I predict that the Information Minister troll will be the next slashdot staple. It beats Soviet Russia in funny factor and has more flexibility. Of course, I propose that they have a defined format (gotta have standards) and begin with the word Lies!.
I wonder, though, will Information Minister trolls be redundant to the less common Bizarro World trolls?
I realize (ise) it's not a true troll, but is off topic and intends to make you laugh, so lets count it as such. (positive points awarded for funny trolls etc.)
I have noticed lately that there are very concerted attempts from both the radical left and extreme right wings to limit speech that they find offensive. It is very troubling. The lefties want to limit "offensive" speech- like Mark Twain- , and the right wing-nuts want to ban BAD things like NUDITY.
I think both of these extreme groups need to take a breather. How about READING Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The "nigger" Jim was the most noble and compassionate character. Even as an opressed slave man, he showed that his humanity remained with him. He was the earliest black character to portray true nobility. Sure, he was uneducated and ignorant of many things, but his character was unselfish and kind. Can no-one spot the irony of someone like Jim being called "the nigger" by even his closest friends?
And realistically, I have two young sons, and I object more to the gratuitous and unrealistic violence on television than nudity. Nudity is part of human existence and is almost never offensive. (okay, the nudity in "1984" offended me). I would trade 50% of the violence for 300% more nudity if humans must be titillated in order to watch TV.
Just remember, folks, the PC crowd and the Religious Right may disagree on what should be banned and why, but they're basically identical personalities, believing themselves to know best for OUR kids.
Name someone who advocates the unnecessary continuation of greenhouse gases. Go ahead. Your main problem is that you think everyone who disagrees with the environmental movement's conclusion must be anti-environment, and therefore in favor of dirty air and water.
Personally, I have never met such a person. Before you can engage in reasonable debate, you'll have to accept that views contrary to your own can be reasonable as well.
Okay folks- take this quiz- What is the largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere?
A: vulcanism.
What is the second largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere?
A: Decomposition of organic materials. (soil production)
What is the Third largest contributor of CO2 to the atmospere?
A: Rocks.
ROCKS? How can that be?! Rocks are inert!
A: Igneous rocks are naturally carbonated due to the high levels of CO2 dissolved in the earth's magma. (boiling hot MAGMA) . This CO2 is released anytime a rock gets wet and erodes. It's a small amount, but unfortunately there are a great many rocks. Like, a million.
I do not deny that humans impact the environment with our activity. Certainly any feasable action to limit our impact should be undertaken. I am not sure that we need to bicycle to work, though.
Environmentalism is reasonable and prudent. Environmental activism is a disease. Hug a tree if it makes you feel good, but realize that extreme lefty environmental activism is a ruse for marxism, and that most of the damage men used to wreak upon the ecology has been outlawed. Our cars are cleaner every year. Hell, even our sport utility vehicles get 18-25 mpg. The main reason we buy THOSE is because the CARB emission rules killed the full size car. There was an exemption for light trucks, so people who needed large cars just buy them higher off the ground. There is no way for a family of seven to use a Toyota Prius for anything worthwhile.
Many environmental activists have a conspiracy theory based mindset, and believe all corporate entities want to fuck up the world. If this was insanely profitable, I would agree with them. In real life, auto manufacturers see fuel cell tech and other high mileage/high efficiency technology as a huge selling point. They see it as a sales advantage. Believe it or not, there is no conspiracy between auto manufacturers and oil companies. Car companies want to sell cars that use less fuel. Oil companies want to use their oil to make more profitable things than gasoline. As a complex hydrocarbon, petroleum has immense potential as a base for synthetic material production. From it, even sugar can be synthesized.
(but I'm sure you wouldn't eat sugar made from motor oil no matter what, would you?-- If it was pure and identical to cane sugar, why not?)
We're not in orbit around the sun. We are falling towards it in a straight line. The problem is that space around the sun is bent. All straight vectors tangent to the sun's center are curved to a circular path. That's why there aren't periodic jerky course corrections to our descent to the sun. The nice thing is if we stop the earth we can get there much faster.
