Now hate speech in particular usually takes the form of groupintimidation. Burning a cross on a lawn isn't just a personal message, it's for the entire group. Since white men are (in most situations) a large and (again in most situations) high status group, it *is* quite difficult to do the intimidating form of hate speech (although not necessarily other kinds like the harassing forms). However it is certainly a logical possibility.
That's pretty twisted, and is a slippery slope start.
I mean, that could be used if someone wanted to create an art exhibition of burning crosses, nooses, etc......it is imagery, but with this logic, someone could say it was "hate speech" even if none were intended, because someone claimed it intimidated them or hurt their feelings.
There should be no such thing as hate speech or hate laws......
The things they are added to are already illegal.
It is already illegal to threaten someone.
It is already illegal to assault, or kill someone.
Especially the murder one...I mean, the person is dead....what makes it worse if it was due to race? Someone kills a white guy.....dead.
It is worse if they killed the white guy for his money, or if they killed him for his race?
Dead is dead....so, no, there should not be "hate crimes". The crime is already against the law.
I mean, in EVERY other forum, it is perfectly normal and acceptable to ridicule and rant against white guys....it is never discrimination if it's against a white guy.
Hell, look on tv, on shows and commercials....any time there is a goof, or buffoon, it is....yep, almost always a fat white guy.
Heaven forbid you have a black guy or gal be the brunt of the joke or buffoonary...you'd get flooded with emails and protests of mysogny or racism.
Hell, for that matter.....when did people of the same race stop marrying or dating each other...? I mean, on so many commercials today, I see mixed race couples.
Why do that when mixed race couples are such a minority in the US?
You're seeing it so much, you'd think it was the common demographic in the US.
Oh well...sorry, just a white guy spouting off here....guess it's time to get modded down, because...well, you know....
So, we now have to ruin it for the majority, just because a small minority can't use "X" service?
Please get real, there are alternatives, PLENTY of public transportation that we've all already paid out taxes for.....
Man, I'm all for helping people, but it's getting fucking ridiculous....what's next, suing magazines for not being in braille too for blind folks? Suing Apple for iPods that deaf people can't use?
Does the US have any federal legislation for road rules? (i.e. rules for drivers, rather than cars - manufacturers etc.)
Actually, that's a good point...and I"d guess if there are Federal rules, they are few and far between.
Even the national speed limits, is by state law, not federal.....just that the Feds blackmailed the states by withholding funds to make them do this...just like they blackmailed the states to all raise the drinking age to 21.
It's sad that the states send money to the Feds, which then turn around and use said funds to blackmail the states into towing the line on issues that should not be mandated at a federal level.
Another example of this was the RealID (nationalization of drivers licenses) act.....which I think a few states still haven't complied with...I think LA and NH were two of the non-compliant states?
Either make a personal account with no info, or ask a professional to host you a business account... facepalm.
No can do. Per the TOS...if they find out you gave false personal info, they will yank your business account and you will be banned, so it isn't good for your business if you get set up, have contacts, etc...then *poof* you're gone if they find you have bad personal info.
Again, it would just be better if you could set up a FB account with nothing but corporate/company info.
Facebook has over 2 billion users and manages to cross each and every one of them? I'm actually not surprised.
Not me!!!
Never had an account on FB...never will.
I would, however, possibly consider a business only account if they had it, since FB *is* a good way to reach people, but they seem to insist you create a person account first, before you can create a company/corporate account there.
I don't want to give any personal info to them, but I would consider a business only account if they offered one.
So far, I'm pretty impressed. I've been working with RAW and DNG images on Affinity Photo and it works great.
Getting used to a full blown image editing suite on a tablet, well that takes some getting used to, but so far, it doesn't blink with whatever I throw on it....
I"m next about to try focus stacking about 10 DNG images next, that will give it a true test....
I'm new to moving stuff from main workstation through cloud to tablet and back, I'm still trying t figure out that workflow, but so far, it works very well.
I'm anticipating when the new iOS comes out, and you can do more "computer like" file manipulations, that this will help matters greatly.
So far, the screen is amazing, the pencil works great, battery time is really surprising me to how long it lasts.....
I'm impressed. I didn't get the keyboard, didn't figure I'd use it, after all, it *IS* a tablet and I seem to use it as one 99.9999% of the time.
It is nice to be able to edit photos while at the neighborhood pool lounging around, or at a bar waiting on friends...
I went 10.5"....best size for portability and you can get same hardware as larger one...
11-12 friends isn't unusual. 11-12 CLOSE friends is. How do you find time to spend time with that many people multiple times a week?
Well, the ones that live locally, we hang at each others houses....do lunch/dinners out....hit the gun ranges together...any number of activities.
