Oh no, There are a huge number of American's who are perfectly clear what's going on, and we have no illusions to what our nation has evolved into over the last 30 years, though as you suggest a vast mouth breathing, knuckle dragging majority has voted for its own slow motion suicide. As Mussolini said, fascism is the corporate state, and we are now all becoming pawns in a global power grab by monied interests. Strangely, we fought WWII to stop the tyranny of fascism, while at the very same monied interests here invested in the Nazi's and laundered their money in the U.S., England and Switzerland. The bankers and CEOs are the threat to liberty, justice and the advancement of the human condition. Perhaps it is time for a new fight for the dignity of the human spirit.
Friend, the Americans aren't too happy with America right now. What they're (American Corporations) doing to your country they're doing vigorously all over America, and they're a damn site closer here, so if its chafing you, its frigging killing us.
This strikes me as a powerful indication of the state of the world. The Nation state is in decline. The multi national corporation is calling the tune, and the laws are now being adjusted to ensure that any infraction against the all mighty corporation anywhere on the planet is dealt with swiftly and with overwhelming force. The new terrorist is anyone who isn't consuming his proper allotment and paying his bills. Now might be a good time to take our world back.
In 6th grade I was tested for a number of things when I broke the standard tests. The best guess pegged my IQ at around 165-170. By that time I had mastered algebra, had a firm grasp on a couple dozen sciences, and created a number of interesting small inventions (I reinvented the DC motor and came up with a simple rotary engine.)
The next 3 years of my education inside the LA School District involved watching old movies, repeating the times tables, taking field trips (which in fact I found quite enjoyable) and creative writing. This was an attempt to keep me occupied while my peers caught up, which of course never happened... for obvious reasons it couldn't. However, they pissed away the most important educational period of my life. I could have accelerated and been done with my traditional education by the time I was 13 or 14, and moved on to college perhaps completing that by the time I was 18. Our schools are not designed to teach the bright, and in fact, are often punitive to intelligent and creative young people. In a time when we most need these traits fully empowered and present in our culture, such behavior from our leaders and institutions is criminal. However, it is consistent with the large scale conversion of the American mouth-breathing public into obedient, subservient consumption units in the vast corporate engine that is our culture.
Perhaps it time for a new revolution. One in what's possible for being human.
MMMmmmmmm, I love the smell of roasting fundies at the airport. It smells like the second coming!
This was a parody, this is only a parody, had it been a real malapropism, there would have been no disclaimer, only a pithy insult, once again, this was only a parody... for those too young to get the reference, please look up "Apocalypse Now" associated with the phrase "I love the smell"
Though folks willing to be nuked for "Security" reasons can't be surprised when successive generation get smaller and smaller, and more and more mutant... just saying life is full of trade-offs.
You missed the obvious allusions to The Guyver and Ripley's Personal Forklift from Aliens... clearly these guys are out to stitch as many movie cliches together into a single event as is humanly possible. Maybe they can add a proton beam for ghost Busting!
Friend, I consider myself a Christian, but these days, there are so many who have a fundamentalist belief system, and take every word of the Gospel as basic fact without the faintest consideration for context, physics or the nature of the conversations contained in both the Old and New Testaments. That the entire world was flooded when Naoh saved the animals... where did enough water to flood the world come from and where did it go to? The magical thinking is shocking. That the world is thousands of years old and that people lived with the dinosaurs like the Flintstones. These too are beliefs grounded in the same scriptures that you quote, and these good and decent people have given up all rational consideration to instead cling to mysticism and magical thinking. The universe is so vast in size and time and we can see such a precious small slice of that eternity, that is it perfectly appropriate for men of knowledge to probe the mysteries and hold faith in those places for which answers may forever exceed our grasp. I am simply concerned that too many would avoid the light of simple truth, for fear that it would threaten their clockwork belief of God and this universe.
