There's a huge difference between tolerance and playing the martyr/victim. The latter is a passive-aggressive behaviour that needs to be called out as being dishonestly manipulative. You can be tolerant of other people's right to have a certain point of view while attacking the stupidity or lies it's based on with facts. There is no need to be submissive in the face of a personal attack any more than there is to allow someone to take a second swing at your face after they've punched you in the nose.
Too many people take everything - including criticism - way too personally. They fail to realize this is the internet, and if you're going to attack me for what I am, I'm probably going to troll the shit out of you and the beliefs you use to justify it. If you really believe that Jesus told you to hate on transsexuals, you need to re-read your bible. ALL of it - not just the old testament.
This won't be like before, when the manufacturer sent threatening letters and forced smaller manufacturers to either go to court of get out of the business entirely. Costco is suing, and now Acushnet Holdings has to either prove their claims or fold. Same as IBM and Novell when SCO made similar bad noises about patent infringement, the big boys can't afford to let someone slander them.
Any bets that another patent troll is going to get a kick in the balls?
Why would I object to being called a barbarian? Seems to me it's the best thing to be when dealing with assholes like you. Far better than being named after a fictitious religious character in a fictitious religious tale.
That's one thing about barbarians - we want concrete proof of claims. We don't believe in fairy tales, whether they were made up a couple thousand years ago or posted by Trumplestiltskin within the hour. In other words, we're not stupid.
I have no problem whatsoever sitting down with people who think transsexuality is totally unacceptable.That includes a big chunk of my immediate family. I just don't let their problems with it get into my head. So things are okay. They don't tell me to change my views, and I don't tell them to change theirs. That's what mutual respect is all about. If you can only tolerate views that agree with yours, your one intolerant sone-of-a-bitch.
People have the right to disagree with you. And you have the right to call them ignorant fuck-tards. See how it works?
There are plenty of fantasies that people have that would give them a heart attack if they ever actually got the chance to go through it. Being able to fly like superman? Nice fantasy, but imagine how someone with a fear of heights (or even just a normal person) was standing at the end of a cliff and saying "I can fly - but NO F'ING WAY".
Or fantasizing about rushing into a burning building to save people, or confronting a bomb-toting, ak-47 shooting terrorist, but they know full well they would freeze up in real life.
Or even just something as simple as choking the living shit out of their stupid boss or taking a cattle prod to them, BOfH-style. They might fantasize about it, but they would be horrified with themselves if they ever caught themselves in the process of actually doing it.
Maybe it's Dreis Barf-head who needs to be booted until he learns the difference between reality and fantasy. Or does he also believe that furries are into beastiality?
What happens if you can't find the heirs? The code has to be abandoned, rewritten from scratch, or otherwise replaced or superceded. How would a stranger contact your heirs, given only your email address? Given that plenty of people don't have an email address that consists of only their proper name, you're going to be looking at a lot of potential candidates for email addresses of heirs. And it's not like you can just shoot off an email to the dead person and expect their heirs to answer it.
Can you really meet your basic needs on, say, $600 a month? Or would you look around for ways to make a bit extra, to lower the stress of living in extreme poverty?
And you're so fucked up being unable to understand that UBI, properly designed, includes claw-backs as your income rises, so that most people will actually not be net beneficiaries of UBI schemes. So, everyone gets the same amount, but most people end up with that same amount clawed back at tax time, along with their regular personal income tax amount. And the UBI is a taxable income. If your total income, including UBI, exceeds the basic exemptions, you're also going to be paying tax on it.
Here, I'll make it simple for you with some numbers. If everyone gets a basic UBI of $800 a month and a 50 percent claw-back, anyone earning $1600 a month ends up having to give back all their UBI, as well as paying tax on that $1600 a month of earned income. So anyone earning more than $19,200 a year doesn't end up costing the UBI scheme a single cent.
It can be made to work. It has been made to work. It's all in how it's implemented.
Besides, I don't see you offering anything better. Either do so or STFU, because you're not contributing to improving the situation, you're just making noise.
