"If I were in charge, I'd task the NSA with catching them, then publicly execute them on TV. While some people will say, "oh, that is overkill and not fair", I'd say, "yea, but it sure will give these criminals pause in the future, won't it?""
Why don't you move to Saudi Arabia or Iran? You'll love it there.
"Helps explain why my dog reacts differently to different people with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Some he's very friendly with, others he makes it abundantly clear that he wants nothing to do with them - or with them being around me. "
Or, most likely, your dog just picks up on your attitude towards those people. They're great at that.
"Even Ukrainian language is as similar to Russian as Austria's German is to Germany's German." Did you even bother checking Wiki on the Ukrainian language? How does that foot taste?:)
"Bulgaria, which suffered much less of the bear's hug than Poland did, but it was enough to show me the sort of love that the russkies like to export to their neighbors." You mean the country that sided with Hitler in WW2 and with Kaiser in WW1? That Bulgaria? The country that isn't a Turkish slave pen anymore thanks to the "russkies"? That Bulgaria? What a grand person you are.
"Why trade for something when you can order a robot to go to the landfill, fetch the raw materials, take them to the local fab and make the thing for you for free?" Do you have a robot? Did you get it for free? Do you have free access to raw materials or a local fab?
You're wrong. By your logic, all poor people in the world would be obese. Poverty causes obesity only partly and indirectly. There's plenty of fat middle-class people. Average obesity is caused by - in no particular order and overlapping - stupidity, lack of education, laziness, over-processed food, excessive intake of carbs, general overeating, low physical activity, constant psychological stress and a distorted culture of food preparation (or more like the lack of thereof); as well as the imperfect human biology not evolved to deal with all that.
"Many poor and even lower-middle class families simply don't have these things." Are you talking about some third-world country? Cause if you're talking about the US, you're dead wrong: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...
No, the retard here is you. Also, a disgrace to/. You might not agree with what he is, says or does, but just pulling crap out of your ass is shameful.
" Didn't you hear your sisters in arms giving you your marching orders? You're not supposed to admit that women are more sensitive to abuse... You're supposed to tow the party line, claiming that the only cause is evil men are being more verbally abusive to women." What's with this lame attempt at sarcasm? I thought we were adults discussing a serious issue here.
"Carrying a knife will even things out quite nicely, though. Clawing out eyes works pretty good, too." You really don't understand that not everyone is capable of fighting? How old are you? Ten?
"Can you please post those stats, and a source? When people make claims like this, it's important to back them up and they be scrutinized." Seriously? Doesn't a simple fact that male and female athletes compete separately hint at anything?
"How many men, or even black man or gay men get threats like that?" Umm... You do remember what used to happen to black men who the white folks didn't like just about 50 years ago (or, even 20 years ago in South Africa), don't you? You do know what used to happen to gay men in the US about 20 years ago (and still happens in the third world countries), don't you?
I don't think any normal man would argue that there are no assholes among men. And threatening with violence is what they usually do. Women don't usually behave like that.
Now, let's try "pissing off" a woman (regardless of the "offense" being real or just in the woman's head) and see what happens. A tiny number will pick a fight. A small number will threaten violence (directly or thinly veiled). Another small group will do the same and/or damage your property. But a huge number of them won't do anything like that. No way. The life will go on as usual. Shortly though, you will start noticing that something is off. You'll get invited to less social events. Your mutual female friends will behave differently towards you. Their female friends will behave differently towards you. Their boyfriends/husbands will hang out with you less. And so on...
Luckily for me, I tasted just a bit of that treatment, but I've seen that happen to other people (men and - MUCH MORE OFTEN - women) plenty of times. To a different degree, obviously. Don't even start me on female cliques. Why the hell can men who hate each other's guts just nod to each other and behave like nothing is wrong if they happen to be at the same party? Why the hell does it take one insensitive remark for women to hate each other and split all the people they know according to "Whoever is not with me is against me"?
I know which one I prefer - the male way. It's usually in your face and you know it's 90% only talk anyway. Threats don't bother me a bit. Insulting me is pretty much impossible. I have a problem with a surreptitious poisoning of my social life though.
Of course, I understand WHY I prefer the male way - because I feel confident enough that I can handle most potential violence. Due to biology and history, women have to worry more about violence.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need to work to eliminate ALL kinds of bad behavior. Right now, women are still more vulnerable so we need to work on helping them a bit more. BUT we need to work on fixing THEIR behavior too. My guess would be that IT IS the cause of a lot of bad male behavior.
