If you grow up in rich suburbia to parents who care, you will have more opportunity than someone who grows up the ghetto to a single parent that is neglectful.
If you want a level playing field, then look for socioeconomic factors, not race.
Ok . . . so how would that work? A kid applying to college, with parents who care, would get points deducted, because his parents care . ..?
And a kid whose parents don't care would get points added? And plus one for a single parent, minus one for two parents . . . and minus a half point for other relatives living in the house . . . ?
No matter how you try to "level the playing field" . . . it will never be "fair" . . .
I'm still suspicious on the whole matter. It sounded like that broad disclaimer up front was in preparation for some catastrophic news about a General Mills product. Like, "Cheerios causes Autism!" Or that Wu Tang Clan rapper . . . he wasn't doing any hard drugs . . . but he was eating a bowl of Cheerios, before he chopped off his dick!
General Mills has been slapped by a few damaging lawsuits in the last few years . . . because they were downright lying about the ingredients in their products. This disclaimer would have let them walk away from that.
With that legal wording, they could intentionally put ground glass in their breakfast cereals, without any responsibility to the law.
Have you ever heard a tea-partier say "altruism is evil?" Serious question.
Yes, in a TV interview a Tea Party spokesman who identified himself as John Galt said it. Serious answer.
The Tea Party seems to have a lot of folks named "John". Other Tea Party rally folks said their names were:
John Whorfin
John Bigboote
John Ya Ya
John Small Berries
John Fledgling
John Milton
John Nephew
John Two Horns
John O'Connor
John Grim
John Many Jars
John Coyote
John Chief Crier
John Littlejohn
John Mud Head
Obviously, the government is covering something up . . .
. . . maybe the guy dumped a oil drum full of pure LSD into the water, before pausing to take a leak. The authorities are not mentioning the LSD to avoid panicking the public. You don't want to panic the public, while they are tripping their balls off.
. . . or they spotted the Loch Ness Monster, and are draining the reservoir, to catch it in the shallows.
. . . or maybe the guy showed signs of being a zombie, and they need to wait to see if he morphs into one.
Ya gotta try to see through the headlines these days . . . the government is out to stuff you with disinformation . . . and they're always up to something not good . . .
If you're in Portland, I would suggest just drinking pure grain alcohol . . .
Grand Arts High School was formerly known as Ramon C. Cortines School for Visual and Performing Arts . . . apparently, lowly science is not a "Grand Art". It doesn't sound like the place you would send your kid to prepare to study Physics at Princeton or Electrical Engineering at MIT. I pity the poor teacher of science or math in a school full of kids from "pushy" parents, determined that their offspring is destined for stardom.
Kinda weird . . . normally we expect the anti-science crowd to come from the religious corner off the ring . . . and low and behold . . . they get upstaged by a "Grand Arts" school staffed by administrators confounded by the entire concept of what "science" is.
Plus . . . I haven't seen a Snowden press release yet that the NSA has technology for snooping in pencils and paper. When they come knocking on your door, you can eat your notes. A USB stick will not digest.
Maybe there is some kind of edible rice based paper that would dissolve quickly in the stomach . . . ? In old spy movies, folks used to munch down secret notes all the time.
Imagine if the christian church charged admission for services.
Imagine if a christian church ran a vast real estate and financial empire, built palaces with 15,000€ bathtubs for Bishops of Bling, and systemically obstructed justice in cases of sexual abuse of minors.
Oh, yeah . . . no need to imagine. They should be hit with RICO charges.
I can't see any difference between political action committees and churches. The NRA spends money supporting a pro-gun political platform. Churches spend money promoting their own religious beliefs in political platforms.
Like it or not, those Tea Party folks could probably register themselves as a religion. All those Ayn Rand Objectivism rants, like, "Altruism is evil" sounds like religious beliefs to me.
I think all folks should be free to practice whatever religion they choose, or not choose. However, when their religion is organized into something that walks, talks and acts like a business . . . they have no right to escape the taxman than any other folks.
I'd like to super-size that with side orders of Tesla, Google Glasses and Global Warming . . .
"I'm driving my Tesla, which I bought with bitcoins, wearing Google Glasses, wielding a 3D printed gun, and polluting the atmosphere by using coal produced electricity . .."
Gast = Guest, Arbeiter = Worker . . . so Gastarbeiter = Guest-worker. If you liked playing with Lego, you'll love German.
"Lieber Kinder statt Inder!" means, Rather children instead of Indians! Which meant that the government should pay more attention to social programs encouraging working women to have children, and investing more in tech training for German students . . . instead of importing (cheap) foreign talent.
Of course, the whole plan was a ruse by companies who wanted to drive down the wages of IT workers.
And the idea of internet enabled toasters and refrigerators are absurd.