The ones that don't live locally...well, we phone/text almost daily, sending pics...and for one group of them that lives in a different state than me, we plan get togethers and either I fly up there, or they fly here.
I live in New Orleans...so, not heard to have some of them coming though periodically for cruises or just to vacation, often getting a free room with me.
One nice thing...the spouses have never really been a problem...maybe for many (I know for me)...if a potential spouse didn't get along with the group of friends, they didn't end up being a spouse.
I mean, I've known these people decades, and any lady I've met to go out with now, only for a few weeks.
I don't care how good the pussy is, it ain't worth ditching friends I"ve known for a large part of my life, and trust with my life.
This is why I don't really want to hang-out with coworkers after the workday is over.
I've never really ever made friends with co-workers that went outside the office in my professional life.
The only times I was close with co-workers, was during my HS-> Grad school years, when I worked in retail and restaurant business....ESPECIALLY the restaurant business.
Perhaps a lot of that came from the way you are scheduled as a waiter or bartender...same weird hours, and the fact we were young enough to be interested in crawling all over each other, no didn't always know who you might be sleeping with on a given night...
But for my professional life....co-worker friends can be problematic, in that you can't be sure if they are real friends or not, and since everyone in the work place is in some sort of competition with each other, they can more easily use things against you that they see in your behavior or attitudes outside the office (which shouldn't be anyones business for the most part).
That's not to mention any *romantic" activity in the workplace...that can get messy emotionally (having to work with a chick you just dropped to sleep with her friend), or at worst....in todays litigious society, find yourself in a sexual harassment (warranted or not) case.
So, for me, I"ve found workplace friendship outside the office doors, is just really not worth the potential hassles, when it is so much easier to meet and get to know people outside the office where you can truly be yourself and be more sure that both parties like each other for who they are, rather than the personas you have to put forth in the work place to succeed.
I am reminded of the saying: He who has many friends has none.
I don't get that.
I've had lots of friends over the years, and STILL have a group of at least 11-12 close ones I'm in touch with if not daily, then weekly at least.
Many of these friends are long term, the least of which is about near the 30 year mark......
I"d trust all of them with keys to my house, in fact, the ones that live very close to me all have keys to my house.
Of note....I don't do social media...and have no problem keeping in touch.
These aren't my only friends..they're just the core I've gathered over all my years. The oldest one I met when he was 12yrs and I was 11yrs...the rest have been gathered from HS through my years in college.
I have no brothers and sisters, so my friends are my family, my "adopted" siblings. I'd not give any of them up for any good reason that I can think of....
I think the more applicable saying should be "You can't have TOO many friends...."
Thanks for the laugh. American's don't want the jobs that the illegals had.
Funny...I just read on another article, that McDonald's was going to be laying some people off due to automation and kiosks....perhaps they would like to pick some fruits and veggies?
Ask a student who needs to pay for tuition how much of a good thing it is you selfish dick.
Or..you could get a job waiting or bussing tables, or working kitchens of non-fast food restaurants, much like I did in HS though grad school.
There are also jobs in retail...but you might have to go with less tattoos and regular looking hair and dress for that, but they still pay pretty well for student jobs.
Flipping burgers is the bottom rung of jobs out there for kids....good to start with I guess, but nothing you'd want to do very long.
The whole idea about political correctness, which was created by the right wing, is to discredit the legitimate civil rights movement. Now, every pat on the butt or peck on the cheek is 'harassment'.
I would posit, that the overuse of harassment or discrimination by those on the left, women and minorities have been what has rendered the terms less useful, and overused and abused.
Sure, there are plenty of real occurrences of these abuses, however when so many folks found out they could make $$$ by crying 'wolf' and suing....well, the legitimate cases got lost in the mass of fake ones, and now....everyone is scared at the places of employment.
Its getting harder and harder to fire someone that is incompetent due to them being afraid of the fired employee crying discrimination or verbal sexual assault.
And that really isn't "political correctness"...that is mostly from the left screaming racism/sexism at anyone that either disagrees with them, OR may have actual studies that may show there actually are differences between the sexes, or races or racial cultures that are either pro/con when compared to other races/cultures or the opposite sex.
In retrospect, it is interesting to see that a reflective blog post from an engineer ended up in the casualties of CEO, most of the senior leadership and a few board members. Maybe the cracks were already there but nevertheless it has been surreal seeing this unfold in the space of 5 months. It is almost like watching the butterfly effect in action.
NOw...let's see if anyone will hire her now, after all of this....
She brought down a 'toxic' CEO, ok....but now, is she a bit 'toxic' too?
Closing the border would just create more problems and misery. Better to manage immigration properly, and give people legitimate ways to come so that they are part of the system instead of outside it.
Worse and misery for whom...? Illegals or citizens?
