The police said that the "obscure little sticker" that Gannon had displayed was not enough notice of recording, so therefore his recording was technically illegal. Apparently, the police have never heard of something called "fine print". If fine print is legal, then it it is legal. If it is not legal, then it is not legal. In my state, the People's Republic of Kalifornia, fine print is just as legal at anything. Even if it is not legible, such as is almost always the case when it is diplayed in a TV advertisement, it is still legal. So, if Barney Fife didn't see the sticker on the front of Gannon's house, that is his problem. Judges need to define what is legal and what is not. People cannot "pick and mix" legality whenever they want. Again, if fine print is legal, and it is, then the police, or anybody else on his front porch who misses the obviously visible sticker, is just plain S.O.L..
Did anybody at AOL ever stop to think that people are leaving AOL and avoiding it like a dead skunk because it has become nothing more than a giant Ad Service? It's just more than a bunch of advertisements masquerading as an ISP, and AOL hasen't figured out that they can make alot more profit from paying subscribers than from a bunch of sweetheart advertising contracts.
Screw Jimmy Carter. If someone would just stand up and defy that stupid executive order / ban on breeder reactors, the whole issue would be virtually insignificant! If it wasn't for the stupid, "let's get into bed with eco-freaks" eal that Jimmy Carter made, the issue of nuclear waste would be almost irrelevent. Way to go Carter! If you say you care about humanity so much, why in the hell are you forcing us to stick with nuclear waste instead of letting us actually DO something with it? Moron. He should have stayed a peanut farmer. Thanks for the "Habitat For Humanity", moron.
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If you kick a cop who is trying to arrest you for something that is not illegal, can you be charged with anything? I mean, it is illegal to arrest or detain someone who is not breaking the law or under resonable suspicion of breaking the law. So, if you kick or physically try to separate yourself from an officer who is trying to arrest you for, say, the same thing that Cruz was "arrested" for, are you breaking the law by doing that? What they are trying to do is illegal, and what you did was not, so can it be agued that it was self-defence? I know hitting a cop is a stupid thing to do in the first place, but in a situation like this, is it really illegal?
Would this be the 1984 equivalent of "The Spies" and the "Junior Anti-Sex League"? You are right... It is strikingly 1984-ish. But then again, youths are most likely to purchase things that are most often counterfeited-----Movies/DVDs, computer games, video games, music, shoes, computer parts, and cigarettes.
"The writer also pitched his own design ideas to Apple's director of global product marketing, Bob Borchers: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
This has got to be an example of a stupid idea. WHY would ANYONE who walks upright suggest an idea as stupid as this: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes." I think that the journalist lost what credibility to his intelligence he had. Thank God someone in Marketing actually used their brain to accomplish something GOOD and shot this idea out of the sky before a manager got wind of it.
Imagine watching someone weaving a rug through traffic, trying to look for a song.
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Officer: "Sir, I noticed that you were weaving erratically through traffic! Are you ok?!"
Driver: "Yes I'm fine."
Officer: ( Puzzled, angry look ) "Then why on Earth were you weaving through traffic like that?! You cut across all six lanes, cut off a bunch of drivers and almost caused several accidents! Plus, you were speeding!"
Driver: "I was trying to find a song on my IPod. You know that song "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody? I can't find it on here."
(sounds of a motorist being beaten with a ticket book)
Oh dear God, someone needs to pull the emergency brake on that poor man's imagination. Like, right now...
Few things things, such as old people driving large cars, California, or Chinese food, scare me. But when I read stuff like this, I think that some people (such as the poor soul who wrote this) DESERVE to be dragged into the street and shot.....several times..... for the good of humanity.
My workout DVDs will smell like body odor, my Italian cuisine recipies will smell like garlic, my Auto Repair discs will smell like gasoline, and my porn will smell like fish?
Most of the frustrations that AOL users encounter are due to the fact that AOL is an advertisers wet dream come true. Users are sick and tired of being bombarded with volley after relentless volley of AOL ads and marketing. AOL doesn't seem to understand that they are marketing their service to death, and that customers don't want to see dozens of ads in EVERY WINDOW they open. Every feature on AOL hase multiple marketing tie-ins that turn users off.
