Topics created by cteavin

@cteavin:

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/20/students-crashed-a-college-republicans-m

I just have no words for this type of stupidity. It used to be that young people were taught how to think now they're just mirroring what they hear around them without thinking about it critically.

Is this the effect of affirmative action on campus', where people who score lower on the SAT's are let in?

Is this a failure of the parents or teachers?

Thoughts?

Not only is the SAT not really required anymore, they made the test much easier. 
The university I went to had high STANDARDS.. but they were not enforced! 
Even though I had extremely high SAT scores, they forced all incoming students to take the universities OWN placement test.. which is why I was able to start taking junior level engineering classes in my freshman year.  (that did not work out that well because at least one engineering teacher HATED having a 17 year old that looked 14 years old sitting in his class of people in their 20's.  I have to add an interesting thing about that class… everyone had to share a drafting table with another student... The guy I sat next to me in that class was 27 years old, and was an army veteran.  He was extremely quiet, and the instructor would nearly do that guy's work for him while completely ignoring my questions.  Despite sitting next to the guy for 4 hours a week for a semester, he completely ignored me outside of the classroom when I would see him on campus.  Just one year later, I heard his name on television.  He went into a building on campus, strangled a secretary to death, and sodomized her butt after she was dead.  This was witnessed by 3 students through the small glass window in the office door.  They thought they were watching some kinky sex.  He is in prison and will never be released.. which is GOOD in his case, however, from a LEGAL standpoint, that is a bit harsh.  He had no prior record, was not a violent person (although serving in the army must have required him to do some aggressive things).  So much for being insane!  Florida is famous for very long sentences, executions, etc.  They have the same public defenders for capital 1st degee murderers working on things like petty shoplifting and trespassing charges.  )
About 1/3 of the students admitted to the college had to do 1 year of non-credit remedial courses.  They failed to learn to reed, ryte, and do rithmetic in hye skool.

Honesty, college is a waste of time for almost everybody these days.  There is not much need for educated people in society anymore, especially since the computer age.  The medical field is one of the few vocations that REQUIRE a college degree, but even then, most medical functions could be done by just about anybody trained to do that one specific function.  Train some people to do dressings.. some to do injections, some to do liposuction, some to do colonoscopies, some to do catheders, some to do CAT scans / MRI,  some to take X-rays, some to administer anesthesia, some to do LASIK / PRK,  some to do EKGs, etc.  Most people think that doctors are super smart and knowledgeable.. WRONG.  Some people also believe that cops are hard working, brave, and honest.. hahaa!  :hehe:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/sat-act-not-required-colleges_n_2206391.html

http://college.usatoday.com/2014/07/07/no-the-sat-is-not-required-more-colleges-join-test-optional-train/

I wouldn't bring my child to Pride.  It's too sexual.

@cteavin:

Youtube Video

This really annoys me. I'm scrolling through Facebook with my morning coffee and find a link of John Kelly's speech explaining why Trump said what he said. The clip was about 10 minutes.

Further down the feed were several stories saying that Kelly's speech confirmed how disrespectful Trump was yada, yada, yada showing a 90-second clip – or worse, just a sentence or two.

With public discussion of fake news people should scrutinize the news they consume, but they don't. What's the phrase? You can lead a horse to water…

What's the solution?

With the previous talk here about alleged Russian collusion with Trump's handlers, this is a relevant question. Even if Russia had been feeding fake news to the American people, ultimately it's the reader's fault for believing nonsense.

Thoughts?

It's "you can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think"  or  "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink".

In the case of Kelly, the media PRESUMED how he felt about his son and what Trump said.  Kelly refuted what the media said, but even then, the media is still insisting that they know what Kelly is thinking and that Kelly is lying.

Meanwhile.. what Trump said about that soldier that died was "he knew what he was getting into.." which is equivalent to saying that "he died in the line of duty".  What is so horrible about saying that?  Would the mother have preferred if her son was killed by friendly fire, or by accident?  No matter what Trump says, it gets shit on by the media.