How do you reconcile Georgia Rep. Paul Broun saying in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince people that they do not need a savior? Worse, that this man has immediate and direct influence on the future of scientific research in the United States. Do you question his faith, his understanding of his religion, his sect or orthodoxy, his belief or his sanity? I appreciate that there is a critical need for ethicists in the science community, to look at the impact of our growing technological information and how we can best apply our growing understanding to serve the greater interests of humanity. That neither explains or excuses a growing number of people who have turned away from truth and wisdom in the name of religion, or the religious leaders who would have them behave this way. Part of the problem, is that the Bible is a book, most of which was written in a context specific to a rowdy dessert people living in the Sinai Peninsula 5 to 2 millennia ago. The amazing thing is that so much of the human content is so completely valid and appropriate thousands of years later. The prophesies, that are only now coming to pass. Most amazing is the amazing accuracy of the historical content as every year archeologist discover some new dig which validates the descriptions portrayed in the Bible. That said, the book is a gift from God, and even contains the fascinating process by which men gathered the Word and selected from all the Christian writings to come to a place where it was decided this is our religious text. It reflects the strong Jewish influence in the early church, and the desire to keep the early church as close as possible to Jewish faith, so the Gospel of Mary was left out. The most powerful thing about Christianity, has been its spiritual core of Love and Service. As it spread its ability to coop pagan culture and symbols and still pass the core belief along intact and healthy.
Its time for Christians and all other religions that are the children of Abraham, to let go of the dogma. Stop trying to force people to obey your beliefs on threat of death. Its time to honor the Prince of Peace, by really being peaceful.
Use the Scientific American model of a reasonable single price for digital subscription with full access to all past editions for let's say 20 years? That would totally rock. The only problem I see here is how they're going to differentiate themselves from free content and news aggregators.
This is one of the things at the heart of the dying newspaper industry. We need a healthy, and independent new industry, because corruption flourishes in the darkness and one of the only things that can prevent this kind of social cancer is a free and independent Fourth Estate.
By the way, the current state of affairs in America, where virtually all sources of news and information are being concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer owners and that information is being shaped by the political and ideological bent of those fewer and fewer owners. It may in fact be the greatest threats to our way of life facing us today. There have been countless recent incidents where the Constitution and its guaranteed civil rights have been virtually decimated and the press should have been screaming its head off, and I see not a printed word nor do I hear a spoken comment. Add to that the growing attempt to turn the internet into a TV channel, and the silence would then be complete. Freedom loving people everywhere need to determine where the good sources of information, and make certain those sources are protected, invested in, and celebrated as heroic forces in a political system that has clearly lost its way. By the way, the whistle blowers and printers of government secrets are heroes and patriots, and we need to protect them the way we protect national treasures.
Email clients today allow you to easily and effectively organize all of your email Addys in one UI, neatly broken out by Source and Content Folders. So I'm seeing Alto as a big fat question mark, except for the fact that AOL is now a company looking for a raison d'etre.
So they're gonna aggregate everybody's email, suck out the interesting bits, grow huge amounts of data on millions of users... OH, now I see... they wanna be a PoBoy Facebook. Well why didn't you guys just come out and say "Hey we need a cup of data to stay alive, please give a starving corporation a break."
Maybe y'all could invent a round thing to move heavy objects on.
There are both state and federal "Minimum Sentencing Guidelines" that judges were REQUIRED to follow, and in some cases lead to ridiculous prison terms for what would otherwise be petty crimes. If you want to read about it start here. This has nothing to do with juries, it has everything to do with laws passed by representatives on "Hard on Crime" planks and basically took crimes that deserved a wrist slap and shot them in the head instead. One more reason we have the largest prison population in the Western World.
That's right Sweety, I was just being a gentleman... I was driving home and bam there she was running down the street with her pants on fire, so I stopped the car, ran out, and patted her out then gallantly offered her my briefs. She looked cold! I asked her if she needed to go to the hospital, and she said no, just home, so I took her home, and got my briefs back, and that's how the pubic hair got there. I guess I'm just a Boy Scout at heart!
Unless there's a kinky thief going around borrowing people's panties, you gotta tap dance real hard to keep from catching a frying pan with your face
In fact a young woman, an honor student in Jr. College, unwisely gave her boyfriend's mother a ride. The woman was a meth addict and while out of sight in the house bought a small bag of her drug of choice. They left together and were picked up a couple blocks later in a drug sting operation. The young woman was found guilty of transporting someone involved in buying an illegal substance, itself a felony and because of hard on crime mandatory sentencing was given an automatic 8 year prison sentence. The judge later said this was a horrible mishandling of justice, but that automatic sentencing leaves him no alternatives and that good and decent people, guilty of no more than a lapse in judgement or simple gullibility are spending hard prison time.
