If there was some sort of pandemic that reduced population below the current unsustainable levels, how could that be considered a bad thing? It is believed that the Black Death in Europe was a net gain. It produced all sorts of positive outcomes due to the population reduction. The 1% had to share more of their wealth with the 99% as there were simply too few workers for the land. Unsustainable agricultural practices were abandoned (marginal land was no longer cultivated and ecological disaster was averted). Faith in religion was shattered. Imagine if America's carbon footprint was cut by two-thirds due to the decline in polluting gasoline engines. It would be a win for the entire world.
Ah, yes. Where would we be without liberal apologists for racism? Gosh, if people were accountable for their deeds then we might actually make progress. I leave you with the immortal words of The Band (all-white, in case you are one of those people who changes the meanings of words if they are spoken by the "wrong" skin color [change the meaning of "wrong" by the culture you relate to the most]) and please do change the meaning of "she" and "drunkard" from their original meaning to this context:
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
Drupal forums suck. I loved the CMS part. I ran a Drupal website for a few years, and the forums were what users complained about the most. There's nothing to be done - Drupal treats forum posts like nodes. The developers refused to do anything and in fact deleted my posts on the official forums when I aired my users' complaints. An inconvenient truth.
Hmm, you must have been on a different Internet than I was. Do we remember when.com sites were considered poison and site admins refused to route traffic for them? Because they were profit-driven and diametrically opposed to the government-run version of the Internet? I do.
You could fill a book with communications protocols which never took off due to not being widely adopted. Indeed, many books of this type exist. You could even fill a book with communications protocols whose creators were vehemently opposed to their being used by profit-making entities - which probably explains why they never went anywhere.
What sort of enemies must the BBC create? After all, they are objective, only reporting facts. If you are consistently creating enemies, then you must look at yourself to find out what you're doing wrong.
The "as innocent as a Tory can be" comment is rather telling. In other words, his cock didn't touch a minor but hey, those people (be they Muslims, African-Americans, or whoever is considered objectionable by the current power structure) always have something wrong with them and can never be considered "innocent".
"Albeit without rigorous fact checking the BBC must be considered at fault" - yeah, change BBC to Fox News and read that statement again. Oops. Awkward...
What, like that's not the case? The GOP shows weakness - that WON'T embolden Obama? His supporters would be calling for blood. True negotiation requires that both sides give up something. What do you do when the majority in power thinks you are a bunch of freakazoids and don't deserve to be treated like humans? How can anyone possibly "negotiate" with people such as Christians who are considered subhuman and not on the same level as rational, scientific people?
Question: what's the first thing that happens when the government gets more money?
Answer: they save it, getting rid of ruinous debt and only spending as much as is necessary to prudently invest for the future.
Nah, just messing with you. They spend it (I would say like a drunken sailor, but the drunken sailor has no credit and gets thrown out the minute his cash comes to an end) and they not only do that but borrow against future revenues so as to spend as much as possible, right NOW. After all, what sort of voter supports politicians who restrict spending and act rationally?
Funny thing - the CCP is composed of all of The Smart People in Chinese society. Go ahead, try to join. They won't let you. First, because of your race. Second, because your test scores aren't good enough. Yeah, the CCP only lets the smart people in. You can't just be the average Zhou and join the CCP. You have to be smart. How many times have people on this very website groaned that morons get the vote while We Smart People are thwarted? Guess what: China looks very much like the ideal society of nerds. They're the #2 economy in the world and rising. Maybe they know something we don't? Maybe giving the stupids a voice in government is a dumb fucking idea? Hey, it's a thought...and it exists in 2012 reality.
Gerrymandering keeps minority districts safe for minorities. What the fuck sort of person are you who doesn't understand this? If districts were not drawn to ensure representation of historically underrespresnted minorities, then what would happen? Riots. Courthouses on fire. Be quite careful about these Republican talking points you're parroting. These ideas are dangerous and lead to violence.
