There are different definitions of punk - remove punk from my statement and use the term anarchist, does it make sense now? If so excuse my out of context use of punk and use just anarchist. If it does not please elaborate - what defines the use of the term "Nazi" outside of the actual WWII Nazi's is debatable.
My personal use of the modern term Nazi usually parallels Fascism (which also has a debatable/argued definition) and involves a lot of authoritarianism. This is why I reference the video game laws in particular, and yes I consider the enforcement of anti-Nazi laws in Europe to be very ironically Nazi-like. The Nazi's are being suppressed and outlawed and suppressed in a way that is undeniably similar to the way the Nazi's suppressed and outlawed the Jews. I have no love for Nazi's, but as one who embraces freedom I find the suppression of someones political beliefs, however horrible and objectionable they may be, through legal means to be wrong.
There are however pocket communities in all race groups that are very much racist and there are geographic locations where it's very much alive. I live in Houston and the mainstream part of Houston is about as race blind as it gets, however there are pocket neighborhoods of every race imaginable where racism is very much alive. I was friends with a couple, black male, white female, that returned to an Asian restaurant in a very Asian neighborhood that they had been introduced to by their Asian friends. Without their Asian friends there nobody waited on them, after 45 minutes they left. In the "blended" areas little to no racism exist overall - this is one example, I've heard of similar stories in every imaginable combination of races.
I'm mostly white, were you not to know I'm some weird fraction native due to getting it from multiple parts of the family (more than an 1/8th less than 1/4th) you wouldn't think me otherwise. I moved to a small unincorporated community outside of Houston and it actually took me a little while to notice it was too white. I didn't hear the stories about the area until later.
Most of the Baton Rouge area - where I do spend a lot of time - has a lot of Black vs. White tension that as far as I can tell is shared by both groups equally in responsibility for perpetuation.
I have not problem using racial slurs to refer to the racist sub-groups of any community, as a racist sub-group they deserve the label. That's why I don't have trouble calling a Redneck a Redneck. I consider it as big of a slur as the ones I'm not allowed to say because I'm considered white. For the record white males are the only group still legally, and sometimes mandatorialy , discriminated against based on race/gender in the US. This has little effect in upper income families, but it can be devastating in lower income families. My grandfather didn't get his papers to say he was an Indian, because SURPRISE, discrimination. The other kids on the reservation decided he was too white to be cool so he left the reservation hating his own heritage due to the way he was treated. He actually had full siblings that looked less white that got along fine. As a result I've was pretty told I was passed over for getting hired at AIG because they needed to hire a minority or two first (not such a loss after all considering what happened a year later), not to mention I didn't qualify for most "must be female or minority" (white male need not apply) scholarships. Did I mention racism isn't a unique attribute to any one race?
You're one of those people who's allowed Obama to trip the religious centers in your brain much like Apple users (are you one of those too?).
How can bribing (the Louisiana Purchase), threatening (the Pelosi guard dog), and generally holding the Congress hostage to push a social health care bill exempt him from being a socialist? Love it or hate it your boy Obama is a socialist, hung out with socialist in college, and read socialist propaganda in college.
You started out by striking me out.
My hero's are Andrew Jackson, Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Mark Twain (for other reasons), and George Carlin for putting modern politics into perspective. Liberals like to claim Carlin, they also like to claim Douglas Adams which I very much enjoyed for the same reasons I enjoyed George Carlin.
You need to lower your dosage of Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore.
the surreal planetoids and environments are definitely starting to trip me out a little. C.R.U.S.H. is one of my favorite games (on my PSP), and Time FCUK certainly held my interest.
Hitler, Mussolini, FDR, and Castro are Left Wing Fascist.
McCarthy was a Right Wing Fascist. I have trouble finding many individual right-wing fascist of note, however I do consider most religious fascism movements to be right wing including many of the Catholic ones. I consider the "blue laws" still on the books to be right wing fascism as well has prohibition, however it's hard to find a name that really stands out to pin these on.
