The stereotypes are wrong and harmful, on both sides of the fence
To which stereotype are you referring? This OP is not about a stereotype; it's about immersing people into the body of someone of another race so they can experience the subtle differences that others exhibit firsthand.
Racism ends when we stop judging people by race - full stop.
Numerousstudieshave shown that this is impossible for humans to do. The best we will ever be able to do is work to surface our unconscious racist impulses to the conscious where the biases can be moderated.
Racism will end when there is only one race left. Of course, we'll invent plenty of other -isms to keep us divided, so there won't really be any change to the status quo ante.
Way to take one concrete, specific example of pork-barrel corruption from a single Senator and use it to indict the whole system!
You aren't biased at all!
Sure, I had it great growing up in a trailer in the Appellations, single mother, etc. Leave me out of your privilege claims and stop fucking stereotyping me based on the color of my skin, you damn racist bigot.
You just made the argument that because your personal anecdotal experience of class once existed that racism cannot.
/facepalm
Hint: Such a fantastically stupid statement is generally only uttered by someone who is racist and doesn't even have the first clue what racism looks like.
Do you feel your argument is more credible when you insult people who disagree with you?
Total strawman, because I never made any assertion about anything, other than the WH narrative was false
Of course! You didn't make any assertions -- other than the one you just admitted making. So my refutation of it is a TOTAL straw man because you never said the White House narrative was false. Wait...
Whether that is "untoward" or not is is an exercise left to those who would interpret the facts. The OP's rant was simply a distraction from his unwillingness to acknowledge facts [slashdot.org].
Can you say "projection"??
Your misguided attack is nothing but a way to distract yourself from uncomfortable truths about your own worldview.
Either that or, you know, trying to correct someone who is factually incorrect. But yannow what? If you completely ignore Occam's Razor and that fact that you're completely wrong and you might just have a case...
And here we have an example of the most classless form of concession: the insult. You could've just said "Ok, I'm wrong; I accept that seven different GOP-led investigations have uncovered nothing untoward" and spared yourself from looking like an idiot.
But then, this is/., where every sixth comment is someone looking like an idiot while screaming they aren't.
Only if your fears never turn out to be true.
In the meantime, methinks a better solution to abandoning cloud storage of personal data is to simply change the HIPPA laws to cover such data.
If my love of Inbox is any indication, they won't have to wait long.
Being able to delete a day's worth of spam with a single click and then another day's worth of promotional messages in another made me love this product about as much as my firstborn son.
Fair point, but easily mitigated with a simple procedure: When people come into the clean room have a person check their ID and give them a one time use RFID wristband like those tear off wristbands you get at nightclubs. Now that RFID value is tied to the owner and cannot be changed without destroying it. When their shift ends, take it off, throw it away, lather, rinse, repeat.
The point is that you are worshiping the military-industrial complex, not cannon fodder... errr... soldiers.
The military-industrial complex In the United States protects capitalism, not democracy. If it *ever* protected democracy in this country it was a happy accident while protecting capitalism.
Is there any other area of life in which someone who made this claim wouldn't be laughed out of court and put on psychotropic medications?
But because it's such a *popular* mass delusion we have to tolerate this idiocy. All the way to the Supreme Court.
Nobody on the planet has anything close to the clusterfuck that is the ACA. Germany is closest in that private insurance is still dominant, but even that is a single payer system.
You can disavow this history of ACA all you like, but the genesis of it was the Heritage Foundation. It was pushed by the GOP as the alternative to Hillarycare. It was implemented by the GOP in Mass. (Where it is widely popular).
So give up the bullshit lie that the GOP didn't support the ACA until they didn't. Conveniently, they stopped supported it when a Democrat made it happen. This means they stopped supporting it either because they *never* believed in it -- they just needed a foil for HillaryCare and fuck the people -- or they stopped supporting it because they could not take credit for it --- again, fuck what's best for the people. Neither possibility covers the GOP in glory.
...and negotiating holding a certain % of their pay in escrow until bug fixes are in? That's the stick. To add a carrot, negotiate a bonus for meeting certain schedule and quality benchmarks.
If I sold you a car and it had a cupholder with a lock on it, and you had to pay me any amount of money at all for me to take that lock off so you have a place to conveniently set your drink, would you feel right about it?
There is a simple explanation of this behavior. People who have, for whatever reason, paid this extra money for nothing must rationalize their justification. We all do it. For many of us, it's better to defend a stupid decision than to admit to a stupid decision.
Yup. This guy is an idiot. How does he know government can always be trusted with the information, among other things.
Not to be pendantic, but he is not an idiot -- he is naive. When he gets old enough to shave, he'll understand that just because his intentions are pure does not mean that those who run the agencies that would own this data are pure. They aren't. Nobody in power is.
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To which stereotype are you referring? This OP is not about a stereotype; it's about immersing people into the body of someone of another race so they can experience the subtle differences that others exhibit firsthand.
