter the US. A passport is just the easy way of proving it.
People above bring up the idea of drives licenses - but a foreign resident could have a drivers license.
People in this discussion are also saying "well I did it and it was easy". I wonder how many of them are Hispanic?
The US Constitution applies to all US Citizens... no matter where they are at.
Tell that to Anwar al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, or Samir Khan.
Do you think the Wegman report has been "discredited" simply because it appears to have some "borrowed" descriptions of evidence?
No, I think it is crap.
The fact that parts of it are cut'n'pasted from Wikipedia is mere icing on the cake.
It's padded with crazy "references" like this "Valentine, Tom (1987) “Magnetics may hold key to ozone layer problems,” Magnets, 2(1) 18-26.". The only thing it's missing the the Iron Sun.
It also doesn't cite Watts - why do you think he had anything to do with it?
This isn't f**cking Wikipedia. But if you insist that somebody do your homework for you, look up "Wegman Report" and read the intro and conclusion, if you don't want to wade through all the rest.And guess who found those flaws in tse statistical methods in the first place (as credited by Wegman and others since)? Why, it was none other than Anthony Watts.
Bwahahhahahha.
Watts himself, with a collaborator, was responsible for finding flaws in the statistical methods used by the Hadley Centre, CRU, and Mann in their research
Citation needed.
Water ice is 7/8 the density of liquid water. Even at depth, this remains true. Therefore, if all the Arctic ice, which sits on an ocean, were to melt, then that 1/8 difference would be absorbed by the 7/8 if the ice that sits below sea level and global sea levels would actually *FALL* by 7/8 of the total original amount of Arctic sea ice divided by the surface area of the oceans. Shot in the dark number: -7 feet.
Sorry, wrong.
Wrong twice in fact.
Floating ice won't raise the level of fresh water - yes, it's less dense - that's why some of it is above the water line. But, per Archimedes, it displaces exactlt it's own weight of water - so when it melts back to denser water it fills exactly the same below water-level volume.
But ice is fresh water and the sea is salt water. Fresh water is less dense than salt water, so when it melts it takes up more volume than the volume of salt water it displaces.
Hence melting floating ice will cause sea level rise. (Not much, just a little).
See "The Melting of Floating Ice will Raise the Ocean Level", Noerdlinger, Geophysical Journal International.
Oh, so you admit that your "15 years of dropping global temperatures" was bullshit, do you?
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd were two of the strongest supporters of Fannie Mae in Congress. If the Republicans get power in 2012, I bet they would love to hammer Chris Dodd. Hopefully he will have plenty of rope to hang Dodd on in 2012.
If Newt is the candidate he's going make a fuss about people supporting Fannie Mae?
Seriously?
So say, 15 years of dropping global average temperatures, while still increasing CO2?
Done.
Hi, I'm just calling to check what planet you're writing from.
On this one there has been no recent period of "15 years of dropping average temperatures".
1998 was a very nice year for cherries in East Anglia.