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The main problem with A.I. research is that it's all aimed at simulating or mimicking normal HUMAN responses to stimulus. Mostly this is due to the hardware limitations of our current level of technology. Our computers cannot learn from events that they witness, as even an infant chimpanzee can. We have to design the hardware so that REAL intelligence can develop. Programming IF>THEN statements can approximate some intelligence, but won't ever come close to self-awareness.
Recently, the idea of electromagnetic complex materials with both negative real permittivity and permeability has attracted a great deal of attention. This idea dates back to 1960's when Veselago postulated theoretically the monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave propagation in a lossless medium with simultaneously negative real permittivity and permeability at a given frequency, and he theoretically showed that in such media the direction of Poynting vector is antiparallel to the direction of phase velocity for a uniform monochromatic plane wave. The recent resurgence of interest in this medium began when Smith, Schultz and Shelby in their research group at UC San Diego, after the work of Pendry of Imperial College, constructed such a composite medium for the microwave regime. Their composite "medium" consists of arrays of small metallic wires and split ring resonators. Many researchers from all over the world have now been exploring various aspects of this class of complex media, and several potential future applications of these media have been speculated.
I had to read it three times before I understood it.
I think the new glibc broke backwards compatibility, as I am pretty sure 8.0 had gcc 3.2. I don't have to ask people to correct me if I am wrong-- they will.
So, what you're saying is that the kernel is just icing on the cake of a GNU system. I kind of agree that the kernel is a VERY small part of the construction of an OS, but wouldn't a more useful analogy be that the GNU tools and such are structure, while Linus' kernel provided the electrical connections?
Well, except you can live in a house without electricity OR a roof, but an OS with no kernel just gives BIOS error messages about having no operating system and all....
I agree in part, but I will say that RedHat gave me a social disease, and it went away completely when I installed Mandrake. No itching, no redness, nothing. The only problem seems to be getting glibc 3.2 installed. Can't figger out the dependancies. I wish someone somewhere would static their libs once in a while in linuxland.
Finally someone who gets it. Direction! Focal plane!
Polarization!
BTW-
# Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold"
What the heck would be an Illegal post?
We're still thinking frequency here and current technology- think about ways other than frequency to separate photons from different transmitters- here are some examples:
Direction/heading
focal point/divergence angle of photons (think like light)
polarization of photons
That's a step in the right direction, but also consider a separate analogy- you now have binoculars. These allow you to focus on only one person in the group, and they're all using green lights. If you can see his light with better clarity due to the directionality of your sensor, then bandwidth is infinite. You could have a million people flashing green flashlights in the Los Angeles area , and as long as you pointed a directional enough sensor to only see one of them, you can all use the same frequency. Only those who are listening to you are pointing there binoculars at your signal. You are only pointing your binoculars at the signal you want to listen to.
You're still thinking frequency-domain here. Think about the other characteristics of signals which could be used to differentiate them, and how this allows two transmitters or more on one frequency to operate in the same area simultaneously. What about direction/heading? With a superdirectional reciever and a bunch of omnidirectional transmitters, it is feasable that using only one frequency, a number of transmitters equal to 360 divided by the selectivity of the superdirectional antenna in degrees may be used in any area. This means that bandwidth in an area is dependent only on us designing a superdirectional antenna. Say, an antenna with 90dB gain in 1 degree or less of arc.
Well, actually you could read the signals if you define signal instead of by frequency, then by frequency and vector. For example, in your illustration, if you were to place a large board with a small hole in it about 10 feet from your eye and directly between your eye and the person sending you the first signal, you would no longer experience confusion or interference from the other person with the second green light.
What he's saying is that as long as we base our signal decoding process on frequency alone, we will have interference possible.
What we need then is a new method of separating the desired signal from the undesired signal. A pinhole can do that. The problem is that our current antenna designs are not effective at differentiating photons from different sources.
I had a 1991 (sold it). Truly reliable vehicle. Started first twist of the key every time. Nothing ever broke. Replaced the brake pads once, and added oil to the differentials when it occurred to me to do so. Other than that, it just ran.
"and your school bus wasn't being frozen, pressurized, launched at 3Gs, and torched to 2500 degrees, six times a year, either.)"
