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[quote=briansd1]
Weight gains and losses, up and down, cause imflamations and great stress to the body. As Arraya would say, chronic inflamation is a systemic problem induced upon the body that causes diseases and death.

If we cannot tolerate people who don’t pay their mortgages or can’t manage their money, then why should be tolerate people who over-eat and create their own health problems?[/quote]

The inflammation of chronic gingivitis is suspected to contribute to cardiac issues and may also play a part in premature birth. Should we hold people accountable for not brushing their teeth enough? What if some people are more naturally resistant to gingivitis? How should we show our “intolerance” of people who overeat or fail to brush on the schedule that others might recommend? Or those people who have children with others who have genetic diseases and bring more people into the world with genetic diseases?

I also think we should tax people for being a bit too self-satisfied.

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[quote=briansd1]
Weight gains and losses, up and down, cause imflamations and great stress to the body. As Arraya would say, chronic inflamation is a systemic problem induced upon the body that causes diseases and death.

If we cannot tolerate people who don’t pay their mortgages or can’t manage their money, then why should be tolerate people who over-eat and create their own health problems?[/quote]

The inflammation of chronic gingivitis is suspected to contribute to cardiac issues and may also play a part in premature birth. Should we hold people accountable for not brushing their teeth enough? What if some people are more naturally resistant to gingivitis? How should we show our “intolerance” of people who overeat or fail to brush on the schedule that others might recommend? Or those people who have children with others who have genetic diseases and bring more people into the world with genetic diseases?

I also think we should tax people for being a bit too self-satisfied.

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I haven’t noticed anyone mention patent law. It’s a great field if you like engineering/biotech/chemistry and you can write and speak well (that is, if you want to do more than just write patent applications). You need a good technical degree (best are EE, chem E, chemistry or an advanced molecular biology degree) and a law degree, although I’ve known a lot of people who went to night school to get their law degree while working as “technical assistants” or in some similar position at a patent law firm. The job is particularly good for impatient types who like engineering but feel that results are too slow. You get exposure to a wide range of technologies and a lot of interesting ideas. Plus, starting salaries are around $120,000 at good firms.

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I haven’t noticed anyone mention patent law. It’s a great field if you like engineering/biotech/chemistry and you can write and speak well (that is, if you want to do more than just write patent applications). You need a good technical degree (best are EE, chem E, chemistry or an advanced molecular biology degree) and a law degree, although I’ve known a lot of people who went to night school to get their law degree while working as “technical assistants” or in some similar position at a patent law firm. The job is particularly good for impatient types who like engineering but feel that results are too slow. You get exposure to a wide range of technologies and a lot of interesting ideas. Plus, starting salaries are around $120,000 at good firms.

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I haven’t noticed anyone mention patent law. It’s a great field if you like engineering/biotech/chemistry and you can write and speak well (that is, if you want to do more than just write patent applications). You need a good technical degree (best are EE, chem E, chemistry or an advanced molecular biology degree) and a law degree, although I’ve known a lot of people who went to night school to get their law degree while working as “technical assistants” or in some similar position at a patent law firm. The job is particularly good for impatient types who like engineering but feel that results are too slow. You get exposure to a wide range of technologies and a lot of interesting ideas. Plus, starting salaries are around $120,000 at good firms.

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I haven’t noticed anyone mention patent law. It’s a great field if you like engineering/biotech/chemistry and you can write and speak well (that is, if you want to do more than just write patent applications). You need a good technical degree (best are EE, chem E, chemistry or an advanced molecular biology degree) and a law degree, although I’ve known a lot of people who went to night school to get their law degree while working as “technical assistants” or in some similar position at a patent law firm. The job is particularly good for impatient types who like engineering but feel that results are too slow. You get exposure to a wide range of technologies and a lot of interesting ideas. Plus, starting salaries are around $120,000 at good firms.

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I haven’t noticed anyone mention patent law. It’s a great field if you like engineering/biotech/chemistry and you can write and speak well (that is, if you want to do more than just write patent applications). You need a good technical degree (best are EE, chem E, chemistry or an advanced molecular biology degree) and a law degree, although I’ve known a lot of people who went to night school to get their law degree while working as “technical assistants” or in some similar position at a patent law firm. The job is particularly good for impatient types who like engineering but feel that results are too slow. You get exposure to a wide range of technologies and a lot of interesting ideas. Plus, starting salaries are around $120,000 at good firms.

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[quote=Arraya]

So your glancing at Wikipedia proves I don’t know what I am talking about.

Is it that fact that we have a growing white underclass since WWII(accelerating after the mid 70s, then put into hyper-drive in the past decade) or the fact that I said they were primarily scots-Irish that you find offensive? Or that I compared them to the black underclass?[/quote]

Your knowledge seems to come from a book called Rainbow Pie Redneck (reviewed by a total of 9 people on Amazon) that comes from the same author who wrote “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.” I agree that Wikipedia is not a fantastic source, but from what you’ve written, I don’t think your knowledge is particularly comprehensive.

And what i object to is, frankly, is that you seem so confident of yourself that you don’t even consider that you might be wrong, or that you might be guilty of what you criticize others for. Not just in this post, but many.

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[quote=Arraya]

So your glancing at Wikipedia proves I don’t know what I am talking about.

Is it that fact that we have a growing white underclass since WWII(accelerating after the mid 70s, then put into hyper-drive in the past decade) or the fact that I said they were primarily scots-Irish that you find offensive? Or that I compared them to the black underclass?[/quote]

Your knowledge seems to come from a book called Rainbow Pie Redneck (reviewed by a total of 9 people on Amazon) that comes from the same author who wrote “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.” I agree that Wikipedia is not a fantastic source, but from what you’ve written, I don’t think your knowledge is particularly comprehensive.

