Sure, they bring their culture with them, but over time (generations) they seem to adopt mainstream American culture.
I know plenty of people who think like I do whose ancestors (like mine) were neither in America nor in Britain or Northern Europe at the time of the Revolution.
Just a wild guess, but maybe 1st (or even 2nd) generation Americans don't feel they've been around long enough to have the right to protest. But by the 3rd generation they're fully acclimatized.
So perhaps patience is needed. (Which it is, even if I'm wrong about this.)
Happily we don't (yet) have world government. Maybe things will get better elsewhere. As Franklin (again!) said, "Where liberty dwells, there is my country".
Sad to say, it seems that most Americans just don't care.
They prefer a little temporary safety to essential liberty - and will, of course, eventually, get what they deserve.
I wonder how much of this is a result of the general reduced acceptance of risk in Western societies - the same change that has caused helicopter parents, toddlers on 3-wheeled toys to wear helmets (max speed 1.5 mph), and the instant suspicion of any non-parental adult male caught talking to any child.
It seems that as life has gotten easier and and less risky, we've become even less willing to accept the tiny risks that remain (150 years ago something like 50% of infants didn't live to adulthood).
And to escape those infinitesimal remaining risks, it seems most people are completely willing to give up their liberty and become slaves of Authority.
(Not that it will work, but it seems to make them feel better to think it might.)
I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but if I were, I'd be looking in the direction of CNN and similar 24-hour all-terror all-the-time channels...
I don't know what your problem with a warranty was, but I've ordered hundreds of times from Newegg over about 15 years, and have never experienced anything but great customer service.
And they a have 9.0/10 score on ResellerRatings.com.
Re: Re: Re: Re: The idea is unworkable, but goes after a real problem
there is something to be said about rewarding people that didn't harm others. If you have two candidates that are equally qualified and one spent his 20's volunteering at a clinic while the other spent his 20's transporting drugs
I agree with the point about not rewarding people who harm others...but your example of "harming others" is "transporting drugs"?
How does that harm anybody? If there was ever a victimless crime, surely it's "transporting drugs".
Heck, I moved three bottles of antihistamine to the bedroom just this morning. (Allergies acting up...)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is truly astonishing.
It does not matter if there is literal copied text.
17 USC 102(b):
In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: hmmm
(TestedBehavior + EffectOfControlOnTestGroup) - EffectOfControlOnGrontrolGroup = ResultsOfStudy
It's almost the same as what you said, but not quite.
But often it's the best we can do.
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Re: Re: FAA takes an easy out.
Fun = good (doing things that benefit yourself only)
Profit = bad (doing things that benefit other people enough that they're willing to pay money for them)
/sarc
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Re: Re: The most bone-chilling yet
So the President is literally claiming to be able to kill anybody he likes, without needing any reason validated by anyone other than himself.
And they still call it a liberal democracy. I think there are other terms in the political science dictionary that are more accurate.
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Re: Re: Re: How much more...
Sure, they bring their culture with them, but over time (generations) they seem to adopt mainstream American culture.
I know plenty of people who think like I do whose ancestors (like mine) were neither in America nor in Britain or Northern Europe at the time of the Revolution.
Just a wild guess, but maybe 1st (or even 2nd) generation Americans don't feel they've been around long enough to have the right to protest. But by the 3rd generation they're fully acclimatized.
So perhaps patience is needed. (Which it is, even if I'm wrong about this.)
Happily we don't (yet) have world government. Maybe things will get better elsewhere. As Franklin (again!) said, "Where liberty dwells, there is my country".
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Re: How much more...
They prefer a little temporary safety to essential liberty - and will, of course, eventually, get what they deserve.
I wonder how much of this is a result of the general reduced acceptance of risk in Western societies - the same change that has caused helicopter parents, toddlers on 3-wheeled toys to wear helmets (max speed 1.5 mph), and the instant suspicion of any non-parental adult male caught talking to any child.
It seems that as life has gotten easier and and less risky, we've become even less willing to accept the tiny risks that remain (150 years ago something like 50% of infants didn't live to adulthood).
And to escape those infinitesimal remaining risks, it seems most people are completely willing to give up their liberty and become slaves of Authority.
(Not that it will work, but it seems to make them feel better to think it might.)
I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but if I were, I'd be looking in the direction of CNN and similar 24-hour all-terror all-the-time channels...
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Re: Re: There are some good cops
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Re: Must we commit suicide at 19 because our life is ruined forever?
Data is not going to just *dissapear* no matter what courts rule.
We have to get used to the idea that we're imperfect beings who do stupid things sometimes. So is everyone else.
That doesn't mean life is ruined. It just means we all need to be a little more tolerant. Especially with ourselves.
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Re: Warrenties
And they a have 9.0/10 score on ResellerRatings.com.
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Re: "Don't settle" T-shirts
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"Don't settle" T-shirts
Just $9.99 with free shipping. :-)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16800996221
I got mine!
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Re: Re: No copyright on facts
On the post: Should It Be Against The Law To Say That The Watch You're Selling Was Worn By Sandra Bullock?
No copyright on facts
And in patent law you can't patent facts of nature.
So...how do these claims have a leg to stand on?
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As long as the site made it reasonably clear that it was a parody and not a real Google site, I think it should have been fine.
If that wasn't clear, then I sympathize with Google. But the solution is to ask for them to make that clear - not to take it down.
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Dragon eggs
Disaster planning is mostly just disaster planning. If using zombies as the disaster makes people think creatively, then great.
I'm fine with this.
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Re:
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Re: Re: It should be...
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Re: Re: Common Sense
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Re: Bias against U.S. college students
Good luck to the EU to make that work...they're gonna need it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: The idea is unworkable, but goes after a real problem
How does that harm anybody? If there was ever a victimless crime, surely it's "transporting drugs".
Heck, I moved three bottles of antihistamine to the bedroom just this morning. (Allergies acting up...)
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This is truly astonishing.
17 USC 102(b):Read the emphasized words.
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