Cool, so you have one instance where a hispanic woman was wrong and a white male was right. I'm sure there are countless similar examples and also countless examples where the opposite is true.
You can take your pick of police officers or government officials who were white males and expanded government powers and the police state, and many who were simply corrupt or incompetent. Every chairman of the fed ever, supreme court justices who rule it's fine for federal agents to raid old ladies growing their own medical marijuana or for states to enforce sodomy laws, even police officers who've arrested bystanders for taping video. The biggest fascist/statist of the 20th century, who happened to be particularly fond of white males and resentful of minorities, was a white male himself.
But that's all besides the point, the real issue here is one of freedom of press and freedom of speech and not race, gender, or affirmative action. By turning it into an affirmative action issue, you're misdirecting your criticism and you make yourself (and, by association, all libertarian and/or bitcoin enthusiasts) look like an angry fringe lunatic. Don't just take my word for it.
I doubt anything I say will change your mind, which is a shame, but I just hope that people who think like you do are not associated with bitcoin or libertarian principles since they are an embarrassment to the movement and are likely to scare away the mainstream.
This was not a mere "instance." This was a uniquely outrageous attempt to use taxpayer money to deprive taxpayers of their rights. Stop minimizing please! Stop retreating from this specific situation into abstract generalities about what other people did and/or may do. Take some Ritalin and focus FFS. You don't get to decide that the only "real issue here" is freedom of speech. It's possible that there are two issues, one being the 1st Amendment and the second being racial/gender affirmative action's serious negative consequences for the society that indulges in such PC discrimination. By refusing to acknowledge any role RGAA may have played in this situation, you make yourself (and, by association, all of humanity) look like angry feminist Marxist black nationalist militants, determined to destroy any trace of meritocracy left in our educational/political institutions. I chop up communists and feed them to Daisy, my pet pig. So go play thought police somewhere else buddy.  |
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You were doing pretty well until the red. This turned what would've been a sharp but warranted criticism of a violation of free speech into a bitter, bigoted cheap shot.
White males who can score well on the LSAT are just as capable of trampling on people's rights and unjustly increasing the power of the police state.
The garbage in red also makes it easier for people to dismiss any sort of libertarian arguments as the work of bigots/racists.
+1 So opposing race/gender based affirmative action by highlighting its awful real world consequences is racist? I disagree, and think playing the thought crime card is beneath you. Your theoretical BS about 'white males who can score well on the LSAT' is beyond irrelevant and well into the realm of dishonesty. The actual events that happened entailed an idiot affirmative action baby wasting tax money in a vain attempt to oppress the tax payers. Despite your bitter, bigoted cheap shot at those most victimized by racial preferences and gender quotas, her white male counterpart in the next county, Jason Chambers, made no such asinine mistake. If he did, it would be a career killer. Not so for the person who rose to occupy an office she was manifestly unqualified for, based on her attributes of spic=true and cunt=true. |
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Hey Corti! Some of the links in the OP point to the wrong pool threads. The Itzod link, for example, merely goes to Bitparking. And Bitparking merely goes to Bitlc!  |
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Accepting offers for NMC/LTC/trade.
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I would add a bit of metaphysics. But who? David Lewis?!
Lao Tzu  |
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No doubt.
Satoshi >> [Aristotle + Plato + Pythagoras + Newton + Heisenberg + Schrodinger + Einstein + Tesla] |
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Also willing to trade for Pandora account!
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Got my Maples, they are nice and shiny.  Thanks! |
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You're a moron. Go away.
If you would like to continue, I suggest we take it outside, or to the "Let insult each other!" thread. |
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Well if it's not a coincidence that is one of the strongest long term bullish signs there can be.
For both of them.
Please explain! I'd want to agree but need more elaboration. |
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BTW, do you actually have any proof that " 'Merely' is one of the most overused, obvious weasel words in the English language", or did you merely make that up? I merely ask for information. I see what you did there! Well played, oh master of passive aggressive cross examination. Sorry, I mean, 'innocent seeker of pure knowledge and stupefying neutrality.' |
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All I see is a question which you've not yet answered. As I said I know nothing about the situation and I'd like to know.
I see two arguments from you, both strongly implying that BitFloor is wrong and Gornick the mighty internet lawyer has a case: If Stephen Gornick has currency with you and now cannot access it, what does it matter if that currency was btc or fiat?
Isn't there some sort of moral imperative to make good? It doesn't matter if you phrase your points in the form of " mere" questions and are too dishonest to be upfront about your POV. "Merely" is one of the most overused, obvious weasel words in the English language. People who use it to poorly disguise obvious aggression sicken me. |
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Anything new on further refunds? Is Matt going to pay back his loan for the ellet?
