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Feedback: Using big words is fine when it accomplishes the end of making posts clear and concise. Your posts do not do that, and they never have. Suggestion: Stop using big words. Post in the same manner you'd hold a conversation.

I'm glad you're in favour of WET, but surely you admit you're in a minuscule minority. WET could be created tomorrow; it would just be a huge money sink. BET exists because it has an audience that wants things not shown on any other mainstream channel. What would be put on WET that you couldn't find on every single other channel currently in existence? WET could be created tomorrow, eh? Pray tell, what media company would volunteer to sponsor that PR nightmare?

Congrats!

That's also because those in ethnic minorities are likely to be poorer, and as a result more likely to commit crime in the first place.

Well based on what I can gather from your post, who committed the crime should be irrelevant unless they're underage.

Folly to assume I haven't used much just because you disagree with my opinion. I've been working in computing/software dev for the last 15 years so I know a few things here and there. I'll try any software that's legally free if I think it could do a job. Most are inferior versions of superior commercial applications, and there's no guarantees with it. There are a few exceptions. In terms of commercial applications being terrible you could be right, but the cases are a minority. If they're so terrible they wouldn't be 'commercial' applications. Perhaps you're using the home user point of view on this. Yep I agree with your second paragraph (?). Actually, I'm a software developer for a company with 1500 employees. And in my experience, there are a comparable number of poorly designed and poorly supported commercial applications and free/open source ones.

It seems like you're trying to use as many big words as possible, and yet your use of them (combined with incorrect grammar and poor usage) makes your posts very hard to understand. I have no idea what you're actually trying to say.

Stop talking like a dictionary and then maybe I'll try to answer your post. OT: It still makes me laugh that JB is VP. He seems like the closest thing the Dems have to Sarah Palin :P

Yeah. I don't mind this court case. It seems trivial, but if it helps enforce truth in advertising, I'm for it. EDIT: What kim said. For all you know this car was getting 25 MPG. Yet everyone assumes it was getting 49.5...

Women, white or otherwise, are still treated unfairly quite often. I wouldn't say they're the most needy beneficiaries of affirmative action; then again I don't support affirmative action much at all - or at least not in the way it's currently done.

I'm glad you're in favour of WET, but surely you admit you're in a minuscule minority.

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It hurts more to take a swift kick to the crotch than it does for me to get punched in the boob. I've also heard women say being kicked in the crotch is also devastatingly painful (compared to when a man is kicked there). I don't doubt it.

A child can knock out a grown man if they hit them in the right place. Result-based penalties are never effective and cannot be effective imo. Intent-based penalties are necessary. As such, punching someone without seriously injuring them is just as worthy of being a crime as if the victim was injured.

Did you read my last post properly cos you seem to have assumed I meant all software instead of the ones Furah was referring to. Sure there are plenty of open source software out there - Some good, most of it terrible. Funnily enough, there are commercial versions of Linux which are paid for as well which also include support as part of the package as well as other features. Being a computing student you would have known that already :lol: Most open source software is terrible? Clearly you've never used much. There are also a large number of "terrible" commercial applications. The linux kernel is open source. The GNU GPL (which it's licensed under) allows developers to charge money for products developed on it.

There is a very serious problem with men who are the victims of sexual or physical abuse by females not reporting it, because there is a perception in society that men are stronger than women and therefore cannot be raped. I don't think that the above statement is particularly conducive to reversing that trend, or getting male domestic abuse victims the help they need. All rapes are serious. Lying about being sexually abused is abhorrent, as far as I'm concerned, but it doesn't mean we should treat reported rapes any less vigilently, and it certainly doesn't mean we should assume a woman is "telling stories". What he said. Just because men are often physically stronger than women doesn't mean abuse is any different - the two cases should be treated equally. Not to mention I've met plenty of women capable of causing serious physical damage.

