If I act like a stereotype, should I be upset when people treat me like a stereotype? But certain cultures eschew normalization in favor of maintaining stereo types, because it is a defining feature.
False. These banks took unnecessary risks and should fail, and the shareholders would be on the hook for the "non-payments". Too big to fail means too many hands in too many pies that we can't extracate who did what and to whom.
Fuck-em. Let them fail. bail out the deposits, make sure you get what you can from the loans outstanding and fail the bank and fuck the shareholders. I guarantee you that those people running FAILED banks will never work again(except at McDonalds), and those propsing the same kind of "banking" will never get promoted again.
And we should be able to raid the trust funds of all ill-got gains of the criminals who run and ruin these firms, including all the Operating Officers and Board of Directors.
We don't need more laws, we need more honor. You cannot legislate honor. The problem is, honor is an outdated notion that is contrary to "law".
Honor is doing what is right, no matter what, even when nobody is looking. Too many people want to screw the next guy and get away with it that we need laws to stop them from doing the wrong thing. They are brazen in their deeds. Quoth the asshole, "it isn't illegal, that makes it okay"
"Customers whose Straight Talk phones are not data-enabled or that cannot use Mobile Web Access"
Seems to indicate that they are "one and the same". And if I was a lawyer, I'd definitely
Addtionally, the T/S says "Straight Talk may discontinue providing Service to you, discontinue your account, discontinue providing connections to particular telephone numbers or types of Services used or called by you, terminate data connections and/or reduce data throughput speeds for customers whose usage, in the sole judgment of Straight Talk: (1) appear likely to generate abnormally high call volumes or Mobile Web Access and data usage"
But doesn't define "abnormally high".
Yes, I read through the whole T/S of StraightTalk. Again, if they cut my service off, I'll sue them, and I will win. Lawyers love Terms and Conditions that are not explicitly defined. They offer the service, don't define it, WHILE advertising "Unlimited" and then claim the right to "limit" it arbitrarily isn't "unlimited". Good luck with that in court.
I would argue that Ubuntu is the OEM version of Linux we need. The problem is, Ubuntu and the Unity is more like Windows 8 than say windows 7. It is a shift away from the Linux familiarity of GNOME or KDE. Unity is neither Gnome or KDE, and thus it is a problem, because it is ANOTHER standard. The nice thing is, it is Linux, and you can get back to KDE or GNOME if you try hard enough. However, one shouldn't have to "try" hard to do what should be "easy".
If straighttalk ever cuts me off for going over supposed "limits" I'll fucking Sue their ass. Their website says "UNLIMITED" for mobile web, with no * beside it detailing "UNLIMITED execption". If you can point me where those limits are issued, contractually, I'd love to know.
Additionally, you can get convert a feature phone over to ST if you need a sim.
What you're seeing is people who are using Verizon CDMA phones, which ST also carries service for, which do not have a SIM card what so ever.
Unalienable rights are not entitlements. They exist without effort, without cause without demanding from anyone or anything else. You, alone on an Island have these rights. Enttilements (modern sense) are things REMOVED from some and GIVEN to others. People feel ENTITLED to these "things". And in our society, people feel Entitled without obligiation, where other cultures have a social contract that includes more "obligation" than "entitlement". There is a sense of shame when one doesn't meet their obligations, where here in the west, especially in the US, the whole goal of political body seems to be to get (increase) what you are "entitled" to, while incurring no "obligations" at all. Someone else will bail you out.
And, I am a Libertarian, so I also agree with your stance on Corporations up to a point. They are legal entities and not persons, though for the sake of most politics, those are one and the same. However, I would postulate that by giving non-persons the same and equal protections of law as live human beings, you have diminished human rights as a whole. And this is where I happen to agree with my left leaning friends a great deal more than my right leaning friends.
This is where I believe you and I would agree, that corporate boards and officers should be held PERSONALLY responsible for the actions taken under their direction, the same as if I directed others to commit crimes on my behalf. Charles Manson never directly killed anyone, yet he is in jail for murder none the less, because it was HIS direction which led to the murders. Corporate Boards and Officers should be held to the same standard.
You are right, something has gone wrong, we've lost the ideal of what a "Right" is. As I stated before, rights exist, apart from and not depending upon anyone or anything else. THIS is why we are screwed, we've assigned the status of "right" to things others have, that we want and demand that we are entitled to those things equally, without cost. And it diminishes us all in the process. This is the road to tyranny.