But, that being said, I did say close the border sealed shut to keep illegals out...but also to ease immigration process, but use that to meter who gets in here....based on skill level, etc...
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That's pretty twisted, and is a slippery slope start.
I mean, that could be used if someone wanted to create an art exhibition of burning crosses, nooses, etc......it is imagery, but with this logic, someone could say it was "hate speech" even if none were intended, because someone claimed it intimidated them or hurt their feelings.
There should be no such thing as hate speech or hate laws......
The things they are added to are already illegal.
It is already illegal to threaten someone.
It is already illegal to assault, or kill someone.
Especially the murder one...I mean, the person is dead....what makes it worse if it was due to race? Someone kills a white guy.....dead.
It is worse if they killed the white guy for his money, or if they killed him for his race?
Dead is dead....so, no, there should not be "hate crimes". The crime is already against the law.
I mean, in EVERY other forum, it is perfectly normal and acceptable to ridicule and rant against white guys....it is never discrimination if it's against a white guy.
Hell, look on tv, on shows and commercials....any time there is a goof, or buffoon, it is....yep, almost always a fat white guy.
Heaven forbid you have a black guy or gal be the brunt of the joke or buffoonary...you'd get flooded with emails and protests of mysogny or racism.
Hell, for that matter.....when did people of the same race stop marrying or dating each other...? I mean, on so many commercials today, I see mixed race couples.
Why do that when mixed race couples are such a minority in the US?
You're seeing it so much, you'd think it was the common demographic in the US.
Oh well...sorry, just a white guy spouting off here....guess it's time to get modded down, because...well, you know....
So, we now have to ruin it for the majority, just because a small minority can't use "X" service?
Please get real, there are alternatives, PLENTY of public transportation that we've all already paid out taxes for.....
Man, I'm all for helping people, but it's getting fucking ridiculous....what's next, suing magazines for not being in braille too for blind folks? Suing Apple for iPods that deaf people can't use?
Still better than Hillary.
Next time...give us better choices, maybe someone with a brain AND it moderate.
Err....that IS the only metric that really matters.
I mean, you don't start a company for any other reason than to make money. That is its function.
Anything else is gravy, and laws....
Actually, that's a good point...and I"d guess if there are Federal rules, they are few and far between.
Even the national speed limits, is by state law, not federal.....just that the Feds blackmailed the states by withholding funds to make them do this...just like they blackmailed the states to all raise the drinking age to 21.
It's sad that the states send money to the Feds, which then turn around and use said funds to blackmail the states into towing the line on issues that should not be mandated at a federal level.
Another example of this was the RealID (nationalization of drivers licenses) act.....which I think a few states still haven't complied with...I think LA and NH were two of the non-compliant states?
Well, so far...it makes driving a bit more fun..and I get to my destination quicker.
No can do. Per the TOS...if they find out you gave false personal info, they will yank your business account and you will be banned, so it isn't good for your business if you get set up, have contacts, etc...then *poof* you're gone if they find you have bad personal info.
Again, it would just be better if you could set up a FB account with nothing but corporate/company info.
Not me!!!
Never had an account on FB...never will.
I would, however, possibly consider a business only account if they had it, since FB *is* a good way to reach people, but they seem to insist you create a person account first, before you can create a company/corporate account there.
I don't want to give any personal info to them, but I would consider a business only account if they offered one.
Sadly, may not be too far away....
In Great Britain, I hear of all the cameras they have all over the place in London....
In the US, look at all the many traffic cameras they now have up in many towns and cities.
Once they're there, not much more of a step to enhance their capabilities.
I guess it is, if you buy cheap laptops...?
I got mine a couple weeks ago, loaded up.
So far, I'm pretty impressed. I've been working with RAW and DNG images on Affinity Photo and it works great.
Getting used to a full blown image editing suite on a tablet, well that takes some getting used to, but so far, it doesn't blink with whatever I throw on it....
I"m next about to try focus stacking about 10 DNG images next, that will give it a true test....
I'm new to moving stuff from main workstation through cloud to tablet and back, I'm still trying t figure out that workflow, but so far, it works very well.
I'm anticipating when the new iOS comes out, and you can do more "computer like" file manipulations, that this will help matters greatly.
So far, the screen is amazing, the pencil works great, battery time is really surprising me to how long it lasts.....
I'm impressed. I didn't get the keyboard, didn't figure I'd use it, after all, it *IS* a tablet and I seem to use it as one 99.9999% of the time.
It is nice to be able to edit photos while at the neighborhood pool lounging around, or at a bar waiting on friends...
I went 10.5"....best size for portability and you can get same hardware as larger one...
In many ways..that makes the stronger and better...
From what I see...most of them can be pretty readily observed. People, as a whole don't change very readily over time.
