i never said society is evil nor did i say that men and women are not different biologically. and it does rather well prove that the societal attitutdes towards colors very much are results of society rather than biology. the key is that those difference do not extend to our brains.
you get a fail for reading comprehension and logic. and you should probably start here, which has a few good references to actual research on this subject: http://www.slate.com/articles/...
I was excited at first for the original, being an original fan of the Buldur's Gates and Icewind Dales and logging many many hours within
But I couldnt stand the first game and was horribly disappointed.
It felt like they were trying too much to copy the MMO class paradigms, with you controlling everyone, only it didnt work. and the AI just competely ignoring any actual tank/dps/heal type play mechanics. "threat" aand "heals" basically didnt cause threat or heal anything. "i know i should be really angry at you right now mr tank....that super squishy bard just flinched...ima have to go kill him"
best thing you can do is not force a career, but simply make sure he/she knows all the options available. worry more about giving her a good work ethic, and decent values.
and why is it a tried and true demograpic? its completely cultural in nature and is comprised of a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
the notion that it is AT ALL biological is rooted in ignorance. Ignorance of biology, ignorance of culture, and ignorance of history.
Consider that when pink first took on gender connotations, it was originally considered a manly color, while women wore white or blue as they wee more "feminine". in fact the gender associations of colors has changed many times over history, and varied much across various cultures.
Walking doesnt incur a 20% chance of fatal cancer, 75% chance of ephysema, and >95% chance of diminished lung capacity and difficulty breathing. The number of smokers who suffer no ill effects is a very tiny portion and certainly not in the millions. The same goes for radiation. It doesnt just cause cancer.
Seriously, the "walking has risks too" argument is so flawed, so ignorant, that i believe you to be a danger to yourself and others, and seriously hope you have no persons under your care for whom you are responsible.
and already people, who claim to be of a libertarian bent and all about keeping government authority in line and accountable and who also formerly were all for making police wear cams to ensure that accountability......already those same people are now switching their tune and opposing this......because Obama supports it.
yes, but then when you go to your man cave youre no longer "spending time" with her and the family. which then becomes yet another point of contention.
However since unions make workers over time poorer, not richer, and exist (again over time) primarily for the benefit of union leadership, they are a prime example of supporting the rich over the common folk.
Everything you just stated is counterfactual to actual historical fact and actual economic trends and correlations. Higher union membership rates is correlated with higher average wages across the nation, for everyone not just union workers. And union workers in equivelent fields earn an average of 200 more per week, which is 10k a year.
Higher membership rates also correlates (directly, as in the flip is easily seen when plotted: http://ashcraftandgerel.com/wp... ) with less moeny going to the executives and owners of the companies..which means more is going to the workers. IE, they kept a bigger piece of the pie...that they made.
Know that chart showing how american worker productivity just keeps climbing higher and higher, while the workers wages have stayed flat for 40 years....but the rich's incomes have climbed (ie, they get all the increased revenues from the higher productivity)...ya, that break point corresponds very closely with the successful re-breaking of the unions in this country around the same time.
When union membership started falling, wages fell too. and a lack and lowering of union protections is also correlated to a rise in improper firings and other abusie practices by companies.
So you arent protecting workers. You're just protecting corporations from those pesky employees that make their companies successful.
automation will ALWAYS be more cost effective, no matter how much the workers make. its a one time purchase cost with minor upkeep costs and longer "working hours", as opposed to several workers with a wage.
that doesnt remvoe the need for minimum wages or unions. there are automation plans to replace fast food workers, who already earn the minimum wage, a wage a so low that earning it puts you below the poverty line. do you want to claim they are overpaid too?
again you display your ignorance. the old trade guilds are a very thing different thing from unions (no seriosuly, you should the difference between craft and industrial unionization). and ben franklin's opinion is largely irrelevent, as are the opinions of pretty anyone else in pre-industrial pre-corporate america who could nto envision how the life of a typical citizen would change. in their time, a few people would learn an actual trade, and everyone else would farm for their supper; and even many of those who were tradesmans still grew their own food.
the agrarian/craftsmen oriented America died out in between the things you are referencing. when america industrialized and when corporations and big businesses began taking over a different america emerged. one in which industrial workers were often little more than slave labor. where people would die in factory fires because the doors were locked. one in which workers demanding rights, or better treatment, were fired. and if they organized in an attempt to get equal footing with the company, they were frequently beaten or killed. often by the government, or at least with its tacit approval. so while intimidation, and even violence against scabs did occur, far far more was done as a result of anti-labor retaliation. things like snipers randomly shooting in tent cities of strikers. brutal bands of pinkertons and other "private" agencies (basically company armies). even outright massacres.
