Dude, if you're going to call a place in Pennsylvania a whacked-out leftist island, it's State College, and the sea of reality is Williamsport (pop. 30k, with gangs) and Altoona (pop 45k, and good luck with the addicts).
Wait, what? He changed his failing grades to excellent grades. How is that any worse than cheating on a Ph.D? In America, I think the difference between someone with a masters and a doctorate is much less than between a kid with a high school diploma and one so stupid they failed out.
If he was too proud to accept a tutor, he was asking for failure. Perhaps they never meant the 7 deadly sins literally, but being to proud to ask for help is academic suicide.
Whats with the overreaction tag? It's not an overreaction.
When I was in high school, I was in Honors classes, and earned my A's and B's. Many, many students were in the same classes and couldn't fuckin' hack it and cheated their way to ahead of me in class.
Get caught trying to make yourself look better than you are, and you get to sit in jail. In principle, you're stealing my future from me by cheating when I'm honest. You being 30 spots higher than me in the class lineup might mean you make $500,000 more than me in your lifetime. That's grand theft, and that's a felony. Deal with it.
I've got amblyopia. My guess is it would work fine - my brain knows to ignore that eye (I had a lazy eye, and they didn't fix it right til too late), so this thing would know too, right??
But if there's nobody around to say what property IS mine and what property's yours, how do we settle that argument? We can't. If I want it, I'm gonna take it from you.
Hobbes wants you to see it like this: Nobody lives in his "natural state" anymore... except the heads of states. Let me give you a few examples:
Within the United States:
I have a giant field full of marijuana. I say that I own the land, so I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want with it, because it's MY PROPERTY. The DEA does not like this arrangement, based upon rules that the United States has agreed on (we will not argue the law itself in this scenario). I do not want the DEA to take my marijuana - my property. I decided to shoot anyone who enters the perimeter. Pretty soon, the National Guard is firebombing my house, and I'm a crisp, charred corpse. In other words, the United States did what it wanted with my property and body, in order to enforce its laws.
At Pearl Harbor:
The Emperor of Japan decides to provoke the United States into joining a war that it had not officially been part of yet. After months and months of fighting, the United States decides to round up all the Japanese in the States and put them in concentration camps. It then spends years to develop what to this day is the most feared weapon in the entire world, and drops them on innocent, unsuspecting civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In other words, we did what we wanted to the Japanese's property and to the bodies of Japanese civilians to further our cause.
Many, many other examples are available in history. Bottom line is, without a man with a big stick telling you not to beat the shit out of your neighbor for his sack of oats, most people would do it. Those that say, "That's wrong, I would respect the right of that man to his bag of oats!" would be DEAD. In the end, the man who steals the most sacks of oats and says to everyone else, "If you give me the RIGHT to take a share of your oats, I'll make sure NOBODY ELSE does," wins.
If you act like a jackass and say "NO, SIR, I WILL NOT SHOW YOU MY ID, I'D RATHER HOLD UP EVERYONE ELSE.", then you won't be allowed to fly.
If you just say you forgot it, you get the search, and get on the plane, probably after a little bit of admonishment. I'd rather NOT have you bringing in plastic explosive or a box cutter in your shoe or some other object that can make my passage 30,000 feet in the air more uncomfortable than it is already, so yeah, some 6'4" man is going to fondle your nuts to make sure there's no razorblade up there.
Are you trying to say chiropractors are useless? After dealing with migraines when I was younger (14-18) for years, my doc finally told me i should try a chiropractor instead of having to take Imitrex once or twice a week. One month later, I NEVER get migraines... except if I decide to skip out on going to the chiropractor for too long.
What are you expecting from going to one, a magical cure, or a "push" in the right direction?
I disagree with you, but I clicked the above just to read:
The first philosopher who fully made natural rights the source of his moral and political philosophy was Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Hobbes argued that it is human nature to love one's self best and seek one's own good (this is a view known as psychological egoism). Since it is unavoidable ("necessity of nature") for human beings to follow their nature, it becomes a right to do so. According to Hobbes, to deny this right is to deny that we have a right to be human, which would be absurd, just as it would be absurd to demand that carnivores reject meat or that fish stop swimming. However, this was not a right in the conventional sense of imposing obligations on others, but merely a "liberty." Therefore, we have no obligations by birth or nature, but only unlimited rights -- leading to a situation known as the "war of all against all", in which human beings have to kill, steal and enslave others in order to stay alive. Hobbes reasoned that this world of chaos created by unlimited rights was highly undesirable, causing human life to be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". As such, if humans wish to live peacefully they must give up most of their natural rights and create moral obligations in order to establish political and civil society. This is one of the earliest formulations of the theory of government known as the social contract.
