Oh, come off it. The nutjobs and potheads are way more worth watching than BIll O'Reilly or The View, and unlike the mass-produced shows, you might learn something from them.
However, they are linked together through the history of racism that is quite apparent in the town. De-linking those two will not allow you to actually get to the root cause of the beating.... in order to actually prevent further incidents like these, you need to address the racism in Jena.
If the entire situation was reversed, culminating in six white people beating a black person unconscious, you would be the first crying out for them to be tried for hate crimes. No, sir, you are the bigot here.
you know MAYBE this is one of the things the article was talking about. Stupid IT guys think it's perfectly ok to make fun of each other's clothing, but females for the most part take "jokes" like that personally.
You want to have your cake and eat it too, apparently. You want to be treated equally to everyone else, except in this particular case, where you want special treatment. Stop using your gender as an excuse for your personal problems. It's demeaning to women--you're basically saying women are fragile and superficial creatures who can't take a joke about how they're dressed. If you want to argue for gender equality, then please recognize--those kind of attitudes are a gender inequality in themselves.
Many academic associations and journals have switched to anonymous review, and the amount of work accepted from women and ethnic minorities typically shoots up immediately afterwards.
Who really counts as an ethnic minority? At my (admittedly crappy) university, there are more Asian and Indian grad students than whites, and while the professors are predominantly white, that's because the professors are predominantly older, and they're increasingly being replaced with Asians and Indians. This isn't meant as any sort of complaint--just an illustration that "whites" are becoming the ethnic minority in several fields.
You're wrong in thinking jokes like this are completely innocuous. Sending the message that "good" engineers are the ones who'll stay all night is exactly what keeps people who value life balance out of fields like engineering. Such a culture doesn't just tend to exclude women, but also people from non-anglo cultures that value family.
Sure, engineers shouldn't always stay all night, but if you go too far and say they should never stay all night--well, once in awhile it happens, and once in awhile it isn't a bad thing if the work is genuinely interesting.
As for buying 'good' books on credit card, only if you can return them the next day, after all you certainly wouldn't want to reward those junk writers in any way, shape or form.
When you run a return on a credit card purchase, they usually process it back onto the card. So much for not being traced.
All you people care about is readers and making money off of him! Leave him alone! He hasn't written a column for years! HE'S A HUMAN!!! You're lucky he even WRITES for you BASTARDS!
Certainly, but you don't want to go too far the other way and presume that the amount of crime will stay constant. If you make it harder to commit crime without being caught, criminals will succeed less often.
You know, despite your initial assumption being totally wrong (I prefer to think that not all cops are good, and going further, most cops are bad), I rather like your idea. As it is, cops only deal with people after they've been called to deal with a situation. That makes cops deal almost exclusively with assholes, which gives them a rather poor view of the human race, which in turn is what makes them assholes. Putting cops on foot patrol so they can talk to people on the street and such might change that. On the other hand, we'd have to legalize a lot of petty crimes for this to work well--this sort of thing would have a chilling effect on the small illegal things people do day to day.
Not only do I have female friends, but I'm also roughly familiar with feminist ideologies, and very few feminists (aside from maybe the most sex-positive, individualist ones) have anything good to say about prostitution, and many of them have very little good to say about heterosexual sex in general. Most of the people who go around loudly proclaiming themselves "feminists" are the radicals, who are pretty far out of touch even with what most women think.
I was using physics as an analogy. We don't fundamentally disagree--the reasons for these fluctuations are more due to the US dollar than to the other currencies--but if your frame of reference is the US dollar, the other currencies are rising, and if your frame of reference is the Euro, the US dollar is falling, and there's nothing fundamentally untrue about stating it either way. Unlike physics, currency trading makes it all but impossible to find a "good" frame of reference.
Looks like someone never studied basic relativity. In relation to the Euro, the US dollar is falling. In relation to the US dollar, the Euro is rising. Currency trading works the same way as physical motion in this respect. Now the root cause is indeed the same, but that doesn't make it incorrect to say that other currencies are rising against the dollar.
Also, you might not need that exact book. Calculus hasn't changed recently, so any calculus book ought to suffice to teach you Calculus. Absolutely no reason to buy a new edition.
Does your college not have homework assignments or something?
That's instinct, not intuition. Two completely different things. And instinct applies to behavior, not to knowledge per se--there is a difference. Incidentally, I doubt your cat could successfully survive in the wild.
