On the other hand, the world is over populated in many areas. Why don't we stream-line the treatment processes (and related expense) for smoking-related illnesses and let people choose to remove themselves from the planet a few years early?!? Besides, if they don't die of smoking, it might be Alzheimers or all manner of other even more unpleasant ends. Non-smokers will get to enjoy their retirement a bit longer and smokers will remove themselves from being beneficiaries. Nanny-state tactics are an unpleasant form of fascism anyway.. If my latest memo from the thought police is current: smoking is bad, drinking is bad, but for some reason Marijuana is more socially acceptable.
Yeah, I have a Motorola from 2013 and it still runs great, but I can't get updates. I'll have to flash it eventually. I can't imagine the number of bugs I'm probably vulnerable to by now. If Congress wasn't so woefully ignorant about everything, I'd expect them to take some action to make our computing lives more secure and protect the consumer. All the tech biggies have lobbyists working against us...
Uh, oh. You sound like a member of that "conservative underground" that Google is trying to hunt down. Careful. All thoughts are supposed to come from carefully programmed feelings or the thought police will come for you.
It's not a matter of race or "corruption", like you're trying to pretend it is. It's a matter of some people being more prepared, and thus the process moves swiftly for them. Other people don't come prepared to vote, and this unfortunately introduces delays that affect all subsequent voters.
Your rationale doesn't hold up - statistically, we would expect conscientiousness to be randomly distributed throughout the populace with no real geographical bias - so why would there magically be a lot of people with registration problems on only one end of town? And, if there are, then the election committee should preferentially allocate resources to that end of town to get things moving faster.
Not if he was waiting in line at an old folks' home... Lots of things would get slowed down in that environment. The poster didn't provide much detail, but at least he didn't do it as AC.
And you're posting as AC. Fake News or biased observation is the only question here. Did you record and report these problems you're reporting?!? Did the "Man" keep you down? Where you too busy screaming, intimidating and beating people with bike locks and forgot to record "evidence". I call BS, please prove me wrong.
You know, it's funny. Affirmative action laws actual prohibit excluding other classes. Race and gender are protected classes, but decades ago, it somehow became laughable to consider a Caucasian male eligible for this protection/consideration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Excellent post, but why the focus on intelligence. After a certain level, determination, conditioning and education will overcome simple intelligence differences. I've known lots of folks that are members of Mensa, etc that can't hold a job because they are arrogant, lazy, unlucky, or combinations of one or more similar issues. My father was a multi-PhD college professor long ago and observed that the smarter kids usually didn't perform as well as those that were hard working. I suspect a combination of both, brilliance and preparation are ideal, but very rare.
Does even democratic majority give the representatives a moral right to start separating people into special classes?
It's not supposed to, that's why we're a republic. So a simple majority can't infringe upon the rights of the minority. But, I know that pesky constitution gets inconvenient for the extreme elements of both parties somewhat frequently nowadays.
Since there are no standards in their feelings-based "science" regarding modern liberal views on gender, he could invent his own gender. I had a gay dream once and now wish to have my own gender and a very complicated set of custom gender pronouns. My letter will be D (for dreamer) in the LGBTQ alphabet.
Well, if you are convinced women are inferior but don't want to say it and someone says they are different... then you read "inferior". Simple as that, the crime is theirs.
Where does he say they are inferior. You're inferring nonsense and then getting offended by your imagination.
AC is right about all the major tech companies being like-minded, though. Just in a horrible pod-person Orwellian nightmare sort of way. Need to get real diversity in the upper echelons of tech by breaking them up and spreading them about the country a bit to get them in touch with what the US values really are. Govt. needs the same treatment. I imagine almost 80 percent of DC govt. workers could conceivably be distributed. It'll never happen though. The corruption includes ensuring the property values keep growing in the DC area.
Worse yet, the media version that most are reading doesn't include his references that he's supporting the text with. His leaps make more sense with those included. That being said, he posted this for internal use hoping and it was of course leaked. The leaker should be sued by him for turning this into a bigger issue and likely being the actual reason he was canned. Google is a liberal shill company now that should be chopped up since we can't afford to have this kind of power in the hands of fanatics. They won't be going after the leaker. Perhaps the DOJ could as some sort of industrial espionage investigation.
