Generally, it shows some pretty troubling stuff said by people in the federal government that is only troubling after Glen Beck sets up his viewers with his bat-shit-insane editorial slant...
Beck and Limbaugh appeal to the anti-intellectuals because they share a common trait: dropping out of school. Not that somebody can't make it as a drop-out (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and yes, Rush and Beck), but being so brazen about your anti-intellectualism in the name of stirring up the populist opinion (in order to sell advertising) is pretty smarmy in my book.
Why am I not surprised that he didn't read the whole thing and came to an incorrect conclusion? I mean, isn't this the entire reason Beck has an audience in the first place?
I think I can summarize your post. People who hate Beck love science and reason. People who love Beck love logical fallacies and fanaticism. This isn't a right versus left issue, this is a sane versus bat-shit insane issue.
What's this? The average NASCAR fan knows more than the average slashdot fan? You smart guys on here seriously didn't know that the front car of a draft also benefits from the draft? This is especially true when you have a giant spoiler on the back, designed to push your car down...when another car gets close behind you, it lifts the air of the spoiler and decreases drag...of course you know have less control of your high speed vehicle, but as my favorite saying goes, "engineering is all about tradeoffs" (or something like that).
Sorry, but you are simply wrong. There is no difference, either in content or price, between a full or upgrade version of MacOSX. Perhaps you are cherry-picking your argument and using the OSX server licensing scheme? There simply aren't two versions--there's just OSX that will install on any blank hard drive.
There is only one version at one price, (well, there's a family pack but that's a different licensing issue). Furthermore, UNLIKE OSX (and here's my argument), if you buy the Windows "upgrade" version, it physically won't install without a previous version of the OS installed. There is no such thing with OSX. You can queue up the , "yeah, but you have to buy a Mac for it to work argument" now, but that still doesn't invalidate my argument.
Re para. 1: Good for you, but that's YOU. Thinking everyone else should be like you indeed makes you judgmental. By the way, I am also like you, but I'm just not as unrealistic to believe that our way is "better" or "responsible".
Re para 2. Even if I had a terrible deal on my 24 month credit line...it's still MY MONEY and MY FREAKIN' BUSINESS. It does no harm to society to carry a little debt. Hell most of the time I'm just too lazy to pay it all off, or I don't want my checking to dip below $1000 for the week or something petty. To think other people's credit habits are bad is indeed, judgental.
Re para 3. There are entire shows on tv that show the benefit of renting over owning, so it is dumb to make a blanket statement that renting is irresponsible. Again, it depends on the person's individual case, and thinking otherwise is indeed, judgmental.
Re para 4. You can't ignore student debt, but count a mortgage, or consider credit card debt worse than a car loan, or whatever. Debt is debt, and there is nothing wrong with it. To think most people can get by without debt is ridiculously unrealistic. I haven't even made my first mortgage payment, so I doubt I'm in the black, given I couldn't sell my house after living in it for one month. My investment, my choice, my debt.
The huge difference being Microsoft sells "upgrade" disks that only work if there is a previous, legitimate version to uprgrade form already installed on the computer. They also sell "full" versions at a higher price. Apple only has one price and one version (Full version for $129 usually)
Indignant my ass, but I will be now. Anyone who wants to call somebody "irresponsible" because they carry more than "one month's salary" of credit card debt is, a) a judgmental ass, and b) unrealistic. I have more than one month's salary in debt on credit, but that's because the terms were better than paying cash (interest free loan for 24 months).
It's irresponsible to "pay rent"? Are you kidding me? I just bought a brand new house, and even with a VA loan requiring zero down, I still had to pony up nearly $10,000 for a $200,000 house.
I don't see too many renters with that kind of disposable income, and I certainly don't judge them and call them irresponsible.
You people and your posts burn me up to no end. Tell ME how I should live off my 6-figure salary THEN call me indignant for taking offense to being called irresponsible, even though I act in a manner that is completely congruent with 6-figure salaried people's spending habits? Ha!
My point is that this guy has an unrealistic definition of "irresponsible" regardless if you are in Bozeman or Brooklyn. It is not irresponsible to have a mortgage, and it is not irresponsible to have a car loan. Hell, I'd argue it isn't even irresponsible to carry some credit card debt. The convenience of using somebody else's money for a fee (interest) outweighs the supposed "irresponsibility" of my actions.
