What is the point about censoring the location where you are firing off a minigun? It's obviously restricted, and it isn't as if people are going to wander onto some military base and pick up a minigun.
If the people who watch the show were so stupid as to try and use some of the chemicals that are used in the show (and harm themselves or someone else) I'd wager that they are probably too stupid to even know where to order them.
There goes any chance to use my mod points on this topic, but I think you're overestimating people and underestimating them simultaneously.
Common sense is not the same thing as resourcefulness.
Though, I tend to agree that the stupid lawyers and ambulance chasers are just one more thing killing the US and it's economy.
This is completely insane. The last similar story we read, where a student was refusing to cooperate with a teacher and wound up arrested, I was sort of on the fence; but in this case, it's clear to me; a crime was committed, and it was committed by the school, not the student. If I were the parent, I don't know how I'd restrain myself from beating the living daylights out of those teachers.
You guys are right - "Zero Tolerance" is a moronic catch-phrase and an even more idiotic policy, as recent history has shown. They're concerned over prescription strength Ibuprofen? How retarded can they get?
If the school is going to take it's "Zero inTelligence" - I mean, "Zero Tolerance" policy so seriously, then nearly every teacher in that school should be arrested for violating it - I'll bet just about everyone of them drink a morning cup of coffee, and that contains the drug caffeine. Those few who also smoke are using nicotine too, a double offense. I'd like to see strip searches of them. Then again, scratch that, my eyes!!
The problem with athiests these days is that they personally attack people that have a religion.
Perhaps it's something to do with our last prez thinking that atheists aren't real americans, or the batshit insane christians who attack all atheists. Yeah, there might be some built up resentment.
I know exactly what you mean, multiple choice tests can be so ambiguous and poorly written as to be worthless (unless you're Kreskin maybe and can read the mind of the test's author to figure out his exact mode of thought); very often there is more than one correct answer, and the "best" answer is nothing less than totally subjective - in effect, worthless - though in the sample you cite I thought it was pretty obvious that the first 3 are fruits, the fourth, a vegetable.
Usually you don't look so literally at the words themselves but the items they represent.
And you just did essentially what steelcarress just did.
Parent poster never said you didn't have a right to whine, he/she only expressed their opinion of said whining, and suggested that if you hate things here so much, why not leave for someplace else? Suggesting someone should leave is not the same as demanding they leave. Typical overreaction.
You responded in exact kind saying, if you don't like our "whining", why don't you leave; but, as you noted it is also his/her right to voice an opinion.
Regardless of who's right in the entire matter, (I'm no fan of the RIAA either) not only was this hypocritical, but you had to throw in several epithets as well (fascist,redneck, dipshit..). Angry much?
Or did you really expect "change", perhaps?
In matters of Intellectual Property, (as well as the idiotic "War on Drugs"), I'm afraid Democrats are no more progressive than Republicans.
Indeed there is disagreement. Thus why I qualified my statement as many rather than all.
Most people seem to miss this subtlety though. I use such qualifiers nearly always, yet my statements are often taken as absolutes nonetheless.
Notice my use of qualifiers at least 4 times in this post alone..;-)
Only I can't see Jamie or Adam taking the venom, no, they'd force that on poor Grant, as usual, or maybe even Tori too; while Kari gets to sit back and laugh at them as they both die.
But yeah, their tests are more poorly executed with every new season.
And even Kari is getting weird - WhoTF does her wardrobe now? She used to look so hot. Now she dresses like a rejected flower-girl retro-hippie. Ohmygah, gag me with a ladle.
...and go straight to "The channel with Battlestar Galactica reruns, and nothing else really worth watching."
Except Battlestar Galatica isn't worth watching either.
Really, they should change their name to the "Campy Cheap Monster Movie" channel (CCMM) because anymore that's what they specialize in- low budget, in-house produced, corny-ass monster movie trash like "Frankenfish".
They hardly have anything to do with science fiction these days, except for a few exceptions, which are dwindling.
