often we crack jokes about how a product "Has aids". I won't go into all the other things we talk about, but it's like a bunch of 30-40 year olds pretending to be 14 again. It's all jest, and in good fun.
Seriously, you need to have that checked out and fixed before you pass such moronic behavior on to your children. You're *not* 14 years old, you're 30-40. It's not about political correctness and "walking on eggshells" it's about growing the fuck up and realizing that words, like actions, can have (good and bad) impact and consequences.
Was anyone actually offended by her remark?
Or do people just like being outraged?
While perhaps *you* were not offended it is arguably, objectively an offensive, insensitive and racist remark. It's especially troubling coming from well-to-do first-world person about an issue that greatly impacts the not-so-well-to-do people of third-world. Like the remark (Wikipedia says is commonly misattributed to Marie Antoinette) "Let them eat cake".
To be fair, offensive, insensitive and racist things can be funny given the right presentation and audience - we are all idiots if we cannot reflect on our own thoughts and behaviors - and I understand that her tweet may have been intended as "dark humor", but that sort of thing is really difficult to execute correctly in writing - especially in under 140 characters - as opposed to, say, in a comedy club. (and she's not known as a comedian)
Ultimately, at least several examples from her Twitter feed seemed to indicate that she has a brain/mouth filter problem and she should have that checked out. If nothing else, from now on, she should turn off her phone prior to entering an airport.
Pop open your wallet. Flip over the dollar you got in there. What does it say on the back?
E Pluribus Unum.
That is not latin for "Roll over and play dead."
Perhaps not, but given the way the 1%'ers, corporations and the Government behave today, I'll defer to this quote by Veronica in "Better Off Ted" (Season 1, Episode 4: "Racial Sensitivity"):
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
A legitimate fear of parents is that our children are being manipulated under the pretense of education.
If so, then those parents are probably just as, if not more, uneducated. In any case, teaching people to think clearly and independently is the best education and is more important than teaching them "stuff" - facts and/or fiction - and I believe that this is what people (including the media, politicians, religious leaders and corporate overlords) really fear.
If only the NSA had the resources and some sort of process by which they could have kept track of Snowden, like his phone, email, computer and internet usage. Oh wait...
The only thing I saw cayenne8 supporting was getting the fuck rid of Obamacare so we can all have affordable health insurance again.
And by "we... all" you obviously mean those people with jobs offering health insurance, people w/o preexisting conditions and children 18 and under, because w/o the ACA insurance - or at least good, effective insurance, that cannot be canceled on a whim by the insurance company - isn't affordable to most people otherwise, or certainly if they actually get sick and need/use said insurance.
Yes, I understand that some people will see a rise in their premiums, but - as far as I understand - that is usually accompanied by better or more comprehensive coverage. Many/most people will see a drop in their premiums (when comparing apples to apples), despite what Fox News and the Republicans would have your believe. Granted, I don't understand why coverage for males must also include OB/GYN care, but I suspect it's to spread the costs around (whether that make any sense is another discussion).
I imagine we'll continue to disagree about this. For perspective, some people bitched about Medicare when it started, but w/o it most (retired) people over 65 would not have any health insurance as *no* company would provide affordable coverage to old, sick people by choice - not very profitable, you know.
If the Beatles ever capitalized it, then it should be fair game for either.
It's interesting that the drawing of Ringo Star's drum set in the WSJ article has "The Beatles" emblazoned on the bass drum skin and not simply "Beatles"...
We're feeling the effects now of obamacare which was rammed through.
Yes, yes... because the Republican solution to the country's healthcare issues (and/or anything else having to with people who are not rich and/or white and/or corporations) was/is *so* much better. Remind me what that was/is again, other than "let them eat cake"?
"NSA Director Keith Alexander, testifying before the Senate this week, got weirdly petulant, asking his critics how he was supposed to do his job without collecting metadata on American communications.
Easy. Assume we're all guilty until we can each prove our innocence - oh, wait...
4. It should be capitalized with a capital T as such: "the BeaTles".
All kidding aside, if "the" is actually part of the band name, then grammatically/syntactically , one should refer to them as the "The Beatles" - as Stephen Colbert often does with the "The New York Times".
