>>By and large, that "PC fascist" crap is a fat load of tired conservative bullshit.
Okay, good, we know what your stance is: bed-wetting white-guilt-liberal-apologism
>>Yes, sometimes the practice of not offending anyone goes a little too far, >>but the imagined persecution of those that complain about it is orders of >>magnitude worse than the reality.
No. People will shun you for saying things that are politically incorrect like: fat people are just lazy, affirmative action is reverse discrimination, etc
Anytime I say anything remotely politically incorrect, I feel like I must immediately qualify that I am not a racist. For example, I hate rap and it is nothing against black people.
What about saying things like "Take a stand, Jesus, you couldn't be more on the fence unless you were gay and in Wyoming." It is a joke, it is funny, and yet people will think you are Satan-incarnate.
>>You have probably never, personally, been >>affected by it; certianly, you've never been sued or denied a job or anything >>else as the result of the supposed hypersensitivity. People like you tend to >>be upset about "PC" because it means you can't openly call people "niggers" >>without getting them pissed at you,
That is absolutely not what that is about. Ask comics like Jim Norton, Dice, etc how PC attitudes have affected their work. Tough Crown comics couldn't touch on anything considered politically correct because it came from a conservative (or more accurately, anti-liberal) bent yet Dave Chappelle had Carte Blanche.
>> or hang the titty calendar in your cubicle.
If your cubicle is a garage where there are no women around, why not?
Correction: The beer most American's drink is piss.
Believe me, American microbrewers are cranking beers every bit as tasty (and often more daring and interesting) than what they are drinking on the other side of the Atlantic.
The one possible exception (but not with respect to variety) would be Belgium, because they make some fantastic stuff!
Are you kidding me? Redhook ESB is still a "decent" beer.
I would like to try the double black as one of my favorite beers is Rogue's Chocolate Stout (and Young's is good too) which has a (slight?) coffee flavor to it
I could care less if the guy is a christian. I think you will find that liberals are MUCH more tollerant of religion than the average "conservative". If Bush were a bhuddist, he wouldn't have ever gotten his parties nomination.
Yeah, I am sure the massive black vote of the Democrats base would be thrilled with a Buddhist.
Liberals are pro-spending, as long as you don't spend more than you have.
BS, Liberals have no problem with deficit spending so long as it is not going towards defense or tax cuts.
Lax imigration? What are you smoking, the guy is building a wall around the country!
Really? Seems like a lot of Mexicans (and other Central/South Americans) get past that wall pretty easily.
Most liberals will tell you he is destroying federalized health care, education, and already destroyed emergency management by rolling FEMA into the DHL.
Those liberals that say that are idiots. We have no Federalized Health Care (at least not universal health care), education (a state's responsibility) and FEMA has never done what people wanted it to do. The response to Rita, you'll notice, was considerably better. Lessons learned? Sure that was part of it. Increased scrutiny? Yeah probably. Not several feet underwater? DEFINITELY!
All these things aside, what you need to concentrate on is not that he is a "persecuted christian", but that liberals recognize him for what he is.... the anti-christ.
Of course he is the anti-christ you simplistic minded (or unfunny) ass. I am just happy to see liberals pissed off at him and this is coming from a guy who disagrees with him frequently.
Yeah because disabled people are the same as murderers.
I should kill myself? What a nice tolerant person you are.
I forgot to include democrats in my list of people to kill you are absolutely right. Your retorts are weak and pathetic. I will respond to cogent arguments only, not irrational blatherings.
Like some one already replied to you, the death penalty is handed out only on murder convictions. It sounds like you are anti-American which is pretty common in the world today, but please don't play games of moral equivalency between the United States and the truly barbaric nations of the world.
U.N. is not just a bunch of incompetent politicians, although i'm sure a lot of americans like to think that.
That is what everyone with half a brain thinks. It is a joke of an organization. Libya was head of the human rights council! Other nations included Cuba (HA!) and Syria (HAHA!)
It is composed of European socialists and third-world zeros. If you want it to have any moral authority create the UDN (United Democratic Nations) and invite nations that respect the sanctity of human life.
How many people would smoke it but aren't due to its illegality? If it was legal tomorrow I wouldn't start a habit. I doubt I would even try it (especially in a smoking form) for the precise reason that I would be less productive.
At my old high school we had content filtering but it extended beyond porn. Violence, bad language (- this was shotty filtering at best, as slashdot feedbacks that are full of fucktards and the like still got through)
I was doing a report for my history class on racism in America, so doing the natural thing, I went to various websites, including the Ku Klux Klan's website. Well that was blocked because they promote violence. I thought, well, fair enough. So I went home, looked at the site from my unfiltered connection, and saw nothing that promoted violence. So I went back to school and pointed out that I was doing a report the website did not promote violence, pornography or profanity, but was still blocked.