Companies had special armored cars with machine guns on them for dealing with strikers. No, I'm not making that up. That was considered appropriate response. Imagine if Blackwater were used for security inside the United States, and killed american citizens, and got away with it, never getting punished. That was reality back then, and few people were ever prosecuted for it.
You think the stuff in Ferguson is a big deal, people so disillusioned and unsatisfied and distrustful of their local governemnt and police, that they no longer ascribe any sort of authority to them, allowing a state of semi-lawlessness? Now imagine that the police response was to spray bullets into the crowds. Because that's what often happened to strikers.
if the union stops working towards worker interests and starts going to management interests, then its time for now management. so once again: its important to be involved. go to your union meetings, vote in your union elections. otherwise you give up control to those who do participate....very much like our public electoral process.
you like to bring up the "threat of violence" as some sterotype, but it doesnt apply to the vast majority of unions (and no they didnt start as some mafia outfit). yet you always ignore violence and death used against striking and organizing workers. the Pinkertons were good at it. The Railroad strikes, which lasted months and were expressed as strikes and riots across the entire nation, were finally put down by the Pinkertons, police, and the Army. Many were killed. Thousands of people have died for the right to collectively negotiate, to have an equal voice in the employer/employee relationship.
in fact, many older cities of the nation have Armories in them. you know what they were for? For putting down these worker strikes and riots and keep the workers in line.
Oh and who remembers the Obamacare provision that permitted union management to keep "Cadillac" health insurance plans while nobody else was allowed to?
No one remembers it, because it doesnt exist. IE, still more misinformation from you.
you're talking about the "cadillac" tax, the tax on really expensive plans designed to create a market force to provide a strong incentive to lower premiums.... the cadillac tax doesnt kick in til 2018. for everyone. there is no special union exemption to it.
and its done to accomodate the need for people, union and nonunion, to renegotiate their benefits.
you see, and you probably missed this since youre completely ignorant about unions and worker benefits in general, but benefits are negotiated with the company, and then set out in a contract. and for people who have such "cadillac" plans set out in contract, need time to renogiate. that applies to unions, and non union workers.
have you seen how they do it? around here they dont come out with chainsaws and trimmers.
they use a tree grinder: an oversided brush cutter on the end of a cherry picker arm. and they just go at the tree til the wires are clear.
instead of neat cuts and easily disposed limbs, it leaves the trees looking like a mangled mess, with trunk ends splintered and cracked. and a ton of small chunks and shards of wood laying on the ground.....that they also dont clean up, but leave behind.
No im not forgetting anything. the CDC's definition and list of procedures is all but irrelevent if the people performing it arent adequately trained and prepared, as was the case at the Texas hospital. again, the blame lies in the local hospital making a series of errors and mistakes. an expert giving you advice directions is all but irrelevent if you dont listen him, which is pretty much the core point i was making.
as for luck, we have been lucky only in the fact its rarely travelled outside Africa. our ability to deal with the disease depends drastically ont he quality of hte health system being used. but you missed that as well: there is a vast difference between capability of the health care systems in the affected African countries and the health care systems of Europe and the US.
They often lack adequate space over there, quickly running out of space to put the patients. Many patients get treated at home, with and by familiy members. They lack funding. They lack even basic drugs to control blood pressure, a core part of helping the body fight the disease, and something even the smalled outpatient clinics have access to. And msot importantly, they lack doctors and nurses, personal to actually treat the sick. We have 2.5 doctors per 1000 people in the US. In Liberia they have 0.014 per 1000, or 1.4 doctors for every 100k people.
These are things that we take for granted, but they dont have over there, which makes fighting the disease harder and is why they get overwhelmed. That's the point: it has a really high mortality rate...in Africa.
But it's long been held that our systems being better equipped, better staffed, and better prepared, would haev much much more success in fighting any outbreak. And while the sample size is still small, it has thus far been born out.
Because its not yet a matter of the curing the disease. The best tool in fighting Ebola is still our own body's immune system. The trick is keeping it healthy and strong enough to be able to fight off the infection (thats where those blood pressure meds come in, as BP can plummet as organs struggle and fail, causing a cascade failure in the body). And our health care systems are simply better equipped for that.
That's the whole point in throwing the boko at someone and then extracting a plea deal. To get you to admit guilt, even if there is none, to aoid the possibility of spending a lifetime behind bars if you should lose an actual court case. Our jails arent overstuffed because of trials and convictions, but because of plea deals.