Why would someone who could use a regular ISP, who can "sign on" (although this is really nothing more than cliking onto the browser's icon) to the internet without being slammed with dozens of advertisement ans self-promotions that AOL inundates their users with? Plus, it is the same price using a different ISP that doesn't require the user to browse through an interface that is desinged to allow AOL to force users to see advertisements? There is absolutely nothing special about AOL, except for it's user interface, which allows for the unrestriced forced viewing of advertisements.
It's been an industry joke for years that AOL, for some reason, just doesn't seem to get - AOL stands for Advertisements On-Line. If they cut out the crap that IS AOL, about 98% of it- the advertisements, self-promotions, and obviously profit-geared "service bundles", then people would NOT be leaving in droves. If it turned itself into a regular ISP, such as Comcast, etc., and eliminated the meaningless "features" that are solely marketing-driven, it wouldn't have to reinvent itself. AOL is sooo marketing-focused that it is missing the big picture: PEOPLE HATE ADVERTISING AND SELF-PROMOTION!!!!!
Someone should set up an organization where a panel reviews submitted spam emails, and when an email is identified as spam, a program is activated that sends massive quantities of replies, essentially a DoS, to the spammer's computer. After getting bombarded with thousands of requests (that is what they wanted, right?) the hosting server will eventually crash and shut down. How can they complain when you gave them what they wanted?
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Sig Sauer
Ok..... It is definitely wrong and illegal to do what these phishing sites are doing, but the victims of these schemes have only themselves to blame. ANYONE who calls a number, or discloses it AT ALL, and enters their bank/credit/debit/social security information is just plain stupid, and clearly guilty of LWCS.
LWCS, or Living Without Common Sense, is very similar to Driving Under the Influence (D.U.I.), lighting yourself on fire, or parking your car in some parts of the Bronx..... you just don't do it (thank you Lord Of War for that wonderful phrase!).
The reason these scams work is because of 1) Scammers like Phishers, and 2) People who are too stupid to NOT DISCLOSE a 9-digit Social Security Number and blame everybody else when their identity is stolen.
Instead of getting pissed because someone stole your identity, maybe you should be thankful that you got to learn what some of us were lucky enough to be born with.....COMMON SENSE. Common sense is simple, effective, and a virtually foolproof way to defeat social engineering.
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Anyone who uses the phrase "Think of the children!" ought to have the snot beaten out of them.
Wait a minute.....
If education up to the 12th grade is mandatory under law, how is it legal to force parents to submit to school policy, if that is the way their children are to be educated?
I mean, if the law says that students must have an education, parents are unlawfully forced to give up rights granted to them under the Constitution. Otherwise, if they don't sign, then the student cannot be admitted to school, and thus, not recieve an education. If the student does not recieve and education, then the parent is held reponsible...... something is NOT right here.
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Sig Sauer
Wouldn't the time it takes to search through a student's cellphone be better spent keeping an eye on kids that are ditching class and dealing during breaks and lunches? It's alot eaisier to spot and observe the kids who reek of pot, hang out in hidden areas of campus, leave campus altogether, and flee whenever staff comes around. You would think that people who are trying to preserve a learning and educational environment would AT LEAST be excercising some degree of intelligence.
Besides, its a blatant invasion of privacy, since the cellphone is personal (read: PRIVATE) property of the owner. Book bags and lockers are a different matter. Lockers are the property of the school and therefore can be searched by officials at will. Book bags can also be searched, to a degree, since they can be used to conceal actual weapons and actual drugs, although it is still a blatant violation of privacy. However, cell phones CANNOT be used to conceal anything physical. I seriously doubt that ANYONE is able to send a baggie of pot as text attatchement. No weapons, drugs, or anything physical can be stored in a cell phone, and the call history is completely irrelevent. School officials should not be able to take cell phones away from students unless the student uses the phone itself as a weapon (which is hard, since I doubt that anyone except the most geeky among us would even give a second thought to bringing one of those old-shool "briefcase" phones with them [I sure miss mine!!!]), or is disruptive in class with it, as is quite frequent. Even in confiscating the phone, administrators have no legal right to the information contained within the phone. And, since cell phones are technically computer/information systems, unauthorized access by anyone without permission from the student, except with a signed search warrant from a judge, constitutes a computer crime.