Seriously though, the proposed name change shows how clueless the management truly is. As if anyone watching that channel for 5 minutes wouldn't realize what it's all about anyway.
They should put the emphasis back into SciFi, and keep the Fantasy too, but ditch the low grade unimaginative monster movies.
Maybe "SciFiFan" (A play on words for "fan" and "fantasy") or the contraction "SciFan" would be better.
Then again, what's in a name? A program schedule by any other name would be as campy.
The first two wouldn't work in space, but the 3rd's a charm.
After all, if it didn't, the Sun wouldn't be able to warm the Earth, would it? We'd all be dead- or never have evolved in the first place.;)
IANA physics expert, but that sounds about right to me.
Suction is just a "perceived" effect in that there is no real "pulling force" involved, but rather an outside pushing force.
(I've also heard of a hypothesis that claims gravity works the same way, but I dunno about that.)
I suppose it's similar to the notion that centrifugal force is only a perceived force, it's really centripetal force - or a form of it (equal/opposite reaction).
Apparently you hate the US for the sake of hating the US.
In 1990, the US came to the defense of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia after Iraq attacked Kuwait. That's not "infringing" on "their way of life" -which, by the way, frequently includes treating women like property. They still have their way of life. They are still sovereign, and if AQ was such a savior to them, why was he exiled from Saudi Arabia even before 1990?
Afghanistan, in the '80s, if you'll recall, was attacked by the USSR, not the USA. We didn't start this war. It was the USSR who were not welcome, not us. Again, we came to their aid - so naturally the war was not on our soil. Sure, the US had an ulterior motive (as always) but nonetheless it kept Afghanistan a sovereign nation, and prevented their forced indoctrination into the USSR. How does this justify the actions of AQ against the US?!?
As to the second half of Desert Storm, often called the Iraq War, Al Quaeda never had a stake in Iraq until we went in there and disposed of Saddam Hussein. And eventually, the Iraqis kicked out AQ of their own accord. On this one point, you may have something, but remember this was after 9-11, not before!
The current war in Afghanistan, (and possibly the war in Iraq), would not have happened if 9-11 hadn't happened first, let's not mix up the timeline, not to mention cause and effect.
There is NO justification for the kind of wholesale slaughter and murder of innocents that AQ condones and performs. When innocents die by the US, it's an accident - and we have not killed "millions" of "innocents"- that's a propagandist lie, ridiculously inflated to create hatred towards the US. However, when innocents die by AQ's hand, it's entirely deliberate.
Intent is a key fundamental difference.
Those sound engineers at your studio will have to eat at Olive Garden tonight instead of Buca De Beppo.?
I thought the sound engineers were employees. They get paid once, for their work on the recording and don't get any royalties or other residual payments, don't they?
Now let's say you, as a singer-songwriter,musician, download one of my favorite songs of yours, "Candle in the Wind". You wrote it, performed it and played the music. Since the sound engineers already got paid for their one-time work, who's getting ripped off?
Oh, sorry, you're not eltonjohn?
They don't get residuals, no, but ultimately they get their salary from the record companies that make their money from sales of that music. So, if a potential sale is "lost" because someone freely downloaded a song instead of buying it, and you multiply that by everyone who has downloaded a song rather than paid for it (those who otherwise would have), eventually it's going add up, and trickle down to hit everyone from the artist, to the sound engineer, to his assistants, to the guys who mastered the CD, to the people who physically press (or whatever) the CDs, to the people involved in distribution, to the record stores (and employees) who pay for their inventory.
It's not an immediate thing, no, but eventually, it'll affect everyone involved in the chain, because you know the record company is not going to simply absorb the cost and go, "Oh well, win some lose some".
I'm not saying everyone who downloads does so to avoid paying for music they would otherwise purchase, but not every downloader doesn't do that either!
One thing I've never liked about the current popular gravity model, you know, the one they discuss on discovery channel, usually for a cosmology special, where they discuss how gravity distorts space-time, and then you get to see a CGI animation of a large ball on a rubber like grid -drawn as a 2 dimensional analogy- and the ball is pushing down on the grid, making an indentation in it, and another, smaller, ball starts circling the bigger ball, eventually falling in towards the larger ball..
