You seem to have a skewed sense of statistics and what constitutes a viable proof.
"These non-Black minorities serve as a measurement of African-American racism against Whites (and other non-Black folks)" Well first off control groups are only helpful when they only have 1 thing different from each other (the thing you are studying). And you cannot say that an Asian-American is identical to a African-American in everything except that a African-A will be inclined to vote for a fellow African-A while a Asian-A will not. Ethnic groups have their own racism's (for all I know Asian-Americans are on average racist against African-Americans, and that is why they voted less for Obama).
"Here is the bottom line. Barack Hussein Obama does not represent mainstream America. He won the election due to the racist voting pattern exhibited by African-Americans." Here is the bottom line, while I am sure some people only voted for him because of his skin color we have no reason to think that McCain represented Americans any more then him, or that any other past president did.
And you plan to fix this "problem" by encouraging other to vote by skin color. So while we do not know who the future presidential candidates will be, you already somehow know that the black ones will "not represent mainstream America" and therefore must be opposed?
Actually assuming you have a particular way you go about accomplishing your job, it might actually be patentable.
I remember not long ago some company was trying to patent how they ran their business, something to do with how to schedule and conduct the business meetings I believe.
I think the real factor in how these new motion controllers will do is the games.
IMHO, in all the years the Wii has been out only a few games have been innovative enough to really show off some cool stuff with the Wii mote. And I have yet to see anything that made me very impressed.
While I love the normal game pad/keyboard and mouse, I believe that motion controllers have a huge amount of potential (not to take over, but to evolve alongside other controller types).
I did not mean to advocate abandoning any modern medicine or that the Amish is healthier then average, or anything of the kind.
I was just stating that if the rest of North America's populating stopped taking Vaccines the entire Amish population would not be destroyed down to the last man.
And Vaccination is not the only difference between cultures will large sickness rates, so you cannot just say that history and third world countries prove that vaccines work.
"1. There is no country in the world that "manages to survive" without smallpox vaccination. Previously, there was no country in the world without smallpox." Correct, but they did for a long time. Small pox used to kill a large portion of the population, but not all of it.
While vaccination has almost certainly helped humans reduce disease based death, any culture that does not use vaccination is not doomed to be destroyed.
What my opinion is about Vaccination: While I know far to little about medicine or vaccination to really have any strong opinions in the matter. Just from the historical example of smallpox's, I think it seems obvious that vaccination is a useful technique. That does not mean that it might not be being used to often currently in North America or that some of them do have negative medical side effects.
1. Exactly, obviously no real statistics can be drawn from them.
2. Their are thousands and thousands of Amish (I think >200,000), sample sizes are supposed to be small in comparison to the full population. While I do not know enough to say how significant it would be, hundreds of thousands of people are significant.
3. Humans survived for a long time before the invention of vaccination and whole countries manage to survive without it still.
Health Canada (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/environ/merc-eng.php) seems to think that all mercury exposure is bad (since small amounts add up to be a problem) and even mention how the use of these fillings (on their own pretty much harmless) is one more exposure to a dangerous chemical. "you may want to consider using a product that does not contain mercury."
contains a surprising lack of preferred consoles. list: None Nintendo DSNintendo Wii PC / Computer Sony Playstation Sony PS3 Sony PSP Miscrosoft Xbox Microsoft Xbox 360
The list contains Xbox original and PS1 but not the PS2? strange.
The Pennsylvania school district announces that they plan to end their controversial laptop policy and give harmless cell phones to their students to make up for spying on them.
Has anyone heard how much this will eat into broadband cap? and what internet speed is needed to play?
Their is one thing I know, I would not want to be stuck with a game that I cannot play till the start of a new month because I decided to watch a few youtube videos.
And human waste can already be taken care of by a simple pit dug in the ground, with maybe some specially selected plants if you really want to get fancy.
But the lawyer himself is not infallible. The legal system is not based on, "oh he is obviously guilty so he does not require a fair trial". The trial itself is the indicator of guilt, not the lawyer.
One way to take that idea to it logical extension (IMHO) is just to give police the ability to execute/punish anyone they judge obviously guilty, it would save the courts a lot of money.
