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anonymous
2019 Mar 13, 12:31am
Kakistocracy says
NYC is looking to do bankruptcy for the first time in 40 years as opposed to it's most famous or infamous resident who is imitating a head of state who has how many bankruptcies under his belt ?
@Goran - will get back to the NY Tax thread later - The only problem with the Kansas plan is the GOP took it national....
NYC is looking to do bankruptcy for the first time in 40 years as opposed to it's most famous or infamous resident who is imitating a head of state who has how many bankruptcies under his belt ?
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Bd6r
2019 Mar 13, 8:53am
Bd6r
2019 Mar 13, 8:53am
Patrick says
They are all 100% true, but at least one is incomplete.
Not all women can become pregnant, ergo we can not define woman as someone who can become pregnant as not all can.
I still stand by assertion that the best scientific definition of man is xy, and of woman xx. I do not think xxx, etc are "other genders", and perhaps they are better described as abnormalities or birth defects, but just defining woman as "someone who can give birth" is insufficient.
MisterLearnToCode says
And at the same time drown out male-female sexual experience due to #metoo.
All I said was a few facts:Only women can get pregnant.
No man can ever get pregnant.
No woman can impregnate another woman, or herself.
Only men can impregnate women.
Are any of these statements false?
They are all 100% true, but at least one is incomplete.
Not all women can become pregnant, ergo we can not define woman as someone who can become pregnant as not all can.
I still stand by assertion that the best scientific definition of man is xy, and of woman xx. I do not think xxx, etc are "other genders", and perhaps they are better described as abnormalities or birth defects, but just defining woman as "someone who can give birth" is insufficient.
MisterLearnToCode says
Money and the rest of the gang then and today are on a mission to exaggerate and hype sexual/gender behaviors/conditions on the extreme tail of the human experience.
And at the same time drown out male-female sexual experience due to #metoo.
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curious2
2019 Mar 13, 4:24pm
curious2
2019 Mar 13, 4:24pm
Patrick says
@Patrick, I addressed one already above and a previous time we discussed this on your site.
Patrick says
Maybe read more about vertebrates on your own site.
On a related point, you misunderstood one of the issues regarding James Damore. You focus on the fact that he expressed an opinion. You ignore the fact that he littered his document with exhortations about what Google executives "need" to do. You make a similar mistake. You have an over-simplified belief about what you call "gender," and by which you seem to mean biological sex. You ignore the fact that many languages (including English and German) have at least three genders, so you end up sounding both wrong and dogmatic about it. More importantly, you arrogate to yourself a unilateral authority to define other people's gender or sex, even though they are adults. Some incredible things you've said about gay people (e.g. that gay people don't exist, there are only people who choose "vice" in order to get easy sex, and you have no theory at all to explain the existence of lesbians including your own cousin) can't possibly make sense even to you. Instead, you have started with an emotional reaction, against #MeToo or something, a fear of loss maybe, and proceeded to attack other people who have never done you any harm, nor threatened any harm. Just as James Damore was not the CEO of Google, and thus came across as incredibly arrogant in telling senior executives that they "need" to do whatever he says, you sound equally arrogant (and, in your case, dishonest and wrong) when you try to re-define the lives of other people. Life is more complicated than you choose to pretend.
And, whatever your feelings about #MeToo or whatever, they aren't a reason to pretend that intersex/trans people don't exist. These are discrete issues. I have cited the World Health Organization, medical journals, and sites dedicated specifically to intersex information. You have pulled crap out of your own posterior, and smeared your own site with it, and frankly it stinks. Fortwhine has his own problems, but now an Indiana / Heartiste echo chamber is developing. It might interest you to read more about the author of Heartiste, Jim Weidman, before you decide to devote yourself and your site to his doctrine.
People have a right to live their own lives. People have a right to the equal protection of the laws. People exist, even if their existence disproves your doctrine (or phony "theory").
Are any of these statements false?
@Patrick, I addressed one already above and a previous time we discussed this on your site.
Patrick says
among all vertebrates.
Maybe read more about vertebrates on your own site.
