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The students also had the police officers surrounded, had been asked and ordered to move. Had been shown the pepper spray and told what would happen if they did not move to allow the police officers through. The students were blocking a main thoroughfare of the campus, and preventing the officers from doing their jobs, heck the officers were surrounded they were even being prevented from leaving the scene.

The African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama were surrounded by police and were shown the police dogs and fire hoses if they did not disperse. The protestors were blocking a main street in Birmingham preventing traffic. Heck, the officers were surrounded and prevented from leaving the scene.

In short the students had every chance to avoid it. They deserved what they got. The School needs to grow a pair and back their officers who acted appropriately. They could have pulled out their billy clubs and started beating on the students.

In short, the African Americans had every chance to avoid it. They got what they deserved. The South needs to grow a pair and back their officers who acted appropriately. They did pull out their billy clubs and started beating on protestors.

Lack of context, much?

Never mind the fact that there are a lot of protesters who try to make a martyr out of themselves by walking the line and pushing the peace keepers to their limits, Just to show how bad the people are. Bad things are easy to explain and gets people's attention. Good things are often complex and boring. So we now live our lives judged bases on our lives at our worst never us at our best.

Well if you watched the video of the incident (and by your comment it doesn't seem like it), the protestors were sitting down and not threatening anyone. Should they have been arrested and taken away? In my opinion yes they were trespassing. But pepper spraying them before they gave any resistance means force was the first option. It wasn't the only video of police spraying protestors without any reason.

Concorde "roar" was the takeoff power with reheat. The sonic boom is not a roar, it is a short bang

No-one near land heard Concorde's sonic boom. They all heard the engines, which were louder than a modern high-bypass turbofan.

If all they do is implement jacks for headphones in seats, it would be awesome. Then make those 3D movies use binaural sound would be the next step.

you mean you can't get your hands dried by this because they are too big? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Actually they pretty much have when you take into account the scale of the noise of natural variation relative to the signal of global warming. There are of course other factors.

You should watch this lecture that Richard Alley gave at the 2009 AGU meeting on The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History. It covers the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere from over 4 billion years ago. I have my doubts you have enough attention span to sit through all 57 minutes of it but it could do you some good if you did.

I just moved from an area where the Alamo Cinema Drafthouse chain was pretty much the only place I would go to watch a movie. There is no Alamo where I'm living now, and I'm considering looking in to a franchise agreement. Can't bear the thought of sitting through a movie with Brenda from Scary Movie.

I can't believe nobody has yet mentioned this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is why Sheldon often wears a blue shirt with the number 73 on it.

This must be that study where they didn't wash their hands before drying them.

Dyson has a rebuttal; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKxT1k1cmXc

Other studies also published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology came to the conclusion that paper towels and the airblade were equally effective at spreading germs - assuming that there really are paper towels, and a proper place to dispose of them.

Tom Lehrer's "New Math" gets quoted semi-regularly: "But in the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer." This is played as a laugh line, but ... really? To me the joke is on everyone in the audience who laughed. If all you want is the right answer, use a fucking calculator.

Pedantic note: when "New Math" was written (pocket) calculators did not exist. They would come out about 5 years later, and become affordable a couple years after that.

Side note: the "New Math" worked very well for me. I liked learning the underlying principles. Another side note: it appears the methods being taught with Common Core are how I have always done mental math.

Anytime you'd like to sit down and solve a complex math problem using your Common Core vs my usage of Common Sense, please let me know. I'll even give you a 10 minute head start.

First off, as they say, common sense isn't common. You weren't born with an intrinsic ability to do complex math problems. You've admitted that you've "done your share of math", and have an advanced degree in a math-heavy subject. The Common Core exercises aren't aimed at you, with your years of honed mathematical intuition. They're aimed at eight year olds, who are just figuring out the stuff for the first time. They're aimed at the majority of people, who haven't grown up in a household where mathematical literacy is a thing taken for granted.

Also, have you seen football players during practice where they do that whole running through tires thing? I don't understand it. I'm not all that athletic, but running over flat ground even I could outrace the football players running through those tires. It doesn't even make sense - they're never going to encounter tires during the game. If someone left tires on the field, the referees would halt the game and make someone pick them up. If you ask me, it's complete and utter rubbish. /s

Of course, the reason they do the run-through-tires thing is because they're training their agility and quickness. Actually running through tires is not going to happen during the game, but the techniques and skills they learn while doing it *will* help them out. -- Similarly with many of the Common Core exercises. They're not necessarily going to be the way you solve math problems in the future, but solving the problem in different ways (heck, even knowing you *can* solve the problem in different ways) will teach you things which will help build your number sense and train your Common Sense. (e.g. what does it mean for addition to be associative? Why is two tens the same as ten twos? What does it mean for subtraction to be the inverse of addition?)

