On the other side of things, if someone was to spy on you wouldn't they want their spy device to be as innocious as possible. Why not just slip it into a regular toonie. Why a special remembrance day one?
And that doesn't included things like circumcision/genital mutilation - even taking a single drop of blood from a girl to symbolize an ancient ceremony is illegal in the US, but even jerks with no medical training can circumcise a boy (and keep in mind there aren't any medical groups, or any major studies, that show that circumcision in western countries has any significant medical benefit - plus there's no guidelines on how much tissue can be removed, and no requirement for painkillers).
And it doesn't include sexist culture like the "don't hit a girl"/"slap him if he gets fresh" advice, the idea that women "getting even" is OK while men should never consider such a thing - along with a host of other cultural biases (in the middle and upper classes of western countries at least).
Umm.. The difference is female genital circumcision does a lot more then the male version. It's like slicing off the whole head of your penis. It would suck. No orgasms for life. Circumcision is more like trimming the clitoral hood or piercing it. But I think male circumcision is a idiotic idea too. If there isn't a reason for a medical procedure don't do it.
The hitting women thing is something off too but the majority of the time men have the upper hand with violence. I'd crush half their ribs my last 4 GF if I ever bear hugged them. But sometimes it is the big wife smacking small husband and although I think it's hilarious I agree it's not right and he deserves protection from the law and protection from my ridicule of him.
OK, most of your post was reasonable, even if I had quibbles with it, but this is just silly. Support is determined by custody and income levels - you can get on your knees and beg the court for custody, but if the other parent still gets primary custody you will still owe support.
Perhaps I should clear that up. I agree if you get custody you don't have to pay as much. If you make a good case for custody then that helps. Being sincere helps you make a better case.
Do you have numbers for that? (Just kidding). But you forgot to include the ones that accidentally-on-purpose get pregnant to get him to marry her, etc.,/i>
For example my friend who just won full custody. Slutty bitch. My GF hated her the moment they met. Now there is a post hoc reason.
And then there's the fact that women can use any type of deceit to get pregnant - not just pretending to be on the pill or poking holes in condoms, but even by giving oral sex with a condom and using the resulting "sample" to get pregnant, and the man can still end up owing child support.
You'll have to admit that is rare. I know a lot of guys with baby mama's and I don't think any of them resorted to this. I know there were a lot of "ohh please baby the condom sucks" or "don't worry I'm on the pill" variety. These are my seedier friends. Oddly all Jamaicans. an Asian Jamaican too. I am aware that it happens and that my boys would ditch that baby mama in a heart beat if not for the "pigs". But thats what they are there to protect, the kid from a dad who would ditch them. The majority of the time it's not so sleazy and dirty like those guys. Often custody battles and divorce is with some blue collar guy and a blue collar girl who have grown to hate each other over time.
Yeah, it's amazing that some people don't get that sexism exist against, and hurts, both sexes. But in men's defense, we have come a long, long way in just three generations - and in women's defense, they can't hear what men don't say, and not enough men are pointing out the bigotry that hurts them.
Well I'd defend us too. But it's not as bad as some think. Just protect yourself. If you have money then get a pre-nup. If you like to spread the seed wear a jimmy and bring yours. If you are really that paranoid you should revise your criteria for a partner. Or do it like me and aim above you on the social ladder. that way the palimony will go your way. It's not as lop-sided as some men think as my friends case proves. Just don't date gold diggers.
This actually shows the problems with the nativist approach to immigrants - they're systematically taught to see their ancestral culture as something to be ashamed of, and then they're set against other immigrant communities. Imagine African-Americans actually demanding that new African immigrants be enslaved (There are already questiona about whether Obama is 'American' enough), or a WWII vet saying that a Iraq vet should go through the same horrors he did.
The hardships of past generations should not be used to justify hardships in this generation.
I hope your aunt was at least able to keep up her Italian...
Italian is a set of foods, a history, a last name, and a community. What if after 2 generations they didn't speak English and saw no value in believing in the American culture. As a immigrant myself I think you need to fit in wher eyo immigrate. They were gracious enough to offer you a home don't abuse it by insisting that adapt to you.
Yup...a huge difference between France and America. Apparently if you dress wrong, you get rude service. We were dressed for a 5-hour train ride that day which included loose, comfortable jeans. I wore slacks the other days.