Isn't that like using gravity to explain the effect of gravity?
Nope, I've noticed it too, and I don't get it either.
Here we've got a massive, natural, clean nuclear fusion generator converting about 4 million metric tons of matter into energy every second and bombarding half the earth's entire surface with a portion of that 24/7, a generator which will last for another 5 billion years, yet people keep despairing of solar cell technology as though it's just a passing fad.
Solar tech is sorely lagging behind where it *should* be, I'll admit - much like battery tech - but all we need is that breakthrough to find cheaper, more plentiful and efficient materials, and the payoff is unimaginable.
On a related note, this weekend in the paper was a story about solar ovens being used now in Africa, these things are extremely low tech, and yet they're saving lives in Africa and India and boosting income for families as well.
It doesn't make sense not to use such a powerful natural resource. We've got the greatest energy generator we'll probably ever encounter, hanging right in the sky, showering us in the whole EM spectrum. I see more potential in that than practically anything else.
Last post from me on this: How many times do I have to state that my post was in a different context from the one concerning the girl in the story?? (aka, "TFA")
As the discussion grew, it started to include the discussions of homosexuality in general - (I was thinking of gay pride parades and the "flamers" more specifically). This is a typical evolution of discussion in an online forum, the subject matter often expands and that was the context in which I was commenting.
I don't "keep bringing it up" as you claim, I said it only the one time, it was you who brought it up again, and I then re-addressed it - I've already explained in my previous post the larger, more general context in which that statement was intended.
In short, I never said the girl herself paraded it around, in fact I've stated at least twice now that I side with the girl in the story, so this discussion/argument is moot. My beef is not with the girl at all, but only those most outlandish of homosexuals who feel compelled to absolutely wave it in the world's face every opportunity they get. It should be a private matter, not a public one exploited just for attention and shock value.
Even my sister in law herself (and she's whom I'm referring to) says she doesn't like when "they (homosexuals) parade it around". But then, we're speaking of those who are flagrant about it, those who constantly dwell in it and push it on others - not necessarily the girl in TFA - (different context there too, I should've specified). Not all gay people think and act alike, obviously. But she would not have the slightest problem with me saying what I said, having said it herself. She feels all that (as do I) is simply a private matter. And FWIW, she is the Godmother of my son.
Regards to TFA, I did say if Microsoft is going to ask if you're married or single, they basically asked for it and can't fault the girl for specifying what she is.
Wrong, the majority of society does not automatically think of sex when they hear the words 'homosexual' or 'heterosexual.' That's just you and others like you. Your 'observations' are skewed by your bias. But we weren't even talking about those words. The word in question is 'lesbian.' One can be a celibate lesbian. In any case, your reaction to a word is your problem and no one else's.
Really? You don't think of sexuality when you hear the word "sexuality"? That's amazing. And what do you think of when someones says, "dog", a toaster? No wonder your observations are different from mine.
Besides, you're changing the context - My response was specific to the post you made above in which you specified "homosexuality" a number of times, not "lesbian".
To wit: Wrong. Calling homosexuality a 'deviation' is deviant, harmful to self and others, odd, offensive, and just plain wrong. You are in the minority in your opinion. Homosexuality is not in the DSM. It is not an illness. Homophobia is religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance one would expect to see coming from the Taliban, not a free country.
You can try and play the morale high ground card to feel superior to others all you want, you know nothing about me, and it's asinine to make negative personal judgements where there are none to make. I have family who are gay.
Why is the focus different for homosexuals than it is for heterosexuals, and why is that the homosexual's problem? If I say 'toothbrush' and you think 'hot sweaty sex,' is that my problem? I have plenty of gay friends and I do not immediately think about dicks in asses when one of them talks about their relationship. Maybe you need to do a little soul searching, and think about why you jump to that image when people talk about their homosexuality.