Yeah, they aren't complaining about the incredibly low percentage of female workers in the garbage truck driving fields either. Sewer cleaning? Bull riding? Diesel engine repair? Snipers? Registering for Selective Service? Seems like the "victim" groups want all the benefits without the responsibilities.
Careful, you're asserting that men and women in the workplace can complement each others' strengths rather than all being exactly the same (or trying to be). The thought police will get angry because their narrative is that everyone is the same in all ways. Any suggestion to the contrary should be punishable by any means necessary to silence the heretics.
I beg your fucking pardon, but what a load of horse-shit.
First off, since when did conservatives start thinking that it was OK to be protected from *verbal* attack? *Verbal* attack is free speech.
Secondly, since when did conservatives think it was OK for people to be protected from legal responses to their actions, *including economic responses*? If an employer wants to fire someone because of what they said, conservatives are supposed to think that is absolutely fine: it's one of the reasons so many states have at-will legislation. Taking personal responsibility and accepting the consequences of your actions is supposed to be at the heart of conservatism. If I eat junk food, it makes me fat, I get ill, I might die, my fault, etc. If I say stuff my employer doesn't want me to say, they fire me, I start up my own company where I can say stuff freely, etc.
Thirdly, people ask for safe spaces for all sorts of reasons, both legitimate and illegitimate. A group of people who have been victims of abuse may want to be able to talk about the abuse they've been subjected to without having to be subject to further attack, for example. Racists may want to talk about their plans to start a race war. But only one group spend their days scorning the idea of "safe spaces" and then ask for such a space themselves.
Well aren't you an impassioned hypocrite?!? Your post contradicts itself within the space of 3 fun but flawed paragraphs. You start out by stating that conservatives should not expect to be protected from threats and harassment and finish by basically stating that the proper types of snowflakes do deserve these protections. I think the Slashdot readers deserve an apology!
PhD in Biology from Harvard... No wonder the thought police hate him. The new definition of gender is almost literally about feelings and culture. Probably drives the poor scientist nuts. Dark times.
Today he lost his job and the argument why seems to be that some fragile souls felt triggered. Sick stuff. Time to break up Google - can't have this kind of power in the hands of fanatics.
Well, to be fair, one would have to search pretty deep for a reasonable "scholarly example" for a citation since they were some of the first to drink the thought police Kool-Aid. I guess there is a silver lining in here somewhere. The value of degrees from tech schools have gone up considerably since the alternative is focusing on PC and identity politics indoctrination to such an extreme that useful topics are being neglected.
It's funny that you bring up global warming, because a lot of the evidence suggests that you are incorrect, yet you continue to act in much the same way as people who contest the science behind global warming. I seriously question how you could reconcile the studies I've presented above with your beliefs that biology plays such a little role in the outcomes we're observing. I suppose you could claim the science is biased, but then how do you know that the scientists publishing articles about climate change aren't biased?
Your comment was quite good until you basically contradicted yourself when bringing up the gospel of global warming. Reasonable people can generally accept that it is getting warming that that humans are likely impacting this to some extent. But the same reason we can't trust the science of good feelings that is being force fed into today's students is causing us to wonder what else has been corrupted by ideological influences. Ideas are being suppressed if they don't fit the common narrative and that is simply wrong.
Good points. Instead of viewing opportunities to debate as chances to educate or exchange ideas, they color views outside of their scope as hateful or ignorant. They never seem to understand how this makes them look to those outside of their protective thought bubble.
I've never been a fan of cracking water to separate the H and O and then burning it. Sure, it's clean, but the cool thing about water is it doesn't go away. Wanna really see the environment get f---ed, start permanently removing water from Earth so we can have clean smelling tail pipes but the whole planet turns into a desert. Now, if we can find ways to add water to the planet from outside such as mining asteroids and comets, great. Break that stuff down and burn!
How about not showing up at a "peaceful protest" wearing a mask and carrying a bag full of weapons and fire starting materials? Then we might have some sympathy for you. You're just peddling Antifa domestic terrorist/anarchist propaganda.