The fact that they cannot turn off app permissions is a Stygian hole in the Android security model, and a billion people's data is being sucked through.
I think Obi-Wan felt something like this when Alderaan was destroyed.
In this world, we only have red pills and blue pills. Wonder what happens if you take both?
It becomes a purple pill and your acid reflux gets better. (Which, coincidentally, is what would happen if the red/blue states and red/blue Representatives actually started working together - you know, for the good of the *whole* country.)
... Canonical is moving Ubuntu away from Linux to an in-house project named "invented here". Mark Shuttleworth assures that "invented here" will be ~100% backward compatible with Linux for "some time". Mr Shuttleworth went on to say "blah, blah, blah... enhanced user experience". Many long-time Ubuntu users are annoyed and have vowed to switch to "alternate distro".
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This is why I use EasyPrivacy list in adblock plus to keep Facebook from getting that info. They know you read a page if it has a "Like" button on it.
I'm certain this is absolutely pointless to say now, but most of those setups were designed so that spring pressure had to be overcome to close the lenses; that way, if the mechanism did fail, it *should* fail-safe to the open position.
My 1987 Honda Prelude had retractable headlights - technically rotating. They used a screw mechanism to raise/open lower/close - no springs. The car also had a button to manually raise the lights w/o turning them on - I used that for cleaning and to raise them in case of snow/ice conditions, so they weren't frozen closed.
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a gentle satire on young men in the Satwa residential suburb of Dubai who adopt a 'gangsta' pose despite living the sedate, prosperous lifestyle
This could apply to just about any Rap / Hip hop artist - or Miley Cyrus. Just sayin' ...
Maybe we need a new genre - Suburban Gangsta - with minivans and shit.
I don't think anything can be *objectively* offensive.
I would usually agree.
Simple as that. Not every random thought you have is worth Tweeting, Facebooking, or whatever brand name to verb is out there.
But then why would Twitter and Facebook even exist?
[ and, technically, the noun to verb translation would be Twittering, but that's as just offensive as "Facebooking" - (shudder) ]
often we crack jokes about how a product "Has aids". I won't go into all the other things we talk about, but it's like a bunch of 30-40 year olds pretending to be 14 again. It's all jest, and in good fun.
Seriously, you need to have that checked out and fixed before you pass such moronic behavior on to your children. You're *not* 14 years old, you're 30-40. It's not about political correctness and "walking on eggshells" it's about growing the fuck up and realizing that words, like actions, can have (good and bad) impact and consequences.
Was anyone actually offended by her remark? Or do people just like being outraged?
While perhaps *you* were not offended it is arguably, objectively an offensive, insensitive and racist remark. It's especially troubling coming from well-to-do first-world person about an issue that greatly impacts the not-so-well-to-do people of third-world. Like the remark (Wikipedia says is commonly misattributed to Marie Antoinette) "Let them eat cake".
To be fair, offensive, insensitive and racist things can be funny given the right presentation and audience - we are all idiots if we cannot reflect on our own thoughts and behaviors - and I understand that her tweet may have been intended as "dark humor", but that sort of thing is really difficult to execute correctly in writing - especially in under 140 characters - as opposed to, say, in a comedy club. (and she's not known as a comedian)
Ultimately, at least several examples from her Twitter feed seemed to indicate that she has a brain/mouth filter problem and she should have that checked out. If nothing else, from now on, she should turn off her phone prior to entering an airport.
Pop open your wallet. Flip over the dollar you got in there. What does it say on the back?
E Pluribus Unum.
That is not latin for "Roll over and play dead."
Perhaps not, but given the way the 1%'ers, corporations and the Government behave today, I'll defer to this quote by Veronica in "Better Off Ted" (Season 1, Episode 4: "Racial Sensitivity"):
"Money before people," that's the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.
[ So, what would that be in Latin? ]
The more uneducated, the more easily manipulated.
A legitimate fear of parents is that our children are being manipulated under the pretense of education.
If so, then those parents are probably just as, if not more, uneducated. In any case, teaching people to think clearly and independently is the best education and is more important than teaching them "stuff" - facts and/or fiction - and I believe that this is what people (including the media, politicians, religious leaders and corporate overlords) really fear.
