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Comment Re:The two things that have led me to oppose the D (Score 5, Insightful) 649

Sigh.. You can bring a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. In certain environments, that can also cause or risk your own death/health.

The problem is freedom, you cannot force it onto people and still be free. Sure it is a betrayal but lets be honest or perhaps realistic, it is only a betrayal by this guy and his brother (speed bump or whatever his name was). The rest of his family and all the others taken in as refugees, even if they are sympathetic by circumstance or familiar relation, haven't crossed that ideal of betrayal. This guy was brought in by his parents and likely not of his own choice although I doubt he rejected the idea. So lets be conscious about this enough to not allow corruption of blood.

And no, while a .22 will do the job just fine, I think it is important to give this guy every legal chance possible to dispel the concept of it being a show trial and summery execution. People have already stated they think he was set up. But a good and thorough appeals process along with exhaustive exercising of his rights will show not only that justice is fair, but that what he betrayed is better than him.

Comment Re:rather expected (Score 1) 284

Lol.. first, there are more blacks killed by blacks in Chicago since the ferguson incident than all blacks killed by cops in the last 5 years. But hey, perspective is not important is it?

The comment was about people who think abortion clinics were set up to control the undesirable minority population and the reply was the someone knew a black guy with so many kids that he had work a second job so it was somehow justified. That's racist whether you like it or not so take uppity ass elsewhere and cry about your life.

Comment Re:rather expected (Score 1) 284

Yes, because no white guy would ever have children by more than one person or never get a divorce and move on with their life. Just gotta stop or slow down darkie from multiplying right?

I don't know if you realize how racist that sounded but it also misses and illustrates the point. Even if it wasn't meant to be racist, it has the overtones that someone can recognize.

Comment Re:Fuck atheists (Score 5, Insightful) 284

It's interesting. You can do this here, but as the article points out, it will get you killed in other areas with other religions.

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Look, I just drew a picture of Mohamed fucking the spaghetti monster. But wait, before you yell "blasphemy". I said spaghetti monster not Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's his mentally challenged cousin I'm talking about.

Comment Re:Lies! Lies! All lies! (Score 1) 284

The main thing preventing Christians in the U.S. from regularly saying, and acting upon, "We will kill gays", is the protection offered by a secular government.

Bullshit. Complete and utter Bullshit. There are very few non christian members of this secular government and even fewer openly atheist members. This is true nationally and locally. If that was really the only thing stopping it, a simply majority would overrule any opposition. There is more to it than that.

Comment Re:guess what (Score 1) 284

Likely to some degree but we know that anything repeated in the New Testament is to be followed. The biggest reasons why the old testament is picked through is because most of it has an inner message that they can see illustrating a point of moral contemplation.

For instance, you hardly ever see people picking the sacrificing of a dove from Leviticus (1:14) but you will see them picking Jeremiah 29:11 for instance in attempting to place hope into otherwise desperate situations. It goes the other way too with trying to control behavior they deem unworthy or improper but that should fall under the political advantages of it you already mentioned.

Comment Re:rather expected (Score 1) 284

Condoms use in Africa is down because birth control is seen as a form of Eugenics which has been in use in Africa well after it fell out of favor in western culture (after WWII).

The pope or anyone saying don't use condoms, abstinence is better will do nothing to change that. It's about people trying to get them not to reproduce that has them afraid of condoms. Eugenics is something that has happened in Africa within the last few decades.

http://www.naturalnews.com/047...

You can look around and see a lot of stories about how there are conspiracies about the US and UN trying to do population control on African countries. Even Martin Luther King JR.'s family is crying the conspiracy over it in the US. Alveda Kind even made the Planned parenthood connection to Eugenics a racial thing when she pointed out there are no PPH Abortion Clinics in any neighborhoods without a significant minority population.

There simply is a lot more than a religion behind it.

Comment Re:overturn murder conviction? (Score 1) 141

That's a false equivalent. First, a Nazi war criminal did not violate domestic law. Why would you compare them to domestic criminals. Next, there will be outliers in everything. Surely you don't think every slave driver who ends up killing someone deserves to escape charges and end up with a government job for the rest of their life.

Finally, if there is an overriding government need for some talent the convicted possess, are you fine with giving them a free ride and where does it end. I mean is the sex slave trader who can count to ten entitled to the same treatment as VonBrown?

Comment Re:overturn murder conviction? (Score 1) 141

Why would that make sure they stay a criminal? There are menial unskilled jobs they can do upon release.

That being said, education in prison is likely a good thing to lower the risks of recidivism. The only problem I have with it is the ability to study in careers that they cannot legally or as a matter of practicality, participate in. Certain professional licenses bar felony applicants and industries like banking is not likely to hire a convicted thief. So tailor the opportunities to practical career paths and it should be somewhat productive.

Comment Re:Advice : do it from home exclusively. (Score 2) 353

I don't think he is confusing anything. If you use company resources, that company can claim it was a work for hire and claim copyright ownership just like they do for the work they pay you to do whether they commissioned it or not.

Sure, you can fight it in court, possibly win, but while costing you crap tons of money while being unemployed at the same time. Oh you think you would still be employed after being fired for misusing or theft of company resources and actively in a court battle over who owns the rights to the product of that misuse or theft? I doubt it but hey, maybe you don't need to work which begs the question of why not just quit and make the apps and not worry about it altogether.

For all practical purposes, anything you create at work, or relating to your work, will in all likelihood be claimed by your employer and there isn't much of anything that can be done about it.

Comment Re:I smell money grab (Score 1) 167

And that is why the state seems to be going after the people with the trucks and not you who hired them.

And yes, it does magically change things. You share a liability vicariously when you hire someone to do work and do not properly supervise them. It's more or less the same as hiring a handyman to fix a leaky roof. If he falls and knocks a ladder down that crashes through a neighbor's fence and window, you can be held accountable for not only the damage to the neighbor's property but injury to the handyman. That is unless a law isolates you from liability which is why most places require licensing and bonding. Of course bonding is another term for insurance.

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