The corporation is its own entity. That's the whole point of a corporation - the business' liabilities are incurred by the corporation, not by its owners, so that if it fails, the owners don't lose their asses.
When you attack a corporation, you attack a business entity. The owners (shareholders) have nothing to do with it; in fact shareholders have a right to anonymity. Why do you think nobody goes to jail when Exxon destroys hundreds of miles of Alaskan coastline, but if you take your dirty oil and dump it in the storm drain and get caughty you get fined and maybe thrown in jail? It's because the shareholders aren't personally liable for the actions of the corporation. Again. That's the whole point of the corporation.
This takes a leap of one level of abstraction to get, so I can see why a lot of people don't comprehend this. Libertarians and conservatives tend to be concrete-reasoning keep-it-simple-stupid types that can't recognize a non-corporeal entity - unless it's a middle eastern diety that's been pounded into their head from birth.
Business != military. It's this line of thinking that leads to things like example firings and predatory practices. You don't just want to make more money than Competitor X, you want to CRUSH Competitor X.
When Sun Tzu started being taught in MBA classes was when western civilization started to decline.
Calling myself "nerd" gives me no power at all, Lord Vader. I draw my strength from my character, not from words.
Some things are inherently wrong. Labels are.
I don't play "power" games in my personal life. Only people that know me personally would have enough info about me to call me names - so if they want to call me names, they leave my personal life.
Republicans want only themselves and their inner circles to get rich. They do not want any new entries into this inner circle, nor do they want anyone but lifetime republicans to approach it.
There are well-off people, typified by your standard yuppie, and there are the rich, typified by the Bush family and Cheney. George W doesn't want you to be rich. Cheney wants his Halliburton buddies to be rich. If you have no more soul than to throw in with that lot, go fuck yourself.
then I hope you vote for yourself. What interest does a rich man have in making other people richer? If you think that republicans want anyone but themselves to be wealthy you're smoking the best crack in the world.
that came out as whining and self-victimizing. Let me clarify: I don't use all of this shit as an excuse for anything. I'm just saying that some people are more affected by peer abuse than others.
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That's where we differ.
Bravo for you for overcoming it, but I'm betting it wasn't really that bad in the first place. If it was just physical abuse, you didn't get shit for being a nerd. You can fight back and stop that. Insults aren't that bad, either, unless you start believing them. I started lifting weights when I was a sophomore in HS and that made most of these guys too afraid of me to mess with me. I only had to get in one fight to make the whole school stop.
It's the calculated conspiratorial bullying that comes from all angles, that takes advantage of your lack of social skills, that really breaks you. It points out both your faults and their strengths and lowers your status at the same time it raises theirs.
I didn't survive everything they threw at me. I'm still affected by it every day in some way. I'm a nervous wreck in crowds, I have serious issues with trusting anyone who wants to do anything for me (a favorite mindfuck of the people where I'm from is to set you up with a generous act and pull it out from under you when you're most visible) and I can barely function in a situation where I interact with an authority figure, because where I'm from the teachers and school admin were in on the persecution, too. The first of the school shooting cases of the 90s (Scott Pennington) happened in a school district in the same area.
Damn. It's been a long time since I talked about all of this.
So, you'll have to forgive me if I don't think that it's cute or a fair turnaround to call myself a nerd or a geek.
I don't buy into that. I mean, I understand where they're coming from, but I think it has the opposite effect than they intend. Blacks calling themselves n* especially - it just makes it a black thing instead of a racist white thing. I personally don't want to be labeled as anything.
Those poor oppressed geeks and preachy fucking Jesus freaks.
Colorado is the shallowest state in the nation. I lived in Colorado Springs for a while. The last straw was when the local TV news (I believe it was the NBC affiliate there) ran a story that ridiculed fat people. I mean, they were showing shots of overweight people and pointing an laughing on camera. ON THE NEWS. Not so Springer type shit, but the newscast that's supposed to be taken serious. Fuck Colorado and fuck anyone who chooses to live there.
