"Glorious Harmony" sounds like the name of the cult that dressed them selves up in robes lay down and poisoned themselves because they new the Alien ship was coming to snatch them away to heaven.
But then it is true that there are racists, sexist, homophobes,.... What is being described with those terms is some aspect of the persons behaviour that is offensive to other humans. If you go down South in this country, you don't have to travel far to find someone who thinks Blacks should still be slaves, or at least are unworthy of consideration, support, or any positive attention. A holdover from the slave owner days that many have not gotten over or their defeat in the civil war. Its real, there are people that have some form of those feelings. Certainly on a sliding scale between it not making a difference and a lynching party. So maybe the scientific part of when to apply the term to someone needs a threashold point on that continuum. There are those that will apply it if they see any deviation from center, others apply it as a description of more blatant attitudes or behaviour. But it is a real description and there are really people who are racists, homophobes, sexits... and my feeling is that people should be called out when they get too far out of line. Often time they run with people who think the same so don't even have an idea that that behavior or thought is anything but natural and accepted. Sometimes that needs to be pointed out.
I find it also good to travel around the world and observe different cultures. Many of our assumptions about behavior and what is good and bad need to be reviewed.
Well in the case of the insult to Mohammad, it was far right because it was ridicule coming from a Coptic Christian (maker) and put out there by a right wing nut job. In the case of the Greek Orthodox ridicule, it was coming from someone who was ridiculing the religion for being so far right (conservative, orthodox, intolerant, ideologically certain of having the truth and I'll put you in jail if you openly disagree). So the right wing , moderate, left wing has to do with the protester not the protest. As you can see that very different people can get together on the same issue but are very different in political location. A good example is the moderate to left position on legalization of pot for recreational purposes allied with the far , far right Libertarians who want the same thing but because they don't want government interference (local, state, or federal). (Your not a libertarian if you only don't want federal interference).
But when governments make the lists, you know the ones that have power to put you in prison or deny you accesses to services or locations or permits or can tax you, to gets creepy. We have seen targeted political action before and we still have a collective nightmare over it. Lets stop that and have governements blind to things like race, creed, sexual orientation..
The point being that teachers are committed to their work (at least a good portion) but the idea that the school board will make up the difference isn't realistic without grass roots support and pressure. The trouble with your attitude of, teachers should stop buying supplies and go home at 5pm ignores the central first principle here of teaching the kids. That is tantamount to Rommey's statement the GM should just go bankrupt, jobs and lives and families and kids be damned.
As to the Federal govt involvement, absolutely!, just like insurance companies sharing risk across populations, sharing costs across population enables a more even education across all types of counties and local jurisdictions. I think we have a responsibility to have as even a educational playing field so our country can be a meritocracy not an aristocracy (which is where we are heading). We need to be a democracy not an oligarchy Leaving it to local counties and you better not be born in Appalachia, or rural Mississippi.
It is blasphamey to say that Christ was only a profit. Now how are they going to resolve that. The key point here is an authoritarian group that claimes to have the (disputed) undesputed truth and wants to deny anyone from the disuptation.
I think it is very wrong headed. Now for a Muslem I think it fine that if one that lives by that faith dies by that faith if that be the punishment for blasphamy, but then if we live by that rule, they should live by our rules, like freedom of speech. So I think the answer is live by your rules (those in the faith) and leave the rest of us alone, including those in your countries that are not of your religion.
Is that the UN passes legislation that supports freedom of speech even when it offends some religious group. How else will autocratic governments and religions have the necessary critical review that would allow them to stand or fall on their own merits, which is the necessity and power of free speech to maintain free societies.
I think your comment about Nintendo's is shallow and missplaced. You have a situation with those who are trying to make ends meet, working multiple jobs, and both spouses working, Nintendo might be the only babysitter they can afford.
Also teachers who are invested in making sure your kids have the best education they can have so they have the chance a the american dream and invest their own money in that effort (for your kids, not them) from their meger salaries are the real Americans that are fundementally supporting the American dream. It would be better long range thinking to fund our kids education over say, supplying high tech airplanes and drones to go off and rain terror on some other country.
We have our priorities wrong on a Federal level.
Those teachers should be applauded for that activity not told to let the kids and their parent figure it out for themselves. That would get us more into those families that can afford the calculators and those that can't. Isn't it better to have an even playing field for at least the time the kids are in school?
Actually I believe in re-incarnation and I think he might just come back as a corporation, oh wait, he already is one, maybe a 100% employer contributed 401k program, as penance.
Point well taken, of course you have to fear that doing that angers voters who vote anti-gun laws and they come and take away your guns with the military and tanks to back them up. So it may not be wise to piss of the electorate. You see what they did with prohibition of alcohol and now with tobacco. You miss-behave and your next on the legislation list.
