"Pull a nova" sounds like a good catch phrase to sneak into the language.
It probably would except for the fact that that story is an urban legend... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Even keeping the local cable channels (since the Feds have screwed up satellite access to local channels)...
Charter does indeed suck. So do the Feds. BTW: I think it's interesting that recently, they blocked out a hockey game from my satellite feed, due to a local station carrying it, but oddly, the Feds say I'm not REALLY local to the station, because they won't allow me to carry ANY Metro-Detroit stations!!!!
Satellite services have been raped by our government, thanks to big money from the cable companies. That's the legislation that REALLY needs to be struck down!
Poor boy, all that right-wing anti-government propaganda is confusing your tiny brain!
1) Sports blackouts occur because the federal government allows monopolistic businesses (i.e., professional sports leagues) to control how their product is distributed. Fair enough, but blame the professional sports organizations trying to protect the local gate and not the government for sports blackouts.
2) You can now get "local channels" from the Dish Network for $4.99 a month. If you get local channels that are on cable due to the "must carry" rule, then those channels are local to you and should be available to you. If the Dish Network cannot provide you with local service then it may be them and not the big, bad government that is causing your problems. And how do you know it is the Feds? Local/state governments also are involved through franchise agreements with communications companies.
3) Why do you even need analog cable? How about using an outside antenna instead? Get one at Rat Shack and install it in your attic -- problem solved.
4)Without line breaks your post is very hard to read. <br> is your friend... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
But not every country has a system where those smart/skilled/driven people can rise to the top.
So how do you explain George W. Bush? He is not smart, or skilled, or even particularly driven. Daddy's name and money sure did help, though... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
And no, I'm not a libertarian. I believe government and even (horrors) regulation
That (horrors) is a classic libertarian response...
have their place, but Socialism is an evil that must be extinguished by the light of freedom.
Socialism and freedom have nothing to do with each other, and capitalism and freedom have nothing to do with each other... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Compared to some other Religions out there, Christinanity is actualy pretty leniet on the whole entire hell bit, heh.
The funny thing about Christianity is that it has two personalities: one based on the Old Testament God who is vengeful and another based on the New Testament God who is kind and loving. If you take what Christ said, strip out all the "Son of God" mumbo-jumbo, what you have left is a pretty cool way to live your life -- turn the other cheek and the least of my brothers and all that.
If Christians concentrated on the latter rather than the former then they would be among the coolest people around. Instead they concentrate on the religious dogma "fire and brimstone" part so they turn into humorless people who are against drinking, dancing, sex, etc. because it will send them straight to hell. It sucks when they condemn me to hell because I don't believe in their "God". They should just worry about their "salvation" and not worry about mine so much... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
What does that tell you? So Hispanics and Blacks aren't very interested in careers in the IT field.
If you can't prove this assertion then it is just idle speculation on your part...
What do you want to do, start discriminating against white people because they're the only ones who apparently get into the field?
I see plenty of Blacks and Asians in my IT department, but none of them are managers, so it is obvious that there is discrimination in favor of White people going on. That is inequitable, unfair, and unjust to non-Whites.
despite being a high school dropout, I managed to work my way up to an engineering and IT administration position at one of the biggest airports in North America.
Hmmm, a White dropout is able to make a success of himself, and I am unable to. The reason I am unable to succeed must be because of a personal failing on my part.
It must be because after I recently asked for a promotion to a programming position I was told I was unqualified even though I have over 220 college hours (60+ of which are IT classes with a 3.91 GPA) and know multiple operating systems and programming languages. Of course since Whites are not racist and there is no discrimination extant today then it has to be me, huh?
Great! If we look even remotely similar, we could pull a passport swap, and not have to worry about those nasty immigration procedures.
Yet, as a Slashdot contributor and reader, you're probably in the IT field, and probably quite affluent.
Well I made $27K US last year busting my ass in Operations, and I am living from check to check. If the White fuckers, err managers, above me would ever promote me then my answer to your question would be yes. As it stands I am making it but definitely not "affluent" (my main computer at home is a 300 mhz celeron with a 15" monitor!).
Apparently, our definitions of "progressive" are divergent at best.
