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Also a clever debating tactic; clearly proving that you are yourself an Idiot while inferring the opponent is an Idiot.
What is next do we invoke Godwins Law?
I'll do it.... Both AC and eejit are Nazis
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Marked insightful. I too am a child of the cold war, I guess it pissed me off a bit, and made you more, well, insightful.
I understand the culture that permits / causes the unrest, I just don't have a lot of sympathy for it. they need to get over it, grow up & get on with life. I was always amazed at the Vietnam immigrants, who came here after the war. they had every right to be pissed, but they were bigger than that. They integrated into society, and became assets, I'm proud to have them as fellow Americans.
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Screw'em. We should have turned the mideast into a glass parking lot on 9-12. If it wasn't for the oil we might have. The world would have forgiven us by now, and we wouldn't have to put up with this crap.
If yelling fire in a crowded theater was allowed, we could thin the herd (gene pool wise). In the future there would only be rational people in the theater and it would be no big deal. I'm not suggesting killing all the stupid people, just removing all the warning labels and letting it sort itself.
If we did succeed in removing all the stupid and irrational people, religions would suffer a critical loss of members.
Not.
Streisand effect anyone?
We have seen it all before; the book Satanic Verses, the Swedish cartoons, any time anyone suggests anything these 7th century children don't like, they form an angry mob and kill anything that moves.
Even if they dropped the DRM schemes, and dropped the price to free, they jumped the shark a long time ago. They used to be known for fun games you could jump into and enjoy, OR play through the levels and accomplish. For some time now they seem to think; role playing is essential part of an action game. I disagree. I long for the simplicity of the original Need For Speed Hot Pursuit. I really don't want to go to some garage and meet Bob, the go to some alley and Meet Sue, I want to drive the damned car. Now that the technology for a really great experience doing just that, they have dropped the ball, & overcomplicated it to the point of, no thanks.
Years ago, in the 80's I was working a Payless Cashways (like a Lowes or home Depot) when we had a complete power failure. The store was full of customers who had full carts and wanted to check out. When it became apparent that the power wasn't coming back on, the floor manager got all the personnel on the registers, Supervisors with hand held calculators, everyone else sliding merchandise past them on the now dead conveyors. It was very hard work, but the store stayed running, and the customers left happy. We were probably lucky that was pre barcode.
I treat the Drug companies exactly like I treat the Mafiaa, They get, very nearly, none of my money. I shy away from doctors, (another cartel of a sort), & refuse prescriptions when I do go. I buy a little OTC pain and allergy stuff, but mainly use homeopathic cures with good success. I see so many pensioners whose centerpiece on the table is a cluster of pharmacy bottles. Sad really, especially when most of it is chain pills, the previous one made me sick to the stomach, so he gave me this for that, but that gave me hives, so he gave me this for that........
And we wonder why Medicare is in trouble.
No doubt, I've seen Idiocracy and found it prophetic. I'm just saying; there is a lot more to ignorance, than lack of education. Ignorance and education are seldom mutually exclusive.
You put a lot more weight on education than others might. Personally, I made my way through life (and found my way home most nights) fine with a high school education. I did return after 50 & got a degree, with honors, and while there were a lot of blanks filled in, higher education isn't the end all, and be all.
Back on topic though; the campus book stores are more of a racket than a service. They have you by the short hairs and know it.
"behavior detection" reverts quite quickly to "racial profiling."
Racial profiling is just a term to try to deny the fact that minorities commit the majority of the crimes. So any serious effort to control crimes is going to end up resembling racial profiling.
They bent over for the Texas AG, they are in the news for screwing up big time with the gun for TV thing. Now this. They have gone from my vendor of choice to my vendor of last resort. I doubt I'm alone in this.
Let's see; out right breaking and entering, theft of property, burglary. They took this data/ equipment without legal basis and now are playing Bonnie and Clyde crossing into Oklahoma and flipping off the authorities on the other side of the border.
From the beginning like wolfenstein 3d, and Need for speed 1-3
the games were so so until the modders got hold of them. I remember the delight of creating your own levels on Wolf 3d, or having a monster truck that went 200 mph in Need for speedIII.
Kind of like the no call list. Politicians and charities are exempt, so it's just a no business call list. Better by a damn site, but still very short of a total win for consumers.
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What is next do we invoke Godwins Law?
I'll do it.... Both AC and eejit are Nazis
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I understand the culture that permits / causes the unrest, I just don't have a lot of sympathy for it. they need to get over it, grow up & get on with life. I was always amazed at the Vietnam immigrants, who came here after the war. they had every right to be pissed, but they were bigger than that. They integrated into society, and became assets, I'm proud to have them as fellow Americans.
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+1 on your debating skills, & you're a poo poo head. :)
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If we did succeed in removing all the stupid and irrational people, religions would suffer a critical loss of members.
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I've found catrering to tantrums effective
Streisand effect anyone?
We have seen it all before; the book Satanic Verses, the Swedish cartoons, any time anyone suggests anything these 7th century children don't like, they form an angry mob and kill anything that moves.
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Laheyisms
You just opened Pandora's Shitbox Ray
Oh wait, that was Jim Lahey, never mind
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You just do what needs done
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And we wonder why Medicare is in trouble.
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I'll say it. The entire system is screwed up, & if someone can beat the system, more power to them.
"When injustice becomes law, then resistance becomes duty."
T. Jefferson
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Back on topic though; the campus book stores are more of a racket than a service. They have you by the short hairs and know it.
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This just in
Racial profiling is just a term to try to deny the fact that minorities commit the majority of the crimes. So any serious effort to control crimes is going to end up resembling racial profiling.
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the games were so so until the modders got hold of them. I remember the delight of creating your own levels on Wolf 3d, or having a monster truck that went 200 mph in Need for speedIII.
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Re: It will probably not turn out as you hope.
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