Don't get me wrong...I really liked Paris and most people we interacted with were just fine. But all the other European countries I've visited, the locals don't get snotty and rude if we happen to dress in bright colors, or god-forbid, wear blue jeans. Maybe this is why there is so much "French bashing"???
A lot of people forget that just because it's a "white" country doesn't mean the culture is the same. Proper titles are huge in France. While in america a friendly demeanor is more important. If you fail to call someone their proper or generic title it can be seen as rudely intimate. It might have been other things that turned that shop keeper off you or he was just a jerk. Not that indicative of a country.
So your prefer warmongers instead of merchants. Thats some logic. I guess you'd rather I rape your wife and daughter then for me to steal your watch? To each their own I guess.
On paper women seem to have an advantage in practice They don't. I was cynical like you at one time and then a good friend of mine got divorced. I was expecting the courts to cave to this adulterous bitch but they made the right decisions and awarded him full custody. The systems lean towards women because they traditionally have had less of a voice. But if you do the right things you don't run into the garbage you state. If the father demands custody and seems sincere then he doesn't have to pay child support. Often it's more capitalistic. It's all about the quality of your lawyer sadly. In Saudi Arabia it is also about how much money you have to throw around. So if you married say the daughter of an Arab prince and then got divorced... you may find even Saudi Arabia won't go your way.
The US isn't that kind to women. Still make less. Still lots of rape and sex crimes. Still a lot of chauvinist pigs who can't see the forest from the trees.
Also, the gold diggers who have your kids and divorce you are numerically less then the stupid retards who insists condoms give him a rash and they should do it anyways since she's going on the pill next month...
Sarkozy supports strong restrictions on immigration but favors treating immigrants kindly. The concept of immigrants working 14+ hours per day is considered to be cruel. He does not favor such brutal working conditions. Note that both parents of Seung Hui Cho, the mass murderer at Virginia Tech, worked 14+ hours per day. Neoconservatives applaud this situation: with glee, they self-servingly "praise" the hardworking nature of the Korean parents are. The consequence is that his parents were just too busy at work to give Seung Hui Cho the proper care that he needed. They never even noticed his rapid mental degeneration
Cho's parents were aware of his erratic behavior. They didn't know what to do with it. How you help your son who's all of a sudden gone weird? Most of us would chalk it up to growing up since most of our kids aren't murderous pathetic narcissistic sociopaths. My parents were asian immigrants who worked 14h days and I came out fine.
I am aware of what you mean. The in house front facing staff are all told to be sure and inform everyone of every details then told we have both time and sales quotas. Fortunately I am a fast talker and am good at getting all sorts of people to understand what the charges are. So I can ethically sell people things ethically, fast, and often. I'm in the top 60 sales for the company for regular old consumer sales. But even here there are dodgey people. I was advised by a former outbound telemarketer that they had quotas that most could not fill realistically without being dodgey. Since the system only checks some calls for quality the department developed and spread little tools that would detect when they were being recorded and then they'd be perfect angels while slamming in every other call. I think it's a sign of mismanagement. The company itself would vastly prefer 1000 of me to do the selling for them but have to settle for 500 con men, 440 under performers and 60 good decent sellers. But it still annoys me that they don't stress it enough and don't drop the contractors who have been caught a lot slaming items onto customers bills.
Brazil isn't exactly poor. Badly mismanaged but not "poor". It's a fairly large economy. This whole ideas that everyone outside of the west is the "third world" is kind of silly. The term itself is related tot he cold war originally which has no meaning now. I know it's now a reference to developing countries but thats kind of a fluffy definition too. What are they developing too? It's sort of a ethnocentric term, full of hubris. Your not like me so you must be a few categories down. Is china third world? India? How about the Ukraine?/rant
I work at a Canadian telecom. I am aware that some portions of the company (door-to-door and Telemarketing, all contractors) will blatantly misrepresent our products and deals to fill their pockets. I think the guys isn't a victim so much of big business as he is of a sales guy who misrepresented things. In the big picture neither MS nor Best Buy would benefit from the pittance the guy would have paid for the service but the sales guy probably got 5 bucks and does it a lot.
Frankly I think a lot of people are going to scoff at RICO being relevant here because "respectable" corporations like Microsoft and Best Buy should not be accountable to a law meant for Italians.