If you are not sure of the meaning of a word, consult a dictionary, don't make up a new meaning that no one else agrees with. Maybe this will help: Progressive
As for taxes, I don't mind paying them. After all I get national defense, interstate highways, meat inspections, etc. Everybody knows that companies don't break the law or act unethically and you can rely on Ronald McDonald not to serve you a e-coli infested burger. I guess as long as your heirs can sue Mickey D's then all is well with the world...
Similarily, did that land belong to the Chicanos, or didn't it belong to the Mayans, Incans and Aztecs? You know, Hispanics are not native to Mexico. So, you're complaining that land that your people stole from the aboriginals only 300 years earlier has been stolen?
Jesus, as long a you get you history from the White Power movement then, yes you are correct. If you bothered to read some academic historical sources you would find out that that statement is false.
The Spaniards differed from the British in colonization methods. Whereas the British and Americans killed off the Native Americans, the Spaniards preferred to co-opt the natives. In short they intermarried with the natives and formed a whole new people, the Chicanos (this is before there was a border between the US and Mexico -- in fact this happened before the US and Mexico even existed).
And if you look at the so-called Mexican-American War, it was bogus, just like the Spanish-American War. Chicanos did not go out looking for a war, the White Americans did. What you don't seem to understand is that the Chicano people didn't come to the US, the US came to us and like the Native Americans we have been suffering ever since...
Heheh. I'd be grateful. I'm sure that you have far more opportunity in Texas than you would in Mexico. Based on US Border Patrol activities in that area, it seems that lots of other Chicanos feel differently from you.
White politicans acting in our name are the ones increasing the conflict level on the border. Your average Chicano believes as I do, however there are plenty of "Mexican Americans" and "Hispanics" who would disagree with me. These are the people that Blacks call "Uncle Tom" and Chicanos call "Tio Taco", people who come from a disavantaged background and have made it with some help, then turn their backs on their people because their money has somehow "Whitened" them.
Many Chicanos do feel as I do: an uproar erupted when a young Mexican was murdered by a U.S. Marine, who not surprisingly got away with it. They say it was an "anti-drug" operation but does the U.S. have armed Marines patrolling the Canadian border?
I consider Canada a more "progressive" place because they do not seem to shoot at people from the U.S. trying to sneak into Canada...
Gimme a break. You spout sheer idiocy.
When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger...
And you'd do well to get a realistic viewpoint and an understanding of world history.
I am working on a History degree from the University of Houston. I'll bet I have read many more history books than you have...
Come to a barrio in Texas or California and and spout the same nonsense you are going on about and I guarantee you will get your ass kicked. In fact, I only have one piece of advice for you: if you move to the U.S., move to Idaho. Maybe Randy Weaver's Ruby Ridge compound is for sale...
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For politically subersive comics you can't beat Lalo Alcatraz's work. His cartoonista.com has some of the most politically incorrect cartoons found on the net. Lalo's more general political satire site at pocho.com is also hilarous...
As far as I can see, his position is that programmers shouldn't have the freedom to not speak (release their code); he then says that this is standing up for freedom.
Hmmm... your sentence does not compute. You have a double negative in there so what you are really saying is:
As far as I can see, his position is that programmers should have the freedom to speak (release their code); he then says that this is standing up for freedom.
So he really IS standing up for freedom (or you need additional lessons in English grammar)... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
And to be quite frank, I'm getting tired of reading all the BS spewing back and forth from every person or company with a voice under the sun.
No one is forcing you to read "all the BS". Stop reading "all the BS" and quit bothering us with your childish whining. Problem solved!
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"When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" -Bishop Helder Camara
Nice.sig!
Jesus never held a job or owned property. He went from town to town preaching the word and in return people give him food to eat and a bed to sleep in out of the goodness of their hearts.
If Jesus were alive today conservatives would call him a "lazy commie pinko bastard"... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States
which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers,
which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons,
including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not
taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. -- US Constitution, Article 1, Section 2
Sounds like an artifical limit/quota to me. Do you consider the US Constitution to be "socialism"? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Shit, worship some God, that way you have a 1/ chance of choosing the right one... Or there may be no God, and your screwed anyways, upon which you won't know anything, but you won't be any better or worse off then if you HAD worried about it.
That argument is called Pascal's Wager, which has some logical flaws... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
No, because the USA is, conceptually, a melting pot.
Wrong. It is more like a mosaic.
I really don't care what color someone's skin is. I think man has advanced beyond that point now; the only people who care about that are skinheads and other extremists.