Well when you talk about echasketch I only count his primary persona (and platform) and his general election person as one person. Of course he is not beholding to corporate interests, he is a corporate interest. But then we know they are people too.
A second on On the Beach. but if fantasy is also included the trilogy by Mervyn Peake the Gormenghast was so depressing I could never finish the second book.
Not so, in those close political races separated by only a few votes. Each voter in those elections wielded enormous power to allocate budgets, pass laws to fix our problems, or steal our liberties, or give money to local contractors, or raise taxes, or vote in additional tax breaks. The best that someone holding a gun has done lately is kill a few dozen people watching Batman and worshiping in a Temple. I think the gun/power thing is really overshadowed by the power of the vote. It does make some people think they are big men, at least within that small circle they can actually hit a target in. Think larger all you gun people, it the vote that packs the punch and at much longer distances and for a much longer time. An if you you are thinking of a revolution against the government, well the vote is the orderly way we do things in the U.S. and no one needs to get killed. (Someone should have told that fellow that shot Gabby Gifford).
And for you first person shooter game enthusiasts, they are starting to bring in voting machines so you can even vote via video game.
Wouldn't be the first time that old documentation was forgotten in the heat of a crisis. It is quite possible with certain hierarchical structures that people don't want to think outside their pay grade, especially in aviation and the military where things are set down in rock solid procedures and checklists and specifications and regulations, the teams might explore only those contingencies that were in the current set of procedures with the idea that the backup procedures were more like disaster recovery procedures that you don't want to resort to unless you have to. It may be that someone observing the team behavior suggested that things had gone much too far for the normal thought tracks to be followed. If that was true then that person probably saved some lives and the NASA program. If that were true it seem appropriate to applaud that don't you think?
It would not be the first time some establishment guys were steered in the right direction by some clear thinking individual, or an individual that was enough removed from the politics and dirty details to see that the current thinking was leading nowhere. Some minds get locked into grooves and need to be sling-shoted out of them to get on a better track. This of course is not a new idea. Many mathematical minima heuristics will add a data jump to make sure the algorithm is not stuck in a local minima. These heuristics tend to operate better in some environments. Lets give credit where credit is due, eh. Regardless of length of hair or rigidity of ideologies.
It would seem that correlations should not be patented at all. So you spent a lot of time finding it out, so what. I understand as a business you would want to have the rights to a monopoly on your idea. You can patent the test you make with the materials that make up the test, that should be good enough.
The idiocy of patenting a gene or gene sequence or a mutation that you create (which would happen and probably has in nature already) seems like protecting your looks, if someone is born with very similar looks, you force them to change their face, because you filed first (not invented first as I think the laws have changed).
Patent the test and be done with it, that's OK, with reasonably short time for exclusive profits. We need to foster innovation in this fast paced world, not slow the pace down by decades.
Although innovation in another was is fostered by people having to look into different areas to work around those roadblocks to profits, not unlike the continuing onslaught of people trying to break security of systems, fixes, more breaks, fixes...
Europe acting on anti-trust type of actions on big companies. I remember a time when the U.S. did that and we had decades of prosperity. Ah the good old prosperous days of the 50's and 60's with 90% top tax rate.
Not hate, not even ideology, stupidity is politically neutral but it seems that there is a preponderance of good fiction, and re-writing of history that begs laughter in this political compaign. It also seems like much is coming via Fox "News" (since when). What you see is laughter.
I detect though that you have some scorn, and hate. You wouldn't be invested in that message would you? and you with your "festering bullshit" comment seems like you missed the point and as other have stated, possibly, lack a sense of humor.
Well better than Republicans, lets see. by keeping an open mind, caring for more than just myself and my pocketbook, feeling that every citizen should vote and we should not provide road blocks to suppress voters from voting, I think congress should govern (parties working together and compromising) rather than lying down on the floor and pounding their fists and saying no, no, it that to be my way. Realizing that we are better off now than when Bush was in office, because the economy was in free fall, it is not now. Thinking that unregulated commerce has almost killed the economy what 5 or 6 times, so anyone saying that more de-regulation is the path out of economic crisis, is not playing with a full deck (or most likely, they feel they can take advantage and take your money and run behind the gated community gate before you realize what has happened). I don't know what makes anyone better than an ideologue, on either side.
But as you said, this was about what children should read. But you asked the question.
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"Glorious Harmony" sounds like the name of the cult that dressed them selves up in robes lay down and poisoned themselves because they new the Alien ship was coming to snatch them away to heaven.
