No Chattanooga taxes for me.

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JaSkynyrd - 7/19/2010 9:43 AM
Says who? You are a huge fan of citing studies and academic journals to support your viewpoints and also asking people to cite where there information comes from.

By definition a productive worker is one that is employed, so an "under-productive" would be someone that is unemployed.

For sources feel free to read up on Courbois & Temple 1975, Gollop 1979, Kurosawa 1975, Pineda 1990, Saari 2006

 

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cheez - 7/19/2010 8:44 AM

... had the Napoleon syndrome. Now there is proof....

Belittling someone for their physique, really shows the a lot of character.

 

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Bfish - 7/22/2010 10:56 AM

cheez - 7/19/2010 8:44 AM

... had the Napoleon syndrome. Now there is proof....

Belittling someone for their physique, really shows the a lot of character.

Not belittling someone for their physique at all. I was ragging on a short person who tries to make up for what they lack by trying to make themselves big by tearing down others. i.e. Napoleon

 

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cheez - 7/22/2010 6:14 PM
Not belittling someone for their physique at all. I was ragging on a short person who tries to make up for what they lack by trying to make themselves big by tearing down others. i.e. Napoleon

Weasel and twist it how you wish; as you can not get around the fact that it was a derogatory statement. emoPolice

 

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Or he was just stating the obvious.

 

[JaSkynyrd]

Bfish - 7/22/2010 10:51 AM

JaSkynyrd - 7/19/2010 9:43 AM
Says who? You are a huge fan of citing studies and academic journals to support your viewpoints and also asking people to cite where there information comes from.

By definition a productive worker is one that is employed, so an "under-productive" would be someone that is unemployed.

For sources feel free to read up on Courbois & Temple 1975, Gollop 1979, Kurosawa 1975, Pineda 1990, Saari 2006

Unacceptable as far as quoting sources goes. I don't think you would say to a group of professionals in whatever industry your in, "Uh, a source for that information? Here's 5 entire journals for you to browse through to find my information." Underproductive, and here's my opinion, doesn't necessarily mean unemployed, and productive does not necessarily mean employed. I feel it means something along the lines of: Underproductive--Doing less than their part and possible feeling entitled something, anything from the government. Productive--Doing their part as far as constructively contributing to society.

After I wrote this I realized it's all wasted time on my part, the fact is you would be willing to argue over something as small as one man's (whom you've probably never met) opinion that (sorry to say digitalcb) isn't going to change anything, not only because it was posted on the CFF where the future direction of Chattanooga is not being decided but also because heck, you and I both know that he was probably just venting some steam. It's happened to me before and I bet it's happened to you. I ask that maybe in the future you could draw some distinctions between what is a worthwhile argument to pursue on this forum and what is just some idle chatter, because you come across as a guy that would stop his car if he saw someone cutting their grass on a hot and sunny day and stopping him and saying, "Sir, I need to stop you because you are doing this wrong. I have some overly complicated statistics that you need to see that prove that you are not only harming the reproductive capabilities of your grass but also contributing heavily to the global crisis of global warming, there is really no need to refute anything I'm saying because I will stand here and argue with you until you just give up and go inside and wait for a cooler, cloudier day to cut your lawn. In fact, I'm kind of astonished that you would go to the trouble of mowing your lawn without doing an exhaustive study of current articles on this issue and not thinking of the global impact that you are causing by doing this, so shame on you." The fella is just trying to mow his lawn!

Sounds ridiculous, no? Well, like it or not, that is what you sound like to me and I believe most people on this forum, I'm afraid. There are probably thousands of political forums that are ready and waiting for you to join in on topics of debate just like this one, and what's more on these forums are many people like you that love spouting off information simply to further an argument, without having an end to the argument in mind. Even though I don't agree with the way you present yourself on this forum, I do think you are intelligent and occasionally present some good arguements. But you need to take time to think about the presentation of your facts and ideas so that you don't instantly alienate the people you are "debating" with, and also take a moment to think, "what am I trying to accomplish by posting this and are the possible gains worth the action I am about to take?" If you are honest with yourself I think that most of your comments, at least in this thread, probably aren't worth posting unless made only to rile people on this forum up.

 

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If you are honest with yourself I think that most of your comments, at least in this thread, probably aren't worth posting unless made only to rile people on this forum up.[/QUOTE]

Way to go Rich! emoUpsmile emoUpsmile emoUpsmile