Big difference. The "God Willing" mentality of the Iraqi people is prevalent throughout the entire country, at all socio-economic levels. In America, there (thankfully) is a large portion of society who believe in things like science.
This is the worst call for "correlation is not causation" ever. The MAD doctrine led directly to the end of the Cold War, because the Soviets couldn't keep up financially, it ruined their economy, which led to political instability and the fall of communism. If there ever was a call for correlation DOES equal causation, this would be one.
I'm a military trainer, and yep, that's (universally) true. Not only in Iraq, but in pretty much every Arab country...it's a cultural thing, Insha allah.
Anyone who has studied Arab culture understands this story is more of an indictment of the culture of corruption in Iraq than it is any misguided US foreign policy.
The fact my Mac can get a virus running WinXP is just more proof to me that WinXP is the culprit. Luckily it doesn't take much to delete that partition and reinstall Windows.
Anyone who uses any computer (including Mac AND Linux) without anti-virus is asking for what they get.
I've been running Mac OSes for 22 years now without virus protection software. I still haven't gotten what I've asked for, damnit! (btw, isn't it "getting what you ask for" and not "asking for what you get"?)
Yes, that's sort of the line I remember. The original German IQ test basically said where you stood as a child in intelligence, compared to your peers of the same age, up to the age of about 12. After 12, our brains go into a different level of cognitive development and the original IQ test did not measure against this, so it was impossible to say that one 16 year old had a higher IQ than another 16 year old, because the test only measured cognitive functions up to the average 12 year olds abilities. I see in some other links posted in this thread that there are indeed modern, age-appropriate IQ tests for adults.
NOBODY said anything about "not being able to live". I personally would rather live in a nice house and have a mortgage than live in a crappy house that I could afford to pay cash for. I also don't like ponying up enough cash for two cars. I also don't like paying cash for my wife's 5 year old $30,000 school loans. I also don't like paying cash for the first house I bought, and now use as rental income.
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Generally, it shows some pretty troubling stuff said by people in the federal government that is only troubling after Glen Beck sets up his viewers with his bat-shit-insane editorial slant...
Beck and Limbaugh appeal to the anti-intellectuals because they share a common trait: dropping out of school. Not that somebody can't make it as a drop-out (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and yes, Rush and Beck), but being so brazen about your anti-intellectualism in the name of stirring up the populist opinion (in order to sell advertising) is pretty smarmy in my book.
(psssst...it's ok to be a current commie too)
Why am I not surprised that he didn't read the whole thing and came to an incorrect conclusion? I mean, isn't this the entire reason Beck has an audience in the first place?
I think I can summarize your post. People who hate Beck love science and reason. People who love Beck love logical fallacies and fanaticism. This isn't a right versus left issue, this is a sane versus bat-shit insane issue.
Woah. A software analogy in a discussion about cars...that's gotta be a first around here.
What's this? The average NASCAR fan knows more than the average slashdot fan? You smart guys on here seriously didn't know that the front car of a draft also benefits from the draft? This is especially true when you have a giant spoiler on the back, designed to push your car down...when another car gets close behind you, it lifts the air of the spoiler and decreases drag...of course you know have less control of your high speed vehicle, but as my favorite saying goes, "engineering is all about tradeoffs" (or something like that).
And the entire Defense Industry doesn't use Flash for software simulation training...oh wait...
Sorry, but you are simply wrong. There is no difference, either in content or price, between a full or upgrade version of MacOSX. Perhaps you are cherry-picking your argument and using the OSX server licensing scheme? There simply aren't two versions--there's just OSX that will install on any blank hard drive.
There is only one version at one price, (well, there's a family pack but that's a different licensing issue). Furthermore, UNLIKE OSX (and here's my argument), if you buy the Windows "upgrade" version, it physically won't install without a previous version of the OS installed. There is no such thing with OSX. You can queue up the , "yeah, but you have to buy a Mac for it to work argument" now, but that still doesn't invalidate my argument.
Re para. 1: Good for you, but that's YOU. Thinking everyone else should be like you indeed makes you judgmental. By the way, I am also like you, but I'm just not as unrealistic to believe that our way is "better" or "responsible".
Re para 2. Even if I had a terrible deal on my 24 month credit line...it's still MY MONEY and MY FREAKIN' BUSINESS. It does no harm to society to carry a little debt. Hell most of the time I'm just too lazy to pay it all off, or I don't want my checking to dip below $1000 for the week or something petty. To think other people's credit habits are bad is indeed, judgental.