But then it is true that there are racists, sexist, homophobes, .... What is being described with those terms is some aspect of the persons behaviour that is offensive to other humans. If you go down South in this country, you don't have to travel far to find someone who thinks Blacks should still be slaves, or at least are unworthy of consideration, support, or any positive attention. A holdover from the slave owner days that many have not gotten over or their defeat in the civil war. Its real, there are people that have some form of those feelings. Certainly on a sliding scale between it not making a difference and a lynching party. So maybe the scientific part of when to apply the term to someone needs a threashold point on that continuum. There are those that will apply it if they see any deviation from center, others apply it as a description of more blatant attitudes or behaviour. But it is a real description and there are really people who are racists, homophobes, sexits... and my feeling is that people should be called out when they get too far out of line. Often time they run with people who think the same so don't even have an idea that that behavior or thought is anything but natural and accepted. Sometimes that needs to be pointed out.
I find it also good to travel around the world and observe different cultures. Many of our assumptions about behavior and what is good and bad need to be reviewed.
Well in the case of the insult to Mohammad, it was far right because it was ridicule coming from a Coptic Christian (maker) and put out there by a right wing nut job.
In the case of the Greek Orthodox ridicule, it was coming from someone who was ridiculing the religion for being so far right (conservative, orthodox, intolerant, ideologically certain of having the truth and I'll put you in jail if you openly disagree). So the right wing , moderate, left wing has to do with the protester not the protest. As you can see that very different people can get together on the same issue but are very different in political location. A good example is the moderate to left position on legalization of pot for recreational purposes allied with the far , far right Libertarians who want the same thing but because they don't want government interference (local, state, or federal). (Your not a libertarian if you only don't want federal interference).
But then you would think you would know that.
But when governments make the lists, you know the ones that have power to put you in prison or deny you accesses to services or locations or permits or can tax you, to gets creepy. We have seen targeted political action before and we still have a collective nightmare over it. Lets stop that and have governements blind to things like race, creed, sexual orientation..
The point being that teachers are committed to their work (at least a good portion) but the idea that the school board will make up the difference isn't realistic without grass roots support and pressure. The trouble with your attitude of, teachers should stop buying supplies and go home at 5pm ignores the central first principle here of teaching the kids. That is tantamount to Rommey's statement the GM should just go bankrupt, jobs and lives and families and kids be damned.
As to the Federal govt involvement, absolutely!, just like insurance companies sharing risk across populations, sharing costs across population enables a more even education across all types of counties and local jurisdictions. I think we have a responsibility to have as even a educational playing field so our country can be a meritocracy not an aristocracy (which is where we are heading). We need to be a democracy not an oligarchy Leaving it to local counties and you better not be born in Appalachia, or rural Mississippi.
It is blasphamey to say that Christ was only a profit. Now how are they going to resolve that. The key point here is an authoritarian group that claimes to have the (disputed) undesputed truth and wants to deny anyone from the disuptation.
I think it is very wrong headed. Now for a Muslem I think it fine that if one that lives by that faith dies by that faith if that be the punishment for blasphamy, but then if we live by that rule, they should live by our rules, like freedom of speech. So I think the answer is live by your rules (those in the faith) and leave the rest of us alone, including those in your countries that are not of your religion.
Is that the UN passes legislation that supports freedom of speech even when it offends some religious group. How else will autocratic governments and religions have the necessary critical review that would allow them to stand or fall on their own merits, which is the necessity and power of free speech to maintain free societies.
I think your comment about Nintendo's is shallow and missplaced. You have a situation with those who are trying to make ends meet, working multiple jobs, and both spouses working, Nintendo might be the only babysitter they can afford.
Also teachers who are invested in making sure your kids have the best education they can have so they have the chance a the american dream and invest their own money in that effort (for your kids, not them) from their meger salaries are the real Americans that are fundementally supporting the American dream. It would be better long range thinking to fund our kids education over say, supplying high tech airplanes and drones to go off and rain terror on some other country.
We have our priorities wrong on a Federal level.
Those teachers should be applauded for that activity not told to let the kids and their parent figure it out for themselves. That would get us more into those families that can afford the calculators and those that can't. Isn't it better to have an even playing field for at least the time the kids are in school?
Now there's Big Mate
I get enough of that at home, I don't need it at work.
It is a good idea to make your voice heard. Obama would be the person that controls foreign policy and would be the person to give your opinion too.
Actually I believe in re-incarnation and I think he might just come back as a corporation, oh wait, he already is one, maybe a 100% employer contributed 401k program, as penance.
Point well taken, of course you have to fear that doing that angers voters who vote anti-gun laws and they come and take away your guns with the military and tanks to back them up. So it may not be wise to piss of the electorate. You see what they did with prohibition of alcohol and now with tobacco. You miss-behave and your next on the legislation list.