Tom Lehrer's "New Math" gets quoted semi-regularly: "But in the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer." This is played as a laugh line, but ... really? To me the joke is on everyone in the audience who laughed. If all you want is the right answer, use a fucking calculator. Isn't the whole damn point education actually understanding things? If we're satisfied with children just parroting back a correct answer, are we really teaching them, or are we simply manufacturing really shitty calculators? Getting the right answer is easy. Understanding why you're getting the right answer is the hard part.

Teaching students to "carry the one" is pointless. Don't just teach them to carry the one. Teach them what carrying the one means. Teach them *why* you should carry the one. And don't just tell them about it, grind it into their little skulls until it's so obvious they can't imagine people not popping out the womb with an understanding of it. - I don't claim that Common Core is perfect, but everything I've actually seen about it indicates that it's actually trying to do that, rather than create another generation of students who simply parrot back the multiplication table. From what I can tell, most of the pushback is either from people who wouldn't recognize the commutative property if it slapped them upside the head, or who somehow don't realize that it's aiming at understanding more than turning students into rote calculators.

How to use one paper towel.

Shake. Fold.

That's why I'm willing to drive 45 minutes to the nearest Alamo or ArcLight or other cinema that actually enforce rules against being disruptive.

Thanks for taking my money, asshole!

I thought this was the Magnited States of America

Alamo Drafthouse is going to eat their lunch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In the Detroit area we have E-Magine theaters, which have whole-theater reserved seating and electric recliners, and a similar no-phone policy.
They make the AMC theaters look like dinosaurs.

Whenever I think of what waterfall development can do to a project, the opening sequence of The Mission comes to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceFQWV3lMM

Also, there have been no battery fires, but aluminum feels pretty hot when it gets to 50C and people assumed their phones must be OMG about to CATCH FIRE!!

Not sure what Apple fanblog has been spreading that nonsense. Anyone familiar with Lithium-ion chemistry can tell you unequivocally that charged Li-ion batteries can catch fire when damaged or overcharged. You'd be a fool to dismiss it as anti-Apple rhetoric - click on related links to other brand Li-ion batteries catching fire if you feel this is somehow singling out Apple. They're all dangerous and need to be treated with respect for the potential damage they can do. It's why the FAA has banned them in checked baggage on passenger airliners (not that the passenger cabin is much better, but at least there are people there who will immediately notice the fire and try to put it out).

Science is not a once and for all deal *ever*. So odd thing to claim.

Climate scientists aren't claiming they've solved the problem once and for all. They are saying that they almost all agree on the basics, which includes AGW. Any alternative theory has to explain the data, and there just isn't one. If detractors had a theory, then they'd talk about it. But instead we get conspiratorial talk about "bad science" trying to, for example, settle things "once and for all".

Any disinterested person reading your argument should see through it on a moments reflection, but we don't get many disinterested people on the AGW issue, because it cuts across the moral concerns of small-government conservatism. I really think conservative philosophy is great, but it has been used by "thought shapers" (like Frank Luntz) to make the discussion fundamentally dishonest.

Maybe she's a vagina-model. You know, like David Duchovny's character in Zoolander, who was a hand-model.

The music industry would have the courts believe so, but it is not. Nor is it stealing to download videos from Youtube, many of which are published directly by the artist or their label. In fact, that's the most popular way people "pirate" music today and it's not piracy at all, because it was the copyright holder who selected that distribution channel. Of course, there also exists a massive collection of illegitimate music videos on Youtube, but I'm not talking about those, I'm talking about what you can find on Youtube Music, which includes a massive catalog of popular music.

Yeah, right. Evolution is settled science?

Maybe Not

in a world where there are better and cheaper alternatives

Coal is incredibly cheap. What makes it unaffordable for would-be users are the regulations designed to kill off such use.

points to a conspiracy where Obama is engineering the collapse of the coal industry

Oh, Obama was blatantly open about it:

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them

Whether Obama himself is "in on it", there is little doubt that the trillions of dollars worth of coal in the ground in USA will not be mined by some people eventually. That those people are currently among enthusiastic supporters of all politicians driving the today's miners out of business is not at all far-fetched.