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On the other hand, the world is over populated in many areas. Why don't we stream-line the treatment processes (and related expense) for smoking-related illnesses and let people choose to remove themselves from the planet a few years early?!? Besides, if they don't die of smoking, it might be Alzheimers or all manner of other even more unpleasant ends. Non-smokers will get to enjoy their retirement a bit longer and smokers will remove themselves from being beneficiaries. Nanny-state tactics are an unpleasant form of fascism anyway.. If my latest memo from the thought police is current: smoking is bad, drinking is bad, but for some reason Marijuana is more socially acceptable.
Yeah, I have a Motorola from 2013 and it still runs great, but I can't get updates. I'll have to flash it eventually. I can't imagine the number of bugs I'm probably vulnerable to by now. If Congress wasn't so woefully ignorant about everything, I'd expect them to take some action to make our computing lives more secure and protect the consumer. All the tech biggies have lobbyists working against us...
Uh, oh. You sound like a member of that "conservative underground" that Google is trying to hunt down. Careful. All thoughts are supposed to come from carefully programmed feelings or the thought police will come for you.
It's not a matter of race or "corruption", like you're trying to pretend it is. It's a matter of some people being more prepared, and thus the process moves swiftly for them. Other people don't come prepared to vote, and this unfortunately introduces delays that affect all subsequent voters.
Your rationale doesn't hold up - statistically, we would expect conscientiousness to be randomly distributed throughout the populace with no real geographical bias - so why would there magically be a lot of people with registration problems on only one end of town? And, if there are, then the election committee should preferentially allocate resources to that end of town to get things moving faster.
Not if he was waiting in line at an old folks' home... Lots of things would get slowed down in that environment. The poster didn't provide much detail, but at least he didn't do it as AC.
And you're posting as AC. Fake News or biased observation is the only question here. Did you record and report these problems you're reporting?!? Did the "Man" keep you down? Where you too busy screaming, intimidating and beating people with bike locks and forgot to record "evidence". I call BS, please prove me wrong.
You know, it's funny. Affirmative action laws actual prohibit excluding other classes. Race and gender are protected classes, but decades ago, it somehow became laughable to consider a Caucasian male eligible for this protection/consideration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Excellent post, but why the focus on intelligence. After a certain level, determination, conditioning and education will overcome simple intelligence differences. I've known lots of folks that are members of Mensa, etc that can't hold a job because they are arrogant, lazy, unlucky, or combinations of one or more similar issues. My father was a multi-PhD college professor long ago and observed that the smarter kids usually didn't perform as well as those that were hard working. I suspect a combination of both, brilliance and preparation are ideal, but very rare.
Does even democratic majority give the representatives a moral right to start separating people into special classes?
It's not supposed to, that's why we're a republic. So a simple majority can't infringe upon the rights of the minority. But, I know that pesky constitution gets inconvenient for the extreme elements of both parties somewhat frequently nowadays.
Who decided that certain groups of people should be a "protected class",
Uh, the democratically elected leaders, right?
They've done such a good job of helping us all get along. Not! Another of the many, many reasons we need term limits in Congress immediately.
Since there are no standards in their feelings-based "science" regarding modern liberal views on gender, he could invent his own gender. I had a gay dream once and now wish to have my own gender and a very complicated set of custom gender pronouns. My letter will be D (for dreamer) in the LGBTQ alphabet.
Never solved a problem for a customer because they were conservative? Please clarify Mr. hater.
Well, if you are convinced women are inferior but don't want to say it and someone says they are different... then you read "inferior". Simple as that, the crime is theirs.
Where does he say they are inferior. You're inferring nonsense and then getting offended by your imagination.
M$ is even more censorship happy than Google with overseas IPs. Seems like half the alphabet is banned in the middle-east.
AC is right about all the major tech companies being like-minded, though. Just in a horrible pod-person Orwellian nightmare sort of way. Need to get real diversity in the upper echelons of tech by breaking them up and spreading them about the country a bit to get them in touch with what the US values really are. Govt. needs the same treatment. I imagine almost 80 percent of DC govt. workers could conceivably be distributed. It'll never happen though. The corruption includes ensuring the property values keep growing in the DC area.
Worse yet, the media version that most are reading doesn't include his references that he's supporting the text with. His leaps make more sense with those included. That being said, he posted this for internal use hoping and it was of course leaked. The leaker should be sued by him for turning this into a bigger issue and likely being the actual reason he was canned. Google is a liberal shill company now that should be chopped up since we can't afford to have this kind of power in the hands of fanatics. They won't be going after the leaker. Perhaps the DOJ could as some sort of industrial espionage investigation.
