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What's unreasonable?

It's unreasonable, since a employer is demanding information from a prospective employee's private life that has no bearing on the job.

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No it isn't. It's an invasion of privacy if you refuse, and they hack into your account anyway.

The company is pressuring you to give up privacy to get a job, which if unreasonable (which access to a Facebook account is) should be illegal, in my opinion.


Though the best response here is to walk away.

I'm sure most people would love the opportunity to walk away from bad jobs, but it's not like everyone has the opportunity to just get a new job or to have some way of making money until that happens.

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Don't they have a right to ask to pay you to see your FB page,

No. That's an invasion of privacy.

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Oh wait, I forgot about Sora! He's probably a viable answer, although technically he would have been eligible for the first contest because of the Japanese release and all. Still would have a chance at beating all those mentioned so far, and he probably was the strongest character ever from the last 10 years, even if he's dropped off currently.

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I would predict Kratos.

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I would blame CBS more than CNET. It seems that since they bough CNET we've had fewer contests for some reason.

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I agree with the basic principle that the article espouses, even if it does approach things from a pejorative perspective. People talk about how our public discourse has coarsened/become more partisan/angry, etc. but really I think that the elements that they are describing have really been there all along, but that the kind of libertarian hierarchical culture that unleashed them has always been centered in the South, which was "banished" from culture/society for the 100 years or so after the Civil War. I totally agree with the article that the Civil War might have been won militarily, but the deeper issues at play were never fully resolved, and might not ever be as long as the United States stays unified.

While some commentators point out that the explosion of this new hierarchical culture can be linked to neoliberalism, which itself came out of the North, I don't think that refutes this argument. The "Southern" culture might be most prevalent in the South, but that doesn't mean that it can't have isolated supporters in the North before the rise of the Sun Belt. Even so, it does make one wonder why the North embraced this kind of culture in the 1920's, if it's supposedly so against their worldview.

I should also note that this kind of mentality is separated geographically to most people, because that's how it's grouped when you look at attitudes amongst white men. It doesn't make note of the fact that women overall seem to embrace the Yankee worldview much more than men do, which makes any kind of approaching cultural split/crisis much harder to contain.

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Oh wait, it was just a stem cell transplant from the other person's immune system. So, I'm not sure what exactly that consists of, but not as crazy as replacing the entire system.

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My deepest condolences.

On a side note, there is actually one reported incident of someone being cured of HIV:

http://nymag.com/health/features/aids-cure-2011-6/

Basically, they replaced his immune system, with that of someone who has a certain type of immunity to HIV, and it worked. He was undergoing chemotherapy for cancer at the same time however, so it is not entirely clear what exactly led to him being cured. Sadly, since the doctor who came up with the solution is not part of the HIV "establishment" this accomplishment was brushed under the rug and written off as "too expensive."

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Someone once asked on Facebook what movie best represented "America" and Citizen Kane was the best one that I could come up with. Saying Citizen Kane seems like such a kneejerk reaction that I tried searching for something else, but other than The Godfather I couldn't really come up with something. That probably says something about why the film is so consistently at the top of critic's lists.


(it seemed far less patronizing to the audience than most modern films I've seen)

I completely agree with this. Older studio movies are, in my opinion, much better than the studio movies we have now, which are all oriented towards teenagers/infantalized adults.

And the special effects in 2001 are amazing, both for its time and in general. I mean, I love the visuals and the film aside from that, but it kind of belies the claim that Star Wars was the first movie to really come out with those type of effects. Looks way better than the CG crap we get today, and its hard to believe that the early human costuming/effects done here was done at the same time as Planet of the Apes (Not to diss the latter film, which is great, but the effects here are much better)

And since you've already seen 3 (I assume you've seen The Godfather) of the top 5 of this list you might as well check out Vertigo and The Rules of the Game and finish it off!

http://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_top100films.htm

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I can actually pinpoint when it happened for me. The two week delay we had before the 2008 contest. It's not the delay itself did anything. I was still excited going into 2008, despite not liking the format, but I guess those two weeks just allowed my excitement to wear off, and it's never really come back the same way again.