This isn't to say that all dogs are poorly trained, only that there are unscrupulous police forces employing animals that are expressly trained to respond to their handlers, giving them a sign on command to provide the local police the false probable cause needed to perform an illegal search.
In fact there are plenty of well trained animals and scrupulous security forces, you just can't assume that you're necessarily dealing with one anywhere you go.
Hmm, we take a small snip of your hair, we find sea salt and silica dust, a spandex fiber, traces of sunblock and tanning lotion and a tiny crumb from a hotdog bun. Looking at all these elements and their isotopes we can say without a doubt, you spent Sunday at Venice Beach. Oh, and the smaller traces of Avian and Perrier tell us you think you're a snob and have no imagination. Haven't you ever heard of Badoit or Volvic? OH! and a flea! You have a dog.
Red headed girl who was able to accurately identify where her boyfriend has been when she discovered a blond pubic hair in his briefs... he wasn't blond. I believe this technology has been around for a while now.
Please tell me you're just goofing and I'm not sensitive enough to tell... cuz if you actually mean these words I would have to consider you as someone so devoid of even a hint of a clue, that your opinions should come with a "Bozoid - Warning" attached.
If Microsoft is so much more valuable than Apple, then why is their stock in the toilet, their market share on a rocket sled to Hades, and their brightest marketing idea to throw everything overboard and do the Apple way. This would seem to fly in the very face of everything you said. Wouldn't it?!!!
And then getting you started on free software, I wouldn't dream of it. The resulting tsunami of stupid would endanger us all. What do you think then entire internet is written on... network software is overwhelmingly free software. What do you think OSX sits on top of? BSD, that's what. Windows would be locked completely down quietly mumbling to itself in Redmond, WA were it not for the free software that allows it to network with the rest of the world. There are private citizens in the world manufacturing known cures for diseases that aren't otherwise available because there's no money in it for the big pharma companies. These people often give their cures away for free not because they're worthless, but because these people honor life above profit. People who write free code are looking to make the world a better place, and their code is literally their legacy. The fact that you don't comprehend this suggests to me that you have a limited grasp of either value, or the significance of personal contribution. I find that strangely sad and just a little bit pitiful.
Actually double standard is probably not the correct phrasing... sexist maybe, like women don't share in the responsibility for the sexual act. I think the issue at hand involves a little context however. For instance there's never been a case of a woman slipping men Roofies to have sex with them, while the number of women being Roofied seems to be growing exponentially. The number of men who have ever been raped by women numbers in what... small single digits? One in three women in the US will be raped in their lifetime. That's what, $55,000,000 women give or take, and that's just the US, in countries where women are object or property or worse, rape is as common as passing gas. In fact millions of women are sold into sexual slavery, some as early as late infancy. Men, not so much. So yeah, its true, men don't get a fair shake in the whole drunk sex vs. rape thing. However, if you look at it in the context that our male dominated society tends to use women as semen receptacles... a little backlash is maybe not a bad thing, and if all it does is make you think twice about engaging in stupid, irresponsible, potentially dangerous activities, then maybe alls well that ends well.
The reason they think that is because there are scumbags out there preying on drunk women, or slipping drugs in women's drinks. By the way, its not the number of women who think that, its the number of judges and prosecuting attorneys that think that and I hate to say Bubba, you're on the losing end of that conversation. A drunk woman can't legally consent to sex, therefore you're begging to end up in jail if you take one home. If you're unable to avoid getting stupid drunk, then you should probably avoid drinking in public because you could... accidentally rape someone, wake up with a transvestite, get killed crossing a highway, go to jail for DUI, kill someone with your car, get a disease, hopefully you're getting the point here. Dude, holster your thang, and do not fire it without proper warning and protection. To do less is at least irresponsible, and potentially criminal.
