So on the resume, do blacks write down, "Black"? Do you as an employer have to write down, "interviewed black man for job"? Do all prospective employees have to tell you their race?
Now the person goes through the interview process. Do you have to record the whole process? All tests, interviews, and discussions? Because hiring somebody involves more than just putting somebody's resume into a lottery.
Our laws were designed to combat institutionalized racism.
And sometimes they perpetuate it by assuming racism is everywhere and injecting it as a factor everywhere. The free market will do a better job of handling it on its own than having the heavy hand of government getting into everybody's business.
Oh, you wanna harp on about dog whistles and shit? How about the real world, where affirmative action has ended up hurting the students it was supposed to help. Or maybe you could listen to Thomas Sowell, who makes the case that blacks have been harmed by liberal policies designed to help them.
I'd expect a good developer, who's already familiar with other languages, to be contributing good PRs in Rust within a day.
Are you a manager? Do you actually code in Rust? Because while I don't code in Rust, I spent some time with it to understand what kind of guarantees it provides. There are several concepts that you have to wrap your head around and become familiar with before you can write code and know what's going on at a fundamental level.
Your education on this subject is insufficient for discussion.
Then prove it. Explain why the examples I gave are untrue. The Muslim Brotherhood is not Wahhabism. The Iran theocracy is not Wahhabism. And you're going to sit there and tell me every terrorist attack and bloody border in the Islamic world is Wahhabism? Every call for oppressive and authoritarian Sharia law is Wahhabism? Every Imam preaching how Islam must reign supreme is Wahhabism?
Maybe it's your education that is insufficient, which is why when confronted with examples you could not refute, you resorted to insults.
The suggestion that anyone is making a politically correct argument here is ludicrous.
It's exactly what you are making, because you don't focus on facts, just feelings, and insults because the facts don't line up on your side.
Again, hurling insults, and only insults, shows the weakness in your arguments, not mine. You claimed the problem was just Wahhabism, and I pointed out concrete examples that went beyond that. I also pointed out the historical expansion of Islam and compared it to the much ballyhooed Crusades. I pointed out scriptures and the example of the warlord Muhammad.
Rather than address all these things, you claim I don't know anything and hurl insults. That's an argument from authority that does nothing to counter the examples I gave. Continue on hurling your insults and making a political correctness argument all you want, it has no merit and won't budge me an inch.
All AA really says is that if 10% of the population is black and you don't have 10% blacks you better have a reason for that and it better be documented. For most that just means keeping resume's around. That's it. Book it. Done.
Having to prove to the government that you aren't racist because you don't meet quotas is an onus in and of itself. It also encourages people to hire to the quotas to avoid scrutiny and punitive damages. In reality, the free market will do a better job than government looking over the shoulders of businesses and questioning who they hired and why.
And then you say stupid shit like, "Getting women into tech isn't a left wing policy." It absolutely is. It's also the leftist media that constantly pushes this, and nobody forced Obama to repeat the gender wage gap myth. And it's the left that wants to use quotas as their hammer.
I heard Milo say (either in an interview or at one of his tour talks) that he got his verified mark removed after he trolled Twitterville by claiming to be hired as a Social Justice Editor for Buzzfeed. Pretty hilarious, but it does put a dent in the narrative that "Milo did nothing wrong".
Of course, it's highly likely that if somebody on the left did something comparable, everybody would have had a laugh and Twitter would not have done shit.
The difference is the left ignores their nuts when it comes to policy.
Oh, so the left is against affirmative action now? Obama didn't perpetuate the wage-gap myth and blab on about how his daughters needed to get paid the same as men?
No, it's not nitpicking. Taxpayers have a right to know that their money is well-spent. You raised the issue about all the supplemental benefits that would come from such spending, and I responded to it.
False dilemma. Pollution could have been tackled without creating an office capable of dictating millions of people, how to shower...
That wasn't in their mandate. Anything can be abused. And saying there could have been some other solution is moving the goalposts, as you were complaining that anything was done in the first place and providing no solutions at all in your calls to abolish the EPA. Instead you just complain about the worst the EPA does and ignore the good.
Freedom is more important than both -- remember the one about trading "essential liberties" for "temporary security"?..
Blah blah blah. There is no "essential liberty" to pollute the air and water.
The US State Department, under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, was tasked to review whether the proposed purchase of a CANADIAN mine that produces raw uranium violated any laws or rules against foreign ownership.
While boatloads of money was flowing to her husband and to the Clinton Foundation. Where is the Congressional investigation? The non-stop news stories? This happened while she was Secretary of State and had a deal with Obama not to pull this kind of shit. She was one election night away from the Presidency. Do you think the mainstream media would have been all over her Russian ties if she had gotten elected?
Trouble is the EPA SOLVED those problems it was created to solve, Then like all bureaucracies its leadership decided to keep expanding and make more and more rules beyond its original and appropriate scope.
I believe that's generally true, which also explains why "progressives" have gone insane.
Trump GAINED more black votes than Romney. So no, your implicit accusation that blacks are blindly devoted to one party is also inaccurate.