When Chrome stopped issuing Mac updates for the 32-bit processor in 2014, it was the death knell for my venerable 2006 MacBook (now running Mint Linux). As the 8-Bit Guy demonstrated in his YouTube, the 32-bit MacBook can run the latest 32-bit Windows OS and 32-bit Chrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJw8aSxEFwQ

John Oliver makes a good case for protecting personal data.

Which incidentally is exactly the same argument for the 2nd amendment the right to keep and use guns. I found it particular gratifying that John Oliver is on-board with the experiment that is the United States: valuing the freedom/privacy/defense of the individual over and above the good of society.

Once and for all? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Science is not a once and for all deal *ever*. So odd thing to claim.

Exactly! Teach the controversy. Like we do with other UNPROVEN theories, like the Theory of Evolution, and the Theory of Gravity.

No one knows how any of those things work. There's no proof that if you let go of the ground, you won't fall off the Earth some day. Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't, no matter what the consensus is!

Let those mentally ill people use whatever bathroom they want....

in Bellview or Arkham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Next Ice Age with Leonard Nimoy (1977).

Thank you for the kind words, My Lord. We, of the Climate Inquisition, will use or political appointed Attorneys General to hound out and destroy free thinkers and potential 'deniers' wherever they may be found! Free speech cannot be tolerated, and neither can failure to kowtow to the approved doctrine.

Unfortunately, research into head exploding genocide devices is not going so well. We may have to rely on agents like RFK, Parncutt, Weinstein, Lovelock, or Weinstein to provoke to necessary to kill them all.

It could be anyone you want-- just stick a different face and wig on it. Anyone remember Maskatron?

Build in the ability for the body to reshape its outer skin and you've got babe-of-the week. I'm waiting for the Jessica Alba skin. Yum!

Once and for all? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Science is not a once and for all deal *ever*. So odd thing to claim.

coal will continue to be burnt for a time to come, but consumption will continue to dwindle. Ultimately the coal companies will be left with stranded assets. Not a good investment at any price.

Leonard Nimoy on the matter.

And every childish prank has to be met with no mercy.

Justice.

Meh, don't start with that sort of talk in this drum circle! You should take the time to learn how to be gluten intolerant so you can fit in better.

You sound ridiculous, vacillating from one defense to another.

No, if you could read, it's the same defense. You presented some claims, and have repeatedly failed to back it up with anything substantial.

It's not a problem to do so, but you made it clear from the start that you wanted to dismiss anything that didn't fit your political leanings as "news",

No if you could read, i asked that you give us all something more substantial than "the news". All your references have been "the news", and I rightly dismiss this as "the news" is not a reliable reference.

I would expect somebody commenting on American politics to be familiar with them,

Oh I'm familiar with them, I just wanted to understand which specific detail concerns you. Yet rather than enter into the discussion you continue to argue that "the news" explains your entire policital opinion.

The short version is

Fuck at last! Was that really so hard?

that a black guy got shot by a cop, there was an outcry that it was racist police brutality, and it made national news.

Good so far.

Brown was called "a gentle giant".

By a media organisation which we've already established is unreliable.

Then the police released video footage of Brown robbing a convenience store shortly before the incident, physically shoving the clerk when he confronted him.

By the police which are an interested party in the case.

Idiots like John Oliver then say this video is "irrelevant", like it wouldn't pertain at all to his character or state of mind.

Maybe he is right, maybe he is wrong. What is correct is that trial by media is a foolish proposition. This is why we have courts.

The officer was eventually cleared, both by local authorities and a federal investigation, with witness testimony matching forensic evidence that backed up the officer's account.

So the system works. What was your problem again?

And yet this Brown thug is still a poster child for Black Lives Matter.

I'm not across this organisation, but there must be millions of similar activist groups all across America, all with varying degrees of extreme views. Do you let all of them affect your opinion?

Oh, and if you use the word "thug" you're racist.

According to one guy. According to another guy, we are all really being mind controlled by aliens, and according to yet another guy we should be allowed to fuck children.
Do you see how it works yet? Once you boil down your argument, you've gotten all angry based one or two people's opinions. The courts opinion (the one that actually counts) aligns with your own, so why are you angry? Are you really arguing for people not to be allowed their own opinion, regardless of how stupid it is?

