There are two kinds of companies when it comes to hiring; the ones where the hiring managers have all the power, and the ones where HR has all the power.

I've never gotten past the gatekeeper kind, because I need to talk to the person with a need, to be noticed.

whinger

What's that, the name if Vito and Kip formed a band?

he thinks God doesn't exist because the Church teaches against pre-marital sex and contraception.

And this is why all the stuff earlier in that same paragraph is all wrong. He's not rejecting morality, he's only rejecting God's morality, because he likes man's better.

And atheists are not anarchists; not wanting to be told what to do is almost always entirely divorced in practice from not wanting others to be told what to do. Rather, they want what they want to do to be imposed on others, and then it's no imposition on them because it's already what they want to do. No libertarianism here.

Do you really need to be told NOT to use the hair dryer in the shower?

That's not nanny state-ism; it's not the govt. that told them to put that on there. It's that some dumbass did it once and he or his family sued, and some jury box full of dumbasses compounded the ridiculousness of the situation by awarding a ridiculous amount of money, so the sharks said to the suits we better put this on there. It's like defensive patents, where you have to register even the most ridiculous things, because otherwise you're vulnerable to getting sued over the most ridiculous things. Just a downside of the overall good legal system we have in this country.

And the problem with atheists' "Good without God" scheme is the same as with their worshipful faith in science; at one time it was "good" to have slaves just as at one time the earth was flat. I.e. "Good without God" means a moving target, and while the people of an era are not to go against the popular morality of that era, the people of the next era are evidently free to change it. I.e. "sin" becomes relative to whatever is the composition of the majority at the time. It takes a very interesting critter to not be uneasy with defining morality like that.

When:

1) You have an unusual personality quirk that manifests itself in obnoxious passive-aggressive badgering, and

2) You constantly complain that Slashdot is a far-Right web site

Then you're going to tick people off. Most people are naturally going to assume that #1 is voluntary and not a defect. And the 90-some percent Leftist majority on Slashdot, while agreeing with his feeling that one Right-wing comment posted to the site is intolerable and one too many, by and large they *like* Slashdot for the place it is where Left-wing thoughts rule and the occasional Right-wing thought gets blasted, and they don't like their place criticized.

With that said, mod-bombing is a form of political correctness, which I'm against. And I'm esp. against it in journals, where it's not about the quality of the presentation to the general public; i.e. tucked away in your own journal you should be able to say whatever you want.

I used to counter-act his and others' mod-bombings when I had mod points, when I got to the point where I saw moderating the general discussion areas pointless. But I turned off the moderation option a couple of years ago, as the whole thing's as overall futile as us sacrificing lambs to achieve forgiveness of sins. And now I think they took the screen that housed it (in D1 at least) away, the basterds.

p.s. Why would you assume that whoever might mod-bomb DR also happens to read your journal?

It's like how the MSM refers to G8 summit protesters as "anarchists". When they're actually the exact opposite of anarchists; they're Leftist authoritarians, of course (just read their signage).

So it is also with the beneficient-sounding "Community Organizer", which is just a watered-down term for what is a professional rabblerouser/troublemaker. BHO didn't organize people to have weenie roasts, the purpose was the same as "Organized Labor", to try to incite the lower economic strata to do the Left's bidding towards revolution (to overthrow capitalism and the decadence and inequity and harm to the planet that freedom allows).

Your new Pope (who incidently seems like a really good guy) helps the poor, while Leftists use the poor.

Well keep looking out for her then. Definitely don't let her near this place; the Leftie 99% of Slashdot would love to rape her. They call women "cunts", so I guess they define them by their vaginas. Oh well, at least they don't put them in binders and wage a war against them.

Certainly some of the shortage can be attributed to BHO's re-election and the Left's deciding (based on good crises that shouldn't be let go to waste) to try for big advances in gun control during this term. (Not that there won't be two more opportunities immediately following, in Hillary's two terms.)

Surely you intended to post it on a gun nut forum.

FTFY. (Afterall, is there any other kind?)

p.s. I like your wife better when she sticks to Tea Party stuff and is not the running mate of or making excuses for Progressive Republicans.

I don't know how much of the purpose of this is just back-door gun control, but I guess you're thinking that ammo mfrs are just going to wait until the announced mammoth orders actually come in before worrying about being able to fill them.

Yes. Windows 8 is a Windows Vista. Like Windows 7, Windows 8's successor will just be a tweaked version of its predecessor, but sheeple will insist that the predecessor was worst evar and the successor is a ginormous improvement. Expect this alternating flop/success cycle, based on absurdly exaggerated perceptions and the bandwagon effect, to continue for quite some time.

Unfortunately, we're in the middle of a nationwide shortage of pistol ammunition...

Not even a footnote that the federal govt. has recently been buying up massive quantities of this? Way to delay slightly the being added to additional watch lists.

From reading further down, what's alternately sought is for the people refereeing the game to form their own team and inject themselves into the game as a (uber) competitor, all the while not only retaining the ability to call fouls and enforce penalities for them, but additionally with the new power to outright disqualify teams from ever playing in the game again.

<not>I wonder how that would always end.</not>

"I give up... I feel like I'm arguing with Ayn Rand here... Sorry to have wasted your time."

Talking politics is always a waste of time, between people who've been thinking about politics for a long time and have completed the journey to either one side of the spectrum or the other. That is, I think people are predisposed to finding one set of arguments and ways of looking at things to make the most sense, and the opposite, naturally-occuring for them, reaction to the other set. So then the more one delves into politics, well, it's a "the more you know, the farther you go" thing.

The above exchange has been reading like an argument between Ayn Rand and Barack Obama. You boringly offer all the usual Leftist stuff, like business owns govt. and business is evil, so therefore govt. needs to be more powerful and exert more control over businesses and markets and besides big govt. is us so it's okay. And he opposed and counterpointed with all the standard Rightist fare. Absolutely nothing here that anyone who's been following along for a while hasn't heard a zillion times before.

The point being, it took you both a long time to settle on where you're at politically, and you're diametric opposites, and no amount of discussion at this point is going to change any of that. I've mostly given up, because I'm convinced that about all we can do, that's productive, is challenge our own kind peripherally and refine where we are on the side that our innate intellectual and psychological makeup has made the only non-repulsive one for us.