Yeah, they aren't complaining about the incredibly low percentage of female workers in the garbage truck driving fields either. Sewer cleaning? Bull riding? Diesel engine repair? Snipers? Registering for Selective Service? Seems like the "victim" groups want all the benefits without the responsibilities.
Careful, you're asserting that men and women in the workplace can complement each others' strengths rather than all being exactly the same (or trying to be). The thought police will get angry because their narrative is that everyone is the same in all ways. Any suggestion to the contrary should be punishable by any means necessary to silence the heretics.
I beg your fucking pardon, but what a load of horse-shit.
First off, since when did conservatives start thinking that it was OK to be protected from *verbal* attack? *Verbal* attack is free speech.
Secondly, since when did conservatives think it was OK for people to be protected from legal responses to their actions, *including economic responses*? If an employer wants to fire someone because of what they said, conservatives are supposed to think that is absolutely fine: it's one of the reasons so many states have at-will legislation. Taking personal responsibility and accepting the consequences of your actions is supposed to be at the heart of conservatism. If I eat junk food, it makes me fat, I get ill, I might die, my fault, etc. If I say stuff my employer doesn't want me to say, they fire me, I start up my own company where I can say stuff freely, etc.
Thirdly, people ask for safe spaces for all sorts of reasons, both legitimate and illegitimate. A group of people who have been victims of abuse may want to be able to talk about the abuse they've been subjected to without having to be subject to further attack, for example. Racists may want to talk about their plans to start a race war. But only one group spend their days scorning the idea of "safe spaces" and then ask for such a space themselves.
Well aren't you an impassioned hypocrite?!? Your post contradicts itself within the space of 3 fun but flawed paragraphs. You start out by stating that conservatives should not expect to be protected from threats and harassment and finish by basically stating that the proper types of snowflakes do deserve these protections. I think the Slashdot readers deserve an apology!
PhD in Biology from Harvard... No wonder the thought police hate him. The new definition of gender is almost literally about feelings and culture. Probably drives the poor scientist nuts. Dark times.
Today he lost his job and the argument why seems to be that some fragile souls felt triggered. Sick stuff. Time to break up Google - can't have this kind of power in the hands of fanatics.
Well, to be fair, one would have to search pretty deep for a reasonable "scholarly example" for a citation since they were some of the first to drink the thought police Kool-Aid. I guess there is a silver lining in here somewhere. The value of degrees from tech schools have gone up considerably since the alternative is focusing on PC and identity politics indoctrination to such an extreme that useful topics are being neglected.
It's funny that you bring up global warming, because a lot of the evidence suggests that you are incorrect, yet you continue to act in much the same way as people who contest the science behind global warming. I seriously question how you could reconcile the studies I've presented above with your beliefs that biology plays such a little role in the outcomes we're observing. I suppose you could claim the science is biased, but then how do you know that the scientists publishing articles about climate change aren't biased?
Your comment was quite good until you basically contradicted yourself when bringing up the gospel of global warming. Reasonable people can generally accept that it is getting warming that that humans are likely impacting this to some extent. But the same reason we can't trust the science of good feelings that is being force fed into today's students is causing us to wonder what else has been corrupted by ideological influences. Ideas are being suppressed if they don't fit the common narrative and that is simply wrong.
Good points. Instead of viewing opportunities to debate as chances to educate or exchange ideas, they color views outside of their scope as hateful or ignorant. They never seem to understand how this makes them look to those outside of their protective thought bubble.
I've never been a fan of cracking water to separate the H and O and then burning it. Sure, it's clean, but the cool thing about water is it doesn't go away. Wanna really see the environment get f---ed, start permanently removing water from Earth so we can have clean smelling tail pipes but the whole planet turns into a desert. Now, if we can find ways to add water to the planet from outside such as mining asteroids and comets, great. Break that stuff down and burn!
How about not showing up at a "peaceful protest" wearing a mask and carrying a bag full of weapons and fire starting materials? Then we might have some sympathy for you. You're just peddling Antifa domestic terrorist/anarchist propaganda.