How can a lawyer be liable because he took on a client? are people that are not likely to win in court just not going to be able to get lawyers anymore, or will the lawyers they get just be expected to play nice and not put up a struggle if they do not want to be fined?
I know little about lawyers or if similar things like this have happened before, but it seems to me this ruling could destroy any justice that is left in the court system.
It seems to me that Nesson posting download links is a completely separate crime that should of been handled separately.
If a lawyer representing a vehicle homicide client happens to also kill someone with his car while defending his client, this should not effect the outcome of the first trial.
Well if this plays out anything like the Japanese pornographic censorship it may just create the sickest most violent media ever conceived, see tentacle erotica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_erotica).
Excerpt: "the practice [was invented] to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar (often robotic) appendage."
You are a gamer and still cannot bother to screen the games your kids play yourself so think that the entire country needs to be cleansed of any of these possibly objectionable materials?
Most youth are constantly listening to blaring music from head phones anyways, to the extent that I doubt that they could hear any music outside playing at a reasonable sound lvl.
Whenever I hear underage employment I always wonder is it really all that bad?
In countries that practice it they have children starving on the streets, so no matter how bad the conditions are relative to how we would want the conditions to be I am sure the children would rather work for cents a day then to starve to death on the streets.
Now I am sure in many cases it is doing the children a favor to stop underage employment, but I always wonder how many children have starved to death because of Western ethics.
If they want western ethics then get suppliers in countries that have laws and in general follow those rules.
Unless they are incompetent, they expect them to break Apples rules and are OK with this since they will also supply them with cheap labor.
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You seem to have a skewed sense of statistics and what constitutes a viable proof.
"These non-Black minorities serve as a measurement of African-American racism against Whites (and other non-Black folks)"
Well first off control groups are only helpful when they only have 1 thing different from each other (the thing you are studying). And you cannot say that an Asian-American is identical to a African-American in everything except that a African-A will be inclined to vote for a fellow African-A while a Asian-A will not.
Ethnic groups have their own racism's (for all I know Asian-Americans are on average racist against African-Americans, and that is why they voted less for Obama).
"Here is the bottom line. Barack Hussein Obama does not represent mainstream America. He won the election due to the racist voting pattern exhibited by African-Americans."
Here is the bottom line, while I am sure some people only voted for him because of his skin color we have no reason to think that McCain represented Americans any more then him, or that any other past president did.
And you plan to fix this "problem" by encouraging other to vote by skin color.
So while we do not know who the future presidential candidates will be, you already somehow know that the black ones will "not represent mainstream America" and therefore must be opposed?
Actually assuming you have a particular way you go about accomplishing your job, it might actually be patentable.
I remember not long ago some company was trying to patent how they ran their business, something to do with how to schedule and conduct the business meetings I believe.
I think the real factor in how these new motion controllers will do is the games.
IMHO, in all the years the Wii has been out only a few games have been innovative enough to really show off some cool stuff with the Wii mote.
And I have yet to see anything that made me very impressed.
While I love the normal game pad/keyboard and mouse, I believe that motion controllers have a huge amount of potential (not to take over, but to evolve alongside other controller types).
Efficiency isn't everything.
I was thinking the same thing, since pi is 180 degrees and the earth has ~ a round orbit.
1/2 of its orbit makes sense.
I did not mean to advocate abandoning any modern medicine or that the Amish is healthier then average, or anything of the kind.
I was just stating that if the rest of North America's populating stopped taking Vaccines the entire Amish population would not be destroyed down to the last man.
And Vaccination is not the only difference between cultures will large sickness rates, so you cannot just say that history and third world countries prove that vaccines work.
"1. There is no country in the world that "manages to survive" without smallpox vaccination. Previously, there was no country in the world without smallpox."
Correct, but they did for a long time. Small pox used to kill a large portion of the population, but not all of it.
While vaccination has almost certainly helped humans reduce disease based death, any culture that does not use vaccination is not doomed to be destroyed.
What my opinion is about Vaccination:
While I know far to little about medicine or vaccination to really have any strong opinions in the matter.
Just from the historical example of smallpox's, I think it seems obvious that vaccination is a useful technique.
