Sure, but he said nothing sexist. Had he been seriously proposing "separate but equal" labwork, sure, that's sexist, but he didn't do that. Had he been suggesting that women don't belong in science, sure, that's sexist, but he didn't do that.
It's fashionable (especially among millennials) to use words like "racism" and "sexism" a lot these days, but so many people saying them have no idea what those words mean. They would in all seriousness condemn Blazing Saddles as racist (and, come to think of it, sexist as well), because it "repeated stereotypes" and other such nonsense. Those words have become so overused they're nearly meaningless now, and only in that nearly-meaningless sense could you consider what he said "sexist".
If you can't find Blazing Saddles funny, it's you who is broken.
Recognizing that there are differences between men and women is not sexism; lack of equality of opportunity is. Pretending we're all the same is moral cowardice at best; equal opportunity to succeed differences and all is a laudable goal; enforced equal outcomes is simply evil.
They are offensive because they work to set those people back
Ah, the soft racism of lowered expectations. "X people can't overcome life's normal obstacles, so we all need to treat them special, since, you know, they need our help".
Then your "black friend" is stupid, the reason the word is offensive to everyone it's because that's what was said right before your neighbors hanged you, or right before they beat and whipped your mother in front of you.
It's the hate embodied in that word, and anyone that knows the history of it should be offended it gets used.
It's also the word everyone said all the time in much of the South, the verbal equivalent of "black person" today, in a culture where that was just the word people used, for generations.
But it's mostly SJWs who are outraged today. To give you an idea of the changing times, there's a current "scandal" (or at least wave of people being offended) in the rap community about white rappers using the N-word. But not because anyone was offended at the word - that's not even mentioned - but because it has become a term that shows you're part of the black community, and (some) black rappers are offended at the "cultural appropriation", to use the SJW term. In other words, they're offended that the white rappers are trying to be part of a community where some feel they don't belong.
You might find a few minutes reading how car insurance works educational, as well as this from another company, just to have more than once source. Arguing from a position of factual error doesn't help your cause, and doesn't might you look bright.
You might also want to think through the likely consequences of removing the current serious financial penalties for being a bad driver. Or do you not care about any of that, and all you really want is government takeover of some industry, regardless of downsides? If that's your agenda, don't hide it behind distractions.
Yes, I get that. So do I. So insure yourself for that - there's a specific insurance product for that, it's a check-box on your car insurance, and it's typically pretty cheap unless you drive a Rolls. Seriously, proposing a system that's been show to be quite expensive as an alternative to spending 2 minutes learning how normal car insurance actually works (and works more cheaply) is quite silly. You're arguing from ignorance here.
No. Uninsured/underinsured insurance is how you take responsibility for your own assets. Should a careful driver of a very cheap used car pay to insure a Rolls in case someone uninsured hits the Rolls? No - that's the Rolls's owners problem.
There's plenty of new data coming, eventually - from the higher-energies in the LHC to the polarization of the CMBR, to the 'dark age" probes. But the physics of the small took a massive hit for over 20 years when the SCSC was cancelled, and it's sort of run wild. I do hope the inflation guys stop the circle jerk and look for ways to falsify one another's theories though - I doubt I'll see a CNBR probe in my lifetime (astronomy you can do a mile underground!), but surely there must be more data we can extract from the CMBR.
What do you based that claim on? Physics is drowning in ideas; what it needs now is data. Every piece of high-end apparatus, from the LHC to large telescopes, is so over-saturated with ideas, with proposed tests and observations, that it's a big challenge just to decide which experiments are the most important to run.
Look, any Quantum theory describing any force faces the basic problem that the effects of the force occur before the state is detected. Since QM believers think that detecting something *determines* its state at the time of detection, it requires time travel to go back in time and determine the effect so the force can apply correctly. Thus QM is an incorrect model because it violates causality.
Why do you believe in causality? Is it based on events you have witnessed (and read about and so on) at human scale? I suspect so. Both QM and relativity have somewhat odd things to say about causality, but both make predictions consistent with your experience at human scale and in familiar conditions. QM, however, also explains a bunch of very surprising observations. The universe is evidently a strange place, not always consistent with "human scale at familiar energy levels".
