Who said reasonable people happily accept the status quo? I'd much rather liberalize the immigration laws so that Mexicans can immigrate to this country and become citizens without fear, which would also serve to take away the source of slave labor from agribusiness.
However, that doesn't mean I support breaking the current law. It's a law that nobody has any moral reason or obligation to break.
Don't even bother. Once someone claims that national borders carry no moral legitimacy at all (rather than arguing that the legitimate borders are *there* rather than *here*), you know they're shouting at you from Granola Happy Land, where the borders are as open as the hearts (because they need Mexicans to grow their weed for them).
Except that none of your examples really show a blind xenophobia.
The Mexicans do immigrate into this country illegally. They have good reasons and the best motivations (better life for the wife and kids, health care for mom and dad in old age), but they still break the law.
The French are afraid of the North Africans because they're far too arrogant to assimilate the Africans they allowed into their country in a ploy for cheap labor. French culture, for some reason, does not feel able to assimilate a minority subculture in the way that most of the English-speaking world does.
Austrians and Germans have a nasty history of political and religious war with the Turks. The fighting only ended with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, and people on all sides still remember that.
Hong Kongers, frankly, have better educations, better living conditions, and better economic prospects than nearly all mainland Chinese, and they live in a city-state on an island. Of course they don't want mainlanders arriving, bringing mainland cultural and political influence with them.
But yeah, some people do take this whole "laugh at idiot America because they invaded Iraq" thing a bit too far sometimes.
Yeah, but I wasn't talking about entertainment. Entertainment will always be about what the majority of people find interesting to do (read: sex, music, supernatural phenomena, war, or some combination of the above), but people value professions according to:
1) How well they pay. 2) How they contribute to society.
In American society, the perception of both of those factors appears correlated with the amount of "people work" one does, which explains the horrendous overvaluing of management (because they do nothing but people work).
this can not be for long as China will soon have more Ph.D. hodlers than anyone, if they do not already China probably already has the highest absolute number of Ph.D holders, but they don't have the highest number of Ph.D's per capita.
That honor, surprisingly, goes to someone who isn't even mentioned in TFA or the responses (despite being a major place to send American tech jobs to -- Intel's Core and Core 2 lines were designed there).
So we can draw an inference here: Americans value a profession in direct correlation to the amount of "people work" (interaction with other people) involved in the profession, and in inverse correlation to the amount of "inhuman work" involved.
In my own defense for being on Slashdot on a Saturday night, nothing happens here on Saturday night because everyone is still too hungover from Friday night.
So all I wanted was to know how to do something, and everyone thought it was a lot of fun to tell me how incompetent I was. If the answer is so obvious, why not explain it? More to the point, if you're such a fricken genius, why not figure out a way to get people the functionality they want in a form they'll understand? I still don't understand why secure authentication is a silly thing to want. Why not tell you? Because depriving the forum-going admin of his superiority complex would make him realize the truth about his own life: that he's a 37-year-old IT server admin for a low-end government contracting firm in construction and that he hasn't had a meaningful human relationship (let alone an S.O.) in twelve years because he spends all his time outside of work on World of Warcraft.
Oh, and the problem goes just as bad for all-CS residential areas. Dear Lord, next year I'm living in Southwest (the school party area) or Northeast or something. Everyone there showers. Here? We have to go down a floor to find fun people or girls, and our hall (Computer Science Talent Advancement Program) smells.
Mispachah TACT songs for $.10 less than iTunes in a format that I don't have to burn to CD and subsequently rip to OGG to get the DRM off it. Thank you Amazon.
Christ quickly became a hit at parties in his conversion of dust and water to cocaine and coors lite. Coors Lite!? I knew there was a reason we killed that guy!
No, it's such that you spend four years in university. How the first one goes depends entirely on the conditions of your admission.
Students from bad school districts might take remedial courses. Lazy or unmotivated students who don't know what they want to do and shouldn't be there might take all their general-education requirements that year (or nearly all). Motivated students declare a major immediately and get started on it. Smart or studious students tend to enter with at least a course or two worth of Advanced Placement credit, so they take some sophomore-level (second-year level) coursework.
You can combine these traits into any logically compatible combination you like.
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Or just take a DeLorean back in time make sure that your father follows that truly wise advise:
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Bah. Leviticus is bloody trivial. Have you seen the Talmud lately, or the Shulchan Aruch?
How are American immigration laws racist? The statement makes no sense on the face of it, given who we let in legally.
