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quote: Originally posted by Paddy Gregory: Isn't affirmative action when, in the case where 2 candidates are inseparable by qualifications. interview, experience etc and if one is from a racial minority he gets the job? Difficult question, they have to use some kind of criteria to choose one over the other I suppose, but I'd be pissed off if it happened to me. Actually, it's when two candidates are similar with paper qualifications. Oh, it also rears it's ugly head with lower standards for college admissions for minorities. The liberals are against racial profiling. But the liberals apparantly are for racial profiling when it comes to jobs, schools, etc. We can't use race to help profile criminals but we can use race to profile people for work purposes. Seems odd.

quote: Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: ROTFLMAO!!! I've been hanging around you too long Mike, thats not fair!! Now you've gone an' given it away. It was too clear an opportunity, boss.

quote: Originally posted by Menchise: What do you mean by affirmative action? It's a US program that gives certain races advantages when looking for jobs, schooling, etc.

Here's some more trivial pursuit: What version of BC3K 2.0X did time compression make a disappearing act?

You mean like the quasi-technical manual in the back of the old manual? Some guys were talking about doing something like that recently. If you dig it up, perhaps a grassroots effort would be in order.

Oh no! It didn't take long for "how do I orbit" to resurface, now did it?

Just for the record, who here believes in Affirmative Action?

quote: (can you imagine me, Derek Smart, answering to anyone? No seriously, can you?)Heh, you asked... I would imagine the "conversation" going something like this: Boss: Derek, the MP patch must be done by the end of the week. Derek: Bite me. Who the hell are you, anyway? This is *MY* game and when *I* want the MP patch out, the MP patch goes out. So let me tell you something: don't screw with me. I'll eat your ego for lunch. And how much friggin' effort do you put into achieving such an incredible state of incompetence, anyway? You should write a book. Boss: Uhm... Derek: Just who's game do you think this is, anyway? Boss: *Tearing Up* Derek: Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do. When I want to hold hands with the cranially-challenged, I'll let you know.

I would assume that the actual name of the BC is Warmonger.

W00t! (Had too...) Seems like every once in awhile we get a good AW thing goin' on. I'm in.

More about being obese than overweight. Oh yeah, a body builder may have a greater weight than the height dictates, but that's why body fat is also used in the equation.

Leave it to GALCOM to try to recruit newbies with logos.

quote: Replace the words "grocery store" with "drug dealer" and "food" with "crack", then try telling me the same thing. The dependencies are different (lack of endorphins instead of psychological problems) but the parallel is there.Yes, there is a parallel there. I make fun of crack heads too. I don't CARE about any psychological excuses. Murderers and rapists can use the same excuse. No, I don't laugh at murderers and rapists -- they aren't simply victimizing themselves.

quote: Originally posted by Captain Dread: Hey, i'm a morally devioid serial killer and a evil genius who is bent on taking over the world in my spare time!"No! All movies are bad! Your making fun of all evil geniuses and morally devioid serial killers when the "good" guy wins! That's discriminatory. If it was black people and not morally devoid evil geniuses and serial killers, society wouldn't stand for it." What a bunch of loonies. Their brains must have been turned into fat. LOL! Sad-but-true. We should also get the terrorist activists going against all that bad press they've been receiving lately. Political correctness is a state of mind surrounded by a world of realism.

quote: Oh yeah, I remember that one, but that wasn't slapstick.It was COMEDY at the expense of smokers. quote: Self-imposed implies that the person can stop whenever they want to, which is not necessarily the case with obesity, especially when psychological factors are involved.LOL. You're saying that such people can't NOT go to the grocery store, prepare the food, then consume it? The lack of self-control is not a disease. quote: It works a similar way to alcoholism: once an alcoholic has one drink, it becomes extremely difficult for them not to have another.Lack of discipline. But I suppose I should just give up on watching those old Richard Prior drunk routines ... nah, those are too hilarious.

quote: Originally posted by Kush: Aramike, I went to school with rich white kids who play tennis. Trust me, you can't be so sure. And lets take out wealth. Would you say that a poor black person is more likely to steal than a poor white person? Yes, according to *EVERY* criminal statistic in this nation. For some odd reason, the minorities are the VAST majority of the nation's prison population. Hmmm, must be coincidence... quote: And once that crime is committed - you have lost all chance of preventing it.Haven't you ever heard the saying, "An ounce of prevention is equal to a pound of cure?" Apparantly not. In order to be politically correct, we should let Arab men slam jets into skyscrapers rather than simply screening people who'd fit profile of someone who'd actually do it. Let's just pick up the pieces later.

quote: Originally posted by Sadistic: Does it regen though SC? Just curious. I have a wild hunch that it does. I don't think that, with the planets being so incredibly massive, Derek programmed each deposit individually. My guess is that the percentage of minerals automatically generates itself each time planetfall is made.

quote: I have seen many sitcoms, and I haven't seen a single one that made fun of smoking through slapstick.Spin City, for example, recently had a show where they made fun of smokers. Seinfeld had one where Kramer's skin got ridiculously leathery due to smoking. I don't watch much television, but I happen to catch the obligatory "make fun of smoking" episodes once in awhile. Most every sitcom has one, just like the obligatory wedding show. Just because you haven't seen them, doesn't mean they don't happen. quote: Secondly, obesity is not necessarily self-imposed: it can be caused (just like anorexia can be caused) by a variety of psychological factors and problems.The person is eating the food, right? That's "self-imposed", regardless of the excuses for it.

quote: The rich write kid actually. Statistically, he's more likely to be a serial killer.No, statistically, the poor black man in a suspicious car is more likely to be a CRIMINAL than the rich white kid playing tennis.

I agree with Gallion 100% on this, boss. But then again, you already know that...

quote: p.s. don't tell anyone my real name please....'course not. That be your choice to disseminate.

Next person to be a smart ass via disrupting an INSURGENT thread gets banned.

quote: Originally posted by Fendi: 75% of burgulary is done by caucasians in England. I don't see many caucasians being checked over randomly (even known criminals). Chances are it's going to be Indians and Pakistanis that would get checked here. You see racial profiling could be abused by the police especially racist ones. Hell I even had to get rid of one racist cop from my neighbourhood. Instead of getting the sack she just got transfered. I love the system.Bottom line is Racial Profiling = Stereotyping My wife a pure caucasian English rose agrees with me on this one. She and her family are dead againts it. [ 11-23-2001: Message edited by: Fendi ] Hey now -- just because something could be abused doesn't mean that it isn't a good thing nor that is shouldn't be employed. The US presidency is a good example.

quote: Originally posted by Gallion: Food fights? What food fights? All I remember is being precariously perched at the airlock with the SC about to hit the eject button Happy T-Day back at ye SC TTFN I think he accidently hit that button one time.