And a message to the teachers of that school: Get off your fat, unionized asses and go LOOK for the dealers. It's not that hard. Oh wait, I think Johnny just sent some LSD as a text message.
P.S.: Anyone who uses that lame "Think of the children!" argument ought to have the snot beaten out of them.
Has anyone stopped to think that the anxiety about Arabs and Middle Easterners is simply human nature? The terrorists that conducted the 9/11 attacks WERE either Arab, Muslim, or of Middle Eastern origin or descent, so the fear of someone with any of those characteristics IS rational, although the appropriate degree is relative to the individual. People are forgetting that is someone is harmed, then that person will naturally fear anyone similar to their attacker.
First of all, we need to dispense with the clearly politically motivated claims of 'racism'. I am getting pretty sick and tired of people calling this "racism"- It is NOT. There are only 3 true "races": Caucazoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. There is NO such thing as a Latino race, American Indian race, Filipino race, etc. Race is NOT based on ethnicity. Race is also NOT based on geografic location. I'm sorry, but African-American is in reference to a REGION (as in FROM AFRICA, so technically speaking, white people with ancestors in South Africa, are just as much African-American as Jesse Jackson). Pacific Islander-, African-, Puerto Rican-, Taiwanese-, Latin-American, etc., are referring to the geographic region and are not races. People need to get rid of the political connotations associated when they hear 'race' and understand that politics gives incorrect definitions, especially to anthropologically-based terminology. Ethnic 'activist' groups are just being ignorant by claiming the they are a race just because they come from the same geographic area, or are of the same religion. So, when someone calls fears about terrorists 'racist' or predjudiced, just ignore them and be thankful that their ignorance isn't influencing you.
Stereotypes only exist because there is some truth to them. Has anyone stopped to think that the anxiety about Arabs and Middle Easterners is simply human nature? The terrorists that conducted the 9/11 attacks WERE either Arab, Muslim, or of Middle Eastern origin or descent, so the fear of someone with any of those characteristics IS rational, although the appropriate degree is relative to the individual. People are forgetting that is someone is harmed, then that person will naturally fear anyone similar to their attacker. Natural reaction like this are perfectly resonable, and HUMAN NATURE. If you don't agree with human nature, then maybe you should try being human.
First of all, we need to dispense with the clearly politically motivated claims of 'racism'. I am getting pretty sick and tired of people calling this "racism"- It is NOT. There are only 3 true "races": Caucaziod, Mongoloid, and Negroid. There is NO such thing as a Latino race, American Indian race, Filipino race, etc. Race is NOT based on ethnicity. Race is also NOT based on geografic location. I'm sorry, but African-American is in reference to a REGION (as in FROM AFRICA, so technically speaking, white people with ancestors in South Africa, are just as much African-American as Jesse Jackson). Pacific Islander-, African-, Puerto Rican-, Taiwanese-, Latin-American, etc., are referring to the geographic region and are not races. People need to get rid of the political connotations associated when they hear 'race' and understand that politics gives incorrect definitions, especially to anthropology-based terminology. Ethnic 'activist' groups are just being ignorant by claiming the they are a race just because they come from the same geographic area, or are of the same religion.
Stereotypes exist because there is some truth to them. Stereotypes don't exist for no reason. The may not be entirely true when referring to EVERY SINGLE MEMBER, but when referencing any number less than 100% of a demographic, the reasons for the existance of a particular stereotype starts to emerge. I know that may be a difficult pill for people to swallow, but the truth hurts. People who say that negative fears of Muslims are unfounded and harmful don't quite understand that there are people out the that are trying to KILL US because we are not Muslims. The Liberals don't quite
Screw the EU is right! $2.5M a day?! Microsoft should just give the finger to them and say "Make us!". Or they could threaten to re-arm the Italians and the Germans and see how they like it. The EU is the exact same thing as the UN: Just another beurocratic international conglomeration whose sole intentions are to litigate every other nation to death and profit from implementing international law by handing down massive penalties for simply (yes, simply) being a business. Monarchy DIDN'T work, so what makes an Oligarchy so damn special?