"If the Russians hadn't been in Eastern Ukraine, where they don't belong, then nobody would be complaining about Russians." Ummm... Do you mean the "Russians" as in "the Russian mercenaries" or the "Russians" as "the people who's been living in that area for centuries"?
"The Soviet shootdown is a simple case of browbeaten lackeys under a tyrannical regime making what they figured was the best choice to cover their asses. There was no threat to them. " It must be so nice to know everything for sure. I'm really envious of you.
"In 1983, Cold War tensions between the US and USSR had escalated to a level not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis because of several factors. These included the United States' Strategic Defense Initiative, its planned deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe in March and April, and FleetEx '83, the largest fleet exercise held to date in the North Pacific.[26] The military hierarchy of the Soviet Union (particularly the old guard led by Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov and Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov) viewed these actions as bellicose and destabilizing; they were deeply suspicious of US President Ronald Reagan's intentions and openly fearful he was planning a first strike nuclear attack against the Soviet Union. These fears culminated in Operation RYAN, the code name for a secret intelligence gathering program initiated by Andropov to detect a potential nuclear sneak attack which he believed Reagan was plotting.[27]
Aircraft from USS Midway and USS Enterprise repeatedly overflew Soviet military installations in the disputed Kurile Islands during FleetEx '83,[28] resulting in the dismissal or reprimanding of Soviet military officials who had been unable to shoot them down.[29] On the Soviet side, Operation RYAN was expanded.[29] Lastly, there was a heightened alert around the Kamchatka Peninsula at the time KAL 007 was in the vicinity, because of a Soviet missile test that was scheduled for the same day. A United States Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft flying in the area was monitoring the missile test off the peninsula.[30]"
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"If I were in charge, I'd task the NSA with catching them, then publicly execute them on TV. While some people will say, "oh, that is overkill and not fair", I'd say, "yea, but it sure will give these criminals pause in the future, won't it?""
Why don't you move to Saudi Arabia or Iran? You'll love it there.
Every day is a sad day when you're divorced from reality.
You don't get it and probably never will. I feel sorry for you.
"My god, are you that delusional?"
You seriously haven't realized that yet, have you?
Since nobody had the stomach to end you with a surgery, we should continue with therapy.
"Helps explain why my dog reacts differently to different people with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Some he's very friendly with, others he makes it abundantly clear that he wants nothing to do with them - or with them being around me. "
Or, most likely, your dog just picks up on your attitude towards those people. They're great at that.
"Even Ukrainian language is as similar to Russian as Austria's German is to Germany's German." :)
Did you even bother checking Wiki on the Ukrainian language? How does that foot taste?
"Bulgaria, which suffered much less of the bear's hug than Poland did, but it was enough to show me the sort of love that the russkies like to export to their neighbors."
You mean the country that sided with Hitler in WW2 and with Kaiser in WW1? That Bulgaria? The country that isn't a Turkish slave pen anymore thanks to the "russkies"? That Bulgaria? What a grand person you are.
Say, that's nice reality distortion field you've got.
"Why trade for something when you can order a robot to go to the landfill, fetch the raw materials, take them to the local fab and make the thing for you for free?"
Do you have a robot? Did you get it for free? Do you have free access to raw materials or a local fab?
Yeah, everybody's a sociologist and a statistician on the Internet.
ACs are so lazy these days. Couldn't you at least check the Wiki article on the river?
I thought that's what the chem trails were for?
You're wrong. By your logic, all poor people in the world would be obese.
Poverty causes obesity only partly and indirectly. There's plenty of fat middle-class people.
Average obesity is caused by - in no particular order and overlapping - stupidity, lack of education, laziness, over-processed food, excessive intake of carbs, general overeating, low physical activity, constant psychological stress and a distorted culture of food preparation (or more like the lack of thereof); as well as the imperfect human biology not evolved to deal with all that.
"Many poor and even lower-middle class families simply don't have these things."
Are you talking about some third-world country? Cause if you're talking about the US, you're dead wrong: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...
CA consumes about 27% of the river's water so I think your 10% number is a bit an understatement.
Great. Please leave and let us - "assholes" - go on with our "rants".
You don't add anything to the signal besides noise anyway.
No, the retard here is you. Also, a disgrace to /. You might not agree with what he is, says or does, but just pulling crap out of your ass is shameful.
