The website could however potentially sue the media industry cartels for including them on a list of copyright infringing websites, drawing them into scope of the court order, when they're infringing no copyright.
It's not clear whether that's the precise point to which you're responding but it's along the same lines.
"Virgin Media has received an order from the High Court requiring us to prevent access to this site. For more information about the order and your rights - please click the relevant link below"
I don't bitch at my ISP for obeying court orders. The law on the other hand..
I was referring to UK law and society, where the harsher sentencing, teacher bias and legal discrimination against men are well established.
Bullying may be more of an issue in the US, and there are religious oriented schools in the UK that actively discriminate against women/girls and homosexual boys, but they're outliers and taken under Government control if they don't stop.
Statistically speaking though, no, I'm not a beneficiary. Shit, I've been assaulted three times in the last four months by women, with no action taken against them. Sure, I could put any of them into hospital with ease but the bystanders laughing at them attacking me would stop laughing if I defended myself..
Lower life expectancy is a gender politics issue btw - until women work the same hours as men, in jobs as physically arduous and dangerous, retire at the same age and don't get the choice of skipping a few years work to look after the kids, life expectancy wont equalise. The gap has however started to narrow, as women that did work through their careers become more common amongst the pensioners.
It's for this reason that I support the use of DNA to exonerate people - "It can't be him, his DNA doesn't match" and to identify potential suspects, but never to convict - "It must be him, this tiny subset of his DNA matches, assuming no flaws in our processes, no contamination and ignoring the other 3000 people with that same subset, 18 of whom live in the same town"
People that kill themselves by cutting themselves typically have to do a lot to make it work (for example preparing a hot bath to prevent clotting, etc.). And they need to cut deep, and cut correctly (slashing up and down the wrist, not across for example, as typically shown in movies) to achieve the goal, which is rather painful unless again one takes the time to acquire pain medication and consume it.
See, suicidal people just aren't efficient. Stab yourself in the heart, slit your jugular artery or go full seppuku and take the pain.
Killing yourself with a knife is very very easy, unless you don't actually want to die, in which case you probably wont be picking up a gun either.
First of all, they are dramatically underreported, as has been shown numerous times.
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Read the news. It is not hard to find an accidental shooting every single day in this country that involves a child.
His 230 murders + 20 accidental shootings for a subset of the age group means he's already reporting the same magnitude of gun deaths as your 'One per day' anecdote.
I have prejudice in my views. Hopefully less in my actions.
Where I consciously notice it, I challenge myself. I'm not really sensing it in what I wrote though, sorry.
I'm also arguing very strongly that racism is bad, and don't do it, and definitely don't be ironic and pretend that racism is ok if you're a certain race, because that's both ignorant and bigoted.
I'm not homosexual, and I don't use the term queer - the ignorant fucks bullying me did.
I'm sure that prejudice and discrimination are out there but I've still never seen anti-lgbt policies at any company, or government organisation. I have seen sexist anti-male ones but no racist ones.
You know why? Because this society doesn't tolerate bigotry (except sadly feminist misandry) and although there are idiots everywhere they come in all races, genders and gender preferences. Nobody gets a free ride through life so stop being a previous snowflake and don't accept bigotry where it still exists - no matter who it's from.
Systemic racism? That'll be why every company I work for prefers to employ people from the Indian subcontinent.
Systemic sexism? It's legal in this country to discriminate against men, the courts give men harsher sentences for the same crimes, school teachers give boys lower marks for the same work, men die younger, men work longer hours, the government spends less on male healthcare.. you want me to fucking continue or are you going to start bleating about this mythical 'male privilege' that allegedly exists?
As someone that has been bullied for being perceived as 'queer' and mocked for being trans, I can confirm that I've never seen anybody penalised by public bodies, employers or any of my friends for being anything other than straight.
So no, I haven't been the beneficiary. I've grown up in a working class family wearing second hand clothes as a constant stranger due to moving around too often, so don't be giving me any fucking privilege or systemic benefit bullshit.