QM is certainly consistent with causality - it just provides a more complex notion of causality than intuition does. Relativity does much the same.
If it can't be falsified, it's not even a scientific hypothesis. It's storytelling. It may be a very pretty story, or like String Theory it may be an artless sprawl of a story, but it's not science. It's not a theory until it's made enough predictions, predictions that differed from the null hypothesis, yet turned out to be true, to have gained widespread acceptance.
Yes, sure, stories can be valuable, can inspire, can teach. But we don't call that "science".
There are many religions, "nontheistic religions", that don't worship any particular god - your definition doesn't work. Perhaps you've heard of Buddhism? I would say that a religion necessarily includes a set of philosophical principles that guide us through daily life, however.
A scientific hypothesis is, by definition, falsifiable. I've never liked the word "testable": some of the greatest confirmations in the history of science were simply observations of the universe around us, not "tests" one could run in the lab. From the observation of gravitational lensing during an eclipse as predicted by general relativity, to the CMBR temperature curve matching the blackbody curve, as predicted by the big bang theory, many of humanity's "science: it works, bitches" moments weren't "tests".
Seriously, what a chain of fuckups. The school should have had the balls to check him out in person, ask him to move along. The cops should have seen he's no threat, and done the same. Unless the real story here is that all of that happened, and the guy was just off his meds (which I'm certainly not discounting as possible), this is exactly the sort of paranoid nonsense that heralds the end of a free nation.
That's the right way to look at it: we don't need "ISP as utility", we need "last mile as utility".
A local utility that just maintained the pipe to my house would be a great idea, and let any ISP who wanted compete for my business from there. There are a few places in the US where some quirk still makes independent ISPs possible, and those guys are great. Anything that gets us back to the possibility of independent ISPs in addition to competition between the big guys will fix the remaining issues.
What service are they forcing anyone to provide, really?
Forcing people to provide services to gay marriage even when that goes against their religious convictions is big in the states now. There was a florist in WA who declined to take to business for a gay wedding, instead referring the couple to a list of other florists. WA shut down her business and bankrupted her personal assets. A GoFundMe campaign was started to help her out, but the GoFundMe cancelled it at a whim. (Note that Islamic businesses also commonly refuse to provide services for gay weddings, but everyone leaves them alone - it's specifically the Christians who are the new unpeople).
There are many examples like the above across the states right now.
We have freedom of speech in America. You can deny any holocaust you'd like to deny, because that's speech. However, a business can't refuse to do business with customers on the basis of religion, and I suspect the argument here is religious discrimination.
if Facebook doesn't support groups like this, it serves no useful purpose other than data mining and privacy undermining.
Really? This is news to you? If you use Facebook, you are product. Facebook certainly provides a useful service: selling that product to its customers: advertisers.
US courts force companies to provide a service they do not want to provide and have no contract to provide routinely, or haven't you been following all the gay marriage drama?
That CE shit is socialist - start giving it credit for anything, and next thing you know your taxes are higher, and you have an unnatural fondness for cheese.
Seriously, though, it's the stores that will usually check for the UL logo for you, thanks to liability fears. The buyers for the big chains know what it means, and that's an important reason why producers bother.
Many games panicked over rumors that GFWL might shut down and moved to... GameSpy. Now most are unplayable after GameSpy was bought and turned into an extortion racket, while GFWL is still going strong. I hate having any of that shit in my single-player games, but I know I'm the freak, and most people just care about the online part of games these days.
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Sure, but he said nothing sexist. Had he been seriously proposing "separate but equal" labwork, sure, that's sexist, but he didn't do that. Had he been suggesting that women don't belong in science, sure, that's sexist, but he didn't do that.
It's fashionable (especially among millennials) to use words like "racism" and "sexism" a lot these days, but so many people saying them have no idea what those words mean. They would in all seriousness condemn Blazing Saddles as racist (and, come to think of it, sexist as well), because it "repeated stereotypes" and other such nonsense. Those words have become so overused they're nearly meaningless now, and only in that nearly-meaningless sense could you consider what he said "sexist".
