I much prefer sharing the road (as a driver) with a cyclist than sharing the sidewalk (as a pedestrian) with a cyclist. I'd much rather be slowed down by a minute or two on the road than get run over on the sidewalk. In Amsterdam, if you hear that *ding-ding* you'd best get the hell out of the way, because a bike is about to knock you over. Of course, that normally means that you've wandered into the bike lane...
That's fine. Just sign a waiver saying you, not your insurance company or medicaid, will pay for any medical treatment stemming from a head injury while cycling without a helmet. Insurance and social safety nets are only fair if we all play by the same rules.
If Alice knows she can't pay it back she should be held accountable, too. I don't feel sorry for people who knowingly filed false paperwork to get big loans. Those bastards are just as big a part of the problem as the "fatcats."
One of the biggest injustices is that a lot of the time in 2003-6, you had people who were not-exactly-savvy first-time buyers who were mislead or lied to about the nature of their loans. My wife and I bought a home in 2003, and everywhere we went, builders and sellers were trying to get us to spend about double what we felt we could afford. Here's the kicker: my wife wasn't even employed at the time, but we were budgeting knowing that she would be. So really these people were trying to sell us 3 or 4 times more house than they should have been.
We knew that the market was going to be in for a tailspin. Probably should have rented. Oh well. We ended up losing about 30k on the house when we sold it this year. Would have been down more like 50k just 18 months ago, so I guess it could have been worse.
Wikipedia says the Joseph Smith Papers are published by the LDS. So I doubt there's a smoking gun in there. It's not like he said "If you want to get rich, you start a religion." People know all the crazy shit about Scientology, but they're still a growing religion. So faith is harder to shatter than you think. Cases in point: People still have faith that there were WMDs in Iraq (32% in May) and that Obama is a secret Muslim (17% in July).
I posit the following: every human being on the planet believes at least one absurd thing they have never been reasonably challenged on.
I was in college when my wife-to-be informed me that there were no such thing as cob spiders. I thought that's where cobwebs came from. I wonder what other absurd things I believe to this day.
Just because a woman isn't barefoot and pregnant doesn't mean that she is accepted as an equal in the family. There are several branches of Christianity that still believe the woman should be subservient to the man. In these families, if the man decides the woman should be working outside the home, she goes and gets a job. It doesn't mean she's an equal.
I don't know how common it is outside of evangelical Christianty, but I would estimate that 10 to 15% of evangelical households are like that. I grew up in a church like that, and I definitely saw signs of women being pressured to make more babies. It's hard for any survey or sociologist to gather meaningful data, because most of the women in situations like this don't have a problem with it, or don't realize that they don't have to be marginalized. Look up the Quiverfull movement and Andrea Yates if you think I'm making this shit up.
I don't know about Quiverfull per se, but there is pretty good data showing that something like 60 million Americans identify as evangelical. So you could be looking at a million families or more where the woman thinks it's her job to serve the man. That doesn't even address the millions where the woman stays at home with the kids due to poverty, or women in physically abusive relationships.
Let's not forget that Romney's religion has historically marginalized women, too. It's pretty clear from interviews discussing his wife that he is not that type of Mormon, though. I think it's important not to paint him with the same misogynistic brush as others in the Republican party. As a governor he was reasonably egalitarian, from what I have been able to read.
The big, bad government is not forcing nuns to hand out condoms for crying out loud. They're just saying if you're going to offer a health insurance plan as part of a person's paycheck, it has to meet a certain minimum standard. The other option is just to offer them enough money to buy their own damn insurance, but the end result is exactly the same. When my employer pays me every other Friday, they don't get to decide whether I spend any of that money at a titty bar, casino, mosque, Disneyworld, or whatever other "objectionable" thing you can think of. (Pretty sure there are religious groups still boycotting Disney.)