When white people feel compelled to alter their natural appearance chemically or otherwise to "appear acceptable" or otherwise "make it in a corporate America", talk me to death about the acceptance of black racism.
Clearly you know fuck all about being white then. You think I _want_ to wear this fucking suit, have this fucking haircut? Have you seen the shit people go through if they have a tattoo? Do you realise that every fucking woman in Manchester wears fake tan because otherwise they're too fucking white?
make no mistake there remain plenty of whites who ARE EVERY BIT the racists their ancestors were
Sadly this is true. Equally sad is how fucking racist so many non-white Amercians are too. Bigotry does not excuse bigotry.
Black people in America are amongst THE MOST PEACEFUL PEOPLE within its borders.
Crime statistics do not agree with you, even after adjusting for location.
Adjusting for wealth, possibly, and skin colour is not the determining factor, but the correlation is absolutely fucking there.
, just imagine if the English had been forcing the colonists to work from sun-up to sun-down for free while denying them their BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS?
So who has made you, your siblings, your parents or your friends work from sun-up to sun-down for free, with or without basic human rights? Just that, my ancestors were enslaved by the Romans, and then by the Vikings, and then by Barbary Pirates, and I'm not using any of that as an excuse for racism or bigotry.
BLACK PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT PEACEFUL PROTEST
You seem to be entirely disregarding entire subcultures across America. See a post above for some example song lyrics that don't seem to gel with your hypothesis.
is it black people that have a history of hanging white people by their necks from trees or white people who have a history of hanging black people by their necks from trees?
Look you racist fuck, I haven't hung anybody from a tree. Stop stereotyping based on race you bigoted twat.
(Apply that response to your other inane unnecessary bullshit examples - and do try not to pretend that this is all one-way traffic)
Black people have endured and continue to endure all of this NONSENSE and yet at their angriest, they typically want to MARCH about it. No talk about the 2nd amendment, NO talk about shooting their oppressors in the name of FREEDOM. No news-er-uh propaganda channel dedicated to spurring them on..
I fail miserably to see how this excuses racism. You are not making a valid point. You are not justifying the bigoted bullshit you're spouting.
The majority of people using social programs? White people. There are far more whites in the trailer park using food stamps than blacks in the ghetto, and far more trailer parks than ghettos.
There are far more white people than black people in America, it's hardly surprising that there are more of them in a given social strata.
Do the same comparison on a percentage population basis by race, see if you get the same results.
Even then, don't be using this to justify racism. Shit, a lot of deprived black neighbourhoods consider an attempt to get educated and break the cycle of poverty a betrayal and something to mock. Rail against that primitive attitude if you want to do something useful.
The primary beneficiary of affirmative action programs? White women. White women have benefitted far more from "the system" than all other minorities put together.
Affirmative action is discrimination and should be banned. I fucking hate it, and if you think white women gain the most from it, trust me, white men lose the fucking most from it. It's actually legal to discriminate against white men and you think black people have the problems?!
Black racism? THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? Really? Seriously? Kill yourself.
No. I'd rather kill the racist. But save me the bother, you live in a country with a high incidence of self-inflicted firearm injuries, be my guest.
Some cunt uses racist language at me, he's getting called on it, and I don't give a flying fuck what colour his skin is.
Some sexist arsehole discriminates against me based on their perception of my gender, same fucking thing.
I haven't enslaved anybody. I haven't refused to promote anybody. I haven't been magically given a fucking ferrari and a penthouse full of hookers. I haven't had some weird fucked up privilege that everybody seems to think they deserve.
So fuck you and fuck the other bigots. Don't be a racist cunt, whatever fucking colour you are.
Thing is, you've demonstrated by your combined examples that Yik-Yak is utterly irrelevant as the medium: Some twat acts like a twat, consequences ensue.
Yik-Yak are as culpable as the telephone system, or the tree I post my missing cat picture on.