I have trouble determining if the ultra-conservatism the Al-Qaeda tries to enforce outweighs the ultra-radical nature by which they chose to push their agenda or not, so Al-Qaeda, being fascist without a doubt, is difficult for me to pin a left/right on.
Nazi's hated communist, Hitler did what he could to dissociate the similarities between Socialism and Communism, much as today's Progressives try to disassociate social programs from socialism. I actually have a little admiration for people who call themselves Socialist, it beats the deniers who call themselves Progressives and Liberals (Liberal being a term corrupted to a point that makes it's real/original meaning unusable). Under the Nazi regime nearly every facet of life was controlled by the state, education, raising for children, employment, etc... Many businesses were "privately owned" but the ownership was little more than a shell in name and the companies were still mostly run by the party if they were allowed to continue to exist (think FDR's NRA and the Blue Eagle). To acquire new employment permission of the previous employer had to be obtained, most employment went into supporting the war (much like what happened in the U.S. only more regulated). Hitler had a diet plan in place he planned to slowly impose on his people, he had homedic medical plans he intended to impose and only got the first parts of most of his plans out the door before the war ended. Hitlers Germany was very much a socialist construct and was increasingly so as time progressed.
As for the rest of your comments - what team are you talking about as my team? I don't watch TV, nor do I intentionally listen to it, though it is often on in my work environment. Your Fox News references are invalid as I don't watch TV.
Are you calling me a Republican? If so I feel insulted. I do not play for either team in the Republicrat league.
I've dealt with many professional liars, company management, lawyers, police, and salesmen, you come across to me as an extremest team player on the Democrat side of the Republicrat league. FYI, it doesn't matter which side in that league wins, it's a win for the league and loss for the rest of us and pretty much the same garbage gets enacted.
The definition of Right and Left is obviously blurred in the U.S., and I'm sure it is elsewhere, especially when statist/socialist type movements like Hitlers and Mussolini's are branded as Right Wing in places like Wikipedia, but statist/socialist movements like FDR's and Obama's (the former of which got fan mail from Mussolini who is branded Right Wing) are labeled Left Wing.
I can't stand when people talk politics and bust out left vs. right wing, when the definitions are blurred, especially when the guardians of Wikipedia use selective reference approval, brand anything negative Right and anything positive Left, and guard the articles with the iron fist of tenure.
If they're Neo-Nazi's please call them Neo-Nazi's. If they're something else, please call them something else, Left and Right labels are misused on such a frequent basis they're almost useless anymore. From what I've seen in Germany recently the "real" Neo-Nazi's are people who in power under other labels, and one of they ways they act like Nazi's is by quashing all reference to Nazi's and outlawing every video game they can. From what I can tell modern Neo-Nazi's are mostly punk anarchist in Germany, and in the U.S. they're usually ignorant racist rednecks. In any case they're the equivalent to every other racist extremist groups akin to MS-13, Triads, Black Panthers, etc..... Since when does a crime syndicate/gangster group really deserve a Left Vs. Right label?
Agreed, though I've actually started to like the limited motion sensing on the nunchuck+Wiimote version of controlling Mario Kart I still like the Gamecube control option and my girlfriend prefers the Gamecube control hands down. Picking stuff up with a shake on New Super Mario Brothers Wii isn't all that bad, but truthfully I would probably be happier with a mapped button.
Beyond that I really do prefer the classic approach on non-kiddie games across the board.
I really think Sony is making a mistake not updating the PS3. I really think people might be willing to shell out for a new version that had new unheard of features like backwards compatibility with PS2 games, maybe a couple of extra USB ports, and maybe even memory card readers.
I'm with you on the controller sentiment. I put off buying a Wii until last November, I just didn't really want one, the controller being the chief reason. The New Super Mario Brothers being more or less classic in it's use of controls motivated me to get the red system. My kid loves it all the way around, I play NSMB and Mario Kart Wii, both of which could be confused as games using a decidedly non-Wii like control scheme.
