Don't forget that Lasik is not a permanent fix - you'll need glasses as you get older as your eyes continue to change to be more farsighted (if you're like most people). Just not worth it.
I really don't want your "gift of witty wisdom and brilliant ripostes", probably because I've yet to see any evidence they exist. They must suffer from Cheshire Cat Syndrome - they appear brilliant to you but fade away when anyone else tries to look at them, leaving just the crap,
Were they in earthquake zones? Landfill tends to liquefy even more than regular soil, and when it's mixed with garbage and methane.... well.... shake and bake, baby. One more reason not to live in Silly Valley.
I don't know if anyone else remembers a sci-fi story that legalized abortion until the day the child turned 5. Parents who either just wanted to experience (possibly repeatedly) the early years of having a child, or who didn't like the way the kid was turning out, were able to say "nope, not viable" and everyone else would accept it same as a miscarriage.
There are people out there who would love that - octo-mom for one.
Um.. ok. I haven't advocated against abortion rights, nor using protection. Lay off the feminist kool-aid powder, will ya?
Buillshit. Here's exactly what you said:
I was suggesting a system that gives him a post conception choice as well so that neither can take advantage of the other... AFTER the mistake/accident happens. It would separate the choice of having children from the act of sex for men (like women already have)
Men have already taken women to court to have a say in whether they can get an abortion. So yes, your proposal has already been used against abortion rights, and continues to do so. And people are trying to make it into law:
A bill advancing in Oklahoma would require a woman to get the written consent of the fetus’s father before obtaining an abortion.
The bill, which passed out of a House committee Tuesday, would also require a woman “to provide, in writing, the identity of the father of the fetus to the physician who is to perform or induce the abortion,” according to the bill’s language. “If the person identified as the father of the fetus challenges the fact that he is the father, such individual may demand that a paternity test be performed.”
The bill’s author, Rep. Justin Humphrey (R), could not be reached for comment Tuesday. But in an interview with The Intercept earlier this month, Humphrey said that men should be able to have a say over the fate of a fetus, and suggested that a woman has greater responsibility in a relationship for preventing pregnancy because she would be the “host.”
So cut the lying. Just grow up and accept that you need to behave more responsibly if you don't want kids. It is entirely within your control to prevent yourself becoming a father. The act of sex is already separate from having children for men. Use a condom or get a vasectomy. We don't need you breeding any more people incapable of logical thought and responsible behaviour.
Your bullshit solution doesn't make the process "more amicable for both." Use a condom or go fuck yourself. You have two hands, right? And an internet connection. And lots of experience fapping t porn with Thumbellna and her four sisters.
Your "solution" is a way for you to both abrogate your responsibility to police yourself, and to try to control a woman post-coitus. It is entirely within your power not to become a parent. Use it or pay. After all, it's your body, your choice. If you choose to have unprotected sex, again, your body, your choice. You didn't get "roped into it." It was YOUR choice. Same as a vasectomy - your body, your choice.
"Roped into it." Yeah, all these guys were raped... sure... all these guys were "tricked into it". You're supposed to be an adult, act like one. You don't want kids, don't have unprotected sex. That's what responsible adults do.
As for consent, you consented to the consequences when you had unprotected sex. You knew the possibility of making a kid. You continued anyway. Again, grow up. Or better yet - don't. This way your personality will be all the birth control you ever need, and if it takes some woman making you pay for the child's upbringing to make you learn to be more responsible, well, hopefully you will have learned your lesson and behaved more responsibly with your own body in the future.
What dystopian hell? Where people aren't subjected to second-hand smoke? Where tobacco companies, who have a long history of targeting kids, are loathed for doing so, and are not allowed to do that sort of shit any more?
Awards for discrimination can go up to $50,000 or more, at a simple hearing where you don't even need a lawyer. People have an incentive to behave better.
Ahh, of course you'd say something like this. When in doubt, use fear, amirite comrade?
Violate my rights, I sure as hell have the right to put a bit of fear into you. Or make you pay for it. You clowns with your stupid libertarian arguments seem to think that rights only count when they're your rights being trampled on, and you should be free to do whatever the hell you want because "rules == socialism == communism". Go live in a social democracy for a while and you'll see there's a lot more freedom than people in the US enjoy.
You are so full of shit. Your link doesn't even support your claim. You said:
Ah, yes - I see you belong to the group that believes that a woman who had had a drink is incapable of giving consent, while a man who has had a drink is therefore a rapist if they engage in sexual activity, perhaps simple sexual assault if they hold hands or cuddle.