Don't forget the Irish and other not as white white people.
But scientists keep on trying to salvage their accepted doctrine even when observation makes accepted doctrine into a creaking, fragile house of cards.
The long transit from geocentricism to heliocentrism bears this out.
Except the evidence does not support this fringe. Science will stick to an idea that has provided value until something comes and provides the same value and more. Value is based on predictive value and ability to explain the observation within the framework of the theory. the "electric universe" theory fails to make any real predictions (in a way it's similar to string theory although string theory at least has math behind it), fails to be any type of comprehensive explanation of observations, and only mental lightweights seem to be pushing it. Most theories that are wrong die a few years after it's strongest demagogue dies, because false theories need someone charismatic and influential to keep pushing them along. I see no evidence of a demigogue in many of the areas the "electric universe" theory touches.
That makes sense given the anecdotal evidence I've seen. Out of the 4 friends who bought a 360 all of them have gotten replacements units. One of them is on a third 360. I thought it might be locality. Maybe the truck that brought these up here hit a lot of bumps. As a side note one of my friends has gone through 3 PS2 as well. Same guy who is on his third 360. For him I chalk it up to cats, lack of 1337ness, and a short temper. He is the only person to replace PS2. All of the rest of the circle is still with their first ps2. Mine was bought a few months after launch. Still purring after 6 years. Although it seems to load slower. I bought a Ps3 to replace it and so far it work great as a Blu-ray playing Ps2... God I need MGS4.
Disney Messenger: Yuan and IP laws. King Hu Jintao: [Laugh] You rode all the way from California for yuan and IP law?.... King Hu Jintao: You bring the crowns and heads of former kings to my country! You mock my queen! You threaten my people with slavery and death! Disney Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness! King Hu Jintao: Madness? THIS IS CHINA! *kicks Eisner into pit*
Walt would fit in nicely into a Chinese sweatshop. As the guy with the whip.
Disney hired cheap foreign labor to make his movies, fought hard to keep them from unionizing and all in all was a crotchety old miser. If laws would have allowed he would have enslaved his artists and eat children... well maybe that last one is an exaggeration.
As to China, they are trying to position themselves to own the world economy and then control countries in manners that they see fit(a MUCH larger USA with a nastier attitude).
Ahh.. your friendly neighbors to the north do not see a functional difference between you two.
Are you saying that because Europe wasn't able to prevent the US from infringing, therefore America shouldn't try to prevent China from doing the same?
Replace "Shouldn't" with "can't". What incentive do the Chinese have of revising their law to suit mega corps like Disney or GM? You cannot force it by arms because the conflict would annihilate civilization as we know it. You cannot do ti economically because the US has willingly entangled their economy deeply with china's. Your left with make a lot of noise and pretending your doing something.
I'd say that I'm sorry that the kids are being punished, but I'm not. This isn't about the school district doing anything inappropriate. It's about kids doing something that they knew was inappropriate and being punished appropriately. I fail to see why anyone is upset by this. Part of the function of education is to teach children how to behave and what their boundaries are.
I always thought the point of school was to baby sit children while their parents work and also condition children to accept a factory schedule while incidentally teaching very basic skills.
British computer magazines generally have much better editorial content than their American equivalents and don't seem to pull punches when it comes to reviews.
Borders and Barnes and Noble carry most of the popular ones.
I'd be inclined to agree if I ever read any UK content... if only I could ever get past page 3.
The modern interpretation of the second amendment is a logical fallacy. It was intended to keep a well armed militia in times of war or civil strife. It turned into the rallying cry of selfish delusional yahoos who insists having a weapon is a god given right. It isn't. It's a peculiar trait of America. It has not shown to reduce crime, it has no positive effect for society, and it enables sociopaths the ability to kill far more people when they go off the deep end. In Places like Canada where hands guns are hard to get you tend to have a lower body count when a sociopath goes crazy. Mostly because a man with a long rifle is easier to spot.
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Imagine this for the British Royals! Teh horror! What would the yellow press do?
The UK print media industry would collapse within hours if similiar laws were passed int he UK.
It seems strange to me Google accommodate China's censorship and oppression but are unwilling to work with Thailand on this issue.
China = $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Thailand = $
I think that basically explains it.
