Thanks! (I was just begging for a LMGTFY slapdown, wasn't I?!)
What are the actual demographics of active Reddit users?
True story: I'm at the gym, drinking what's left of my N.O.-XLPODE (I leave a little bit to maintain my N.O.-XLPODE titer throughout the course of my workout), and this younger guy comes up to me and says:
Kid: "Bro, what are you drinking?"
Me: "N.O.-XPLODE."
Kid: "You like it?"
Me: "Yeah. Some people don't like the rush, but it works for me."
Kid: "Man, I can't take that stuff. It gives me the shits."
Me: "Haha, really. I don't have that problem."
Kid: "Yeah. It's got to be the potassium in it."
Team Moylan, bitches. So what if they turn out to be the next Hilton sisters? Part of equality is being able to have our own guilty pleasures, anyway, without having to substitute and displace.
But what I really want to talk about those swim trunks. Peter? APTLY NAMED, sir. JUNIOR? More like Pierre le Grand. (B., you might need to up your bottom game, gurrrrrrrl.)
Bonne weekend ~~
In another study, women were able to detect the dubious conclusions of a male researcher by listening to his Pipitone.
Mormonism is basically the 19th-century version of Scientology.
That article is fantastic. Everyone considering grad school in the humanities should read it.
I can't believe it. So so cut. That's it! I'm leaving the big city to become a shoat farmer.
She had to say, "male partner." I'm surprised they've kept her around this long.
I can't stop looking at this weird Chinese scroat.
Ah yes. In a similar fashion, when I suggested that people who didn't want to abide by the law not participate in public mass transportation and instead take other means of transport, I was informed that my line of reasoning would support racially segregated buses.
I encountered a libertarian acolyte in another thread who warned that our failure to recognize the seriousness of this matter could only lead to body-cavity searches, because WHERE WILL IT STOP.
Good luck with your demons.
Do you honestly think that security measures will progress to body cavity searches?
(1) If so, then we have no common ground for dialogue because you are, in my estimation, unreasonable.
(2) If not, then you are putting forth exaggerated slippery-slope arguments that have no basis in reality or reason.
(1) If so, then we have no common ground for dialogue because you are, in my estimation, unreasonable.
(2) If not, then you are putting forth exaggerated slippery-slope arguments that have no basis in reality or reason.
So, which is it: (1) Slippery slope leading to body cavity searches or (2) deliberate exaggeration?
Actually, never mind. I have lost interest in this exchange.
Do the data necessarily support that conclusion? It could be argued just as well that women are more tolerant of pain and only seek medical attention when the degree of pain becomes unbearable. Men, by contrast, may seek medical attention "sooner." Or perhaps men are lying due to socio-cultural expectations of their gender.
It would be interesting to filter out diagnostically inconclusive or difficult-to-quantify conditions, such as "back pain," and instead focus on more measurable and comparable conditions: for example, a mid-shaft humerus fracture or a particular kind of puncture wound.
Citizens can complain about whatever they want. And other citizens can argue that their complaints are silly and unfounded. A court of a law may likewise deem a complaint worthy of consideration. In my opinion, Rand Paul's complaints are not valid and should not be taken seriously, to the extent that doing so would endanger other citizens.
As the events of September 11 so spectacularly demonstrated, it is in the public interest to have adequate transportation security, regardless of whether every citizen chooses to participate in mass transit.
An argument ad absurdum is not automatically a good argument. It is therefore worth noting that strip searches and body cavity searches such as you describe are not the norm. It is unreasonable to think that such procedures would ever become normative. Consider the X-ray-like scanning technology recently introduced: the public vociferously objected; the media played its role in raising awareness of the potential problems; legislators were pressed into action; and, in consequence, the TSA scaled back in matter of weeks: this technology will no longer be used in its present form.
The rest of your many many words amount to attempts at "slippery slope" arguments which, however appealing to the hysterically fearful among us, have no basis in reality.
Not lynching people is progress, Arkansas, but it's the twenty-first century, so let's see if you can learn to express yourself without violence (bless your heart).
You are wrong, and the comparison to racial segregation is irrelevant.
If you take a private flight, and you take off and land in what the TSA considers a "sterile area" of the airport, then you are not subject to TSA search procedures (look for the words "private airlines" here).
Mass transportation is a great convenience. It is also potentially very dangerous. Individuals who choose to participate in mass transportation relinquish certain rights and privileges that may apply in other contexts. For example, officers charged with ensuring the safety and security of travelers are able to search your person without a warrant, if they suspect that you are carrying a bomb.
Regardless of whether you think the TSA is effective, it is absurd to argue against transportation security in mass transportation. Reason and, unfortunately, experience teach us that the safety and security cannot be taken for granted.
If a person does not wish to participate in mass transportation, then he is free to seek other means of transport. This argument could not be used to defend segregated transportation, because the status of the person as regards race, class, creed, sex, and so forth is irrelevant.
So, and again in boldface, if you don’t like doing what the rest of the masses have to do, then pay your way out. That is, essentially, the libertarian way.
If the rigors of public and mass transportation are too much for feeble libertarians, then they are at liberty to finance their own alternative and private means of transport.
On the other hand, it would be amazing if a person was able to do something "useful" after 13 years of public elementary and secondary education.