Yeah, it's amazing how people screw up international business. It's a field all its own, and all the time I see people trying to go it alone - even successful people. Get some damn specialists even if they cost money. You'll save a bundle in the long run.
Nope, wrong. Clinton did the same thing and there were legions of educated, reputable people who fervently defended him. Petraeus deserves the same treatment.
Uh, hello, because "FOX"conn is the English name of a Chinese company? It's just a trade name. In Chinese it means something like "wealthy healthy scholar technology group". The company's real name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. where Hon is a kind of goose and Hai means ocean. Jeez, for someone who supposedly thinks a lot, you sure don't do much thinking outside the box.
I'm curious - why did he resign? After all, an extramarital affair was not enough for the President himself to resign. I don't get it. He even admits the affair - while the President denied, denied, denied until a DNA test caught him with the evidence of his own dried semen on an intern's dress. Genuinely curious here, any answers?
It wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a severe reaction to an abuse of free speech by a convicted felon. If you're going to promote hatred in the form of Islamaphobia, you're going to have to expect blowback.
Thank you for proving my point. "Fuck them all", indeed. Be sure to point that out frequently, as it's important. By the way, how many in your family serve? Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's the problem with security spending...if it works, nothing happens.
Then, you get millions of Americans asking, "why the hell are we spending so much money just to have nothing happen?" You can try to explain, but it never works. I was surprised after 9/11 when people didn't start exploding in our malls. After all, that's what happened in Israel. It just...didn't happen. Partly due to a shortage of people wanting to explode, and partly due to our security measures. But what can you do when the legitimate opposition to our security agrees with the exploding people and wishes our society would cease to exist? Awkward.
You know, living in China as I do, I just find it dumbfounding that America has any manufacturing at all Seriously. It just knocks me out.
Consider that you are an American company that announces you want to build a new factory in XXXX. What's the first thing that will happen? The environmental groups (funded by previous successful lawsuits against other corporations) will fight tooth and nail to stop you. They will hire other environmental groups (funded by the same) to find some sort of worm or bird endangered by your expansion. If necessary they will transplant some organism to make their case (it's happened, look it up). They don't have to make a case, all they have to do is to make it so expensive for you that you will look elsewhere, and that' s a win for them. What the hell do they care that they're halting job creation? They got theirs already, so fuck everyone else Sad, but true.
Between my manager and myself, we tried to mentor him, correct him and all of that -- we couldn't fire him straight away as South Africa has really fucking stupid labour laws which makes firing a tedious and difficult process at best (and you'd better not slip up, otherwise the fucktard can successfully sue for damages and the old position back)
Socialism sucks, doesn't it? Gosh, imagine that people have a right to work and the company they work for doesn't have the last word? And your dehumanization of this living, breathing human being as "it" doesn't exactly speak volumes for your sympathy for other people, eh? You're a right-winger, aren't you?
Nah, it means support OUR troops, as it means those troops are OUR people,as in our brothers, sons, boyfriends, and husbands who are over there. It's easy to misconstrue this, especially if you are in the elite class who does not know anyone in the military. Quick question: how many of your high school classmates joined up? Oh, they didn't? Ah, now we begin to see the inconsistency. The politicians decide when and where our soldiers go to war. You don't like the war, then vote the politicians out of office. It can by no means be considered the fault of the warrior, upon whose head you seem to be all to eager to lay all the blame.
For what it's worth, the "support our troops" movement grew directly out of the Vietnam War experience. The American body politic held the troops directly responsible for everything that happened there. This, even though Robert McNamara (the chief villain behind the war) wrote a book basically saying, "yeah the whole thing was my fault, my bad, I promise not to do it again, I learned my lesson."
But fuck that, eh? It's much more satisfying to lay the blame on the individual soldiers who were given impossible missions. Blame the doers, not the deciders. After all, the doers are the powerless, and it's fun to shit all over them. The deciders? Heck, if I blame them, then I might not be allowed to join them! Fuck that noise. Meet the returning soldiers at the airport and spit on them. That's the correct way!
