I think there is a difference between voicing "fucking opposition" to a group with political views (e.g., kkk, nazis) than to a racial, religious group or social class.
I find it difficult believe, btw, that disagreement with Israel is political and not racial. I suppose that, however, is a matter for another debate
Really? So if a child was being taught to hate a group of people,black or white or Christian or Buddhist, you wouldn't object to that?
This is how racial cleansing disasters happen, not because an entire country hates an wants to exterminate a group pf people. The true believers are always a minority. It's a apathy of the bystanders who say "it's none of my business," and fear making a stand, that allows tragedies like the ww2 Holocaust to occur.
Sure stand by while a group is slandered, it's not your group, why should you have an opinion?
Who modded this up to insightful? It may not be racial but it's hateful and discriminatory, and prosecuted under the same statutes. Yes, it's definitely hate speech.
One wonders how such a long-established blogging company can be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web.
Because knowledge of blogging and the intertubes does not translate into knowledge of legal compliance. Those are some very murky waters to navigate. Dilemma - who should be held responsible for content of links. A) the sites they are linked to, in which case, LJ will not be able to do anything about it, and will have to accept the legal exposure from them. Option B) the user that linked them - in which case, they have some avenue for compliance and reduce their exposure.
Internet common sense is not the only consideration in these sorts of decisions.
Let's get one thing straight, it was NOT an air burst, it was an alien spaceship, and the explosion planted the seeds of communism across the glorious Russian frontier!!
I am assuming you mean that women tend to dumb themselves down to be more attractive.
It's a strange phenomenon. One the one hand, I hear stories from an engineer acquaintance of getting more attention when she and her lawyer friend claimed to be a nanny and a receptionist then when they told the truth. Personally, I find that really effed up. What kind of a weakling find a less accomplished person more attractive? On the other hand, I am horrified that they persisted with the experiment. What kind of an idiot perpetuates and accommodates these people instead of telling them to...eff themselves?!
I've been successful finding people who appreciate me, smarts and bad attitude and all. Hell would freeze over before I compromised that.
Seriously, so because I was gifted with exotic good looks, what? that negates my ability to do mathematics? I'll be sure to let my profs know that.
I too am baffled by what people see in attractive but dumb women, however, please be aware that a person's intelligence is NOT inversely proportional to their appearance.
As for "good looking to whom," at the moment, the one that matters is the brilliant (and hot) guy i love. What can I say, I lucked out and got both in one neat package:)
I'm confused, did it become a requirement to poo-poo everything just to comment on/.? Why does this idea suck?
Musicals don't take away cool points from Spidey. And whats wrong with abstract interpretations or existing works? Salvador Dali's L'Enphanta Margarita was brilliant, even though it had already been done. U2 are great musicians, I'd certainly rather listen to them then sleep through Cats! again. Seriously - I do not see what everyone's issue is.
Hm.... good point, being a brilliant and beautiful woman never helped me get laid.
Actually I meant to joke, but it's true. Most guys are completely intimidated by a well educated, intelligent woman. Even though I am, if I may be frank, fairly good looking. Oh... this opens the door for all sorts of horrible remarks, but I'll bear it!
'Fraid the kids at MIT are a little off. It's red and blue lights, and it explains why drivers on the highway come to a dead stop every time they see a car pulled over on the side of the road. Their brain activity stops. Of course!!!
Oh yeah, let me lag even worse than I do now, please! I'm gonna have to go with a big fat no on that one. My warcrack addiction is too great to take such risks.
Just FYI retarded and lethargic are not one and the same.
I'm definitely not retarded. I've learned linux. But I'm too fucking lazy to use it. Besides, I need windows to play WoW and I can't afford the powerbook I keep dreaming about. So. There you go. Another lethargic windows user.
Oh, and in another life I was a sysadmin. I don't understand what kind of sysadmin rely on certifications and do not resort to non-gui commands. Probably retarded ones.
Since we are all referncing sci-fi as freely as science, I'd like to put forth the conjecture in Greg Bear's EON, that humanity, rather than explore physical planets, builds a means to travel along the threat of possibility, exploring the worlds found there.