Nonsense. He's disposing of them now because in his estimation there is no upside to owning them, but he can save money by declaring the full loss (the value he paid for them, not the current value) and save more on taxes than the current book value of the shares.
People aren't asking for shares in the lawsuit - they want money (and blood). Why would anyone want more shares in a business that is subject to more lawsuits in the future? That defrauded them in the past?
The experiment with UBI in Canada in the '70s proved that people WILL try to better their situation. Because of a less precarious home situation, more kids finished high school. Hospital visits dropped - which in a publicly funded single payer system means additional savings. Crime went down. People could work part-time and only a portion of UBI was clawed back as their earnings went up - not dollar for dollar - so they had incentives to work part-time in the hope that it would lead to full-time jobs.
It's all in the design. Bad design, bad outcomes. Good design, good outcomes, healthier population with increased employment. We're going to have to do it anyway. Besides, how many of the 0.01% who inherited their privilege could survive a week at a regular joe or jane job?
She left the country after hiding in Quebec under another name. But yes, her and Paul Bernardo are two people, who if they were on fire, nobody would bother to waste the piss to put it out.
My problem with the whole thing is the same as with Dr. Guy Turcotte, the cardiologist who killed his children. There are some crimes that, even if intentional and premeditated, you really have to have more than a few screws loose to have committed. They simply go beyond all understanding. You can't fix sh*t like that. Ever.
All you can do is acknowledge that such people exist - trying to understand them risks becoming like them - seeing the world through their eyes and thinking "I can see how someone can think that's a viable course of action."
I wonder if, in some deep recess of their minds, they don't know the true evil of what they've done, or if they're totally, totally self-absorbed. Even Judas killed himself when he realized what he had truly done. I don't think these people will ever let themselves be honest with themselves. They can't. It would be too destructive, seeing what they had done with the perspective of others. In a weird way, it's probably more merciful that they don't. Who would be able to live with the knowledge they had done something like that? The guilt. The fear that it could happen again. The certainty that there's something fundamentally repulsive and wrong and monstrous about how you think.
And for the rest of us, "there but for the $GRACE_OF_DIETY_OR_WHATEVER go I." We know what seemingly normal people did under the nazis. We know that under the right circumstances, most people will follow orders, follow the crowd, and are capable of brutal behaviour, and that the ones who are so rigid that they say "I'll never do that" are the ones most susceptible. Humans are scary shit!
And yet you didn't deny you're a repressed little gay man. Instead, you turned the discussion to sex. And of course, a little gay man (do you have small hands, perchance) won't date a woman.
And yet you're the one who wants everyone to race to the bottom instead of having the ability (and the financial wherewithal) to be individuals, and pursue their own goals, via UBI. Like I said, you're sooo full of shit you sound like Sean Spicer.
Bullshit. Copyright licensing is ONLY assignable in writing. That's the law, as anyone who followed groklaw would know. Also, good luck getting approval from all 400 - after 20 years some are going to be dead.
Naive, aren't we? First, this is not free. You have to pay per minute, and it's not the whole internet. Just chat stuff with a select list of approved people, courses, court case management, etc.
Second, in the hole you won't be able to make any money to pay for it anyway.
Third, you don't get any luxuries in the hole. Not even a sheet, blanket, and a pillow. So forget a tablet.
Fourth, you don't get to decide to go to solitary. If you're a real PITA, they may decide to keep you with the general population and let everyone know that things are going to be hard because of you. It's one of the ways they deal with "problem people."
Nor do I wish to. But I know your type, and that's why I have no with to know you. BTW, I have no problems with slurs against certain groups. Trump supporters are stupid, plain and simple. Maybe it's the racism so many of them parade around, the rot must have spread to other parts of their so-called brains. Same as their so-called president. The idiot-in-chief.
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The tax department won't accept anything short of disposal of the shares for him to realize the loss.
There's a huge difference between tolerance and playing the martyr/victim. The latter is a passive-aggressive behaviour that needs to be called out as being dishonestly manipulative. You can be tolerant of other people's right to have a certain point of view while attacking the stupidity or lies it's based on with facts. There is no need to be submissive in the face of a personal attack any more than there is to allow someone to take a second swing at your face after they've punched you in the nose.