On that note my DS games make little to no use of the touch-screen/stylus.
That's awesome if you're a reasonable tech. On the other hand most home users just ignore it and call their pal pecosdave when they need it fixed, and of course I don't do Windows and I don't the old stack of Dell OEM disk of their OS like I used to in the XP days either.
As a tech who no longer does PC's full time (I haven't in about six years) I don't have a boat load of restore media like I used to. What I get now is a bunch of individual users (friends, families, small jobs) with crashed HDD's and no restore CD's for me to fix their machines with. I've tried searching the less reputable sites for OEM ISO's so I can do legitimate restores, but I haven't had a lot of luck.
My own personal machine that came with Windows 7 on the other hand is good to go. I used Clonezilla to copy the HDD in it's original state before I wiped it and put Kubuntu on it. If I ever feel the need to put Windows 7 on that particular machine in case I decide I sell it/give it away or post lobotomy I can.
I mean, the fact they don't give recovery CD's anymore. Oh, I'm sure a couple of manufacturers do, maybe on a few models, but really don't give out Windows recovery disk anymore.
Has there ever been a case of an anti-suicide contract resulting in someone committing mass murder?
Are you telling me something can't happen unless it's already happened before?
I'm going to argue anti-suicide contracts, at least in the form they were given to workers at this factory are quite rare, however I will go with the insurance example you have given. People have committed suicide in ways to cover it up for family/insurance purposes. There was a case of a guy here in Houston that was proven to have intentionally flattened his own tire with a pocket knife before jumping out in front of traffic to commit suicide so his wife would still benefit. They proved the hole in the tire matched the shape of the knife. Had that incident, or one similar to it, accidentally caused the death of another then it would have happened before. There's been lots of cases similar to his, it's just one that comes to mind.
I would argue anyone who goes apeshit with a knife, sword, or gun in public killing as many people as they can until someone else takes them out effectively committed suicide by cop.
I'm going to argue that you are a troll by attempting to engage me in an argument to prove my point by giving a past example without leaving any room to accept a first case scenario. I'm fairly certain such a thing has happened before, but I have a full time job, two part time jobs (in an attempt to become self employed), and a family. I'm not going to devote many, many hours browsing case files across all 50 states and however many countries I decide to dig through until I find a case that matches the requirements you've taken it upon yourself to set in order for me to win the argument you appear to have established a debate win/lose guideline for. If you would like to dig through historic cases I'll give you a hint, it was generally "against the rules" or frowned upon for those who were oppressed/enslaved to kill themselves, I'm sure you can find a couple of cases related to river boat boilers or cotton gins where suicide and murder went together. That's just historic US slavery, this sort of thing happened everywhere throughout history, just be a little flexible on your interpretations.
I am a proud troll, I've made the front page of the art of trolling multiple times. In this case I am not trolling and seriously think anti-suicide contracts creating an environment where "accidents" happen is a serious thing to consider, even if this case isn't one of those.
It sounds to me like you might have some sort of irrational love for Apple, any time anyone says anything that isn't positive about Apple (this includes neutral statements like my own) the Apple image mod bunch comes out in droves and protects the image of their beloved religious icons. Your statement pretty much backs up my statement. Besides, plenty of people moded me troll already, just click on the my score.
I'm just saying if people want to kill themselves and they sign contracts that prevent their families from collecting benefits if they do they may cause "accidents" so their families can still benefit.
I don't see how any fucktard can interpret that as trolling.
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I fail to see where I referenced a swastika.
There are different definitions of punk - remove punk from my statement and use the term anarchist, does it make sense now? If so excuse my out of context use of punk and use just anarchist. If it does not please elaborate - what defines the use of the term "Nazi" outside of the actual WWII Nazi's is debatable.