This was kind of inevitable I guess. From 2008 onwards, I got more of a social life/more complicated work and school commitments (although 2006 and 2007 were still "magical" despite the influence of college on me), and I guess this ultimately meant that contests just wouldn't do as much for me. They were a cool part of my summers during high school, but they haven''t really been that way in a while. I barely even play video games anymore, so I'm sure that doesn't help matters much. And I don't like either 4 ways or 12 hour matches as a format that much, so in a lot of ways for me 2006 was the last real contest.

But from 2002-2007, man those were the times.

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Am I not the only one who's constantly going back and forth in and out of the house? Even to do things like garden, get the mail, walk across the street, take the dog for a walk, all that stuff. Sometimes it's just easier to walk back and forth.

It takes five seconds to lock/unlock a door. Much less of an inconvenience than being robbed/raped/murdered.

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A just seems so... fearful, you know? Like I kinda view you all as a bunch of hermits huddled inside you're house afraid of the outside world

Unless you're hosting a party or something what would ever be the advantage to leaving your door unlocked.

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After they got rid of MSTings and lemons like 10 years ago, there's been no reason to go to Fanfiction.net

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Not if you make him dig his own grave then beat him to death with the shovel!

I'm not a Neanderthal, so no I wouldn't!

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Meh, we shouldn't be spending tens of thousands per year to keep him alive. Give him the needle (although that in itself is far too expensive. Just put a bullet in his head)

I think life in prison is actually cheaper than capital punishment.

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That song is so dumb. Americans are dumb for liking it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_Maybe#Charts_and_certifications

Yep, just America there. Do you live in Brazil, Spain, Italy, or Japan by chance? Otherwise, I'm pretty sure your country likes it too.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/north-carolina-senate-blocks-compensation-sterilization-victims-eugenics/story?id=16628515#.T-Ter_Vv4kQ

The North Carolina Senate rejected a plan to compensate victims of a mass sterilization plan that targeted mostly poor minorities for decades in the 20th century.

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans refused to support the measure put forth by the House to set aside $10 million in the state budget for compensation, which would have given victims $50,000 each. The move would have made North Carolina the first state to compensate eugenics victims.

"I'm sorry that it happened," Sen. Don East told the Raleigh-based News and Observer. "I just don't think money fixes it."

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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june12/hitlerland_06-20.html

Well, this is a perfectly nice PBS Newshour video interviewing the author of a book about Americans in Germany during the 20's and 30's and their premonitions/lack of premonitions about what was to come. Surely, this won't be fodder for partisan-... Oh....


""The greatest evil that mankind has ever known" ~ Give me a break! Not even close... Isn't it about time that the hyperbole and propaganda driven false information hysteria stops? Stalin killed close to 30 million in forced slave labor with the aid and assistance of their ally the great USA even during the war against Hitler and Mao killed closed to 70 million. North Korea killed a yet unknown number and Genghis Kahn was responsible for the death of at least 10% of the worlds population at that time. His son Kubla was no Boy Scout either. None of them were Humane enough to gas like the Humane Society does puppies either... "

"Roll the film forward to 2009. How many of the most perceptive people in the world would have guessed that 90% of the American congress would have approved of the slaughter of 410 Palestinian children-----and the daily racism of the Lobby against the Moslems and the daily hysteria of the Israelis pushing the world to another war--out of self-dramatized fears? "

"What's the point of this article? Some reporters talking about other reporters? They were supposed to be able to prognosticate, to predict, that Hitler was a bad man? Would they have preferred the communists, and then it would have been a united communist Russia and Germany?
Does PBS make it up as they go along? I truly despise being forced to support the left-wing bigots at PBS with my tax dollars."

"Before he became Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli was the toast of Berlin, invited to official state functions. After Hitler became Chancellor, Pacelli, then Pope Pius XX signed a Concordat in 1933 with Hitler that evolved into an agreement that the Vatican would not interfere with Hitler's plans. It is almost certain, given the hatred of the Jews that Catholics demonstrated, that Pacelli knew that awful things were going to happen. It is a lot like our own government. At least 6 Presidents and all of Congress knew about Catholic priests molesting young boys and they said and did nothing in much the same way that Pope Pius said and did nothing to stop the genocide of Jews. "

"The really scary thing is, the Republican party has evolved over the past ten years, under the strict guidance of a marketing genius with German heritage- Karl Rove- precisely using many of the same fear & character attack techniques used by Hitler to gain power. Yes, really scary."