No, we were talking about the busloads of Teamsters who arrived to put brown people like Cesar Chavez in his place. Look it up. It happened.
It's called the "closed shop" law and is a reality in many states. Look it up. It happened.
Union bosses are regularly imprisoned for crimes committed while in the employ of legitimate unions. Click on the link, you won't like what you see.
Unions and their blind supporters (like you) hold unions to a high standard. They should be beyond racism and sexism. And yet, walk past a union worksite wearing a miniskirt and heels. You won't like what you see. Inconvenient truth...
Indeed, a lot of modern people would like to cancel Memorial Day as it celebrates the American warrior. Just ask Oliver Stone, who thinks that "Saving Private Ryan" encouraged the Iraq invasion. Seriously, you can't make this shit up.
Way to totally ignore any negative experience regarding unions...at all. They're the reason our jobs left. I know a fellow here in China from Carolina doing furniture manufacturing. His company told the unions that the price had to come down, they were getting killed by competition from overseas. Union wouldn't budge one inch. Guess what happened? Closed down the factory and moved it lock, stock, and barrel to China. Surprise! Reality.
Let's also totally ignore the union thugs who came out to bust Cesar Chavez and his workers. Let's ignore the unions that refused help after the hurricane because keeping their own power was more important. Let's ignore the fact that in some states, you can't even work without being forced to join a union. Let's ignore all the union bosses in prison (I didn't even bother to cite specific links as Google is continually populated with new stories on the topic). Let's ignore the racism and sexism of the white male union rank-and-file.
I can't help but notice all the union achievements you list are 50 years old. Once upon a time, there were genuine problems that unions solved. That time has passed.
Are you sure? I have been notified many times that (R) and (D) are but two colors of the same bird. And yet, whenever an (R) does something predictably reprehensible, everyone jumps out and says they are irredeemably and irrevocably evil. Whenever a (D) does something predictably reprehensible, both parties are the same. So, which is it? It can't be both ways. Unless there is massive hypocrisy and denial of inconvenient truths going on.
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If there was some sort of pandemic that reduced population below the current unsustainable levels, how could that be considered a bad thing? It is believed that the Black Death in Europe was a net gain. It produced all sorts of positive outcomes due to the population reduction. The 1% had to share more of their wealth with the 99% as there were simply too few workers for the land. Unsustainable agricultural practices were abandoned (marginal land was no longer cultivated and ecological disaster was averted). Faith in religion was shattered. Imagine if America's carbon footprint was cut by two-thirds due to the decline in polluting gasoline engines. It would be a win for the entire world.
Ah, yes. Where would we be without liberal apologists for racism? Gosh, if people were accountable for their deeds then we might actually make progress. I leave you with the immortal words of The Band (all-white, in case you are one of those people who changes the meanings of words if they are spoken by the "wrong" skin color [change the meaning of "wrong" by the culture you relate to the most]) and please do change the meaning of "she" and "drunkard" from their original meaning to this context:
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
Drupal forums suck. I loved the CMS part. I ran a Drupal website for a few years, and the forums were what users complained about the most. There's nothing to be done - Drupal treats forum posts like nodes. The developers refused to do anything and in fact deleted my posts on the official forums when I aired my users' complaints. An inconvenient truth.
Hmm, you must have been on a different Internet than I was. Do we remember when .com sites were considered poison and site admins refused to route traffic for them? Because they were profit-driven and diametrically opposed to the government-run version of the Internet? I do.
You could fill a book with communications protocols which never took off due to not being widely adopted. Indeed, many books of this type exist. You could even fill a book with communications protocols whose creators were vehemently opposed to their being used by profit-making entities - which probably explains why they never went anywhere.
The "as innocent as a Tory can be" comment is rather telling. In other words, his cock didn't touch a minor but hey, those people (be they Muslims, African-Americans, or whoever is considered objectionable by the current power structure) always have something wrong with them and can never be considered "innocent".