My school bus also never exploded while I was riding in it, never blasted itself to pieces killing me at 18000 mph. Maybe we should replace it sooner anyway.
Oh, and the popular vote means exactly DICK in a constitutional republic.
That's right- America is NOT a democracy. Go back to high school and read your Civics books if you don't believe me.
Under democracy, whoever has a plurality can do anything. There's no rule of law, and rural folks are exploited by urbanites because they are outnumbered. That's why our states are called STATES instead of districts or regions. In the US, the House of Representatives represents the people of the representative districts, and the Senate represents the interests of the States.
Gore knew that the popular vote means DICK and that's why even though he bitched about it, he didn't make a legal case on that grounds. It would be moving the finish line after the race was completed.
In addition to my previous post regarding your rather ineloquent and unsubstantiated claim, i further this additional question:
At WHAT TIME was AL Gore ahead in the Florida elections?
The answer is NEVER. Never happened. Sure it was close, but if you look at the way Gore wanted his recount done, you'll notice it is blatantly unconstitutional and dishonest. I intend to support this argument:
Let's say you and I are running against each other to be Slashdot King. It's a close race. I lose by 10 votes. Then I notice that I won more logged-in users and you won more Anonymous Coward votes. So I ask for a recount of ONLY the Logged-in users. Statistically, assumimg that an equal percentage of either category is lost or uncounted, I am guaranteed the win because I won a plurality in this segment of the population. Since I did not ask for a recount of AC's, It is statistically assured that in the demographic group that I am recounting, the lost/undercounted votes will appear in the same ratio that they did in the main segment of the demographic group.
This is what the Gore camp attempted to do. Interestingly enough, Gore's tactic violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution because a vote in Broward County or Miami-Dade county would have a better chance of being included in the tally than one from a county which was not recounted.
But I'm sure you all knew that, and didn't care because Gore was your guy, right?
At the time GWB graduated from Yale, his father was the director of the CIA. Big fricking whoop. If you think that will make Yale's staff weak in the knees, think again. Yale is quite used to sons and daughters of influential people in their school. I think your accusation that somehow GWB's degree was purchased or extorted from Yale University is an empty one. You have no evidence presented to make such an outrageous claim, and it is clearly motivated solely by your political views being opposed to his own. This is clearly irresponsible and juvenile behavior, even more cowardly because Mr. Bush is not able to defend himself, and you are operating as an anonymous coward. If you wish to attack his acts as President, do so freely, but unwarranted attacks with unsubstantiated claims that you pull from your own rather haughty ass simply serve to illustrate that you, sir, are incapable of rational discourse with someone even the likes of a C+ graded Yale graduate. Kindly shut the fuck up.
Can I just get some information about you then?
I'd like to know your preferred brand of bread.
And I'd like to know if you like mayonnaise.
Could you also tell me whether you make between 40-75k a year or 75-100k a year or more?
In addition, I would like your full name, address, phone number, and your nationality.
What is your checking account routing number?
How, exactly would it be reasonable to treat diplomatic relationships with a murdering liar? Is dialogue with such a man as Hussein even valuable to US interests?
I'm sure you're convinced that U.S. interventionist policies are what landed us in this mess in the first place, aren't you?
I, for one, am quicker to blame the fact that there are people in the world who believe that killing American citizens abroad is a good thing to do. It's very likely you have never been to an opressive country, and believe that everyone in the world is a compassionate and rational person like you. News flash: They're not all like that. Some are incredibly hateful and see absolutely no value in personal liberty or life. Most people from the First World simply cannot comprehend the third world mindsets. I mean, gawd, people in manila shit out the window into the very river inlet that they bathe in and drink from!
Your ignorance amuses me. For one, black urban culture is not due to genetic inferiority. It is based on cultural inferiority. You see, if you had a culture where attempting to succeed at something landed you ridicule and even assault, while at the same time being told from every direction from your peers that the "man" would keep you down even if you did succeed, I would think you'd be messed up as well.
What really upsets me is the fact that it's no longer primarily society keeping them from succeeding, it's the culture instilled by their peers doing the job.