You sound ridiculous, vacillating from one defense to another.

No, if you could read, it's the same defense. You presented some claims, and have repeatedly failed to back it up with anything substantial.

It's not a problem to do so, but you made it clear from the start that you wanted to dismiss anything that didn't fit your political leanings as "news",

No if you could read, i asked that you give us all something more substantial than "the news". All your references have been "the news", and I rightly dismiss this as "the news" is not a reliable reference.

I would expect somebody commenting on American politics to be familiar with them,

Oh I'm familiar with them, I just wanted to understand which specific detail concerns you. Yet rather than enter into the discussion you continue to argue that "the news" explains your entire policital opinion.

The short version is

Fuck at last! Was that really so hard?

that a black guy got shot by a cop, there was an outcry that it was racist police brutality, and it made national news.

Good so far.

Brown was called "a gentle giant".

By a media organisation which we've already established is unreliable.

Then the police released video footage of Brown robbing a convenience store shortly before the incident, physically shoving the clerk when he confronted him.

By the police which are an interested party in the case.

Idiots like John Oliver then say this video is "irrelevant", like it wouldn't pertain at all to his character or state of mind.

Maybe he is right, maybe he is wrong. What is correct is that trial by media is a foolish proposition. This is why we have courts.

The officer was eventually cleared, both by local authorities and a federal investigation, with witness testimony matching forensic evidence that backed up the officer's account.

So the system works. What was your problem again?

And yet this Brown thug is still a poster child for Black Lives Matter.

I'm not across this organisation, but there must be millions of similar activist groups all across America, all with varying degrees of extreme views. Do you let all of them affect your opinion?

Oh, and if you use the word "thug" you're racist.

According to one guy. According to another guy, we are all really being mind controlled by aliens, and according to yet another guy we should be allowed to fuck children.
Do you see how it works yet? Once you boil down your argument, you've gotten all angry based one or two people's opinions. The courts opinion (the one that actually counts) aligns with your own, so why are you angry? Are you really arguing for people not to be allowed their own opinion, regardless of how stupid it is?

The research funding dictated who had a voice.

And those with the voice, can get more research funding. Is not it nice, when the government is picking winners?

Climate science has a harder problem to address, but is as rigorous as is reasonable in the circumstances.

I wonder, what you mean by "rigorous" here. Lysenko, for example, rigorously persecuted adherents of the reactionary Mendelian genetics. And, when their activities endangered the favor he held with the government, denounced them as "enemies of the people".

Something that could never happen in a free country. Right?

Is it really a reliable scientific theory, if police are called on to silence its opponents?

It reminds me of that scene from "Sleeper" where Woody Allen wakes up 200 years in the future and asks for granola for breakfast, and they wonder why he didn't request "healthy" food like deep fat, and cream pies. That was supposed to be a joke, but actually reflects reality. The high carb diet that we were all told was healthy, turns out to have been an oops.

Geez, I for the days of NOT that long ago, when the only words you couldn't use on TV were the George Carlin Famous 7.

This should've been linked in TFA/TFS somewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That is not clear at this point. There are still 2 other Republicans. If they fall out. You will see it tighten up. Do you seriously think a Cruz or Kasich supporter is going to vote for Hillary? She basically has 49-50% of the vote 'sown up'. That is because the democrat field was basically her Sanders and some other guy who dropped out quickly.

It will be the 'same' as it has been for about 80 years. 49.7 on both sides with a small portion of people actually deciding which way it goes. CPG Grey explains it better than me. Why the vote will go the same way it always does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

'Wipe the floor' would be at least 60+% of the popular vote that has not happened in a long time. It will come down to picking the correct swing states as usual.

So far Clinton has only barked (literally) at Trump. With the media doing anything to make what trump does look bad (including many on foxnews). If Trump gets the nomination. Expect his rhetoric to be fairly tame for a bit and ramping up quite significantly as the nov 4 date comes closer. He has no shame. Clinton however does. He is not playing the same game as the rest. He is playing the reality show game. He has sussed out an important fact about our voting. It is not about right or wrong. Hell he used to be a democrat if you think that side is the 'right one' and republicans are the 'wrong one'. He has figured out it is a straight up popularity contest. There are too few candidates at the end for it to be any different. So GO TEAM GO!!!!

I reject that there is no choice. People put up with all kinds of bullshit they don't like about their life or restraints on their desires. For example, if somebody is attracted to children that doesn't mean they are free to act on their impulses.