I'd love to piss of the EU, just so I could take a leak on their 'judgements' and send them back. All this is is just another conglomeration of small countries trying to act like they are some kind of supersuperpower and 'all-knowing'. If you are going to act powerful, at least be (relatively) powerful.
It wouldn't suprise me if that corrupt monkey Kofi Annan, his son, or one other of his political jockstraps had some part in this.
I thought ties were reserved for the "management"-type of person. That said, there is no chance that I would EVER want a manager, or even anyone who remotely resembles a manager, to work on anything more complex than a thumbtack. The only thing managers do for me is cause Dilbert cartoons to flash before my eyes.
Another interesting note is that if they are going to wear a tie to look sharp, WHY WEAR A CLIP-ON?! Wearing a clip-on tie to look sharp and impressionable has got to be like wearing a strap-on to look like you are good in bed: It's fake, everybody knows it, and you look more like an ass than a pro.
I'm wearing the tie with the little fishie in it.....Just kidding!
The only reason they dress like that it because it makes them look sophisticated and cool. However, you can dress up a brick as much as you want, but that won't make it any more spohisticated or cool than a brick.
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The police said that the "obscure little sticker" that Gannon had displayed was not enough notice of recording, so therefore his recording was technically illegal. Apparently, the police have never heard of something called "fine print". If fine print is legal, then it it is legal. If it is not legal, then it is not legal. In my state, the People's Republic of Kalifornia, fine print is just as legal at anything. Even if it is not legible, such as is almost always the case when it is diplayed in a TV advertisement, it is still legal. So, if Barney Fife didn't see the sticker on the front of Gannon's house, that is his problem. Judges need to define what is legal and what is not. People cannot "pick and mix" legality whenever they want. Again, if fine print is legal, and it is, then the police, or anybody else on his front porch who misses the obviously visible sticker, is just plain S.O.L..
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Sig Sauer
Did anybody at AOL ever stop to think that people are leaving AOL and avoiding it like a dead skunk because it has become nothing more than a giant Ad Service? It's just more than a bunch of advertisements masquerading as an ISP, and AOL hasen't figured out that they can make alot more profit from paying subscribers than from a bunch of sweetheart advertising contracts.
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Sig Sauer
Screw Jimmy Carter. If someone would just stand up and defy that stupid executive order / ban on breeder reactors, the whole issue would be virtually insignificant! If it wasn't for the stupid, "let's get into bed with eco-freaks" eal that Jimmy Carter made, the issue of nuclear waste would be almost irrelevent. Way to go Carter! If you say you care about humanity so much, why in the hell are you forcing us to stick with nuclear waste instead of letting us actually DO something with it? Moron. He should have stayed a peanut farmer. Thanks for the "Habitat For Humanity", moron. ----- Sig Sauer.
If you kick a cop who is trying to arrest you for something that is not illegal, can you be charged with anything? I mean, it is illegal to arrest or detain someone who is not breaking the law or under resonable suspicion of breaking the law. So, if you kick or physically try to separate yourself from an officer who is trying to arrest you for, say, the same thing that Cruz was "arrested" for, are you breaking the law by doing that? What they are trying to do is illegal, and what you did was not, so can it be agued that it was self-defence? I know hitting a cop is a stupid thing to do in the first place, but in a situation like this, is it really illegal?
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Sig Sauer
Would this be the 1984 equivalent of "The Spies" and the "Junior Anti-Sex League"? You are right... It is strikingly 1984-ish. But then again, youths are most likely to purchase things that are most often counterfeited-----Movies/DVDs, computer games, video games, music, shoes, computer parts, and cigarettes.
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Sig Sauer
"The writer also pitched his own design ideas to Apple's director of global product marketing, Bob Borchers: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes. Borchers foresaw certain safety problems with such a device and rejected the concept.""
