American academia is lousy with left-wing sycophants, who know full well that their inflated salaries are supported by government interference in the student loan market, and taxpayer-supported direct funding. If more than a handful of them spoke up, they'd find out just how easily their overlords can snatch that titty away.
Justice, my ass. The current Ruling Party regime claims that they can hold people without trial indefinitely, kill them without so much as an indictment (let alone a trial and conviction), kill civilians in other countries without a declaration of war, and as Snowden informed us, commit billions of felonies on a routine basis.
Snowded would have to be as stupid as you are to let the government you worship get their hands on him.
You left out the part where Richard Dawson put her on the map. She had just about zero attention for her whining before Dawson smoked her with some of the finest sarcasm I've ever seen from him.
(Though it is often falsely claimed that Catharine MacKinnon has holds that "all sex is rape.")
That was Dworkin's hobby horse. MacKinnon is the one who said that women should be allowed to unilaterally void a contract because they're raised to be accommodating or some bullshit along those lines. The bottom line being that she wanted women to be able to hold men to a contract but renege at will themselves. Just think about how eager anyone would be to do business with a woman under those rules.
Andrea Dworkin, one of the more radical of that generation of feminists, made it abundantly clear that her primary goal was protecting women from sexual violence, rape, and prostitution.
You're leaving out the fact that she claimed that all sex is rape.
All this time I thought that the Feminist struggle was about equal rights for all and not revenge.
A couple of decades ago, you would have been right. The problem with present-day "feminism" is the same as with all reform movements at their end stage. Once they've accomplished their reasonable goals, the reasonable people who participated in the reform movement go on to other pursuits, leaving behind the dregs. In the case of the labor movement, once upon a time they achieved major breakthroughs in workplace safety, but today labor unions are nothing but tax collecting organizations that rob workers of their union dues to buy hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians. The civil rights movement has degenerated from having leaders like MLK who fought for equality before the law, to dregs like Jackson and Sharpton peddling guilt and threatening employers with boycotts if they don't get paid off and buy "diversity training".
Feminism has followed a similar path. It's become a self-parody.
BTW, the "Cathy Davidson" who posted the comment bitching about "juvenile" parodies apparently is the same English professor from Duke who was among the notorious "Gang of 88" ( Duke faculty who piled on the false rape accusation bandwagon when Crystal Mangum tried to ruin the lives of several innocent lacrosse players.)
Sure they are, but they're also in business to make money (presumably), and they have to decide whether hosting this hilarious parody is a net plus or minus to their bottom line.
It looks to me that the Github's deletion act is a violation of free speech.
No, the right to free speech doesn't include a right to have anyone else support your speech. It's github's prerogative to delete it if they wish, just as it's my prerogative to call them a pack of cowards for doing so.
If his job is to prevent terrorism, he's right... he can't do that without a substantial surveillance dragnet that tramples the 4th Amendment.
He can't do it with that dragnet, either. All this NSA dragnet shit was in place for YEARS at the time of the Boston Marathon bombing, and it wasn't worth shit.
You don't think the smoking carcass would own all of the patents and make it impossible for a bunch of new startups to get into the industry?
Patents are assets. Assets are auctioned off in bankruptcy. The owner of a patent benefits from licensing the patent for fees, not from sitting on a patent and preventing anyone from using it.
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Have you considered getting a job in the productive side of the economy?
-jcr
To be fair, I know one very talented engineer who went to Harvard. I credit him, not Harvard, for his abilities.
-jcr
American academia is lousy with left-wing sycophants, who know full well that their inflated salaries are supported by government interference in the student loan market, and taxpayer-supported direct funding. If more than a handful of them spoke up, they'd find out just how easily their overlords can snatch that titty away.
-jcr
I expected more from a Harvard student.
Heh. I don't think you've met enough Harvard students.
-jcr
If he'd just called it in from a pay phone, they'd never have found him.
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leader of the country,
Nope. Leader of one of three co-equal branches of the federal government. He's not my boss, and he's not yours, either.
-jcr
The TAXPAYERS took that risk, and we took it involuntarily.
GM should have been liquidated.
