Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1) 399
Well then it's a fucking stupid analogy, isn't it?
Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1) 399
I'm not a mind reader, I'm a reader of what this person wrote in public in black and white.
Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1) 399
It was racist. Period.
Suck it up, you racist sack of shit.
Comment Re:There are no Africans on Twitter! (Score 1) 399
Pointing out the corruption of car dealers is racist? I stopped reading at that point. Fuck you and the rest of the klan.
Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1) 399
Racist cunt.
Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1) 399
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
Funny how quickly legions of irrational idiots bust out the ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies every time someone questions their political correctness-driven groupthink 'outrage.' People questioning these political agitators are not bigots. They know this 'outrage' is purposely designed to get as big a yield as possible regardless of what qualifies as a reasonable response to specific circumstances.
People like you are like that smarmy, overconfident yet easily-needled kid in class who gets picked on all the time because he gets unreasonably upset over nothing. To hide his insecurity, he's always looking for a reason to be 'outraged' at others' behavior so that he has justification to 'smite' them (or get authority to do so). The fact that making offhand comments on the internet results in career suicide suggests a culture wide ailment. The fact that most of this irrationality can be traced right back to the 'social justice' PC crowd's enough-is-never-enough position is not a surprise.
*snore*
You've got some nerve complaining about "ad hominem attacks" in a rant that's completely laced with them. Fuck you, you racist-defending sack of shit.
Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1) 399
So only the victims of racism should be offended by racism?
Well there is this thing in legal theory called "standing". The idea crudely is that for things that don't rise to the level of a crime, then one needs to demonstrate that one has been adversely affected by the behavior or activity. If one can't do this, such as would be the case with a whiny, anonymous person at a keyboard, then one doesn't have standing and hence, the judge can tell them to shut up and get lost.
I think this is an excellent way to deal with the endless, useless complaints of racism for behavior and opinions that harms no one aside possibly from the instigator. As a bonus, it gives you more time for your other odious habits.
"Standing" only applies to legal cases. We're not talking about legal cases, we're talking about being offended.
Comment Re:Why so much butthurt? (Score 1, Insightful) 399
That's the funny thing. I haven't read very many comments from South Africans, or Africans in general, demonstrating their anger. The majority of the "outrage" seems to be coming from Europeans and North Americans.
Which African news sources have you been following? Clearly you must be following more of them than news sources in North America and Europe, since you've made a comprehensive enough survey to be able to say where the majority of the outrage (or as you put it, "outrage" in sneering quotation marks) is coming from.
I hesitate to call what has happened "entertainment". It was more of a good old' fashioned mob, but "on a computer". People get a rush out of being outraged and being part of a communal attack on an errant individual or group.
So only the victims of racism should be offended by racism? We in the west had no business being offended by Apartheid in South Africa? Only Syrians should be offended by what their government is doing to them? Only black people should be offended by the treatment of blacks in America? Only Indians should be offended by the racist remarks that appear on
They can wip (sic) themselves up into a vast moral outrage, feel very superior to the person in question (even if the likelihood is fairly high that they've said the same or worse) and eak out some vicarious revenge that they can use to pump up their ego.
And...? What's wrong with feeling superior to a racist? You say that like it's a bad thing. I think it's a good thing.
(even if the likelihood is fairly high that they've said the same or worse)
Projecting, much? Can't say I've ever cracked a racist joke about catching AIDS in Africa. I've never said the same or worse. The likelihood of saying the same or worse is pretty low for most normal people. Maybe not for you, but it is for me. But then I'm not the one defending racism here.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Antipater writes "NBCNews reports that Kurt DelBene, former head of Microsoft's Office division, will take over operations of Healthcare.gov on Wednesday. DelBene will replace Jeffrey Zients, who stepped in to lead the team fixing the health insurance website when it crashed and burned on its Oct. 1 launch. Zients is set to take over next month as senior White House economic adviser from Gene Sperling.'"
Comment Re:Or maybe it's the vaccine (Score 1) 462
8 people, eh? Well that's a representative sample. Of fuck all.
Comment Re:Actually, this is bullshit. (Score 1) 462
How do you spread a disease?
How about this: Inject a few million people with the virus and release them into the population.
It's vaccinated people who now carry and spread sickness. Not those who are uninfected.
Don't like the sound of that? Sorry. The science holds on this one.
Let me know when the mothership arrives.
Comment Re:Duh (Score 4, Insightful) 462
They deserve a fucking education.
What if I told you I know a very well educated micro biologist who refuses to vaccinate his 7 kids? His wife's education is in psychology, but they are still educated, and they steadfastly refuse to vaccinate and when I try to argue I'm told "you don't know enough science to argue with me".
I'd tell him he's being fucking stupid and tell him to get his kids vaccinated before he gets somebody killed. Want fries with that?
U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 462
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control have announced that measles cases in the U.S. spiked this year, rising to three times their recent average rate. It's partly due to a greater number of people traveling to the U.S. when they're infectious, but also because a frustrating number of people are either failing to have their children vaccinated, or are failing to do so in a timely manner. Dr. Thomas Friedman said, 'Around 90 percent of the people who have had measles in this country were not vaccinated either because they refused, or were not vaccinated on time.' Phil Plait adds, 'In all three of these outbreaks, someone who had not been vaccinated traveled overseas and brought the disease back with them, which then spread due to low vaccination rates in their communities. It's unclear how much religious beliefs themselves were behind the outbreaks in Brooklyn and North Carolina; it may have been due to widespread secular anti-vax beliefs in those tight-knit groups. But either way, a large proportion of the people in those areas were unvaccinated.'"
Comment Bank notes (Score 1) 276
Without a 'central counterparty' to verify transactions and thus mitigate that risk, Bitcoin could fail to break into wider use.
The amount of trust in a currency depends on custom. If Bitcoins become widely used in some Chinese regions then they'll gain acceptance, and it might spread.
Northern Ireland bank notes, which are printed by various banks according to their own designs and are branded as "pounds sterling", are not actually legal tender. They're a hangover from an old law that let regional banks print their own money in place of currency issued by the Bank of England. But people in Northern Ireland use them and think nothing of it, including transactions between total strangers. The notes are met with a bit more scepticism when you try to use them in England though.
The only thing stopping Northern Ireland bank notes from gaining wider acceptance in Britain is the Irish Sea which has a tendency to slow down the flow of money across the water. Plus, seasoned travelers change their local notes for Bank of England notes when going to England because they know that the regional notes are going to be harder to spend. So that keeps a vicious circle going of unfamiliarity that undermines trust.
Comment Re:How About Giving Them One? (Score 1) 214
How about "if the system is corrupt then you've got no choice but to work within the corrupt system"?
