1. The USA is popular in the Philippines. So be nice to Filipinos. Saying lame jokes about sex tourism and mixing "f"s and "p"s just makes you an asshole, and continues the worst stereotypical impressions of ugly Americans abroad. Be nice or shut the fuck up.
2. Those working in the call centers will usually speak perfect idiomatic American English. No Taglish (Tagalog and English) or "promdi" ("from the province").
2. If you sense the slight Filipino accent, say "mabuhay" (hello) and "salamat" (thank you). It will be sly and appreciated, and you'll probably get better help.
4. If you don't like the idea of jobs going to Filipinos that should go to Americans, then point your anger at the American Corporation who moved the call center there, not the person on the phone, they didn't make the decision.
And then finally, point your anger at yourself: Americans will get expensive degrees in French poetry, then work at McDonalds with hefty student loans. Filipinos will major in nursing, get fast tracked to entry to the USA, get a signing bonus and a fabulous salary and the chance to work wherever they want. Because there is a shortage of nurses in the USA. Because Americans don't want to touch bedpans.
The enemy is yourself and your bad attitude, not the hardworking and the good people from the Philippines.
Now bring in the typical, inevitable, ugly American stupidity in the comments.
So we're at an interface. Dinosaurs from the preInternet age in positions of power. The dinosaurs will die off, and those who get it will fill the niches of power, and life will go on without this pointless drama.
a teenager blasting his music outside a house at 2 am, when the cops come, he will complain about his freedom being abused and the oppression of the police
"Freedom is freedom and oppression is oppression"
spoken like a true mindless teenager, who knows nothing about true freedom other then the braindead "i get to do whatever i want without any concern or care for the consequences or its effects on others."
that's not freedom. but too many people, like you, think that is what freedom is. you demonstrate that when you say "Freedom is freedom and oppression is oppression". if you believe that, you do not understand that people's liberties are in natural conflict with other people's liberties: blast your music as loud as you want or get a good nights sleep
understanding true freedom is understanding how and why one person's liberties win out over someone else's. by force. yes. you call that oppression. it's actually the maintenance of society such that true freedom can be expressed in the face of those who don't act with any responsibility in their "freedoms".
so you only demonstrate your complete ignorance on the subject. in short, you have no idea what freedom is, and you have no right to talk about that which you do not even understand. start with the concept of responsibility, and why and how it is needed, or otherwise, the state has the right to exercise force to keep you from interfering with everyone else's genuine freedoms. educate yourself
and still, the freedom of one person impinges on someone else's. so someone has to decide. if you deny me the right to inquire as to which freedom should prevail in a given situation, that's fine, you don't have to like me. but you have to admit that someone is going to decide, and someone must. because it is impossible that these freedoms won't conflict. you seem to have a problem with that simple fact, as if these freedoms can be expressed without someone else's freedoms getting abused
no, i'm talking about an error of commission versus an error of omission
the person i am replying to seemed to indicate they lacked responsibility by not getting vaccinated. wrong: you ARE responsible if you fail to do something you KNOW will lead to someone getting hurt. that is, if you point a gun at someone and fire, you've killed them, everyone gets that. but you've EQUALLY killed them if you fail to do basic responsible behavior. any situation where a FAILURE to act causes death is the same, morally, as a situation where death is caused by action. you, and the other poster i was replying to, are rationalizing irresponsible and immoral behavior. if we have less freedom in this world, it is because of people who act in this bullshit game of "let's explain away my responsibilities"
"Absolving women of responsibility for their poor choices is not helpful to the discussion and makes a poor example."