Let's also keep in mind that nobody seems to give a rat's ass that these same plans also cover boner pills. Yeah, ED's a medical condition, but extreme cramps every month is just God's punishment upon women for Eve's original sin. What the fuck is wrong with you people?!
I'm afraid that the US has progressed so far towards becoming a Christian theocracy that, first amendment or not, the dead tissue is about to cut off YOU!!!!
Don't be silly. That could only happen in Soviet Russia.
Wait, so you're looking for fast-moving partners, but should we really take your anecdotal evidence from your other post that 22% of men are rapists? Have you ever heard of selection bias? Fast movers are going to be more aggressive. Aggressive people are going to be more likely to commit rape. The rapist is still to blame, but you're statistically more likely to be raped. (I don't want to risk an analogy here; maybe BadAnaloyGuy can help me out.)
Also, if you're into aggressive partners, there's a chance that your friends and loved ones are, too. People tend to hang out with people that share their values. That might explain the high proportion of women you know that have been raped. Look, I agree that most people don't understand that the statistics are really bleak, but you need to remember that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
I've got two big problems with those studies. Not in their findings, but in their scope. Where's the data on the ruined lives of men that were provably innocent? Rape-related perjury or lying to authorities almost never gets punished. Where's the data on male victims of rape? Those crimes are almost certainly even less reported. In our culture, if a man gets raped by a woman, it's somehow his fault.
Exactly. I always choose this option when available, and I always make it something only my wife or myself would be able to answer. Normally inside jokes. Like "Who are Fred and George?", or "What's behind the orange spots?" or "Who has got it going on?" And if any of you think you know the answer to these, you're wrong.
Another important thing for these questions is that the answer can't change over time. For instance, my favorite restaurant, book, or whatever. will change from when I answer the question to ten years down the road when I need to reset my account.
Does anyone seriously think hyperbole like this helps anyone?
But of course!
Hyperbole is the bread of the downtrodden masses. It is the axe that will fall on the neck of the oppressor.
It is the light that brightens the future, the candle by which we read the manifestos on our ipads.
I get plenty of feedback, and it's never good. If I complain on the help forums about some bell or whistle that they're trying out, they ALWAYS make it a permanent or very-hard-to-disable feature. If I go to the forums to congratulate them on a particularly genius feature, they ALWAYS kill it off. The only GreaseMonkey scripts I run are to fix things that Google changed for no good reason. The only thing I have ever +1'd was a script to hide those damn +1 buttons. (The irony was too rich to pass up)
I got the list from the TARR category listings. The cover art clearly is the filigree border described in the TM filing. So I don't disagree that they are trying to capitalize on the brand, and that it's a stupid thing to do without getting buy-in from the trademark holder. The problem is that trademarks are only valid in certain domains. Just like Nissan Motors can't win a suit claiming their trademark is infringed by nissan.com (a computer website). Jack Daniel's whiskey doesn't go after Jack Daniel's Shipping.
The problem is in how the trademark law is worded. My lawyer buddy explained it this way: basically Nissan and Jack Daniel's have to sue or threaten to sue, because if they don't, their brand is weakened. Future litigation would suffer if somebody actually was trying to cause brand confusion. Although I guess they could try to say that the cover art is similar to an un-mounted photograph. So maybe this isn't as far-fetched as it looks at first.
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Why not buy a broken camera from your local junk store and very visibly install it?
Why buy one? I'm sure that these guys have already dumped one on his property.
What's really funny is they waited 15 years to pull this stunt.
Maybe it's an anniversary gift for Slashdot.
I much prefer sharing the road (as a driver) with a cyclist than sharing the sidewalk (as a pedestrian) with a cyclist. I'd much rather be slowed down by a minute or two on the road than get run over on the sidewalk. In Amsterdam, if you hear that *ding-ding* you'd best get the hell out of the way, because a bike is about to knock you over. Of course, that normally means that you've wandered into the bike lane...