On a related point, you misunderstood one of the issues regarding James Damore. You focus on the fact that he expressed an opinion. You ignore the fact that he littered his document with exhortations about what Google executives "need" to do. You make a similar mistake. You have an over-simplified belief about what you call "gender," and by which you seem to mean biological sex. You ignore the fact that many languages (including English and German) have at least three genders, so you end up sounding both wrong and dogmatic about it. More importantly, you arrogate to yourself a unilateral authority to define other people's gender or sex, even though they are adults. Some incredible things you've said about gay people (e.g. that gay people don't exist, there are only people who choose "vice" in order to get easy sex, and you have no theory at all to explain the existence of lesbians including your own cousin) can't possibly make sense even to you. Instead, you have started with an emotional reaction, against #MeToo or something, a fear of loss maybe, and proceeded to attack other people who have never done you any harm, nor threatened any harm. Just as James Damore was not the CEO of Google, and thus came across as incredibly arrogant in telling senior executives that they "need" to do whatever he says, you sound equally arrogant (and, in your case, dishonest and wrong) when you try to re-define the lives of other people. Life is more complicated than you choose to pretend.
And, whatever your feelings about #MeToo or whatever, they aren't a reason to pretend that intersex/trans people don't exist. These are discrete issues. I have cited the World Health Organization, medical journals, and sites dedicated specifically to intersex information. You have pulled crap out of your own posterior, and smeared your own site with it, and frankly it stinks. Fortwhine has his own problems, but now an Indiana / Heartiste echo chamber is developing. It might interest you to read more about the author of Heartiste, Jim Weidman, before you decide to devote yourself and your site to his doctrine.
People have a right to live their own lives. People have a right to the equal protection of the laws. People exist, even if their existence disproves your doctrine (or phony "theory").
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curious2
2019 Mar 13, 4:54pm
curious2
2019 Mar 13, 4:54pm
CBOEtrader says
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/many
@CBOETrader, I have already linked to 14 published examples, and they are of course only a subset of the total. In any event, they exist. @Patrick was claiming, falsely, that they don't exist. It reminds me of when Democrats insisted that voter fraud doesn't exist. All you need is one example, e.g. from Jimmy Carter's book, to prove that something exists. I cited 14, and nobody who looks at the data can seriously doubt there are more.
I replied to your other comment already above.
Define many.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/many
@CBOETrader, I have already linked to 14 published examples, and they are of course only a subset of the total. In any event, they exist. @Patrick was claiming, falsely, that they don't exist. It reminds me of when Democrats insisted that voter fraud doesn't exist. All you need is one example, e.g. from Jimmy Carter's book, to prove that something exists. I cited 14, and nobody who looks at the data can seriously doubt there are more.
I replied to your other comment already above.
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anonymous
2019 Mar 13, 4:58pm
@curious2 - why would you waste your time with CBOETrader ? Seriously ?
What ever you present, it will never be enough, correct, fake, etc. this is part of the "game"
What ever you present, it will never be enough, correct, fake, etc. this is part of the "game"
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curious2
2019 Mar 13, 5:03pm
curious2
2019 Mar 13, 5:03pm
Kakistocracy says
Why waste time on PatNet at all? I keep leaving, and then people address comments to me specifically, and I should ignore them but I return to answer. There are better things to read.
why would you waste your time with CBOETrader ? Seriously ?
Why waste time on PatNet at all? I keep leaving, and then people address comments to me specifically, and I should ignore them but I return to answer. There are better things to read.
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anonymous
2019 Mar 13, 5:07pm
curious2 says
Set up your inbox to dump anything that comes from here or uncheck getting "likes" option in your profile.
My time here is drawing to a close quickly - counter productive and posting anything requiring reading & thinking is a lost cause - not going to happen - the only reactions come from headlines.
Reactions are driven by emotion and responses are driven by thought. We have too much of the first option and not nearly enough of the second option.
Why waste time on PatNet at all? I keep leaving, and then people address comments to me specifically, and I should ignore them but I return to answer. There are better things to read.
Set up your inbox to dump anything that comes from here or uncheck getting "likes" option in your profile.
My time here is drawing to a close quickly - counter productive and posting anything requiring reading & thinking is a lost cause - not going to happen - the only reactions come from headlines.
Reactions are driven by emotion and responses are driven by thought. We have too much of the first option and not nearly enough of the second option.
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curious2
2019 Mar 13, 9:48pm
curious2
2019 Mar 13, 9:48pm
MrMagic says
That blockquote came from Kakistocracy's comment, not mine. The misattribution provides yet another example of PatNet going downhill, along with broken links and bizarre replacements of special characters that were correct when posted, and Patrick's decision to prevent people from editing their own comments. So, a comment that was originally written correctly and backed by working links becomes partial gibberish unsupported by anything.
curious2 saysMy time here is drawing to a close quickly
Should we have a going away party?
That blockquote came from Kakistocracy's comment, not mine. The misattribution provides yet another example of PatNet going downhill, along with broken links and bizarre replacements of special characters that were correct when posted, and Patrick's decision to prevent people from editing their own comments. So, a comment that was originally written correctly and backed by working links becomes partial gibberish unsupported by anything.
