You're not logged in. For all features and access, log in to your account. Don't have one? Sign up! OkCupid is free!
I am discerning, faithful, and intellectual
Log In to View Match Scores
- 1 - 5
Racism, it is not just what you think it is.
Racism in classes I have taken always seems to be the most wrapped
around the mindset of some white guy holding down another ethnicity
or some white guy making disparaging remarks about other cultures.
However, this is more of a symptom of a superiority complex, rather
than the real problem... the superiority complex.
The most prevalent racism in the world I believe is simply discrimination against ALL other ethnicities in a blanket preference of your own. I have seen this over and over again in my own personal life. I had an acquaintance that was Serbian... but she would only date serbian guys... well actually she was American... had been here since she was 9 years old, but was so culturally biased that she always referenced Serbia as her home, and only would surround herself with Serbian friends. Other examples are of Jewish friends, or Mormon friends that would explicitly say they only wanted to help out others of their type.
All of this is just hogwash racism under the flag of some bias that people find more acceptable and easy to reference due to the current cultural stigma related to race in the US.
So in short. Are you a racist if you dislike black people, or asians? Or are you a racist if you only like or acquaint yourself with your own culture?
In closing I give you a small experiment I conducted that shows a hilarious trend. Google: " singles" in your web browser on google... you will find that there is a site for all cultures and all creeds to exclude all others.
examples:
www.singlesindia.com
www.blacksingles.com
www.mexicancupid.com
www.meetmuslimsingles.com
www.jewishcafe.com
www.scandinaviasingles.com
www.koreancupid.com
and on and on...
Maybe in very specific preferences with extremely tight filters these people will find exactly what they are looking for... and realise... it was not what they actually wanted.
The most prevalent racism in the world I believe is simply discrimination against ALL other ethnicities in a blanket preference of your own. I have seen this over and over again in my own personal life. I had an acquaintance that was Serbian... but she would only date serbian guys... well actually she was American... had been here since she was 9 years old, but was so culturally biased that she always referenced Serbia as her home, and only would surround herself with Serbian friends. Other examples are of Jewish friends, or Mormon friends that would explicitly say they only wanted to help out others of their type.
All of this is just hogwash racism under the flag of some bias that people find more acceptable and easy to reference due to the current cultural stigma related to race in the US.
So in short. Are you a racist if you dislike black people, or asians? Or are you a racist if you only like or acquaint yourself with your own culture?
In closing I give you a small experiment I conducted that shows a hilarious trend. Google: " singles" in your web browser on google... you will find that there is a site for all cultures and all creeds to exclude all others.
examples:
www.singlesindia.com
www.blacksingles.com
www.mexicancupid.com
www.meetmuslimsingles.com
www.jewishcafe.com
www.scandinaviasingles.com
www.koreancupid.com
and on and on...
Maybe in very specific preferences with extremely tight filters these people will find exactly what they are looking for... and realise... it was not what they actually wanted.
A glimpse into what gets me excited.
I have recently come to realize just how strange the stuff that
gets me excited is. I tried to explain it to a couple nerdy friends
and even they just could not understand the implications of these
topics.
There are things that are out there right now ... that actually exist that would completely blow your mind, or at least it should. Stuff that seems like a science fiction movie... but isn't science fiction at all, but is readily doable and being created right now.
Two technologies that exist at the moment are these.
1) Brain to computer interfaces (BCI).. basically like the matrix. You think a thought and the computer can detect the thought and can execute some code because of it. What does it mean? It could end all paralysis for patients with spinal chord injuries.(I have already seen a person with irreparable spinal injuries use a device like this, pick up a glass of water and drink from it, when he has NO ability to do this without the BCI device.) Or, it can even provide a way to control robotic limbs for amputee victims that respond to your thoughts without physical intervention... and a laundry list of other stuff that literally sounds like fantasy.. but is real.. (like making blind people see... seriously)
2) Programmable matter. (This is just insanely cool) Just think the liquid metal guy from terminator II... and you will have an idea of what it will one day be able to do... but as of now the first steps are already here. Transformable programmable matter is not science fiction... it already exists. Intel.. that computer semiconductor manufacturer... (check out the Intel developer forum videos for their take on it) already has divisions working on this technology... but their examples are years behind something like this... http://unit.aist.go.jp/is/dsysd/mtran3/ Check out the videos... every block that makes up the objects are the same...