The whole "Moral" conversation is a primate briar patch. Just whose definition of "Right" and "Wrong" are we going to use? Your Parents? Jesus? The Taliban? Jesus had no problem with slavery, it was a normal thing in the world of his time. Now its considered immoral, we do things today without a moments hesitation that would have earned someone an instant stoning in biblical times.
Mostly what people do with morality is judge themselves as superior and others inferior. Leading to the whole I'm going to shove my gawd/beliefs/political view down your throat for your own good. So rather than trying to hang people in the Fun-House mirror that morality is, seeing as there is no "Morality" outside of human interpretation. It would behoove us to come up with something a little more utilitarian, and a wee bit less subjective.
Personally, I vote for workability. This is something we can easily work on together as a society, and come up with objective measures and pragmatic goals inside of. We create a continuum from spitting on the sidewalk at one end to child rape (or pick you pet atrocity to place here) at the other. We look at workable solutions to the misanthrope who commits that act. For the unruly child we explain why we don't spit, and we help him curb his habit. For the child rapist, molester, abuser, we have a city, on an island. They will work hard there the rest of their lives. Because they have restitution to pay for as well as paying for the infrastructure that now houses them. Whatever is left over, is theirs and they can participate in leading otherwise useful and productive lives. What they give up, is the right to ever see another human being younger than they are and the gender of their sexual preference (so in a very real way, sex is no longer a part of their lives.) These people will be moved through their system like cattle, and be given many ways to lead useful lives. If they instead choose violence or hostility, at some point they'll earn the right to be returned to the carbon cycle. No prison. no hatred. No stigma. No judgement. Just action - reaction. You ever notice, nobody has a problem with gravity. We all have gravity wired by the time we're 2 years old. Workability should aspire to be like that. Simple, quick, compassionate, and resolute. You just remove the source of difficulty and treat people like human beings until they prove otherwise.
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Oh no, There are a huge number of American's who are perfectly clear what's going on, and we have no illusions to what our nation has evolved into over the last 30 years, though as you suggest a vast mouth breathing, knuckle dragging majority has voted for its own slow motion suicide. As Mussolini said, fascism is the corporate state, and we are now all becoming pawns in a global power grab by monied interests. Strangely, we fought WWII to stop the tyranny of fascism, while at the very same monied interests here invested in the Nazi's and laundered their money in the U.S., England and Switzerland. The bankers and CEOs are the threat to liberty, justice and the advancement of the human condition. Perhaps it is time for a new fight for the dignity of the human spirit.
Friend, the Americans aren't too happy with America right now. What they're (American Corporations) doing to your country they're doing vigorously all over America, and they're a damn site closer here, so if its chafing you, its frigging killing us.
This strikes me as a powerful indication of the state of the world. The Nation state is in decline. The multi national corporation is calling the tune, and the laws are now being adjusted to ensure that any infraction against the all mighty corporation anywhere on the planet is dealt with swiftly and with overwhelming force. The new terrorist is anyone who isn't consuming his proper allotment and paying his bills. Now might be a good time to take our world back.
In 6th grade I was tested for a number of things when I broke the standard tests. The best guess pegged my IQ at around 165-170. By that time I had mastered algebra, had a firm grasp on a couple dozen sciences, and created a number of interesting small inventions (I reinvented the DC motor and came up with a simple rotary engine.)
The next 3 years of my education inside the LA School District involved watching old movies, repeating the times tables, taking field trips (which in fact I found quite enjoyable) and creative writing. This was an attempt to keep me occupied while my peers caught up, which of course never happened... for obvious reasons it couldn't. However, they pissed away the most important educational period of my life. I could have accelerated and been done with my traditional education by the time I was 13 or 14, and moved on to college perhaps completing that by the time I was 18. Our schools are not designed to teach the bright, and in fact, are often punitive to intelligent and creative young people. In a time when we most need these traits fully empowered and present in our culture, such behavior from our leaders and institutions is criminal. However, it is consistent with the large scale conversion of the American mouth-breathing public into obedient, subservient consumption units in the vast corporate engine that is our culture.
Perhaps it time for a new revolution. One in what's possible for being human.
That would not be fair seeing as Rush only has half a brain.
MMMmmmmmm, I love the smell of roasting fundies at the airport. It smells like the second coming!