-jcr
Justice, my ass. The current Ruling Party regime claims that they can hold people without trial indefinitely, kill them without so much as an indictment (let alone a trial and conviction), kill civilians in other countries without a declaration of war, and as Snowden informed us, commit billions of felonies on a routine basis.
Snowded would have to be as stupid as you are to let the government you worship get their hands on him.
-jcr
Cowardice? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Snowden is a hero. You are a brain-dead bootlicking jackass.
-jcr
Incompetence at a government agency that routinely classifies their fuck-ups to avoid repercussions? I'm shocked!
-jcr
s/Dawson/Dawkins/. Really need to double check before I post...
-jcr
SRS has been trying to take over the culture on 4chan for the past 2 years,
Seriously?
I don't go to 4chan very often, but that sounds hilarious.
-jcr
You left out the part where Richard Dawson put her on the map. She had just about zero attention for her whining before Dawson smoked her with some of the finest sarcasm I've ever seen from him.
-jcr
(Though it is often falsely claimed that Catharine MacKinnon has holds that "all sex is rape.")
That was Dworkin's hobby horse. MacKinnon is the one who said that women should be allowed to unilaterally void a contract because they're raised to be accommodating or some bullshit along those lines. The bottom line being that she wanted women to be able to hold men to a contract but renege at will themselves. Just think about how eager anyone would be to do business with a woman under those rules.
-jcr
Andrea Dworkin, one of the more radical of that generation of feminists, made it abundantly clear that her primary goal was protecting women from sexual violence, rape, and prostitution.
You're leaving out the fact that she claimed that all sex is rape.
-jcr
All this time I thought that the Feminist struggle was about equal rights for all and not revenge.
A couple of decades ago, you would have been right. The problem with present-day "feminism" is the same as with all reform movements at their end stage. Once they've accomplished their reasonable goals, the reasonable people who participated in the reform movement go on to other pursuits, leaving behind the dregs. In the case of the labor movement, once upon a time they achieved major breakthroughs in workplace safety, but today labor unions are nothing but tax collecting organizations that rob workers of their union dues to buy hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians. The civil rights movement has degenerated from having leaders like MLK who fought for equality before the law, to dregs like Jackson and Sharpton peddling guilt and threatening employers with boycotts if they don't get paid off and buy "diversity training".
Feminism has followed a similar path. It's become a self-parody.
-jcr
BTW, the "Cathy Davidson" who posted the comment bitching about "juvenile" parodies apparently is the same English professor from Duke who was among the notorious "Gang of 88" ( Duke faculty who piled on the false rape accusation bandwagon when Crystal Mangum tried to ruin the lives of several innocent lacrosse players.)
-jcr
Sure they are, but they're also in business to make money (presumably), and they have to decide whether hosting this hilarious parody is a net plus or minus to their bottom line.
-jcr
It looks to me that the Github's deletion act is a violation of free speech.
No, the right to free speech doesn't include a right to have anyone else support your speech. It's github's prerogative to delete it if they wish, just as it's my prerogative to call them a pack of cowards for doing so.
-jcr
If his job is to prevent terrorism, he's right... he can't do that without a substantial surveillance dragnet that tramples the 4th Amendment.
He can't do it with that dragnet, either. All this NSA dragnet shit was in place for YEARS at the time of the Boston Marathon bombing, and it wasn't worth shit.
-jcr
If his job can't be done without violating the fourth amendment, then his job should be eliminated.
-jcr
But you can get that just by fedexing copies of your backups to friends in different cities.
-jcr
Not anymore.
Switzerland stood up to the nazis, but they caved to the American IRS. There is no more reason to trust a Swiss bank today.
-jcr
You don't think the smoking carcass would own all of the patents and make it impossible for a bunch of new startups to get into the industry?
Patents are assets. Assets are auctioned off in bankruptcy. The owner of a patent benefits from licensing the patent for fees, not from sitting on a patent and preventing anyone from using it.
-jcr
Certainly far more useful than chemistry
Nope. Basic understanding of chemistry can keep people from mixing ammonia and bleach to clean the tub.
-jcr