BTW, have you heard? The new Benghazi report is out. And Fox has already uncovered the sorry truth: The White House has apparently gotten to the House GOP somehow, and made them part of the conspiracy/coverup. This thing runs so deep that even Mike Rogers and Darrel Issa are part of it!
I mean, it's the only way to explain a final report that debunks rather than confirms all their conspiracy theories about the incident.
And its just amazing how competent and clever at conspriacies this incomepetent and ignorant adminstration is.
unfortunateley, while Fox was the epicenter of the worst of the nutjobbery, everyone got in on the act.
and Fox actually had one of the shining lights of rationality in Shep Smith. its just too bad his fellow employees didnt listen to him, and kept spouting crackpotterys about how Obama wanted us to be infected to make us feel Africa's pain....
But Shep Smith has a sort of record for being that voice ( http://mediamatters.org/blog/2... ), and its a bit amazing that he still has his job after not towing the company line. Like when he went off on another Fox guy for condoning and dismissing torture.
What with the elections over, everyone stopped talking about it. Like it magically no longer mattered. And the disease just went away. (of course, it'll raging in Africa...but apparently we dont care about that)
And the promised massive epidemic sweeping the nation....never materialized. Why, it's almost like all those people at the CDC....they actually knew what they were talking about....after 40 years of experience....
I'm just shocked. Absolutely shocked that a virus whos primary factor in transmission is poor hygeine in poor countries couldnt stand up to the healthcare system in an advanced nation...or even the US*. And all that fear mongering, and calls for travels bans, and mandatory quarentines for people who werent sick wasnt necessary.
SHOCKING I SAY!
Hmmm. I wonder if the talking heads and politicians will ever get around to admitting they were wrong, and apologizing.
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i never said society is evil nor did i say that men and women are not different biologically.
and it does rather well prove that the societal attitutdes towards colors very much are results of society rather than biology.
the key is that those difference do not extend to our brains.
you get a fail for reading comprehension and logic.
and you should probably start here, which has a few good references to actual research on this subject: http://www.slate.com/articles/...
it certainly does.
I was excited at first for the original, being an original fan of the Buldur's Gates and Icewind Dales and logging many many hours within
But I couldnt stand the first game and was horribly disappointed.
It felt like they were trying too much to copy the MMO class paradigms, with you controlling everyone, only it didnt work.
and the AI just competely ignoring any actual tank/dps/heal type play mechanics. "threat" aand "heals" basically didnt cause threat or heal anything.
"i know i should be really angry at you right now mr tank....that super squishy bard just flinched...ima have to go kill him"
this.
best thing you can do is not force a career, but simply make sure he/she knows all the options available.
worry more about giving her a good work ethic, and decent values.
Bro do you even science?
and why is it a tried and true demograpic?
its completely cultural in nature and is comprised of a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
the notion that it is AT ALL biological is rooted in ignorance.
Ignorance of biology, ignorance of culture, and ignorance of history.
Consider that when pink first took on gender connotations, it was originally considered a manly color, while women wore white or blue as they wee more "feminine".
in fact the gender associations of colors has changed many times over history, and varied much across various cultures.
and why is it a tried and true demograpic?
its completely cultural in nature and is comprised of a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
But life goes on...
just not in the area soaked in arsenic.
Walking doesnt incur a 20% chance of fatal cancer, 75% chance of ephysema, and >95% chance of diminished lung capacity and difficulty breathing.
The number of smokers who suffer no ill effects is a very tiny portion and certainly not in the millions.
The same goes for radiation. It doesnt just cause cancer.
Seriously, the "walking has risks too" argument is so flawed, so ignorant, that i believe you to be a danger to yourself and others, and seriously hope you have no persons under your care for whom you are responsible.
"Clip art being replaced with Bing Images"
At first I like: YAY!
And then I was like: DOH!
and already people, who claim to be of a libertarian bent and all about keeping government authority in line and accountable and who also formerly were all for making police wear cams to ensure that accountability... ...already those same people are now switching their tune and opposing this... ...because Obama supports it.
eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable.
im not saying that to pass judgement on anyone in any actual ongoing situation.
its simply just just a sad fact of life for legal proceedings: human memory is unreliable and fallible.
read from here ( http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3... ), onward
yes, but then when you go to your man cave youre no longer "spending time" with her and the family.
which then becomes yet another point of contention.
mod this up, this is precisely it.
However since unions make workers over time poorer, not richer, and exist (again over time) primarily for the benefit of union leadership, they are a prime example of supporting the rich over the common folk.
