I think you've confused a statement made to a reporter as part of a PR effort with lobbying the government.
The Koch brothers actively lobby for corporate-friendly legislation that includes those tax credits and spend millions backing the Republican party which has spent the last three decades doing everything they can to cut taxes on the wealthy.
There is debate about whether Cro-Magnon should be classed as a separate species or as a subspecies of Homo sapiens. The interbreeding is part of that debate. It increasingly looks like they will end up classed as a subspecies, but who knows. Classifications change as new information is discovered.
All these technologies were developed before written history, so we have no way of knowing which was first. My guess would be the wedge since those are useful for killing and dismantling animals prior to eating them.
The anonymous coward is suggesting that everyone should have to provide their DNA in order to prove that they aren't a bot before posting on the internet?
If humanity IS one species means humanity is a single species BUT its members CAN be further subdivided into groups by constellations of heritable traits
Humanity can't be further subdivided. Subspecies is the only recognized taxonomic level below species and the most important trait of a subspecies is that, while they are capable of interbreeding with and producing fertile offspring, they do not interbreed in nature.
While there are racists who fervently wish it wasn't so, we're long past the days when interracial relationships weren't common. While the racists in the world whine and cry about racial purity, the rest of the human race is happily fucking its way toward homogeneity
You could, but that's too simple. The point of that post wasn't to provide the simplest means of accomplishing the goal. It was to let the poster try to impress other people with his/her superiority. For that, a simple solution won't do and a complex, difficult to implement solution has to be presented.
Let's look at a recent survey: * More than half of girls (53 percent) ages 16 to 24 feel they lacked the confidence to do whatever they wanted to do after puberty. * Almost all girls (89 percent) feel there is pressure to conform to the way they're supposed to feel and act. * Sixty percent of girls believe that society's expectations have a negative impact on their life. * Girls are almost twice as likely as boys to say they did not feel comfortable doing an activity in school because of their gender.
Why can't she decide for herself? Because society is filled with arrogant assholes who insist that women must conform to the traditional roles that women have always been confined to. Any woman who dares to stand up and make a different choice is harassed, abused, derided and shoved back down.
This is about trying to remove the social pressures that force women to conform to traditional roles, not forcing them to become engineers. You don't like that idea, so you're trying very hard to make a straw man work, but it's just making you sound like an arrogant asshole who wants to keep the status quo in place.
Historically, males have been the risk takers, and females have by choice taken fewer risks. Guys do outrageous shit, and girls seldom do anything terribly outrageous.
Pursuing a career in a field that has high demand and better than average pay is neither risky nor outrageous.
When your 'facts'* have nothing to do with what you're arguing for, you should probably step back and reconsider whether your position makes any sense or not.
*scare quotes because the so-called facts presented are gender stereotypes enforced by society which are being held up as evidence that those stereotypes must be natural.
Sure! Who wouldn't stick with an internet provider whose service is disrupted every time a storm with high winds blows through the area? This idea can't possibly go wrong!
I know that was a joke, but juniper trees can easily live over 500 years and 1,000 year old trees have been found. It's easy to find 200 year old juniper trees.
If people making $30,000 a year knew they paid over $1000 a month in taxes
They don't. A single person making $30,000 with no deductions beyond the standard deduction would pay $2,520 for 2014. That's $210 a month, not $1,000.
But hey... don't let facts get in the way of your ideology, right?
The point of teaching computer programming is not to make every child a computer programmer any more than the point of a biology class is to make every child into a biologist.
WHAT?! What a corruption of the traditions of our country's musical heritage. Give me the organic groups-- the Monkees, Menudo, One Direction, O-Town, the Backstreet Boys, NKOB, the Spice Girls.. you know, talented musicians who found each other and came together through the music.
You might notice that most of the artists you named here were from long ago.
You might notice that all of the artists named were bands put together by music companies.
And he's talking about an IT person who updates firmware on pumps at a gas station. Who are the users who are using those pumps? The customers buying gas.
The only problem here is your lack of comprehension.
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I think you've confused a statement made to a reporter as part of a PR effort with lobbying the government.
The Koch brothers actively lobby for corporate-friendly legislation that includes those tax credits and spend millions backing the Republican party which has spent the last three decades doing everything they can to cut taxes on the wealthy.
Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.
There is debate about whether Cro-Magnon should be classed as a separate species or as a subspecies of Homo sapiens. The interbreeding is part of that debate. It increasingly looks like they will end up classed as a subspecies, but who knows. Classifications change as new information is discovered.
The wheel? The ramp? The lever? The wedge?