"Albeit without rigorous fact checking the BBC must be considered at fault" - yeah, change BBC to Fox News and read that statement again. Oops. Awkward...
What, like that's not the case? The GOP shows weakness - that WON'T embolden Obama? His supporters would be calling for blood. True negotiation requires that both sides give up something. What do you do when the majority in power thinks you are a bunch of freakazoids and don't deserve to be treated like humans? How can anyone possibly "negotiate" with people such as Christians who are considered subhuman and not on the same level as rational, scientific people?
Question: what's the first thing that happens when the government gets more money?
Answer: they save it, getting rid of ruinous debt and only spending as much as is necessary to prudently invest for the future.
Nah, just messing with you. They spend it (I would say like a drunken sailor, but the drunken sailor has no credit and gets thrown out the minute his cash comes to an end) and they not only do that but borrow against future revenues so as to spend as much as possible, right NOW. After all, what sort of voter supports politicians who restrict spending and act rationally?
"Hon" is the character for bird next to water. The meaning is a swan, or goose.
Funny thing - the CCP is composed of all of The Smart People in Chinese society. Go ahead, try to join. They won't let you. First, because of your race. Second, because your test scores aren't good enough. Yeah, the CCP only lets the smart people in. You can't just be the average Zhou and join the CCP. You have to be smart. How many times have people on this very website groaned that morons get the vote while We Smart People are thwarted? Guess what: China looks very much like the ideal society of nerds. They're the #2 economy in the world and rising. Maybe they know something we don't? Maybe giving the stupids a voice in government is a dumb fucking idea? Hey, it's a thought...and it exists in 2012 reality.
Gerrymandering keeps minority districts safe for minorities. What the fuck sort of person are you who doesn't understand this? If districts were not drawn to ensure representation of historically underrespresnted minorities, then what would happen? Riots. Courthouses on fire. Be quite careful about these Republican talking points you're parroting. These ideas are dangerous and lead to violence.
Yeah, it's amazing how people screw up international business. It's a field all its own, and all the time I see people trying to go it alone - even successful people. Get some damn specialists even if they cost money. You'll save a bundle in the long run.
Nope, wrong. Clinton did the same thing and there were legions of educated, reputable people who fervently defended him. Petraeus deserves the same treatment.
Uh, hello, because "FOX"conn is the English name of a Chinese company? It's just a trade name. In Chinese it means something like "wealthy healthy scholar technology group". The company's real name is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. where Hon is a kind of goose and Hai means ocean. Jeez, for someone who supposedly thinks a lot, you sure don't do much thinking outside the box.
I'm curious - why did he resign? After all, an extramarital affair was not enough for the President himself to resign. I don't get it. He even admits the affair - while the President denied, denied, denied until a DNA test caught him with the evidence of his own dried semen on an intern's dress. Genuinely curious here, any answers?
It wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a severe reaction to an abuse of free speech by a convicted felon. If you're going to promote hatred in the form of Islamaphobia, you're going to have to expect blowback.
Thank you for proving my point. "Fuck them all", indeed. Be sure to point that out frequently, as it's important. By the way, how many in your family serve? Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's the problem with security spending...if it works, nothing happens.
Then, you get millions of Americans asking, "why the hell are we spending so much money just to have nothing happen?" You can try to explain, but it never works. I was surprised after 9/11 when people didn't start exploding in our malls. After all, that's what happened in Israel. It just...didn't happen. Partly due to a shortage of people wanting to explode, and partly due to our security measures. But what can you do when the legitimate opposition to our security agrees with the exploding people and wishes our society would cease to exist? Awkward.
You know, living in China as I do, I just find it dumbfounding that America has any manufacturing at all Seriously. It just knocks me out.
