If I act like a stereotype, should I be upset when people treat me like a stereotype? But certain cultures eschew normalization in favor of maintaining stereo types, because it is a defining feature.

False. These banks took unnecessary risks and should fail, and the shareholders would be on the hook for the "non-payments". Too big to fail means too many hands in too many pies that we can't extracate who did what and to whom.

Fuck-em. Let them fail. bail out the deposits, make sure you get what you can from the loans outstanding and fail the bank and fuck the shareholders. I guarantee you that those people running FAILED banks will never work again(except at McDonalds), and those propsing the same kind of "banking" will never get promoted again.

And we should be able to raid the trust funds of all ill-got gains of the criminals who run and ruin these firms, including all the Operating Officers and Board of Directors.

DO NOT EAT THE QUACAMOLE!

We don't need more laws, we need more honor. You cannot legislate honor. The problem is, honor is an outdated notion that is contrary to "law".

Honor is doing what is right, no matter what, even when nobody is looking. Too many people want to screw the next guy and get away with it that we need laws to stop them from doing the wrong thing. They are brazen in their deeds. Quoth the asshole, "it isn't illegal, that makes it okay"

Have you had to restore from Tape?

I ask that, because most people who are running tape for backups, have NEVER even tried to restore a whole server off tape. I have, and it was disasterous because we didn't have a exact copy of the hardware, and couldn't find it. Best we could do is recover data, and not all of it. At that point, you might as well have the data saved to disk, as it is faster searching and copying random data than tape could ever hope for, especially "incremental" backups where the main changes ARE the data. (and data that doesnt' change should be archived).

Try restoring a whole system from tape sometime. Even more fun, try to restore to a different architecture machine (like one five years in the future)

Tape is too old, too slow. Took days to backup a server, so by the time the thing started, the thing ended, data had already changed enough that the backup wasn't any good. Spanning Delta's across multiple tape partitions isn't for the faint of heart either. TAPE is archival, and that is about it. AND if you're doing that, you might as well go 100 Year DVDs and duplicate those (reduncancy of archives)

If you're using tape, it is bacause your time isn't worth anything or you don't have that much data. You're still better off burning to Archval quality DVDs.

Better option for things is proper disaster planning and continuity of business planning. Going to the CLOUD and/or DR site replication is much better choice, even for smaller businesses that want to stay in business. Putting your data in a VMware like environment makes it much easier to do this, and even create "Archival snapshots" (different from disaster planning), for protecting against damaged data. (Take a snapshot, backup snapshot, delete snapshot, no interuption of service).

From the "Terms and Conditions" page ...

"Customers whose Straight Talk phones are not data-enabled or that cannot use Mobile Web Access"

Seems to indicate that they are "one and the same". And if I was a lawyer, I'd definitely

Addtionally, the T/S says "Straight Talk may discontinue providing Service to you, discontinue your account, discontinue providing connections to particular telephone numbers or types of Services used or called by you, terminate data connections and/or reduce data throughput speeds for customers whose usage, in the sole judgment of Straight Talk: (1) appear likely to generate abnormally high call volumes or Mobile Web Access and data usage"

But doesn't define "abnormally high".

Yes, I read through the whole T/S of StraightTalk. Again, if they cut my service off, I'll sue them, and I will win. Lawyers love Terms and Conditions that are not explicitly defined. They offer the service, don't define it, WHILE advertising "Unlimited" and then claim the right to "limit" it arbitrarily isn't "unlimited". Good luck with that in court.

MOBILE WEB ACCESS

No asterix defining anything. Mobile Web means what ... exactly.

I would argue that Ubuntu is the OEM version of Linux we need. The problem is, Ubuntu and the Unity is more like Windows 8 than say windows 7. It is a shift away from the Linux familiarity of GNOME or KDE. Unity is neither Gnome or KDE, and thus it is a problem, because it is ANOTHER standard. The nice thing is, it is Linux, and you can get back to KDE or GNOME if you try hard enough. However, one shouldn't have to "try" hard to do what should be "easy".

If straighttalk ever cuts me off for going over supposed "limits" I'll fucking Sue their ass. Their website says "UNLIMITED" for mobile web, with no * beside it detailing "UNLIMITED execption". If you can point me where those limits are issued, contractually, I'd love to know.

Additionally, you can get convert a feature phone over to ST if you need a sim.

What you're seeing is people who are using Verizon CDMA phones, which ST also carries service for, which do not have a SIM card what so ever.

Yeah, there is a reason you work at Walmart.

Unalienable rights are not entitlements. They exist without effort, without cause without demanding from anyone or anything else. You, alone on an Island have these rights. Enttilements (modern sense) are things REMOVED from some and GIVEN to others. People feel ENTITLED to these "things". And in our society, people feel Entitled without obligiation, where other cultures have a social contract that includes more "obligation" than "entitlement". There is a sense of shame when one doesn't meet their obligations, where here in the west, especially in the US, the whole goal of political body seems to be to get (increase) what you are "entitled" to, while incurring no "obligations" at all. Someone else will bail you out.

And, I am a Libertarian, so I also agree with your stance on Corporations up to a point. They are legal entities and not persons, though for the sake of most politics, those are one and the same. However, I would postulate that by giving non-persons the same and equal protections of law as live human beings, you have diminished human rights as a whole. And this is where I happen to agree with my left leaning friends a great deal more than my right leaning friends.

This is where I believe you and I would agree, that corporate boards and officers should be held PERSONALLY responsible for the actions taken under their direction, the same as if I directed others to commit crimes on my behalf. Charles Manson never directly killed anyone, yet he is in jail for murder none the less, because it was HIS direction which led to the murders. Corporate Boards and Officers should be held to the same standard.

You are right, something has gone wrong, we've lost the ideal of what a "Right" is. As I stated before, rights exist, apart from and not depending upon anyone or anything else. THIS is why we are screwed, we've assigned the status of "right" to things others have, that we want and demand that we are entitled to those things equally, without cost. And it diminishes us all in the process. This is the road to tyranny.

Abortion. Of course, when you de-humanize people, it is much easier to kill them. Sorry, your ideals aren't fully realized. Nice try though.

It is THIS entitlement attitude that I was commenting on.

AND Why are you judging others on ethics? You have no idea what value "family" has in this culture, if you did, you'd realize that their "ethics" are different (not better, not worse, different) than yours. It does explain the behavior of the young lady and her choice to keep her illness private.

Our colective voices cannot be heard, because we have lost something moving from local to state to federal control of law. As the power shifts away from us, our voices count less and less.

IF you want to fix this, then change the election laws. Make it so that only Citizens can contribute to campaigns, and only for campaigns to which they can vote. Corporations can still spend money on their candidates, but must be done idependantly (apart from any coordination with a campaign). Prevent PACs from raising money on behalf of candidates.

Your post is a nice contrast to the entitlement so many Americans (and westerners) have about their life and jobs. The dedication to family and society is part of the Filipino culture that it really stands as a stark contrast to American Culture. AND we are less off because of that aspect of our culture. We American (and westerners in general) have no real concept of extended family clans any more.