Comment Re:Bad guys (Score 1) 143
Make sure you give him affirmative consent first.
Make sure you give him affirmative consent first.
Preach it, brother. Looking at ScentCone's posting history, I can see that his posts are cunningly crafted to look like an average Slashdot poster, thus proving his true identity as a CIA/Halliburton/Illuminati/Bilderburger/Opus Dei/Sleestak agent.
Look out for the black helicopters. They come for you as we speak. I will soon communicate with you further through the resistance carrier pigeon network.
Don't be such a neigh-sayer!
He was always there... waiting.
Other than some titillating gossip that was hashed out 3-4 months ago already, this seems less than newsworthy.
I get it. I don't want to, but I get it.
They wasted the money fruitlessly and want a mulligan. No. Give someone in procurement a pink slip and eat some humble pie. Own your mistakes.
I'm not going to attach decorators to a perfectly factual word to match the full spectrum of opinions on a matter. The treatment of Native Americans was a mistake. That is a fact, and to my understanding not in dispute anywhere. It may be a good many other things, too, and describable in visceral, grisly detail, but I am not obligated to list them every single time I mention the subject.
It is not necessary to nuance every single thing you say. Pretty tedious, actually.
Note that while we learn the trail of tears in explicitly negative terms, we don't apologize nor give back the land. That isn't ever going to happen.
It isn't land that concerned Native Americans; they did not even have a concept of land ownership. What concerns them most is that they retain ownership of sacred burial sites and objects of historical and cultural significance. Under NAGPRA, it is a criminal offense to find such items and not report them to the government for repatriation.
In US History in grammar school, we learned about the Trail of Tears in explicitly negative terms. Do young Turks learn about Armenian genocide the same way? Everyone has skeletons. The difference is whether we keep them in the closet or not.
To be fair, the land rights of Native Americans today are a form of recompense for acknowledged past wrongs, along with special privileges such as gambling rights that trump state law and provide income to Native American communities. The US admits and owns its mistakes. Turkey is trying to bury its past with the dead.
The Dalai Lama wanted to start a movie review newsletter, but it met a lot of resistance. Too many ohms.
Ah, here it is. Even better that it was accidental.
Wasn't the first practitioner a computer store in Pakistan? Your computer would just display a message saying, "to fix this message, $$$ to this computer store in Pakistan" or something to that effect. Even had their name in it and everything.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne