I picked out a number of very common US given names, yes.
BTW, I lived in Australia for several years. I have a little replica Arnott's biscuit wagon on a shelf in my office. Alas, the Tim-Tams it once contained are now but a happy memory...
Oh, and yes, I did in fact read the actual OSC report, and found that corrective action had been taken:
OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity on February 25, 2012....
After the event, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reclassified the trip from official to political and issued a statement to that effect. The Democratic National Committee reimbursed the U.S. Treasury for all costs and expenses associated with her travel to the event. OSC found no evidence that Secretary Sebelius made any other political statements in her official capacity.
I'm satisfied that none of your tax dollars funded partisan political messaging in this case, and that it was made clear the remarks were made by a private individual and did not constitute an official position or policy of HHS. I think the *intent* of the Hatch Act is also thus satisfied.
You're obviously looking for something more--burning at the stake, perhaps?
Yes, I actually looked at the link. Not only that, I read the linked story... and as soon as I started seeing references to "Deep State" I knew I was wasting my time.
I just happened across that very same quote from LBJ yesterday (in a completely different context). And I thought to myself, "...and the GOP/Trump are still profiting from this advice today."
It's not racist to discern that someone is most likely not a native speaker of English, and to be able to make inferences based on the clues provided.
Yes, Indians tend to make the same, very recognisable sorts of mistakes. (They are loving to be using some progressive tenses for one thing.) Just like many Swedes use the singular form of the verb even for plural subjects because Swedish has only a single present indicative form for all persons and numbers. Just like Russians often don't use "the" correctly--Russian has no definite article. Just like English speakers when speaking Spanish often forget that, in that language, adjectives have to match the gender and number of the nouns they modify. Just like it took me ages to get used to putting the definite article at the *end* of the word in Swedish, and I still forget it sometimes in rapid conversation.
I can provide many additional examples, but there really shouldn't be any need.
I will never recognise someone's made-up pronouns as anything but gibberish.
English provides he, she, and it for the 3rd person singular. Pick one.
If you don't like those choices, learn to speak Mandarin or Hungarian, each of which has just one such pronoun so you don't have to worry about any annoying choices.
(Before someone comes along to correct me--yes, I'm well aware that Mandarin has separate *written* forms corresponding to "he", "she", and "it", but they're all pronounced tâ, and the separate character for "she" is only about 100 years old.)
About two years ago, a new employee in California posted a very badly worded request for help to the wrong mailing list. I made the mistake of replying with some suggestions on how to ask her question properly and how to find the right list to send it to. Thinking that I was dealing with another adult professional, I kept it short, and to the point.
Her response indicated that I'd made an unwarranted assumption. It was about a dozen paragraphs expounding on what a horrible racist I was for talking down to her. Despite the fact that, prior to this outburst, I had no idea that she was black, and she had no way of knowing at any point that I was white (or whatever). I saw no point in replying to this, and didn't.
Apparently I wasn't the only person who had this sort of encounter with her, because she only lasted about a month.
Racism is a real thing. (If you're white, then try being the only white person for about a thousand miles in any direction and coming to the realisation that the locals don't care very much at all for your kind showing up on their turf and even the cops make it obvious they'd write you a citation for using the sidewalk while white, if they could. It's a bit of an eye-opener, let me tell you.)
"will have to pay $235,488 in restitution to Washtenaw County, the cost of investigating and addressing the hack." This is concerning that if convicted, a 'defendant' would then have to pay for the State's cost of investigating them (and possibly prosecuting them). As good as that may feel for some severe cases, that just seems wrong in principle!!!
Had it not been for Voit's actions, there'd have been no need for an investigation costing $200K+.
Since Washtenaw County has now fined someone to address the hack, there should never ever be another person improperly released from prison???
<sarcasm>No, because obviously there can be only one way, ever, to hack a system.</sarcasm>
Logic. You and it should consider making friends sometime.
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About 20% of the population are Russians.
You're a big fan of ReiserFS, no doubt.
After (I think) 3 years, APK is still rankled that I really was able to track him down.
(And I do admit to feeling just a teeny-tiny bit of a warm glow every time he whinges about it.)
BTW, all the postcard said was, "Greetings from Stockholm. Behave yourself. Regards, Z."
I don't think any hush money was involved in Clinton's case, either, was it?
Perhaps this is more your speed.
When even jcr and I can agree on something...
Jesus was too nice and weak.
Matthew 10:34 would like to have a word with you.
Now instead of merely sharing SOME of our personal data with FB, we can share EVERY BYTE of it with FB. I know *I'm* stoked...
I picked out a number of very common US given names, yes.
BTW, I lived in Australia for several years. I have a little replica Arnott's biscuit wagon on a shelf in my office. Alas, the Tim-Tams it once contained are now but a happy memory...