Instinctual reactions among humans aren't anything we "tune out" either--in fact, most people use them more often than they actually think. Thinking is difficult. Being a dumb ape is easy.
Read a book like Bravo-Two-Zero, for an idea of what the torture was like practiced by Iraqis against coalition POW's in the first Iraq war; and more importantly, what the men who are able to resist it are like.
Or you could read the news for an idea of what the torture was like practiced by the US on Iraqi POW's in the current Iraq war.
They said they tested it on "hardened marines," and they couldn't withstand it more than a couple seconds. I'd like to see how Delta or SAS guys would do against it.
Probably less than a second--but in all seriousness, it won't vary in order of magnitude.
Torture relies just as much on fear of death or permanent injury as it does on pain. I do not believe a pain-only device would make an effective torture device.
I'd like to see your idea of "effective torture device". This device seems perfectly effective at placing people into agony in order to satisfy the sadistic vengefulness of the torturers, and since this is the primary purpose of torture, it would be very effective. Also important for a country like the United States, the device doesn't leave any obvious evidence of use. Finally, people who are free to move aren't capable of withstanding more than on the order of seconds of the device before moving out of its way. What would happen if you were to restrain someone and use the device for tens of seconds, or even a full minute? It's very well-attested for traumatic experiences to cause permanent psychological problems. If that traumatic experience involved being kidnapped by foreigners, taken to a dark prison, waterboarded, and at the end of it all, exposed to mysterious, excruciating pain without the capability to do anything except perhaps scream and piss and shit yourself, what on earth would happen to your mind?
So, when a crowd of people are smashing your store front and burning your car - a form of "relating" to you of which you would presumably disapprove - which is better: sending in people with choking tear gas, or clubs, or other techniques that essentialy guarantee injury for people across the board, or using a tool that more or less instantly puts a stop to the violence?
I'm with the Koreans on this one. Get out your rifle. The occasional legitimate use does not justify creating the ultimate torture device.
Why are you more afraid of a fleeting, non-damaging nerve stimulation than you are choking gas, or bruising clubs and water cannons, or agitated K-9 units? You shouldn't be - those are all simply tools.
I don't trust cops with this for the same reason I don't trust cops with tasers or the iron maiden. This thing is the perfect torture device--it creates extreme, agonizing pain, and doesn't leave any physical mark. Even the atom bomb has legitimate uses. The people who invented this monstrosity should have the dignity to kill themselves. Honestly, are you so dumb and trusting that you can't imagine cops or the CIA strapping someone down in front of one of these things and turning it on until they get a confession, or until the person just goes insane from the agony?
And if it was a Kareem Abdul Jabbar, you would either lose at basketball or get you ass kicked unless you discovered his secret weakness was vulnerability to light.
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Please. The proper abbreviation is SF. Your post has so alarmed me that I must now put my monacle back in place.
Oh, come off it. The nutjobs and potheads are way more worth watching than BIll O'Reilly or The View, and unlike the mass-produced shows, you might learn something from them.
Mutual racism, apparently.
If the entire situation was reversed, culminating in six white people beating a black person unconscious, you would be the first crying out for them to be tried for hate crimes. No, sir, you are the bigot here.
You want to have your cake and eat it too, apparently. You want to be treated equally to everyone else, except in this particular case, where you want special treatment. Stop using your gender as an excuse for your personal problems. It's demeaning to women--you're basically saying women are fragile and superficial creatures who can't take a joke about how they're dressed. If you want to argue for gender equality, then please recognize--those kind of attitudes are a gender inequality in themselves.
Who really counts as an ethnic minority? At my (admittedly crappy) university, there are more Asian and Indian grad students than whites, and while the professors are predominantly white, that's because the professors are predominantly older, and they're increasingly being replaced with Asians and Indians. This isn't meant as any sort of complaint--just an illustration that "whites" are becoming the ethnic minority in several fields.
Books. If you choose them well, it's more personal than pretty much anything.
Sure, engineers shouldn't always stay all night, but if you go too far and say they should never stay all night--well, once in awhile it happens, and once in awhile it isn't a bad thing if the work is genuinely interesting.
Good point. We'll be by to tase you soon.
When you run a return on a credit card purchase, they usually process it back onto the card. So much for not being traced.