At what point will we recognize that a terminal cancer patient deserved some dedication from their family and society, in the form of, I don't know 'take a paid week off, go home to your family'?
It is THIS entitlement attitude that I was commenting on.
AND Why are you judging others on ethics? You have no idea what value "family" has in this culture, if you did, you'd realize that their "ethics" are different (not better, not worse, different) than yours. It does explain the behavior of the young lady and her choice to keep her illness private.
Our colective voices cannot be heard, because we have lost something moving from local to state to federal control of law. As the power shifts away from us, our voices count less and less.
IF you want to fix this, then change the election laws. Make it so that only Citizens can contribute to campaigns, and only for campaigns to which they can vote. Corporations can still spend money on their candidates, but must be done idependantly (apart from any coordination with a campaign). Prevent PACs from raising money on behalf of candidates.
Your post is a nice contrast to the entitlement so many Americans (and westerners) have about their life and jobs. The dedication to family and society is part of the Filipino culture that it really stands as a stark contrast to American Culture. AND we are less off because of that aspect of our culture. We American (and westerners in general) have no real concept of extended family clans any more.
If enough people find offense in the apology, and let LEGO know, then it will become clear that simply apologizing for some imagined slight or offense is itself offensive.
Galaxy SIII is trivially unlocked, in such a way that there is NO F'n way that any carrier can block it, since it is a SAMSUNG unlock. It is one of the reasons I picked up that phone instead of one of the many others I was considering, including Nexus.
Google+ Hangouts, GoogleTalk and Google Voice all make an awesome subsittute for SKYPE. In fact, with all the Android devices out there that generally require a GMAIL account, you can almost say it is a bigger platform than SKYPE. The only thing that is missing is complete integration of these services together. And they should be tied together.
The infrastructure is already there for the most part.
Has GBIC slot for Fiber. Still need SFP GBIC and fiber... but that is in the realm of "consumer grade" IMHO. I'd buy one if I had fiber to the house and needed it for connection.
Fiber is good for speeds in the 10GB range, even if it is in the same rack. I know, we are deploying 10G now for backbone, MAN connected replication sites and SAN/ISCSI connections to our Blade Chassis'. All done with fiber.
But that is exactly how the US governements were supposed to function, where the local had more control, and the state and federal had more. But "equality" drones thought this was "unfair" and decided that to make the country "more fair and equal" they would put more control away from local and consoladate it up at the state, and federal levels.
It is hard to flee a totalitarian state or federation, while it is much easier to flee local tyrants. But that isn't "fair".
Obama didn't run saying "First thing I'm gonna do, is put Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge of crafting an ill conceived Nationalized Health Care system, which will be doomed to failure and put thousands of full time jobs at risk. And that has been a platform plank of the DNC for years. AND Obama did not actively campaign for "Health Care Reform" as any sort of "Top Priority"
And the "You're going to have to vote for it, to see what's in it" line of crap was proof that they ram rodded the legislation through without proper vetting process. They know it is bad, which is why Congress exempted itself from the legislation. So much for equal protection under the law.
If Obama mentioned that he was going to reform health care the way it occured, he wouldn't have won the election. As it is right now, The Health Care law has already started seeing tons of unintended consequences that are hurting millions of jobs in America. I hope Americans wake up and realize what a complete peice of crap the legislation is.
I know of nobody that thought that the Naked Scanners at Airports were a good idea. We didn't get to vote on it. I know of nobody that voted for National Health Care Law, it was decided after an election, which it wasn't a campaign platform for anyone.
No, I don't live in a democracy, I live in a democratic republic, that is more ruled by bureaucrats than anyone else.
Taxes DO manipulate behavior, it is the major side effect (often unintended). Might as well embrace this fact and use it for the betterment of society.
Basically, your point is that without "taxes" we wouldn't have a "civilization", or worse, that civilization is defined by the taxes it pays, the more taxes equals the more "civilized" a society is.
We can be civil and civilized without being forced into paying taxes under threat of guns at the hands of our government.
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If I act like a stereotype, should I be upset when people treat me like a stereotype? But certain cultures eschew normalization in favor of maintaining stereo types, because it is a defining feature.
False. These banks took unnecessary risks and should fail, and the shareholders would be on the hook for the "non-payments". Too big to fail means too many hands in too many pies that we can't extracate who did what and to whom.