Firstly, I'm saying that the majority of society, as a whole,does that - and they do. It was an observation. I don't need any soul searching on my part, so spare me your moral high ground position.
Secondly, oh, I don't know, maybe because the word homosexual or homosexuality has the term "sexual" in it? The term does describe, after all, sexual behavior, just as "heterosexual" does.
If a traditional married couple were introduced as a "heterosexual couple", it would tend to generate the same kind of focus.
Wrong. Calling homosexuality a 'deviation' is deviant, harmful to self and others, odd, offensive, and just plain wrong. You are in the minority in your opinion. Homosexuality is not in the DSM. It is not an illness. Homophobia is religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance one would expect to see coming from the Taliban, not a free country.
Homophobia ia not a religious thing. I know a number of homophobes and they're atheists.
Also, I don't know why the connotation of "deviant" is necessarily so bad, when it simply means to "deviate" from the norm. That's just a stigma thing I guess.
I'd have been willing to side with Microsoft, as I don't care for people who feel it necessary to parade their homosexuality around, if it weren't for one thing: I bet MS's profile page offers a radio box choice of selecting "Married" or "Single" or possibly some other option too. Once you ask for data like that, you're getting into "sexuality" territory - so basically - they sorta asked for it.
The whole problem comes down to this: when speaking of a traditional married couple, people don't immediately focus on the sexual aspect of the relationship, unless the wife is a hottie, they probably don't picture the couple in bed knocking boots; however, once you mention homosexuality, the focus is immediately on the sexual nature of the relationship.
- From what I hear - they said it was visible with binoculars, but I don't think I found it even with my 10x50s, and this comet is not worth digging out the scope in this bitter cold weather to search for it, unless it warms up maybe.
On the bright side, while looking for it Monday evening, I just happened to catch a bright pair of meteors breaking up in the sky right overhead, in the NE sky about 45 degrees azimuth, at about 20:15 or so; it looked a bit like two bottle rockets traveling northeast - without the sound - definitely two of the largest, brightest meteors I've ever seen! So, I haven't seen the comet yet, but the mini shower was worth the 5 minutes I was out there looking for.
Anyone else see any meteors?
The ends justify the means is against everything the country stands for and is fighting against. If we ok that, we ok terrorism because they are only fighting for their own freedom through extreme and desperate measures.
Really? What "freedom" is Al Quaeda fighting for? The freedom to make us slaves to their tyrant worldview?
Lets make sure they guarantee perpetual employment for themselves and their peers by writing every law so that a normal person has to hire a lawyer to translate it.
Does anyone else see a conflict of interest here?
The Constitution doesn't require a lawyer to translate it, only a bit of average High School education. See the point?
I wish I had mod points to give you. So true.
The sin is that we live in a society today where we are practically forced to hire high paid professionals in order to interpret and make freakin' sense of the very laws that govern every faction of our lives and which we are mandated to obey.
"Legalese" is like some kind of secret code to most of us.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" makes it even scarier.
I know life is complex but something here is very broken.
What is this fixation with a gun? I really don't see that as relevant since the weapon was not pulled, used, or threat of it's use implied. We don't even know if he had one, do we?
It was an onsite police officer - it's not like the school called the local PD and had them send someone out. They started the practice to keep discipline in the worst of cases, like kids bringing guns to school and to discourage drug trafficking.
I was surprised years ago to hear that police were now in the halls of my old high school.
Back in my day, there were no cops in school. I don't think it's because times are more Orwellian, in general, but because school is more dangerous these days.
In any case, I'm not going to be so quick to judge against the school, there's more to this story than a quick newsblurb and one shot disciplinary scenario. None of us were there. I'm certainly not saying school authority is always right, but this chick sounds really obnoxious and unmanageable. I'd be pissed if I had my kid in that class and she caused that kind of disruption - and multiply that by 25 or so.
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What is the point about censoring the location where you are firing off a minigun? It's obviously restricted, and it isn't as if people are going to wander onto some military base and pick up a minigun.