"Hitler was a hero of WWI who had no power until he got funding from the Zionist. that is the ZI of Nazi. The Zionist have escaped justice all these years in Israel. Now that is a story that has not been hear before."

"Why do we not investigate the rise of Stalin and Mao as we do Hitler? Seems like there are great stories of these mass murderers waiting for print. Hitler did us a favor actually, we now know what the outline of a potential dictator looks like, which is not good news for Obama."

"When I first saw the title for this article I thought, "Wow someone in the media is really going to discuss what's going on here in the United States"! Needless to say I'm disappointed."




Like, WTF. There wasn't even anything controversial/political in this video. There goes any self-important ego-stroking I thought I could get by watching PBS.

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$70 million is almost nothing these days if you're using any effects at all.

That's not too much for a major release, but if Fox is thinking this is going to be a major release, that seems to be somewhat of a gamble. Based on Snakes on a Plane at least, which seems to be the most comparable example

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I don't get how the budget was 70 million dollars.

A) Did they honestly think they could necessarily make that back? I mean, it could I suppose, but that's not the kind of budget you should be throwing around on a gimmick movie that has the potential to bomb.

B) Where did all that money go? The trailers I've seen make the movie look really cheap. Like a step above a Straight to DVD. Maybe it's just the lighting or something, but it looks far less professional than that budget implies.

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Is tap water really that bad? In none of the places I've lived (coastal Delaware, New York City, South Florida for a month), have I ever had any second thoughts about drinking the tap water. Have I just gotten lucky or are people being irrationally scared?

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Any tax always disproportionally hurts the poor

Not this one since they can just buy water instead. Soda's not required for nutritional purposes or anything.

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I saw a report on the news where someone was acting like poor people will be paying more because of this. Do stores in poor neighborhoods not carry bottled water for cheaper costs than soda? Everywhere that soda is sold water is sold as well. I will concede to not living in these kinds of neighborhoods myself, but I've visited cheap deli/bodegas before and I'm pretty sure they all sold water.

Not to mention the people that have free running water in their house.

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but I don't watch TV other than sports and wrestling

If you're going to purposefully wall yourself off from cultural outlets, you shouldn't act confused about not knowing who cultural figures are.

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Maybe that's not what you're saying, but that's the impression I get, and it's a common logical path that people take when they hear about cutting government programs, but it's based on fallacy.

My point was that the programs were not "failing" since they were accomplishing their goals on some basic level.

In regards to the FDA, the belief that health standards would not be followed without regulation is based on the historical record. If the FDA just disappeared, would people regulate themselves just as well/better? Possibly, but people's doubtfulness in regards to this is not simply rhetoric, it's based on some of the evidence we have for this. I don't think it's unreasonable for people to make inferences in regards to this based on history.

re: Rand/Ron/third party runs. Why are people (mostly Muffin) assuming Paul runs as a third party? It's my understanding that he's always insisted he's not seeking anything other than the Republican nomination. Wouldn't Gary Johnson be an acceptable alternative? I don't have any agenda with these questions. Just curious.

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Grade school education quality is low, and schooling staff salaries have been frozen/lowering for the past few years. Public college tuition is going way up, with the net result of students paying as much as they would at a private college, but with more loans.


On what standards is grade school education quality low? Standardized tests? The only reason these are lower here than other industrialized nations is because of poverty rates. Schools with very low poverty rates do have test scores on par with Western Europe. Public college might be too expensive, but people are still getting educated.

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foolm0ron posted...

From: LOLContests | #373

Are the elderly and poor not getting health care, and are food and drugs not being inspected? Are children not being educated?

No to each. Glad you see it my way!

How are these things not happening?

SmartMuffin posted...

Your argument of "food is being inspected therefore the FDA is great" is so fallacious that it doesn't even merit a response.

It might be surprising to find out, but there is an alternative besides the absolutes of "These programs don't work" and "These programs are perfect." I'm not sure why the alternative to cutting off these programs entirely is seen as "They are perfect the way they are."

The homeschool situation is akin to amateurs and professionals competing against each other. It's not unfair that the professionals compete on the highest level, but there should be a place for amateurs to compete against each other as well.

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Not crazy, just strangely faithful of government programs that have clearly failed

How have these programs failed? Are the elderly and poor not getting health care, and are food and drugs not being inspected? Are children not being educated?