Fuck-em. Let them fail. bail out the deposits, make sure you get what you can from the loans outstanding and fail the bank and fuck the shareholders. I guarantee you that those people running FAILED banks will never work again(except at McDonalds), and those propsing the same kind of "banking" will never get promoted again.
And we should be able to raid the trust funds of all ill-got gains of the criminals who run and ruin these firms, including all the Operating Officers and Board of Directors.
DO NOT EAT THE QUACAMOLE!
We don't need more laws, we need more honor. You cannot legislate honor. The problem is, honor is an outdated notion that is contrary to "law".
Honor is doing what is right, no matter what, even when nobody is looking. Too many people want to screw the next guy and get away with it that we need laws to stop them from doing the wrong thing. They are brazen in their deeds. Quoth the asshole, "it isn't illegal, that makes it okay"
From the "Terms and Conditions" page ...
"Customers whose Straight Talk phones are not data-enabled or that cannot use Mobile Web Access"
Seems to indicate that they are "one and the same". And if I was a lawyer, I'd definitely
Addtionally, the T/S says "Straight Talk may discontinue providing Service to you, discontinue your account, discontinue providing connections to particular telephone numbers or types of Services used or called by you, terminate data connections and/or reduce data throughput speeds for customers whose usage, in the sole judgment of Straight Talk: (1) appear likely to generate abnormally high call volumes or Mobile Web Access and data usage"
But doesn't define "abnormally high".
Yes, I read through the whole T/S of StraightTalk. Again, if they cut my service off, I'll sue them, and I will win. Lawyers love Terms and Conditions that are not explicitly defined. They offer the service, don't define it, WHILE advertising "Unlimited" and then claim the right to "limit" it arbitrarily isn't "unlimited". Good luck with that in court.
MOBILE WEB ACCESS
No asterix defining anything. Mobile Web means what ... exactly.
I would argue that Ubuntu is the OEM version of Linux we need. The problem is, Ubuntu and the Unity is more like Windows 8 than say windows 7. It is a shift away from the Linux familiarity of GNOME or KDE. Unity is neither Gnome or KDE, and thus it is a problem, because it is ANOTHER standard. The nice thing is, it is Linux, and you can get back to KDE or GNOME if you try hard enough. However, one shouldn't have to "try" hard to do what should be "easy".
If straighttalk ever cuts me off for going over supposed "limits" I'll fucking Sue their ass. Their website says "UNLIMITED" for mobile web, with no * beside it detailing "UNLIMITED execption". If you can point me where those limits are issued, contractually, I'd love to know.
Additionally, you can get convert a feature phone over to ST if you need a sim.
What you're seeing is people who are using Verizon CDMA phones, which ST also carries service for, which do not have a SIM card what so ever.
Yeah, there is a reason you work at Walmart.
Unalienable rights are not entitlements. They exist without effort, without cause without demanding from anyone or anything else. You, alone on an Island have these rights. Enttilements (modern sense) are things REMOVED from some and GIVEN to others. People feel ENTITLED to these "things". And in our society, people feel Entitled without obligiation, where other cultures have a social contract that includes more "obligation" than "entitlement". There is a sense of shame when one doesn't meet their obligations, where here in the west, especially in the US, the whole goal of political body seems to be to get (increase) what you are "entitled" to, while incurring no "obligations" at all. Someone else will bail you out.
And, I am a Libertarian, so I also agree with your stance on Corporations up to a point. They are legal entities and not persons, though for the sake of most politics, those are one and the same. However, I would postulate that by giving non-persons the same and equal protections of law as live human beings, you have diminished human rights as a whole. And this is where I happen to agree with my left leaning friends a great deal more than my right leaning friends.
This is where I believe you and I would agree, that corporate boards and officers should be held PERSONALLY responsible for the actions taken under their direction, the same as if I directed others to commit crimes on my behalf. Charles Manson never directly killed anyone, yet he is in jail for murder none the less, because it was HIS direction which led to the murders. Corporate Boards and Officers should be held to the same standard.
You are right, something has gone wrong, we've lost the ideal of what a "Right" is. As I stated before, rights exist, apart from and not depending upon anyone or anything else. THIS is why we are screwed, we've assigned the status of "right" to things others have, that we want and demand that we are entitled to those things equally, without cost. And it diminishes us all in the process. This is the road to tyranny.
where society collectively steps in and protects its weakest
Abortion. Of course, when you de-humanize people, it is much easier to kill them. Sorry, your ideals aren't fully realized. Nice try though.