Also, I wonder if you've seen the video The Transgender: Normalizing MENTAL ILLNESS, and what you think of the arguments it makes.

If she adopted a bit of a southern drawl in front of white southerners, is it white-on-white racism?

Does she do New York, Jersey, Minnesota, Valley Girl and Boston accents too? Does she customize her southern for the regional varances such as Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas ? Does she pick up a Hispanic accent in Miami?

Having listened to the speeches in question, it was contrived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Leftists do not tolerate challenging questions, legitimate or otherwise.

Extremists of ALL political and religious colours abhore dissent, humans are born and raised on a handful of innate moral principles. For example "purity" is expressed on the far right by their puritanical view of sex, on the left it is all about the purity of our food and water. The unpopular and difficult solution for avoiding these mental cages is to try not to attach yourself to firmly to any particular political/religious tribe. It is difficult because it violates the innate morality of "loyalty".

Replace "Muslims" with "Black people"

No, you moron. Muslims belong to a religious group, they are not a race. If we can criticize the beliefs of Christians without being racist we can criticize the beliefs of Muslims without being racist. Islam is an insular ideology which promotes the concept of perpetual religious struggle to spread Islam and be better Muslims, it's called "Jihad". Islam comes with it's own structure of governance, which Muslims also believe in. The unwillingness to integrate and instead Hijrah (mass holy migration to conquer a land) is promoted by the religion of Islam which Muslims follow (or else they're not Muslims). Mohammad wasn't considered a messenger of God until after he completed his first Hijrah and had Islam take over the city his people migrated to.

It would be like me saying: "Most Christians are always going to be against gay marriage, because that position is in their Bible", and you replying, "Replace Christians with Blacks and you'd have KKK propaganda [blah blah blah]." It's fucking asinine and you know nothing of Islam.

Would you like to know more?

Give up. you sound ridiculous now.

You sound ridiculous, vacillating from one defense to another.

Burden, proof, claimant.

It's not a problem to do so, but you made it clear from the start that you wanted to dismiss anything that didn't fit your political leanings as "news", which is quite a hypocritical position to take given that you're commenting on a sensational news story on Slashdot, "How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro".

I gave you concrete examples of stories that achieved widespread and prolonged news coverage. I would expect somebody commenting on American politics to be familiar with them, or if not, to do a little fucking research on your own before dismissing it out of hand.

You could start by reading the Wikipedia page, which is backed up by references. The short version is that a black guy got shot by a cop, there was an outcry that it was racist police brutality, and it made national news.

Brown was called "a gentle giant". Then the police released video footage of Brown robbing a convenience store shortly before the incident, physically shoving the clerk when he confronted him. Idiots like John Oliver then say this video is "irrelevant", like it wouldn't pertain at all to his character or state of mind. The officer was eventually cleared, both by local authorities and a federal investigation, with witness testimony matching forensic evidence that backed up the officer's account. And yet this Brown thug is still a poster child for Black Lives Matter. Oh, and if you use the word "thug" you're racist.

Give up. you sound ridiculous now.

You sound ridiculous, vacillating from one defense to another.

Burden, proof, claimant.

It's not a problem to do so, but you made it clear from the start that you wanted to dismiss anything that didn't fit your political leanings as "news", which is quite a hypocritical position to take given that you're commenting on a sensational news story on Slashdot, "How San Francisco Hazed a Tech Bro".

I gave you concrete examples of stories that achieved widespread and prolonged news coverage. I would expect somebody commenting on American politics to be familiar with them, or if not, to do a little fucking research on your own before dismissing it out of hand.

You could start by reading the Wikipedia page, which is backed up by references. The short version is that a black guy got shot by a cop, there was an outcry that it was racist police brutality, and it made national news.

Brown was called "a gentle giant". Then the police released video footage of Brown robbing a convenience store shortly before the incident, physically shoving the clerk when he confronted him. Idiots like John Oliver then say this video is "irrelevant", like it wouldn't pertain at all to his character or state of mind. The officer was eventually cleared, both by local authorities and a federal investigation, with witness testimony matching forensic evidence that backed up the officer's account. And yet this Brown thug is still a poster child for Black Lives Matter. Oh, and if you use the word "thug" you're racist.

This https://www.youtube.com/watch?... at least is something of value. C++ is not the way forward due to security concerns and difficulties with concurrency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...