This was a parody, this is only a parody, had it been a real malapropism, there would have been no disclaimer, only a pithy insult, once again, this was only a parody... for those too young to get the reference, please look up "Apocalypse Now" associated with the phrase "I love the smell"
Though folks willing to be nuked for "Security" reasons can't be surprised when successive generation get smaller and smaller, and more and more mutant... just saying life is full of trade-offs.
In your case, I would suggest the BLUE pill. Oh, and I'm glad to hear your making progress with that ADHD thing... yeeooowww
You missed the obvious allusions to The Guyver and Ripley's Personal Forklift from Aliens... clearly these guys are out to stitch as many movie cliches together into a single event as is humanly possible. Maybe they can add a proton beam for ghost Busting!
No...No... leave it on, the ladies will love it.
52:1 is mind blowing?
Sorry, he only had a 5 bit mind... a "carry", a "carry", my kingdom for a "carry"!!!
Friend, I consider myself a Christian, but these days, there are so many who have a fundamentalist belief system, and take every word of the Gospel as basic fact without the faintest consideration for context, physics or the nature of the conversations contained in both the Old and New Testaments. That the entire world was flooded when Naoh saved the animals... where did enough water to flood the world come from and where did it go to? The magical thinking is shocking. That the world is thousands of years old and that people lived with the dinosaurs like the Flintstones. These too are beliefs grounded in the same scriptures that you quote, and these good and decent people have given up all rational consideration to instead cling to mysticism and magical thinking. The universe is so vast in size and time and we can see such a precious small slice of that eternity, that is it perfectly appropriate for men of knowledge to probe the mysteries and hold faith in those places for which answers may forever exceed our grasp. I am simply concerned that too many would avoid the light of simple truth, for fear that it would threaten their clockwork belief of God and this universe.
How do you reconcile Georgia Rep. Paul Broun saying in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince people that they do not need a savior? Worse, that this man has immediate and direct influence on the future of scientific research in the United States. Do you question his faith, his understanding of his religion, his sect or orthodoxy, his belief or his sanity? I appreciate that there is a critical need for ethicists in the science community, to look at the impact of our growing technological information and how we can best apply our growing understanding to serve the greater interests of humanity. That neither explains or excuses a growing number of people who have turned away from truth and wisdom in the name of religion, or the religious leaders who would have them behave this way. Part of the problem, is that the Bible is a book, most of which was written in a context specific to a rowdy dessert people living in the Sinai Peninsula 5 to 2 millennia ago. The amazing thing is that so much of the human content is so completely valid and appropriate thousands of years later. The prophesies, that are only now coming to pass. Most amazing is the amazing accuracy of the historical content as every year archeologist discover some new dig which validates the descriptions portrayed in the Bible. That said, the book is a gift from God, and even contains the fascinating process by which men gathered the Word and selected from all the Christian writings to come to a place where it was decided this is our religious text. It reflects the strong Jewish influence in the early church, and the desire to keep the early church as close as possible to Jewish faith, so the Gospel of Mary was left out. The most powerful thing about Christianity, has been its spiritual core of Love and Service. As it spread its ability to coop pagan culture and symbols and still pass the core belief along intact and healthy.
Its time for Christians and all other religions that are the children of Abraham, to let go of the dogma. Stop trying to force people to obey your beliefs on threat of death. Its time to honor the Prince of Peace, by really being peaceful.
Use the Scientific American model of a reasonable single price for digital subscription with full access to all past editions for let's say 20 years? That would totally rock. The only problem I see here is how they're going to differentiate themselves from free content and news aggregators.
This is one of the things at the heart of the dying newspaper industry. We need a healthy, and independent new industry, because corruption flourishes in the darkness and one of the only things that can prevent this kind of social cancer is a free and independent Fourth Estate.
By the way, the current state of affairs in America, where virtually all sources of news and information are being concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer owners and that information is being shaped by the political and ideological bent of those fewer and fewer owners. It may in fact be the greatest threats to our way of life facing us today. There have been countless recent incidents where the Constitution and its guaranteed civil rights have been virtually decimated and the press should have been screaming its head off, and I see not a printed word nor do I hear a spoken comment. Add to that the growing attempt to turn the internet into a TV channel, and the silence would then be complete. Freedom loving people everywhere need to determine where the good sources of information, and make certain those sources are protected, invested in, and celebrated as heroic forces in a political system that has clearly lost its way. By the way, the whistle blowers and printers of government secrets are heroes and patriots, and we need to protect them the way we protect national treasures.