Who said reasonable people happily accept the status quo? I'd much rather liberalize the immigration laws so that Mexicans can immigrate to this country and become citizens without fear, which would also serve to take away the source of slave labor from agribusiness.
However, that doesn't mean I support breaking the current law. It's a law that nobody has any moral reason or obligation to break.
So Germany pulled a France, eh?
I can only hope America doesn't do the same with the Mexicans.
And as a matter of fact I ended up in a dance club from 10 to 2.
Then some guys got in a fight and someone was stabbed after the party got out.
Am I going to have to resign from Slashdot or something?
Don't even bother. Once someone claims that national borders carry no moral legitimacy at all (rather than arguing that the legitimate borders are *there* rather than *here*), you know they're shouting at you from Granola Happy Land, where the borders are as open as the hearts (because they need Mexicans to grow their weed for them).
Except that none of your examples really show a blind xenophobia.
The Mexicans do immigrate into this country illegally. They have good reasons and the best motivations (better life for the wife and kids, health care for mom and dad in old age), but they still break the law.
The French are afraid of the North Africans because they're far too arrogant to assimilate the Africans they allowed into their country in a ploy for cheap labor. French culture, for some reason, does not feel able to assimilate a minority subculture in the way that most of the English-speaking world does.
Austrians and Germans have a nasty history of political and religious war with the Turks. The fighting only ended with the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, and people on all sides still remember that.
Hong Kongers, frankly, have better educations, better living conditions, and better economic prospects than nearly all mainland Chinese, and they live in a city-state on an island. Of course they don't want mainlanders arriving, bringing mainland cultural and political influence with them.
But yeah, some people do take this whole "laugh at idiot America because they invaded Iraq" thing a bit too far sometimes.
Yeah, but I wasn't talking about entertainment. Entertainment will always be about what the majority of people find interesting to do (read: sex, music, supernatural phenomena, war, or some combination of the above), but people value professions according to:
1) How well they pay.
2) How they contribute to society.
In American society, the perception of both of those factors appears correlated with the amount of "people work" one does, which explains the horrendous overvaluing of management (because they do nothing but people work).
will soon have more Ph.D. hodlers than anyone, if they do not already China probably already has the highest absolute number of Ph.D holders, but they don't have the highest number of Ph.D's per capita.
That honor, surprisingly, goes to someone who isn't even mentioned in TFA or the responses (despite being a major place to send American tech jobs to -- Intel's Core and Core 2 lines were designed there).
So we can draw an inference here: Americans value a profession in direct correlation to the amount of "people work" (interaction with other people) involved in the profession, and in inverse correlation to the amount of "inhuman work" involved.
In my own defense for being on Slashdot on a Saturday night, nothing happens here on Saturday night because everyone is still too hungover from Friday night.
What's this American beer you speak of? I've sampled the drink they call "carbonoboozewater", but only the wealthy here seem to have any beer.
How about let's hope the Wind Fish doesn't wake up?
Damn kids in green tunics, showing up on your perfectly good dream universe and ruining everything...
Oh, and the problem goes just as bad for all-CS residential areas. Dear Lord, next year I'm living in Southwest (the school party area) or Northeast or something. Everyone there showers. Here? We have to go down a floor to find fun people or girls, and our hall (Computer Science Talent Advancement Program) smells.
We can create a simple predicate to differentiate between the two.
(define (nerd? person) (and (geeky? person) (on-slashdot? person)))
Flippin' sweet!
You fool. That's exactly what the game admins are going for! Making women prove their gender is the closest game admins will ever come to getting any.
And nobody else has modded me funny.
Oh karma, where art thou?
Mispachah TACT songs for $.10 less than iTunes in a format that I don't have to burn to CD and subsequently rip to OGG to get the DRM off it. Thank you Amazon.
WTF is Godwin's Corollary? I've never heard of such a thing, and I certainly didn't invoke Godwin's Law itself.
Actually, Con submitted a patch that would make schedulers pluggable into the kernel at compile time, and Linus rejected it.
No, it's such that you spend four years in university. How the first one goes depends entirely on the conditions of your admission.
Students from bad school districts might take remedial courses. Lazy or unmotivated students who don't know what they want to do and shouldn't be there might take all their general-education requirements that year (or nearly all). Motivated students declare a major immediately and get started on it. Smart or studious students tend to enter with at least a course or two worth of Advanced Placement credit, so they take some sophomore-level (second-year level) coursework.
You can combine these traits into any logically compatible combination you like.
Or just take a DeLorean back in time make sure that your father follows that truly wise advise:
Don't be a fool. Wrap your tool.