@Frederick:

I used to work with a guy from Taiwan, and 2 Chinese guys.  I used to drive the Chinese guys crazy because they were not sure if I could understand what they were saying when they were speaking Chinese.  I would act as if I knew..hehe.    The guy from Taiwan's father was a big shot general who was given a town in Taiwan as a gift for his military service.. but left very little to his son in his will  The guy from Taiwan said that the Japanese language is actually a simplified version of Chinese. Is that right?    Also, I know there are 3 major versions of Chinese,   Mandarin, Cantonese, and Traditional.

Your friend is talking about the writing system kanji, aka Chinese characters. But Japanese has four official scripts all used within any one document.

1. 漢字 the simplified Chinese characters
2. ひらがな (hiragana) the original phonetic script
3. カタカナ (katakana) another phonetic script used for words of a foreign origin
4. ROMAJI or the Roman script used together with katakana for foreign words or to add impact in ads or for touristy things (but romaji doesn't mean it's English or that the English words written/spoken mean the same thing. For example, naisu gai [nice guy] means handsome and if you read hate it's not at all what you think because you have to read it with the Japanese phonetics in mind).

(Now that I think about I guess you could add simple English as a fifth system but it wouldn't be literary, more a means to an end.)

Both Chinese and Japanese have kanji that are unique to their languages, too. When I've been through China and Taiwan I can generally get by with no problem by reading what's around me or writing what I want in the Japanese versions of the characters. Kanji are also a part of older Korean, so you'll see it when you're traveling there, too.

Chinese grammar is closer to English in structure. Japanese is similar to Korean.

Time to learn a language?  ;D

People are just ignorant.

@flozen:

@cteavin:

@flozen:

In the same arena, if anyone would like to read a piece on "consent" specifically geared to our community, here you go.  And it's from the UK, no less:

https://www.gmfa.org.uk/fs162-consent-and-the-gay-community   :cool2:

In case you didn't see it, I made a separate topic based on this article you shared.

Yes, and  :thx:

What's nice about that "Consent" thread – as of this writing -- is that the posters are sharing their own interesting stories about consent, and it's very focused, on-topic, and almost free of hyperbole.  Unfortunately, it still has some classless vulgarity, a trend that seems to have increased as of late, and does nothing to prove a point or lend credibility to the individual.

Yes. But not so bad as before. Much easier to read here now. I maybe getting more comfortable to post my opinions here.

@gaypraha2:

My country requires ID to vote.  You also have to bring in the enumeration document saying where you are allowed to vote that includes name and address.

same here you need 2 documents ID + card issued when you register for voting and you can vote only where you are registered.

Only voting where one is registered is a good way to prevent fraud.  There are many cases where busloads of people vote at one place, and then are transported to the next voting place, etc.

Even at the same voting place, some people would wear disguises including hats, mustaches, wigs, etc.  I'll bet Hillary brought suitcases filled with every color pantsuit she had, and probably tried dark glasses and a mustache too!

@musclejizz you should, hopefully you're feeling better
SIOSI go nude at the all male resort I'm going to tomorrow

@cteavin:

I only get a little glimpse of what must be near round the clock coverage in the 24-hour news cycle of this.

Me, I'm not a fan of people, mostly women, coming forward to say they were raped. If there's no proof it becomes he said, she said and the current cultural norm is to believe the victim.

Also, there are (petty?) decades-old grievances coming to light. A good example of this is a woman who still holds a grudge that Ben Aflac (whom I despise as a person) grabbed her boob on TV. Let it go. Or, am I wrong?

I wish they media would do more to distinguish incidences of sexual assault.    For instance, there is a  massive difference between someone using a crowbar to break into someone's home and hold a knife to their throat and rape them….  and someone coming onto a movie mogul to get a part in a movie - and when the mogul takes advantage of the situation by patting one's ass or making a suggestive remark, etc.  instead of just walking away or not having the encounter in the first place.  Since supposedly "everyone" knew that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted actresses, why would an actress ever allow themselves to be caught in a compromising position with him?    By the way, it was Harvey's brother BOB that finally exposed Harvey for being a monster.

I've watched the first episode of season 4 and I enjoyed it.  An optimistic and caring Barry is more interesting than a brooding, nihilistic Barry.  Largely due to Grant Gustin being better at 'perky'.

It's good to see the characters supporting one another again.

@raphjd:

It's clearly an SJW move and one not based on reality.

HIV/AIDS can be deadly, whereas the others aren't.     That to me is the difference.