If you can't find Blazing Saddles funny, it's you who is broken.
Recognizing that there are differences between men and women is not sexism; lack of equality of opportunity is. Pretending we're all the same is moral cowardice at best; equal opportunity to succeed differences and all is a laudable goal; enforced equal outcomes is simply evil.
They are offensive because they work to set those people back
Ah, the soft racism of lowered expectations. "X people can't overcome life's normal obstacles, so we all need to treat them special, since, you know, they need our help".
Then your "black friend" is stupid, the reason the word is offensive to everyone it's because that's what was said right before your neighbors hanged you, or right before they beat and whipped your mother in front of you.
It's the hate embodied in that word, and anyone that knows the history of it should be offended it gets used.
It's also the word everyone said all the time in much of the South, the verbal equivalent of "black person" today, in a culture where that was just the word people used, for generations.
But it's mostly SJWs who are outraged today. To give you an idea of the changing times, there's a current "scandal" (or at least wave of people being offended) in the rap community about white rappers using the N-word. But not because anyone was offended at the word - that's not even mentioned - but because it has become a term that shows you're part of the black community, and (some) black rappers are offended at the "cultural appropriation", to use the SJW term. In other words, they're offended that the white rappers are trying to be part of a community where some feel they don't belong.
Here's some example "threats" (all from TFA - worth reading for once)
Rhywunl 5.3l.15 @ 11:35AM
I hope there is a special place in hell reserved for that horrible woman.
Product Placement I5.31.15 @ 1:22PM
I'd prefer a hellish place on Earth be reserved for her as well.
Really DoJ? Really?
Even this:
croaker l6.l.15 @ 11:09AM
Fuck that. I don't want to oay for that cunt's food, housing, and medical. Send her through
the wood chipper.
is so obviously "political bluster", not a real threat.
You might find a few minutes reading how car insurance works educational, as well as this from another company, just to have more than once source. Arguing from a position of factual error doesn't help your cause, and doesn't might you look bright.
You might also want to think through the likely consequences of removing the current serious financial penalties for being a bad driver. Or do you not care about any of that, and all you really want is government takeover of some industry, regardless of downsides? If that's your agenda, don't hide it behind distractions.
I just want to get paid if I get hit.
Yes, I get that. So do I. So insure yourself for that - there's a specific insurance product for that, it's a check-box on your car insurance, and it's typically pretty cheap unless you drive a Rolls. Seriously, proposing a system that's been show to be quite expensive as an alternative to spending 2 minutes learning how normal car insurance actually works (and works more cheaply) is quite silly. You're arguing from ignorance here.
No. Uninsured/underinsured insurance is how you take responsibility for your own assets. Should a careful driver of a very cheap used car pay to insure a Rolls in case someone uninsured hits the Rolls? No - that's the Rolls's owners problem.
There's plenty of new data coming, eventually - from the higher-energies in the LHC to the polarization of the CMBR, to the 'dark age" probes. But the physics of the small took a massive hit for over 20 years when the SCSC was cancelled, and it's sort of run wild. I do hope the inflation guys stop the circle jerk and look for ways to falsify one another's theories though - I doubt I'll see a CNBR probe in my lifetime (astronomy you can do a mile underground!), but surely there must be more data we can extract from the CMBR.
A hypothesis is a falsifiable guess. A theory is a hypothesis with wide acceptance. Do they not teach this stuff in school any more?
physics desperately needs ideas
What do you based that claim on? Physics is drowning in ideas; what it needs now is data. Every piece of high-end apparatus, from the LHC to large telescopes, is so over-saturated with ideas, with proposed tests and observations, that it's a big challenge just to decide which experiments are the most important to run.
Look, any Quantum theory describing any force faces the basic problem that the effects of the force occur before the state is detected. Since QM believers think that detecting something *determines* its state at the time of detection, it requires time travel to go back in time and determine the effect so the force can apply correctly. Thus QM is an incorrect model because it violates causality.