I work in a technical (non IT/Engineering, but still techn-based) industry. My background is math/IT, and I have a good enough grasp on the technology involved to figure out what goes where.
We have a senior ops manager, however, who is clueless. It's not just that he doesn't know. When you tell him something, his eyes glaze over. He doesn't care. He can't be bothered to make sense of it. It results in mistakes equivalent in foolishness and preventability to not knowing that cars need oil changes. This manager does NOT undertand the product he is responcible for and therefore CANNOT manage it effectively.
The same can be true for any tech product - even an IT department - which is a product being provided to it's home company. A manager needs to "get it" in order to support and develop the product.
Our CEO does have some tech background, but he is very far removed from it. Unlike the senior mgr, he asks questions, he listens, he asks more if needed. This to me is a happy medium.
One does not need to be *intimately* acquianted with a technology to manage it effectively. A good grasp of the basics can be combined with a well chosen staff. That's where smarts and good management skills come in.
I completely agree. There are far too many companies where the person at the helm does not understand the company's product, and I think this is a huge detriment in any industry.
Now - do they have to have a doctorate or a degree in engineering/physics/math/cinema/agriculture or other appropriate field? Absolutely not, they just need to have a solid grasp of the situation.
So why is it that so many business professionals are so clueless? Here is the part where I start being a snob. I think that most people who are creative and smart enough to get a degre in somethign intersting, do not go for "business." The Business Administration degrees are for the vast masses who made it into college inspite of complete cluelessness. They learn a one size fits all aproach and then are let loose on the world to be smart-sounding idiots.
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I think there is a difference between voicing "fucking opposition" to a group with political views (e.g., kkk, nazis) than to a racial, religious group or social class.
I find it difficult believe, btw, that disagreement with Israel is political and not racial. I suppose that, however, is a matter for another debate
Really? So if a child was being taught to hate a group of people,black or white or Christian or Buddhist, you wouldn't object to that?
This is how racial cleansing disasters happen, not because an entire country hates an wants to exterminate a group pf people. The true believers are always a minority. It's a apathy of the bystanders who say "it's none of my business," and fear making a stand, that allows tragedies like the ww2 Holocaust to occur.
Sure stand by while a group is slandered, it's not your group, why should you have an opinion?
Don't worry, they'll come for you eventually too.
Who modded this up to insightful? It may not be racial but it's hateful and discriminatory, and prosecuted under the same statutes. Yes, it's definitely hate speech.
One wonders how such a long-established blogging company can be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web.
Because knowledge of blogging and the intertubes does not translate into knowledge of legal compliance. Those are some very murky waters to navigate. Dilemma - who should be held responsible for content of links. A) the sites they are linked to, in which case, LJ will not be able to do anything about it, and will have to accept the legal exposure from them. Option B) the user that linked them - in which case, they have some avenue for compliance and reduce their exposure.
Internet common sense is not the only consideration in these sorts of decisions.
Let's get one thing straight, it was NOT an air burst, it was an alien spaceship, and the explosion planted the seeds of communism across the glorious Russian frontier!!
Or something like that
I am assuming you mean that women tend to dumb themselves down to be more attractive.
...eff themselves?!
It's a strange phenomenon. One the one hand, I hear stories from an engineer acquaintance of getting more attention when she and her lawyer friend claimed to be a nanny and a receptionist then when they told the truth. Personally, I find that really effed up. What kind of a weakling find a less accomplished person more attractive? On the other hand, I am horrified that they persisted with the experiment. What kind of an idiot perpetuates and accommodates these people instead of telling them to
I've been successful finding people who appreciate me, smarts and bad attitude and all. Hell would freeze over before I compromised that.
Seriously, so because I was gifted with exotic good looks, what? that negates my ability to do mathematics? I'll be sure to let my profs know that.
:)
I too am baffled by what people see in attractive but dumb women, however, please be aware that a person's intelligence is NOT inversely proportional to their appearance.
