XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: dead@gone.com   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 19:35:09 -0400, Steve wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 18 May 2013 23:24:30 +0000 (UTC), Zepp  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:41:52 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Zepp wrote:   
   >>>> On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:28:07 -0800, linuxgal wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> >Robots are really going to kick people's ass.  They're not union.   
   >>>>> >Amazon already has Automated Material Handling Facilities that have   
   >>>>> >just two employees, a man and a dog.  The dog's job is to keep the   
   >>>>> >man from touching anything.  The man's job is to feed the dog.  But   
   >>>>> >they don't have robots smart enough to fix machines when they pop,   
   >>>>> >and they always do.  That was my strategy from the gitgo and it has   
   >>>>> >served me well, with just eight years left to go in my career.   
   >>>>> >Going forward there will be a growing class of unemployed and   
   >>>>> >unemployable people competing for a limited number of dog-feeding   
   >>>>> >positions.  I won't whine about them at all, because I know the   
   >>>>> >go-getters will learn a technical trade.   
   >>>> So that leaves us with two courses of action: "reward people for not   
   >>>> working", or set up death camps.  What's your preference?   
   >>>   
   >>> False dichotomy.  Next week I'm going to the Philippines where people   
   >>> make ten dollars a day if they went to college, three to five dollars   
   >>> a day if they didn't, and some of the very unfortunately live in   
   >>> (literal,   
   >>> not allegorical) garbage dumps where the hazard is being buried alive   
   >>> in a trashslide while trying to salvage something to sell.  There are   
   >>> people there whose lives have been made immeasurably better by the   
   >>> existence of myself and my husband.   In that context, I have not the   
   >>> slightest twinge of guilt when I hear that someone in the United   
   >>> States has run out their 99 weeks of unemployment and now must dial   
   >>> back on the supersized orders of fries and give up one or two of their   
   >>> premium cable channels.  Seriously.   
   >>   
   >>So for all it's wealth, America should strive for no better than the   
   >>garbage dumps outside Manila?   
   >>   
   >>I see why you want to kill the notion that Americans are sovereign.   
   >   
   >   
   > But you're not an American, wordsong.  You've been permanently banned..   
      
   You know, bubbles, you never have explained how someone can be   
   "permanently banned" and allowed to stay in the country all at the same   
   time.   
      
   Could you explain that one for us, bubbles? If I ever didn't something   
   that would ban me from citizenship, shouldn't I have been deported?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Notwithstanding the provisions of section 405 (b) [1] but subject to   
   > subsection (c) of this section, any alien who applies or has applied for   
   > exemption or discharge from training or service in the Armed Forces or   
   > in the National Security Training Corps of the United States on the   
   > ground that he is an alien, and is or was relieved or discharged from   
   > such training or service on such ground, shall be permanently ineligible   
   > to become a citizen of the United States.   
   >   
   > http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/   
   usc_sec_08_00001426----000-.html   
      
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