Email clients today allow you to easily and effectively organize all of your email Addys in one UI, neatly broken out by Source and Content Folders. So I'm seeing Alto as a big fat question mark, except for the fact that AOL is now a company looking for a raison d'etre.
So they're gonna aggregate everybody's email, suck out the interesting bits, grow huge amounts of data on millions of users... OH, now I see... they wanna be a PoBoy Facebook. Well why didn't you guys just come out and say "Hey we need a cup of data to stay alive, please give a starving corporation a break."
Maybe y'all could invent a round thing to move heavy objects on.
Thunderbird or Outlook HOW?
There are both state and federal "Minimum Sentencing Guidelines" that judges were REQUIRED to follow, and in some cases lead to ridiculous prison terms for what would otherwise be petty crimes. If you want to read about it start here. This has nothing to do with juries, it has everything to do with laws passed by representatives on "Hard on Crime" planks and basically took crimes that deserved a wrist slap and shot them in the head instead. One more reason we have the largest prison population in the Western World.
That's right Sweety, I was just being a gentleman... I was driving home and bam there she was running down the street with her pants on fire, so I stopped the car, ran out, and patted her out then gallantly offered her my briefs. She looked cold! I asked her if she needed to go to the hospital, and she said no, just home, so I took her home, and got my briefs back, and that's how the pubic hair got there. I guess I'm just a Boy Scout at heart!
Unless there's a kinky thief going around borrowing people's panties, you gotta tap dance real hard to keep from catching a frying pan with your face
In fact a young woman, an honor student in Jr. College, unwisely gave her boyfriend's mother a ride. The woman was a meth addict and while out of sight in the house bought a small bag of her drug of choice. They left together and were picked up a couple blocks later in a drug sting operation. The young woman was found guilty of transporting someone involved in buying an illegal substance, itself a felony and because of hard on crime mandatory sentencing was given an automatic 8 year prison sentence. The judge later said this was a horrible mishandling of justice, but that automatic sentencing leaves him no alternatives and that good and decent people, guilty of no more than a lapse in judgement or simple gullibility are spending hard prison time.
This isn't to say that all dogs are poorly trained, only that there are unscrupulous police forces employing animals that are expressly trained to respond to their handlers, giving them a sign on command to provide the local police the false probable cause needed to perform an illegal search.
In fact there are plenty of well trained animals and scrupulous security forces, you just can't assume that you're necessarily dealing with one anywhere you go.
Or did the Article headline seem to suggest dog detecting bombs explode and blow their faces off???
Hmm, we take a small snip of your hair, we find sea salt and silica dust, a spandex fiber, traces of sunblock and tanning lotion and a tiny crumb from a hotdog bun. Looking at all these elements and their isotopes we can say without a doubt, you spent Sunday at Venice Beach. Oh, and the smaller traces of Avian and Perrier tell us you think you're a snob and have no imagination. Haven't you ever heard of Badoit or Volvic? OH! and a flea! You have a dog.
Red headed girl who was able to accurately identify where her boyfriend has been when she discovered a blond pubic hair in his briefs... he wasn't blond. I believe this technology has been around for a while now.
Please tell me you're just goofing and I'm not sensitive enough to tell... cuz if you actually mean these words I would have to consider you as someone so devoid of even a hint of a clue, that your opinions should come with a "Bozoid - Warning" attached.
If Microsoft is so much more valuable than Apple, then why is their stock in the toilet, their market share on a rocket sled to Hades, and their brightest marketing idea to throw everything overboard and do the Apple way. This would seem to fly in the very face of everything you said. Wouldn't it?!!!
