WickedSmurf
pr0
[threadjack] Isn't that from a Body Count song? [/threadjack]
A little less freedom of speech...
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[threadjack] Isn't that from a Body Count song? [/threadjack]
Sure you can blame them - this kind of idiocy means that companies have to introduce extra controls to reduce the risk of being sued. Those controls cost money and introduce inefficiency. We all pay for that cost and inefficiency through the price of goods and services.
Thes greedy individuals cost all of us that don't do this stuff real money - just because you can't point to the dollar you are losing, don't think it isn't costing you.
if the US had a proper legal system (and not the idiotic system of elected judges and juries
) no lawsuit like this would ever even get accepted. They'd all be rejected by the court. Part of the problem is that punitive damages go to the individual, not to the state, too - that way, you can get rich on a 1% verdict (1% of the companies value, e.g.) instead of only getting your damage paid and a little extra.
Lifeblood
Defender of the faith
It's credited as an Ice-T song on the Body Count album. It replaced the song Cop Killer when they banned that song. I had the original vinyl version of Cop Killer. Should have kept it.
bobgote
Trousers
I think judges should make the decisions in cases like this. frivolous lawsuits should be stamped out.
btw, when i was a kid, we always said ******. we didn't know what it meant, so it didn't really matter.
"african american" is a ludicrous term too. they are black, that is the colour of their skin. how many of them can be called "african" at all?
btw, when i was a kid, we always said ******. we didn't know what it meant, so it didn't really matter.
"african american" is a ludicrous term too. they are black, that is the colour of their skin. how many of them can be called "african" at all?
Qitai
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Well, the person that filled the lawsuit should at least partially pay for the cost. Or else, if you are damn rich and you just want to screw someone you don't like, just get that person into a lawsuit every other day.
WickedSmurf
pr0
I think he's still right though, it's ridiculous to call them "african american". Oh well, they like to have it that way so let 'em. I just go with the terms black, white, asian, arab et cetera. If someone takes offense, whatever, their problem, not mine. I don't mind if someone refers to me as white, basically because that's the colour of my skin. I don't see the problem there.
Free Enterprise
The return stroke.
Egyptians who become Americans would still be from Africa (provided they are from the African part of Egypt). So would Berbers from Northern Africa. The term African American is never applied to them from what I have seen.
Ethnologists would count them to Europe, too, as opposed to the 'typical' African Bantu, Xhosha (sp?) and so on....
no wonder you wouldn't call them African American - the 'racial' boundaries do not fit the outlines of the continents - or would you call a Turk an 'Asian'???
Free Enterprise
The return stroke.
That is the problem with the using geographical terms to refer to groups of people. Precisely the problem with things like Asian American, European American, and African American. European should not mean white skin. Neither should African mean black skin. Maybe African "descended" or European "descended" might work sometimes. However a person from Iran (though has light skin) wouldn't really be a European in any way.
So how do you decide which one is Asian American out of all the groups in Asia? Eastern Asia cannot be lumped together because of all because of the commoness of one trait involving deposits around the eye. Chinese and Korean would not be the same as South Eastern Asia when checked on various traits.
Egyptians and the parts of the Middle East similar to Europe never actually migrated there. Rather Europe and European descended countries came from Asia.
The tri racial theory does not work because large populations are not able to 'fit' into it. Some traits mix from populations. In certain ways a Central European has certain things in common with a Central African that neither have in common with a Western-Northern European or Africans further south. If you go by more than skin color the system collapses due to the fact populations are extremely diverse. Only going by skin color (amount of melanoma inhibited by body determines this so it is means virtually nothing in reality) would not work either and means virtually nothing whatsoever.
I think most Anthropologists reject most theories of race. They don't really exist rather they are arbitrary ideas of simplified reality.
So how do you decide which one is Asian American out of all the groups in Asia? Eastern Asia cannot be lumped together because of all because of the commoness of one trait involving deposits around the eye. Chinese and Korean would not be the same as South Eastern Asia when checked on various traits.
Egyptians and the parts of the Middle East similar to Europe never actually migrated there. Rather Europe and European descended countries came from Asia.
The tri racial theory does not work because large populations are not able to 'fit' into it. Some traits mix from populations. In certain ways a Central European has certain things in common with a Central African that neither have in common with a Western-Northern European or Africans further south. If you go by more than skin color the system collapses due to the fact populations are extremely diverse. Only going by skin color (amount of melanoma inhibited by body determines this so it is means virtually nothing in reality) would not work either and means virtually nothing whatsoever.
I think most Anthropologists reject most theories of race. They don't really exist rather they are arbitrary ideas of simplified reality.
Stapel
FIAT 850 coupé
I don't care as I am not a racist 
. I hate all Americans equally .
. I hate all Americans equally .yeah, it seems better to go by culture group (which doesn't mean that there are not superficial physical similarites uniting e.g. most Bantu and most north eastern Asians......
it is a bit like bears: you cna easily tell a Syrian brown bear from an Alaskan Grizzly, though both are the same spceies. But try telling an Alaskan grizzly from a Canadian one, or a Turkish brown bear from a Macedonian one.......
borders are arbitrary, and so are names for groups.
Sims2789
Fool me once...
they should fine people for filing frivoulus lawsuits.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
The only people who who annoy me more than racists are people who eagerly call you a racist.
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