Authenticator app, not just iPhone anymoreFollow

Actually I was just messing with you. Around here though I have noticed a vast amount of people in general driving like ****. But I understand where you're coming from. It's true about stereotypes. It's like me saying that all Asians are Chinese. Anywho, I'm tired and goingto go back to sleep before work. My hyper-sensitivity is too overwhleming right now for the forums.

That sounds pretty tame to me. I'd give it a PG-13 for creepy visual imagery in the video.

What I was referring to was crap like the album Teaches of Peaches by the artist Peaches. I stumbled across it by accident while looking for something entirely different on iTunes. Truly awful music... but I had to buy it. She's really unrestrained. Disclaimers: X-rated, NSFW, not child-safe, and not even good music. Like I said, **** for blind people.

I have far worse crap in my collection, too, but I won't tell you what it is because it's too embarrassing.

Also, that kind of stuff represents a really small portion of my music collection. I mostly listen to hard rock and metal, with a lot of other stuff thrown in including jazz (big band, bebop, fusion), blues, classical, 80s pop, ww2-era pop, and a very tiny amount of modern pop. And nothing by the Beatles, aside from a cover or two by other bands; I know they helped pave the road for most of what I listen to, but I just don't like their sound.

Er, if people don't know by now that I just stir **** up to stir **** up and see them flip out in response, I dunno what to tell them.

I have over 9000 posts of being a colossal douche to people on these forums; I think people would get the hint after maybe a thousand or two.

Just FYI, there are also people that value honesty and not complete ********* I'm not one to sugar coat anything, and if you don't like it, I'd try and convince Word or DF to ban me.

BTW I'm sorry to the people that I offend, I didn't realize we let our children out of the playground and into the workplace in this culture.

So, I was going to redownload the authenticator onto my iPhone but I had already gotten the keychain a while ago, and unfortunately to use the iPhone one I have to disable the keychain and switch to the iPhone.

I'm too lazy to do that, so I'll stick with my keychain.

I wonder though. If I remove the keychain authenticator from my account, would I be able to reapply it to another account? Does anyone happen to know?

Did you stick around for the lesbian **** scene? :P

I don't think I stuck around that long, but if Marilyn was one of the "lesbians"... /shudder

In reply to the Cell Phone thing, I got one question:

What's the difference between talking on a hands-free Cell Phone, and talking to someone in the Passenger's seat?

You're still carrying on a conversation, and neither requires you to take your eyes off the road, nor your hands off the steering wheel.

I wonder if there truly is a difference. If that's so, then maybe we should get rid of passenger seats from cars now, too?

I firmly believe that stereotypes are based on a relative portion of the truth.

There are a LOT of Asian women who are bad drivers. (Not all of course.)

There are a LOT of Jews who are cheap as hell (I'm Jewish, I know many!)

There are a LOT of young black kids in urban USA who get in trouble and join gangs. (and many who live productive, classy lives)


I'll never forget a racist comment I once made. I was 15. I had just finished a long shift at my part time job. It was 11pm and I was drinking a hot chocolate in the parking lot of a coffee shop in my somewhat uppity neighborhood. I had rode my bike there to meet some friends and we were just chillin'. A random black guy kid came up to me and asks me for the time. I told him it was just after 11pm and he walked off into the distance where he joined some friends, also black. Every one of them had a bike except him.

I jokingly said to my friend "I should lock my bike up ... There are black people around!"

Okay. I admit - it was wrong. Stereotypes are bad. The black kids road off on their bikes. I looked at my bike, sitting about two feet from me - all shiny and nice, with a Catseye speedometer, a nice new derailer I had installed myself. I wasn't old enough to drive, so I rode my bike everywhere. I love that thing! (almost as much as I love my car nowadays ...)

... Then, out of nowhere, the black kid from before jumps over my head, onto my bike and sprints off!!!!!!!!! I ran as fast as I could but I couldn't catch him. Some random person tried chasing him with their car, but he ultimately got away. I lost my $500 bike, and all the time and love I had put into it.

The moral of the story - stereotypes are a natural tool we use to protect ourselves. You are not a bad person if you stereotype. You are only ignorant if you really think every individual falls within stereotypes. If I had listened to my instincts, I would have locked my ***** bike up!

Next time you see a Toyota Minivan driving too slow in the left lane, and as you pass it you see an Asian woman with two hands tightly grasping the wheel while holding her head nervously as far forward as she can with a scared look on her face, hit the gas and get away from her!

I'm not a racist. I'm not ignorant. I am a white man who teaches at a high school where out of 90 students last semester, 2 were white. I believe our society is a meritocracy and I judge people as individuals. But when there is nothing else to go by, your stereotypes are a defense mechanism, and assuming you're not making serious decisions based on them, don't feel like you're a bad person.