My personal use of the modern term Nazi usually parallels Fascism (which also has a debatable/argued definition) and involves a lot of authoritarianism. This is why I reference the video game laws in particular, and yes I consider the enforcement of anti-Nazi laws in Europe to be very ironically Nazi-like. The Nazi's are being suppressed and outlawed and suppressed in a way that is undeniably similar to the way the Nazi's suppressed and outlawed the Jews. I have no love for Nazi's, but as one who embraces freedom I find the suppression of someones political beliefs, however horrible and objectionable they may be, through legal means to be wrong.
Something I've noticed -
Overall racism is going away in the US.
There are however pocket communities in all race groups that are very much racist and there are geographic locations where it's very much alive. I live in Houston and the mainstream part of Houston is about as race blind as it gets, however there are pocket neighborhoods of every race imaginable where racism is very much alive. I was friends with a couple, black male, white female, that returned to an Asian restaurant in a very Asian neighborhood that they had been introduced to by their Asian friends. Without their Asian friends there nobody waited on them, after 45 minutes they left. In the "blended" areas little to no racism exist overall - this is one example, I've heard of similar stories in every imaginable combination of races.
I'm mostly white, were you not to know I'm some weird fraction native due to getting it from multiple parts of the family (more than an 1/8th less than 1/4th) you wouldn't think me otherwise. I moved to a small unincorporated community outside of Houston and it actually took me a little while to notice it was too white. I didn't hear the stories about the area until later.
Most of the Baton Rouge area - where I do spend a lot of time - has a lot of Black vs. White tension that as far as I can tell is shared by both groups equally in responsibility for perpetuation.
I have not problem using racial slurs to refer to the racist sub-groups of any community, as a racist sub-group they deserve the label. That's why I don't have trouble calling a Redneck a Redneck. I consider it as big of a slur as the ones I'm not allowed to say because I'm considered white. For the record white males are the only group still legally, and sometimes mandatorialy , discriminated against based on race/gender in the US. This has little effect in upper income families, but it can be devastating in lower income families. My grandfather didn't get his papers to say he was an Indian, because SURPRISE, discrimination. The other kids on the reservation decided he was too white to be cool so he left the reservation hating his own heritage due to the way he was treated. He actually had full siblings that looked less white that got along fine. As a result I've was pretty told I was passed over for getting hired at AIG because they needed to hire a minority or two first (not such a loss after all considering what happened a year later), not to mention I didn't qualify for most "must be female or minority" (white male need not apply) scholarships. Did I mention racism isn't a unique attribute to any one race?
You're one of those people who's allowed Obama to trip the religious centers in your brain much like Apple users (are you one of those too?).
How can bribing (the Louisiana Purchase), threatening (the Pelosi guard dog), and generally holding the Congress hostage to push a social health care bill exempt him from being a socialist? Love it or hate it your boy Obama is a socialist, hung out with socialist in college, and read socialist propaganda in college.
You started out by striking me out.
My hero's are Andrew Jackson, Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Mark Twain (for other reasons), and George Carlin for putting modern politics into perspective. Liberals like to claim Carlin, they also like to claim Douglas Adams which I very much enjoyed for the same reasons I enjoyed George Carlin.
You need to lower your dosage of Rachel Maddow and Michael Moore.
the surreal planetoids and environments are definitely starting to trip me out a little. C.R.U.S.H. is one of my favorite games (on my PSP), and Time FCUK certainly held my interest.
Alice deserves an honorable mention.
I guess I thrive on surreal?
Fascism is neither Left nor Right wing.
Hitler, Mussolini, FDR, and Castro are Left Wing Fascist.
McCarthy was a Right Wing Fascist. I have trouble finding many individual right-wing fascist of note, however I do consider most religious fascism movements to be right wing including many of the Catholic ones. I consider the "blue laws" still on the books to be right wing fascism as well has prohibition, however it's hard to find a name that really stands out to pin these on.