If the people who watch the show were so stupid as to try and use some of the chemicals that are used in the show (and harm themselves or someone else) I'd wager that they are probably too stupid to even know where to order them.
There goes any chance to use my mod points on this topic, but I think you're overestimating people and underestimating them simultaneously. Common sense is not the same thing as resourcefulness.
Though, I tend to agree that the stupid lawyers and ambulance chasers are just one more thing killing the US and it's economy.
This is completely insane. The last similar story we read, where a student was refusing to cooperate with a teacher and wound up arrested, I was sort of on the fence; but in this case, it's clear to me; a crime was committed, and it was committed by the school, not the student. If I were the parent, I don't know how I'd restrain myself from beating the living daylights out of those teachers.
You guys are right - "Zero Tolerance" is a moronic catch-phrase and an even more idiotic policy, as recent history has shown. They're concerned over prescription strength Ibuprofen? How retarded can they get?
If the school is going to take it's "Zero inTelligence" - I mean, "Zero Tolerance" policy so seriously, then nearly every teacher in that school should be arrested for violating it - I'll bet just about everyone of them drink a morning cup of coffee, and that contains the drug caffeine. Those few who also smoke are using nicotine too, a double offense. I'd like to see strip searches of them. Then again, scratch that, my eyes!!
The problem with athiests these days is that they personally attack people that have a religion.
Perhaps it's something to do with our last prez thinking that atheists aren't real americans, or the batshit insane christians who attack all atheists. Yeah, there might be some built up resentment.
When did Bush ever say that?
I know exactly what you mean, multiple choice tests can be so ambiguous and poorly written as to be worthless (unless you're Kreskin maybe and can read the mind of the test's author to figure out his exact mode of thought); very often there is more than one correct answer, and the "best" answer is nothing less than totally subjective - in effect, worthless - though in the sample you cite I thought it was pretty obvious that the first 3 are fruits, the fourth, a vegetable.
Usually you don't look so literally at the words themselves but the items they represent.
And you just did essentially what steelcarress just did. Parent poster never said you didn't have a right to whine, he/she only expressed their opinion of said whining, and suggested that if you hate things here so much, why not leave for someplace else? Suggesting someone should leave is not the same as demanding they leave. Typical overreaction.
You responded in exact kind saying, if you don't like our "whining", why don't you leave; but, as you noted it is also his/her right to voice an opinion.
Regardless of who's right in the entire matter, (I'm no fan of the RIAA either) not only was this hypocritical, but you had to throw in several epithets as well (fascist,redneck, dipshit..). Angry much?
Or did you really expect "change", perhaps?
In matters of Intellectual Property, (as well as the idiotic "War on Drugs"), I'm afraid Democrats are no more progressive than Republicans.
Indeed there is disagreement. Thus why I qualified my statement as many rather than all.
Most people seem to miss this subtlety though. I use such qualifiers nearly always, yet my statements are often taken as absolutes nonetheless. ;-)
Notice my use of qualifiers at least 4 times in this post alone..
Only I can't see Jamie or Adam taking the venom, no, they'd force that on poor Grant, as usual, or maybe even Tori too; while Kari gets to sit back and laugh at them as they both die. But yeah, their tests are more poorly executed with every new season.
And even Kari is getting weird - WhoTF does her wardrobe now? She used to look so hot. Now she dresses like a rejected flower-girl retro-hippie. Ohmygah, gag me with a ladle.
Except Battlestar Galatica isn't worth watching either.
Really, they should change their name to the "Campy Cheap Monster Movie" channel (CCMM) because anymore that's what they specialize in- low budget, in-house produced, corny-ass monster movie trash like "Frankenfish".
They hardly have anything to do with science fiction these days, except for a few exceptions, which are dwindling.
Seriously though, the proposed name change shows how clueless the management truly is. As if anyone watching that channel for 5 minutes wouldn't realize what it's all about anyway.
