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The Indian govt are a bunch of delusional sunshines and insist that any map allowed within their borders show all disputed territory held by other countries as being part of India, not Pakistan, China, or an independent nation.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The Wikipedia article my link came from said that the Indian Gov't does this too, the Map I linked seems to follow the UN one.
Good to know the newer nuclear powers are above petty behaviour over their disputed borders!
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I can't access youtube from my office desktop (officially, at least) - so I haven't seen the video.
If the election is anything like the Indian Telephone Support Centers, it's got to be truly hilarious. Inscrutable. And have nothing to do with solving the problem.
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Apparently if you call an NBA star a nigger that is racism and an example of a 'plantation mentality'. It warrants 24/7 news coverage and swift action by local, state, federal, and private governing bodies. However, if you treat blacks like niggers by locking helpless black kids in drug infested communities with horrible schools and sub-standard housing that is acceptable. Hell, you can even blame the kids in the latter case.
Unlike Oprah, who is a nitwit, I don't consider insults hurled at famous black mutli-millionaires to be an example of 'plantation mentality'. When I think of 'plantation mentality' I start to think about black children in segregated hellhole ghettos - children who live in constant fear and who are abused by all strata of society and left without any recourse.
This whole drama is multimillionaires fighting one another.
It's time we recognize - blacks and whites recognize - that none of the people who have a stake in this battle are on any of our sides. These guys would run over a white child as quickly as a black child and they are utterly disinterested in the plight of people who are really suffering. A couple of million in fines for a guy that owns the team (valued at 300 million) means he took less than a 1% hit - less than a 1% hit for being worse than Hitler. The outrage doesn't even match the punishment - everyone's hair on fire for a 1% hit.
I'd gladly pay 1% of my salary to walk around my job and say whatever I want to say.
So it is hypocrisy from one end to the other.
I might move to Canada - do they take people who are tired of the USA?
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I find US citizens to be over sensitive with regards to vocabulary. They need to understand that context is equally important if not more. Many of US citizens are, apparently, also hell bent on treating absolutely everything to racism. They have forgotten that specifying characteristic of a person is not racism. Discrimination based on said characteristic is.
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If I call my wife a bitch it doesn't mean I hate women.
It means I'm angry.
In our sound bite society people don't care about context anymore.
Basically, we're all primed to fight and since all of our basic needs are met we have to fight over meaningless stuff.
It is pathetic.
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MehGerbil wrote: f I call my wife a bitch it doesn't mean I hate women.
Yeah, it means you are dying in 3,2,1, BANG.
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Quote: I find US citizens to be over sensitive with regards to vocabulary.
I disagree. It is our media that has made it this way. Most people wouldn't have cared.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, as an outsider, I was scared of saying anything. All I had on mind was, "Don't say anything remotely related to color and don't get shot."
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Fair enough.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: Fair
Fair? FAIR? What's wrong with dark? You are a white supremacist. KKK? You hate other races right?
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You said "color" and "shot" in the same sentence - that was clearly meant as a racist slur, you racist you!
Oops, I just realised I did too! Me racist me!
Sometimes this is all just too ridiculous. People, especially USians are way over sensitive about things that are said. What is said is way less important than what is done, usually.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Oddly enough, I moved from Canada to the United States, and, while I don't agree with everything here, I much prefer the political climate here to Canada's.
Tim
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I wish you'd elaborate on that.
That could be really interesting.
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In the '80s, I was at a friend's house. His Dad was a police officer. I asked him, "The charter of rights and freedoms says that sexual discrimination is illegal. However, men are allowed to go topless in public, but women aren't - that is indecent exposure. Are they on a collision course?" I was told, "Yes, they are on a collision course."
Well, the supreme court declare the indecent exposure law unconsitutional: result, women can go topless in Canada in public.
I do not want my children exposed to topless women, so I can't go to a public beach.
And, do any of want to see our daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers walking around topless for all to see?
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Tim Carmichael wrote: And, do any of want to see our daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers walking around topless for all to see?