This has got to be an example of a stupid idea. WHY would ANYONE who walks upright suggest an idea as stupid as this: "We suggested to Borchers that Apple should allow drivers to use their car steering wheel as a giant Clickwheel interface, so that you can change tracks by changing lanes." I think that the journalist lost what credibility to his intelligence he had. Thank God someone in Marketing actually used their brain to accomplish something GOOD and shot this idea out of the sky before a manager got wind of it.
Imagine watching someone weaving a rug through traffic, trying to look for a song.
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Officer: "Sir, I noticed that you were weaving erratically through traffic! Are you ok?!"
Driver: "Yes I'm fine."
Officer: ( Puzzled, angry look ) "Then why on Earth were you weaving through traffic like that?! You cut across all six lanes, cut off a bunch of drivers and almost caused several accidents! Plus, you were speeding!"
Driver: "I was trying to find a song on my IPod. You know that song "Hot Rod Lincoln" by Commander Cody? I can't find it on here."
(sounds of a motorist being beaten with a ticket book)
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Sig Sauer
Oh dear God, someone needs to pull the emergency brake on that poor man's imagination. Like, right now...
Few things things, such as old people driving large cars, California, or Chinese food, scare me. But when I read stuff like this, I think that some people (such as the poor soul who wrote this) DESERVE to be dragged into the street and shot.....several times..... for the good of humanity.
I think this idiot embodies the term LUNATIC.
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Sig Sauer
That gives a whole new meaning to the term 'Pinhead'.
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Sig Sauer
So lemme see if I get this straight.....
My workout DVDs will smell like body odor, my Italian cuisine recipies will smell like garlic, my Auto Repair discs will smell like gasoline, and my porn will smell like fish?
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Sig Sauer
I think AOL may be missing the mark.....
Most of the frustrations that AOL users encounter are due to the fact that AOL is an advertisers wet dream come true. Users are sick and tired of being bombarded with volley after relentless volley of AOL ads and marketing. AOL doesn't seem to understand that they are marketing their service to death, and that customers don't want to see dozens of ads in EVERY WINDOW they open. Every feature on AOL hase multiple marketing tie-ins that turn users off.
Why would someone who could use a regular ISP, who can "sign on" (although this is really nothing more than cliking onto the browser's icon) to the internet without being slammed with dozens of advertisement ans self-promotions that AOL inundates their users with? Plus, it is the same price using a different ISP that doesn't require the user to browse through an interface that is desinged to allow AOL to force users to see advertisements? There is absolutely nothing special about AOL, except for it's user interface, which allows for the unrestriced forced viewing of advertisements.
It's been an industry joke for years that AOL, for some reason, just doesn't seem to get - AOL stands for Advertisements On-Line. If they cut out the crap that IS AOL, about 98% of it- the advertisements, self-promotions, and obviously profit-geared "service bundles", then people would NOT be leaving in droves. If it turned itself into a regular ISP, such as Comcast, etc., and eliminated the meaningless "features" that are solely marketing-driven, it wouldn't have to reinvent itself. AOL is sooo marketing-focused that it is missing the big picture: PEOPLE HATE ADVERTISING AND SELF-PROMOTION!!!!!
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Sig Sauer
Someone should set up an organization where a panel reviews submitted spam emails, and when an email is identified as spam, a program is activated that sends massive quantities of replies, essentially a DoS, to the spammer's computer. After getting bombarded with thousands of requests (that is what they wanted, right?) the hosting server will eventually crash and shut down. How can they complain when you gave them what they wanted? ----- Sig Sauer
.....and a bottle of rum!
I think that is what the former captain of the Exxon Valdez was singing the minute before he ran aground.
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Sig Sauer
Ok..... It is definitely wrong and illegal to do what these phishing sites are doing, but the victims of these schemes have only themselves to blame. ANYONE who calls a number, or discloses it AT ALL, and enters their bank/credit/debit/social security information is just plain stupid, and clearly guilty of LWCS.
LWCS, or Living Without Common Sense, is very similar to Driving Under the Influence (D.U.I.), lighting yourself on fire, or parking your car in some parts of the Bronx..... you just don't do it (thank you Lord Of War for that wonderful phrase!).