I see in this a downright diabolical urge to take a hand in the lives and deaths of every single human being on the planet. George Bush wants you to die, basically. He wants you to die from Alzheimer's, or Parkinson's, or from organ failure or any number of the conditions that kill older folks. He wants to be there at your bedside and laugh in your face as everything goes dark. He can say that you're with Jesus or something, that he's fulfilled God's wish to see everyone dead, but-- isn't that creepy? Isn't that just a little freakish? It's not creepy or freakish when you think that you are the second coming of Christ himself, sent to lead a crusade to conquer Babylon and the holy land for Christendom.
I am convinced that Bush believes this. He would turn the USA into a Christian version of Taliban-led Afghanistan if he had the power to do so - and we're handing him more of it every day.
1) let a few democrats win, but only those that are republicans in disguise. 2) do not allow any positions of real power to fall to non-republican candidates 3) continue to enslave the people through simple entertainment, cognitive dissonance, and SSRIs for those that the cognitive dissonance doesn't work on. 4) profit
Maybe they were screening him for "smuggling" duty. If you're comfortable with anal penetration for sexual reasons, then you would probably not have any morality-based hangups about shoving documents up your ass and taking them across enemy lines.
It's a good business decision, sure. But see, MSFT is a convicted monopoly. Their business decisions are supposed to be limited to those things which don't stifle competition. However, since our government is owned by corporations, and the people who are supposed to be enforcing this are ignorant of technology, the monopoly rating has no meaning. That's what we bash.
I think I didn't make myself clear (my fault). It's certainly not a bad way to make a living, if you truly enjoy it. I'm doing software right now because it's my marketable skill. I enjoy the design aspect of software, but the corporate lifestyle (and having to be around rank yuppie scum for 1/3rd of my life) is wearing me down.
What I meant was that if I'm not the doing something that I really love by the time 20 years have gone by, I hope I'm dead, because that kind of life might as well be death.
I think everyone has already heard the "if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music" quote,
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The corporation is its own entity. That's the whole point of a corporation - the business' liabilities are incurred by the corporation, not by its owners, so that if it fails, the owners don't lose their asses.
When you attack a corporation, you attack a business entity. The owners (shareholders) have nothing to do with it; in fact shareholders have a right to anonymity. Why do you think nobody goes to jail when Exxon destroys hundreds of miles of Alaskan coastline, but if you take your dirty oil and dump it in the storm drain and get caughty you get fined and maybe thrown in jail? It's because the shareholders aren't personally liable for the actions of the corporation. Again. That's the whole point of the corporation.
This takes a leap of one level of abstraction to get, so I can see why a lot of people don't comprehend this. Libertarians and conservatives tend to be concrete-reasoning keep-it-simple-stupid types that can't recognize a non-corporeal entity - unless it's a middle eastern diety that's been pounded into their head from birth.
Business != military.
It's this line of thinking that leads to things like example firings and predatory practices. You don't just want to make more money than Competitor X, you want to CRUSH Competitor X.
When Sun Tzu started being taught in MBA classes was when western civilization started to decline.
When peace has a dollar figure attached to it, it's a lot more likely to happen.
I'm sorry, I'm not buying this shit.
Calling myself "nerd" gives me no power at all, Lord Vader. I draw my strength from my character, not from words.
Some things are inherently wrong. Labels are.
I don't play "power" games in my personal life. Only people that know me personally would have enough info about me to call me names - so if they want to call me names, they leave my personal life.
Republicans want only themselves and their inner circles to get rich. They do not want any new entries into this inner circle, nor do they want anyone but lifetime republicans to approach it.
There are well-off people, typified by your standard yuppie, and there are the rich, typified by the Bush family and Cheney. George W doesn't want you to be rich. Cheney wants his Halliburton buddies to be rich. If you have no more soul than to throw in with that lot, go fuck yourself.
then I hope you vote for yourself. What interest does a rich man have in making other people richer? If you think that republicans want anyone but themselves to be wealthy you're smoking the best crack in the world.
that came out as whining and self-victimizing. Let me clarify: I don't use all of this shit as an excuse for anything. I'm just saying that some people are more affected by peer abuse than others.
That's where we differ.
Bravo for you for overcoming it, but I'm betting it wasn't really that bad in the first place. If it was just physical abuse, you didn't get shit for being a nerd. You can fight back and stop that. Insults aren't that bad, either, unless you start believing them. I started lifting weights when I was a sophomore in HS and that made most of these guys too afraid of me to mess with me. I only had to get in one fight to make the whole school stop.