Of course, that's not the "PC" thing to say (or think) , but you can see it every day in many groups of people.
Well, the ones that live locally, we hang at each others houses....do lunch/dinners out....hit the gun ranges together...any number of activities.
The ones that don't live locally...well, we phone/text almost daily, sending pics...and for one group of them that lives in a different state than me, we plan get togethers and either I fly up there, or they fly here.
I live in New Orleans...so, not heard to have some of them coming though periodically for cruises or just to vacation, often getting a free room with me.
One nice thing...the spouses have never really been a problem...maybe for many (I know for me)...if a potential spouse didn't get along with the group of friends, they didn't end up being a spouse.
I mean, I've known these people decades, and any lady I've met to go out with now, only for a few weeks.
I don't care how good the pussy is, it ain't worth ditching friends I"ve known for a large part of my life, and trust with my life.
I've never really ever made friends with co-workers that went outside the office in my professional life.
The only times I was close with co-workers, was during my HS-> Grad school years, when I worked in retail and restaurant business....ESPECIALLY the restaurant business.
Perhaps a lot of that came from the way you are scheduled as a waiter or bartender...same weird hours, and the fact we were young enough to be interested in crawling all over each other, no didn't always know who you might be sleeping with on a given night...
But for my professional life....co-worker friends can be problematic, in that you can't be sure if they are real friends or not, and since everyone in the work place is in some sort of competition with each other, they can more easily use things against you that they see in your behavior or attitudes outside the office (which shouldn't be anyones business for the most part).
That's not to mention any *romantic" activity in the workplace...that can get messy emotionally (having to work with a chick you just dropped to sleep with her friend), or at worst....in todays litigious society, find yourself in a sexual harassment (warranted or not) case.
So, for me, I"ve found workplace friendship outside the office doors, is just really not worth the potential hassles, when it is so much easier to meet and get to know people outside the office where you can truly be yourself and be more sure that both parties like each other for who they are, rather than the personas you have to put forth in the work place to succeed.
I don't get that.
I've had lots of friends over the years, and STILL have a group of at least 11-12 close ones I'm in touch with if not daily, then weekly at least.
Many of these friends are long term, the least of which is about near the 30 year mark......
I"d trust all of them with keys to my house, in fact, the ones that live very close to me all have keys to my house.
Of note....I don't do social media...and have no problem keeping in touch.
These aren't my only friends..they're just the core I've gathered over all my years. The oldest one I met when he was 12yrs and I was 11yrs...the rest have been gathered from HS through my years in college.
I have no brothers and sisters, so my friends are my family, my "adopted" siblings. I'd not give any of them up for any good reason that I can think of....
I think the more applicable saying should be "You can't have TOO many friends...."
Let's face it....MOST all stereotypes are based somewhat in observable fact....
They didn't just miraculously appear out of thin air...
Funny...I just read on another article, that McDonald's was going to be laying some people off due to automation and kiosks....perhaps they would like to pick some fruits and veggies?
At that level, a job is a job is a job....
Or..you could get a job waiting or bussing tables, or working kitchens of non-fast food restaurants, much like I did in HS though grad school.
There are also jobs in retail...but you might have to go with less tattoos and regular looking hair and dress for that, but they still pay pretty well for student jobs.
Flipping burgers is the bottom rung of jobs out there for kids....good to start with I guess, but nothing you'd want to do very long.
Well, I'll be long dead in 100 years, so, not terribly worried about it.
I"m having fun, and enjoying my life and lifestyle on earth right now thank you.
I don't see a change in "mission statement" changing any of that, or undoing all the harm so far...
I would posit, that the overuse of harassment or discrimination by those on the left, women and minorities have been what has rendered the terms less useful, and overused and abused.
Sure, there are plenty of real occurrences of these abuses, however when so many folks found out they could make $$$ by crying 'wolf' and suing....well, the legitimate cases got lost in the mass of fake ones, and now....everyone is scared at the places of employment.
Its getting harder and harder to fire someone that is incompetent due to them being afraid of the fired employee crying discrimination or verbal sexual assault.
And that really isn't "political correctness"...that is mostly from the left screaming racism/sexism at anyone that either disagrees with them, OR may have actual studies that may show there actually are differences between the sexes, or races or racial cultures that are either pro/con when compared to other races/cultures or the opposite sex.
NOw...let's see if anyone will hire her now, after all of this....
She brought down a 'toxic' CEO, ok....but now, is she a bit 'toxic' too?
It does...but ONLY for US citizens....we're not trying to save the world here.
Worse and misery for whom...? Illegals or citizens?
But, that being said, I did say close the border sealed shut to keep illegals out...but also to ease immigration process, but use that to meter who gets in here....based on skill level, etc...