The reason these scams work is because of 1) Scammers like Phishers, and 2) People who are too stupid to NOT DISCLOSE a 9-digit Social Security Number and blame everybody else when their identity is stolen.
Instead of getting pissed because someone stole your identity, maybe you should be thankful that you got to learn what some of us were lucky enough to be born with.....COMMON SENSE. Common sense is simple, effective, and a virtually foolproof way to defeat social engineering.
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Anyone who uses the phrase "Think of the children!" ought to have the snot beaten out of them.
Apparently, that town idiot likes bending over for Big Brother. ----- Sig Sauer
Wait a minute..... If education up to the 12th grade is mandatory under law, how is it legal to force parents to submit to school policy, if that is the way their children are to be educated? I mean, if the law says that students must have an education, parents are unlawfully forced to give up rights granted to them under the Constitution. Otherwise, if they don't sign, then the student cannot be admitted to school, and thus, not recieve an education. If the student does not recieve and education, then the parent is held reponsible...... something is NOT right here. ----- Sig Sauer
Wouldn't the time it takes to search through a student's cellphone be better spent keeping an eye on kids that are ditching class and dealing during breaks and lunches? It's alot eaisier to spot and observe the kids who reek of pot, hang out in hidden areas of campus, leave campus altogether, and flee whenever staff comes around. You would think that people who are trying to preserve a learning and educational environment would AT LEAST be excercising some degree of intelligence.
Besides, its a blatant invasion of privacy, since the cellphone is personal (read: PRIVATE) property of the owner. Book bags and lockers are a different matter. Lockers are the property of the school and therefore can be searched by officials at will. Book bags can also be searched, to a degree, since they can be used to conceal actual weapons and actual drugs, although it is still a blatant violation of privacy. However, cell phones CANNOT be used to conceal anything physical. I seriously doubt that ANYONE is able to send a baggie of pot as text attatchement. No weapons, drugs, or anything physical can be stored in a cell phone, and the call history is completely irrelevent. School officials should not be able to take cell phones away from students unless the student uses the phone itself as a weapon (which is hard, since I doubt that anyone except the most geeky among us would even give a second thought to bringing one of those old-shool "briefcase" phones with them [I sure miss mine!!!]), or is disruptive in class with it, as is quite frequent. Even in confiscating the phone, administrators have no legal right to the information contained within the phone. And, since cell phones are technically computer/information systems, unauthorized access by anyone without permission from the student, except with a signed search warrant from a judge, constitutes a computer crime.
And a message to the teachers of that school: Get off your fat, unionized asses and go LOOK for the dealers. It's not that hard. Oh wait, I think Johnny just sent some LSD as a text message.
P.S.: Anyone who uses that lame "Think of the children!" argument ought to have the snot beaten out of them.
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Sig Sauer
Has anyone stopped to think that the anxiety about Arabs and Middle Easterners is simply human nature? The terrorists that conducted the 9/11 attacks WERE either Arab, Muslim, or of Middle Eastern origin or descent, so the fear of someone with any of those characteristics IS rational, although the appropriate degree is relative to the individual. People are forgetting that is someone is harmed, then that person will naturally fear anyone similar to their attacker.
First of all, we need to dispense with the clearly politically motivated claims of 'racism'. I am getting pretty sick and tired of people calling this "racism"- It is NOT. There are only 3 true "races": Caucazoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. There is NO such thing as a Latino race, American Indian race, Filipino race, etc. Race is NOT based on ethnicity. Race is also NOT based on geografic location. I'm sorry, but African-American is in reference to a REGION (as in FROM AFRICA, so technically speaking, white people with ancestors in South Africa, are just as much African-American as Jesse Jackson). Pacific Islander-, African-, Puerto Rican-, Taiwanese-, Latin-American, etc., are referring to the geographic region and are not races. People need to get rid of the political connotations associated when they hear 'race' and understand that politics gives incorrect definitions, especially to anthropologically-based terminology. Ethnic 'activist' groups are just being ignorant by claiming the they are a race just because they come from the same geographic area, or are of the same religion. So, when someone calls fears about terrorists 'racist' or predjudiced, just ignore them and be thankful that their ignorance isn't influencing you.