Could these programs be improved? Well, obviously, almost anything could, but the commenter said that!

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There's nothing wrong with the FDA, medicare; medicaid; social security, and government-run schools. If anything, they are great ideas and should be improved upon so standards can be high and regulated. They're essential for everyone of us.

What a crazy opinion!

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Speaking as someone who participated in the National Geography Bee, I always thought that homeschoolers had an unfair advantage, since their parents could obviously divert entire lesson plans to help them study for the event. Plus the National Geographic Society had a backwards system where they would pay for teachers' hotel rooms, but not the kids' parents, so the homeschoolers' parents got to come for free, while everyone else's parents had to pay (in my case at least, my teachers had jack **** to do with my successes there, which made this rule infuriating for my parents.)

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I don't get the purposed of calling Obama Soetoro. Is it supposed to make him sound more "foreign" and "scary"?

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And like I said earlier: in my opinion, juries who cannot objectively vote for the best strategic player display a lack of maturity. Winning is what people sign up for Survivor to do.

But why should someone vote for someone based on that criteria? All the game says is to vote for whomever you want to see win the money. Why shouldn't someone vote based on who they like or dislike? Why is that worse than giving someone money because they made a lot of moves on some arbitrary game show?

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I don't think juries are really as "bitter" as people say. In my opinion there is basically a three-tier system that determines how people vote:

Tier A: Personal Connection
-Regardless of whether they were blindsided or not, people tend to vote for finalists that they established a strong positive connection with on a personal level, and vote against contestants who they had a strongly negative personal connection with. This is just human nature. There is nothing in the rules saying juries must vote for whoever was the most "strategic" and if someone asked you to vote for someone out of a random group of people for a million dollars, who wouldn't vote for a good friend, or vote against an enemy.

Tier B: Alliance Loyalty
-If a jury member doesn't have any personal connection with the finalists they tend to either vote for people they stayed true to an alliance with them or vote against people who weren't true to their alliance. People might call the following type of voting "bitter," but why shouldn't people vote that way? If there weren't any punishments to breaking alliances, what would be the point of making them to begin with? If people knew that everyone would just vote for you in the end anyway, people would go around backstabbing each other, a form of gameplay that is not good for anyone. You have to have some sort of structure in place to keep people in line, and if someone breaks your alliance, voting against them in the end isn't personal, it's just part of the arrangement you made when you entered the alliance. "We all stick together and support each other in the game, and if one of us breaks the agreement, they will face the punishment." It's not fair for someone to reap all the benefits of an alliance, and then not have to incur any of its costs. Voting for someone to win that betrayed you on a strategic level is magnanimous, but a lack of magnanimity doesn't necessarily make someone bitter.

Tier C: Disconnected Players:
-People that have no connections to the finalists, either personally or strategically, tend to just vote for whoever seems most like a leader.

People act as if the Galus voted against Russell because they were in Tier B, but I think a lot of them were drawing their motivation from Tier A as well. They weren't just upset that he voted them out. They honestly thought that Russell was an objectionable human being.

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One of the three films so far this year I would classify as "great."*

Simply beautiful on a visual level if on nothing else. Just so many great images and moments I don't even know where to begin. I have to watch some of these tracking shots again to see everything that was put together into the mise-en-scene. Just fabulous. I wish I had something specific to draw on, but if you appreciate film in any sort of aesthetic sense this is a great movie to see this summer.


Also has probably the best credits/post-credits sequences I've seen recently, so don't leave right away!

*Miss Bala and The Deep Blue Sea being the other two in case anyone's interested.

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I *just* realized this. <_<

And when I posted this on Facebook someone said "Don't worry, I'm from Florida and I never got Flo Rida's name."

I'm just gonna pretend that I got that one too.

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Tarzan

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I always wondered how the original TV movie that they inserted into Merlin's Shop... originally ended. Did everyone just die in the end? Even the Stephen King story it's based on didn't end that grimly.

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http://jezebel.com/5912279/call-me-maybe-calling-cards-are-the-new-call-me-maybe

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To quote a friend of mine on Facebook:

"Pizza is like sex. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good."

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Damn, Tarzan actually had some game.

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Incompetence. What is wrong with you people?

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