So Kesha's just bleached herself all over. Riiiiiight.
"Relatively rare"? Evidently you didn't grow up in the same USA that I did.
Oh, and yes, I did in fact read the actual OSC report, and found that corrective action had been taken:
OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity on February 25, 2012. ...
After the event, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reclassified the trip from official to political and issued a statement to that effect. The Democratic National Committee reimbursed the U.S. Treasury for all costs and expenses associated with her travel to the event. OSC found no evidence that Secretary Sebelius made any other political statements in her official capacity.
I'm satisfied that none of your tax dollars funded partisan political messaging in this case, and that it was made clear the remarks were made by a private individual and did not constitute an official position or policy of HHS. I think the *intent* of the Hatch Act is also thus satisfied.
You're obviously looking for something more--burning at the stake, perhaps?
Yes, I actually looked at the link. Not only that, I read the linked story... and as soon as I started seeing references to "Deep State" I knew I was wasting my time.
Can you find an actual source, as opposed to CauseOfAction.org and the RWNJ "Deep State" echo chamber?
Didn't think so.
I just happened across that very same quote from LBJ yesterday (in a completely different context). And I thought to myself, "...and the GOP/Trump are still profiting from this advice today."
No, you're anti-Chinese for reading Slashdot, because I can't post quotations from Chairman Mao in the original here.
It's not racist to discern that someone is most likely not a native speaker of English, and to be able to make inferences based on the clues provided.
Yes, Indians tend to make the same, very recognisable sorts of mistakes. (They are loving to be using some progressive tenses for one thing.) Just like many Swedes use the singular form of the verb even for plural subjects because Swedish has only a single present indicative form for all persons and numbers. Just like Russians often don't use "the" correctly--Russian has no definite article. Just like English speakers when speaking Spanish often forget that, in that language, adjectives have to match the gender and number of the nouns they modify. Just like it took me ages to get used to putting the definite article at the *end* of the word in Swedish, and I still forget it sometimes in rapid conversation.
I can provide many additional examples, but there really shouldn't be any need.
Given name correlates well with gender.
Terry, Bobby, Sammy, Kim, Marty, and Billy would all like a word with you. (I have known males and females bearing each of these given names.)
Given name and surname correlate significantly with race.
Not in the US, where most blacks still use the Anglo-Saxon surnames their ancestors acquired from their owners when they were slaves.
*I'm* cut-rate, overseas, and outsourced, and I didn't find it racist.
I got it, and I thought it was worth a chuckle.
I will never recognise someone's made-up pronouns as anything but gibberish.
English provides he, she, and it for the 3rd person singular. Pick one.
If you don't like those choices, learn to speak Mandarin or Hungarian, each of which has just one such pronoun so you don't have to worry about any annoying choices.
(Before someone comes along to correct me--yes, I'm well aware that Mandarin has separate *written* forms corresponding to "he", "she", and "it", but they're all pronounced tâ, and the separate character for "she" is only about 100 years old.)
"His" is the correct form to use when the gender is not known.
About two years ago, a new employee in California posted a very badly worded request for help to the wrong mailing list. I made the mistake of replying with some suggestions on how to ask her question properly and how to find the right list to send it to. Thinking that I was dealing with another adult professional, I kept it short, and to the point.
Her response indicated that I'd made an unwarranted assumption. It was about a dozen paragraphs expounding on what a horrible racist I was for talking down to her. Despite the fact that, prior to this outburst, I had no idea that she was black, and she had no way of knowing at any point that I was white (or whatever). I saw no point in replying to this, and didn't.
Apparently I wasn't the only person who had this sort of encounter with her, because she only lasted about a month.
Racism is a real thing. (If you're white, then try being the only white person for about a thousand miles in any direction and coming to the realisation that the locals don't care very much at all for your kind showing up on their turf and even the cops make it obvious they'd write you a citation for using the sidewalk while white, if they could. It's a bit of an eye-opener, let me tell you.)
But so are nutjobs, apparently.
"will have to pay $235,488 in restitution to Washtenaw County, the cost of investigating and addressing the hack."
This is concerning that if convicted, a 'defendant' would then have to pay for the State's cost of investigating them (and possibly prosecuting them). As good as that may feel for some severe cases, that just seems wrong in principle!!!
Had it not been for Voit's actions, there'd have been no need for an investigation costing $200K+.
Since Washtenaw County has now fined someone to address the hack, there should never ever be another person improperly released from prison???
<sarcasm>No, because obviously there can be only one way, ever, to hack a system.</sarcasm>
Logic. You and it should consider making friends sometime.
I think only Americans do that. I got switched to outside-the-quotes while living in Australia, and have never looked back.