That does not mean that it might not be being used to often currently in North America or that some of them do have negative medical side effects.
1. Exactly, obviously no real statistics can be drawn from them.
2. Their are thousands and thousands of Amish (I think >200,000), sample sizes are supposed to be small in comparison to the full population. While I do not know enough to say how significant it would be, hundreds of thousands of people are significant.
3. Humans survived for a long time before the invention of vaccination and whole countries manage to survive without it still.
Health Canada (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/environ/merc-eng.php) seems to think that all mercury exposure is bad (since small amounts add up to be a problem) and even mention how the use of these fillings (on their own pretty much harmless) is one more exposure to a dangerous chemical. "you may want to consider using a product that does not contain mercury."
So Autism is vaccine related?
and Mercury? that cannot be healthy.
contains a surprising lack of preferred consoles.
list:
None
Nintendo
DSNintendo
Wii
PC / Computer
Sony Playstation
Sony PS3
Sony PSP
Miscrosoft Xbox
Microsoft Xbox 360
The list contains Xbox original and PS1 but not the PS2? strange.
and almost no retro consoles.
The Pennsylvania school district announces that they plan to end their controversial laptop policy and give harmless cell phones to their students to make up for spying on them.
Has anyone heard how much this will eat into broadband cap?
and what internet speed is needed to play?
Their is one thing I know, I would not want to be stuck with a game that I cannot play till the start of a new month because I decided to watch a few youtube videos.
My comment was a reply to a comment asking why he could not reveal this information back when he was still a CEO.
I was only trying to say that CEO's are not able to do whatever they want (even if they do have a huge amount of authority in the company).
A CEO of a company cannot go about leaking any information that could damage the company unless he ok with all the shareholders suing him.
And a CEO does not necessarily own the company he runs, meaning he can(and would) be replaced.
how will you afford this?
And human waste can already be taken care of by a simple pit dug in the ground, with maybe some specially selected plants if you really want to get fancy.
I have had a video card overheat and break my motherboard.
I am not sure about the technical side but I imagine that the motherboard was not designed to run at extreme temperatures.
is it just far far harder to try to protect from piracy then it is to crack, or is Skid-Row just more talented then their employees.
I understand anything is crackable, but this 1 day cracking that happens most of the time is just excessively quick.
But the lawyer himself is not infallible.
The legal system is not based on, "oh he is obviously guilty so he does not require a fair trial".
The trial itself is the indicator of guilt, not the lawyer.
One way to take that idea to it logical extension (IMHO) is just to give police the ability to execute/punish anyone they judge obviously guilty, it would save the courts a lot of money.
How can a lawyer be liable because he took on a client?
are people that are not likely to win in court just not going to be able to get lawyers anymore, or will the lawyers they get just be expected to play nice and not put up a struggle if they do not want to be fined?
I know little about lawyers or if similar things like this have happened before, but it seems to me this ruling could destroy any justice that is left in the court system.
It seems to me that Nesson posting download links is a completely separate crime that should of been handled separately.
If a lawyer representing a vehicle homicide client happens to also kill someone with his car while defending his client, this should not effect the outcome of the first trial.
Well if this plays out anything like the Japanese pornographic censorship it may just create the sickest most violent media ever conceived, see tentacle erotica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_erotica). Excerpt: "the practice [was invented] to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar (often robotic) appendage."
You are a gamer and still cannot bother to screen the games your kids play yourself so think that the entire country needs to be cleansed of any of these possibly objectionable materials?
Most youth are constantly listening to blaring music from head phones anyways, to the extent that I doubt that they could hear any music outside playing at a reasonable sound lvl.
That is a little over dramatic.
Whenever I hear underage employment I always wonder is it really all that bad?
In countries that practice it they have children starving on the streets, so no matter how bad the conditions are relative to how we would want the conditions to be I am sure the children would rather work for cents a day then to starve to death on the streets.
Now I am sure in many cases it is doing the children a favor to stop underage employment, but I always wonder how many children have starved to death because of Western ethics.
If they want western ethics then get suppliers in countries that have laws and in general follow those rules.
Unless they are incompetent, they expect them to break Apples rules and are OK with this since they will also supply them with cheap labor.