Well when you talk about echasketch I only count his primary persona (and platform) and his general election person as one person. Of course he is not beholding to corporate interests, he is a corporate interest. But then we know they are people too.
A second on On the Beach. but if fantasy is also included the trilogy by Mervyn Peake the Gormenghast was so depressing I could never finish the second book.
Not so, in those close political races separated by only a few votes. Each voter in those elections wielded enormous power to allocate budgets, pass laws to fix our problems, or steal our liberties, or give money to local contractors, or raise taxes, or vote in additional tax breaks. The best that someone holding a gun has done lately is kill a few dozen people watching Batman and worshiping in a Temple. I think the gun/power thing is really overshadowed by the power of the vote. It does make some people think they are big men, at least within that small circle they can actually hit a target in. Think larger all you gun people, it the vote that packs the punch and at much longer distances and for a much longer time. An if you you are thinking of a revolution against the government, well the vote is the orderly way we do things in the U.S. and no one needs to get killed. (Someone should have told that fellow that shot Gabby Gifford).
And for you first person shooter game enthusiasts, they are starting to bring in voting machines so you can even vote via video game.
Well not as funny as the current conservative candidate, not only is he one but he owns one. Now that's a rich dude.
Wouldn't be the first time that old documentation was forgotten in the heat of a crisis. It is quite possible with certain hierarchical structures that people don't want to think outside their pay grade, especially in aviation and the military where things are set down in rock solid procedures and checklists and specifications and regulations, the teams might explore only those contingencies that were in the current set of procedures with the idea that the backup procedures were more like disaster recovery procedures that you don't want to resort to unless you have to. It may be that someone observing the team behavior suggested that things had gone much too far for the normal thought tracks to be followed. If that was true then that person probably saved some lives and the NASA program. If that were true it seem appropriate to applaud that don't you think?
It would not be the first time some establishment guys were steered in the right direction by some clear thinking individual, or an individual that was enough removed from the politics and dirty details to see that the current thinking was leading nowhere. Some minds get locked into grooves and need to be sling-shoted out of them
to get on a better track. This of course is not a new idea. Many mathematical minima heuristics will add a data jump to make sure the algorithm is not stuck in a local minima. These heuristics tend to operate better in some environments. Lets give credit where credit is due, eh. Regardless of length of hair or rigidity of ideologies.
It would seem that correlations should not be patented at all. So you spent a lot of time finding it out, so what. I understand as a business you would want to have the rights to a monopoly on your idea. You can patent the test you make with the materials that make up the test, that should be good enough.
The idiocy of patenting a gene or gene sequence or a mutation that you create (which would happen and probably has in nature already) seems like protecting your looks, if someone is born with very similar looks, you force them to change their face, because you filed first (not invented first as I think the laws have changed).
Patent the test and be done with it, that's OK, with reasonably short time for exclusive profits. We need to foster innovation in this fast paced world, not slow the pace down by decades.
Although innovation in another was is fostered by people having to look into different areas to work around those roadblocks to profits, not unlike the continuing onslaught of people trying to break security of systems, fixes, more breaks, fixes...
You would think that with the Miranda decision they would have to at least text you your rights.
Tell that to the "Job Creators" then get back to me with what they say about the use of language and marketing terms for getting a lie across.
Europe acting on anti-trust type of actions on big companies. I remember a time when the U.S. did that and we had decades of prosperity. Ah the good old prosperous days of the 50's and 60's with 90% top tax rate.
So thats where the angels and devils came from, I'm so thankful it was not from evolution.
Not hate, not even ideology, stupidity is politically neutral but it seems that there is a preponderance of good fiction, and re-writing of history that begs laughter in this political compaign. It also seems like much is coming via Fox "News" (since when). What you see is laughter.
I detect though that you have some scorn, and hate. You wouldn't be invested in that message would you? and you with your "festering bullshit" comment seems like you missed the point and as other have stated, possibly, lack a sense of humor.
Well better than Republicans, lets see. by keeping an open mind, caring for more than just myself and my pocketbook, feeling that every citizen should vote and we should not provide road blocks to suppress voters from voting, I think congress should govern (parties working together and compromising) rather than lying down on the floor and pounding their fists and saying no, no, it that to be my way. Realizing that we are better off now than when Bush was in office, because the economy was in free fall, it is not now. Thinking that unregulated commerce has almost killed the economy what 5 or 6 times, so anyone saying that more de-regulation is the path out of economic crisis, is not playing with a full deck (or most likely, they feel they can take advantage and take your money and run behind the gated community gate before you realize what has happened). I don't know what makes anyone better than an ideologue, on either side.
But as you said, this was about what children should read. But you asked the question.