I have trouble determining if the ultra-conservatism the Al-Qaeda tries to enforce outweighs the ultra-radical nature by which they chose to push their agenda or not, so Al-Qaeda, being fascist without a doubt, is difficult for me to pin a left/right on.
Nazi's hated communist, Hitler did what he could to dissociate the similarities between Socialism and Communism, much as today's Progressives try to disassociate social programs from socialism. I actually have a little admiration for people who call themselves Socialist, it beats the deniers who call themselves Progressives and Liberals (Liberal being a term corrupted to a point that makes it's real/original meaning unusable). Under the Nazi regime nearly every facet of life was controlled by the state, education, raising for children, employment, etc... Many businesses were "privately owned" but the ownership was little more than a shell in name and the companies were still mostly run by the party if they were allowed to continue to exist (think FDR's NRA and the Blue Eagle). To acquire new employment permission of the previous employer had to be obtained, most employment went into supporting the war (much like what happened in the U.S. only more regulated). Hitler had a diet plan in place he planned to slowly impose on his people, he had homedic medical plans he intended to impose and only got the first parts of most of his plans out the door before the war ended. Hitlers Germany was very much a socialist construct and was increasingly so as time progressed.
As for the rest of your comments - what team are you talking about as my team? I don't watch TV, nor do I intentionally listen to it, though it is often on in my work environment. Your Fox News references are invalid as I don't watch TV.
Are you calling me a Republican? If so I feel insulted. I do not play for either team in the Republicrat league.
I've dealt with many professional liars, company management, lawyers, police, and salesmen, you come across to me as an extremest team player on the Democrat side of the Republicrat league. FYI, it doesn't matter which side in that league wins, it's a win for the league and loss for the rest of us and pretty much the same garbage gets enacted.
People think I'm stupid for being a Libertarian. I've never taken them seriously, because look at the source. I like the article, thanks.
The definition of Right and Left is obviously blurred in the U.S., and I'm sure it is elsewhere, especially when statist/socialist type movements like Hitlers and Mussolini's are branded as Right Wing in places like Wikipedia, but statist/socialist movements like FDR's and Obama's (the former of which got fan mail from Mussolini who is branded Right Wing) are labeled Left Wing.
I can't stand when people talk politics and bust out left vs. right wing, when the definitions are blurred, especially when the guardians of Wikipedia use selective reference approval, brand anything negative Right and anything positive Left, and guard the articles with the iron fist of tenure.
If they're Neo-Nazi's please call them Neo-Nazi's. If they're something else, please call them something else, Left and Right labels are misused on such a frequent basis they're almost useless anymore. From what I've seen in Germany recently the "real" Neo-Nazi's are people who in power under other labels, and one of they ways they act like Nazi's is by quashing all reference to Nazi's and outlawing every video game they can. From what I can tell modern Neo-Nazi's are mostly punk anarchist in Germany, and in the U.S. they're usually ignorant racist rednecks. In any case they're the equivalent to every other racist extremist groups akin to MS-13, Triads, Black Panthers, etc..... Since when does a crime syndicate/gangster group really deserve a Left Vs. Right label?
Agreed, though I've actually started to like the limited motion sensing on the nunchuck+Wiimote version of controlling Mario Kart I still like the Gamecube control option and my girlfriend prefers the Gamecube control hands down. Picking stuff up with a shake on New Super Mario Brothers Wii isn't all that bad, but truthfully I would probably be happier with a mapped button.
Beyond that I really do prefer the classic approach on non-kiddie games across the board.
Headshots on the heads of your friends Mii characters.
I really think Sony is making a mistake not updating the PS3. I really think people might be willing to shell out for a new version that had new unheard of features like backwards compatibility with PS2 games, maybe a couple of extra USB ports, and maybe even memory card readers.
I'm with you on the controller sentiment. I put off buying a Wii until last November, I just didn't really want one, the controller being the chief reason. The New Super Mario Brothers being more or less classic in it's use of controls motivated me to get the red system. My kid loves it all the way around, I play NSMB and Mario Kart Wii, both of which could be confused as games using a decidedly non-Wii like control scheme.