And what i object to is, frankly, is that you seem so confident of yourself that you don’t even consider that you might be wrong, or that you might be guilty of what you criticize others for. Not just in this post, but many.

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[quote=Arraya]

So your glancing at Wikipedia proves I don’t know what I am talking about.

Is it that fact that we have a growing white underclass since WWII(accelerating after the mid 70s, then put into hyper-drive in the past decade) or the fact that I said they were primarily scots-Irish that you find offensive? Or that I compared them to the black underclass?[/quote]

Your knowledge seems to come from a book called Rainbow Pie Redneck (reviewed by a total of 9 people on Amazon) that comes from the same author who wrote “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.” I agree that Wikipedia is not a fantastic source, but from what you’ve written, I don’t think your knowledge is particularly comprehensive.

And what i object to is, frankly, is that you seem so confident of yourself that you don’t even consider that you might be wrong, or that you might be guilty of what you criticize others for. Not just in this post, but many.

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[quote=Arraya]

So your glancing at Wikipedia proves I don’t know what I am talking about.

Is it that fact that we have a growing white underclass since WWII(accelerating after the mid 70s, then put into hyper-drive in the past decade) or the fact that I said they were primarily scots-Irish that you find offensive? Or that I compared them to the black underclass?[/quote]

Your knowledge seems to come from a book called Rainbow Pie Redneck (reviewed by a total of 9 people on Amazon) that comes from the same author who wrote “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.” I agree that Wikipedia is not a fantastic source, but from what you’ve written, I don’t think your knowledge is particularly comprehensive.

And what i object to is, frankly, is that you seem so confident of yourself that you don’t even consider that you might be wrong, or that you might be guilty of what you criticize others for. Not just in this post, but many.

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[quote=Arraya]

So your glancing at Wikipedia proves I don’t know what I am talking about.

Is it that fact that we have a growing white underclass since WWII(accelerating after the mid 70s, then put into hyper-drive in the past decade) or the fact that I said they were primarily scots-Irish that you find offensive? Or that I compared them to the black underclass?[/quote]

Your knowledge seems to come from a book called Rainbow Pie Redneck (reviewed by a total of 9 people on Amazon) that comes from the same author who wrote “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War.” I agree that Wikipedia is not a fantastic source, but from what you’ve written, I don’t think your knowledge is particularly comprehensive.

And what i object to is, frankly, is that you seem so confident of yourself that you don’t even consider that you might be wrong, or that you might be guilty of what you criticize others for. Not just in this post, but many.

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[quote=Arraya][quote=njtosd]

Whether they were valid, whether you agree, whether they are debatable are all questions that would be worth raising. Instead you chose to head off on what you thought was a humorous rant against a rather obscure group of people, complete with sweeping, unsupported and insulting generalizations (and misspellings).[/quote]

I supported it with two books. Statistics are not as easy to come by. You have to dig a little deeper and connect a few dots. [/quote]

You don’t really have to dig a lot deeper than Wikipedia, which identifies a lot more information about the American Scotch Irish population than you did. For example, they founded Princeton University (I guess that was before they discovered the joys of debauchery). Hmm, but wait, it also shows data identifying 12 U.S. Presidents as being of Scotch-Irish heritage, not to mention John Wayne, George Patton, Elvis Presley and John McCain. The map included in the Wikipedia listing doesn’t show the origin of its data, but it depicts a rather large population of people of Scotch Irish background in the northern plains and pacific northwest, which may even be larger than the population in the east. Your choice not to look a little closer into this issue suggests to me that you prefer your rather one sided view of things, which makes you rather a “culturalist” I would say.

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[quote=Arraya][quote=njtosd]

Whether they were valid, whether you agree, whether they are debatable are all questions that would be worth raising. Instead you chose to head off on what you thought was a humorous rant against a rather obscure group of people, complete with sweeping, unsupported and insulting generalizations (and misspellings).[/quote]

I supported it with two books. Statistics are not as easy to come by. You have to dig a little deeper and connect a few dots. [/quote]

You don’t really have to dig a lot deeper than Wikipedia, which identifies a lot more information about the American Scotch Irish population than you did. For example, they founded Princeton University (I guess that was before they discovered the joys of debauchery). Hmm, but wait, it also shows data identifying 12 U.S. Presidents as being of Scotch-Irish heritage, not to mention John Wayne, George Patton, Elvis Presley and John McCain. The map included in the Wikipedia listing doesn’t show the origin of its data, but it depicts a rather large population of people of Scotch Irish background in the northern plains and pacific northwest, which may even be larger than the population in the east. Your choice not to look a little closer into this issue suggests to me that you prefer your rather one sided view of things, which makes you rather a “culturalist” I would say.

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[quote=Arraya][quote=njtosd]

Whether they were valid, whether you agree, whether they are debatable are all questions that would be worth raising. Instead you chose to head off on what you thought was a humorous rant against a rather obscure group of people, complete with sweeping, unsupported and insulting generalizations (and misspellings).[/quote]

I supported it with two books. Statistics are not as easy to come by. You have to dig a little deeper and connect a few dots. [/quote]

You don’t really have to dig a lot deeper than Wikipedia, which identifies a lot more information about the American Scotch Irish population than you did. For example, they founded Princeton University (I guess that was before they discovered the joys of debauchery). Hmm, but wait, it also shows data identifying 12 U.S. Presidents as being of Scotch-Irish heritage, not to mention John Wayne, George Patton, Elvis Presley and John McCain. The map included in the Wikipedia listing doesn’t show the origin of its data, but it depicts a rather large population of people of Scotch Irish background in the northern plains and pacific northwest, which may even be larger than the population in the east. Your choice not to look a little closer into this issue suggests to me that you prefer your rather one sided view of things, which makes you rather a “culturalist” I would say.

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