On the other side of things, if someone was to spy on you wouldn't they want their spy device to be as innocious as possible. Why not just slip it into a regular toonie. Why a special remembrance day one?
And that doesn't included things like circumcision/genital mutilation - even taking a single drop of blood from a girl to symbolize an ancient ceremony is illegal in the US, but even jerks with no medical training can circumcise a boy (and keep in mind there aren't any medical groups, or any major studies, that show that circumcision in western countries has any significant medical benefit - plus there's no guidelines on how much tissue can be removed, and no requirement for painkillers).
And it doesn't include sexist culture like the "don't hit a girl"/"slap him if he gets fresh" advice, the idea that women "getting even" is OK while men should never consider such a thing - along with a host of other cultural biases (in the middle and upper classes of western countries at least).
Umm.. The difference is female genital circumcision does a lot more then the male version. It's like slicing off the whole head of your penis. It would suck. No orgasms for life. Circumcision is more like trimming the clitoral hood or piercing it. But I think male circumcision is a idiotic idea too. If there isn't a reason for a medical procedure don't do it.
The hitting women thing is something off too but the majority of the time men have the upper hand with violence. I'd crush half their ribs my last 4 GF if I ever bear hugged them. But sometimes it is the big wife smacking small husband and although I think it's hilarious I agree it's not right and he deserves protection from the law and protection from my ridicule of him.
OK, most of your post was reasonable, even if I had quibbles with it, but this is just silly. Support is determined by custody and income levels - you can get on your knees and beg the court for custody, but if the other parent still gets primary custody you will still owe support.
Perhaps I should clear that up. I agree if you get custody you don't have to pay as much. If you make a good case for custody then that helps. Being sincere helps you make a better case.
Do you have numbers for that? (Just kidding). But you forgot to include the ones that accidentally-on-purpose get pregnant to get him to marry her, etc.,/i>
For example my friend who just won full custody. Slutty bitch. My GF hated her the moment they met. Now there is a post hoc reason.
And then there's the fact that women can use any type of deceit to get pregnant - not just pretending to be on the pill or poking holes in condoms, but even by giving oral sex with a condom and using the resulting "sample" to get pregnant, and the man can still end up owing child support.
You'll have to admit that is rare. I know a lot of guys with baby mama's and I don't think any of them resorted to this. I know there were a lot of "ohh please baby the condom sucks" or "don't worry I'm on the pill" variety. These are my seedier friends. Oddly all Jamaicans. an Asian Jamaican too. I am aware that it happens and that my boys would ditch that baby mama in a heart beat if not for the "pigs". But thats what they are there to protect, the kid from a dad who would ditch them. The majority of the time it's not so sleazy and dirty like those guys. Often custody battles and divorce is with some blue collar guy and a blue collar girl who have grown to hate each other over time.
Yeah, it's amazing that some people don't get that sexism exist against, and hurts, both sexes. But in men's defense, we have come a long, long way in just three generations - and in women's defense, they can't hear what men don't say, and not enough men are pointing out the bigotry that hurts them.
Well I'd defend us too. But it's not as bad as some think. Just protect yourself. If you have money then get a pre-nup. If you like to spread the seed wear a jimmy and bring yours. If you are really that paranoid you should revise your criteria for a partner. Or do it like me and aim above you on the social ladder. that way the palimony will go your way. It's not as lop-sided as some men think as my friends case proves. Just don't date gold diggers.
This actually shows the problems with the nativist approach to immigrants - they're systematically taught to see their ancestral culture as something to be ashamed of, and then they're set against other immigrant communities. Imagine African-Americans actually demanding that new African immigrants be enslaved (There are already questiona about whether Obama is 'American' enough), or a WWII vet saying that a Iraq vet should go through the same horrors he did.
The hardships of past generations should not be used to justify hardships in this generation.
I hope your aunt was at least able to keep up her Italian...
Italian is a set of foods, a history, a last name, and a community. What if after 2 generations they didn't speak English and saw no value in believing in the American culture. As a immigrant myself I think you need to fit in wher eyo immigrate. They were gracious enough to offer you a home don't abuse it by insisting that adapt to you.
Yup...a huge difference between France and America. Apparently if you dress wrong, you get rude service. We were dressed for a 5-hour train ride that day which included loose, comfortable jeans. I wore slacks the other days.