At what point will we recognize that a terminal cancer patient deserved some dedication from their family and society, in the form of, I don't know 'take a paid week off, go home to your family'?
It is THIS entitlement attitude that I was commenting on.
AND Why are you judging others on ethics? You have no idea what value "family" has in this culture, if you did, you'd realize that their "ethics" are different (not better, not worse, different) than yours. It does explain the behavior of the young lady and her choice to keep her illness private.
Our colective voices cannot be heard, because we have lost something moving from local to state to federal control of law. As the power shifts away from us, our voices count less and less.
IF you want to fix this, then change the election laws. Make it so that only Citizens can contribute to campaigns, and only for campaigns to which they can vote. Corporations can still spend money on their candidates, but must be done idependantly (apart from any coordination with a campaign). Prevent PACs from raising money on behalf of candidates.
Your post is a nice contrast to the entitlement so many Americans (and westerners) have about their life and jobs. The dedication to family and society is part of the Filipino culture that it really stands as a stark contrast to American Culture. AND we are less off because of that aspect of our culture. We American (and westerners in general) have no real concept of extended family clans any more.
If enough people find offense in the apology, and let LEGO know, then it will become clear that simply apologizing for some imagined slight or offense is itself offensive.
Galaxy SIII is trivially unlocked, in such a way that there is NO F'n way that any carrier can block it, since it is a SAMSUNG unlock. It is one of the reasons I picked up that phone instead of one of the many others I was considering, including Nexus.
Google+ Hangouts, GoogleTalk and Google Voice all make an awesome subsittute for SKYPE. In fact, with all the Android devices out there that generally require a GMAIL account, you can almost say it is a bigger platform than SKYPE. The only thing that is missing is complete integration of these services together. And they should be tied together.
The infrastructure is already there for the most part.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833316187
Has GBIC slot for Fiber. Still need SFP GBIC and fiber ... but that is in the realm of "consumer grade" IMHO. I'd buy one if I had fiber to the house and needed it for connection.
Fiber is good for speeds in the 10GB range, even if it is in the same rack. I know, we are deploying 10G now for backbone, MAN connected replication sites and SAN/ISCSI connections to our Blade Chassis'. All done with fiber.
But that is exactly how the US governements were supposed to function, where the local had more control, and the state and federal had more. But "equality" drones thought this was "unfair" and decided that to make the country "more fair and equal" they would put more control away from local and consoladate it up at the state, and federal levels.
It is hard to flee a totalitarian state or federation, while it is much easier to flee local tyrants. But that isn't "fair".
Obama didn't run saying "First thing I'm gonna do, is put Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in charge of crafting an ill conceived Nationalized Health Care system, which will be doomed to failure and put thousands of full time jobs at risk. And that has been a platform plank of the DNC for years. AND Obama did not actively campaign for "Health Care Reform" as any sort of "Top Priority"
And the "You're going to have to vote for it, to see what's in it" line of crap was proof that they ram rodded the legislation through without proper vetting process. They know it is bad, which is why Congress exempted itself from the legislation. So much for equal protection under the law.
If Obama mentioned that he was going to reform health care the way it occured, he wouldn't have won the election. As it is right now, The Health Care law has already started seeing tons of unintended consequences that are hurting millions of jobs in America. I hope Americans wake up and realize what a complete peice of crap the legislation is.
"I wish I spent more time at the office" ... said no one ever upon their death bed.
I know of nobody that thought that the Naked Scanners at Airports were a good idea. We didn't get to vote on it. I know of nobody that voted for National Health Care Law, it was decided after an election, which it wasn't a campaign platform for anyone.
No, I don't live in a democracy, I live in a democratic republic, that is more ruled by bureaucrats than anyone else.
Taxes DO manipulate behavior, it is the major side effect (often unintended). Might as well embrace this fact and use it for the betterment of society.
Basically, your point is that without "taxes" we wouldn't have a "civilization", or worse, that civilization is defined by the taxes it pays, the more taxes equals the more "civilized" a society is.
We can be civil and civilized without being forced into paying taxes under threat of guns at the hands of our government.
Tax money leaving the US for any reason.