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  3. Ask a Songfactor

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    during a discussion yesterday at lunch, I was told by someone my age who employs several people in their 20s and 30s that he doesn't want his employees to have to think; they rely strictly on what their computers/GPS's/whatever other machinery they have to tell them what the correct answer is, or how much money to hand someone in change, or whatever the case may be. He says less mistakes are made that way, and he doesn't want to be paying these people for the time it takes to think about it.

    Here's my question to our Songfactors who are in that age group: Do you rely solely on modern technology to think for you when it comes to finding a place, doing your math (making change or counting the change you've been handed), etc.? Do you see any value in knowing how to do those things manually for any reason? And can you do it manually if technology should fail due to power failure, machine meld, whatever?

    Um, I wouldn't want to work a job that didn't require me to use some of my brain, nor would I like to work with anyone who doesn't use theirs. It'd be a f*****g nightmare. I can do simple math in my head and if I'm given simple directions or look at a map, then I know where I'm going :beatnik:

  4. '27 dead' in Connecticut primary school shooting

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    Again - and I hate that I keep having to say this - these are false analogies. None of these products are specifically designed to kill. Guns are.

    Automobiles are specifically designed for transportation, but some people don't use them specifically for that: street racing, drunk driving. Therefore, ban cars and booze. For you, guns "are specifically designed to kill." For others, they're used for sport, for hunting, for collecting, and for other reasons - none of our business, really, as long as they're abiding by the law(s) :beatnik:

  7. '27 dead' in Connecticut primary school shooting

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    What's one mass shooting that has been prevented by a 'good guy with a gun'?

    Actually hang on - how many other countries have mass shootings? The last time we had one was when the British opened fire on an unarmed peaceful protest in Amritsar. That was in 1919...

    Have you been living under a rock? Norway had one of the worst mass shootings in the world. All the gun laws in the world didn't prevent that one from happening hahahah :beatnik:

    More people die from automobile accidents than they do with mass shootings? Solution: ban cars. Hell, more people die from combining booze and driving? Solution: ban booze! Yeah, let's see what else we need to be protected from.

    I'd go insofar as to use the same quote from Ben Franklin...

    You deserve neither freedom nor protection if you're for the state/govt. passing more and more laws to "protect" you :beatnik:

  9. '27 dead' in Connecticut primary school shooting

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    Japan doesn't allow gun possession legally, they are a completely different and controlled culture. They have more respect, dignity and honor than any nation, imho. They have extremely strict immigration. I would be curious if America instituted their immigration policies alone, what impact that would have on our gun violence. Look at their history, look at all the facts, not just he ones that support your cause, position or agenda.

    While I am in favour of deporting all illegal aliens, what you just alluded to would have zero impact because these mass shootings at schools were done by legal citizens who legally obtained high-powered weapons :beatnik:

  10. '27 dead' in Connecticut primary school shooting

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    Stoves aren't designed to burn people and eggs aren't designed to poison people. These ridiculous false equivocations entirely gloss over the fact that guns, especially hand guns and assault weapons, are designed for one main reason: to kill.

    And I've played plenty of violent video games and am a huge Tarantino fan. I have never even thought about killing a single human being. You have to be crazy to think that it's ok to do something like that just because it's on a game or a movie. Which this kid clearly was. He should have been treated and he shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near a gun.

    When I think about the phrase "violent culture," I don't think about video games, books, music, and movies. I think about the real life society that made it possible for military invasions and occupations of other countries - at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives - possible.

    26 foreign kids being blown up in a Cambodian, Vietnamese, Serbian, Iraqi, Afghan, (etc., etc.) village? Perfectly normal. We've been taught from a very early time that's just military business. This is how we get away with mass-murdering all kinds of people all the time. In other words, [real] human life is trivialised all the time here in the U.S. :beatnik:

  13. '27 dead' in Connecticut primary school shooting

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    This isn't about controlling guns or mental illness, or God. It's about SECURITY! Our children deserve, no, they damned certainly have the legal rights to be protected from the most evil and monsterous elements in the world today.

    Schools need to be more secure than airports and courthouses. These most vulnerable and innocent people deserve to have a place they can go learn and never, never worry about what can get at them while in our care!

    So, you suggest we should criminalise attending kindergarten rather than criminalise accessibility of weapons to the mentally ill? :beatnik:

  16. Your Photograph

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    Winning animals to donate!!

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    being pig-headed... this guy was so big I couldn't carry him any other way. :grin:

    This is strange, but, at the office, there's a guy who has a picture of him and his family on his desk... AND YOU LOOK A LITTLE LIKE HIS WIFE! You don't have any relatives in Orange County, do ya? :beatnik:

  20. Lists of Things to do before Dec. 21, 2012

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    Besides, what's not to like? :googly:

    Drew-Barrymore-Wallpapers-Hot-bikini-Pic

    Um, that horrible/trashy tattoo? Her insufferable lisp? Her "acting" ability (or lack thereof)? But, hey, it's your final wish...

    ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

    Iiiii'm gonna change nothing. F*** the world; it's not worth fretting over - nor making plans other than what I normally would do. So, let it destroy itself. I'm gonna keep going about my final days by listening to some good tunes, watching videos, playing video games, reading a little bit, having some pizza and beer, and laughing to forget :beatnik:

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