On the contrary, one drink does not vitiate consent, unless it's been spiked with roofies. Grow the fuck up, moron. You can start by not putting words in my mouth and then arguing against them.
I am not an American, nor do I want to be one. You keep cutting back on things that we, and much of the rest of the western world, consider as basic rights.
You obviously don't know Canada. We imposed the fireplace ban in my city and many others, not because of $$$, but to save $$$. Fireplaces are not net heat sources, so you're using your main heating system to heat air going up the chimney. Also, the extra pollution adds to health care costs and lost productivity.
Also, the vast majority of Canadians live in provinces where the age of majority is 18. The age for a teenager's medical records being private from the parent is 14. Parents cannot be informed of doctors visits, or even abortions, and can't see their kids records without the kids consent.
But yes, the rest of the world agrees that "the USA is one fsck up place to live now and is getting worse." But you only have yourselves to blame. After all, you got the successive governments you deserved over the last 40 years that led you to where you are now. And nothing will change, because you won't even do basic campaign finance reform. Your owners won't let you.
You didn't have an intensive 12-week training on the dangers of smoking. And if you think chiropractors are real doctors, you are as dumb as you sound.
I'll keep that in mind. I "solved" my problem of not being able to find my glasses by not seeing them both times I stepped/sat on them and broke them.- boith my main pair and my backup, within a couple of months. So now I just don't wear glasses. It doesn't make much of a difference - the left eye went from 20/45 to 20/400, so that would take coke bottle bottoms to fix, and the right keeps getting blood collecting inside, which glasses also won't fix.
As long as I can walk the dog and ride my bike I don't really care any more.
It often does. We made fireplaces and wood stoves illegal to reduce particulates (and added $5,000 fines for non-compliance). Worked like a charm.
We made driving without a seatbelt illegal, and added $92 fines. Very high rates of compliance.
We made it illegal to smoke in restaurants, work, enclosed public spaces, and certain outdoor spaces include outdoor restaurant terrasses and patios. with fines starting at $250 - $750 for the individual for a first offense. Nobody smokes in restaurants any more. Maximum fines can reach $250,000. Get caught selling tobacco products to a kid, pay $3000. Really cut down on sales of cigarettes to minors.
Awards for discrimination can go up to $50,000 or more, at a simple hearing where you don't even need a lawyer. People have an incentive to behave better.
Bullshit. No one ever smoked their first cigarette because they were addicted. People smoke because they choose to try the experience. They may then become trapped by addiction, but that's not why they started smoking.
Learn to read. Even you quoted it - "People smoke because of addition." This does not state that they started because they were addicted, but that they continue because the're addicted.
1 "I can quit any time" - denial
2 "I will quit when I'm ready" -negotiation
3 "I enjoy it too much to quit" - rationalization
4 "It's the only thing I have left to enjoy." - capitulation
5 "I don't want to die!" - reality
Followed by the ultimate personal smoking experience - cremation. Do you really want to be "smoking hot"?
And here we're making the ultrasound and abortion pill free. Good up to the 7th week of pregnancy. It will save money in the immediate term, and lots of money in the long run.
It's not just vision and response. There's also hearing and the range of motion of the neck to consider, as well as what medications they're on.. Then there's also peripheral vision, which can't be checked with an eye chart. And night blindness, which is a big thing for many drivers of all ages who don't seem to be aware that they're leaning forward over the steering wheel at night to try to read the signs better, and don't even notice they're doing it since it crept up on them slowly. And then there's increased chances of stepping on the gas when they want to brake. Or the two-footed drivers who never learned to drive properly and jam on both in an emergency....
Plus the idiot who's driving along the highway streaming the football game on his phone and decides to step out for a beer during the commercial.
I can scarcely imagine something more awkward and frustrating than trying to convince an elderly person that they are incapable of doing something... They will get insulted to say the least.
Just hide their keys. In plain view usually works after a certain point.:-)
Well, actually neither one won a majority of votes, so they can both be considered as contributing to the next recession. See how even-handed and fair I can be?
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Obviously not true that it's "too expensive to live in Canada", because most of us manage to do it.
Don't forget that Lasik is not a permanent fix - you'll need glasses as you get older as your eyes continue to change to be more farsighted (if you're like most people). Just not worth it.