Stereotypes only exist because there is some truth to them. Has anyone stopped to think that the anxiety about Arabs and Middle Easterners is simply human nature? The terrorists that conducted the 9/11 attacks WERE either Arab, Muslim, or of Middle Eastern origin or descent, so the fear of someone with any of those characteristics IS rational, although the appropriate degree is relative to the individual. People are forgetting that is someone is harmed, then that person will naturally fear anyone similar to their attacker. Natural reaction like this are perfectly resonable, and HUMAN NATURE. If you don't agree with human nature, then maybe you should try being human.
First of all, we need to dispense with the clearly politically motivated claims of 'racism'. I am getting pretty sick and tired of people calling this "racism"- It is NOT. There are only 3 true "races": Caucaziod, Mongoloid, and Negroid. There is NO such thing as a Latino race, American Indian race, Filipino race, etc. Race is NOT based on ethnicity. Race is also NOT based on geografic location. I'm sorry, but African-American is in reference to a REGION (as in FROM AFRICA, so technically speaking, white people with ancestors in South Africa, are just as much African-American as Jesse Jackson). Pacific Islander-, African-, Puerto Rican-, Taiwanese-, Latin-American, etc., are referring to the geographic region and are not races. People need to get rid of the political connotations associated when they hear 'race' and understand that politics gives incorrect definitions, especially to anthropology-based terminology. Ethnic 'activist' groups are just being ignorant by claiming the they are a race just because they come from the same geographic area, or are of the same religion.
Stereotypes exist because there is some truth to them. Stereotypes don't exist for no reason. The may not be entirely true when referring to EVERY SINGLE MEMBER, but when referencing any number less than 100% of a demographic, the reasons for the existance of a particular stereotype starts to emerge. I know that may be a difficult pill for people to swallow, but the truth hurts. People who say that negative fears of Muslims are unfounded and harmful don't quite understand that there are people out the that are trying to KILL US because we are not Muslims. The Liberals don't quite
Why is there always someone who refuses to believe the obvious?
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Sig Sauer
That's why I go Blast Phishing.....
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Sig Sauer
I wonder if they can now figure women out.....
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Down with the People's Republik of Kalifornia!
Screw the EU is right! $2.5M a day?! Microsoft should just give the finger to them and say "Make us!". Or they could threaten to re-arm the Italians and the Germans and see how they like it. The EU is the exact same thing as the UN: Just another beurocratic international conglomeration whose sole intentions are to litigate every other nation to death and profit from implementing international law by handing down massive penalties for simply (yes, simply) being a business. Monarchy DIDN'T work, so what makes an Oligarchy so damn special?
I'd love to piss of the EU, just so I could take a leak on their 'judgements' and send them back. All this is is just another conglomeration of small countries trying to act like they are some kind of supersuperpower and 'all-knowing'. If you are going to act powerful, at least be (relatively) powerful.
It wouldn't suprise me if that corrupt monkey Kofi Annan, his son, or one other of his political jockstraps had some part in this.
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Sig Sauer
I thought ties were reserved for the "management"-type of person. That said, there is no chance that I would EVER want a manager, or even anyone who remotely resembles a manager, to work on anything more complex than a thumbtack. The only thing managers do for me is cause Dilbert cartoons to flash before my eyes.
Another interesting note is that if they are going to wear a tie to look sharp, WHY WEAR A CLIP-ON?! Wearing a clip-on tie to look sharp and impressionable has got to be like wearing a strap-on to look like you are good in bed: It's fake, everybody knows it, and you look more like an ass than a pro.
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Sig Sauer
No. I have balls. The big, brass kind.
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Sig Sauer
I'm wearing the tie with the little fishie in it.....Just kidding!
The only reason they dress like that it because it makes them look sophisticated and cool. However, you can dress up a brick as much as you want, but that won't make it any more spohisticated or cool than a brick.
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Sig Sauer
"Let the feast of a thousand hams begin!"
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Sig Sauer