Matt has claimed that once he liquidates his holding in Bitcoin Magazine (he has shares in the Bittalk company), he will repay his debt to us. Was that the original agreement with Matt? |
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I wasn't aware I was making an argument, merely an observation. As I said, I know nothing about Stephen Gornick's situation, and I have only vague memories of BitFloor losing a large stash of btc.
Isn't there some sort of moral imperative to make good? A " mere obersveration" in the form of pointed, leading questions?  You've now made two arguments, albeit using the Socratic method (*cough, passive aggression, cough*). Here was the first one: If Stephen Gornick has currency with you and now cannot access it, what does it matter if that currency was btc or fiat?
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I would only suggest that you stop confusing bitcoins and USD. The two are not the same thing.
.... continuing OT, I really have no idea what's going on here. If Stephen Gornick has currency with you and now cannot access it, what does it matter if that currency was btc or fiat? Or am I missing something here? You're missing where Gornick rambled on about laws that apply to legal tender and not Bitcoin, as if they applied to both equally. You and he lost this argument about clawback, pooled assets, blah blah a long time ago. I got my US$ back and Gornick got nothing except butthurt. QED.  |
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Please stop spreading misinformation about the debt responsibilities and client holdings of BitFloor as it relates to the US legal system.
I am not a lawyer, however .... [* pretends to be a lawyer, fails miserably*] I would only suggest that you stop confusing bitcoins and USD. The two are not the same thing. Ya, we tried that whole "stating facts and making sense" thing with Gornick. It doesn't work; he won't listen. Just ignore him and his internet tough lawyer act. Let him stew. |
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If an account holder (or a group) were to pursue this debt through the court system they would probably get a judgement and gain access to BitFloor's funds -- and if you have funds (USD or bitcoins) in a Bitfloor account, those are Bitfloor's funds as far as what a judgement against Bitfloor would have access to.
Please stop spreading misinformation about the debt responsibilities and client holdings of BitFloor as it relates to the US legal system. I've had Gornick set to IGNORE ever since he lost his mind during the BitFloor heist fallout. Decent guy otherwise, but mentioning BitFloor transforms him into a cross between an Internet Lawyer and an Internet Tough Guy. It's not pretty; he doesn't deal well with being proven wrong.  |
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Again, you are attacking someone for their race and not their actions. That is bigotry and it is also even worse when applied this way.
Her having a uterus or being Hispanic has not made her a bad states attorney nor has it caused her to read the constitution horribly wrong. Other things have. Most of the people who crap on the constitution are probably more educated, white and male then her.
I am giving her no pass for what she did. She sucks.
Again, you are confusing recognizing affirmative action's role in catalyzing the Peter Principle with committing some kind of thought crime. This stupid person had no business being admitted to any law school. That reality was ignored, due solely to the fact she is a spic with a cunt. The white male state attorney in a neighboring county didn't make her asinine mistakes, because he had to work for his achievements instead of having them presented on a silver platter. IDC about whatever "most of of the people" strawmen you imagine exist. They didn't waste tax money in a failed attempt to further oppress us citizens. She did. |
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Either way, this is not going to help me accept an argument from consensus.
That's not how the brain works, and you should know that. Context and experience influence our views. More importantly, I sincerely believe, given my discussion with you, that you are lacking proper context. You can't possibly believe that your observations of a few plots puts you in a position to grade the quality of your opinion very highly. Male brains are different from female. Females are socially oriented, so they accept and even expect consensus as a valid rational for accepting an something as true. Males are hunters, so we rely much more on the direct evidence of our senses combined with critical thinking. FirstAssScent has a femininely wired brain, so all our cold, abstract arguments about fudge factor arrays and sabotaged data sets won't matter to her. Women live among their neighbors, so to them reality is a warm, fuzzy popularity contest. |
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OMG! Animals are walking downhill because of Global Warming (or maybe cooling. Is it Tuesday?)
How does the character of your statement show anything but your own resignation in this discussion? We have given up hope of possibly educating you. You are impervious to facts and reason. You cling to ManBearPig ideology as stubbornly as any brainwashed cult victim. If you can't or won't understand that ClimateGate completely destroyed your global scam, you are beyond help. All that's left to do is have some fun by ridiculing you for being so ridiculous. If this were the 1970s, you'd be one of the Chicken Little doomsayers screaming about the impending explosion of the population bomb and the oncoming Ice Age. End Of The World cults always find plenty of mushheads to exploit. There's one born every minute!  Still, it's nice to see Bitcoin is growing beyond the razor-sharp-but-tiny cryptonerd community, into the gullible Max Kremlin Occutard demographic. |
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