Don't get me wrong...I really liked Paris and most people we interacted with were just fine. But all the other European countries I've visited, the locals don't get snotty and rude if we happen to dress in bright colors, or god-forbid, wear blue jeans. Maybe this is why there is so much "French bashing"???
A lot of people forget that just because it's a "white" country doesn't mean the culture is the same. Proper titles are huge in France. While in america a friendly demeanor is more important. If you fail to call someone their proper or generic title it can be seen as rudely intimate. It might have been other things that turned that shop keeper off you or he was just a jerk. Not that indicative of a country.
He is also G.W. Bush's puppet.
Really a great great day for us !
Wow Cheney must be Dextrious. He had his hand up 3 world leaders ass.
So your prefer warmongers instead of merchants. Thats some logic. I guess you'd rather I rape your wife and daughter then for me to steal your watch? To each their own I guess.
On paper women seem to have an advantage in practice They don't. I was cynical like you at one time and then a good friend of mine got divorced. I was expecting the courts to cave to this adulterous bitch but they made the right decisions and awarded him full custody. The systems lean towards women because they traditionally have had less of a voice. But if you do the right things you don't run into the garbage you state. If the father demands custody and seems sincere then he doesn't have to pay child support. Often it's more capitalistic. It's all about the quality of your lawyer sadly. In Saudi Arabia it is also about how much money you have to throw around. So if you married say the daughter of an Arab prince and then got divorced... you may find even Saudi Arabia won't go your way.
The US isn't that kind to women. Still make less. Still lots of rape and sex crimes. Still a lot of chauvinist pigs who can't see the forest from the trees.
Also, the gold diggers who have your kids and divorce you are numerically less then the stupid retards who insists condoms give him a rash and they should do it anyways since she's going on the pill next month...
Sarkozy supports strong restrictions on immigration but favors treating immigrants kindly. The concept of immigrants working 14+ hours per day is considered to be cruel. He does not favor such brutal working conditions. Note that both parents of Seung Hui Cho, the mass murderer at Virginia Tech, worked 14+ hours per day. Neoconservatives applaud this situation: with glee, they self-servingly "praise" the hardworking nature of the Korean parents are. The consequence is that his parents were just too busy at work to give Seung Hui Cho the proper care that he needed. They never even noticed his rapid mental degeneration
Cho's parents were aware of his erratic behavior. They didn't know what to do with it. How you help your son who's all of a sudden gone weird? Most of us would chalk it up to growing up since most of our kids aren't murderous pathetic narcissistic sociopaths. My parents were asian immigrants who worked 14h days and I came out fine.
I am aware of what you mean. The in house front facing staff are all told to be sure and inform everyone of every details then told we have both time and sales quotas. Fortunately I am a fast talker and am good at getting all sorts of people to understand what the charges are. So I can ethically sell people things ethically, fast, and often. I'm in the top 60 sales for the company for regular old consumer sales. But even here there are dodgey people. I was advised by a former outbound telemarketer that they had quotas that most could not fill realistically without being dodgey. Since the system only checks some calls for quality the department developed and spread little tools that would detect when they were being recorded and then they'd be perfect angels while slamming in every other call. I think it's a sign of mismanagement. The company itself would vastly prefer 1000 of me to do the selling for them but have to settle for 500 con men, 440 under performers and 60 good decent sellers. But it still annoys me that they don't stress it enough and don't drop the contractors who have been caught a lot slaming items onto customers bills.
Brazil isn't exactly poor. Badly mismanaged but not "poor". It's a fairly large economy. This whole ideas that everyone outside of the west is the "third world" is kind of silly. The term itself is related tot he cold war originally which has no meaning now. I know it's now a reference to developing countries but thats kind of a fluffy definition too. What are they developing too? It's sort of a ethnocentric term, full of hubris. Your not like me so you must be a few categories down. Is china third world? India? How about the Ukraine? /rant
I work at a Canadian telecom. I am aware that some portions of the company (door-to-door and Telemarketing, all contractors) will blatantly misrepresent our products and deals to fill their pockets. I think the guys isn't a victim so much of big business as he is of a sales guy who misrepresented things. In the big picture neither MS nor Best Buy would benefit from the pittance the guy would have paid for the service but the sales guy probably got 5 bucks and does it a lot.