Within a decade... BCI will be standard and in many homes, and some programming and developing elite will have access to machines that transform themselves and can move ... commanded by nothing more than a thought from a person.
The technology is advanced... especially the programmable matter.. but there is nothing going to stop it from coming, and I hope I will be one of the lucky guys that get to work on it, test it, and use it. But all things in time.
This stuff is just so cool.
There are things that are out there right now ... that actually exist that would completely blow your mind, or at least it should. Stuff that seems like a science fiction movie... but isn't science fiction at all, but is readily doable and being created right now.
Two technologies that exist at the moment are these.
1) Brain to computer interfaces (BCI).. basically like the matrix. You think a thought and the computer can detect the thought and can execute some code because of it. What does it mean? It could end all paralysis for patients with spinal chord injuries.(I have already seen a person with irreparable spinal injuries use a device like this, pick up a glass of water and drink from it, when he has NO ability to do this without the BCI device.) Or, it can even provide a way to control robotic limbs for amputee victims that respond to your thoughts without physical intervention... and a laundry list of other stuff that literally sounds like fantasy.. but is real.. (like making blind people see... seriously)
2) Programmable matter. (This is just insanely cool) Just think the liquid metal guy from terminator II... and you will have an idea of what it will one day be able to do... but as of now the first steps are already here. Transformable programmable matter is not science fiction... it already exists. Intel.. that computer semiconductor manufacturer... (check out the Intel developer forum videos for their take on it) already has divisions working on this technology... but their examples are years behind something like this... http://unit.aist.go.jp/is/dsysd/mtran3/ Check out the videos... every block that makes up the objects are the same...
Within a decade... BCI will be standard and in many homes, and some programming and developing elite will have access to machines that transform themselves and can move ... commanded by nothing more than a thought from a person.
The technology is advanced... especially the programmable matter.. but there is nothing going to stop it from coming, and I hope I will be one of the lucky guys that get to work on it, test it, and use it. But all things in time.
This stuff is just so cool.
Is there such a thing as too many sex partners?
"Yes or no"
Hmmm. I remember getting that question before OK cupid removed the ability to see what the statistical binning percentages were. On that question it was 100% NO.
I just cannot imagine how that could be a unanimous No. I guess I just have a good imagination, so 5000 seems like a pretty round number... So, IMNSHO if someone has had 5000 sex partners, they cease to be a human being and become a walking DNA basin.
Now where in between 0 and 5000 there are classifications or a gradient of my inability to grasp that persons incredible desire for new partners or my comfort level... that is a tougher question. But I really don't get how someone could answer an emphatic NO on that question in this day and age with STD's and all.
Wow.
Hmmm. I remember getting that question before OK cupid removed the ability to see what the statistical binning percentages were. On that question it was 100% NO.
I just cannot imagine how that could be a unanimous No. I guess I just have a good imagination, so 5000 seems like a pretty round number... So, IMNSHO if someone has had 5000 sex partners, they cease to be a human being and become a walking DNA basin.
Now where in between 0 and 5000 there are classifications or a gradient of my inability to grasp that persons incredible desire for new partners or my comfort level... that is a tougher question. But I really don't get how someone could answer an emphatic NO on that question in this day and age with STD's and all.
Wow.
Wow... There are so many things wrong here...
I don't even know where to begin.
Largest workplace raid ever
By Mike McPhee
Denver Post Staff Writer
DenverPost.com
Article Last Updated:
A total of 1,282 workers were arrested Tuesday at six Swift & Co. meat packing plants, including 261 workers at the plant in Greeley, federal officials said during a press conference this morning.
Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff said 65 workers have been charged criminally. The other 1,217 workers are being held on administrative charges of immigration violations. The arrested workers are from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Laos, Sudan, Ethiopia and other countries.
"This is the single largest workforce enforcement operation to date," said Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, in describing what agents called "Operation Wagon Train."
Chertoff added: "I will pretty much guarantee you we're going to continue bringing in these cases."
