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- The great American tradition of demonizing whistleblowers or any movement that might go against maintaining the status quo is alive and well, even here on an NPR forum.
That's right, don't fire Paterno, he was just passing the buck, probably what john and sheldon do their entire lives. Of course you won't give the benefit of the doubt to the people who have heard the grand jury testimony, but rather give benefit of the doubt to the man who admitted he had heard something of this and should have acted on it, and by his own admission might have acted on it if only he had heard the gory details.
Here is the statement issued by the Penn State Trustees
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/37948/psu-alumni-association-issues-statement
- @john and others of your ilk
Penn State trustees said they fired Paterno over what they heard in grand jury testimony. We have not heard that testimony. Likely it is very incriminating, for the trustees to have fired him. Why are you jerks making it out like you know they only fired him over media pressure? They have way more information than you do, and soon we'll probably hear much of that same information.
So just as you accuse the trustees of judging Paterno harshly, you also judge the trustees before you know all the facts behind their decision.
- Any one do consulting in manhattan with a lot of companies? It can't me only me that has run into millionaire after millionaire who are running on complete BS 90% of the time, making money only because they have money. I made a lot of money off of these people, until I started to think about how crappy the whole situation was.
- Listen to how much qualification Tom Brokaw had to give to his ideas. That he just wants to discuss them, that he is still contemplating.
Why does such a public figure have to do this? I think it's because so many people don't know how to rationally discuss anything. There is virtually no forum at all where someone can discuss an idea and not expect to get an emotional response. This is true whether on some dinky website, NPR, Facebook, national broadcasts, presidential elections.
Who can we blame for this? I am not one to always blame the media, but I think in this case we can. How long has media been putting on rude opinion shockers as we see so often on FOX and other network news? It's not the only reason by any means, but it definitely has lowered the state of rational discourse at every level.
Of course, one reason I like NPR so much is that they don't do this (or at least far less), regardless if I agree with the content or not.
- How is anyone surprised at any Republican hopeful that does reasonably well. After all the awful people we've seen gain traction, how is Herman Cain's popularity surprising compared to Palin or others?
- I have mixed feelings about how best to improve this situation.
It would seem that some kind of user reputation mechanism would be useful. Somehow where readers know that reviewers are real people, with real links to their personal websites or maybe even their email addresses. Though this does not eliminate the need for fraud.
On the other hand, there is value in having a system which allows for anonymous reviews. Some people may have legit reasons to be fearful of leaving their real name. Maybe they still want to frequent the restaurant, but have some minor issue in a luke-warm review, or in an extreme case, perhaps the establishment is a front for drug dealing.
- I'm not a troll.
I did not know that people of color are less often cutters, but it makes sense. For the most part, blacks and darker skinned people have to work harder and suffer more hardships in this country. They don't have the luxury of cutting themselves because daddy won't spank them.
You may not like my analysis, and I only said it was a hypothesis. Maybe it bothers you so much because it rings true. I've dated a lot of women, a fair number have been cutters, and they've all been pretty irresponsible girls with daddy issues.
- I have a hypothesis that this is due to people being wimpier and less able to withstand pain.
We've become a society of whiners. A society of people who lost the ability to own their pain and grow from it. We all know how overused medication is these days, but it's bigger than that. Many people feel the need to tweet or whine on facebook about the slightest malady - even a splinter.
And it's not even physical pain of course. Someone slights you at work - your whole day is ruined. Our society really is losing it's ability to deal with anything.
Ah, but there's always a balance sheet at the end of the day. We were not made to be whiners who wimper at the slightest prospect of pain. I'm also finding more and more women wanting rougher sex, pain during sex, and as a single guy in NYC, is a lot of fun, but once in awhile I have to stop and say, "is every girl in this city a messed up child?"
- Maybe the government could just warn these companies a year or so before they raid them.
In response to 'how can I vet these suppliers'? That's just passing the buck, it's how a lot of injustice in this world is allowed to continue. Find suppliers you can vet. Maybe you can't be 100% sure, but do some diligence.
- What did he say the first font was?
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