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Bruce Leroy posted:Yeah, they are cadets at the Air Force Academy who live there the whole time they attend the school, so it's somewhat unrealistic to expect them to go off-base every time they want to attend their respective services. This isn't just the Air Force, and it's not recent. If you're in Marine boot camp, you are given additional chores during services if you do not attend (christian) religious services and are referred to by instructors as a "heathen". This isn't an insult or whatever, it's basically your designation and instructors will give you extra poo poo at every available opportunity, in order to wheedle you into going to church.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2011 07:33 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:20 |
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Bruce Leroy posted:They basically punish non-religious or non-Christian Marines with more work while the Christians just veg out in the chapel pews? NO ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2011 07:45 |
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CaptBushido posted:I have no clue what story/letter he's referring to originally, but I want to find it. Some native americans were pissed because osama bin laden's codename was Geronimo.
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2011 01:01 |
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Bruce Leroy posted:The idea behind being against tort reform, besides enriching trial lawyers, is that those kinds of systems to which you refer where the loser pays the legal costs of the winner potentially disenfranchise poor litigants. The measure being discussed wouldn't require the loser to pay if their case were deemed frivolous, only if they lose. As a point of reference, tobacco companies were exonerated hundreds of times before a court finally determined what was already well-known: that they had continued marketing cigarettes long after they had known of their effects. This measure will compound the effect of the wealthy's advantage, money, in a court, and discourage legitimate claimants from seeking justice, because it's more than common enough in the american court system that the right party isn't the victorious party.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2011 05:12 |
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I love the way it's worded- you know, sand, water, a variety of fruit flavors, and oh yeah, BENZENE.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2011 08:56 |
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I decided to look up that footnote, and it was an op-ed article written by this guy: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_PeterSchwartz Who also wrote- "Stop Apologizing for Civilian Casualties" - http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7786&news_iv_ctrl=2181 "Freedom vs. Unlimited Majority Rule" - http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12777&news_iv_ctrl=2181 "In Defense of Income Inequality" - http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14321&news_iv_ctrl=2181 "Feminism's War on Objectivity" - http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5216&news_iv_ctrl=2181 Sounds like a rock-solid citation, a powerful cornerstone for any article.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2012 10:57 |
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Andy thinks my fundamental nature is being a neckbeard. Not cool, man.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2012 01:42 |
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Guilty Spork posted:The lady who thinks there's a "War on Men" is back, with a whole bundle of straw men (or straw feminists) to demolish. Also, a few more bucketloads of . "Just because you can do the same job a man can do doesn’t mean you need to let him know it." Holy poo poo.
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# ¿ Dec 7, 2012 21:55 |
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:Oh I know, but people still buy into the lies after you tell them that, because they all know (they don't) some union shop where people slack off all the time. Just to give you some perspective, the company I work at fired an upper-level IT guy for saying a ton of racist poo poo during a non-harrassment seminar to be "edgy". He'd done the same poo poo the previous year and had been warned about it before the current year, so they fired him. Dude lawyered up and got a great settlement because HR hadn't kept sufficient documentation of his past actions. Now that guy 100% deserved to be fired, but people have rights, even dickheads, and unions protect those rights without you having to find some ambulance-chaser on daytime television and give him most of the settlement. If companies handle a firing correctly, poo poo like that won't happen, union or no union.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 18:22 |
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Glaeser's a great guy, sure he is against government engaging in anti-poverty programs, but did you know that he wants to make Gilded Age-style tenements legal again? So think about THAT.
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2013 17:24 |
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Basically every joint-stock settlement had a period of time in which things were more communal because it (surprise) made it more efficient to bootstrap the colony together if people were more worried about everyone surviving the winter instead of who owns what. This was, on paper, a temporary arrangement, and successful colonies were intended to transition to more traditional capital/merchantile as the colony got on its feet. Again, ALL joint-stock settlements. Every one. But this fact, combined with Jamestown's early troubles invents this thing where like, Jamestown has (more) communism, things are going bad, people are being lazy, later things are better and they have less communism. Therefore,
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2013 07:27 |
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There's nobody here!
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 01:08 |
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Nevvy Z posted:nerds generally face some degree of oppression Is this actually true, though? I literally cannot recall anytime someone acted in an uncalled-for way toward me since leaving high school, except in the context of political arguments and other nerds being mad about games.
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# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 14:43 |
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Silver2195 posted:The "NERDS!" attitude is silly. Pretty much everyone posting on SA qualifies as a nerd. Yo I wanted to address this real quick because if you were talking about anyone you were definitely talking about me. I'm overweight, socially awkward, I have a job making software that distributes loving minecraft mods, and my hobbies are even lamer. But I don't "identify" as a nerd, and it's because I don't want to be associated with the sort of people who do. Call me a geek or whatever the new "hip" loving word is, but "nerd" is a label defined in the minds of its adherents primarily by how society has wronged its ubermensch and I want nothing to do with it.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2014 10:16 |
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katlington posted:Who demonized what now? You see, cultural criticism is the same as bullying.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 09:58 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:20 |
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Technogeek posted:He sounds like the kind of person who would use unsigned variables when calculating cash flow. That's just a good strategy for maximizing your cash!
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