I dunno... how cute is your sister?
Actually, I don't want to see the men topless.
I didn't know it was legal to be topless in Canada.
The only saving grace is that it's cold up there most of the time.
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MehGerbil wrote: The only saving grace is that it's cold up there most of the time.
Hard nips even with a shirt on. 
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I basically agree with your opening rant and the sentiments that you expressed in it.
But this response is truly one of the best that I have seen here.
Very very funny and respectful of Tim's statement, even though it was encouraging some flame.
Just wish you had of inserted the word 'Kid' in front of 'sister'.
I Enjoyed this... Thanks 
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Tim Carmichael wrote: women can go topless in Canada in public.
How come Charlie Sheen never moved to Canada?
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d@nish wrote: How come Charlie Sheen never moved to Canada?
Because Charlie Sheen does not have to go to Canada to have topless woman around him. Heck, he could do that in Saudi Arabia if he wanted to.
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In NY State, the State Supreme Court, in a moment of Blessed Clarity decreed that Woman may go topless anywhere men can. Voyeuristic considerations aside, I applaud the law.
Your worry: Tim Carmichael wrote: I do not want my children exposed to topless women, so I can't go to a public beach.
is actually pointing out the real problem. There is nothing whatsoever obscene about a topless woman. The worry you have about such exposure is really how you'd react.
Where I live (near beaches), the women going topless doesn't disrupt a thing.
More news: Sex is Not Sin (original or otherwise). It is following the very first decree by deity to creation, which is Be Fruitful and Multiply. Interestingly, all species, except ours, have no problems with being in the open. It's only 'dirty' because some sick mind made it that way. So following the bible can get you arrested.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Forbidding sex in public has nothing to do with sex being shameful or wrong.
It has everything to do with protecting other people - it is a courtesy.
Unlike animals, we people have a tendency to get jealous and have problems with envy.
With that in mind, I don't care to see two college kids with perfect bodies having sex on the lawn of the administration building during lunch when my wife and I have imperfect bodies and we're both a full work day ahead of us before we could get around to our imperfect sex.
Nudity laws are about courtesy - it is the same reason why it is considered rude for millionaires to walk around with a placard on their chests announcing their bank balances.
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A large fraction of your post has to do with commercially defined attitudes of what people should look like. Animals do get jealous - but they still don't worry about "where the sun don't shine".
MehGerbil wrote: it is the same reason why it is considered rude for millionaires to walk around with a placard on their chests announcing their bank balances.
Wrong. They do it with big cars, shiny baubles, etc.
Should we outlaw the display of anything wherein someone else's may be 'bigger' (put intended).
The internet user are warned about being victimized by responding to social engineering scenarios. They omit the bigger picture of the total social engineering of what personal behavior is or isn't offensive.
Surely there are behaviors a human can do which are unacceptable: deification in public areas, blasting audio invading someone else's audio territory (that doesn't mean only silence is acceptable).
A lifetime of psychological manipulation has paid off - at least for the manipulators.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: A large fraction of your post has to do with commercially defined attitudes of what people should look like. Animals do get jealous - but they still don't worry about "where the sun don't shine".
This is where we head in separate philosophical directions.
Envy/Jealousy is built into the human psyche so at worst 'commericially defined attitudes' is merely working with the putty they already find between our ears. The big bad advertiser isn't making us envious - he's just working with the natural inclination of mankind.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Wrong. They do it with big cars, shiny baubles, etc.
..and the response typically is what?
We make jokes about the guy in the Jaguar - jokes that he's compensating.
How much more miserable would you be if you could see for sure that he wasn't compensating.
W∴ Balboos wrote: Surely there are behaviors a human can do which are unacceptable: deification in public areas, blasting audio invading someone else's audio territory (that doesn't mean only silence is acceptable).
This is an entirely arbitrary list which I suspect is as much a product of manipulation as the sex thing.
No, we're better off recognizing human nature - what it is at it's core - and dealing with that issue.
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