this is called "blame the victim." if you have HIV and you go and have unprotected sex, the woman is stupid, but you are evil. the stupid are the weak. you protect the weak. you don't use them to obfuscate your criminality
right. and she's dead because of HIV, not because he doesn't like condoms
if you KNOW a choice of yours might lead to someone's death, you bear responsibility
if you don't understand or agree with that, you have no right talking about this subject matter, as you are playing above intellectual and/ or moral capacity
every person who does not get vaccinated is basically freeloading off of those who do in terms of their health and well-being. up to a point: if enough people don't get vaccinated, the herd immunity threshold is breached, and people get sick in clusters, including those who are vaccinated but just happened to not have a vaccine that took hold. these are responsible people who are dying, not because of someone's else's selfishness, but someone else's stupidity. every vaccination has a fail rate. it is up to herd immunity to keep us safe from disease
see, your position does not champion a fight against tyranny, your position champions stupidity. getting vaccinated makes sense from a selfish point of view, AND an altruistic point of view. only the stupid who do not see this simple common sense truth would choose to not get vaccinated, putting themselves and others in danger
you may say you have the freedom to be stupid. but you don't when your stupid choices put my life and the lives of my children in danger. therefore, i have every right to force vaccinate you, to protect MY freedoms from your stupidity. you lose nothing if you are force vaccinated. you lose potentially your life, and you put the lives others in danger, when you don't vaccinate
punishes honest consumers and doesn't effect real pirates at all
once you realize the truth of that, you stop trying to fight piracy and start thinking of revenue flows in ways that have nothing to do with piracy and controlling digital media access
proof of intelligence and a genuine mature understanding of freedom is deciding wisely when one freedom gives way to another. to choose freedom of religion, selfishly and idiotically, over the freedom to live, and for others to live, free from disease, is proof that you are morally and intellectually immature and have not given much thought to the nature of freedom or are unable to give much thought, period
who's trolling? i'm being perfectly honest. if you don't vaccinate your kids, you are a moron. that's not an empty insult. that's rational description of your intellectual ability to understand simple obvious facts
you're an idiot. you're a dumb person. i am not insulting you. i am making an objective characterization of how you understand simple facts about reality
and you will vaccinate your children, asshole, so you don't kill mine, with your ignorance
no, i'm not trying to insult you. i am making an objective statement based on your understanding of rather straightforward simple common sense facts: you are a dumb person
and you will vaccinate your children, so you don't kill mine, you ignorant asshole
basically, when you choose not to get vaccinated, you are freeloading on herd immunity to protect you. problem is, if enough people do that, past a certain threshold, there is no more herd immunity, and people will get sick. including people who got properly immunized, since not all immunizations take
so depending upon the disease, because some low iq idiot parent didn't get their kids vaccinated, some other perfectly good girl or boy whose parents were completely responsible, will die anyways
chooosing not to get vaccinated is not a choice you can make in a vacuum of other people's rights and freedoms. your choice has an impact on others, and if you choose stupidly, you can kill other people. therefore, it si perfectl moral, logical, and 100% in line with a MATURE philosophical conception of freedom, to force people to get vaccinated. not getting vaccinated impinges on the rights and freedoms of others
so the lesson is, all of your freedoms, every single one, exist in natural tension with everyone else's
but too many people who speak loudly and vehemently about freedom talk about their freedoms as if what they do has no consequences or effects on anyone else's
that which puts me and my children in danger- not getting vaccinated, is not a natural freedom.
The problem with the definition of freedom, as defined by teenagers (not chronological teenagers, but psychological teenagers) is that it does not take into account how some "freedoms" naturally and automatically impinge on the freedoms of others.
For example: your freedom to play your music as loud as you want, my freedom to get a good night's sleep. Your freedom to consume nicotine, my freedom to breathe clean air when I walk down the sidewalk. You freedom to talk on your cellphone, my freedom to enjoy a movie. Etc.
If you claim as a right or freedom that which impinges on someone else's rights or freedoms, without even considering the possibility, you aren't selfish. You're just stupid: you don't know what freedom really is. To you, it is "let me do whatever I want without consideration of effects or consequences." That is "freedom" as defined by an ignorant teenager (again, not a chronological teenager, a psychological one, who could be of any age), and has absolutely nothing to do with the real fight for freedom in this world by real freedom fighters, who are often quoted by people who don't even know what freedom really is.
You track them. How do you track them? You lure them our into the open. How do you get them in the open? You lull them into a false sense of complacency.
If you prevent this content, it still it exists, it just moves underground. The serious terrorists are already encrypting and doing steganography, its about catching casual idiots like this guy.
So senator joe is no tactician. Allow this content, and monitor it for the lone yahoos. Basic strategy joe
there are many parallels between the organization of individuals to make society and the organization of cells to make an organism. individual thought is not one of those parallels. your analogy therefore is useless and pointless and lame. use some more of those cells when you think, thanks
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1. The USA is popular in the Philippines. So be nice to Filipinos. Saying lame jokes about sex tourism and mixing "f"s and "p"s just makes you an asshole, and continues the worst stereotypical impressions of ugly Americans abroad. Be nice or shut the fuck up.
2. Those working in the call centers will usually speak perfect idiomatic American English. No Taglish (Tagalog and English) or "promdi" ("from the province").
2. If you sense the slight Filipino accent, say "mabuhay" (hello) and "salamat" (thank you). It will be sly and appreciated, and you'll probably get better help.