I really don't want your "gift of witty wisdom and brilliant ripostes", probably because I've yet to see any evidence they exist. They must suffer from Cheshire Cat Syndrome - they appear brilliant to you but fade away when anyone else tries to look at them, leaving just the crap,
Were they in earthquake zones? Landfill tends to liquefy even more than regular soil, and when it's mixed with garbage and methane .... well .... shake and bake, baby. One more reason not to live in Silly Valley.
I don't know if anyone else remembers a sci-fi story that legalized abortion until the day the child turned 5. Parents who either just wanted to experience (possibly repeatedly) the early years of having a child, or who didn't like the way the kid was turning out, were able to say "nope, not viable" and everyone else would accept it same as a miscarriage.
There are people out there who would love that - octo-mom for one.
Um.. ok. I haven't advocated against abortion rights, nor using protection. Lay off the feminist kool-aid powder, will ya?
Buillshit. Here's exactly what you said:
I was suggesting a system that gives him a post conception choice as well so that neither can take advantage of the other... AFTER the mistake/accident happens. It would separate the choice of having children from the act of sex for men (like women already have)
Men have already taken women to court to have a say in whether they can get an abortion. So yes, your proposal has already been used against abortion rights, and continues to do so. And people are trying to make it into law:
A bill advancing in Oklahoma would require a woman to get the written consent of the fetus’s father before obtaining an abortion.
The bill, which passed out of a House committee Tuesday, would also require a woman “to provide, in writing, the identity of the father of the fetus to the physician who is to perform or induce the abortion,” according to the bill’s language. “If the person identified as the father of the fetus challenges the fact that he is the father, such individual may demand that a paternity test be performed.”
The bill’s author, Rep. Justin Humphrey (R), could not be reached for comment Tuesday. But in an interview with The Intercept earlier this month, Humphrey said that men should be able to have a say over the fate of a fetus, and suggested that a woman has greater responsibility in a relationship for preventing pregnancy because she would be the “host.”
So cut the lying. Just grow up and accept that you need to behave more responsibly if you don't want kids. It is entirely within your control to prevent yourself becoming a father. The act of sex is already separate from having children for men. Use a condom or get a vasectomy. We don't need you breeding any more people incapable of logical thought and responsible behaviour.
Your bullshit solution doesn't make the process "more amicable for both." Use a condom or go fuck yourself. You have two hands, right? And an internet connection. And lots of experience fapping t porn with Thumbellna and her four sisters.
Your "solution" is a way for you to both abrogate your responsibility to police yourself, and to try to control a woman post-coitus. It is entirely within your power not to become a parent. Use it or pay. After all, it's your body, your choice. If you choose to have unprotected sex, again, your body, your choice. You didn't get "roped into it." It was YOUR choice. Same as a vasectomy - your body, your choice.
"Roped into it." Yeah, all these guys were raped ... sure ... all these guys were "tricked into it". You're supposed to be an adult, act like one. You don't want kids, don't have unprotected sex. That's what responsible adults do.
As for consent, you consented to the consequences when you had unprotected sex. You knew the possibility of making a kid. You continued anyway. Again, grow up. Or better yet - don't. This way your personality will be all the birth control you ever need, and if it takes some woman making you pay for the child's upbringing to make you learn to be more responsible, well, hopefully you will have learned your lesson and behaved more responsibly with your own body in the future.
What dystopian hell? Where people aren't subjected to second-hand smoke? Where tobacco companies, who have a long history of targeting kids, are loathed for doing so, and are not allowed to do that sort of shit any more?
Awards for discrimination can go up to $50,000 or more, at a simple hearing where you don't even need a lawyer. People have an incentive to behave better.
Ahh, of course you'd say something like this. When in doubt, use fear, amirite comrade?
Violate my rights, I sure as hell have the right to put a bit of fear into you. Or make you pay for it. You clowns with your stupid libertarian arguments seem to think that rights only count when they're your rights being trampled on, and you should be free to do whatever the hell you want because "rules == socialism == communism". Go live in a social democracy for a while and you'll see there's a lot more freedom than people in the US enjoy.
You are so full of shit. Your link doesn't even support your claim. You said:
Ah, yes - I see you belong to the group that believes that a woman who had had a drink is incapable of giving consent, while a man who has had a drink is therefore a rapist if they engage in sexual activity, perhaps simple sexual assault if they hold hands or cuddle.
On the contrary, one drink does not vitiate consent, unless it's been spiked with roofies. Grow the fuck up, moron. You can start by not putting words in my mouth and then arguing against them.
