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The danger, of course, is applying those conclusions to everyone.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Gidan wrote:Assumed generalizations are usually based upon past experiences of the person or throught knowlege gained by that person. You statment basicly means that racism doesn't actually exist, its all racial profiling.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Lueyen wrote:Because Ralphs business has been screwed by black forieners in the past on numerous occasions he assumes every black person is with out a doubt out to screw his business. Due to this he decides to no longer sell to black forieners. This is racisim.
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Because Ralph's business has been screwed by black forieners in the past on numerous occasions he looks at the facts and makes a prediction that in the future his business is most likely to be screwed by black forieners. Due to this prediction, he makes an assesment that the cost of doing business with black forieners. Because X percentage of his customers that are black forieners will most likely try to screw his business, the cost of doing business with them as a whole is not economically beneficial. He predicts that based on past information that the ammount of money he loses getting screwed will be greater then the ammount of money he makes. He therefore decides not to sell to black forieners. This is racial profiling, but it is not racisim. It does not have a bias toward every single black foriener, however it does not ignore the trend.
racial profiling
n : a form of racism consisting of the (alleged) policy of policemen who stop and search vehicles driven by persons belonging to particular racial groups
Main Entry: racial profiling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: the consideration of race when developing a profile of suspected criminals; by extension, a form of racism involving police focus on people of certain racial groups when seeking suspected criminals
Harrison wrote:Of course it would be, Moore's a fucking tool...
Gidan wrote:Harrison wrote:Of course it would be, Moore's a fucking tool...
I second that opinion.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Vivalicious wrote:Lots of females don't want you to put your penis in their mouths. Some prefer it in their ass.
Captain_Insano wrote:You don't have to like it and I don't expect many of you do but it isn't your pocketbook that is affected.
Raymond S. Kraft wrote:The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
but dude you just turn in to Mindia when you start spouting out your mangina about how Mexicans do this and Blacks do that....
Zanchief wrote:Harrison wrote:I'm not dead
Fucker never listens to me. That's it, I'm an atheist.
Kizzy wrote:Mindia doesn't like Mexicans? That is sad, we will have to discontinue or cyber love makins sessions.
labbats wrote:To all your politically correct bitches... fuck off! You have no idea what it is like dealing with these people all the time.
Too true. I used to get my feathers ruffled when someone was called a nigger. Then I moved to downtown Atlanta for a couple months. Problem solved.
Mindia wrote:Kizzy wrote:Mindia doesn't like Mexicans? That is sad, we will have to discontinue or cyber love makins sessions.
Hmm... my best friend since 1976 is a Mexican thoroughbred, and I've dated 2 Latina women... yeah, I hate Mexicans. /cough
Zanchief wrote:Harrison wrote:I'm not dead
Fucker never listens to me. That's it, I'm an atheist.
Lueyen wrote:Captain_Insano wrote:You don't have to like it and I don't expect many of you do but it isn't your pocketbook that is affected.
Well said, critisizim from the cheap seats is easy, making these sort of decisions is a lot tougher when it's your money or your ass on the line.
A couple of thoughts on the things you've stated.
The effectiveness or ineffectiveness of racial profiling in the realm of law enforcement is difficult to dicern. Oponents of it bring up a very valid argument. Statistically racial profiling will support it self. Because you are looking more carefully at a paticular ethnic group you will tend to catch more of the criminals of that group, this could easily artificially inflate the statistics in such a way as to make it appear that racial profiling is both effective and justifiable.
The company I work for also runs a tech support line. The majority (at least 98 percent) pay a monthly support fee for a 24/7 tech support line. Also included in this are software updates. The head of tech support once told me that around 20 percent of our client base made up around 80 percent of our support calls. I'm not surprised your numbers are similar, I think that sort of split is pretty common. I can't speak for the men vs women for the most part since we market to business, not individuals. I would however say that for the most part women are more likely to call sooner then men and for us thats not a bad thing since it's usually the case that the people who don't call are just putting off the problem until it's to big to ignore. As far as returns.. well I think the company had exactly 1 in it's 20+ years of operation, but the price tag is substantial and people don't purchase our software on a whim, or without knowing it fits thier needs because of this.
I feel for you on getting screwed with no recourse though, quite honestly if I were in your shoes, I would seriously consider some back door program that would allow you to render a system unfunctionable remotely should payment get canceled. Something you could disable after a period of time once revokation of payment was no longer possible. But hell I've day dreamed about the idea of packing a computer case with plastic explosives and the ability to remotely detonate just incase a client totally pisses me off .
Vivalicious wrote:Lots of females don't want you to put your penis in their mouths. Some prefer it in their ass.
kaharthemad wrote:Ok time to step in here. First off as Manager of a Computer sales and Serivce center(owner never in, on beach, so I basically run thew show here) I know where Ralf is coming from. We dont sell outside the US because of the scams. If they want to buy from us and insist on buying from us we go thru a escrow system. They pay the fee to start with to start up the escrow. and yes, we use the same one every time(which is not often since most scammers h8 escrow. Once the money is there and the computer and the company confirms both and the check is posted the computer goes to the customer. Escrow takes about 30 days. We do this with countries that we dont like to do biz with...Nigeria, Jamacia, France, Russia, any South American countires. Once we started doing this our orders tanked, but so did the scammers. However our companies that deal in those countires still get priority mail since they are established. Is this Racial Profiling? Nope this is minimally Observent.
Here is a point. If one area of a city has a large amount of bounced checks and failure to pays you stop dealing with that part of town. Same with people. If one set of jackasses start scamming I take them off my sale list.
As for women being 80 percent of my service calls and returns that is a fair assesment if your talking about actual computers. If your talking about parts those are the Amish. I have had a total 10 returns in the last 2 years. Of which 8 of them are women. most of which forgot to tell said husband they are buying a new toy. Or the great one I have gotten...I go out to a house to set up a install. I get the computer all set up and she hands me 3 boxes of programs all for either MAC or windows 3.1
Vivalicious wrote:Lots of females don't want you to put your penis in their mouths. Some prefer it in their ass.
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