So I am an extremist because I am concerned because all of the IT managers above me are White even though Houston Texas is ~25% Hispanic and ~20% Black?
And yet, this is yet another one of the many reasons that I yearn to move to the United States, at least partially for the solidarity and strength of a patriotism
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel -- Samuel Johnson
Actually the refreshing lack of "patriotism" is why I would like to move to a more progressive country like Canada...
At least in the United States, everyone pulls together on the 4th of July.
Ha ha ha! That is a good one. Actually the Whites in the U.S. are the ones that "celebrate" the 4th of July. To minorities it is just another day off from work.
African Americans are pissed off at being kidnapped and sold into slavery by White people. Native American are pissed off that they almost got exterminated by White people in a genocidal war. Chicanos are pissed off at the fact that our land got stolen from us by White people. Minorities in the U.S. are pissed off because they are treated like second-class citizens in their own country.
Please read some U.S. history before moving here. We have enough ignorant people here as it stands... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I have a few friends though (Guamanian, Hispanic) who CLAIM that rascism still exists and they are harmed every week in some way or another. I just feel it is their low self esteem causing them to feel this way.
That's right! The reason all the IT managers at the nationally recognized hospital system I work for are White is due to my low self esteem...
I feel so obsolete. ..
Wrong word. I think you meant obtuse (see the second entry).
Pendejo... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Will you replace it with a Stallman-esque open source monopoly?
"Open source monopoly" is an oxymoron. Can Linux become a monopoly? Let's see: if Linux is the OS on 90% of the computers, is it a monopoly if RedHat has a piece of that marketshare, Mandrake another, SUSE another, Debian another, and none of the pieces is greater than 50%?
Say RedHat scores a big breakthrough gets 80% of that 90% Linux marketshare. Can they be considered a monopoly if the source code and other Linux distributions are still available? Can RedHat be considered a monopoly if the source code for and various distributions of BSD are still freely available?
Open source tends to work against monopolistic behavior because there is always another good (and sometimes equally free) solution available, which tends to work against any attempts by a vendor to force you into using their operating systems or applications... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
You're forgetting a very important thing called Jim Crow, which was not a product of the market but a government program.
ROTFL!!! At one time Jim Crow may have been government sponsored, but now it is a social and cultural thing, not a political thing. Once the old political obstacles were removed new social and cultural obstacles were put up. Why else have we never had a non-White president?
We minorities have problems because of racist White people, not a racist government. Even though the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments and numerous Civil Rights laws have stopped most of the overt racism in the political realm, there seems to be more racism in the social/cultural realm these days (just go to any White power website to see what I mean).
Case in point: unions prior to the civil rights movement were notoriously racist.
Jesus, first you are talking about government then you jump to unions. Do I need to remind you that unions are not the government? Now put down the pipe and try to keep up with me.
The government was never the friend of minorities, and they would have done much better in a true free market in which they were free to offer their services to employers without being subject to violence. True, many employers were racist, but enough weren't that they would have been able to get decent jobs had the government not forcibly prevented them from doing so.
But earlier you claimed that it was the fact that there were more workers available is what made the economy grow and you totally disregarded the social and cultural aspects that interfere with the "rationality" humans need to have truly "free markets". Contrary to the dogma you learned from the Libertarian propaganda you seemingly have swallowed hook, line and sinker, not everything can be blamed on the government and not all government intervention in the economy is bad.
The idea that the government was the savior of minorities is complete and total bullshit. Until the 60's, governments in the South did everything they could to keep blacks down, and the Federal government did nothing to help them. To blame the market for these conditions is simply false.
Were you asleep in History class? Do you even know the history of Affirmative Action?
To blame the federal government is bogus. It it the White people of the US, not the US government, that is holding back minorities in this country.
Racial progress has been occuring since World War II, not the 1960s like you mistakenly claim. Harry Truman integrated the Armed Forces in the late 1940's after seeing how well Black, Chicano and Asian troops did in battle. Before this brave act by HST, minorities died defending their country were not given any respect.
As a matter of fact, a Chicano soldier from Texas who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II was not allowed to be buried in his home town because the cemetery was "Whites-only". This one act galvanized the Chicano community into seeking our civil rights, which eventually led to the Chicano movement and the Raza Unida party of the 1960's.