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MrMagic
2019 Mar 13, 9:51pm
MrMagic
2019 Mar 13, 9:51pm
curious2 says
You're right... strange gremlins here when you try and quote a comment...
There, I "adjusted" it.. Never knew I had to be a software engineer to post.
That blockquote came from Kakistocracy's comment, not mine.
You're right... strange gremlins here when you try and quote a comment...
There, I "adjusted" it.. Never knew I had to be a software engineer to post.
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CBOEtrader
2019 Mar 18, 3:42am
CBOEtrader
2019 Mar 18, 3:42am
curious2 says
14 in the last 50 years is an infinitely tiny number. That is exactly the point
CBOEtrader saysDefine many.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/many
@CBOETrader, I have already linked to 14 published examples, and they are of course only a subset of the total. In any event, they exist. @Patrick was claiming, falsely, that they don't exist. It reminds me of when Democrats insisted that voter fraud doesn't exist. All you need is one example, e.g. from Jimmy Carter's book, to prove that something exists. I cited 14, and nobody who looks at the data can seriously doubt there are more.
I replied to your other comment already above.
14 in the last 50 years is an infinitely tiny number. That is exactly the point
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anonymous
2019 Mar 18, 8:55am
188 MrMagic ignore (11) 2019 Mar 18, 8:50am ↑ like (0) ↓ dislike (0) quote flag
Kakistocracy says
@CBOETrader - what an exciting life that u must lead to be up at 3:00 A.M. PST to browse PatNet
Says the guy who's up at 2:58 AM PST browsing Patnet.
Folks, you can't make this shit up.
FYI 2:58 PST is 5:58 EST which is where I am located. I normally get up around 4:30-5:00 A.M.
Empty head - meet loud mouth, location New Jersey. Case closed and settled, be happy together.
Kakistocracy says
@CBOETrader - what an exciting life that u must lead to be up at 3:00 A.M. PST to browse PatNet
Says the guy who's up at 2:58 AM PST browsing Patnet.
Folks, you can't make this shit up.
FYI 2:58 PST is 5:58 EST which is where I am located. I normally get up around 4:30-5:00 A.M.
Empty head - meet loud mouth, location New Jersey. Case closed and settled, be happy together.
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anonymous
2019 Mar 20, 5:04am
@joshuatrio - hey sport, forgot to mention one minor detail about my work life.
The last half of my career I worked out of my home, set my own hours, travel schedules etc. for the most part and pretty much did what I wanted to when I wanted to.
No one ever really figured out what I did exactly, right up to the end, how long it took me to do whatever it was I was doing or did and I just kind of showed up here there and everywhere, mostly unannounced.
Can you believe that there was a vicious rumor going around the company that I was a "mole" for the home office and reported back on the comings and goings of my peers, local plant conditions, grievances and such that never made it back to HR etc?
The last half of my career I worked out of my home, set my own hours, travel schedules etc. for the most part and pretty much did what I wanted to when I wanted to.
No one ever really figured out what I did exactly, right up to the end, how long it took me to do whatever it was I was doing or did and I just kind of showed up here there and everywhere, mostly unannounced.
Can you believe that there was a vicious rumor going around the company that I was a "mole" for the home office and reported back on the comings and goings of my peers, local plant conditions, grievances and such that never made it back to HR etc?
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anonymous
2019 Apr 1, 5:48pm
@CBOEtrader - going to guess by the commentary of the last few weeks there may be a tiny bit of dislike towards Moi.
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anonymous
2019 Apr 10, 6:58am
To those looking for the Walrus post/thread.
I removed it this morning due to the graphic stupidity of the comments as well as the total and complete lack of empathy or concern for another living creature on this planet.
I removed it this morning due to the graphic stupidity of the comments as well as the total and complete lack of empathy or concern for another living creature on this planet.
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anonymous
2019 Apr 15, 6:55pm
@Patrick - not allowed to post anymore ? Let me guess - no answer forthcoming.
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anonymous
2019 Apr 15, 7:23pm
jazz_music says
Requires no intelligence, thought and most of all reading. Pictures only.
Green cartoon frogs strongly preferred
Requires no intelligence, thought and most of all reading. Pictures only.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Apr 15, 7:24pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Apr 15, 7:24pm
Kakistocracy says
Words are for the clerisy.
Symbols are for the anti-establishment.
Requires no intelligence, thought and most of all reading. Pictures only.
Words are for the clerisy.
Symbols are for the anti-establishment.
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