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Comment Re:Typical (Score 1) 10

A Christian's generosity wouldn't be so limited either.

Limited? I'm being very generous giving Wendy Davis anything more than a single digit IQ. Her supporters are even dumber.

And you are correct, I'm not a redneck.

But perhaps I should shamelessly rip off a famous redneck....

If you complain about the government mismanaging Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and yet clamor for even more government.... you might be a liberal.

If you complain that people aren't being compassionate when they don't want their taxes raised, and yet give nothing to charity... you might be a liberal.

If you think that it's not OK to kill an animal for food, but that it is OK to kill an unborn baby for convenience.... you might be a liberal.

They almost write themselves....

Comment Re:To their defense (Score 2) 314

Bill-denomination is something that's interested me for awhile actually; it seems from my limited view of time like in the United States, the $20 has been the standard bill for 30+ years.

As far back as I can remember, $20 has been the denomination dispensed by nearly all ATMs. A handful of ATMs might mix in $50 or $100 bills for larger total amounts (Wells Fargo has some that do $20s and $50s, but most of theirs still just do $20s), and there were some ATMs outside the student union that used to dispense $5 bills (this was at UNLV in the early '90s), but most of the time, you'll get $20s.

Comment Re:Straw Man (Score 2) 622

The thrill of eating too much candy, playing in the street, and sharing needles has always been there. There is nothing new here but the general laziness of the populace in enforcing standards or taking personal responsibility. Religion, social mores, and scare-the-kids cautionary tales may be entirely made up and arbitrary, but it got mankind all the way from cavemen to what we have today.

If you are fine with your kids doing crazy shit, sit back and sigh that you are powerless against the need to be a cool parent.

There is a world of difference between someone getting a nude photo of you without your knowing in a place where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and what we are talking about here today.

If some stalker had gotten the photos through a crack in the curtains, yeah.... a pure don't-blame-the-victim scenario. What we are talking about here? Not that scenario.

Comment Re:So we can't call anyone stupid anymore (Score 4, Insightful) 622

Don't you think people SHOULD be able to walk around inside the lion exhibit at the zoo?
The blame for the crime is on the mugger, rapist, account cracker, etc.
The blame for being stupid, in some cases, is on the victim. Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid.
I know we aren't supposed to talk about the girl in the skirt, but what would YOUR advice really be to YOUR daughter or son regarding sexual assault, mugging, or lion-exhibit safety?

Comment Re:Straw Man (Score 5, Insightful) 622

Too much bullshit going on.

My advice to my son or daughter would be the same regarding photos of semen all over their faces: if you don't want people to see those photos, don't take those photos. Do not allow those photos to be taken. Do not allow them to exist.

I don't remember all this bullshit when it was Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, or even Kim Kardashian.

Comment Re:One big problem (Score 1) 100

I don't know how right handed people do it, but as lefty, I wear my watch on my left hand

You're doing it wrong. :-) You put your watch on the non-writing wrist. I'm right-handed, and I've always worn watches on the left. If I wore them on the right, the wristband would've scraped against the paper or the desk as I was writing.

Then again, who needs a watch anymore when your cellphone shows network-synchronized time that never needs adjustment?

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Journal Journal: precious phone spam 1

Had two identical messages on my machine, arriving at about 10am and then around noon.

In an unrecognized accent, the recorded voice said:

Hi, uh, this is <unintelligible> Jefferson.

I'm calling you from Internal Revenue Service, Tax Audit Department.

Please listen to this important message really carefully.

Comment How many times will they let you, is the question. (Score 1) 11

I attempted to make just a technology change, at the midpoint in my career, and I was damn lucky to be given the chance to do so. As 50 approacheth, I don't dare risk even that again.

And good luck being offered a move into management. We already have plenty of managers. I have to keep programming until no one wants me anymore. Because it's all I can do. Really. YMMV, OTOH.

Comment Re:You misspelled God (Score 1) 102

Well, to be fair, we aren't children. Being far from His level does not make us mentally incapable.

And we haven't been kicked to the curb. We're standing in the corner in a time-out; we haven't been kicked out of the house. Total abandonment, OTOH, would be Hell.

Some say ignorance is bliss. To know too much leads to madness, I think. And that's what I think is going on with human beings nowadays.

BTW, no animosity inferred, and note that on some things I'm only disagreeing with you in emphasis, because they are of course tough questions for Christians to come to grips with.

Comment well (Score 1) 4

Every person without a job is a good candidate for becoming a Democrat voter. Keeping the most people unemployed and feeling financially vulnerable and hopeless as long as possible yields the greatest numbers of life-long vote-slaves.

And what better way to show a low-information and short-sighted populace that capitalism doesn't work, than by preventing it from working. The forced failure of capitalism here is overdue to offset the famous failures of socialism in the history of the world.

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