Explain to me why the McDonalds down the street from me pays a starting wage of $7/hour. The minimum wage is $5, yet they offer $2 more without a law or a union to be seen.
They are not doing it because it is the moral or ethical thing to do. I don't deny that there are economic forces at work here (if no applicants apply at $5 but lots do at $7, then the effective prevailing local minimum wage is $7), however I do think it is simplistic of you to think that all government intervention in the marketplace is bad, and I think that my examples bear me out...
I dunno, I'd say we've been proven right-- one of the major causes of the high unemployment among African-Americans is that fact that the minimum wage has priced them out of the job market in many areas.
Why is it that White Libertarians and Conservatives think they know what is going on in minority communities better than the people that live there? Why is it that they give more weight to their own misguided economic theories than to the the realities faced by the people living in the ghettos and barrios of AmeriKKKa?
They're not able to get a start on the job ladder because they don't have the skills necessary to earn minimum wage.
By definition, minimium wage jobs do not require much education or training, so this statement is false...
It's true that few people get hired on the spot, but there *are* jobs destroyed in the long run.
Most people get hired on the spot because there happens to be an artifical labor shortage due to short-sighted immigration policies that are supposed to protect American workers, even though the American worker doesn't want that damn minimum wage job...
And the impact tends to be on those least able to handle it. The minimum wage harms those at the bottom of the economic ladder for the benefit of those just above them.
Jesus dude! Do you ever put down your copy of "Libertarianism for Dummies"?
The one who is truly hurt is you because the cost of your burger just went up 50 cents. If you are honest enought to say that outright then I can respect your opinion, because you are complaining because it directly affects you in a negative manner. Just be honest enough to admit that many White people are economic racists, not "rational persons" in the economic sense...
Do you even know any people working for minimum wage? I seriously doubt it because if the difference between survival and starving is a measly two dollars, I say pay the damn two dollars to the employee. If that two dollars enables them to build a decent life (with health insurance) instead of scrabbling along from paycheck to paycheck (with no insurance) then pay the fricking two dollars. In the long run, the extra 50 cents that the burger cost me is trivial to me, however, to a low-paid person a two dollar raise is not trivial at all...
What gets my goat is that Libertarians and Conservatives come from basically the same place -- unbridled self-interest (i.e., selfishness). All the available evidence disproves your assertions yet you all blindly continue preaching the faith. At least the fools that believe in a "God" are intellectually honest to tell you that "No we can't prove that God exists, you just have to have faith".
Ask me to believe in your little religion and tell me to have faith if I don't believe, then I may work my way a little towards your viewpoint. Just don't try to use science, economics, morality or ethics to "prove" to me that you are right in believing that selfishness should be the First Commandment of our economic system, one that justifies child labor in Third World countries... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
In all the years I've been reading Slashdot, I've never been so disgusted by the reactions of posters
Apparently you missed the idiots that crawled out of the woodwork when Slashdot ran an article about Richard Stevens' death not too long ago... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Some scraggy kid gets a job at that factory, working eye-wateringly long hours for a pittance. Kid lives, saves, starts her own business, working up from scratch.
Is this before or after an uninsured repetitive stress injury cripples the Kid's hands causing the company to replace the Kid with another, forcing Kid #1 into a life as a beggar?
Whiny well-fed reds back home guilt the megacorp into abandoning the country altogether, and campagn successfully to get child employment outlawed. Starving kid turns to whoring, dies of AIDS at age 14.
Of all the other jobs out there, the Kid turns to prostitution? Why not farming, or carpentry, or the priesthood, or the military or any one of a million other jobs?
Try this on for size (even more "realistic" than your lame scenarios): Whiny, well-fed capitalist running dogs attempt to justify child labor so as to not feel guilty when they put on trendy, expensive sneakers manufactured by children in a sweatshop.
Be a lackey for the rich capitalist pigs all you want, but don't think you will can convince us that child labor is moral, much less ethical...
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For some reason, Walmart has an evil vibe, and yet Target, which is quite similar, has a good vibe.
That is due to the fact that in many small towns when a Wal-Mart moves in it often ends up killing off locally-owned, mom-&-pop type of businesses. You don't hear of Target doing that very often... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
If you cannot see why these practices are unethical and undesirable you must be wearing blinders. Or you're a Republican.