Wow, so Trump swung the needle from the 93% of blacks who voted for the black candidate Obama against Romney to the 88% who voted for Clinton against Trump. Such diversity!
My argument is, the EPA does not "benefit society".
Disagree. The EPA was created by the Nixon administration amid protests about the quality of the environment, in particular our water and air. Things have improved a lot since then. You can compare that to the industrial hellholes that existed in the Soviet era or China's industrial binge.
Sure, the EPA can go off the rails, and hopefully Trump can reign it in without doing too much damage, but I think we need its basic functionality.
You seem to be missing the point. Even in Israel, the Jews did not set up a system to follow the old barbaric commandments. Yet you've got barbaric, Islamic governments all over the world, "jihads" going on across the world, and plenty of Muslims who break the laws to follow their barbaric traditions.
But useful idiots and apologists keep on pretending that Islam is just the same as all other religions, and not the most violent, expansionist, and authoritarian religion/ideology in the world today.
What I find most compelling is that it's an open protocol and not controlled by a single company. Millions (and supposedly billions now) of Facebook users have their view of the world controlled by the whims of Mark Zuckerberg and his minions.
and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel;
Israel is not the world. There isn't a worldwide "jihad" to conquer the world in the name of Judaism. And even the Jews don't follow the barbaric commands and laws found in the Old Testament.
As for Christianity, Jesus, as described in the Gospels, was basically a hippie who preached virtue, love, and peace.
Muhammad, as described in the Quran, hadith, and Sunna, was a conquering warlord, and his followers continued in his footsteps after he died.
Islam is a unique threat and the most violent, expansionist, and authoritarian religion/ideology in the world today. Ignoring reality will not make it go away.
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First chipping then neutering, huh?
The feminist dream of the ideal male.
It's child's play to keep those records.
So on the resume, do blacks write down, "Black"? Do you as an employer have to write down, "interviewed black man for job"? Do all prospective employees have to tell you their race?
Now the person goes through the interview process. Do you have to record the whole process? All tests, interviews, and discussions? Because hiring somebody involves more than just putting somebody's resume into a lottery.
Our laws were designed to combat institutionalized racism.
And sometimes they perpetuate it by assuming racism is everywhere and injecting it as a factor everywhere. The free market will do a better job of handling it on its own than having the heavy hand of government getting into everybody's business.
Oh, you wanna harp on about dog whistles and shit? How about the real world, where affirmative action has ended up hurting the students it was supposed to help. Or maybe you could listen to Thomas Sowell, who makes the case that blacks have been harmed by liberal policies designed to help them.
I'd expect a good developer, who's already familiar with other languages, to be contributing good PRs in Rust within a day.
Are you a manager? Do you actually code in Rust? Because while I don't code in Rust, I spent some time with it to understand what kind of guarantees it provides. There are several concepts that you have to wrap your head around and become familiar with before you can write code and know what's going on at a fundamental level.
Your education on this subject is insufficient for discussion.
Then prove it. Explain why the examples I gave are untrue. The Muslim Brotherhood is not Wahhabism. The Iran theocracy is not Wahhabism. And you're going to sit there and tell me every terrorist attack and bloody border in the Islamic world is Wahhabism? Every call for oppressive and authoritarian Sharia law is Wahhabism? Every Imam preaching how Islam must reign supreme is Wahhabism?
Maybe it's your education that is insufficient, which is why when confronted with examples you could not refute, you resorted to insults.
The suggestion that anyone is making a politically correct argument here is ludicrous.
It's exactly what you are making, because you don't focus on facts, just feelings, and insults because the facts don't line up on your side.
Again, hurling insults, and only insults, shows the weakness in your arguments, not mine. You claimed the problem was just Wahhabism, and I pointed out concrete examples that went beyond that. I also pointed out the historical expansion of Islam and compared it to the much ballyhooed Crusades. I pointed out scriptures and the example of the warlord Muhammad.
Rather than address all these things, you claim I don't know anything and hurl insults. That's an argument from authority that does nothing to counter the examples I gave. Continue on hurling your insults and making a political correctness argument all you want, it has no merit and won't budge me an inch.
No, what we need is a law
No. Just no.
All AA really says is that if 10% of the population is black and you don't have 10% blacks you better have a reason for that and it better be documented. For most that just means keeping resume's around. That's it. Book it. Done.
Having to prove to the government that you aren't racist because you don't meet quotas is an onus in and of itself. It also encourages people to hire to the quotas to avoid scrutiny and punitive damages. In reality, the free market will do a better job than government looking over the shoulders of businesses and questioning who they hired and why.
And then you say stupid shit like, "Getting women into tech isn't a left wing policy." It absolutely is. It's also the leftist media that constantly pushes this, and nobody forced Obama to repeat the gender wage gap myth. And it's the left that wants to use quotas as their hammer.
Nobody knows, not even him.
I heard Milo say (either in an interview or at one of his tour talks) that he got his verified mark removed after he trolled Twitterville by claiming to be hired as a Social Justice Editor for Buzzfeed. Pretty hilarious, but it does put a dent in the narrative that "Milo did nothing wrong".