Why do you believe in causality? Is it based on events you have witnessed (and read about and so on) at human scale? I suspect so. Both QM and relativity have somewhat odd things to say about causality, but both make predictions consistent with your experience at human scale and in familiar conditions. QM, however, also explains a bunch of very surprising observations. The universe is evidently a strange place, not always consistent with "human scale at familiar energy levels".
QM is certainly consistent with causality - it just provides a more complex notion of causality than intuition does. Relativity does much the same.
If it can't be falsified, it's not even a scientific hypothesis. It's storytelling. It may be a very pretty story, or like String Theory it may be an artless sprawl of a story, but it's not science. It's not a theory until it's made enough predictions, predictions that differed from the null hypothesis, yet turned out to be true, to have gained widespread acceptance.
Yes, sure, stories can be valuable, can inspire, can teach. But we don't call that "science".
There are many religions, "nontheistic religions", that don't worship any particular god - your definition doesn't work. Perhaps you've heard of Buddhism? I would say that a religion necessarily includes a set of philosophical principles that guide us through daily life, however.
A scientific hypothesis is, by definition, falsifiable. I've never liked the word "testable": some of the greatest confirmations in the history of science were simply observations of the universe around us, not "tests" one could run in the lab. From the observation of gravitational lensing during an eclipse as predicted by general relativity, to the CMBR temperature curve matching the blackbody curve, as predicted by the big bang theory, many of humanity's "science: it works, bitches" moments weren't "tests".
perhaps by waving one's hand and saying "this isn't the street you're looking for" ?
Only a Texas Ranger could pull that one off.
Basically, this was the option open to the principal, knock it over to the police
What absurd cowardice. Just walk up and ask the guy what he's up to, for fucks sake.
Seriously, what a chain of fuckups. The school should have had the balls to check him out in person, ask him to move along. The cops should have seen he's no threat, and done the same. Unless the real story here is that all of that happened, and the guy was just off his meds (which I'm certainly not discounting as possible), this is exactly the sort of paranoid nonsense that heralds the end of a free nation.
That's the right way to look at it: we don't need "ISP as utility", we need "last mile as utility".
A local utility that just maintained the pipe to my house would be a great idea, and let any ISP who wanted compete for my business from there. There are a few places in the US where some quirk still makes independent ISPs possible, and those guys are great. Anything that gets us back to the possibility of independent ISPs in addition to competition between the big guys will fix the remaining issues.
What service are they forcing anyone to provide, really?
Forcing people to provide services to gay marriage even when that goes against their religious convictions is big in the states now. There was a florist in WA who declined to take to business for a gay wedding, instead referring the couple to a list of other florists. WA shut down her business and bankrupted her personal assets. A GoFundMe campaign was started to help her out, but the GoFundMe cancelled it at a whim. (Note that Islamic businesses also commonly refuse to provide services for gay weddings, but everyone leaves them alone - it's specifically the Christians who are the new unpeople).
There are many examples like the above across the states right now.
We have freedom of speech in America. You can deny any holocaust you'd like to deny, because that's speech. However, a business can't refuse to do business with customers on the basis of religion, and I suspect the argument here is religious discrimination.
if Facebook doesn't support groups like this, it serves no useful purpose other than data mining and privacy undermining.
Really? This is news to you? If you use Facebook, you are product. Facebook certainly provides a useful service: selling that product to its customers: advertisers.
US courts force companies to provide a service they do not want to provide and have no contract to provide routinely, or haven't you been following all the gay marriage drama?
That CE shit is socialist - start giving it credit for anything, and next thing you know your taxes are higher, and you have an unnatural fondness for cheese.
Seriously, though, it's the stores that will usually check for the UL logo for you, thanks to liability fears. The buyers for the big chains know what it means, and that's an important reason why producers bother.
Taxes all go to retirement pay anyhow - we could build 10x as many roads and it wouldn't affect overall spending worth mentioning.
Many games panicked over rumors that GFWL might shut down and moved to ... GameSpy. Now most are unplayable after GameSpy was bought and turned into an extortion racket, while GFWL is still going strong. I hate having any of that shit in my single-player games, but I know I'm the freak, and most people just care about the online part of games these days.
Oh, you mean like this system for India (which didn't need Google to create it).