Gawdzilla wrote:Stupid to destroy the computer. I would marched her into Goodwill have her hand it over to them.
I'd never give a puter to goodwill without thorougly formatting the HD first, and while she might have the savvy to do that, I doubt he does, or the brains to tell her to.
That's the point, 'doof. Her computer with all her shit on it goes to some stranger. Sexting pix, saved email, address book, all gone.
You guys should watch the video. Dad works in IT, and spent all day the day before installing new software and updating her laptop-- why he had the opportunity to check out her FB in the first place.
He may be a hick with a stutter. That doesn't make him stupid.
I ignored the part about the formatting, I knew better, having watched several minutes of the video.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
Seth wrote:Better she just does her chores and learns that life is a bitch most of the time and there ain't nothing free, but it can also cost you way more than you'd like to pay if you don't play by the rules.
I'm glad my parents didn't teach me that. I probably would have been miserable. My parents taught me that life ain't perfect, and sometimes you don't get everything you want, but if you're kind to people, and you work hard, and you contribute to the world, life will usually reward you.
I like Warren's idea, personally. Maybe I'll use it when I have children. Sounds like a good way to prevent your kids from becoming socialists. :chuckle:
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." —Voltaire
"They want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved." —Sebastian Gorka
Gawdzilla wrote:Stupid to destroy the computer. I would marched her into Goodwill have her hand it over to them.
I'd never give a puter to goodwill without thorougly formatting the HD first, and while she might have the savvy to do that, I doubt he does, or the brains to tell her to.
That's the point, 'doof. Her computer with all her shit on it goes to some stranger. Sexting pix, saved email, address book, all gone.
You guys should watch the video. Dad works in IT, and spent all day the day before installing new software and updating her laptop-- why he had the opportunity to check out her FB in the first place.
He may be a hick with a stutter. That doesn't make him stupid.
That made it impossible for me to catch that point, though.
If you gonna post stuff for all the internet to see, it can be important that what you say be understandable.
Gawdzilla wrote:Stupid to destroy the computer. I would marched her into Goodwill have her hand it over to them.
I'd never give a puter to goodwill without thorougly formatting the HD first, and while she might have the savvy to do that, I doubt he does, or the brains to tell her to.
That's the point, 'doof. Her computer with all her shit on it goes to some stranger. Sexting pix, saved email, address book, all gone.
You guys should watch the video. Dad works in IT, and spent all day the day before installing new software and updating her laptop-- why he had the opportunity to check out her FB in the first place.
He may be a hick with a stutter. That doesn't make him stupid.
That made it impossible for me to catch that point, though.
If you gonna post stuff for all the internet to see, it can be important that what you say be understandable.
He might not understand you either, Svarty!
The green careening planet
spins blindly in the dark
so close to annihilation.
Every time I want to retire a device the first thing my son wants to know is can we take it out to the range and shoot the shit out of it? And he is so excited.
All I can think about is having to clean up afterwards, so I say "no".
Maybe we should just take them to the range and shoot the shit out of them.
He can clean up.
But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights. ~Rachel Maddow August 2010
The Second Amendment forms a fourth branch of government (an armed citizenry) in case the government goes mad. ~Larry Nutter
Gallstones wrote:Every time I want to retire a device the first thing my son wants to know is can we take it out to the range and shoot the shit out of it? And he is so excited.
All I can think about is having to clean up afterwards, so I say "no".
Maybe we should just take them to the range and shoot the shit out of them.
He can clean up.
What a well brought up son, maybe you should encourage him to set things on fire as well, a can of petrol and matches for this birthday.
Get him onto explosives and when the terminators rise he will be ready to lead the human race to salvation
When only criminals carry guns the police know exactly who to shoot!
Gallstones wrote:Every time I want to retire a device the first thing my son wants to know is can we take it out to the range and shoot the shit out of it? And he is so excited.
All I can think about is having to clean up afterwards, so I say "no".
Maybe we should just take them to the range and shoot the shit out of them.
He can clean up.
What a well brought up son, maybe you should encourage him to set things on fire as well, a can of petrol and matches for this birthday.
Get him onto explosives and when the terminators rise he will be ready to lead the human race to salvation
Or he could get a job as a park ranger or a demolitions expert.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
Seth wrote:
Families are not capitalistic, they are dictatorships, and they need to be dictatorships so that children will learn obedience to authority and the skills they need to hold down jobs in the real world. The girl lives in the house, she consumes food, sheds skin cells, dirties clothes, brings in dirt and otherwise participates in creating the workload of the household. Therefore, from the ethical and moral perspective she owes her labor because she benefits from the existence of the household, which is provided for by her parents.
I thought you hated communism?
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
Seth wrote:
Families are not capitalistic, they are dictatorships, and they need to be dictatorships so that children will learn obedience to authority and the skills they need to hold down jobs in the real world. The girl lives in the house, she consumes food, sheds skin cells, dirties clothes, brings in dirt and otherwise participates in creating the workload of the household. Therefore, from the ethical and moral perspective she owes her labor because she benefits from the existence of the household, which is provided for by her parents.
I thought you hated communism?
That's fascism.
Ein Ubootsoldat wrote:“Ich melde mich ab. Grüssen Sie bitte meine Kameraden.”
Seth wrote:
Families are not capitalistic, they are dictatorships, and they need to be dictatorships so that children will learn obedience to authority and the skills they need to hold down jobs in the real world. The girl lives in the house, she consumes food, sheds skin cells, dirties clothes, brings in dirt and otherwise participates in creating the workload of the household. Therefore, from the ethical and moral perspective she owes her labor because she benefits from the existence of the household, which is provided for by her parents.
I thought you hated communism?
I do. Families are not "communes." In most cases one, or perhaps two people provide the income to support the family and the rest are expected to participate in the daily chores of maintaining the household. But they don't get to choose what or how much work they will do, they are directed in their labor by the head of the family because they are children, not adults. You cannot really apply political labels to families because the structure and the reasons for the structure are completely different from a society made up of adults. Children don't get to make all the decisions because they are incompetent to do so and it is the responsibility of the parents to direct their decisionmaking and their labor to teach them how to make good decisions that will serve them well as adults. The biggest problem welfare-state, dependent-class socialist societies have is that because the parents themselves are incompetent to take care of themselves, and have surrendered their well-being and future to the whims of the state, they cannot teach their children to be self-actualizing and responsible and how to make good decisions, and the world gets another generation of ignorant, stupid, incompetent, grasping, selfish dependent-class proletarians who cannot care for themselves much less their children-to-be.
"Seth is Grandmaster Zen Troll who trains his victims to troll themselves every time they think of him" Robert_S
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
The Net is best considered analogous to communication with disincarnate intelligences. As any neophyte would tell you. Do not invoke that which you have no facility to banish.
Audley Strange
But seriously, how much worse is her FB post than the Will Smith song? Should Will Smith's father have shot up the recording studio?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
-Mr P
The Net is best considered analogous to communication with disincarnate intelligences. As any neophyte would tell you. Do not invoke that which you have no facility to banish.
Audley Strange
He would've wound her up more if he'd printed it out and stuck it on the fridge with a magnet and stamped a big, red 'A+' on it.
The guy doesn't know teens at all
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