Outside of urban areas one rarely sees the ignorant speech patterns you refer to. In the suburbs we find those blacks who refused to accept the "truth" their brethren sought to provide them with. These people are generally scorned as "not black enough" by those who doggedly remained in areas that had no chance of providing them with a decent wage.
Of those blacks I have worked with in technical areas, I have found surprising levels of intelligence and competency. You don't see them on UPN because smart, succesful blacks are just less entertaining than our modern blackface minstrel shows that people like Martin Lawrence are only so happy to provide. Once the black urban "culture" is completely abandoned as an inferior path, the U.S. (as that is the only place such a culture exists) will finally show the fruits of the equal opportunity laws we've fought so hard to get.
The other real problem is people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. By constantly providing frightening accounts of (questionable) racist bias, they seek to perpetuate the industry they created in the 1960s. It was a worthwhile endeavor then, but is now somewhat redundant. They know that, and have elected to defend rioting students at football games who are expelled, alleging racism when no convincing evidence supporting it are shown.
I say this here because for reasons beyond my control, I will be branded a racist for even suggesting that the largest oppressor of blacks in these United States is other blacks. I will be called a hatemonger for caring that their leadership is steering their lives to failure. They would attempt to brand me a Klansman for even suggesting these things openly. Sadly, this kind of analysis is exactly what is needed in order for them to leave that system. No amount of liberal white guilt and freebie programs will salve the problems. No pity can save them from their peers. And it's a pity because I have known quite a few intelligent black men who suddenly switch to ebonics and profanity when faced with the scorn of their fellows. over 70% now have no fathers to guide them in life. There are the roots of their poverty. As a white guy, I am powerless because I can't say the things that they need to hear. And if I do, I will lose friends. Sorry about the long missive, but this is slashdot.
Oh, and I'm a republican. Just so you know, I voted for Keyes in the last primary. Then I heard more of his views, and discovered I wasn't quite ready to send him to the White House. Maybe I should have been, all things considered. (although pr0n would now be banned).
Nathan Bonsal
Slashdot Mirror
I predict that the Information Minister troll will be the next slashdot staple. It beats Soviet Russia in funny factor and has more flexibility. Of course, I propose that they have a defined format (gotta have standards) and begin with the word Lies!.
I wonder, though, will Information Minister trolls be redundant to the less common Bizarro World trolls?
I realize (ise) it's not a true troll, but is off topic and intends to make you laugh, so lets count it as such. (positive points awarded for funny trolls etc.)
I have noticed lately that there are very concerted attempts from both the radical left and extreme right wings to limit speech that they find offensive. It is very troubling. The lefties want to limit "offensive" speech- like Mark Twain- , and the right wing-nuts want to ban BAD things like NUDITY.
I think both of these extreme groups need to take a breather. How about READING Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The "nigger" Jim was the most noble and compassionate character. Even as an opressed slave man, he showed that his humanity remained with him. He was the earliest black character to portray true nobility. Sure, he was uneducated and ignorant of many things, but his character was unselfish and kind. Can no-one spot the irony of someone like Jim being called "the nigger" by even his closest friends?
And realistically, I have two young sons, and I object more to the gratuitous and unrealistic violence on television than nudity. Nudity is part of human existence and is almost never offensive. (okay, the nudity in "1984" offended me). I would trade 50% of the violence for 300% more nudity if humans must be titillated in order to watch TV.
Just remember, folks, the PC crowd and the Religious Right may disagree on what should be banned and why, but they're basically identical personalities, believing themselves to know best for OUR kids.
Name someone who advocates the unnecessary continuation of greenhouse gases. Go ahead. Your main problem is that you think everyone who disagrees with the environmental movement's conclusion must be anti-environment, and therefore in favor of dirty air and water.
Personally, I have never met such a person. Before you can engage in reasonable debate, you'll have to accept that views contrary to your own can be reasonable as well.
Okay folks- take this quiz- What is the largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere?
A: vulcanism.
What is the second largest contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere?
A: Decomposition of organic materials. (soil production)
What is the Third largest contributor of CO2 to the atmospere?
A: Rocks.