I am not an American, nor do I want to be one. You keep cutting back on things that we, and much of the rest of the western world, consider as basic rights.
You obviously don't know Canada. We imposed the fireplace ban in my city and many others, not because of $$$, but to save $$$. Fireplaces are not net heat sources, so you're using your main heating system to heat air going up the chimney. Also, the extra pollution adds to health care costs and lost productivity.
Also, the vast majority of Canadians live in provinces where the age of majority is 18. The age for a teenager's medical records being private from the parent is 14. Parents cannot be informed of doctors visits, or even abortions, and can't see their kids records without the kids consent.
But yes, the rest of the world agrees that "the USA is one fsck up place to live now and is getting worse." But you only have yourselves to blame. After all, you got the successive governments you deserved over the last 40 years that led you to where you are now. And nothing will change, because you won't even do basic campaign finance reform. Your owners won't let you.
You didn't have an intensive 12-week training on the dangers of smoking. And if you think chiropractors are real doctors, you are as dumb as you sound.
I'll keep that in mind. I "solved" my problem of not being able to find my glasses by not seeing them both times I stepped/sat on them and broke them.- boith my main pair and my backup, within a couple of months. So now I just don't wear glasses. It doesn't make much of a difference - the left eye went from 20/45 to 20/400, so that would take coke bottle bottoms to fix, and the right keeps getting blood collecting inside, which glasses also won't fix.
As long as I can walk the dog and ride my bike I don't really care any more.
You just proved there's no moron like an old moron.
It often does. We made fireplaces and wood stoves illegal to reduce particulates (and added $5,000 fines for non-compliance). Worked like a charm.
We made driving without a seatbelt illegal, and added $92 fines. Very high rates of compliance.
We made it illegal to smoke in restaurants, work, enclosed public spaces, and certain outdoor spaces include outdoor restaurant terrasses and patios. with fines starting at $250 - $750 for the individual for a first offense. Nobody smokes in restaurants any more. Maximum fines can reach $250,000. Get caught selling tobacco products to a kid, pay $3000. Really cut down on sales of cigarettes to minors.
Awards for discrimination can go up to $50,000 or more, at a simple hearing where you don't even need a lawyer. People have an incentive to behave better.
Bullshit. No one ever smoked their first cigarette because they were addicted. People smoke because they choose to try the experience. They may then become trapped by addiction, but that's not why they started smoking.
Learn to read. Even you quoted it - "People smoke because of addition." This does not state that they started because they were addicted, but that they continue because the're addicted.
1 "I can quit any time" - denial
2 "I will quit when I'm ready" -negotiation
3 "I enjoy it too much to quit" - rationalization
4 "It's the only thing I have left to enjoy." - capitulation
5 "I don't want to die!" - reality
Followed by the ultimate personal smoking experience - cremation. Do you really want to be "smoking hot"?
How about we raise the age of both by one year every year? Solves both the problems of smoking and wars.
Wasn't that what fragging was for?
Because the 18-year-old will receive training. The smoker doesn't or they would never smoke in the first place.
And here we're making the ultrasound and abortion pill free. Good up to the 7th week of pregnancy. It will save money in the immediate term, and lots of money in the long run.
It's not just vision and response. There's also hearing and the range of motion of the neck to consider, as well as what medications they're on.. Then there's also peripheral vision, which can't be checked with an eye chart. And night blindness, which is a big thing for many drivers of all ages who don't seem to be aware that they're leaning forward over the steering wheel at night to try to read the signs better, and don't even notice they're doing it since it crept up on them slowly. And then there's increased chances of stepping on the gas when they want to brake. Or the two-footed drivers who never learned to drive properly and jam on both in an emergency. ...
Plus the idiot who's driving along the highway streaming the football game on his phone and decides to step out for a beer during the commercial.
I can scarcely imagine something more awkward and frustrating than trying to convince an elderly person that they are incapable of doing something... They will get insulted to say the least.
Just hide their keys. In plain view usually works after a certain point. :-)
I'm a Straight White Christian Male. Why am I not special? Where's MY safe space? How come nobody pays any attention to me anymore?
You have the KKK, isn't that bad enough?
But most still subscribe to the "bigger fool" theory and hope to get out and leave someone else hold the bag.
Judges 15:15
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
That's nothing, this jawbone will slew the millions of dollars of any asses who invest in it.
Well, actually neither one won a majority of votes, so they can both be considered as contributing to the next recession. See how even-handed and fair I can be?