As for "good looking to whom," at the moment, the one that matters is the brilliant (and hot) guy i love. What can I say, I lucked out and got both in one neat package
I'm confused, did it become a requirement to poo-poo everything just to comment on /.? Why does this idea suck?
Musicals don't take away cool points from Spidey. And whats wrong with abstract interpretations or existing works? Salvador Dali's L'Enphanta Margarita was brilliant, even though it had already been done. U2 are great musicians, I'd certainly rather listen to them then sleep through Cats! again. Seriously - I do not see what everyone's issue is.
It "Mitochondria" not "Mitochlorians"
Just FYI
Dude, Joshua Tree is U2's weakest, pop-most point. They're not self-important, they're farquing brilliant!
Hm.... good point, being a brilliant and beautiful woman never helped me get laid.
Actually I meant to joke, but it's true. Most guys are completely intimidated by a well educated, intelligent woman. Even though I am, if I may be frank, fairly good looking. Oh... this opens the door for all sorts of horrible remarks, but I'll bear it!
You beat me to it! Well said, though.
I would add that we opened a new avenue for evolution rather than stunted the biological evolutionary process.
That must have been a really *shitty* name to grow up with!!
hehehehehe
'Fraid the kids at MIT are a little off. It's red and blue lights, and it explains why drivers on the highway come to a dead stop every time they see a car pulled over on the side of the road. Their brain activity stops. Of course!!!
Oh yeah, let me lag even worse than I do now, please! I'm gonna have to go with a big fat no on that one. My warcrack addiction is too great to take such risks.
Wow... I feel so ... irrelevant. You pegged it dead on, I left IT about 6 years ago...
Just FYI retarded and lethargic are not one and the same.
I'm definitely not retarded. I've learned linux. But I'm too fucking lazy to use it. Besides, I need windows to play WoW and I can't afford the powerbook I keep dreaming about. So. There you go. Another lethargic windows user.
Oh, and in another life I was a sysadmin. I don't understand what kind of sysadmin rely on certifications and do not resort to non-gui commands. Probably retarded ones.
Since we are all referncing sci-fi as freely as science, I'd like to put forth the conjecture in Greg Bear's EON, that humanity, rather than explore physical planets, builds a means to travel along the threat of possibility, exploring the worlds found there.
Lasers from space + Antarctica = yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking
So if the electronic voting was based on an open source system - would that be better or worse?
I work in a technical (non IT/Engineering, but still techn-based) industry. My background is math/IT, and I have a good enough grasp on the technology involved to figure out what goes where.
We have a senior ops manager, however, who is clueless. It's not just that he doesn't know. When you tell him something, his eyes glaze over. He doesn't care. He can't be bothered to make sense of it. It results in mistakes equivalent in foolishness and preventability to not knowing that cars need oil changes. This manager does NOT undertand the product he is responcible for and therefore CANNOT manage it effectively.
The same can be true for any tech product - even an IT department - which is a product being provided to it's home company. A manager needs to "get it" in order to support and develop the product.
Our CEO does have some tech background, but he is very far removed from it. Unlike the senior mgr, he asks questions, he listens, he asks more if needed. This to me is a happy medium.
One does not need to be *intimately* acquianted with a technology to manage it effectively. A good grasp of the basics can be combined with a well chosen staff. That's where smarts and good management skills come in.
I completely agree. There are far too many companies where the person at the helm does not understand the company's product, and I think this is a huge detriment in any industry.
Now - do they have to have a doctorate or a degree in engineering/physics/math/cinema/agriculture or other appropriate field? Absolutely not, they just need to have a solid grasp of the situation.
So why is it that so many business professionals are so clueless? Here is the part where I start being a snob. I think that most people who are creative and smart enough to get a degre in somethign intersting, do not go for "business." The Business Administration degrees are for the vast masses who made it into college inspite of complete cluelessness. They learn a one size fits all aproach and then are let loose on the world to be smart-sounding idiots.
Well, that's just my opinion.
Like the man, er ...yohgurt said, "It's all about the moychandizing!"
You read my mind, dude.