Re para 3. There are entire shows on tv that show the benefit of renting over owning, so it is dumb to make a blanket statement that renting is irresponsible. Again, it depends on the person's individual case, and thinking otherwise is indeed, judgmental.
Re para 4. You can't ignore student debt, but count a mortgage, or consider credit card debt worse than a car loan, or whatever. Debt is debt, and there is nothing wrong with it. To think most people can get by without debt is ridiculously unrealistic. I haven't even made my first mortgage payment, so I doubt I'm in the black, given I couldn't sell my house after living in it for one month. My investment, my choice, my debt.
The huge difference being Microsoft sells "upgrade" disks that only work if there is a previous, legitimate version to uprgrade form already installed on the computer. They also sell "full" versions at a higher price. Apple only has one price and one version (Full version for $129 usually)
Indignant my ass, but I will be now. Anyone who wants to call somebody "irresponsible" because they carry more than "one month's salary" of credit card debt is, a) a judgmental ass, and b) unrealistic. I have more than one month's salary in debt on credit, but that's because the terms were better than paying cash (interest free loan for 24 months).
It's irresponsible to "pay rent"? Are you kidding me? I just bought a brand new house, and even with a VA loan requiring zero down, I still had to pony up nearly $10,000 for a $200,000 house.
I don't see too many renters with that kind of disposable income, and I certainly don't judge them and call them irresponsible.
You people and your posts burn me up to no end. Tell ME how I should live off my 6-figure salary THEN call me indignant for taking offense to being called irresponsible, even though I act in a manner that is completely congruent with 6-figure salaried people's spending habits? Ha!
Or maybe we could test the fear detector on an Iraqi policeman using a bomb detector!
My point is that this guy has an unrealistic definition of "irresponsible" regardless if you are in Bozeman or Brooklyn. It is not irresponsible to have a mortgage, and it is not irresponsible to have a car loan. Hell, I'd argue it isn't even irresponsible to carry some credit card debt. The convenience of using somebody else's money for a fee (interest) outweighs the supposed "irresponsibility" of my actions.
Big difference. The "God Willing" mentality of the Iraqi people is prevalent throughout the entire country, at all socio-economic levels. In America, there (thankfully) is a large portion of society who believe in things like science.
This is the worst call for "correlation is not causation" ever. The MAD doctrine led directly to the end of the Cold War, because the Soviets couldn't keep up financially, it ruined their economy, which led to political instability and the fall of communism. If there ever was a call for correlation DOES equal causation, this would be one.
Fraud? When you are selling something you honestly believe in, and your customer honestly believe it works, then you'd have a hard case proving fraud.
I'm a military trainer, and yep, that's (universally) true. Not only in Iraq, but in pretty much every Arab country...it's a cultural thing, Insha allah.
Anyone who has studied Arab culture understands this story is more of an indictment of the culture of corruption in Iraq than it is any misguided US foreign policy.
The fact my Mac can get a virus running WinXP is just more proof to me that WinXP is the culprit. Luckily it doesn't take much to delete that partition and reinstall Windows.
www.google.com microsoft and viruses and "thing of the past".
Anyone who uses any computer (including Mac AND Linux) without anti-virus is asking for what they get.
I've been running Mac OSes for 22 years now without virus protection software. I still haven't gotten what I've asked for, damnit! (btw, isn't it "getting what you ask for" and not "asking for what you get"?)
Only 8 out of 10 programs designed to run on Windows OS worked? What was wrong with the other two?
Yes, that's sort of the line I remember. The original German IQ test basically said where you stood as a child in intelligence, compared to your peers of the same age, up to the age of about 12. After 12, our brains go into a different level of cognitive development and the original IQ test did not measure against this, so it was impossible to say that one 16 year old had a higher IQ than another 16 year old, because the test only measured cognitive functions up to the average 12 year olds abilities. I see in some other links posted in this thread that there are indeed modern, age-appropriate IQ tests for adults.
NOBODY said anything about "not being able to live". I personally would rather live in a nice house and have a mortgage than live in a crappy house that I could afford to pay cash for. I also don't like ponying up enough cash for two cars. I also don't like paying cash for my wife's 5 year old $30,000 school loans. I also don't like paying cash for the first house I bought, and now use as rental income.