And then getting you started on free software, I wouldn't dream of it. The resulting tsunami of stupid would endanger us all. What do you think then entire internet is written on... network software is overwhelmingly free software. What do you think OSX sits on top of? BSD, that's what. Windows would be locked completely down quietly mumbling to itself in Redmond, WA were it not for the free software that allows it to network with the rest of the world. There are private citizens in the world manufacturing known cures for diseases that aren't otherwise available because there's no money in it for the big pharma companies. These people often give their cures away for free not because they're worthless, but because these people honor life above profit. People who write free code are looking to make the world a better place, and their code is literally their legacy. The fact that you don't comprehend this suggests to me that you have a limited grasp of either value, or the significance of personal contribution. I find that strangely sad and just a little bit pitiful.
Why of course you can... he just blue screens after the third "Oh Momma!!!", so you have to wipe the legacy code off your face and reboot him.
Actually double standard is probably not the correct phrasing... sexist maybe, like women don't share in the responsibility for the sexual act. I think the issue at hand involves a little context however. For instance there's never been a case of a woman slipping men Roofies to have sex with them, while the number of women being Roofied seems to be growing exponentially. The number of men who have ever been raped by women numbers in what... small single digits? One in three women in the US will be raped in their lifetime. That's what, $55,000,000 women give or take, and that's just the US, in countries where women are object or property or worse, rape is as common as passing gas. In fact millions of women are sold into sexual slavery, some as early as late infancy. Men, not so much. So yeah, its true, men don't get a fair shake in the whole drunk sex vs. rape thing. However, if you look at it in the context that our male dominated society tends to use women as semen receptacles... a little backlash is maybe not a bad thing, and if all it does is make you think twice about engaging in stupid, irresponsible, potentially dangerous activities, then maybe alls well that ends well.
The reason they think that is because there are scumbags out there preying on drunk women, or slipping drugs in women's drinks. By the way, its not the number of women who think that, its the number of judges and prosecuting attorneys that think that and I hate to say Bubba, you're on the losing end of that conversation. A drunk woman can't legally consent to sex, therefore you're begging to end up in jail if you take one home. If you're unable to avoid getting stupid drunk, then you should probably avoid drinking in public because you could... accidentally rape someone, wake up with a transvestite, get killed crossing a highway, go to jail for DUI, kill someone with your car, get a disease, hopefully you're getting the point here. Dude, holster your thang, and do not fire it without proper warning and protection. To do less is at least irresponsible, and potentially criminal.
Welcome to the 21rst century now step on please.
The whole "Moral" conversation is a primate briar patch. Just whose definition of "Right" and "Wrong" are we going to use? Your Parents? Jesus? The Taliban? Jesus had no problem with slavery, it was a normal thing in the world of his time. Now its considered immoral, we do things today without a moments hesitation that would have earned someone an instant stoning in biblical times.
Mostly what people do with morality is judge themselves as superior and others inferior. Leading to the whole I'm going to shove my gawd/beliefs/political view down your throat for your own good. So rather than trying to hang people in the Fun-House mirror that morality is, seeing as there is no "Morality" outside of human interpretation. It would behoove us to come up with something a little more utilitarian, and a wee bit less subjective.
Personally, I vote for workability. This is something we can easily work on together as a society, and come up with objective measures and pragmatic goals inside of. We create a continuum from spitting on the sidewalk at one end to child rape (or pick you pet atrocity to place here) at the other. We look at workable solutions to the misanthrope who commits that act. For the unruly child we explain why we don't spit, and we help him curb his habit. For the child rapist, molester, abuser, we have a city, on an island. They will work hard there the rest of their lives. Because they have restitution to pay for as well as paying for the infrastructure that now houses them. Whatever is left over, is theirs and they can participate in leading otherwise useful and productive lives. What they give up, is the right to ever see another human being younger than they are and the gender of their sexual preference (so in a very real way, sex is no longer a part of their lives.) These people will be moved through their system like cattle, and be given many ways to lead useful lives. If they instead choose violence or hostility, at some point they'll earn the right to be returned to the carbon cycle. No prison. no hatred. No stigma. No judgement. Just action - reaction. You ever notice, nobody has a problem with gravity. We all have gravity wired by the time we're 2 years old. Workability should aspire to be like that. Simple, quick, compassionate, and resolute. You just remove the source of difficulty and treat people like human beings until they prove otherwise.