Something is seriously wrong with this picture ... (mainly fear of educating properly our children).
The more uneducated, the more easily manipulated.
I don't know where everyone else lives, ...
Pretty much all over the planet, with a few people in orbit. :-)
"De Raadt has been criticized for having a somewhat abrasive personality..."
Or... Theo has been praised for occasionally not being a (total) dick - especially when he's right.
[ You say tomato... Perspective is everything. ]
...and my hair and skin are different than theirs due to the uncertainty principal.
As is Quantum Mechanics or one of them isn't sure they're your parent?
If only the NSA had the resources and some sort of process by which they could have kept track of Snowden, like his phone, email, computer and internet usage. Oh wait...
I thought what the purple pills did was sprout wood where before was only flaccidity.
Viagra is the "little blue pill". The "purple pill" is Prilosec / Nexium.
The only thing I saw cayenne8 supporting was getting the fuck rid of Obamacare so we can all have affordable health insurance again.
And by "we ... all" you obviously mean those people with jobs offering health insurance, people w/o preexisting conditions and children 18 and under, because w/o the ACA insurance - or at least good, effective insurance, that cannot be canceled on a whim by the insurance company - isn't affordable to most people otherwise, or certainly if they actually get sick and need/use said insurance.
Yes, I understand that some people will see a rise in their premiums, but - as far as I understand - that is usually accompanied by better or more comprehensive coverage. Many/most people will see a drop in their premiums (when comparing apples to apples), despite what Fox News and the Republicans would have your believe. Granted, I don't understand why coverage for males must also include OB/GYN care, but I suspect it's to spread the costs around (whether that make any sense is another discussion).
I imagine we'll continue to disagree about this. For perspective, some people bitched about Medicare when it started, but w/o it most (retired) people over 65 would not have any health insurance as *no* company would provide affordable coverage to old, sick people by choice - not very profitable, you know.
If the Beatles ever capitalized it, then it should be fair game for either.
It's interesting that the drawing of Ringo Star's drum set in the WSJ article has "The Beatles" emblazoned on the bass drum skin and not simply "Beatles"...
If I'm "Rob Jones", and someone calls me "Rob", it doesn't turn me into a verb.
In any case, do not name your dog "Stay"; it's confusing for the dog ... "Come here Stay"
We're feeling the effects now of obamacare which was rammed through.
Yes, yes... because the Republican solution to the country's healthcare issues (and/or anything else having to with people who are not rich and/or white and/or corporations) was/is *so* much better. Remind me what that was/is again, other than "let them eat cake"?
"NSA Director Keith Alexander, testifying before the Senate this week, got weirdly petulant, asking his critics how he was supposed to do his job without collecting metadata on American communications.
Easy. Assume we're all guilty until we can each prove our innocence - oh, wait...
4. It should be capitalized with a capital T as such: "the BeaTles".
All kidding aside, if "the" is actually part of the band name, then grammatically/syntactically , one should refer to them as the "The Beatles" - as Stephen Colbert often does with the "The New York Times".
The fact that they cannot turn off app permissions is a Stygian hole in the Android security model, and a billion people's data is being sucked through.
I think Obi-Wan felt something like this when Alderaan was destroyed.
In this world, we only have red pills and blue pills. Wonder what happens if you take both?
It becomes a purple pill and your acid reflux gets better. (Which, coincidentally, is what would happen if the red/blue states and red/blue Representatives actually started working together - you know, for the good of the *whole* country.)
... the office building still gets crappy mileage and performs poorly on the highway.
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I just block Facebook in my proxy and/or router.
I'm certain this is absolutely pointless to say now, but most of those setups were designed so that spring pressure had to be overcome to close the lenses; that way, if the mechanism did fail, it *should* fail-safe to the open position.
My 1987 Honda Prelude had retractable headlights - technically rotating. They used a screw mechanism to raise/open lower/close - no springs. The car also had a button to manually raise the lights w/o turning them on - I used that for cleaning and to raise them in case of snow/ice conditions, so they weren't frozen closed.