All you people care about is readers and making money off of him! Leave him alone! He hasn't written a column for years! HE'S A HUMAN!!! You're lucky he even WRITES for you BASTARDS!
Certainly, but you don't want to go too far the other way and presume that the amount of crime will stay constant. If you make it harder to commit crime without being caught, criminals will succeed less often.
You know, despite your initial assumption being totally wrong (I prefer to think that not all cops are good, and going further, most cops are bad), I rather like your idea. As it is, cops only deal with people after they've been called to deal with a situation. That makes cops deal almost exclusively with assholes, which gives them a rather poor view of the human race, which in turn is what makes them assholes. Putting cops on foot patrol so they can talk to people on the street and such might change that. On the other hand, we'd have to legalize a lot of petty crimes for this to work well--this sort of thing would have a chilling effect on the small illegal things people do day to day.
Not only do I have female friends, but I'm also roughly familiar with feminist ideologies, and very few feminists (aside from maybe the most sex-positive, individualist ones) have anything good to say about prostitution, and many of them have very little good to say about heterosexual sex in general. Most of the people who go around loudly proclaiming themselves "feminists" are the radicals, who are pretty far out of touch even with what most women think.
That does not mean the CAD is not rising, relative to the USD.
I agree. The CAD and EUR are still rising in value relative to the USD. That's not a false statement.
I was using physics as an analogy. We don't fundamentally disagree--the reasons for these fluctuations are more due to the US dollar than to the other currencies--but if your frame of reference is the US dollar, the other currencies are rising, and if your frame of reference is the Euro, the US dollar is falling, and there's nothing fundamentally untrue about stating it either way. Unlike physics, currency trading makes it all but impossible to find a "good" frame of reference.
Looks like someone never studied basic relativity. In relation to the Euro, the US dollar is falling. In relation to the US dollar, the Euro is rising. Currency trading works the same way as physical motion in this respect. Now the root cause is indeed the same, but that doesn't make it incorrect to say that other currencies are rising against the dollar.
In America, prostitution is already illegal and the feminists are the most anti-sex people around, along with the evangelical Christians.
Does your college not have homework assignments or something?
That's instinct, not intuition. Two completely different things. And instinct applies to behavior, not to knowledge per se--there is a difference. Incidentally, I doubt your cat could successfully survive in the wild.
Instinctual reactions among humans aren't anything we "tune out" either--in fact, most people use them more often than they actually think. Thinking is difficult. Being a dumb ape is easy.
Or you could read the news for an idea of what the torture was like practiced by the US on Iraqi POW's in the current Iraq war.
They said they tested it on "hardened marines," and they couldn't withstand it more than a couple seconds. I'd like to see how Delta or SAS guys would do against it.Probably less than a second--but in all seriousness, it won't vary in order of magnitude.
Torture relies just as much on fear of death or permanent injury as it does on pain. I do not believe a pain-only device would make an effective torture device.I'd like to see your idea of "effective torture device". This device seems perfectly effective at placing people into agony in order to satisfy the sadistic vengefulness of the torturers, and since this is the primary purpose of torture, it would be very effective. Also important for a country like the United States, the device doesn't leave any obvious evidence of use. Finally, people who are free to move aren't capable of withstanding more than on the order of seconds of the device before moving out of its way. What would happen if you were to restrain someone and use the device for tens of seconds, or even a full minute? It's very well-attested for traumatic experiences to cause permanent psychological problems. If that traumatic experience involved being kidnapped by foreigners, taken to a dark prison, waterboarded, and at the end of it all, exposed to mysterious, excruciating pain without the capability to do anything except perhaps scream and piss and shit yourself, what on earth would happen to your mind?
I'm with the Koreans on this one. Get out your rifle. The occasional legitimate use does not justify creating the ultimate torture device.
I don't trust cops with this for the same reason I don't trust cops with tasers or the iron maiden. This thing is the perfect torture device--it creates extreme, agonizing pain, and doesn't leave any physical mark. Even the atom bomb has legitimate uses. The people who invented this monstrosity should have the dignity to kill themselves. Honestly, are you so dumb and trusting that you can't imagine cops or the CIA strapping someone down in front of one of these things and turning it on until they get a confession, or until the person just goes insane from the agony?
And if it was a Kareem Abdul Jabbar, you would either lose at basketball or get you ass kicked unless you discovered his secret weakness was vulnerability to light.