They should put the emphasis back into SciFi, and keep the Fantasy too, but ditch the low grade unimaginative monster movies.
Maybe "SciFiFan" (A play on words for "fan" and "fantasy") or the contraction "SciFan" would be better.
Then again, what's in a name? A program schedule by any other name would be as campy.
Yep. Heat can transfer via:
;)
1) Conduction
2) Convection
3) Radiation
The first two wouldn't work in space, but the 3rd's a charm. After all, if it didn't, the Sun wouldn't be able to warm the Earth, would it? We'd all be dead- or never have evolved in the first place.
IANA physics expert, but that sounds about right to me.
Suction is just a "perceived" effect in that there is no real "pulling force" involved, but rather an outside pushing force.
(I've also heard of a hypothesis that claims gravity works the same way, but I dunno about that.)
I suppose it's similar to the notion that centrifugal force is only a perceived force, it's really centripetal force - or a form of it (equal/opposite reaction).
Apparently you hate the US for the sake of hating the US.
In 1990, the US came to the defense of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia after Iraq attacked Kuwait. That's not "infringing" on "their way of life" -which, by the way, frequently includes treating women like property. They still have their way of life. They are still sovereign, and if AQ was such a savior to them, why was he exiled from Saudi Arabia even before 1990?
Afghanistan, in the '80s, if you'll recall, was attacked by the USSR, not the USA. We didn't start this war. It was the USSR who were not welcome, not us. Again, we came to their aid - so naturally the war was not on our soil. Sure, the US had an ulterior motive (as always) but nonetheless it kept Afghanistan a sovereign nation, and prevented their forced indoctrination into the USSR. How does this justify the actions of AQ against the US?!?
As to the second half of Desert Storm, often called the Iraq War, Al Quaeda never had a stake in Iraq until we went in there and disposed of Saddam Hussein. And eventually, the Iraqis kicked out AQ of their own accord. On this one point, you may have something, but remember this was after 9-11, not before!
The current war in Afghanistan, (and possibly the war in Iraq), would not have happened if 9-11 hadn't happened first, let's not mix up the timeline, not to mention cause and effect.
There is NO justification for the kind of wholesale slaughter and murder of innocents that AQ condones and performs. When innocents die by the US, it's an accident - and we have not killed "millions" of "innocents"- that's a propagandist lie, ridiculously inflated to create hatred towards the US. However, when innocents die by AQ's hand, it's entirely deliberate.
Intent is a key fundamental difference.
Those sound engineers at your studio will have to eat at Olive Garden tonight instead of Buca De Beppo.?
I thought the sound engineers were employees. They get paid once, for their work on the recording and don't get any royalties or other residual payments, don't they?
Now let's say you, as a singer-songwriter,musician, download one of my favorite songs of yours, "Candle in the Wind". You wrote it, performed it and played the music. Since the sound engineers already got paid for their one-time work, who's getting ripped off?
Oh, sorry, you're not eltonjohn?
They don't get residuals, no, but ultimately they get their salary from the record companies that make their money from sales of that music.
So, if a potential sale is "lost" because someone freely downloaded a song instead of buying it, and you multiply that by everyone who has downloaded a song rather than paid for it (those who otherwise would have), eventually it's going add up, and trickle down to hit everyone from the artist, to the sound engineer, to his assistants, to the guys who mastered the CD, to the people who physically press (or whatever) the CDs, to the people involved in distribution, to the record stores (and employees) who pay for their inventory.
It's not an immediate thing, no, but eventually, it'll affect everyone involved in the chain, because you know the record company is not going to simply absorb the cost and go, "Oh well, win some lose some".
I'm not saying everyone who downloads does so to avoid paying for music they would otherwise purchase, but not every downloader doesn't do that either!
And grammatically speaking, shouldn't "The Who" have been, "The Whom" ?
Yeah, that sounds rock'n'roll..
More like a "BOOM", as it soared overhead so fast it broke the sound barrier..