Of the Colorado workers, 11 of them will be or have been charged criminally and will be prosecuted. The fate of the other 250 Greeley workers being held on immigration violations is unclear, whether they will be released, deported or charged criminally.
More than 1,000 federal agents conducted the raids Tuesday at Swift & Co. meat processing plants in Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Texas, Iowa and Minnesota.
At least 250 workers were detained at Swift's Grand Island, Neb., plant, which employs 600 people.
Swift, which claims to be the second-largest meat processing company in the world, said it employs 10,000 people, including 2,700 in Greeley.
Swift had been told that immigration agents were going to raid the packing plants on Dec. 4. Swift's lawyers went to court to stop the raid, arguing it would cause "substantial and irreparable injury" to the company. A federal judge denied the request last Thursday.
Chertoff said Swift has cooperated with the government's Basic Pilot program that tracks Social Security numbers around the country. He explained that the program is limited because it can only match names with Social Security numbers.
The program does not spot multiple uses of the same Social Security number.
"If we could get permission from Congress to have the Social Security Administration identify multiple appearances of the same identification, it would help us do our job," Chertoff said.
Myers said a raid in Minnesota earlier this year exposed a ring of identity thieves who were selling actual birth certificates of Puerto Rican citizens.
Largest workplace raid ever
By Mike McPhee
Denver Post Staff Writer
DenverPost.com
Article Last Updated:
A total of 1,282 workers were arrested Tuesday at six Swift & Co. meat packing plants, including 261 workers at the plant in Greeley, federal officials said during a press conference this morning.
Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff said 65 workers have been charged criminally. The other 1,217 workers are being held on administrative charges of immigration violations. The arrested workers are from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Peru, Laos, Sudan, Ethiopia and other countries.
"This is the single largest workforce enforcement operation to date," said Julie Myers, assistant secretary of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, in describing what agents called "Operation Wagon Train."
Chertoff added: "I will pretty much guarantee you we're going to continue bringing in these cases."
Of the Colorado workers, 11 of them will be or have been charged criminally and will be prosecuted. The fate of the other 250 Greeley workers being held on immigration violations is unclear, whether they will be released, deported or charged criminally.
More than 1,000 federal agents conducted the raids Tuesday at Swift & Co. meat processing plants in Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Texas, Iowa and Minnesota.
At least 250 workers were detained at Swift's Grand Island, Neb., plant, which employs 600 people.
Swift, which claims to be the second-largest meat processing company in the world, said it employs 10,000 people, including 2,700 in Greeley.
Swift had been told that immigration agents were going to raid the packing plants on Dec. 4. Swift's lawyers went to court to stop the raid, arguing it would cause "substantial and irreparable injury" to the company. A federal judge denied the request last Thursday.
Chertoff said Swift has cooperated with the government's Basic Pilot program that tracks Social Security numbers around the country. He explained that the program is limited because it can only match names with Social Security numbers.
The program does not spot multiple uses of the same Social Security number.
"If we could get permission from Congress to have the Social Security Administration identify multiple appearances of the same identification, it would help us do our job," Chertoff said.
Myers said a raid in Minnesota earlier this year exposed a ring of identity thieves who were selling actual birth certificates of Puerto Rican citizens.
Nov 7, 2006 What a day!
Finally some sanity in this nation. The turn was much greater than
I thought it would be, but what a fantastic day.
House, Senate, and a new Secretary of Defense.
I love America, yet for the last few years I could not imagine the raw and unabridged fraud, scandal, and mismanagement of my nation. Even worse was the 2004 election that by then should have been clear to everyone what was going on, yet the election rebuffed moderation for yet more of the same and only to give it fresh wind to this anarchy to sail on unabated.
Today it finally came to an end, and finally we can let go of that long sigh and look forward to a much different future.
House, Senate, and a new Secretary of Defense.
I love America, yet for the last few years I could not imagine the raw and unabridged fraud, scandal, and mismanagement of my nation. Even worse was the 2004 election that by then should have been clear to everyone what was going on, yet the election rebuffed moderation for yet more of the same and only to give it fresh wind to this anarchy to sail on unabated.
Today it finally came to an end, and finally we can let go of that long sigh and look forward to a much different future.
Comments must be approved by the author.
- Loading ...
- Add a Comment
Move
Move