We've also had cases where both males and females have purposely infected others out of revenge for them getting it.

++++

This doesn't affect "gift givers" as they are called.  This is because the "bug chasers" are actively seeking it.    The law only knowingly giving it without telling the victim.   It also doesn't affect those that know they are POZ but don't tell their sex partner, and the sex partner doesn't get it.

I know of one case where a guy with AIDS committed suicide simply by refusing all treatment.  He was very depressed, didn't want to live anymore, and let nature take it's course.  The sad thing is, he was a nice guy.  He has been abandoned by his parents, did a couple of years in the military, wound up living with a sugar daddy (who later produced a few terrible movies starring Brent Corrigan), then working at Walt Disney World, got sick, refused treatment, and died.  Ironically, his parents took care of him in his last months.  Perhaps the reason he allowed his health to fail is that his failing health got him the love and attention of his parents back.

@flozen:

I don't think it's racist to point out that many crime syndicates are formed along ethnic, racial and/or religious lines.  From that perspective, do Asians/Muslims represent a higher proportion of all known child-sex trafficking gangs?  I'd like to see some research data (in this case, for England) to figure that out.  Anyone?

@cteavin:

(excerpted)…

Are there studies? I wonder. There's a lot of resistance in analyzing people by race and religion. To me, it's common sense and a good reason to limit immigration from these countries.

A study of the arrested should be public record and a good foundation for developing statistics – I would hate to think that such fact-finding would be scuttled by some PC nonsense.  Knowing more about the perpetrators -- whether they are Norwegians, Bolivians, Muslim or Wiccan -- could be a valuable tool in shutting it down.

As far as limiting immigration, it reminds me of Trump's travel ban, which, no matter how it's organized, strikes me as very porous, and who's to say it's not inciting fanatics that live in the countries "next door?".  Hmm.

Could you clarify?  A lot of Protestants are now calling themselves "Orthodox" without being members of any of the Eastern Churches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/subdivisions/easternorthodox_1.shtml

they are both racist…

but hey people have different opinions... some of those are wrong of course.

in the end i never used dove products and i do not plan to start now.

in the past i loved to eat white mill biscuit... a brand owned by barilla... and after their homophobic view i just stopped buying any barilla products or other brands owned by the same people.

Fuq. I say they need to fight for abortion however they can. Its weird that they're using the devil to give women rights but if thats what it takes.

Funny!! Thanks!!

@Frederick:

I was going to post that meme here!

The version I found said "We used to rule one third of the World.. now WE are ruled by third world countries!"

👼

@cteavin, you make a great point about the cherry picking and this thread makes a great point overall. Where is that line? I believe conservatism is severely needed to stop governmental overreach into our freedoms (especially guns and the freedom to love), but that it should be done in a manner to protect all Americans and not just those who are seen as worthy of that protection. Like Frederick said, it is just like the attacks on free speech by the left. They like to believe they're advocating for free speech but they're actually advocating for limited speech tailored to their points of view.

@spam17:

@Frederick:

@cteavin:

From a Facebook conversation I've been having.

"How can we agree on funding for public programs when the GOP insists that we don’t have enough money to fund them? How can they seriously believe there’s no money? There is money, we just spend much of it on the US military and tax breaks for corporations and the rich. Now, if we agreed on how much money goes to the Pentagon and tax breaks vs. food stamps and other forms of welfare, we maybe figure out something, BUT…"

That question is too broad.   What public program is not getting enough money?  It sounds to me like someone is bitching that they are not getting their abortion program funded.

Their abortion program?

😛

I think this refers to Planned Parenthood through a lot of programs are cut.

The US is really not much different that NK in that The Military is the number one in both countries. The US happens to have more wealth, so they can still afford to pay for Social Security, Healthcare (for some), and Veterans. If the US keeps cutting public programs and continues to increase the military, well, that line between the two becomes thinner and thinner.

Here's another similarity: The US has The Highest number of people in prison on the planet and those people work while incarcerated. NK does the same thing.

My personal beef is that education keeps getting cut. Is it really surprised that we're having such problems with SJW's poor thinking skills when we no longer teach them reason, rhetoric, logic? Kids are crammed together in awful conditions to pass tests.