Why couldn't he have just made a copy of the copy, and modified that? Heck, he might have made a small fortune making (unlimited) customized replicas for various idiots with more money than sense. What a dimbulb.
If, the egg were to somehow mysteriously not fall to the ground.
It wouldn't be a mystery why it didn't hit the ground. It would be flying. Why it was flying would be the mystery. The secret to flight is learning how to fall towards the ground and missing. --THHG2TG
Then I thought, wouldn't this screw your tech support for this computer, if you needed it? You'd call them up, then they would assume you have Vista, not Ubuntu, and might refuse to support Ubuntu. (Of course, this is all theoretical, since the last time I called Dell tech support, I wanted to reach through the phone and pinch the guy's head off.) Just sayin'.
Even if it is proven that "unbalanced minds" can be triggered by certain images, are we to build a world padded and insulated for the few, and lived in by the many? This is just another tired TOTC excuse for mind control.
Political correctness is an obsession with not offending anybody (er, I mean any entity) at anytime. Down this road lies an obsession with avoiding anything that could trigger a warped mind. Since it is a warped mind, that could be anything. What a blank check to give to a wannabe suppressive government.
I hate the notion that is promoted that anyone who is against H1-Bs is necessarily racist. (Certainly, if you were racist, you probably would be anti-H1-B, but anyhow...) It is not racist to demand that countries put its own people first, when an ample supply of skilled labor is locally available at reasonable rates. Remember, its own "people" includes, at least in the case of America, many adopted nationalities from all over the world. These people adopted America for a reason, and at much greater effort and sacrifice than those native born. Allowing H1-Bs for any reason other than "we don't have enough of that skill" is cheating these people, as well as native born. This is not just about preserving "jerbs for good white 'merkins."
I am for putting all Americans first, regardless of race, religion, national origin, etc. Sure, that's protectionism, and eventually we must end protectionism, but... you first. It's just white guilt that says it's OK for India or China to do it, but we mustn't, oh no, we must atone.
But I'd much rather have people coming to work in the US, than the jobs being offshored
And I too would rather be raped than murdered (it's a close tie), but this does not make rape acceptable, either. (And yes, I acknowledge that you don't think what those lawyers are doing is right.) In theory, since visas pay taxes, but cannot draw on services reserved for citizens, we should replace every American worker with a visa. This will leave the rest of us free to draw on welfare and spend all day looking for aluminum cans. Think of what this would do for the environment.
Oh, wait, I forgot since all the other countries play by the same rules, we'll actually be too busy replacing all their native workers with our labor force. And since everybody will be a foreign worker somewhere, everybody pays taxes, nobody draws on services, and all the governments of the world are just rolling in surplus cash.
Sorry to be a wee bit sarcastic, but it is axiomatic that nations should give preference to their own citizens in matters of employment, all arguments of taxation aside. As long as nationalism exists, nations will demand loyalty of its citizens, and it is only fair that citizens demand loyalty of the nations' governments.
I'll accept the idea of a completely free global marketplace of employment when there are no more restrictions of travel or employment anywhere in the world, than there is between North Carolina and Maryland, and the concept of national identity is completely obsolete.
Or... when you see one cockroach... This is what we all suspect goes on behind closed doors, and why many of us have a basic dislike of the corporate "suits." Let these assholes be the first against the wall.
And for those of you bitching about how us Americans don't have any more right to a job than anybody else, suck it. Every country has a responsibility to give first priority to the employment and prosperity of its own TAX PAYING citizens. America is no exception. Any company, from any country, found acting in bad faith with the government and its citizens, should be dealt with very harshly.
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to fabricate the illusion of security
These goals seem contradictory. Perhaps these are used in a repeating cycle of fear, manipulation, false security?
Why couldn't he have just made a copy of the copy, and modified that? Heck, he might have made a small fortune making (unlimited) customized replicas for various idiots with more money than sense. What a dimbulb.
They paid off the Sheriff. (But they did not pay off the Deputy.)
free crap music. way too expensive for me.
They're just not very creative. I would like to use
When Darl slams his head as he's shoved into the back seat of a police cruiser. (Them cuffs too tight, boy?)
Brokeback Mountain land, that is.
um, like i said.
...you've been looking for.
I had no idea Pandora's box was so big. OK, that sounded wrong. Lost my keys in there and everything. Giggity.
If it works, that is. If it doesn't, won't matter anyway. File this with the 80mpg carburetor and the Ark of the Covenant.
It wouldn't be a mystery why it didn't hit the ground. It would be flying. Why it was flying would be the mystery. The secret to flight is learning how to fall towards the ground and missing. --THHG2TG
Then I thought, wouldn't this screw your tech support for this computer, if you needed it? You'd call them up, then they would assume you have Vista, not Ubuntu, and might refuse to support Ubuntu. (Of course, this is all theoretical, since the last time I called Dell tech support, I wanted to reach through the phone and pinch the guy's head off.) Just sayin'.
So put another way, you're the platoon leader, and he's the platoon.
As in, I'd like to see theirs get broken. Just what these MAFIAA types deserve.
Political correctness is an obsession with not offending anybody (er, I mean any entity) at anytime. Down this road lies an obsession with avoiding anything that could trigger a warped mind. Since it is a warped mind, that could be anything. What a blank check to give to a wannabe suppressive government.
Is chuffed anything like gruntled?
It's called Screw-Haul.
And the Minibari believe in refreshing cocktails one small bottle at a time.
What's in your wallet?
Well, for that I use /. IMHO.
I am for putting all Americans first, regardless of race, religion, national origin, etc. Sure, that's protectionism, and eventually we must end protectionism, but... you first. It's just white guilt that says it's OK for India or China to do it, but we mustn't, oh no, we must atone.
And I too would rather be raped than murdered (it's a close tie), but this does not make rape acceptable, either. (And yes, I acknowledge that you don't think what those lawyers are doing is right.) In theory, since visas pay taxes, but cannot draw on services reserved for citizens, we should replace every American worker with a visa. This will leave the rest of us free to draw on welfare and spend all day looking for aluminum cans. Think of what this would do for the environment.
Oh, wait, I forgot since all the other countries play by the same rules, we'll actually be too busy replacing all their native workers with our labor force. And since everybody will be a foreign worker somewhere, everybody pays taxes, nobody draws on services, and all the governments of the world are just rolling in surplus cash.
Sorry to be a wee bit sarcastic, but it is axiomatic that nations should give preference to their own citizens in matters of employment, all arguments of taxation aside. As long as nationalism exists, nations will demand loyalty of its citizens, and it is only fair that citizens demand loyalty of the nations' governments.
I'll accept the idea of a completely free global marketplace of employment when there are no more restrictions of travel or employment anywhere in the world, than there is between North Carolina and Maryland, and the concept of national identity is completely obsolete.
And for those of you bitching about how us Americans don't have any more right to a job than anybody else, suck it. Every country has a responsibility to give first priority to the employment and prosperity of its own TAX PAYING citizens. America is no exception. Any company, from any country, found acting in bad faith with the government and its citizens, should be dealt with very harshly.