"there is something sociopathic about one's business model being to make money on the suffering of others"
This is ridiculous. They aren't making money by MAKING people suffer; they are making money by STOPPING human suffering. They profit by IMPROVING human life. Hell, this is the entire idea behind things like patents and copyrights: create something that may improve the world and you get a time limited monopoly to benefit from it.
There's certainly a great amount of room for debate on how long that time limited monopoly should last.
I was curious about what they used to measure "gender equality", so I took a look. They use two things. The first is the World Economic Forum's GGI, where the scale goes from 0 to 1. If I am reading it correctly, it can only register inequality when women don't rise as high as men. For example, there are a lot more black women in the US going to college than black men. This would register on the Education Attainment portion of the GGI as gender equality, despite being quite unequal.
The second was Social Watch Group's GEI. It goes from 0 to 100. Unless I'm missing something, it too is unable to measure inequality favoring women as inequality. In fact, "The way the GEI is calculated is a response to the need to reflect all situations that are unfavourable to women" is what their web page says about it. Also, "The final value on the index depends on the degree of negative inequity for women prevailing in a given country or region regardless of whether there may also be inequities that are positive for women (that is to say negative for men)."
In the study, I don't see anything acknowledging this.
I do remember reading about the differences between home schooled and regular schooled kids. If memory serves, and it might not, there was neither a big math nor reading gap.
I remember seeing a comparison between regular and home schooling with regards to boys and girls reading ability. The regular schooling had the reading gap, but the home schooled kids did not have a gap. This was a few years ago and I don't remember particulars, unfortunately.
Already forgotten the calls for the assassination of Bush? Hell, there's even a murder fantasy movie about it: Death of a President 2006
Speaking of murder fantasy movies, how about Machete? Slaughter those who don't vote for open borders!
Remember the championing of the killing of American soldiers in the field by the left?
This wouldn't be the first time that hate filled persons such as yourself blamed the Tea Party people for attacks, of course. The SUV bomb in New York was immediately pinned on the Tea Party by vile person such as yourself. The IRS building having a plane flown into it? Blamed on the Tea Party.
How would it need revisiting? The slandering and abhorrence of all opposition which is so common amongst leftists would in no way be reduced.
Had it been yet another Islamic attack, there would be outpourings of "Islam is a religion of peace!" Increases in Islamic attacks only increases the insistence that Islam is not to blame. Yet the Tea Party people are accused at the drop of a hat.
What a revelatory statement. I was just pointing out the obvious that vicious, hate filled left wing stuff is as common as air. Your "more prevalent" comment was nothing more than bullshit.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, Minister: the only show that is probably more relevant now than when it aired in the 1980s.
Shirly? So... crosdressing gay Muslim atheist pedophiles
Sorry if that went over your head. I'll endeavor to simplify future posts for your edification.
"there is something sociopathic about one's business model being to make money on the suffering of others"
This is ridiculous. They aren't making money by MAKING people suffer; they are making money by STOPPING human suffering. They profit by IMPROVING human life. Hell, this is the entire idea behind things like patents and copyrights: create something that may improve the world and you get a time limited monopoly to benefit from it.
There's certainly a great amount of room for debate on how long that time limited monopoly should last.
Someone with poetical talent should write the history of early computing as a proper epic in dactylic hexameter.
I love stories like this.
Personally, I think such people should have appellations akin to those of ancient Greek Heroes. I could just be weird, though.
Which has nothing at all to do with the education measure.
Which would mean non-home schooled kids know less than nothing since home schooled kids significantly outscore public school kids.
I was curious about what they used to measure "gender equality", so I took a look. They use two things. The first is the World Economic Forum's GGI, where the scale goes from 0 to 1. If I am reading it correctly, it can only register inequality when women don't rise as high as men. For example, there are a lot more black women in the US going to college than black men. This would register on the Education Attainment portion of the GGI as gender equality, despite being quite unequal.
The second was Social Watch Group's GEI. It goes from 0 to 100. Unless I'm missing something, it too is unable to measure inequality favoring women as inequality. In fact, "The way the GEI is calculated is a response to the need to reflect all situations that are unfavourable to women" is what their web page says about it. Also, "The final value on the index depends on the degree of negative inequity for women prevailing in a given country or region regardless of whether there may also be inequities that are positive for women (that is to say negative for men)."
In the study, I don't see anything acknowledging this.
I do remember reading about the differences between home schooled and regular schooled kids. If memory serves, and it might not, there was neither a big math nor reading gap.
I remember seeing a comparison between regular and home schooling with regards to boys and girls reading ability. The regular schooling had the reading gap, but the home schooled kids did not have a gap. This was a few years ago and I don't remember particulars, unfortunately.
Except the story didn't say anything about him selling comics. Just buying them. Buying over 18,000 of them.
“Gwinn said that Aaron began to struggle with money because he would spend his drug money on comic books.”
It would be funny if he turned to meth dealing as a way to finance his addictive comic book collection habit.
Ah crap.
I apologize. Someone else used a similar turn of phrase and I didn't look who you were responding to (I assumed it was me.)
His favorite books include the Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf and Alice in Wonderland.
Apparently, he also did volunteer work for... are you ready for this... a Book Fair!
http://azstarnet.com/events/collection_aebeb63c-2f9e-11df-9021-001cc4c002e0.html?photo=8
He also did volunteer work at a Tuscon Book Fair:
http://azstarnet.com/events/collection_aebeb63c-2f9e-11df-9021-001cc4c002e0.html?photo=8
They don't have leftists in the UK?
I already posted a link to that.
How does his bizarre comments about mind control have anything to do with the prevalence of leftist hate mongering?
Already forgotten the calls for the assassination of Bush? Hell, there's even a murder fantasy movie about it: Death of a President 2006
Speaking of murder fantasy movies, how about Machete? Slaughter those who don't vote for open borders!
Remember the championing of the killing of American soldiers in the field by the left?
This wouldn't be the first time that hate filled persons such as yourself blamed the Tea Party people for attacks, of course. The SUV bomb in New York was immediately pinned on the Tea Party by vile person such as yourself. The IRS building having a plane flown into it? Blamed on the Tea Party.
Have you no decency, sir? Have you no decency?
Could you write something actually coherent or is that the best you can do in lame attempt to slander?
If this Loughner guy is the guy with this YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/a/u/2/PnNx0WThoF0 then he is just nuts.
How would it need revisiting? The slandering and abhorrence of all opposition which is so common amongst leftists would in no way be reduced.
Had it been yet another Islamic attack, there would be outpourings of "Islam is a religion of peace!" Increases in Islamic attacks only increases the insistence that Islam is not to blame. Yet the Tea Party people are accused at the drop of a hat.
Why the discrepancy?
What a revelatory statement. I was just pointing out the obvious that vicious, hate filled left wing stuff is as common as air. Your "more prevalent" comment was nothing more than bullshit.
"While many people on slashdot are of many different political views and seem to be able to discuss issues civilly"
I'm gonna need some examples of this...
Yep.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080627143201AAUfXM3
Don't forget the Tea Party people being blamed for that SUV bomb in New York that didn't go off.
Liberals make murder fantasy movies:
Death of a President http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/
Machete http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/
"particular brand is simply more prevalent on the Right"
Oh fuck you.
The Death of a President 2006
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/
Bloomberg blaming the Tea Party for the SUV bomb in New York.
Endless accusations of "racism" or whatever the heresy of the week because of opposition to some utterly unrelated policy.
The constant screeching of "Bush is Hitler!!!"
Maher's disappointment that Cheney wasn't killed during a visit in Afghanistan.