All these technologies were developed before written history, so we have no way of knowing which was first. My guess would be the wedge since those are useful for killing and dismantling animals prior to eating them.
The anonymous coward is suggesting that everyone should have to provide their DNA in order to prove that they aren't a bot before posting on the internet?
I think my irony meter just blew a circuit.
If humanity IS one species means humanity is a single species BUT its members CAN be further subdivided into groups by constellations of heritable traits
Humanity can't be further subdivided. Subspecies is the only recognized taxonomic level below species and the most important trait of a subspecies is that, while they are capable of interbreeding with and producing fertile offspring, they do not interbreed in nature.
While there are racists who fervently wish it wasn't so, we're long past the days when interracial relationships weren't common. While the racists in the world whine and cry about racial purity, the rest of the human race is happily fucking its way toward homogeneity
You could, but that's too simple. The point of that post wasn't to provide the simplest means of accomplishing the goal. It was to let the poster try to impress other people with his/her superiority. For that, a simple solution won't do and a complex, difficult to implement solution has to be presented.
My programming is usually just XXX.
Translation: The status quo doesn't stay the status quo for long, but here's all the reasons why I think it should!
Why can't she decide for herself?
Let's look at a recent survey:
* More than half of girls (53 percent) ages 16 to 24 feel they lacked the confidence to do whatever they wanted to do after puberty.
* Almost all girls (89 percent) feel there is pressure to conform to the way they're supposed to feel and act.
* Sixty percent of girls believe that society's expectations have a negative impact on their life.
* Girls are almost twice as likely as boys to say they did not feel comfortable doing an activity in school because of their gender.
Why can't she decide for herself? Because society is filled with arrogant assholes who insist that women must conform to the traditional roles that women have always been confined to. Any woman who dares to stand up and make a different choice is harassed, abused, derided and shoved back down.
This is about trying to remove the social pressures that force women to conform to traditional roles, not forcing them to become engineers. You don't like that idea, so you're trying very hard to make a straw man work, but it's just making you sound like an arrogant asshole who wants to keep the status quo in place.
Historically, males have been the risk takers, and females have by choice taken fewer risks. Guys do outrageous shit, and girls seldom do anything terribly outrageous.
Pursuing a career in a field that has high demand and better than average pay is neither risky nor outrageous.
When your 'facts'* have nothing to do with what you're arguing for, you should probably step back and reconsider whether your position makes any sense or not.
*scare quotes because the so-called facts presented are gender stereotypes enforced by society which are being held up as evidence that those stereotypes must be natural.
Almost everything.
Sure! Who wouldn't stick with an internet provider whose service is disrupted every time a storm with high winds blows through the area? This idea can't possibly go wrong!
A year from now, nobody will remember or care when this was added to the app store. I've ripped farts that people have remembered for longer.
There's the evil empire I grew up with! I was wondering where they'd gotten off to.
I know that was a joke, but juniper trees can easily live over 500 years and 1,000 year old trees have been found. It's easy to find 200 year old juniper trees.
A theory that's been around since the 1800s is still around!
At best it's a couple of dozen people working in the back office and some techs to walk around and monitor the automated plant.
A quick look at Wikipedia says Tesla had 10,000 employees in November of 2014 and SpaceX had 3,500 employees in April of 2015.
You didn't even bother with that much fact checking about what you 'know', though, did you. Your entire post is a demonstration of idiocy in action.
If people making $30,000 a year knew they paid over $1000 a month in taxes
They don't. A single person making $30,000 with no deductions beyond the standard deduction would pay $2,520 for 2014. That's $210 a month, not $1,000.
But hey... don't let facts get in the way of your ideology, right?
Most 11 year olds lack the cognitive functions to write novels, too, but that doesn't mean we don't teach them to write.
The point of teaching computer programming is not to make every child a computer programmer any more than the point of a biology class is to make every child into a biologist.
WHAT?! What a corruption of the traditions of our country's musical heritage. Give me the organic groups-- the Monkees, Menudo, One Direction, O-Town, the Backstreet Boys, NKOB, the Spice Girls.. you know, talented musicians who found each other and came together through the music.
You might notice that most of the artists you named here were from long ago.
You might notice that all of the artists named were bands put together by music companies.
You might also notice a whooshing sound.
Because there's absolutely no chance that the NSA would ever think to hijack a connection to any other source of apps beyond Google's store?
They have 6 million customers and revenue of about 8 billion dollars a year.
You have quite an odd definition of "small".
And he's talking about an IT person who updates firmware on pumps at a gas station. Who are the users who are using those pumps? The customers buying gas.
The only problem here is your lack of comprehension.