This gamepad thing. You mean like the one I have for my PC? Along with the HOTAS and the steering wheel?
Don't use them often, but when I fancy that sort of game, they still work.
You also forgot MMOs, or indeed any game in which text based conversation is a factor. Sure, the kids these days all want Teamspeak because they grew up with ubiquitous voice comms, but you can't beat a proper keyboard for holding seven concurrent conversations.
Yeah, I used to turn off all the prettiness to get smooth framerates at higher resolutions on Unreal Tournament exactly for those easier headshots.
Sorry, those more precise headshots. You had to move the mouse across more pixels to get to them, it must've been harder. I was crippling myself really.
I gave up with BF2. Unlockable weapons kills game balance and they started prioritising graphics above gameplay.
I disagree with you about BF:Vietnam though. One of my all-time favourite games, it had the claustrophobic jungle maps, the open expanses, the city maps, the PBRs, the tunnel mechanic, great balance, a nice mix of weapons and weapon styles, and the 'Ride of the Valkyries' button on the choppers. I liked that game!
No, it's like hacking US military computers from the UK and the US government bitching for fucking years to extradite you. See also: Gary McKinnon.
Except the UAE didn't even bother to extradite him, they arrested him in the UAE for publishing statements in the UAE - where he was when he published them doesn't alter fact that he published in the UAE. His mistake was going back there. Or maybe going there in the first place.
So no, it's nothing like going to Utah and admiring the scenery.
Could I point out that the world's largest ever empire was built by an island nation that didn't necessarily get on terribly well with that large contiguous populated landmass at the time?
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The website could however potentially sue the media industry cartels for including them on a list of copyright infringing websites, drawing them into scope of the court order, when they're infringing no copyright.
It's not clear whether that's the precise point to which you're responding but it's along the same lines.
All the politicians have to say are one of two magic words, and they'll get to do what they want.
1. Paedo
Is that what they say, or what they want to do?
It's becoming hard to tell with the British 'establishment'.
"Virgin Media has received an order from the High Court requiring us to prevent access to this site. For more information about the order and your rights - please click the relevant link below"
I don't bitch at my ISP for obeying court orders. The law on the other hand..
I was referring to UK law and society, where the harsher sentencing, teacher bias and legal discrimination against men are well established.
Bullying may be more of an issue in the US, and there are religious oriented schools in the UK that actively discriminate against women/girls and homosexual boys, but they're outliers and taken under Government control if they don't stop.
Statistically speaking though, no, I'm not a beneficiary. Shit, I've been assaulted three times in the last four months by women, with no action taken against them. Sure, I could put any of them into hospital with ease but the bystanders laughing at them attacking me would stop laughing if I defended myself..
Lower life expectancy is a gender politics issue btw - until women work the same hours as men, in jobs as physically arduous and dangerous, retire at the same age and don't get the choice of skipping a few years work to look after the kids, life expectancy wont equalise. The gap has however started to narrow, as women that did work through their careers become more common amongst the pensioners.
plus, badgers.
It's for this reason that I support the use of DNA to exonerate people - "It can't be him, his DNA doesn't match" and to identify potential suspects, but never to convict - "It must be him, this tiny subset of his DNA matches, assuming no flaws in our processes, no contamination and ignoring the other 3000 people with that same subset, 18 of whom live in the same town"
my friends tell me I should quit and be a comedian. No history of mental illness
Those two facts are contradictory.
Keeping a firearm for self-defense is not constitutionally protected. So by your own logic, lock the fucking thing up.
People that kill themselves by cutting themselves typically have to do a lot to make it work (for example preparing a hot bath to prevent clotting, etc.). And they need to cut deep, and cut correctly (slashing up and down the wrist, not across for example, as typically shown in movies) to achieve the goal, which is rather painful unless again one takes the time to acquire pain medication and consume it.
See, suicidal people just aren't efficient. Stab yourself in the heart, slit your jugular artery or go full seppuku and take the pain.
Killing yourself with a knife is very very easy, unless you don't actually want to die, in which case you probably wont be picking up a gun either.