One thing I've never liked about the current popular gravity model, you know, the one they discuss on discovery channel, usually for a cosmology special, where they discuss how gravity distorts space-time, and then you get to see a CGI animation of a large ball on a rubber like grid -drawn as a 2 dimensional analogy- and the ball is pushing down on the grid, making an indentation in it, and another, smaller, ball starts circling the bigger ball, eventually falling in towards the larger ball..
Isn't that like using gravity to explain the effect of gravity?
Nope, I've noticed it too, and I don't get it either.
Here we've got a massive, natural, clean nuclear fusion generator converting about 4 million metric tons of matter into energy every second and bombarding half the earth's entire surface with a portion of that 24/7, a generator which will last for another 5 billion years, yet people keep despairing of solar cell technology as though it's just a passing fad.
Solar tech is sorely lagging behind where it *should* be, I'll admit - much like battery tech - but all we need is that breakthrough to find cheaper, more plentiful and efficient materials, and the payoff is unimaginable. On a related note, this weekend in the paper was a story about solar ovens being used now in Africa, these things are extremely low tech, and yet they're saving lives in Africa and India and boosting income for families as well.
It doesn't make sense not to use such a powerful natural resource. We've got the greatest energy generator we'll probably ever encounter, hanging right in the sky, showering us in the whole EM spectrum. I see more potential in that than practically anything else.
Last post from me on this: How many times do I have to state that my post was in a different context from the one concerning the girl in the story?? (aka, "TFA")
As the discussion grew, it started to include the discussions of homosexuality in general - (I was thinking of gay pride parades and the "flamers" more specifically). This is a typical evolution of discussion in an online forum, the subject matter often expands and that was the context in which I was commenting.
I don't "keep bringing it up" as you claim, I said it only the one time, it was you who brought it up again, and I then re-addressed it - I've already explained in my previous post the larger, more general context in which that statement was intended.
In short, I never said the girl herself paraded it around, in fact I've stated at least twice now that I side with the girl in the story, so this discussion/argument is moot. My beef is not with the girl at all, but only those most outlandish of homosexuals who feel compelled to absolutely wave it in the world's face every opportunity they get. It should be a private matter, not a public one exploited just for attention and shock value.
Even my sister in law herself (and she's whom I'm referring to) says she doesn't like when "they (homosexuals) parade it around". But then, we're speaking of those who are flagrant about it, those who constantly dwell in it and push it on others - not necessarily the girl in TFA - (different context there too, I should've specified). Not all gay people think and act alike, obviously. But she would not have the slightest problem with me saying what I said, having said it herself. She feels all that (as do I) is simply a private matter. And FWIW, she is the Godmother of my son.
Regards to TFA, I did say if Microsoft is going to ask if you're married or single, they basically asked for it and can't fault the girl for specifying what she is.
Wrong, the majority of society does not automatically think of sex when they hear the words 'homosexual' or 'heterosexual.' That's just you and others like you. Your 'observations' are skewed by your bias. But we weren't even talking about those words. The word in question is 'lesbian.' One can be a celibate lesbian. In any case, your reaction to a word is your problem and no one else's.
Really? You don't think of sexuality when you hear the word "sexuality"? That's amazing. And what do you think of when someones says, "dog", a toaster? No wonder your observations are different from mine.
Besides, you're changing the context - My response was specific to the post you made above in which you specified "homosexuality" a number of times, not "lesbian".
To wit:
Wrong. Calling homosexuality a 'deviation' is deviant, harmful to self and others, odd, offensive, and just plain wrong. You are in the minority in your opinion. Homosexuality is not in the DSM. It is not an illness. Homophobia is religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance one would expect to see coming from the Taliban, not a free country.
You can try and play the morale high ground card to feel superior to others all you want, you know nothing about me, and it's asinine to make negative personal judgements where there are none to make. I have family who are gay.
Why is the focus different for homosexuals than it is for heterosexuals, and why is that the homosexual's problem? If I say 'toothbrush' and you think 'hot sweaty sex,' is that my problem? I have plenty of gay friends and I do not immediately think about dicks in asses when one of them talks about their relationship. Maybe you need to do a little soul searching, and think about why you jump to that image when people talk about their homosexuality.
