- 27 Aug 13, 15:55#371093
I will address two separate things in this post. Firstly, my username. Yes, I am 100% Polish. Born in Gdansk, and moved to America in my teenage years. If you are looking for meaning regarding the connection with Soulless and Polack, frankly, there is none. I'll explain why. I used to use a username HarmlessPolack on XBox Live. That name came about because, honestly, I was bad at games such as Call of Duty. Hence, Harmless. I forgot my password, and created a new one called Soulless rather than harmless. Not too much reasoning behind it, but something that has stuck and I have used as a username across various media. Now, let me talk about the word Polack. Yes, I understand that to some people, it is a derogatory word and can be offensive. But my belief has always been that people are too sensitive. Yes, I understand that these words often times carry a meaning from a dark history of a race, ethnicity, or culture. However, in the end, the word is what it is: a word. What emotions it elicits in someone is controlled by nothing more than the person's mind. They choose to let that word have a power over them. To me, to many in my family, and to a lot of my friends, we do not let a word have such power over us that it causes us anger, hate, sadness, or despair. However, I also know that, unfortunately, the same does not hold true for others. This is why I have never, nor will I ever, call another Pole a Polack. The same holds true for any other race or ethnicity. I would never use the derogatory term for their race or ethnicity as a way to call or signal them. However, if I was an African American or a Jew, I would have no problem making a user name SoullessNigger or SoullessKike. Why? Because I want to show people that you don't have to let petty things like words have power over you. Save your energy for more important things in life. Now I understand that people may not know my intention if they do not ask or make a comment. However, many people have, and I always offer up the same explanation, and many times, they understand where I'm coming from or the reasons behind it. People can call me a Pole, Polack, moron, douche, whatever, but it doesn't bother me, I am proud of my heritage and proud to be where I am today as well. I apologize for the long explanation, but if I can help even one person realize that there's nothing more in a name than our own minds attach to it, then I feel I did my job.
Secondly, I must also apologize for the delay in responding. I am not able to come onto this website throughout the day or even every day like some members. I lead a busy life both working and going to school. I hope that my response is not too late and does not alter the course of the conversation. I completely agree with you that technology is not catching up to ease of access. I don't believe it ever will. It will continue to get worse as time goes on, as we deplete the "easier" points of access to oil. I was simply stating that technology has made it a cleaner exercise now than it used to be (I'm not regarding the other variable of access here). I'm not talking about only 3 years of time, but decades rather. My position is very similar to yours, however, what I was doing was simply trying to help Andrew explain his point of view better. Perhaps it was a difficult thing to do since my opinion mirrors yours rather than Andrew's.
Onto the race, finally. I know some people are happy because of Perez's penalty. But does anyone think it was excessive or uncalled for? To me, that was just racing. He had the speed to overtake and was then moving onto a better line. I wouldn't penalize Grojean, but as a racer, I think if he was being outraced then a better move would be to back off so he doesn't run into the grass. I think it would have been different, and the penalty warranted, if they had been neck and neck and then Perez decided to drift into Grojean. But he was going faster than Grojean, and I thought the move was fair. I think these rules nowadays put the focus in the wrong spot. The faster driver should not be penalized. The slower driver should be able to use his skills to react. In this case, it would have been great to see Grojean counter by taking an early-braking approach and a different line into the corner, then undercutting him and repassing him on corner exit.
With the most respect Mr S Pollack (a disrespectful username to Poles, not remotely justified by the user claiming to be Polish, if that is the case. Not everyone will find the humour or irony, if any in confrontation with a potentially hurtful and loaded expression), I think that argument is complete rubbish and is the side put out by the oil companies and their lobbyists.