ROCKS? How can that be?! Rocks are inert!
A: Igneous rocks are naturally carbonated due to the high levels of CO2 dissolved in the earth's magma. (boiling hot MAGMA) . This CO2 is released anytime a rock gets wet and erodes. It's a small amount, but unfortunately there are a great many rocks. Like, a million.
I do not deny that humans impact the environment with our activity. Certainly any feasable action to limit our impact should be undertaken. I am not sure that we need to bicycle to work, though. Environmentalism is reasonable and prudent. Environmental activism is a disease. Hug a tree if it makes you feel good, but realize that extreme lefty environmental activism is a ruse for marxism, and that most of the damage men used to wreak upon the ecology has been outlawed. Our cars are cleaner every year. Hell, even our sport utility vehicles get 18-25 mpg. The main reason we buy THOSE is because the CARB emission rules killed the full size car. There was an exemption for light trucks, so people who needed large cars just buy them higher off the ground. There is no way for a family of seven to use a Toyota Prius for anything worthwhile.
Many environmental activists have a conspiracy theory based mindset, and believe all corporate entities want to fuck up the world. If this was insanely profitable, I would agree with them. In real life, auto manufacturers see fuel cell tech and other high mileage/high efficiency technology as a huge selling point. They see it as a sales advantage. Believe it or not, there is no conspiracy between auto manufacturers and oil companies. Car companies want to sell cars that use less fuel. Oil companies want to use their oil to make more profitable things than gasoline. As a complex hydrocarbon, petroleum has immense potential as a base for synthetic material production. From it, even sugar can be synthesized. (but I'm sure you wouldn't eat sugar made from motor oil no matter what, would you?-- If it was pure and identical to cane sugar, why not?)
We're not in orbit around the sun. We are falling towards it in a straight line. The problem is that space around the sun is bent. All straight vectors tangent to the sun's center are curved to a circular path. That's why there aren't periodic jerky course corrections to our descent to the sun. The nice thing is if we stop the earth we can get there much faster.
The main problem with A.I. research is that it's all aimed at simulating or mimicking normal HUMAN responses to stimulus. Mostly this is due to the hardware limitations of our current level of technology. Our computers cannot learn from events that they witness, as even an infant chimpanzee can. We have to design the hardware so that REAL intelligence can develop. Programming IF>THEN statements can approximate some intelligence, but won't ever come close to self-awareness.
Recently, the idea of electromagnetic complex materials with both negative real permittivity and permeability has attracted a great deal of attention. This idea dates back to 1960's when Veselago postulated theoretically the monochromatic electromagnetic plane wave propagation in a lossless medium with simultaneously negative real permittivity and permeability at a given frequency, and he theoretically showed that in such media the direction of Poynting vector is antiparallel to the direction of phase velocity for a uniform monochromatic plane wave. The recent resurgence of interest in this medium began when Smith, Schultz and Shelby in their research group at UC San Diego, after the work of Pendry of Imperial College, constructed such a composite medium for the microwave regime. Their composite "medium" consists of arrays of small metallic wires and split ring resonators. Many researchers from all over the world have now been exploring various aspects of this class of complex media, and several potential future applications of these media have been speculated.
I had to read it three times before I understood it.
I think the new glibc broke backwards compatibility, as I am pretty sure 8.0 had gcc 3.2. I don't have to ask people to correct me if I am wrong-- they will.
So, what you're saying is that the kernel is just icing on the cake of a GNU system. I kind of agree that the kernel is a VERY small part of the construction of an OS, but wouldn't a more useful analogy be that the GNU tools and such are structure, while Linus' kernel provided the electrical connections?
Well, except you can live in a house without electricity OR a roof, but an OS with no kernel just gives BIOS error messages about having no operating system and all....
I agree in part, but I will say that RedHat gave me a social disease, and it went away completely when I installed Mandrake. No itching, no redness, nothing. The only problem seems to be getting glibc 3.2 installed. Can't figger out the dependancies. I wish someone somewhere would static their libs once in a while in linuxland.
Finally someone who gets it. Direction! Focal plane! Polarization!
BTW- # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold"
What the heck would be an Illegal post?