Too many people take everything - including criticism - way too personally. They fail to realize this is the internet, and if you're going to attack me for what I am, I'm probably going to troll the shit out of you and the beliefs you use to justify it. If you really believe that Jesus told you to hate on transsexuals, you need to re-read your bible. ALL of it - not just the old testament.
This won't be like before, when the manufacturer sent threatening letters and forced smaller manufacturers to either go to court of get out of the business entirely. Costco is suing, and now Acushnet Holdings has to either prove their claims or fold. Same as IBM and Novell when SCO made similar bad noises about patent infringement, the big boys can't afford to let someone slander them.
Any bets that another patent troll is going to get a kick in the balls?
Why would I object to being called a barbarian? Seems to me it's the best thing to be when dealing with assholes like you. Far better than being named after a fictitious religious character in a fictitious religious tale.
That's one thing about barbarians - we want concrete proof of claims. We don't believe in fairy tales, whether they were made up a couple thousand years ago or posted by Trumplestiltskin within the hour. In other words, we're not stupid.
You really are fucked up with your fantasies, aren't you. Or are you writing from personal experience?
Um, are you claiming that a gorean lifestyle is associated with being a conservative?
Well, that certainly explains the modern GOP now doesn't it?
Of course it is - "By their porn queues ye shall know them."
To some SJWs, love is also that same 4-letter word - rape. "Societal expectations of roles for people in love keep women in bondage"...
I have no problem whatsoever sitting down with people who think transsexuality is totally unacceptable.That includes a big chunk of my immediate family. I just don't let their problems with it get into my head. So things are okay. They don't tell me to change my views, and I don't tell them to change theirs. That's what mutual respect is all about. If you can only tolerate views that agree with yours, your one intolerant sone-of-a-bitch.
People have the right to disagree with you. And you have the right to call them ignorant fuck-tards. See how it works?
There are plenty of fantasies that people have that would give them a heart attack if they ever actually got the chance to go through it. Being able to fly like superman? Nice fantasy, but imagine how someone with a fear of heights (or even just a normal person) was standing at the end of a cliff and saying "I can fly - but NO F'ING WAY".
Or fantasizing about rushing into a burning building to save people, or confronting a bomb-toting, ak-47 shooting terrorist, but they know full well they would freeze up in real life.
Or even just something as simple as choking the living shit out of their stupid boss or taking a cattle prod to them, BOfH-style. They might fantasize about it, but they would be horrified with themselves if they ever caught themselves in the process of actually doing it.
Maybe it's Dreis Barf-head who needs to be booted until he learns the difference between reality and fantasy. Or does he also believe that furries are into beastiality?
What happens if you can't find the heirs? The code has to be abandoned, rewritten from scratch, or otherwise replaced or superceded. How would a stranger contact your heirs, given only your email address? Given that plenty of people don't have an email address that consists of only their proper name, you're going to be looking at a lot of potential candidates for email addresses of heirs. And it's not like you can just shoot off an email to the dead person and expect their heirs to answer it.
Can you really meet your basic needs on, say, $600 a month? Or would you look around for ways to make a bit extra, to lower the stress of living in extreme poverty?
And you're so fucked up being unable to understand that UBI, properly designed, includes claw-backs as your income rises, so that most people will actually not be net beneficiaries of UBI schemes. So, everyone gets the same amount, but most people end up with that same amount clawed back at tax time, along with their regular personal income tax amount. And the UBI is a taxable income. If your total income, including UBI, exceeds the basic exemptions, you're also going to be paying tax on it.
Here, I'll make it simple for you with some numbers. If everyone gets a basic UBI of $800 a month and a 50 percent claw-back, anyone earning $1600 a month ends up having to give back all their UBI, as well as paying tax on that $1600 a month of earned income. So anyone earning more than $19,200 a year doesn't end up costing the UBI scheme a single cent.
It can be made to work. It has been made to work. It's all in how it's implemented.
Besides, I don't see you offering anything better. Either do so or STFU, because you're not contributing to improving the situation, you're just making noise.