The issue is not that fossil fuels are running out per se (although ofcourse there is a finite supply), Its more that the remaining quantity continues to be found in harder and harder places to get to with costly consequences. And dont kid yourself that technology is catching up with the ease of access, it is not. Which is why we have more and more spills and disasters as we are more offshore and much deeper etc etc than ever
This Greenpeace protest about the Arctic is typical. Who in their right mind would want to go after oil in an area of important environmental balance, that is already under serious threat from other man-greed made factors. The melting and receding of the ice caps is real enough. And we trust Shells 'latest' technology to explore and extract from areas already under threat, without adding to the problem? Come on give us a break
The oil companies are more interested in returning value and maintaining profits for shareholders, unfortunately, doing so means constant new fields, which means ultimately going into areas that are not as good as others. If they mess up they pay fines, but the environment suffers. Thats the way it works. If Greenpeace or anyone else do not point these things out, then the man on the street like Andrew will never know about it because of the expensive lobbying of the oil companies to push their own pov - which is not motivated by not harming the environment, but by extracting profits whilst trying not to harm the environment, and if they do, well, they pay a fine and move on.
I will address two separate things in this post. Firstly, my username. Yes, I am 100% Polish. Born in Gdansk, and moved to America in my teenage years. If you are looking for meaning regarding the connection with Soulless and Polack, frankly, there is none. I'll explain why. I used to use a username HarmlessPolack on XBox Live. That name came about because, honestly, I was bad at games such as Call of Duty. Hence, Harmless. I forgot my password, and created a new one called Soulless rather than harmless. Not too much reasoning behind it, but something that has stuck and I have used as a username across various media. Now, let me talk about the word Polack. Yes, I understand that to some people, it is a derogatory word and can be offensive. But my belief has always been that people are too sensitive. Yes, I understand that these words often times carry a meaning from a dark history of a race, ethnicity, or culture. However, in the end, the word is what it is: a word. What emotions it elicits in someone is controlled by nothing more than the person's mind. They choose to let that word have a power over them. To me, to many in my family, and to a lot of my friends, we do not let a word have such power over us that it causes us anger, hate, sadness, or despair. However, I also know that, unfortunately, the same does not hold true for others. This is why I have never, nor will I ever, call another Pole a Polack. The same holds true for any other race or ethnicity. I would never use the derogatory term for their race or ethnicity as a way to call or signal them. However, if I was an African American or a Jew, I would have no problem making a user name SoullessNigger or SoullessKike. Why? Because I want to show people that you don't have to let petty things like words have power over you. Save your energy for more important things in life. Now I understand that people may not know my intention if they do not ask or make a comment. However, many people have, and I always offer up the same explanation, and many times, they understand where I'm coming from or the reasons behind it. People can call me a Pole, Polack, moron, douche, whatever, but it doesn't bother me, I am proud of my heritage and proud to be where I am today as well. I apologize for the long explanation, but if I can help even one person realize that there's nothing more in a name than our own minds attach to it, then I feel I did my job.
Secondly, I must also apologize for the delay in responding. I am not able to come onto this website throughout the day or even every day like some members. I lead a busy life both working and going to school. I hope that my response is not too late and does not alter the course of the conversation. I completely agree with you that technology is not catching up to ease of access. I don't believe it ever will. It will continue to get worse as time goes on, as we deplete the "easier" points of access to oil. I was simply stating that technology has made it a cleaner exercise now than it used to be (I'm not regarding the other variable of access here). I'm not talking about only 3 years of time, but decades rather. My position is very similar to yours, however, what I was doing was simply trying to help Andrew explain his point of view better. Perhaps it was a difficult thing to do since my opinion mirrors yours rather than Andrew's.
Onto the race, finally. I know some people are happy because of Perez's penalty. But does anyone think it was excessive or uncalled for? To me, that was just racing. He had the speed to overtake and was then moving onto a better line. I wouldn't penalize Grojean, but as a racer, I think if he was being outraced then a better move would be to back off so he doesn't run into the grass. I think it would have been different, and the penalty warranted, if they had been neck and neck and then Perez decided to drift into Grojean. But he was going faster than Grojean, and I thought the move was fair. I think these rules nowadays put the focus in the wrong spot. The faster driver should not be penalized. The slower driver should be able to use his skills to react. In this case, it would have been great to see Grojean counter by taking an early-braking approach and a different line into the corner, then undercutting him and repassing him on corner exit.
) posters, would do well to take a leaf from your book!
bad show!!