4. If you don't like the idea of jobs going to Filipinos that should go to Americans, then point your anger at the American Corporation who moved the call center there, not the person on the phone, they didn't make the decision.
And then finally, point your anger at yourself: Americans will get expensive degrees in French poetry, then work at McDonalds with hefty student loans. Filipinos will major in nursing, get fast tracked to entry to the USA, get a signing bonus and a fabulous salary and the chance to work wherever they want. Because there is a shortage of nurses in the USA. Because Americans don't want to touch bedpans.
The enemy is yourself and your bad attitude, not the hardworking and the good people from the Philippines.
Now bring in the typical, inevitable, ugly American stupidity in the comments.
So we're at an interface. Dinosaurs from the preInternet age in positions of power. The dinosaurs will die off, and those who get it will fill the niches of power, and life will go on without this pointless drama.
a teenager blasting his music outside a house at 2 am, when the cops come, he will complain about his freedom being abused and the oppression of the police
"Freedom is freedom and oppression is oppression"
spoken like a true mindless teenager, who knows nothing about true freedom other then the braindead "i get to do whatever i want without any concern or care for the consequences or its effects on others."
that's not freedom. but too many people, like you, think that is what freedom is. you demonstrate that when you say "Freedom is freedom and oppression is oppression". if you believe that, you do not understand that people's liberties are in natural conflict with other people's liberties: blast your music as loud as you want or get a good nights sleep
understanding true freedom is understanding how and why one person's liberties win out over someone else's. by force. yes. you call that oppression. it's actually the maintenance of society such that true freedom can be expressed in the face of those who don't act with any responsibility in their "freedoms".
so you only demonstrate your complete ignorance on the subject. in short, you have no idea what freedom is, and you have no right to talk about that which you do not even understand. start with the concept of responsibility, and why and how it is needed, or otherwise, the state has the right to exercise force to keep you from interfering with everyone else's genuine freedoms. educate yourself
and still, the freedom of one person impinges on someone else's. so someone has to decide. if you deny me the right to inquire as to which freedom should prevail in a given situation, that's fine, you don't have to like me. but you have to admit that someone is going to decide, and someone must. because it is impossible that these freedoms won't conflict. you seem to have a problem with that simple fact, as if these freedoms can be expressed without someone else's freedoms getting abused
no, we're not talking about politeness. you aren't reading or you lack the mental capacity to understand
no, i'm talking about an error of commission versus an error of omission
the person i am replying to seemed to indicate they lacked responsibility by not getting vaccinated. wrong: you ARE responsible if you fail to do something you KNOW will lead to someone getting hurt. that is, if you point a gun at someone and fire, you've killed them, everyone gets that. but you've EQUALLY killed them if you fail to do basic responsible behavior. any situation where a FAILURE to act causes death is the same, morally, as a situation where death is caused by action. you, and the other poster i was replying to, are rationalizing irresponsible and immoral behavior. if we have less freedom in this world, it is because of people who act in this bullshit game of "let's explain away my responsibilities"
"Absolving women of responsibility for their poor choices is not helpful to the discussion and makes a poor example."
this is called "blame the victim." if you have HIV and you go and have unprotected sex, the woman is stupid, but you are evil. the stupid are the weak. you protect the weak. you don't use them to obfuscate your criminality
right. and she's dead because of HIV, not because he doesn't like condoms
if you KNOW a choice of yours might lead to someone's death, you bear responsibility
if you don't understand or agree with that, you have no right talking about this subject matter, as you are playing above intellectual and/ or moral capacity
you are imposing your will on my body when you don't get vaccinated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
every person who does not get vaccinated is basically freeloading off of those who do in terms of their health and well-being. up to a point: if enough people don't get vaccinated, the herd immunity threshold is breached, and people get sick in clusters, including those who are vaccinated but just happened to not have a vaccine that took hold. these are responsible people who are dying, not because of someone's else's selfishness, but someone else's stupidity. every vaccination has a fail rate. it is up to herd immunity to keep us safe from disease
see, your position does not champion a fight against tyranny, your position champions stupidity. getting vaccinated makes sense from a selfish point of view, AND an altruistic point of view. only the stupid who do not see this simple common sense truth would choose to not get vaccinated, putting themselves and others in danger
you may say you have the freedom to be stupid. but you don't when your stupid choices put my life and the lives of my children in danger. therefore, i have every right to force vaccinate you, to protect MY freedoms from your stupidity. you lose nothing if you are force vaccinated. you lose potentially your life, and you put the lives others in danger, when you don't vaccinate
punishes honest consumers and doesn't effect real pirates at all
once you realize the truth of that, you stop trying to fight piracy and start thinking of revenue flows in ways that have nothing to do with piracy and controlling digital media access
proof of intelligence and a genuine mature understanding of freedom is deciding wisely when one freedom gives way to another. to choose freedom of religion, selfishly and idiotically, over the freedom to live, and for others to live, free from disease, is proof that you are morally and intellectually immature and have not given much thought to the nature of freedom or are unable to give much thought, period
who's trolling? i'm being perfectly honest. if you don't vaccinate your kids, you are a moron. that's not an empty insult. that's rational description of your intellectual ability to understand simple obvious facts
did you read my post?