Nonsense. He's disposing of them now because in his estimation there is no upside to owning them, but he can save money by declaring the full loss (the value he paid for them, not the current value) and save more on taxes than the current book value of the shares.
People aren't asking for shares in the lawsuit - they want money (and blood). Why would anyone want more shares in a business that is subject to more lawsuits in the future? That defrauded them in the past?
The experiment with UBI in Canada in the '70s proved that people WILL try to better their situation. Because of a less precarious home situation, more kids finished high school. Hospital visits dropped - which in a publicly funded single payer system means additional savings. Crime went down. People could work part-time and only a portion of UBI was clawed back as their earnings went up - not dollar for dollar - so they had incentives to work part-time in the hope that it would lead to full-time jobs.
It's all in the design. Bad design, bad outcomes. Good design, good outcomes, healthier population with increased employment. We're going to have to do it anyway. Besides, how many of the 0.01% who inherited their privilege could survive a week at a regular joe or jane job?
She left the country after hiding in Quebec under another name. But yes, her and Paul Bernardo are two people, who if they were on fire, nobody would bother to waste the piss to put it out.
My problem with the whole thing is the same as with Dr. Guy Turcotte, the cardiologist who killed his children. There are some crimes that, even if intentional and premeditated, you really have to have more than a few screws loose to have committed. They simply go beyond all understanding. You can't fix sh*t like that. Ever.
All you can do is acknowledge that such people exist - trying to understand them risks becoming like them - seeing the world through their eyes and thinking "I can see how someone can think that's a viable course of action."
I wonder if, in some deep recess of their minds, they don't know the true evil of what they've done, or if they're totally, totally self-absorbed. Even Judas killed himself when he realized what he had truly done. I don't think these people will ever let themselves be honest with themselves. They can't. It would be too destructive, seeing what they had done with the perspective of others. In a weird way, it's probably more merciful that they don't. Who would be able to live with the knowledge they had done something like that? The guilt. The fear that it could happen again. The certainty that there's something fundamentally repulsive and wrong and monstrous about how you think.
And for the rest of us, "there but for the $GRACE_OF_DIETY_OR_WHATEVER go I." We know what seemingly normal people did under the nazis. We know that under the right circumstances, most people will follow orders, follow the crowd, and are capable of brutal behaviour, and that the ones who are so rigid that they say "I'll never do that" are the ones most susceptible. Humans are scary shit!
And yet you didn't deny you're a repressed little gay man. Instead, you turned the discussion to sex. And of course, a little gay man (do you have small hands, perchance) won't date a woman.
And yet you're the one who wants everyone to race to the bottom instead of having the ability (and the financial wherewithal) to be individuals, and pursue their own goals, via UBI. Like I said, you're sooo full of shit you sound like Sean Spicer.
No. Remember Phoenix BIOS, written from scratch?
Of course I do. Repressed gay man.
Of course it won't happen. What's the likelihood that all 400 are still alive and mentally competent after a couple of decades?
Bullshit. Copyright licensing is ONLY assignable in writing. That's the law, as anyone who followed groklaw would know. Also, good luck getting approval from all 400 - after 20 years some are going to be dead.
Naive, aren't we? First, this is not free. You have to pay per minute, and it's not the whole internet. Just chat stuff with a select list of approved people, courses, court case management, etc.
Second, in the hole you won't be able to make any money to pay for it anyway.
Third, you don't get any luxuries in the hole. Not even a sheet, blanket, and a pillow. So forget a tablet.
Fourth, you don't get to decide to go to solitary. If you're a real PITA, they may decide to keep you with the general population and let everyone know that things are going to be hard because of you. It's one of the ways they deal with "problem people."
Nor do I wish to. But I know your type, and that's why I have no with to know you. BTW, I have no problems with slurs against certain groups. Trump supporters are stupid, plain and simple. Maybe it's the racism so many of them parade around, the rot must have spread to other parts of their so-called brains. Same as their so-called president. The idiot-in-chief.
Propaganda IS lying. That you don't see it just goes to show how far the rot has set in.