Or a Nike stockholder. Jesus was betrayed for a few pieces of silver, nowadays all it takes is a few shares of NKE... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
The improvement of working conditions in the US had nothing to do with Upton Sinclair and little to do with labor unions or labor laws. The biggest driver of increasing wages was competition for labor-- there were more jobs than workers, and so wages rose.
What complete and utter bullshit!
Maybe your hypothesis has a grain of truth when applied to White Americans but it is a complete fiction when applied to minorities in America.
Your theory of the "rational person" simply does not hold true or you would not have things like employment discrimination due to a person's race or sex. If labor was truly free and the marketplace then there would be no disparities when it comes to what the average woman or minority makes compared to the average White male.
Actually, when you look at minorities it has been the government that has raised our wages. Thanks to Fair Labor laws, we are hired now whereas we would not even get considered. Thanks to Affirmative Action and moves towards diversity more of us get jobs that we would not get before due to the "Good Old [White] Boy" mentality that business seems to favor.
These laws came about in part due to the need for manpower during World War II. Integrating the armed forces was the first step towards minorities having a chance to take part in mainstream society. Bringing women into the workforce was the beginning of women getting a chance to dictate their own economic destiny.
There were plenty of workers out there, but business did not want to hire minorities or women. Doesn't sound very rational to me...
Had a $5/hour minimum wage been instituted in 1900, it would have destroyed the US economy. Wages are driven up by market forces, not government intervention.
Why does the government even have to step in and raise the minimum wage occasionally? Because business on its own won't do it even if it is the moral and ethical thing to do. Business doesn't give a rat's ass if they pay you a living wage, however government does because starving people are more apt to revolt against the status quo than those who can feed themselves and their families.
It always cracks me up to see conservative economist types running around like Chicken Little with forecasts of economic problems if the government raises the minimum wage. Yet none of these dire predictions have ever come to pass when the government has raised the minimum wage but you never hear these people admit they were wrong afterwards... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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1) Sports blackouts occur because the federal government allows monopolistic businesses (i.e., professional sports leagues) to control how their product is distributed. Fair enough, but blame the professional sports organizations trying to protect the local gate and not the government for sports blackouts.
2) You can now get "local channels" from the Dish Network for $4.99 a month. If you get local channels that are on cable due to the "must carry" rule, then those channels are local to you and should be available to you. If the Dish Network cannot provide you with local service then it may be them and not the big, bad government that is causing your problems. And how do you know it is the Feds? Local/state governments also are involved through franchise agreements with communications companies.
3) Why do you even need analog cable? How about using an outside antenna instead? Get one at Rat Shack and install it in your attic -- problem solved.
4)Without line breaks your post is very hard to read. <br> is your friend...
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If Christians concentrated on the latter rather than the former then they would be among the coolest people around. Instead they concentrate on the religious dogma "fire and brimstone" part so they turn into humorless people who are against drinking, dancing, sex, etc. because it will send them straight to hell. It sucks when they condemn me to hell because I don't believe in their "God". They should just worry about their "salvation" and not worry about mine so much...
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It must be because after I recently asked for a promotion to a programming position I was told I was unqualified even though I have over 220 college hours (60+ of which are IT classes with a 3.91 GPA) and know multiple operating systems and programming languages. Of course since Whites are not racist and there is no discrimination extant today then it has to be me, huh?Why even worry about he niceties of immigration? Why not make a run for the border? Don't you know that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) only goes after Mexicans, not Canadians? Well I made $27K US last year busting my ass in Operations, and I am living from check to check. If the White fuckers, err managers, above me would ever promote me then my answer to your question would be yes. As it stands I am making it but definitely not "affluent" (my main computer at home is a 300 mhz celeron with a 15" monitor!). If you are not sure of the meaning of a word, consult a dictionary, don't make up a new meaning that no one else agrees with. Maybe this will help: Progressive
As for taxes, I don't mind paying them. After all I get national defense, interstate highways, meat inspections, etc. Everybody knows that companies don't break the law or act unethically and you can rely on Ronald McDonald not to serve you a e-coli infested burger. I guess as long as your heirs can sue Mickey D's then all is well with the world... Jesus, as long a you get you history from the White Power movement then, yes you are correct. If you bothered to read some academic historical sources you would find out that that statement is false.