It is my natural right to take whatever I damn well please from whoever I damn well please. For proof, please watch Animal Planet. Or, read some Leviathan, and let Hobbes convince you.
How do you think you'll be compensated? You'll be compensated by having a store that's lit and still cheap, versus one that's lit and now twice as expensive.
"We received your PayPal transaction, Thank you very much. Eight grams of dynamite skunk weed for you is located in a crushed Mountain Dew can in the gutter exactly sixteen feet south east of the bus stop sign at the corner of First and Main. We will pick it up if you don't do so by 3:30pm Tuesday"? I've always wondered why simple dope dealers don't use Internet technology for anonymous untraceable transactions? Could it be because most dope dealers are stupid, or just old-fashioned?
It blows your mind that they protect cash but not your identity?
If someone steals that $4.5m, they're out $4.5 mil and STILL own their marks^Wcustomers money. If someone steals 4.5M identities, chances are, they actually MAKE money in the end 'cuz the bastards aren't gonna take your side if your identity gets stolen and you can't get a car loan anywhere under 10% interest!
You're that picky about clothes? OK, I wouldn't order from a new brand online, but I can go and say "OK, American Eagle, 30/32, Medium. Aeropostale, 31/32, Small. Nike, 10.5, New Balance, 10.5... Adio 10"
Unless, of course, you're the opposite of me - I can stop eating for a week, not lose a pound, drink heavy beer and eat at barbecues for a week, not gain a pound. I'm like Mr. Rogers, always the same body. It would be pretty useless to shop for clothes online then.
So THATS the jerkoff who got all my utility companies started on charging a fee for credit card/bank ACH payments!
Yes, you heard write: Mailing a check that requires a person or other complicated ornery machinery to deal with: Free. VISA/MC/Discover/AMEX? $7.00, please.
So, I mail in a check with the account number on it and nothing else, just to screw em out of the extra time. Same with AT&T - they tell me I can "save money" by not getting a paper bill. They don't actually LET you save any money, so I make them send me the paper bill and then pay online (because it's still free as far as I can tell).
Why can't I tell some random company a random name? They made up THEIR name, if I decide I want to be Joe Pennystealer and Iwantur Asspennies the next day, wtf is the problem? I'm not talking under oath...
I can do them pretty quickly, and if I wrote myself a tidy little program to automatically open the accounts and simply present me with two words that once I type gain me from $0.01 to $0.99, I'd be typing away until my fingers bled.
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Dude, if you're going to call a place in Pennsylvania a whacked-out leftist island, it's State College, and the sea of reality is Williamsport (pop. 30k, with gangs) and Altoona (pop 45k, and good luck with the addicts).
How do you get on the roof then?
Works for the Japanese!
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For instance, there is no reason for handguns to be available. They are not tools of war so much as of murder.
Then why did the Army give me an M9 while I drove a M1A2 tank?
So you're gonna raise your kids like that?
I really hope my kid beats your kids ass.
Wait, what? He changed his failing grades to excellent grades. How is that any worse than cheating on a Ph.D? In America, I think the difference between someone with a masters and a doctorate is much less than between a kid with a high school diploma and one so stupid they failed out.
If he was too proud to accept a tutor, he was asking for failure. Perhaps they never meant the 7 deadly sins literally, but being to proud to ask for help is academic suicide.
Whats with the overreaction tag? It's not an overreaction.
When I was in high school, I was in Honors classes, and earned my A's and B's. Many, many students were in the same classes and couldn't fuckin' hack it and cheated their way to ahead of me in class.
Get caught trying to make yourself look better than you are, and you get to sit in jail. In principle, you're stealing my future from me by cheating when I'm honest. You being 30 spots higher than me in the class lineup might mean you make $500,000 more than me in your lifetime. That's grand theft, and that's a felony. Deal with it.
I've got amblyopia. My guess is it would work fine - my brain knows to ignore that eye (I had a lazy eye, and they didn't fix it right til too late), so this thing would know too, right??
But if there's nobody around to say what property IS mine and what property's yours, how do we settle that argument? We can't. If I want it, I'm gonna take it from you.
