Thats the sad part of Affirmative action, rich white liberals dont think Black people can make it unless they are given in's.
Us liberals don't want affirmative action because we don't think a particular group can't make it without help, its that it is in the nation's best interest to accelerate the assimilation of a group previously marginalized into all classes of society.
Affirmative Action helps create a wealthier, more educated, diverse nation.
Dude, unless you are in the top 4% income level - where 50% of the wealth in this country is- (thats 4% of the people have as much wealth as the other 96% of us) - then you are nothing but cannon-fodder for the REAL Republicans.
The "pickup-truck" Republicans "are nearly a laugh; they're nearly a laugh, but they're really a cry": - It's like watching Clarence Thomas sit on the bench and rule against Affirmative Action after that's what got him through college, graduate and law school.
That's the great draw of the Republicans: people's belief in the American Dream- that they'll actually one day make it and benifit from Republican policies.
Either that, or the Blind Religeous Right: It's GREAT to be RIGHTEOUS - I'm one of the people who has to RISE UP and PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF - and I'll get a shitload of virgins (or is it raisins??) when I die for the Cause...
This is basically a good old-fashioned public works project. Like the freeways, aqueducts, dams, bridges, etc...
What will happen is that the government will GIVE MONEY to private firms to put in the infrastructure, which will have the effect of employing more people, people employed will have more money, people with more money will spend it, spending it will stimulate the economy.
This is a good thing!! City-wide wifi access, more people employed to set it up and maintain it, more money circulating through the economy.
Public works projects have always been the best way to stimulate the economy (besides full-blown warfare), and always have much better results than funnelling money into the economy via tax cuts.
Public work projects raise a deficit which is eliminated by the benefits of the project, while deficits from tax cuts don't- because there is no widespread benefit from tax cuts: the rich just reinvest it and don't have to pay taxes on the capital gains. The rest of us - (wow: $600 child credit tax break - I'm sending my kid to Stanford now!!) - well the tax cut we get doesn't go far at all, does it?
This type of service will have long lasting positive benefits for everyone in the area - it will be money well spent.
Now, I'm heading back to the park for another bottle of Wild Irish Rose.
a lot of computer users don't have the knowledge to avoid this stuff, and they don't WANT to learn all this security stuff.
While all of us/.ers sit in a dark room eating twinkies and guzzling Mt. Dew while we download porn and Futurama episodes, some people out there actually have "girlfriends" (i'm not sure what those are, but I've heard that if you have one, you can do some of the stuff on those porn thingies) - and they have other things to do besides study the Windows API.
Not all spam is bad by the way: just the other day I received an email from the manager of a bank in Togo saying that he needed someone to help him launder $35 million - I'm flying out there monday. Thank god my spam filter didn't catch that!!!!
The problem with spam is that it's so cheap to send and will get SOME results - if I send 3 million spams and one in every hundred thousand people responds, I'm doing ok. This guy was even worse though, infecting 'puters with spyware and then selling the remedy - why didn't I think of that...
I've not had that problem. I used 802.11a with WPA-PSK and no SSID broadcast, and have absolutely no connectivity problems using the zero confidence utility...
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Us liberals don't want affirmative action because we don't think a particular group can't make it without help, its that it is in the nation's best interest to accelerate the assimilation of a group previously marginalized into all classes of society.
Affirmative Action helps create a wealthier, more educated, diverse nation.
and then get the denial in writing when the company doesn't want to pay for it...
GiMMe mY moNEY 'hO!!! ...gEt in tHE goDDamn caR !..!!.!!
This is great-
finally some validation of the philosophical aspects of my project to power a Vibrator with a 1.5 HP Briggs&Stratton gasoline engine...
The "pickup-truck" Republicans "are nearly a laugh; they're nearly a laugh, but they're really a cry": - It's like watching Clarence Thomas sit on the bench and rule against Affirmative Action after that's what got him through college, graduate and law school.
That's the great draw of the Republicans: people's belief in the American Dream- that they'll actually one day make it and benifit from Republican policies.
Either that, or the Blind Religeous Right: It's GREAT to be RIGHTEOUS - I'm one of the people who has to RISE UP and PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF - and I'll get a shitload of virgins (or is it raisins??) when I die for the Cause...
Screw that!!! Either we get Sleazy, or we get Sleazed...
What will happen is that the government will GIVE MONEY to private firms to put in the infrastructure, which will have the effect of employing more people, people employed will have more money, people with more money will spend it, spending it will stimulate the economy.
This is a good thing!! City-wide wifi access, more people employed to set it up and maintain it, more money circulating through the economy.
Public works projects have always been the best way to stimulate the economy (besides full-blown warfare), and always have much better results than funnelling money into the economy via tax cuts.
Public work projects raise a deficit which is eliminated by the benefits of the project, while deficits from tax cuts don't- because there is no widespread benefit from tax cuts: the rich just reinvest it and don't have to pay taxes on the capital gains. The rest of us - (wow: $600 child credit tax break - I'm sending my kid to Stanford now!!) - well the tax cut we get doesn't go far at all, does it?
This type of service will have long lasting positive benefits for everyone in the area - it will be money well spent.
Now, I'm heading back to the park for another bottle of Wild Irish Rose.
While all of us /.ers sit in a dark room eating twinkies and guzzling Mt. Dew while we download porn and Futurama episodes, some people out there actually have "girlfriends" (i'm not sure what those are, but I've heard that if you have one, you can do some of the stuff on those porn thingies) - and they have other things to do besides study the Windows API.
Not all spam is bad by the way: just the other day I received an email from the manager of a bank in Togo saying that he needed someone to help him launder $35 million - I'm flying out there monday. Thank god my spam filter didn't catch that!!!!
The problem with spam is that it's so cheap to send and will get SOME results - if I send 3 million spams and one in every hundred thousand people responds, I'm doing ok. This guy was even worse though, infecting 'puters with spyware and then selling the remedy - why didn't I think of that...
They're also getting some pretty reliable delivery technology going: http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jdw/jdw040802_1_ n.shtml
I spend my whole time looking for incorrectly spelled words. I NEVER mispell.
I've not had that problem. I used 802.11a with WPA-PSK and no SSID broadcast, and have absolutely no connectivity problems using the zero confidence utility...