The Spaniards differed from the British in colonization methods. Whereas the British and Americans killed off the Native Americans, the Spaniards preferred to co-opt the natives. In short they intermarried with the natives and formed a whole new people, the Chicanos (this is before there was a border between the US and Mexico -- in fact this happened before the US and Mexico even existed).
And if you look at the so-called Mexican-American War, it was bogus, just like the Spanish-American War. Chicanos did not go out looking for a war, the White Americans did. What you don't seem to understand is that the Chicano people didn't come to the US, the US came to us and like the Native Americans we have been suffering ever since... White politicans acting in our name are the ones increasing the conflict level on the border. Your average Chicano believes as I do, however there are plenty of "Mexican Americans" and "Hispanics" who would disagree with me. These are the people that Blacks call "Uncle Tom" and Chicanos call "Tio Taco", people who come from a disavantaged background and have made it with some help, then turn their backs on their people because their money has somehow "Whitened" them.
Many Chicanos do feel as I do: an uproar erupted when a young Mexican was murdered by a U.S. Marine, who not surprisingly got away with it. They say it was an "anti-drug" operation but does the U.S. have armed Marines patrolling the Canadian border?
I consider Canada a more "progressive" place because they do not seem to shoot at people from the U.S. trying to sneak into Canada... When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger...I am working on a History degree from the University of Houston. I'll bet I have read many more history books than you have...
Come to a barrio in Texas or California and and spout the same nonsense you are going on about and I guarantee you will get your ass kicked. In fact, I only have one piece of advice for you: if you move to the U.S., move to Idaho. Maybe Randy Weaver's Ruby Ridge compound is for sale...
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For politically subersive comics you can't beat Lalo Alcatraz's work. His cartoonista.com has some of the most politically incorrect cartoons found on the net. Lalo's more general political satire site at pocho.com is also hilarous...
On a more serious note, Brazilian artist Latuff has some political cartoons critizing the handling of the Zapatista uprising by the Mexican government (in Spanish).
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Jesus never held a job or owned property. He went from town to town preaching the word and in return people give him food to eat and a bed to sleep in out of the goodness of their hearts.
If Jesus were alive today conservatives would call him a "lazy commie pinko bastard"...
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Sounds like an artifical limit/quota to me. Do you consider the US Constitution to be "socialism"?
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Actually the refreshing lack of "patriotism" is why I would like to move to a more progressive country like Canada... Ha ha ha! That is a good one. Actually the Whites in the U.S. are the ones that "celebrate" the 4th of July. To minorities it is just another day off from work.
African Americans are pissed off at being kidnapped and sold into slavery by White people. Native American are pissed off that they almost got exterminated by White people in a genocidal war. Chicanos are pissed off at the fact that our land got stolen from us by White people. Minorities in the U.S. are pissed off because they are treated like second-class citizens in their own country.
Please read some U.S. history before moving here. We have enough ignorant people here as it stands...
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Pendejo...
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Say RedHat scores a big breakthrough gets 80% of that 90% Linux marketshare. Can they be considered a monopoly if the source code and other Linux distributions are still available? Can RedHat be considered a monopoly if the source code for and various distributions of BSD are still freely available?
Open source tends to work against monopolistic behavior because there is always another good (and sometimes equally free) solution available, which tends to work against any attempts by a vendor to force you into using their operating systems or applications...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
We minorities have problems because of racist White people, not a racist government. Even though the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments and numerous Civil Rights laws have stopped most of the overt racism in the political realm, there seems to be more racism in the social/cultural realm these days (just go to any White power website to see what I mean). Jesus, first you are talking about government then you jump to unions. Do I need to remind you that unions are not the government? Now put down the pipe and try to keep up with me. But earlier you claimed that it was the fact that there were more workers available is what made the economy grow and you totally disregarded the social and cultural aspects that interfere with the "rationality" humans need to have truly "free markets". Contrary to the dogma you learned from the Libertarian propaganda you seemingly have swallowed hook, line and sinker, not everything can be blamed on the government and not all government intervention in the economy is bad. Were you asleep in History class? Do you even know the history of Affirmative Action? To blame the federal government is bogus. It it the White people of the US, not the US government, that is holding back minorities in this country.