Everything you just stated is counterfactual to actual historical fact and actual economic trends and correlations. Higher union membership rates is correlated with higher average wages across the nation, for everyone not just union workers. And union workers in equivelent fields earn an average of 200 more per week, which is 10k a year.
Higher membership rates also correlates (directly, as in the flip is easily seen when plotted: http://ashcraftandgerel.com/wp... ) with less moeny going to the executives and owners of the companies..which means more is going to the workers. IE, they kept a bigger piece of the pie...that they made.
Know that chart showing how american worker productivity just keeps climbing higher and higher, while the workers wages have stayed flat for 40 years....but the rich's incomes have climbed (ie, they get all the increased revenues from the higher productivity)...ya, that break point corresponds very closely with the successful re-breaking of the unions in this country around the same time.
When union membership started falling, wages fell too.
and a lack and lowering of union protections is also correlated to a rise in improper firings and other abusie practices by companies.
So you arent protecting workers.
You're just protecting corporations from those pesky employees that make their companies successful.
by your statements it is apparent you have zero actual experience in this area.
and the people you're protecting, arent the workers.
automation will ALWAYS be more cost effective, no matter how much the workers make.
its a one time purchase cost with minor upkeep costs and longer "working hours", as opposed to several workers with a wage.
that doesnt remvoe the need for minimum wages or unions. there are automation plans to replace fast food workers, who already earn the minimum wage, a wage a so low that earning it puts you below the poverty line. do you want to claim they are overpaid too?
again you display your ignorance.
the old trade guilds are a very thing different thing from unions (no seriosuly, you should the difference between craft and industrial unionization).
and ben franklin's opinion is largely irrelevent, as are the opinions of pretty anyone else in pre-industrial pre-corporate america who could nto envision how the life of a typical citizen would change. in their time, a few people would learn an actual trade, and everyone else would farm for their supper; and even many of those who were tradesmans still grew their own food.
the agrarian/craftsmen oriented America died out in between the things you are referencing. when america industrialized and when corporations and big businesses began taking over a different america emerged. one in which industrial workers were often little more than slave labor. where people would die in factory fires because the doors were locked. one in which workers demanding rights, or better treatment, were fired. and if they organized in an attempt to get equal footing with the company, they were frequently beaten or killed. often by the government, or at least with its tacit approval. so while intimidation, and even violence against scabs did occur, far far more was done as a result of anti-labor retaliation. things like snipers randomly shooting in tent cities of strikers. brutal bands of pinkertons and other "private" agencies (basically company armies). even outright massacres.
Companies had special armored cars with machine guns on them for dealing with strikers. No, I'm not making that up. That was considered appropriate response. Imagine if Blackwater were used for security inside the United States, and killed american citizens, and got away with it, never getting punished. That was reality back then, and few people were ever prosecuted for it.
You think the stuff in Ferguson is a big deal, people so disillusioned and unsatisfied and distrustful of their local governemnt and police, that they no longer ascribe any sort of authority to them, allowing a state of semi-lawlessness? Now imagine that the police response was to spray bullets into the crowds. Because that's what often happened to strikers.
1200 people treated as little more than slaves, killed by camp guards and the National Guard, in 1914. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Frank Little, organzier, pulled from his bed and lynched: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
1897, more coal miners killed, this time killed by the local Sherrif and his deputies, most of them shot in the back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
1927, Colorado state police open fire using machine guns on strikers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
1920, in Montana, company gaurds open fire on strikers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
if the union stops working towards worker interests and starts going to management interests, then its time for now management.
so once again: its important to be involved. go to your union meetings, vote in your union elections.
otherwise you give up control to those who do participate....very much like our public electoral process.
you like to bring up the "threat of violence" as some sterotype, but it doesnt apply to the vast majority of unions (and no they didnt start as some mafia outfit). yet you always ignore violence and death used against striking and organizing workers. the Pinkertons were good at it. The Railroad strikes, which lasted months and were expressed as strikes and riots across the entire nation, were finally put down by the Pinkertons, police, and the Army. Many were killed. Thousands of people have died for the right to collectively negotiate, to have an equal voice in the employer/employee relationship.
in fact, many older cities of the nation have Armories in them. you know what they were for? For putting down these worker strikes and riots and keep the workers in line.
Oh and who remembers the Obamacare provision that permitted union management to keep "Cadillac" health insurance plans while nobody else was allowed to?
No one remembers it, because it doesnt exist.
