“How does ‘patronizing quota-ism’ negatively affect you in any way?”

Attempting to rationalize racism or sexism or ageism etc, regardless of whom one is favoring, is wrong. Or are you suggesting that SOME racism is actually good?

““When I looked back,” she said, “I noticed that I migrated towards those books that did not have human characters, because I could relate to those characters more than the white characters.”

So she could “relate” to those who were NOT human - ie looked NOTHING like her. But she could NOT “relate” to *human* beings -…

But its cool technology! And its politicians spending money on it! That means it MUST be done. How dare you stand in the way of ‘progress’ and the ‘public’! To hell with your facts.

Where are the asteroid disaster projections? That’s what I want to know! :D

LOL

“There aren’t really any murder survivors walking around who can be traumatized by it, are there?”

Interesting. If one were to act upon this ‘logic’, a rapist should murder his victim then. That way you could simply dismiss the murder out of hand. After all, there wouldn’ bet a survivor “walking around who can be…

No mention nor love for ST:DS9? Seems an odd omission, especially given references to every other ST television incarnation (even the never produced Phase 2).

“it turns out that university administrations are quite keen on this sort of thing”

Yup. Reward a behavior and you get more of it. This goes back to ‘sit-ins’ in the 60s and Administrations either afraid to respond or actually encouraging the ‘occupation’ of their facilities as a means of achieving one’s goals.

So long…

Zombie Cockroaches

Sounds like ‘Fortitude’

If it could be done for Jarvis, it could be done for Zola

Implication, yes. But as Daniel points out, that’s -all- it is - an implication, not an irrevocable fact. There are plenty of ways “they could still bring him back”. This is not a claim they will - but only a claim they could if they so desired.

But “cost” could mean he escaped from Pierce’s grasp, not that he was destroyed.

No. But its sad (that’s the polite term) you believe so. For such a belief is what feeds and thus perpetuates the subjugation - the thuggery.

Don’t you know that everyone has a right to your life and your effort. You have to pay them to ‘allow’ you the ‘freedom’ to mine or do anything else. Extortion has such a bad reputation - so they call it ‘taxes’ - as if changing the NAME makes such thuggery any different.

To paraphrase the bard: “a dung heap, by any…

I’ve already responded to two others who’ve made the -exact- same comment. I refer you to those responses:

Whether it does or not isn’t the issue (though I’ll say right now, it couldn’t “balance” it out, given that would be a supposed additional cost - lol).

This claims to be an accounting of where ‘every fraction’ of the dollar you spend to buy food goes. The omission of taxes from that accounting is quite significant -…

Agreed. I almost commented on that fact as well. But the ‘article’ isn’t a supposed itemization of how much of your money is put towards food production. It’s supposedly an itemization of where the dollar you spend to buy food goes. Those are not the same thing. So I held my tongue on that issue, recognizing the fact…

One might address LL’s post if it wasn’t just a string of ad homs (and straw men). In such a case, the only rational response is to dismiss such posts.

So good bye to LL

I see one very big thing they didnt account for: taxes.

A government agency not identifying where your money goes to that government? What a surprise.

LOL