On that note my DS games make little to no use of the touch-screen/stylus.
This is great. I think other have ripped it off since it was made, but I'm fairly sure this is the original location for that message.
Thank you, that will make life easier next time I get stuck with fixing one of those.
That's awesome if you're a reasonable tech. On the other hand most home users just ignore it and call their pal pecosdave when they need it fixed, and of course I don't do Windows and I don't the old stack of Dell OEM disk of their OS like I used to in the XP days either.
As a tech who no longer does PC's full time (I haven't in about six years) I don't have a boat load of restore media like I used to. What I get now is a bunch of individual users (friends, families, small jobs) with crashed HDD's and no restore CD's for me to fix their machines with. I've tried searching the less reputable sites for OEM ISO's so I can do legitimate restores, but I haven't had a lot of luck.
My own personal machine that came with Windows 7 on the other hand is good to go. I used Clonezilla to copy the HDD in it's original state before I wiped it and put Kubuntu on it. If I ever feel the need to put Windows 7 on that particular machine in case I decide I sell it/give it away or post lobotomy I can.
I mean, the fact they don't give recovery CD's anymore. Oh, I'm sure a couple of manufacturers do, maybe on a few models, but really don't give out Windows recovery disk anymore.
Of course that means having to be in Houston.....
Has there ever been a case of an anti-suicide contract resulting in someone committing mass murder?
Are you telling me something can't happen unless it's already happened before?
I'm going to argue anti-suicide contracts, at least in the form they were given to workers at this factory are quite rare, however I will go with the insurance example you have given. People have committed suicide in ways to cover it up for family/insurance purposes. There was a case of a guy here in Houston that was proven to have intentionally flattened his own tire with a pocket knife before jumping out in front of traffic to commit suicide so his wife would still benefit. They proved the hole in the tire matched the shape of the knife. Had that incident, or one similar to it, accidentally caused the death of another then it would have happened before. There's been lots of cases similar to his, it's just one that comes to mind.
I would argue anyone who goes apeshit with a knife, sword, or gun in public killing as many people as they can until someone else takes them out effectively committed suicide by cop.
I'm going to argue that you are a troll by attempting to engage me in an argument to prove my point by giving a past example without leaving any room to accept a first case scenario. I'm fairly certain such a thing has happened before, but I have a full time job, two part time jobs (in an attempt to become self employed), and a family. I'm not going to devote many, many hours browsing case files across all 50 states and however many countries I decide to dig through until I find a case that matches the requirements you've taken it upon yourself to set in order for me to win the argument you appear to have established a debate win/lose guideline for. If you would like to dig through historic cases I'll give you a hint, it was generally "against the rules" or frowned upon for those who were oppressed/enslaved to kill themselves, I'm sure you can find a couple of cases related to river boat boilers or cotton gins where suicide and murder went together. That's just historic US slavery, this sort of thing happened everywhere throughout history, just be a little flexible on your interpretations.
I am a proud troll, I've made the front page of the art of trolling multiple times. In this case I am not trolling and seriously think anti-suicide contracts creating an environment where "accidents" happen is a serious thing to consider, even if this case isn't one of those.
the fact you are bringing up anti-suicide pacts indicates some irrational spite against Apple
Or it could be because it was recently covered on slashdot.
It sounds to me like you might have some sort of irrational love for Apple, any time anyone says anything that isn't positive about Apple (this includes neutral statements like my own) the Apple image mod bunch comes out in droves and protects the image of their beloved religious icons. Your statement pretty much backs up my statement. Besides, plenty of people moded me troll already, just click on the my score.
I'm just saying if people want to kill themselves and they sign contracts that prevent their families from collecting benefits if they do they may cause "accidents" so their families can still benefit.
I don't see how any fucktard can interpret that as trolling.
Is this what happens when you make everyone sign no suicide contracts?
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