The librarian said, "Of course the KKK promotes violence" I said, "They may, but not on their site, I am not arguing whether they did or not, I am merely saying they did not now."
"Well, they are a racist organization" "I agree, which is why I am trying to go to their site for my report on racism in america"
So racism was now the excuse. So just for kicks and a few giggles I went to the black panthers website. No problems. The NAACP...no problems. Let me try the NAAWP (you can guess what that stands for) yup, you guessed it, problems. I pointed this out to the librarian and said, "The Black Panthers are a racist, homophobic, and antisemtic organization (much like the KKK, in fact I believe they worked together on antijewish causes) and they are permitted. This is a clear double standard"
Point being, this nonsense is applied by both Conservatives and Liberals. Oh that said, it is a state government, and they have the authority to offer web access that can only visit slashdot.org, if they want.
O&A (Opie and Anthony) are not trying to out Howard Howard. They are just trying to be funny something that Stern has not been in a long time. Jim Norton alone is funnier than HooHoo.
For those that have never heard them go to listen.xmradio.com and sign up for a free trial of XM. I recommend it highly!
Their show is hilarious, and the music channels are fantastic! My personal presets are On The Rocks, Frank's Place, Bluesville, Aguila, High Voltage (O&A), Fungus, 50s on 5 and XM Pops. Ngoma, America, Ethel and Squizz are also worth a listen.
Satellite Radio makes normal FM un-fucking-bearable so I agree with Howard on the crack like aspect of the medium.
100k a year is not rich...this really depends on region. Try living on 100k in New York City, and tell me how rich you feel. 100k is a comfortable salary, it allows you to do some cool stuff, but rich is probably 200k, with wealthy being a lot more (I usually define wealthy as, how much money does it take to become rich of the interest of your money so in this case let's use the convenient and conservative 1% so 10M - 20M)
My physics teacher gave me an excellent joke/anecdote on this subject.
A physics professor goes to the provost of the university and says that he needs 2 million dollars to build a particle accelerator. The provost shakes his head and says "You physics profs and your damn requests for money. Why can't you be more like the math department, they only need pencils, paper and trashcans. Or better yet, why not like the sociologists, all they need is paper and pencil."
From what I notice, most of the time a great vocabulary is an adequate substitution for original thought. I have bullshitted through my share of courses with interesting turns of phrases but little to no creativity. Works with most of the liberal arts degree programs. So insofar as that generalization is true, the grading is nearly automatic anyway.
Well if you are relying on the capacitance of the human body that 5 volts better be AC (Ic = CV' = 0 for DC). I measured the resistance of tongue several times and it usually is about 80-200k. Your skin, I think, is several megaohms. Some one mentioned 2000 volts for the electric chair which maybe true, but I think they wet you first, though if it were me I would beat them to the punch!
Yes, but you still have some kind of pseudo-democracy.
Yeah we call it a republic though.
Why do I not hear of any collective group being formed to help inform Joe Public and try and rally some support? Power in numbers! Don't stand for what is currently being dished out to you. It's insulting.
An issue like copyright laws are not going to be at the top of anyone's agenda. Plus, it is somewhat complicated, everytime I explain stuff to my friends they zone out. I chalk it up to me being a boring guy, but I also blame it on the fact that people just don't care.
I will also assume you are European, in which case I should ask you why Europeans aren't jumping up and down to lower taxes and remove bans on certain speech (such as the ban on Nazi material). Because people in Europe don't care. There is no burning desire to draw up swastikas, nor is there a really yearning to remove government from your lives. You all are happy, much like we are.
Hell. There's at least a couple of hundred thousand Americans who read slashdot every day. There's a start. And I'm not talking about something which just called for a change in administration.. like moveon.org
We have lots of guns in America. If 100k tried to overthrow the government against the will of the rest of the country, it would be the quickest crushing of a coup...ever! There is no need for a revolution...yet. There certainly is no need for a violent one.
Now explain to me why I have to pay $12.49 - $21.95 for a single CD that cost under a $1? I would not mind if the artists saw $5 of that cost. But usually they are lucky if they see.25 cents.
Because the MPAA believes that 12.50 to 22 dollars a CD is where the product of their volume and the price is a maximum.
Price is dictated partially by price but also by demand (I would argue PURELY demand because if it costs you 100 bucks to build a nail, no one will pay that).