First of all, they are dramatically underreported, as has been shown numerous times.
[...]
Read the news. It is not hard to find an accidental shooting every single day in this country that involves a child.
His 230 murders + 20 accidental shootings for a subset of the age group means he's already reporting the same magnitude of gun deaths as your 'One per day' anecdote.
I have prejudice in my views. Hopefully less in my actions.
Where I consciously notice it, I challenge myself. I'm not really sensing it in what I wrote though, sorry.
I'm also arguing very strongly that racism is bad, and don't do it, and definitely don't be ironic and pretend that racism is ok if you're a certain race, because that's both ignorant and bigoted.
Maybe that's something on which we can agree?
I'm not homosexual, and I don't use the term queer - the ignorant fucks bullying me did.
I'm sure that prejudice and discrimination are out there but I've still never seen anti-lgbt policies at any company, or government organisation. I have seen sexist anti-male ones but no racist ones.
You know why? Because this society doesn't tolerate bigotry (except sadly feminist misandry) and although there are idiots everywhere they come in all races, genders and gender preferences. Nobody gets a free ride through life so stop being a previous snowflake and don't accept bigotry where it still exists - no matter who it's from.
Systemic racism? That'll be why every company I work for prefers to employ people from the Indian subcontinent.
Systemic sexism? It's legal in this country to discriminate against men, the courts give men harsher sentences for the same crimes, school teachers give boys lower marks for the same work, men die younger, men work longer hours, the government spends less on male healthcare.. you want me to fucking continue or are you going to start bleating about this mythical 'male privilege' that allegedly exists?
As someone that has been bullied for being perceived as 'queer' and mocked for being trans, I can confirm that I've never seen anybody penalised by public bodies, employers or any of my friends for being anything other than straight.
So no, I haven't been the beneficiary. I've grown up in a working class family wearing second hand clothes as a constant stranger due to moving around too often, so don't be giving me any fucking privilege or systemic benefit bullshit.
When white people feel compelled to alter their natural appearance chemically or otherwise to "appear acceptable" or otherwise "make it in a corporate America", talk me to death about the acceptance of black racism.
Clearly you know fuck all about being white then. You think I _want_ to wear this fucking suit, have this fucking haircut? Have you seen the shit people go through if they have a tattoo? Do you realise that every fucking woman in Manchester wears fake tan because otherwise they're too fucking white?
make no mistake there remain plenty of whites who ARE EVERY BIT the racists their ancestors were
Sadly this is true. Equally sad is how fucking racist so many non-white Amercians are too. Bigotry does not excuse bigotry.
Black people in America are amongst THE MOST PEACEFUL PEOPLE within its borders.
Crime statistics do not agree with you, even after adjusting for location.
Adjusting for wealth, possibly, and skin colour is not the determining factor, but the correlation is absolutely fucking there.
, just imagine if the English had been forcing the colonists to work from sun-up to sun-down for free while denying them their BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS?
So who has made you, your siblings, your parents or your friends work from sun-up to sun-down for free, with or without basic human rights? Just that, my ancestors were enslaved by the Romans, and then by the Vikings, and then by Barbary Pirates, and I'm not using any of that as an excuse for racism or bigotry.
BLACK PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT PEACEFUL PROTEST
You seem to be entirely disregarding entire subcultures across America. See a post above for some example song lyrics that don't seem to gel with your hypothesis.
is it black people that have a history of hanging white people by their necks from trees or white people who have a history of hanging black people by their necks from trees?
Look you racist fuck, I haven't hung anybody from a tree. Stop stereotyping based on race you bigoted twat.
(Apply that response to your other inane unnecessary bullshit examples - and do try not to pretend that this is all one-way traffic)
Black people have endured and continue to endure all of this NONSENSE and yet at their angriest, they typically want to MARCH about it. No talk about the 2nd amendment, NO talk about shooting their oppressors in the name of FREEDOM. No news-er-uh propaganda channel dedicated to spurring them on..