That's fine. Just sign a waiver saying you, not your insurance company or medicaid, will pay for any medical treatment stemming from a head injury while cycling without a helmet. Insurance and social safety nets are only fair if we all play by the same rules.
If Alice knows she can't pay it back she should be held accountable, too. I don't feel sorry for people who knowingly filed false paperwork to get big loans. Those bastards are just as big a part of the problem as the "fatcats."
One of the biggest injustices is that a lot of the time in 2003-6, you had people who were not-exactly-savvy first-time buyers who were mislead or lied to about the nature of their loans. My wife and I bought a home in 2003, and everywhere we went, builders and sellers were trying to get us to spend about double what we felt we could afford. Here's the kicker: my wife wasn't even employed at the time, but we were budgeting knowing that she would be. So really these people were trying to sell us 3 or 4 times more house than they should have been.
We knew that the market was going to be in for a tailspin. Probably should have rented. Oh well. We ended up losing about 30k on the house when we sold it this year. Would have been down more like 50k just 18 months ago, so I guess it could have been worse.
Depends on the professor. I was taught that prose should be like a miniskirt: long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.
Wikipedia says the Joseph Smith Papers are published by the LDS. So I doubt there's a smoking gun in there. It's not like he said "If you want to get rich, you start a religion." People know all the crazy shit about Scientology, but they're still a growing religion. So faith is harder to shatter than you think. Cases in point: People still have faith that there were WMDs in Iraq (32% in May) and that Obama is a secret Muslim (17% in July).
I posit the following: every human being on the planet believes at least one absurd thing they have never been reasonably challenged on.
I was in college when my wife-to-be informed me that there were no such thing as cob spiders. I thought that's where cobwebs came from. I wonder what other absurd things I believe to this day.
Just because a woman isn't barefoot and pregnant doesn't mean that she is accepted as an equal in the family. There are several branches of Christianity that still believe the woman should be subservient to the man. In these families, if the man decides the woman should be working outside the home, she goes and gets a job. It doesn't mean she's an equal.
I don't know how common it is outside of evangelical Christianty, but I would estimate that 10 to 15% of evangelical households are like that. I grew up in a church like that, and I definitely saw signs of women being pressured to make more babies. It's hard for any survey or sociologist to gather meaningful data, because most of the women in situations like this don't have a problem with it, or don't realize that they don't have to be marginalized. Look up the Quiverfull movement and Andrea Yates if you think I'm making this shit up.
I don't know about Quiverfull per se, but there is pretty good data showing that something like 60 million Americans identify as evangelical. So you could be looking at a million families or more where the woman thinks it's her job to serve the man. That doesn't even address the millions where the woman stays at home with the kids due to poverty, or women in physically abusive relationships.
Let's not forget that Romney's religion has historically marginalized women, too. It's pretty clear from interviews discussing his wife that he is not that type of Mormon, though. I think it's important not to paint him with the same misogynistic brush as others in the Republican party. As a governor he was reasonably egalitarian, from what I have been able to read.
The big, bad government is not forcing nuns to hand out condoms for crying out loud. They're just saying if you're going to offer a health insurance plan as part of a person's paycheck, it has to meet a certain minimum standard. The other option is just to offer them enough money to buy their own damn insurance, but the end result is exactly the same. When my employer pays me every other Friday, they don't get to decide whether I spend any of that money at a titty bar, casino, mosque, Disneyworld, or whatever other "objectionable" thing you can think of. (Pretty sure there are religious groups still boycotting Disney.)
Let's also keep in mind that nobody seems to give a rat's ass that these same plans also cover boner pills. Yeah, ED's a medical condition, but extreme cramps every month is just God's punishment upon women for Eve's original sin. What the fuck is wrong with you people?!
Yes, when the most insightful anchorman in the country is a comedian, that definitely indicates a systematic failure in our education system.
I think this is the first time I've seen anybody do a computer:car analogy in reverse on this forum.