Hobbes wants you to see it like this: Nobody lives in his "natural state" anymore... except the heads of states. Let me give you a few examples:
Within the United States:
I have a giant field full of marijuana. I say that I own the land, so I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want with it, because it's MY PROPERTY. The DEA does not like this arrangement, based upon rules that the United States has agreed on (we will not argue the law itself in this scenario). I do not want the DEA to take my marijuana - my property. I decided to shoot anyone who enters the perimeter. Pretty soon, the National Guard is firebombing my house, and I'm a crisp, charred corpse. In other words, the United States did what it wanted with my property and body, in order to enforce its laws.
At Pearl Harbor:
The Emperor of Japan decides to provoke the United States into joining a war that it had not officially been part of yet. After months and months of fighting, the United States decides to round up all the Japanese in the States and put them in concentration camps. It then spends years to develop what to this day is the most feared weapon in the entire world, and drops them on innocent, unsuspecting civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In other words, we did what we wanted to the Japanese's property and to the bodies of Japanese civilians to further our cause.
Many, many other examples are available in history. Bottom line is, without a man with a big stick telling you not to beat the shit out of your neighbor for his sack of oats, most people would do it. Those that say, "That's wrong, I would respect the right of that man to his bag of oats!" would be DEAD. In the end, the man who steals the most sacks of oats and says to everyone else, "If you give me the RIGHT to take a share of your oats, I'll make sure NOBODY ELSE does," wins.
Did you not read the article about the ID thing?
If you act like a jackass and say "NO, SIR, I WILL NOT SHOW YOU MY ID, I'D RATHER HOLD UP EVERYONE ELSE.", then you won't be allowed to fly.
If you just say you forgot it, you get the search, and get on the plane, probably after a little bit of admonishment. I'd rather NOT have you bringing in plastic explosive or a box cutter in your shoe or some other object that can make my passage 30,000 feet in the air more uncomfortable than it is already, so yeah, some 6'4" man is going to fondle your nuts to make sure there's no razorblade up there.
Are you trying to say chiropractors are useless? After dealing with migraines when I was younger (14-18) for years, my doc finally told me i should try a chiropractor instead of having to take Imitrex once or twice a week. One month later, I NEVER get migraines... except if I decide to skip out on going to the chiropractor for too long.
What are you expecting from going to one, a magical cure, or a "push" in the right direction?
It is my natural right to take whatever I damn well please from whoever I damn well please. For proof, please watch Animal Planet. Or, read some Leviathan, and let Hobbes convince you.
How do you think you'll be compensated? You'll be compensated by having a store that's lit and still cheap, versus one that's lit and now twice as expensive.
Hah! Get the IT Student edition, its designed to teach kiddies how to install XP, and the key ALWAYS works.
Ma Bell is back. And this time, she's pissed.
PayPal is anonymous?? Coulda fooled me!
RE: Your Sig...
I always thought waterboarding sounded fun, like I dunno, some kind of surfing (hey, I'm from central PA)... until someone told me what it was!
It blows your mind that they protect cash but not your identity?
If someone steals that $4.5m, they're out $4.5 mil and STILL own their marks^Wcustomers money. If someone steals 4.5M identities, chances are, they actually MAKE money in the end 'cuz the bastards aren't gonna take your side if your identity gets stolen and you can't get a car loan anywhere under 10% interest!
You're that picky about clothes? OK, I wouldn't order from a new brand online, but I can go and say "OK, American Eagle, 30/32, Medium. Aeropostale, 31/32, Small. Nike, 10.5, New Balance, 10.5... Adio 10"
Unless, of course, you're the opposite of me - I can stop eating for a week, not lose a pound, drink heavy beer and eat at barbecues for a week, not gain a pound. I'm like Mr. Rogers, always the same body. It would be pretty useless to shop for clothes online then.
They took Ubuntu and made Debian!
I get it!
So THATS the jerkoff who got all my utility companies started on charging a fee for credit card/bank ACH payments!
Yes, you heard write: Mailing a check that requires a person or other complicated ornery machinery to deal with: Free. VISA/MC/Discover/AMEX? $7.00, please.
So, I mail in a check with the account number on it and nothing else, just to screw em out of the extra time. Same with AT&T - they tell me I can "save money" by not getting a paper bill. They don't actually LET you save any money, so I make them send me the paper bill and then pay online (because it's still free as far as I can tell).
Why can't I tell some random company a random name? They made up THEIR name, if I decide I want to be Joe Pennystealer and Iwantur Asspennies the next day, wtf is the problem? I'm not talking under oath...
I can do them pretty quickly, and if I wrote myself a tidy little program to automatically open the accounts and simply present me with two words that once I type gain me from $0.01 to $0.99, I'd be typing away until my fingers bled.