Consider that you are an American company that announces you want to build a new factory in XXXX. What's the first thing that will happen? The environmental groups (funded by previous successful lawsuits against other corporations) will fight tooth and nail to stop you. They will hire other environmental groups (funded by the same) to find some sort of worm or bird endangered by your expansion. If necessary they will transplant some organism to make their case (it's happened, look it up). They don't have to make a case, all they have to do is to make it so expensive for you that you will look elsewhere, and that' s a win for them. What the hell do they care that they're halting job creation? They got theirs already, so fuck everyone else Sad, but true.
Between my manager and myself, we tried to mentor him, correct him and all of that -- we couldn't fire him straight away as South Africa has really fucking stupid labour laws which makes firing a tedious and difficult process at best (and you'd better not slip up, otherwise the fucktard can successfully sue for damages and the old position back)
Socialism sucks, doesn't it? Gosh, imagine that people have a right to work and the company they work for doesn't have the last word? And your dehumanization of this living, breathing human being as "it" doesn't exactly speak volumes for your sympathy for other people, eh? You're a right-winger, aren't you?
Nope! The union didn't negotiate. Surprise! Guess what, reality has many unpleasant surprises for those who don't know unions firsthand.
Nah, it means support OUR troops, as it means those troops are OUR people,as in our brothers, sons, boyfriends, and husbands who are over there. It's easy to misconstrue this, especially if you are in the elite class who does not know anyone in the military. Quick question: how many of your high school classmates joined up? Oh, they didn't? Ah, now we begin to see the inconsistency. The politicians decide when and where our soldiers go to war. You don't like the war, then vote the politicians out of office. It can by no means be considered the fault of the warrior, upon whose head you seem to be all to eager to lay all the blame.
For what it's worth, the "support our troops" movement grew directly out of the Vietnam War experience. The American body politic held the troops directly responsible for everything that happened there. This, even though Robert McNamara (the chief villain behind the war) wrote a book basically saying, "yeah the whole thing was my fault, my bad, I promise not to do it again, I learned my lesson."
But fuck that, eh? It's much more satisfying to lay the blame on the individual soldiers who were given impossible missions. Blame the doers, not the deciders. After all, the doers are the powerless, and it's fun to shit all over them. The deciders? Heck, if I blame them, then I might not be allowed to join them! Fuck that noise. Meet the returning soldiers at the airport and spit on them. That's the correct way!
No, we were talking about the busloads of Teamsters who arrived to put brown people like Cesar Chavez in his place. Look it up. It happened.
It's called the "closed shop" law and is a reality in many states. Look it up. It happened.
Union bosses are regularly imprisoned for crimes committed while in the employ of legitimate unions. Click on the link, you won't like what you see.
Unions and their blind supporters (like you) hold unions to a high standard. They should be beyond racism and sexism. And yet, walk past a union worksite wearing a miniskirt and heels. You won't like what you see. Inconvenient truth...
Indeed, a lot of modern people would like to cancel Memorial Day as it celebrates the American warrior. Just ask Oliver Stone, who thinks that "Saving Private Ryan" encouraged the Iraq invasion. Seriously, you can't make this shit up.
Let's also totally ignore the union thugs who came out to bust Cesar Chavez and his workers. Let's ignore the unions that refused help after the hurricane because keeping their own power was more important. Let's ignore the fact that in some states, you can't even work without being forced to join a union. Let's ignore all the union bosses in prison (I didn't even bother to cite specific links as Google is continually populated with new stories on the topic). Let's ignore the racism and sexism of the white male union rank-and-file.
I can't help but notice all the union achievements you list are 50 years old. Once upon a time, there were genuine problems that unions solved. That time has passed.
Recently, I was told that America was one of the least racist countries on the planet. So...*cough*...awkward.
Are you sure? I have been notified many times that (R) and (D) are but two colors of the same bird. And yet, whenever an (R) does something predictably reprehensible, everyone jumps out and says they are irredeemably and irrevocably evil. Whenever a (D) does something predictably reprehensible, both parties are the same. So, which is it? It can't be both ways. Unless there is massive hypocrisy and denial of inconvenient truths going on.