Racial progress has been occuring since World War II, not the 1960s like you mistakenly claim. Harry Truman integrated the Armed Forces in the late 1940's after seeing how well Black, Chicano and Asian troops did in battle. Before this brave act by HST, minorities died defending their country were not given any respect.
As a matter of fact, a Chicano soldier from Texas who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II was not allowed to be buried in his home town because the cemetery was "Whites-only". This one act galvanized the Chicano community into seeking our civil rights, which eventually led to the Chicano movement and the Raza Unida party of the 1960's. They are not doing it because it is the moral or ethical thing to do. I don't deny that there are economic forces at work here (if no applicants apply at $5 but lots do at $7, then the effective prevailing local minimum wage is $7), however I do think it is simplistic of you to think that all government intervention in the marketplace is bad, and I think that my examples bear me out... Why is it that White Libertarians and Conservatives think they know what is going on in minority communities better than the people that live there? Why is it that they give more weight to their own misguided economic theories than to the the realities faced by the people living in the ghettos and barrios of AmeriKKKa? By definition, minimium wage jobs do not require much education or training, so this statement is false...Most people get hired on the spot because there happens to be an artifical labor shortage due to short-sighted immigration policies that are supposed to protect American workers, even though the American worker doesn't want that damn minimum wage job...Jesus dude! Do you ever put down your copy of "Libertarianism for Dummies"?
The one who is truly hurt is you because the cost of your burger just went up 50 cents. If you are honest enought to say that outright then I can respect your opinion, because you are complaining because it directly affects you in a negative manner. Just be honest enough to admit that many White people are economic racists, not "rational persons" in the economic sense...
Do you even know any people working for minimum wage? I seriously doubt it because if the difference between survival and starving is a measly two dollars, I say pay the damn two dollars to the employee. If that two dollars enables them to build a decent life (with health insurance) instead of scrabbling along from paycheck to paycheck (with no insurance) then pay the fricking two dollars. In the long run, the extra 50 cents that the burger cost me is trivial to me, however, to a low-paid person a two dollar raise is not trivial at all...
What gets my goat is that Libertarians and Conservatives come from basically the same place -- unbridled self-interest (i.e., selfishness). All the available evidence disproves your assertions yet you all blindly continue preaching the faith. At least the fools that believe in a "God" are intellectually honest to tell you that "No we can't prove that God exists, you just have to have faith".
Ask me to believe in your little religion and tell me to have faith if I don't believe, then I may work my way a little towards your viewpoint. Just don't try to use science, economics, morality or ethics to "prove" to me that you are right in believing that selfishness should be the First Commandment of our economic system, one that justifies child labor in Third World countries...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Try this on for size (even more "realistic" than your lame scenarios): Whiny, well-fed capitalist running dogs attempt to justify child labor so as to not feel guilty when they put on trendy, expensive sneakers manufactured by children in a sweatshop.
Be a lackey for the rich capitalist pigs all you want, but don't think you will can convince us that child labor is moral, much less ethical...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Maybe your hypothesis has a grain of truth when applied to White Americans but it is a complete fiction when applied to minorities in America. Your theory of the "rational person" simply does not hold true or you would not have things like employment discrimination due to a person's race or sex. If labor was truly free and the marketplace then there would be no disparities when it comes to what the average woman or minority makes compared to the average White male.
Actually, when you look at minorities it has been the government that has raised our wages. Thanks to Fair Labor laws, we are hired now whereas we would not even get considered. Thanks to Affirmative Action and moves towards diversity more of us get jobs that we would not get before due to the "Good Old [White] Boy" mentality that business seems to favor.
These laws came about in part due to the need for manpower during World War II. Integrating the armed forces was the first step towards minorities having a chance to take part in mainstream society. Bringing women into the workforce was the beginning of women getting a chance to dictate their own economic destiny.
There were plenty of workers out there, but business did not want to hire minorities or women. Doesn't sound very rational to me... Why does the government even have to step in and raise the minimum wage occasionally? Because business on its own won't do it even if it is the moral and ethical thing to do. Business doesn't give a rat's ass if they pay you a living wage, however government does because starving people are more apt to revolt against the status quo than those who can feed themselves and their families.
It always cracks me up to see conservative economist types running around like Chicken Little with forecasts of economic problems if the government raises the minimum wage. Yet none of these dire predictions have ever come to pass when the government has raised the minimum wage but you never hear these people admit they were wrong afterwards...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!