Of course not. I just posted that video to say I agree with that point made by one person. Black people don't deserve a month of cultural celebration and historical reflection. They deserve all the months for that, just like every other race has. I certainly agree blacks and other races are often still discriminated against, and terrible things were done to them in the past. But devoting a month just to a specific ethnic group highlights our differences. When Morgan Freeman says "stop talking about it", I don't think he means "let people get away with it", or "ignore problems with the law", or anything like that. He means "stop thinking of people by the colour of their skin". That is what racism is - judging or classifying someone based on the colour of their skin. If we stop doing that, racism will fix itself - that's the entire point. I see no reason to celebrate this month together, because it puts one race on a pedestal for a month - which I find quite racist. I've learned a lot about the history of black people in america and the rest of the world, and I haven't needed a specific month to do it. I have tremendous respect for various influential black people (and those of other races) throughout history, year round. The world doesn't have to be forever divided on ethnic issues, but it will be as long as we continue to encourage events like black history month, we will be forever divided. There are plenty of non-racist ways to celebrate culture - for example international day, Caribana, etc. etc. Those celebrate culture; not race. And that's the right way to do it. Also - as an aside on your comment that "no one is stopping you from making a white history month" - you know that's laughably inaccurate. Multiple people attempting to make "Caucasian clubs", or "Caucasian festivals" have been roundly lambasted in the public sphere for their racist intent. And the public sphere is right - Caucasian clubs and Caucasian festivals are racist - but no less so than events like Black history month.

Exactly. "Black history" is world history. There's no difference - and events like BHM just make it seem like there is.

This, more or less. It'd be a good idea to make healthcare more efficient/affordable before letting the government manage it (In the States, at least). Also, the way you make healthcare more efficient/affordable is removing the profit factor. Which can't really happen unless it's government managed. You can never remove "profit," unless you want your system to suffer dramatically. You can minimize profit in an economical way. A true free market is used, and healthcare providers become price takers, which can't really happen if government is involved. The Canadian medical system is not "for profit", and it's just fine. Just because something isn't labeled "for profit" doesn't mean it doesn't profit. If there really was no profit in the healthcare system, no one would waste their time with working there. People get paid, and paid well. It's a job. But there aren't owners and shareholders desperate to squeeze ever ounce of money out of people, and there aren't customers in the traditional sense.

This, more or less. It'd be a good idea to make healthcare more efficient/affordable before letting the government manage it (In the States, at least). Also, the way you make healthcare more efficient/affordable is removing the profit factor. Which can't really happen unless it's government managed. You can never remove "profit," unless you want your system to suffer dramatically. You can minimize profit in an economical way. A true free market is used, and healthcare providers become price takers, which can't really happen if government is involved. The Canadian medical system is not "for profit", and it's just fine.

This, more or less. It'd be a good idea to make healthcare more efficient/affordable before letting the government manage it (In the States, at least). Also, the way you make healthcare more efficient/affordable is removing the profit factor. Which can't really happen unless it's government managed.

You honestly think that a criminal in an illegal meth lab is going to stop making meth because he knows he could be stuck with a medical bill?

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So... am I missing something here? What part of it is rape? Legally, if a woman changes her mind at a point, even after having sex, she can call rape even if she doesn't say no at any point. The worst part is that if the genders were reversed the man would get told to man up. There have been cases where men have been raped by their SO and the police just laugh at them. Source? While I can't give you a source right now on raped then laughed at by police, as it was a few comments on some reddit posts, I can provide a case of a man being raped by his girlfriend. In all honestly I'm too damn tired to find much for you, but hopefully someone else will while I catch up on some much-needed sleep. I was more interested in seeing the source for your claim that "legally, if a woman changes her mind at a point, even after having sex, she can call rape even if she doesn't say no at any point".

Well, it's that time again (for NA countries, anyway). The time where we put an end to racism by "celebrating our differences". :rolleyes: Morgan Freeman sums up my feelings on the issue. What do you think?