I fail miserably to see how this excuses racism. You are not making a valid point. You are not justifying the bigoted bullshit you're spouting.
The majority of people using social programs? White people. There are far more whites in the trailer park using food stamps than blacks in the ghetto, and far more trailer parks than ghettos.
There are far more white people than black people in America, it's hardly surprising that there are more of them in a given social strata.
Do the same comparison on a percentage population basis by race, see if you get the same results.
Even then, don't be using this to justify racism. Shit, a lot of deprived black neighbourhoods consider an attempt to get educated and break the cycle of poverty a betrayal and something to mock. Rail against that primitive attitude if you want to do something useful.
The primary beneficiary of affirmative action programs? White women. White women have benefitted far more from "the system" than all other minorities put together.
Affirmative action is discrimination and should be banned. I fucking hate it, and if you think white women gain the most from it, trust me, white men lose the fucking most from it. It's actually legal to discriminate against white men and you think black people have the problems?!
Black racism? THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM? Really? Seriously? Kill yourself.
No. I'd rather kill the racist. But save me the bother, you live in a country with a high incidence of self-inflicted firearm injuries, be my guest.
Fuck you and your bigoted attitude.
Some cunt uses racist language at me, he's getting called on it, and I don't give a flying fuck what colour his skin is.
Some sexist arsehole discriminates against me based on their perception of my gender, same fucking thing.
I haven't enslaved anybody. I haven't refused to promote anybody. I haven't been magically given a fucking ferrari and a penthouse full of hookers. I haven't had some weird fucked up privilege that everybody seems to think they deserve.
So fuck you and fuck the other bigots. Don't be a racist cunt, whatever fucking colour you are.
I'm guessing he lives in the UK as something that ironic can only be intentional.
Thing is, you've demonstrated by your combined examples that Yik-Yak is utterly irrelevant as the medium: Some twat acts like a twat, consequences ensue.
Yik-Yak are as culpable as the telephone system, or the tree I post my missing cat picture on.
Back when I was in school, we had a rash of bomb threats. All fake.
Our school got bombed.
It's ok though, the terrorists were funded by Americans, so it all worked out in the end.
This gamepad thing. You mean like the one I have for my PC? Along with the HOTAS and the steering wheel?
Don't use them often, but when I fancy that sort of game, they still work.
You also forgot MMOs, or indeed any game in which text based conversation is a factor. Sure, the kids these days all want Teamspeak because they grew up with ubiquitous voice comms, but you can't beat a proper keyboard for holding seven concurrent conversations.
Yeah, I used to turn off all the prettiness to get smooth framerates at higher resolutions on Unreal Tournament exactly for those easier headshots.
Sorry, those more precise headshots. You had to move the mouse across more pixels to get to them, it must've been harder. I was crippling myself really.
I gave up with BF2. Unlockable weapons kills game balance and they started prioritising graphics above gameplay.
I disagree with you about BF:Vietnam though. One of my all-time favourite games, it had the claustrophobic jungle maps, the open expanses, the city maps, the PBRs, the tunnel mechanic, great balance, a nice mix of weapons and weapon styles, and the 'Ride of the Valkyries' button on the choppers. I liked that game!
No, it's like hacking US military computers from the UK and the US government bitching for fucking years to extradite you. See also: Gary McKinnon.
Except the UAE didn't even bother to extradite him, they arrested him in the UAE for publishing statements in the UAE - where he was when he published them doesn't alter fact that he published in the UAE. His mistake was going back there. Or maybe going there in the first place.
So no, it's nothing like going to Utah and admiring the scenery.
Or maybe Americans should obey the laws of the countries they visit.
Is that too fucking hard?
Given the legal status of homosexuality in Russia, maybe this is one reason he seems so keen to visit the US and get prosecuted.
Could I point out that the world's largest ever empire was built by an island nation that didn't necessarily get on terribly well with that large contiguous populated landmass at the time?