Of course, it's highly likely that if somebody on the left did something comparable, everybody would have had a laugh and Twitter would not have done shit.
The difference is the left ignores their nuts when it comes to policy.
Oh, so the left is against affirmative action now? Obama didn't perpetuate the wage-gap myth and blab on about how his daughters needed to get paid the same as men?
Responding with insults, and only insults, shows the weakness in your own arguments, not mine.
No, it's not nitpicking. Taxpayers have a right to know that their money is well-spent. You raised the issue about all the supplemental benefits that would come from such spending, and I responded to it.
False dilemma. Pollution could have been tackled without creating an office capable of dictating millions of people, how to shower...
That wasn't in their mandate. Anything can be abused. And saying there could have been some other solution is moving the goalposts, as you were complaining that anything was done in the first place and providing no solutions at all in your calls to abolish the EPA. Instead you just complain about the worst the EPA does and ignore the good.
Freedom is more important than both -- remember the one about trading "essential liberties" for "temporary security"?..
Blah blah blah. There is no "essential liberty" to pollute the air and water.
A classic example of: Something must be done! [..]
Something had to be done, something was done, and it was to good effect. Unless you think the alternative of heavily polluted air and water is better.
I do not see, how an ostensibly free country can tell citizens, it is illegal to use certain toilet models...
You're talking about toilet models, while I'm talking about polluted air and water.
Only for the next President to reverse it all with the strike of a pen...
Such is the nature of elections.
The forces of disinformation are neither liberal nor conservative. They are anarchists.
Propaganda is used by all ideologies.
The US State Department, under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, was tasked to review whether the proposed purchase of a CANADIAN mine that produces raw uranium violated any laws or rules against foreign ownership.
While boatloads of money was flowing to her husband and to the Clinton Foundation. Where is the Congressional investigation? The non-stop news stories? This happened while she was Secretary of State and had a deal with Obama not to pull this kind of shit. She was one election night away from the Presidency. Do you think the mainstream media would have been all over her Russian ties if she had gotten elected?
Operation Northwoods, approved by the then Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kennedy should have made this public, sacked them, and prosecuted them for treason.
Trouble is the EPA SOLVED those problems it was created to solve, Then like all bureaucracies its leadership decided to keep expanding and make more and more rules beyond its original and appropriate scope.
I believe that's generally true, which also explains why "progressives" have gone insane.
Trump GAINED more black votes than Romney. So no, your implicit accusation that blacks are blindly devoted to one party is also inaccurate.
Wow, so Trump swung the needle from the 93% of blacks who voted for the black candidate Obama against Romney to the 88% who voted for Clinton against Trump. Such diversity!
Please, They have supporters all over the map. The flat map.
My argument is, the EPA does not "benefit society".
Disagree. The EPA was created by the Nixon administration amid protests about the quality of the environment, in particular our water and air. Things have improved a lot since then. You can compare that to the industrial hellholes that existed in the Soviet era or China's industrial binge.
Sure, the EPA can go off the rails, and hopefully Trump can reign it in without doing too much damage, but I think we need its basic functionality.
The USA, as a group of citizens, is dunber than a box of rocks.
I imagine most could spell dumber or use the built-in spell checker on their browser.
Recall that they had Waxahachie [scientificamerican.com] and lost the opportunity to be the Cern [wikipedia.org] and find the Higgs first.
So?
Texas would have been a major center for the world's greatest talents and would have gained all the logistical support business that comes with it.
Sounds good for Texas, but it's debatable if the US taxpayers as a whole would have received a return on their investment.
a stepping stone to (a) Allow lay persons (or even entire industries with paid "scientists") to challenge the results
Oh noes! Science data might be made public, and the public will have the freedom of speech to challenge it! This is horrible!!!1
lol. Because it's against secular laws.
You seem to be missing the point. Even in Israel, the Jews did not set up a system to follow the old barbaric commandments. Yet you've got barbaric, Islamic governments all over the world, "jihads" going on across the world, and plenty of Muslims who break the laws to follow their barbaric traditions.
But useful idiots and apologists keep on pretending that Islam is just the same as all other religions, and not the most violent, expansionist, and authoritarian religion/ideology in the world today.
What I find most compelling is that it's an open protocol and not controlled by a single company. Millions (and supposedly billions now) of Facebook users have their view of the world controlled by the whims of Mark Zuckerberg and his minions.
and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel;
Israel is not the world. There isn't a worldwide "jihad" to conquer the world in the name of Judaism. And even the Jews don't follow the barbaric commands and laws found in the Old Testament.
As for Christianity, Jesus, as described in the Gospels, was basically a hippie who preached virtue, love, and peace.
Muhammad, as described in the Quran, hadith, and Sunna, was a conquering warlord, and his followers continued in his footsteps after he died.
Islam is a unique threat and the most violent, expansionist, and authoritarian religion/ideology in the world today. Ignoring reality will not make it go away.