Equality is not a universal, or even commonly held, value, just because you happen to be under the illusion that you value it. Please insert coin and try again.
You're drawing distinctions where none exist. By viewing porn, you're restricting my freedom to utilize those photons to map a porn-image on my retinas. Every action restricts possible actions for everyone else in some way.
They could theoretically distract you in a way that other pictures don't, causing you to work less and thus lose money. I mock your arbitrarily drawn line between things that "injure" and things that don't:P
Yeah... they've gone from being way to opressed to not being nearly opressed enough. On the bright side, those that survive both despotism and anarchy may be some of the most politically adaptible people on earth. Natural selection strikes again!
When we talk about culture war, we mean squabbling between different cultures. America, you see, actually has people from different countries living here. In fact, we have a lot of them.
Sudan's situation is only a "culture war" in the sense that war is part of their culture. Plus, the solution is to go in, take over, ban weapons for the local populace, and force them at gunpoint to be nice to each other. You'll note that that's not very easily accommodated by American policy, and would also create problems of its own.
Nice troll, though. you manage to make a perfectly reasonable, relatively truthful point, and exaggerate it into something so inflammatory that even people that pretty much agree with the premise will bite. Good job.
Why you specifically target affirmative action. Cronyism and nepotism have pretty much been traditions since the inception of the Democratic Party, and subsequent parties have continued the tradition. The only reason it's more subtle nowadays is because it got Garfield shot.
It also helped that Clinton was the least effective president since Coolidge. Of course, the difference was that Coolidge did it on purpose, and was an awesome guy. Frankly, I'm not sure wether I admire Clinton for his complete lack of impact on anything or wether I look down my nose at him.
I think "light regulatory hand" means he didn't impose a lot of penalties. So the statement translates to "He didn't penalize that many people, but when he did... wow."
Waaah! Every law in the communications industry doesn't favor my hobbies! How dare he not acknowledge that what I want is necessarily true and correct?!?
By the way, "political" is defined in terms of "the actions of one in government", so "politically motivated fines" tells us exactly nothing new about the nature of said fines.
You say that like it's a bad thing... if "progress" is an advancement of anything any politician, of any political party, wants to do, or has ever wanted to do, and lack of progress is blocking that from happening, everyone'd love to see some of that gridlock.
(1) Just because it was a rather stupidly naive attempt at censorship that predictably backfired to some degree doesn't mean it wasn't an attempt at censorship. The point about the universality of political intent stands.
(2) When you accuse someone of something, it's customary to provide a source, or at least an example. I mean, I can claim to be the greatest force for censorship in the universe, but without any backup, I'd get laughed off... just like you are at the moment.
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Is being able to dyanically misinterpret statistics to say anything you want really that different from making statistics actually say things? The end result is the same, and the process (lying and oversimplifying) is also roughly identical. As a chemist, I personally consider any sample group smaller than 6.02e23 to be too small to give any kind of reliable data anyhow...
Yes, because the tabacco plant was all "Dude, let's evolve so that we're dangerous to the human chemical system, then make them smoke us". And wtf is this 'hurt' crap? Most guns are designed to kill things, which is often perfectly legal (raccoons, deer, national enemies). Hurt, my ass. If your target is still alive to hurt, you've screwed up, bud.
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Hate to break it to you, but this "rights" business isn't even really so much a philosophy as a religion. Just felt you should know.
given that your .sig could easily fit on a bumper sticker.
Equality is not a universal, or even commonly held, value, just because you happen to be under the illusion that you value it. Please insert coin and try again.
You're drawing distinctions where none exist. By viewing porn, you're restricting my freedom to utilize those photons to map a porn-image on my retinas. Every action restricts possible actions for everyone else in some way.
pictures of genatalia don't
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They could theoretically distract you in a way that other pictures don't, causing you to work less and thus lose money. I mock your arbitrarily drawn line between things that "injure" and things that don't
Eh, if you find a human that's actually not an idiot, have 'em run for office and i'll vote for 'em.
That "whoosh" you heard was the point of my post flying at high speed over your head.
"They died glorious martyrs, and now rest closer to God. I am proud of their sacrifice."
Democracy doesn't automatically value life, but saying that it's a universal of any kind is making an error in the opposite direciton.
Killing people is a bad thing?
Not if you place a high value on the stability of the ecosystem or have a conflict between political units which cannot be resolved.
"way to" to "way too". My bad.
Yeah... they've gone from being way to opressed to not being nearly opressed enough. On the bright side, those that survive both despotism and anarchy may be some of the most politically adaptible people on earth. Natural selection strikes again!
Yeah, we should start a club or something. Good to be the target of my own laughter once in awhile, though.
Facist and liberal aren't mutually exclusive....
When we talk about culture war, we mean squabbling between different cultures. America, you see, actually has people from different countries living here. In fact, we have a lot of them.
Sudan's situation is only a "culture war" in the sense that war is part of their culture. Plus, the solution is to go in, take over, ban weapons for the local populace, and force them at gunpoint to be nice to each other. You'll note that that's not very easily accommodated by American policy, and would also create problems of its own.
Nice troll, though. you manage to make a perfectly reasonable, relatively truthful point, and exaggerate it into something so inflammatory that even people that pretty much agree with the premise will bite. Good job.
Why you specifically target affirmative action. Cronyism and nepotism have pretty much been traditions since the inception of the Democratic Party, and subsequent parties have continued the tradition. The only reason it's more subtle nowadays is because it got Garfield shot.
It also helped that Clinton was the least effective president since Coolidge. Of course, the difference was that Coolidge did it on purpose, and was an awesome guy. Frankly, I'm not sure wether I admire Clinton for his complete lack of impact on anything or wether I look down my nose at him.
I think "light regulatory hand" means he didn't impose a lot of penalties. So the statement translates to "He didn't penalize that many people, but when he did... wow."
Wait? Aren't our children already raging nymphomaniacs? Just ask any baptist minister.
Waaah! Every law in the communications industry doesn't favor my hobbies! How dare he not acknowledge that what I want is necessarily true and correct?!?
By the way, "political" is defined in terms of "the actions of one in government", so "politically motivated fines" tells us exactly nothing new about the nature of said fines.
You say that like it's a bad thing... if "progress" is an advancement of anything any politician, of any political party, wants to do, or has ever wanted to do, and lack of progress is blocking that from happening, everyone'd love to see some of that gridlock.
(1) Just because it was a rather stupidly naive attempt at censorship that predictably backfired to some degree doesn't mean it wasn't an attempt at censorship. The point about the universality of political intent stands.
(2) When you accuse someone of something, it's customary to provide a source, or at least an example. I mean, I can claim to be the greatest force for censorship in the universe, but without any backup, I'd get laughed off... just like you are at the moment.
Is being able to dyanically misinterpret statistics to say anything you want really that different from making statistics actually say things? The end result is the same, and the process (lying and oversimplifying) is also roughly identical. As a chemist, I personally consider any sample group smaller than 6.02e23 to be too small to give any kind of reliable data anyhow...
If I had mod points, I'd mod you +funny.
Yes, because the tabacco plant was all "Dude, let's evolve so that we're dangerous to the human chemical system, then make them smoke us". And wtf is this 'hurt' crap? Most guns are designed to kill things, which is often perfectly legal (raccoons, deer, national enemies). Hurt, my ass. If your target is still alive to hurt, you've screwed up, bud.
is that the atom bomb really didn't have much potential for illegal use.