Nobody credible is trying to prevent anyone from worshiping the god of their choice.
A buddy of mine told me that if you're mom's not a Jew, Israel won't recognize you as a Jew. Does that count as preventing me to worship their god?
I'm afraid that the US has progressed so far towards becoming a Christian theocracy that, first amendment or not, the dead tissue is about to cut off YOU!!!!
Don't be silly. That could only happen in Soviet Russia.
Who is Natalie? I thought your wife was Sue. Does Sue know about Natalie?
No, but the car does. And next time Sue gets in, it will automatically dial Natalie. Cars have really mean senses of humor.
Wait, so you're looking for fast-moving partners, but should we really take your anecdotal evidence from your other post that 22% of men are rapists? Have you ever heard of selection bias? Fast movers are going to be more aggressive. Aggressive people are going to be more likely to commit rape. The rapist is still to blame, but you're statistically more likely to be raped. (I don't want to risk an analogy here; maybe BadAnaloyGuy can help me out.)
Also, if you're into aggressive partners, there's a chance that your friends and loved ones are, too. People tend to hang out with people that share their values. That might explain the high proportion of women you know that have been raped. Look, I agree that most people don't understand that the statistics are really bleak, but you need to remember that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data."
I've got two big problems with those studies. Not in their findings, but in their scope. Where's the data on the ruined lives of men that were provably innocent? Rape-related perjury or lying to authorities almost never gets punished. Where's the data on male victims of rape? Those crimes are almost certainly even less reported. In our culture, if a man gets raped by a woman, it's somehow his fault.
Those are bad. They tend to end up in jail or a mental institution... for good reason.
Or elected office, or the corner office.
Raising capitol, lovely spelling mistake that is very revealing of the way things work in big business :}
I suppose the only solution to such intractable corruption is razing capitol.
Exactly. I always choose this option when available, and I always make it something only my wife or myself would be able to answer. Normally inside jokes. Like "Who are Fred and George?", or "What's behind the orange spots?" or "Who has got it going on?" And if any of you think you know the answer to these, you're wrong.
Another important thing for these questions is that the answer can't change over time. For instance, my favorite restaurant, book, or whatever. will change from when I answer the question to ten years down the road when I need to reset my account.
Does anyone seriously think hyperbole like this helps anyone?
But of course! Hyperbole is the bread of the downtrodden masses. It is the axe that will fall on the neck of the oppressor. It is the light that brightens the future, the candle by which we read the manifestos on our ipads.
Wait... I thought that was metaphor.
I get plenty of feedback, and it's never good. If I complain on the help forums about some bell or whistle that they're trying out, they ALWAYS make it a permanent or very-hard-to-disable feature. If I go to the forums to congratulate them on a particularly genius feature, they ALWAYS kill it off. The only GreaseMonkey scripts I run are to fix things that Google changed for no good reason. The only thing I have ever +1'd was a script to hide those damn +1 buttons. (The irony was too rich to pass up)
Oh yeah, and, GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
I just assumed he was trying to sound like a cross between King James and Jar Jar Binks.
I don't think anyone's ever heard 4'33".
I got the list from the TARR category listings. The cover art clearly is the filigree border described in the TM filing. So I don't disagree that they are trying to capitalize on the brand, and that it's a stupid thing to do without getting buy-in from the trademark holder. The problem is that trademarks are only valid in certain domains. Just like Nissan Motors can't win a suit claiming their trademark is infringed by nissan.com (a computer website). Jack Daniel's whiskey doesn't go after Jack Daniel's Shipping.
The problem is in how the trademark law is worded. My lawyer buddy explained it this way: basically Nissan and Jack Daniel's have to sue or threaten to sue, because if they don't, their brand is weakened. Future litigation would suffer if somebody actually was trying to cause brand confusion. Although I guess they could try to say that the cover art is similar to an un-mounted photograph. So maybe this isn't as far-fetched as it looks at first.