Firstly, I'm saying that the majority of society, as a whole ,does that - and they do. It was an observation. I don't need any soul searching on my part, so spare me your moral high ground position.
Secondly, oh, I don't know, maybe because the word homosexual or homosexuality has the term "sexual" in it? The term does describe, after all, sexual behavior, just as "heterosexual" does.
If a traditional married couple were introduced as a "heterosexual couple", it would tend to generate the same kind of focus.
Wrong. Calling homosexuality a 'deviation' is deviant, harmful to self and others, odd, offensive, and just plain wrong. You are in the minority in your opinion. Homosexuality is not in the DSM. It is not an illness. Homophobia is religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance one would expect to see coming from the Taliban, not a free country.
Homophobia ia not a religious thing. I know a number of homophobes and they're atheists.
Also, I don't know why the connotation of "deviant" is necessarily so bad, when it simply means to "deviate" from the norm. That's just a stigma thing I guess.
I'd have been willing to side with Microsoft, as I don't care for people who feel it necessary to parade their homosexuality around, if it weren't for one thing: I bet MS's profile page offers a radio box choice of selecting "Married" or "Single" or possibly some other option too. Once you ask for data like that, you're getting into "sexuality" territory - so basically - they sorta asked for it.
The whole problem comes down to this: when speaking of a traditional married couple, people don't immediately focus on the sexual aspect of the relationship, unless the wife is a hottie, they probably don't picture the couple in bed knocking boots; however, once you mention homosexuality, the focus is immediately on the sexual nature of the relationship.
- From what I hear - they said it was visible with binoculars, but I don't think I found it even with my 10x50s, and this comet is not worth digging out the scope in this bitter cold weather to search for it, unless it warms up maybe.
On the bright side, while looking for it Monday evening, I just happened to catch a bright pair of meteors breaking up in the sky right overhead, in the NE sky about 45 degrees azimuth, at about 20:15 or so; it looked a bit like two bottle rockets traveling northeast - without the sound - definitely two of the largest, brightest meteors I've ever seen! So, I haven't seen the comet yet, but the mini shower was worth the 5 minutes I was out there looking for.
Anyone else see any meteors?
The ends justify the means is against everything the country stands for and is fighting against. If we ok that, we ok terrorism because they are only fighting for their own freedom through extreme and desperate measures.
Really? What "freedom" is Al Quaeda fighting for? The freedom to make us slaves to their tyrant worldview?
Lets make sure they guarantee perpetual employment for themselves and their peers by writing every law so that a normal person has to hire a lawyer to translate it. Does anyone else see a conflict of interest here? The Constitution doesn't require a lawyer to translate it, only a bit of average High School education. See the point?
I wish I had mod points to give you. So true.
The sin is that we live in a society today where we are practically forced to hire high paid professionals in order to interpret and make freakin' sense of the very laws that govern every faction of our lives and which we are mandated to obey.
"Legalese" is like some kind of secret code to most of us.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" makes it even scarier.
I know life is complex but something here is very broken.
What is this fixation with a gun? I really don't see that as relevant since the weapon was not pulled, used, or threat of it's use implied. We don't even know if he had one, do we?
It was an onsite police officer - it's not like the school called the local PD and had them send someone out. They started the practice to keep discipline in the worst of cases, like kids bringing guns to school and to discourage drug trafficking.
I was surprised years ago to hear that police were now in the halls of my old high school. Back in my day, there were no cops in school. I don't think it's because times are more Orwellian, in general, but because school is more dangerous these days.
In any case, I'm not going to be so quick to judge against the school, there's more to this story than a quick newsblurb and one shot disciplinary scenario. None of us were there. I'm certainly not saying school authority is always right, but this chick sounds really obnoxious and unmanageable. I'd be pissed if I had my kid in that class and she caused that kind of disruption - and multiply that by 25 or so.