It's the calculated conspiratorial bullying that comes from all angles, that takes advantage of your lack of social skills, that really breaks you. It points out both your faults and their strengths and lowers your status at the same time it raises theirs.
I didn't survive everything they threw at me. I'm still affected by it every day in some way. I'm a nervous wreck in crowds, I have serious issues with trusting anyone who wants to do anything for me (a favorite mindfuck of the people where I'm from is to set you up with a generous act and pull it out from under you when you're most visible) and I can barely function in a situation where I interact with an authority figure, because where I'm from the teachers and school admin were in on the persecution, too. The first of the school shooting cases of the 90s (Scott Pennington) happened in a school district in the same area.
Damn. It's been a long time since I talked about all of this.
So, you'll have to forgive me if I don't think that it's cute or a fair turnaround to call myself a nerd or a geek.
In the above:
s/oppressed geeks/oppressed jocks
s/so Springer/some Springer
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I don't buy into that. I mean, I understand where they're coming from, but I think it has the opposite effect than they intend. Blacks calling themselves n* especially - it just makes it a black thing instead of a racist white thing. I personally don't want to be labeled as anything.
Those poor oppressed geeks and preachy fucking Jesus freaks.
Colorado is the shallowest state in the nation. I lived in Colorado Springs for a while. The last straw was when the local TV news (I believe it was the NBC affiliate there) ran a story that ridiculed fat people. I mean, they were showing shots of overweight people and pointing an laughing on camera. ON THE NEWS. Not so Springer type shit, but the newscast that's supposed to be taken serious. Fuck Colorado and fuck anyone who chooses to live there.
Nerd is an epithet, not a badge of honor. That's like saying we're proud to be motherfuckers or something.
I see in this a downright diabolical urge to take a hand in the lives and deaths of every single human being on the planet. George Bush wants you to die, basically. He wants you to die from Alzheimer's, or Parkinson's, or from organ failure or any number of the conditions that kill older folks. He wants to be there at your bedside and laugh in your face as everything goes dark. He can say that you're with Jesus or something, that he's fulfilled God's wish to see everyone dead, but-- isn't that creepy? Isn't that just a little freakish?
It's not creepy or freakish when you think that you are the second coming of Christ himself, sent to lead a crusade to conquer Babylon and the holy land for Christendom.
I am convinced that Bush believes this. He would turn the USA into a Christian version of Taliban-led Afghanistan if he had the power to do so - and we're handing him more of it every day.
1) let a few democrats win, but only those that are republicans in disguise.
2) do not allow any positions of real power to fall to non-republican candidates
3) continue to enslave the people through simple entertainment, cognitive dissonance, and SSRIs for those that the cognitive dissonance doesn't work on.
4) profit
Translated:
Ship 1: "I want chicken, I want liver"
Ship 2: "Meow Mix Meow Mix please deliver"
So how does this differs from any other organized religion?
a winner is you !!
I used to play TFC under this name. People would keep asking me if I was asian. *shakes head*
Q: What did the mathematician name his daughter?
A: Constance
Maybe they were screening him for "smuggling" duty. If you're comfortable with anal penetration for sexual reasons, then you would probably not have any morality-based hangups about shoving documents up your ass and taking them across enemy lines.
It's a good business decision, sure. But see, MSFT is a convicted monopoly. Their business decisions are supposed to be limited to those things which don't stifle competition. However, since our government is owned by corporations, and the people who are supposed to be enforcing this are ignorant of technology, the monopoly rating has no meaning. That's what we bash.
I think I didn't make myself clear (my fault). It's certainly not a bad way to make a living, if you truly enjoy it. I'm doing software right now because it's my marketable skill. I enjoy the design aspect of software, but the corporate lifestyle (and having to be around rank yuppie scum for 1/3rd of my life) is wearing me down.
What I meant was that if I'm not the doing something that I really love by the time 20 years have gone by, I hope I'm dead, because that kind of life might as well be death.
If I'm still working in software after 20 years, I hope someone shoots me and puts me out of my misery.
I think everyone has already heard the "if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music" quote,
Where do you think the idea for raves came from?
My company did the same thing with the 401k. they stole a bunch of my money without asking me if I wanted to be on the plan or not.
they issue shotguns in the military, too, you know.