That said, what CDs are you buying at 22 bucks? Best Buy and Circuit City routinely sell them at 12-16 bucks.
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>>By and large, that "PC fascist" crap is a fat load of tired conservative bullshit.
Okay, good, we know what your stance is: bed-wetting white-guilt-liberal-apologism
>>Yes, sometimes the practice of not offending anyone goes a little too far,
>>but the imagined persecution of those that complain about it is orders of
>>magnitude worse than the reality.
No. People will shun you for saying things that are politically incorrect like: fat people are just lazy, affirmative action is reverse discrimination, etc
Anytime I say anything remotely politically incorrect, I feel like I must immediately qualify that I am not a racist. For example, I hate rap and it is nothing against black people.
What about saying things like "Take a stand, Jesus, you couldn't be more on the fence unless you were gay and in Wyoming." It is a joke, it is funny, and yet people will think you are Satan-incarnate.
>>You have probably never, personally, been
>>affected by it; certianly, you've never been sued or denied a job or anything
>>else as the result of the supposed hypersensitivity. People like you tend to
>>be upset about "PC" because it means you can't openly call people "niggers"
>>without getting them pissed at you,
That is absolutely not what that is about. Ask comics like Jim Norton, Dice, etc how PC attitudes have affected their work. Tough Crown comics couldn't touch on anything considered politically correct because it came from a conservative (or more accurately, anti-liberal) bent yet Dave Chappelle had Carte Blanche.
>> or hang the titty calendar in your cubicle.
If your cubicle is a garage where there are no women around, why not?
--Joey
Ja! Det er som Capital One ads
:)
It is like the Capital One ads!
Uffda, it has been a while since I have written in Norwegian. At least I can still read a little
--Joey
How's the diabetes going? It is good stuff I must admit ;)
--Joey
Correction: The beer most American's drink is piss.
Believe me, American microbrewers are cranking beers every bit as tasty (and often more daring and interesting) than what they are drinking on the other side of the Atlantic.
The one possible exception (but not with respect to variety) would be Belgium, because they make some fantastic stuff!
--Joey
Are you kidding me? Redhook ESB is still a "decent" beer.
I would like to try the double black as one of my favorite beers is Rogue's Chocolate Stout (and Young's is good too) which has a (slight?) coffee flavor to it
--Joey
Explain the formula of 1940s pop music to me, I would be interested in hearing that.
I agree with the beer (though your stats I think are off) comment. Quality beer is expensive so most people aren't willing to pay.
--Joey
Yeah, I am sure the massive black vote of the Democrats base would be thrilled with a Buddhist.
BS, Liberals have no problem with deficit spending so long as it is not going towards defense or tax cuts.
Really? Seems like a lot of Mexicans (and other Central/South Americans) get past that wall pretty easily.
Those liberals that say that are idiots. We have no Federalized Health Care (at least not universal health care), education (a state's responsibility) and FEMA has never done what people wanted it to do. The response to Rita, you'll notice, was considerably better. Lessons learned? Sure that was part of it. Increased scrutiny? Yeah probably. Not several feet underwater? DEFINITELY!
Of course he is the anti-christ you simplistic minded (or unfunny) ass. I am just happy to see liberals pissed off at him and this is coming from a guy who disagrees with him frequently.
--Joey
I agree with you man and welcome to the fucking club.
--Joe
Perhaps you should just do the following.
SOHCAHTOA - Sine Opp / Hyp Cosine Adj / Hyp T - Opp/Adj
derivative sine = cosine
derivative cosine = -sine
derivative of ln x = 1 / x
now the derivatives of tan, csc, sec and cot are variations of the quotient rule.
Yeah because disabled people are the same as murderers.
I should kill myself? What a nice tolerant person you are.
I forgot to include democrats in my list of people to kill you are absolutely right. Your retorts are weak and pathetic. I will respond to cogent arguments only, not irrational blatherings.
--Joey
No, I concluded you were anti-American when you said it would be a good thing for the US to be excluded.
Explain to me why life in prison is more humane than a lethal injection that makes you die in a peaceful sleep?
I am in favor of the death penalty as insurance against a justice system that commutes sentences on a routine basis.
Dead men commit no crimes.
--Joey
Like some one already replied to you, the death penalty is handed out only on murder convictions. It sounds like you are anti-American which is pretty common in the world today, but please don't play games of moral equivalency between the United States and the truly barbaric nations of the world.
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United States: Murderer gets the death penalty
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--Joey
That is what everyone with half a brain thinks. It is a joke of an organization. Libya was head of the human rights council! Other nations included Cuba (HA!) and Syria (HAHA!)