" Didn't you hear your sisters in arms giving you your marching orders? You're not supposed to admit that women are more sensitive to abuse... You're supposed to tow the party line, claiming that the only cause is evil men are being more verbally abusive to women."
What's with this lame attempt at sarcasm? I thought we were adults discussing a serious issue here.
"Carrying a knife will even things out quite nicely, though. Clawing out eyes works pretty good, too."
You really don't understand that not everyone is capable of fighting? How old are you? Ten?
"Can you please post those stats, and a source? When people make claims like this, it's important to back them up and they be scrutinized."
Seriously? Doesn't a simple fact that male and female athletes compete separately hint at anything?
"How many men, or even black man or gay men get threats like that?"
Umm... You do remember what used to happen to black men who the white folks didn't like just about 50 years ago (or, even 20 years ago in South Africa), don't you? You do know what used to happen to gay men in the US about 20 years ago (and still happens in the third world countries), don't you?
I don't think any normal man would argue that there are no assholes among men. And threatening with violence is what they usually do. Women don't usually behave like that.
Now, let's try "pissing off" a woman (regardless of the "offense" being real or just in the woman's head) and see what happens. A tiny number will pick a fight. A small number will threaten violence (directly or thinly veiled). Another small group will do the same and/or damage your property. But a huge number of them won't do anything like that. No way. The life will go on as usual. Shortly though, you will start noticing that something is off. You'll get invited to less social events. Your mutual female friends will behave differently towards you. Their female friends will behave differently towards you. Their boyfriends/husbands will hang out with you less. And so on...
Luckily for me, I tasted just a bit of that treatment, but I've seen that happen to other people (men and - MUCH MORE OFTEN - women) plenty of times. To a different degree, obviously. Don't even start me on female cliques. Why the hell can men who hate each other's guts just nod to each other and behave like nothing is wrong if they happen to be at the same party? Why the hell does it take one insensitive remark for women to hate each other and split all the people they know according to "Whoever is not with me is against me"?
I know which one I prefer - the male way. It's usually in your face and you know it's 90% only talk anyway. Threats don't bother me a bit. Insulting me is pretty much impossible. I have a problem with a surreptitious poisoning of my social life though.
Of course, I understand WHY I prefer the male way - because I feel confident enough that I can handle most potential violence. Due to biology and history, women have to worry more about violence.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need to work to eliminate ALL kinds of bad behavior. Right now, women are still more vulnerable so we need to work on helping them a bit more. BUT we need to work on fixing THEIR behavior too. My guess would be that IT IS the cause of a lot of bad male behavior.
"When was the last time a nation went to war with it's biggest trading partner?"
1939. Before that? 1914.
"If the Russians hadn't been in Eastern Ukraine, where they don't belong, then nobody would be complaining about Russians."
Ummm... Do you mean the "Russians" as in "the Russian mercenaries" or the "Russians" as "the people who's been living in that area for centuries"?
"The Soviet shootdown is a simple case of browbeaten lackeys under a tyrannical regime making what they figured was the best choice to cover their asses. There was no threat to them. "
It must be so nice to know everything for sure. I'm really envious of you.
"In 1983, Cold War tensions between the US and USSR had escalated to a level not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis because of several factors. These included the United States' Strategic Defense Initiative, its planned deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe in March and April, and FleetEx '83, the largest fleet exercise held to date in the North Pacific.[26] The military hierarchy of the Soviet Union (particularly the old guard led by Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov and Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov) viewed these actions as bellicose and destabilizing; they were deeply suspicious of US President Ronald Reagan's intentions and openly fearful he was planning a first strike nuclear attack against the Soviet Union. These fears culminated in Operation RYAN, the code name for a secret intelligence gathering program initiated by Andropov to detect a potential nuclear sneak attack which he believed Reagan was plotting.[27]
Aircraft from USS Midway and USS Enterprise repeatedly overflew Soviet military installations in the disputed Kurile Islands during FleetEx '83,[28] resulting in the dismissal or reprimanding of Soviet military officials who had been unable to shoot them down.[29] On the Soviet side, Operation RYAN was expanded.[29] Lastly, there was a heightened alert around the Kamchatka Peninsula at the time KAL 007 was in the vicinity, because of a Soviet missile test that was scheduled for the same day. A United States Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft flying in the area was monitoring the missile test off the peninsula.[30]"