IE, still more misinformation from you.
you're talking about the "cadillac" tax, the tax on really expensive plans designed to create a market force to provide a strong incentive to lower premiums....
the cadillac tax doesnt kick in til 2018. for everyone. there is no special union exemption to it.
and its done to accomodate the need for people, union and nonunion, to renegotiate their benefits.
you see, and you probably missed this since youre completely ignorant about unions and worker benefits in general, but benefits are negotiated with the company, and then set out in a contract. and for people who have such "cadillac" plans set out in contract, need time to renogiate. that applies to unions, and non union workers.
doesnt solve the problem, just shifts the side where teh abuse sits.
have you seen how they do it? around here they dont come out with chainsaws and trimmers.
they use a tree grinder: an oversided brush cutter on the end of a cherry picker arm. and they just go at the tree til the wires are clear.
instead of neat cuts and easily disposed limbs, it leaves the trees looking like a mangled mess, with trunk ends splintered and cracked.
and a ton of small chunks and shards of wood laying on the ground.....that they also dont clean up, but leave behind.
No im not forgetting anything. the CDC's definition and list of procedures is all but irrelevent if the people performing it arent adequately trained and prepared, as was the case at the Texas hospital. again, the blame lies in the local hospital making a series of errors and mistakes. an expert giving you advice directions is all but irrelevent if you dont listen him, which is pretty much the core point i was making.
as for luck, we have been lucky only in the fact its rarely travelled outside Africa. our ability to deal with the disease depends drastically ont he quality of hte health system being used. but you missed that as well: there is a vast difference between capability of the health care systems in the affected African countries and the health care systems of Europe and the US.
They often lack adequate space over there, quickly running out of space to put the patients. Many patients get treated at home, with and by familiy members.
They lack funding.
They lack even basic drugs to control blood pressure, a core part of helping the body fight the disease, and something even the smalled outpatient clinics have access to.
And msot importantly, they lack doctors and nurses, personal to actually treat the sick. We have 2.5 doctors per 1000 people in the US. In Liberia they have 0.014 per 1000, or 1.4 doctors for every 100k people.
These are things that we take for granted, but they dont have over there, which makes fighting the disease harder and is why they get overwhelmed.
That's the point: it has a really high mortality rate...in Africa.
But it's long been held that our systems being better equipped, better staffed, and better prepared, would haev much much more success in fighting any outbreak. And while the sample size is still small, it has thus far been born out.
Because its not yet a matter of the curing the disease.
The best tool in fighting Ebola is still our own body's immune system.
The trick is keeping it healthy and strong enough to be able to fight off the infection (thats where those blood pressure meds come in, as BP can plummet as organs struggle and fail, causing a cascade failure in the body). And our health care systems are simply better equipped for that.
That's the whole point in throwing the boko at someone and then extracting a plea deal.
To get you to admit guilt, even if there is none, to aoid the possibility of spending a lifetime behind bars if you should lose an actual court case.
Our jails arent overstuffed because of trials and convictions, but because of plea deals.
BTW, have you heard? The new Benghazi report is out.
And Fox has already uncovered the sorry truth:
The White House has apparently gotten to the House GOP somehow, and made them part of the conspiracy/coverup.
This thing runs so deep that even Mike Rogers and Darrel Issa are part of it!
I mean, it's the only way to explain a final report that debunks rather than confirms all their conspiracy theories about the incident.
And its just amazing how competent and clever at conspriacies this incomepetent and ignorant adminstration is.
unfortunateley, while Fox was the epicenter of the worst of the nutjobbery, everyone got in on the act.
and Fox actually had one of the shining lights of rationality in Shep Smith.
its just too bad his fellow employees didnt listen to him, and kept spouting crackpotterys about how Obama wanted us to be infected to make us feel Africa's pain....
But Shep Smith has a sort of record for being that voice ( http://mediamatters.org/blog/2... ), and its a bit amazing that he still has his job after not towing the company line. Like when he went off on another Fox guy for condoning and dismissing torture.
...since it's no longer the crisis du jour.
What with the elections over, everyone stopped talking about it.
Like it magically no longer mattered. And the disease just went away.
(of course, it'll raging in Africa...but apparently we dont care about that)
And the promised massive epidemic sweeping the nation....never materialized.
Why, it's almost like all those people at the CDC....they actually knew what they were talking about....after 40 years of experience....
I'm just shocked. Absolutely shocked that a virus whos primary factor in transmission is poor hygeine in poor countries couldnt stand up to the healthcare system in an advanced nation...or even the US*. And all that fear mongering, and calls for travels bans, and mandatory quarentines for people who werent sick wasnt necessary.
SHOCKING I SAY!
Hmmm. I wonder if the talking heads and politicians will ever get around to admitting they were wrong, and apologizing.
(*its a joke! lighten up)