Frankly I think a lot of people are going to scoff at RICO being relevant here because "respectable" corporations like Microsoft and Best Buy should not be accountable to a law meant for Italians.
Don't forget the Irish and other not as white white people.
But scientists keep on trying to salvage their accepted doctrine even when observation makes accepted doctrine into a creaking, fragile house of cards.
The long transit from geocentricism to heliocentrism bears this out.
Except the evidence does not support this fringe. Science will stick to an idea that has provided value until something comes and provides the same value and more. Value is based on predictive value and ability to explain the observation within the framework of the theory. the "electric universe" theory fails to make any real predictions (in a way it's similar to string theory although string theory at least has math behind it), fails to be any type of comprehensive explanation of observations, and only mental lightweights seem to be pushing it. Most theories that are wrong die a few years after it's strongest demagogue dies, because false theories need someone charismatic and influential to keep pushing them along. I see no evidence of a demigogue in many of the areas the "electric universe" theory touches.
Can we tag this pseudoscience.
That makes sense given the anecdotal evidence I've seen. Out of the 4 friends who bought a 360 all of them have gotten replacements units. One of them is on a third 360. I thought it might be locality. Maybe the truck that brought these up here hit a lot of bumps. As a side note one of my friends has gone through 3 PS2 as well. Same guy who is on his third 360. For him I chalk it up to cats, lack of 1337ness, and a short temper. He is the only person to replace PS2. All of the rest of the circle is still with their first ps2. Mine was bought a few months after launch. Still purring after 6 years. Although it seems to load slower. I bought a Ps3 to replace it and so far it work great as a Blu-ray playing Ps2... God I need MGS4.
Disney Messenger: Yuan and IP laws. ....
King Hu Jintao: [Laugh] You rode all the way from California for yuan and IP law?
King Hu Jintao: You bring the crowns and heads of former kings to my country! You mock my queen! You threaten my people with slavery and death!
Disney Messenger: This is blasphemy! This is madness!
King Hu Jintao: Madness? THIS IS CHINA!
*kicks Eisner into pit*
good old walt died in December 1966
Walt would fit in nicely into a Chinese sweatshop. As the guy with the whip.
Disney hired cheap foreign labor to make his movies, fought hard to keep them from unionizing and all in all was a crotchety old miser. If laws would have allowed he would have enslaved his artists and eat children... well maybe that last one is an exaggeration.
As to China, they are trying to position themselves to own the world economy and then control countries in manners that they see fit(a MUCH larger USA with a nastier attitude).
Ahh.. your friendly neighbors to the north do not see a functional difference between you two.
Are you saying that because Europe wasn't able to prevent the US from infringing, therefore America shouldn't try to prevent China from doing the same?
Replace "Shouldn't" with "can't". What incentive do the Chinese have of revising their law to suit mega corps like Disney or GM? You cannot force it by arms because the conflict would annihilate civilization as we know it. You cannot do ti economically because the US has willingly entangled their economy deeply with china's. Your left with make a lot of noise and pretending your doing something.
I'd say that I'm sorry that the kids are being punished, but I'm not. This isn't about the school district doing anything inappropriate. It's about kids doing something that they knew was inappropriate and being punished appropriately. I fail to see why anyone is upset by this. Part of the function of education is to teach children how to behave and what their boundaries are.
I always thought the point of school was to baby sit children while their parents work and also condition children to accept a factory schedule while incidentally teaching very basic skills.
British computer magazines generally have much better editorial content than their American equivalents and don't seem to pull punches when it comes to reviews.
Borders and Barnes and Noble carry most of the popular ones.
I'd be inclined to agree if I ever read any UK content... if only I could ever get past page 3.
The modern interpretation of the second amendment is a logical fallacy. It was intended to keep a well armed militia in times of war or civil strife. It turned into the rallying cry of selfish delusional yahoos who insists having a weapon is a god given right. It isn't. It's a peculiar trait of America. It has not shown to reduce crime, it has no positive effect for society, and it enables sociopaths the ability to kill far more people when they go off the deep end. In Places like Canada where hands guns are hard to get you tend to have a lower body count when a sociopath goes crazy. Mostly because a man with a long rifle is easier to spot.