you're an idiot. you're a dumb person. i am not insulting you. i am making an objective characterization of how you understand simple facts about reality
and you will vaccinate your children, asshole, so you don't kill mine, with your ignorance
you are an idiot
no, i'm not trying to insult you. i am making an objective statement based on your understanding of rather straightforward simple common sense facts: you are a dumb person
and you will vaccinate your children, so you don't kill mine, you ignorant asshole
i support your demonization of rush limbaugh, but you have no right to piss on the national pride of the dominican republic, you who speak of "facts"
there is always a definite percentage of vaccines that don't take. it is a game of statistics, you are protected by what is called herd immunity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
basically, when you choose not to get vaccinated, you are freeloading on herd immunity to protect you. problem is, if enough people do that, past a certain threshold, there is no more herd immunity, and people will get sick. including people who got properly immunized, since not all immunizations take
so depending upon the disease, because some low iq idiot parent didn't get their kids vaccinated, some other perfectly good girl or boy whose parents were completely responsible, will die anyways
chooosing not to get vaccinated is not a choice you can make in a vacuum of other people's rights and freedoms. your choice has an impact on others, and if you choose stupidly, you can kill other people. therefore, it si perfectl moral, logical, and 100% in line with a MATURE philosophical conception of freedom, to force people to get vaccinated. not getting vaccinated impinges on the rights and freedoms of others
i agree 100%
so the lesson is, all of your freedoms, every single one, exist in natural tension with everyone else's
but too many people who speak loudly and vehemently about freedom talk about their freedoms as if what they do has no consequences or effects on anyone else's
it is a natural right to pursue freedom from disease
the MEANS to pursue, vaccination, is not natural, but the ENDS, the pursuit of freedom from disease, is indeed a natural right
that which puts me and my children in danger- not getting vaccinated, is not a natural freedom.
The problem with the definition of freedom, as defined by teenagers (not chronological teenagers, but psychological teenagers) is that it does not take into account how some "freedoms" naturally and automatically impinge on the freedoms of others.
For example: your freedom to play your music as loud as you want, my freedom to get a good night's sleep. Your freedom to consume nicotine, my freedom to breathe clean air when I walk down the sidewalk. You freedom to talk on your cellphone, my freedom to enjoy a movie. Etc.
If you claim as a right or freedom that which impinges on someone else's rights or freedoms, without even considering the possibility, you aren't selfish. You're just stupid: you don't know what freedom really is. To you, it is "let me do whatever I want without consideration of effects or consequences." That is "freedom" as defined by an ignorant teenager (again, not a chronological teenager, a psychological one, who could be of any age), and has absolutely nothing to do with the real fight for freedom in this world by real freedom fighters, who are often quoted by people who don't even know what freedom really is.
You track them.
How do you track them?
You lure them our into the open.
How do you get them in the open?
You lull them into a false sense of complacency.
If you prevent this content, it still it exists, it just moves underground. The serious terrorists are already encrypting and doing steganography, its about catching casual idiots like this guy.
So senator joe is no tactician. Allow this content, and monitor it for the lone yahoos. Basic strategy joe
The problem is, from what I know of management, funding decisions, and the psychology of long term complacency, I don't trust society with nuclear
http://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm
we're talking about memetics: the ideas that evolve and grow in the realm of language and society, and we are just their vessels
memetics has superseded genetics in terms of "where it is at" in terms of evolution and transmission of information on planet earth
individually
duh
there are many parallels between the organization of individuals to make society and the organization of cells to make an organism. individual thought is not one of those parallels. your analogy therefore is useless and pointless and lame. use some more of those cells when you think, thanks
completely useless analogy. cells don't think