We're still thinking frequency here and current technology- think about ways other than frequency to separate photons from different transmitters- here are some examples:
Direction/heading
focal point/divergence angle of photons (think like light)
polarization of photons
That's a step in the right direction, but also consider a separate analogy- you now have binoculars. These allow you to focus on only one person in the group, and they're all using green lights. If you can see his light with better clarity due to the directionality of your sensor, then bandwidth is infinite. You could have a million people flashing green flashlights in the Los Angeles area , and as long as you pointed a directional enough sensor to only see one of them, you can all use the same frequency. Only those who are listening to you are pointing there binoculars at your signal. You are only pointing your binoculars at the signal you want to listen to.
You're still thinking frequency-domain here. Think about the other characteristics of signals which could be used to differentiate them, and how this allows two transmitters or more on one frequency to operate in the same area simultaneously. What about direction/heading? With a superdirectional reciever and a bunch of omnidirectional transmitters, it is feasable that using only one frequency, a number of transmitters equal to 360 divided by the selectivity of the superdirectional antenna in degrees may be used in any area. This means that bandwidth in an area is dependent only on us designing a superdirectional antenna. Say, an antenna with 90dB gain in 1 degree or less of arc.
Well, actually you could read the signals if you define signal instead of by frequency, then by frequency and vector. For example, in your illustration, if you were to place a large board with a small hole in it about 10 feet from your eye and directly between your eye and the person sending you the first signal, you would no longer experience confusion or interference from the other person with the second green light.
What he's saying is that as long as we base our signal decoding process on frequency alone, we will have interference possible.
What we need then is a new method of separating the desired signal from the undesired signal. A pinhole can do that. The problem is that our current antenna designs are not effective at differentiating photons from different sources.
I had a 1991 (sold it). Truly reliable vehicle. Started first twist of the key every time. Nothing ever broke. Replaced the brake pads once, and added oil to the differentials when it occurred to me to do so. Other than that, it just ran.
"and your school bus wasn't being frozen, pressurized, launched at 3Gs, and torched to 2500 degrees, six times a year, either.)"
My school bus also never exploded while I was riding in it, never blasted itself to pieces killing me at 18000 mph. Maybe we should replace it sooner anyway.
Oh, and the popular vote means exactly DICK in a constitutional republic.
That's right- America is NOT a democracy. Go back to high school and read your Civics books if you don't believe me.
Under democracy, whoever has a plurality can do anything. There's no rule of law, and rural folks are exploited by urbanites because they are outnumbered. That's why our states are called STATES instead of districts or regions. In the US, the House of Representatives represents the people of the representative districts, and the Senate represents the interests of the States. Gore knew that the popular vote means DICK and that's why even though he bitched about it, he didn't make a legal case on that grounds. It would be moving the finish line after the race was completed.
In addition to my previous post regarding your rather ineloquent and unsubstantiated claim, i further this additional question:
At WHAT TIME was AL Gore ahead in the Florida elections?
The answer is NEVER. Never happened. Sure it was close, but if you look at the way Gore wanted his recount done, you'll notice it is blatantly unconstitutional and dishonest. I intend to support this argument:
Let's say you and I are running against each other to be Slashdot King. It's a close race. I lose by 10 votes. Then I notice that I won more logged-in users and you won more Anonymous Coward votes. So I ask for a recount of ONLY the Logged-in users. Statistically, assumimg that an equal percentage of either category is lost or uncounted, I am guaranteed the win because I won a plurality in this segment of the population. Since I did not ask for a recount of AC's, It is statistically assured that in the demographic group that I am recounting, the lost/undercounted votes will appear in the same ratio that they did in the main segment of the demographic group.
This is what the Gore camp attempted to do. Interestingly enough, Gore's tactic violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution because a vote in Broward County or Miami-Dade county would have a better chance of being included in the tally than one from a county which was not recounted.
But I'm sure you all knew that, and didn't care because Gore was your guy, right?
