December 6, 2014

are you serious ?

100% of cops are NOT bad. To black people, yes, *some* cops are racist, but not 100%.

Prove that 100% of all cops are bad. I will wait. Thanks kindly.

December 6, 2014

We need an honest to god "good cop" to post here and do an AMA

AMA = ask me anything

On edit: Scroll down to here for the AMA: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025919944#post73








Months ago, one guy did it, and I'm assuming he was the real deal. Hey..come back..or send a good cop buddy.

Let me go look for that AMA.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018477780

Hey..come back...please...not a call-out.

eta2: he was tombstoned, damn. A S S ume.

There are BAD cops, but NOT 100%, unless your definition of bad is failing to turn in buddies. In that case, yes, 99.9 % of them are BAD. A rare few will step up and turn in buddies. See clarification of my meaning in ETA3.

ETA3: I think, maybe, 80% or so of cops are "good cops". I could be wrong, easily. I have no hard data.

December 6, 2014

I grew up in the "old south" (1958-1964) in a 100% white neighborhood....

We had a maid, like many others in our neighborhood, and she was one of the best human beings I have ever known. When Easter died in 1991, I went to her funeral along with my family, and I cried over her. She was like my second mother. Damn, I wish she was still alive. I really do. I get emotional even now thinking about her.

Besides Easter and the other maids, we only had ONE black girl in my elementary school. Back then, I was too young and naive to really understand how odd that was. When I went to junior high school (now called middle school), we had roughly 33% black students in the population. When I went to high school, again, we had roughly 33% black students. When I went to college, it was maybe 20% ? Law school was really bad, maybe 10% ? Grad school was embarassingly bad, maybe 1% ?

The south was 100% racist back then. The n-word was something I heard every week, and sometimes every day. That's why I have such a strong reaction to the word being spelled out, ESPECIALLY IN FREAKING SUBJECT LINES. If you don't get that the n-word is horribly offensive to black people, I don't know what to say to you. I really don't. I am from the south, I KNOW fucking racism when I see it.

At least 50% of the hostility to PBO is based on race, and probably more than that. I know it is. We are definitely still a racist country.

December 6, 2014

Being tactful/diplomatic online: the poll

I do my best to be tactful/diplomatic, ya'll.

December 5, 2014

It Gets Worse: The Newest Sony Data Breach Exposes Thousands Of Passwords

http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/it-gets-worse-the-newest-sony-data-breach-exposes-thousands

original article, kinda must read if you are into this sort of thing.

December 5, 2014

How are things in UK these days ? Getting better slowly or worse ?

Sincere question, as always. Thanks.

Steve

December 5, 2014

If you are a "weather geek", rec this thread, please

Simply curious, muchas gracias mis compadres.

December 4, 2014

at the risk of sounding all 1945 corny.....

why not be kind, when you can ? Yea, sometimes I'm in a bad mood or sick, etc, and being kind is just too much, I can barely be civil. There's no such thing as too much kindness. IMHO.

December 4, 2014

Norway, top score in 2013 on The Economist's Democracy Index

http://www.eiu.com/Handlers/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Democracy_Index_2013_WEB-2.pdf&mode=wp&campaignid=Democracy0814

(you have to register to see that link)

here is a png of it:



Our much vaunted democracy ranks 19th, below Mauritius.

Any comments on this ?

Steve

December 4, 2014

Hawking: RISE of the MACHINES could DESTROY HUMANITY

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/03/stephen_hawking_says_ai_will_supersede_humans/

Professor Stephen Hawking has given his new voice box a workout by once again predicting that artificial intelligence will spell humanity's doom.

In a chat with the BBC, Hawking said “the primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have have proved very useful, but the I think the development of true artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”

Hawking argues that “once humans develop artificial intelligence, it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.”

“Humans limited by slow biological evolution cannot compete and will be superseded.”