Numerous studies have shown that this is impossible for humans to do. The best we will ever be able to do is work to surface our unconscious racist impulses to the conscious where the biases can be moderated.
Racism will end when there is only one race left. Of course, we'll invent plenty of other -isms to keep us divided, so there won't really be any change to the status quo ante.
Way to take one concrete, specific example of pork-barrel corruption from a single Senator and use it to indict the whole system! You aren't biased at all!
You just made the argument that because your personal anecdotal experience of class once existed that racism cannot.
/facepalm
Hint: Such a fantastically stupid statement is generally only uttered by someone who is racist and doesn't even have the first clue what racism looks like.
Do you feel your argument is more credible when you insult people who disagree with you?
Of course! You didn't make any assertions -- other than the one you just admitted making. So my refutation of it is a TOTAL straw man because you never said the White House narrative was false. Wait...
Can you say "projection"??
Either that or, you know, trying to correct someone who is factually incorrect. But yannow what? If you completely ignore Occam's Razor and that fact that you're completely wrong and you might just have a case...
And here we have an example of the most classless form of concession: the insult. You could've just said "Ok, I'm wrong; I accept that seven different GOP-led investigations have uncovered nothing untoward" and spared yourself from looking like an idiot. But then, this is /., where every sixth comment is someone looking like an idiot while screaming they aren't.
Only if your fears never turn out to be true. In the meantime, methinks a better solution to abandoning cloud storage of personal data is to simply change the HIPPA laws to cover such data.
If my love of Inbox is any indication, they won't have to wait long. Being able to delete a day's worth of spam with a single click and then another day's worth of promotional messages in another made me love this product about as much as my firstborn son.
Fair point, but easily mitigated with a simple procedure: When people come into the clean room have a person check their ID and give them a one time use RFID wristband like those tear off wristbands you get at nightclubs. Now that RFID value is tied to the owner and cannot be changed without destroying it. When their shift ends, take it off, throw it away, lather, rinse, repeat.
The point is that you are worshiping the military-industrial complex, not cannon fodder... errr... soldiers. The military-industrial complex In the United States protects capitalism, not democracy. If it *ever* protected democracy in this country it was a happy accident while protecting capitalism.
Is there any other area of life in which someone who made this claim wouldn't be laughed out of court and put on psychotropic medications? But because it's such a *popular* mass delusion we have to tolerate this idiocy. All the way to the Supreme Court.
Nobody on the planet has anything close to the clusterfuck that is the ACA. Germany is closest in that private insurance is still dominant, but even that is a single payer system. You can disavow this history of ACA all you like, but the genesis of it was the Heritage Foundation. It was pushed by the GOP as the alternative to Hillarycare. It was implemented by the GOP in Mass. (Where it is widely popular). So give up the bullshit lie that the GOP didn't support the ACA until they didn't. Conveniently, they stopped supported it when a Democrat made it happen. This means they stopped supporting it either because they *never* believed in it -- they just needed a foil for HillaryCare and fuck the people -- or they stopped supporting it because they could not take credit for it --- again, fuck what's best for the people. Neither possibility covers the GOP in glory.
...and negotiating holding a certain % of their pay in escrow until bug fixes are in? That's the stick. To add a carrot, negotiate a bonus for meeting certain schedule and quality benchmarks.
What the hell? How does ANYONE justify spending that kinda change for a friggin' TIME CLOCK!
We in the US spend more than most of the rest of the world combined on our military.
True, but given how much of it we waste, we actually get about 1/3 of what the rest of the world spends...
The annual death rate drops from 10k to year to 500 people per year.
Not to belittle your point, but in 2008 (the last year for which figures are available) traffic deaths were 37,313 -- the lowest since 1961.
Huh. Olympus Mons on Mars is the tallest known mountain in the solar system with the peak being 17 miles above the mean surface level on Mars.
Yea, um, we're planning on going around it...
So would that be 16 weeks per file they ask him for the decryption key for and he refuses? He better hope he's only got one encrypted file...
See? It works!
We must be the change we wish to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi
Java: Write once, pray many.
If I sold you a car and it had a cupholder with a lock on it, and you had to pay me any amount of money at all for me to take that lock off so you have a place to conveniently set your drink, would you feel right about it?
There is a simple explanation of this behavior. People who have, for whatever reason, paid this extra money for nothing must rationalize their justification. We all do it. For many of us, it's better to defend a stupid decision than to admit to a stupid decision.
Yup. This guy is an idiot. How does he know government can always be trusted with the information, among other things.
Not to be pendantic, but he is not an idiot -- he is naive. When he gets old enough to shave, he'll understand that just because his intentions are pure does not mean that those who run the agencies that would own this data are pure. They aren't. Nobody in power is.
Sun Tzu said it all: the victorious general wins, and then goes to battle. The losing general goes to battle and then wonders why he does not win.
If the picture does not fit, YOU MUST ACQUIT!
Puhlease. You don't know how good you had it. MY neighborhood went out with some bigass BANG and nothing's been the same since...