At the time GWB graduated from Yale, his father was the director of the CIA. Big fricking whoop. If you think that will make Yale's staff weak in the knees, think again. Yale is quite used to sons and daughters of influential people in their school. I think your accusation that somehow GWB's degree was purchased or extorted from Yale University is an empty one. You have no evidence presented to make such an outrageous claim, and it is clearly motivated solely by your political views being opposed to his own. This is clearly irresponsible and juvenile behavior, even more cowardly because Mr. Bush is not able to defend himself, and you are operating as an anonymous coward. If you wish to attack his acts as President, do so freely, but unwarranted attacks with unsubstantiated claims that you pull from your own rather haughty ass simply serve to illustrate that you, sir, are incapable of rational discourse with someone even the likes of a C+ graded Yale graduate. Kindly shut the fuck up.
Hilarious. But I got nothing.
Read it all. What did I win?
Can I just get some information about you then?
I'd like to know your preferred brand of bread.
And I'd like to know if you like mayonnaise.
Could you also tell me whether you make between 40-75k a year or 75-100k a year or more?
In addition, I would like your full name, address, phone number, and your nationality.
What is your checking account routing number?
How, exactly would it be reasonable to treat diplomatic relationships with a murdering liar? Is dialogue with such a man as Hussein even valuable to US interests?
I'm sure you're convinced that U.S. interventionist policies are what landed us in this mess in the first place, aren't you?
I, for one, am quicker to blame the fact that there are people in the world who believe that killing American citizens abroad is a good thing to do. It's very likely you have never been to an opressive country, and believe that everyone in the world is a compassionate and rational person like you. News flash: They're not all like that. Some are incredibly hateful and see absolutely no value in personal liberty or life. Most people from the First World simply cannot comprehend the third world mindsets. I mean, gawd, people in manila shit out the window into the very river inlet that they bathe in and drink from!
Your ignorance amuses me. For one, black urban culture is not due to genetic inferiority. It is based on cultural inferiority. You see, if you had a culture where attempting to succeed at something landed you ridicule and even assault, while at the same time being told from every direction from your peers that the "man" would keep you down even if you did succeed, I would think you'd be messed up as well.
What really upsets me is the fact that it's no longer primarily society keeping them from succeeding, it's the culture instilled by their peers doing the job.
Outside of urban areas one rarely sees the ignorant speech patterns you refer to. In the suburbs we find those blacks who refused to accept the "truth" their brethren sought to provide them with. These people are generally scorned as "not black enough" by those who doggedly remained in areas that had no chance of providing them with a decent wage.
Of those blacks I have worked with in technical areas, I have found surprising levels of intelligence and competency. You don't see them on UPN because smart, succesful blacks are just less entertaining than our modern blackface minstrel shows that people like Martin Lawrence are only so happy to provide. Once the black urban "culture" is completely abandoned as an inferior path, the U.S. (as that is the only place such a culture exists) will finally show the fruits of the equal opportunity laws we've fought so hard to get.
The other real problem is people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. By constantly providing frightening accounts of (questionable) racist bias, they seek to perpetuate the industry they created in the 1960s. It was a worthwhile endeavor then, but is now somewhat redundant. They know that, and have elected to defend rioting students at football games who are expelled, alleging racism when no convincing evidence supporting it are shown.
I say this here because for reasons beyond my control, I will be branded a racist for even suggesting that the largest oppressor of blacks in these United States is other blacks. I will be called a hatemonger for caring that their leadership is steering their lives to failure. They would attempt to brand me a Klansman for even suggesting these things openly. Sadly, this kind of analysis is exactly what is needed in order for them to leave that system. No amount of liberal white guilt and freebie programs will salve the problems. No pity can save them from their peers. And it's a pity because I have known quite a few intelligent black men who suddenly switch to ebonics and profanity when faced with the scorn of their fellows. over 70% now have no fathers to guide them in life. There are the roots of their poverty. As a white guy, I am powerless because I can't say the things that they need to hear. And if I do, I will lose friends. Sorry about the long missive, but this is slashdot.
Oh, and I'm a republican. Just so you know, I voted for Keyes in the last primary. Then I heard more of his views, and discovered I wasn't quite ready to send him to the White House. Maybe I should have been, all things considered. (although pr0n would now be banned).
Nathan Bonsal