It is composed of European socialists and third-world zeros. If you want it to have any moral authority create the UDN (United Democratic Nations) and invite nations that respect the sanctity of human life.
--Joey
I'll take that bet. Build a SuSe computer, pure defaults only. Do the same with Windows XP.
Let's see how long it takes for the Windows box to get crapped up.
--Joey
How many people would smoke it but aren't due to its illegality? If it was legal tomorrow I wouldn't start a habit. I doubt I would even try it (especially in a smoking form) for the precise reason that I would be less productive.
--Joey
In related news, State Farm will not insure Floridians against avalanches.
Who cares?
--Joey
Just go ahead and use the long names, that alone will reduce documentation/commenting
--Joey
At my old high school we had content filtering but it extended beyond porn. Violence, bad language (- this was shotty filtering at best, as slashdot feedbacks that are full of fucktards and the like still got through)
I was doing a report for my history class on racism in America, so doing the natural thing, I went to various websites, including the Ku Klux Klan's website. Well that was blocked because they promote violence. I thought, well, fair enough. So I went home, looked at the site from my unfiltered connection, and saw nothing that promoted violence. So I went back to school and pointed out that I was doing a report the website did not promote violence, pornography or profanity, but was still blocked.
The librarian said, "Of course the KKK promotes violence" I said, "They may, but not on their site, I am not arguing whether they did or not, I am merely saying they did not now."
"Well, they are a racist organization"
"I agree, which is why I am trying to go to their site for my report on racism in america"
So racism was now the excuse. So just for kicks and a few giggles I went to the black panthers website. No problems. The NAACP...no problems. Let me try the NAAWP (you can guess what that stands for) yup, you guessed it, problems. I pointed this out to the librarian and said, "The Black Panthers are a racist, homophobic, and antisemtic organization (much like the KKK, in fact I believe they worked together on antijewish causes) and they are permitted. This is a clear double standard"
Point being, this nonsense is applied by both Conservatives and Liberals. Oh that said, it is a state government, and they have the authority to offer web access that can only visit slashdot.org, if they want.
--Joey
O&A (Opie and Anthony) are not trying to out Howard Howard. They are just trying to be funny something that Stern has not been in a long time. Jim Norton alone is funnier than HooHoo.
For those that have never heard them go to listen.xmradio.com and sign up for a free trial of XM. I recommend it highly!
Their show is hilarious, and the music channels are fantastic! My personal presets are On The Rocks, Frank's Place, Bluesville, Aguila, High Voltage (O&A), Fungus, 50s on 5 and XM Pops. Ngoma, America, Ethel and Squizz are also worth a listen.
Satellite Radio makes normal FM un-fucking-bearable so I agree with Howard on the crack like aspect of the medium.
--Joey
100k a year is not rich...this really depends on region. Try living on 100k in New York City, and tell me how rich you feel. 100k is a comfortable salary, it allows you to do some cool stuff, but rich is probably 200k, with wealthy being a lot more (I usually define wealthy as, how much money does it take to become rich of the interest of your money so in this case let's use the convenient and conservative 1% so 10M - 20M)
--Joey
My physics teacher gave me an excellent joke/anecdote on this subject.
A physics professor goes to the provost of the university and says that he needs 2 million dollars to build a particle accelerator. The provost shakes his head and says "You physics profs and your damn requests for money. Why can't you be more like the math department, they only need pencils, paper and trashcans. Or better yet, why not like the sociologists, all they need is paper and pencil."
From what I notice, most of the time a great vocabulary is an adequate substitution for original thought. I have bullshitted through my share of courses with interesting turns of phrases but little to no creativity. Works with most of the liberal arts degree programs. So insofar as that generalization is true, the grading is nearly automatic anyway.
--Joey
Well if you are relying on the capacitance of the human body that 5 volts better be AC (Ic = CV' = 0 for DC). I measured the resistance of tongue several times and it usually is about 80-200k. Your skin, I think, is several megaohms. Some one mentioned 2000 volts for the electric chair which maybe true, but I think they wet you first, though if it were me I would beat them to the punch!
--Joey
Yeah we call it a republic though.
Because the MPAA believes that 12.50 to 22 dollars a CD is where the product of their volume and the price is a maximum.
Price is dictated partially by price but also by demand (I would argue PURELY demand because if it costs you 100 bucks to build a nail, no one will pay that).
That said, what CDs are you buying at 22 bucks? Best Buy and Circuit City routinely sell them at 12-16 bucks.
--Joey
Ditto (Suse 9.1)
--Joey