A lot of stuff that I read on the Internet . . . looks like it has been posted by toasters an refrigerators.
The problem with tech these days, is that too many people are jumping in because they think it is a gold mine. All they need to do, is throw a bit of money and time at it, and they will be the next Gates, Bezos or, aptly named, Zuckerberg ("pile of sugar", in German). I think there will be some very excellent ideas in there with all the trash and gimmicks. But the ratio of crap to good will be about 1000:1.
Actually, that would be Canada's prerogative. And Canada is taking steps to enhance its presence in the Arctic Circle . . . precisely because they are concerned that Russia plans to lay claim to the emerging shipping lanes there.
"Well, you’re obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you’ve been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them."
The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.
"Stick it up your nose," he said.
"Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know," insisted the girl, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"
"And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there."
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"
The marketing girl soured him with a look.
"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."
So why choose some of the world's most expensive real estate?
Because rich folks live there, with more money than brains. If you note what they said:
where our backers can of course pay us a visit.
So it seems they are going after rich investors, who want to go by a see a prototype of the toy that they are helping to build. Maybe even sit in the cockpit/driver's seat! So it is more of an entertainment expense, as opposed to a serious investment.
As a non-rich, non-investor, not living in Silicon Valley, all I have to say is . . . have fun.
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. . . from Gerald Weinberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
and what punishment the officers received?
and what promotions the officers received?
If you grow up in rich suburbia to parents who care, you will have more opportunity than someone who grows up the ghetto to a single parent that is neglectful.
If you want a level playing field, then look for socioeconomic factors, not race.
Ok . . . so how would that work? A kid applying to college, with parents who care, would get points deducted, because his parents care . . .?
And a kid whose parents don't care would get points added? And plus one for a single parent, minus one for two parents . . . and minus a half point for other relatives living in the house . . . ?
No matter how you try to "level the playing field" . . . it will never be "fair" . . .
Eh, terminal velocity in the lower atmosphere is abound 250 km/h.
. . . that's cruising speed on the German Autobahn.
. . . the spooks used to have to break into your home to plant bugging devices.
Now, you bring the bugging devices home as consumer appliances, and install then them yourself for the spooks.
This saves them a lot of effort. Cost effective.
I'm still suspicious on the whole matter. It sounded like that broad disclaimer up front was in preparation for some catastrophic news about a General Mills product. Like, "Cheerios causes Autism!" Or that Wu Tang Clan rapper . . . he wasn't doing any hard drugs . . . but he was eating a bowl of Cheerios, before he chopped off his dick!
General Mills has been slapped by a few damaging lawsuits in the last few years . . . because they were downright lying about the ingredients in their products. This disclaimer would have let them walk away from that.
With that legal wording, they could intentionally put ground glass in their breakfast cereals, without any responsibility to the law.
Have you ever heard a tea-partier say "altruism is evil?" Serious question.
Yes, in a TV interview a Tea Party spokesman who identified himself as John Galt said it. Serious answer.
The Tea Party seems to have a lot of folks named "John". Other Tea Party rally folks said their names were:
John Whorfin
John Bigboote
John Ya Ya
John Small Berries
John Fledgling
John Milton
John Nephew
John Two Horns
John O'Connor
John Grim
John Many Jars
John Coyote
John Chief Crier
John Littlejohn
John Mud Head
Ethanol support is critical for any politician that wants to win in states like Iowa.
Now if we could just push back the date of the Iowa Caucuses . . .
Obviously, the government is covering something up . . .
. . . maybe the guy dumped a oil drum full of pure LSD into the water, before pausing to take a leak. The authorities are not mentioning the LSD to avoid panicking the public. You don't want to panic the public, while they are tripping their balls off.
. . . or they spotted the Loch Ness Monster, and are draining the reservoir, to catch it in the shallows.
. . . or maybe the guy showed signs of being a zombie, and they need to wait to see if he morphs into one.
Ya gotta try to see through the headlines these days . . . the government is out to stuff you with disinformation . . . and they're always up to something not good . . .
If you're in Portland, I would suggest just drinking pure grain alcohol . . .
Grand Arts High School was formerly known as Ramon C. Cortines School for Visual and Performing Arts . . . apparently, lowly science is not a "Grand Art". It doesn't sound like the place you would send your kid to prepare to study Physics at Princeton or Electrical Engineering at MIT. I pity the poor teacher of science or math in a school full of kids from "pushy" parents, determined that their offspring is destined for stardom.
Kinda weird . . . normally we expect the anti-science crowd to come from the religious corner off the ring . . . and low and behold . . . they get upstaged by a "Grand Arts" school staffed by administrators confounded by the entire concept of what "science" is.
"Grand Farts High School", indeed . . .
Plus . . . I haven't seen a Snowden press release yet that the NSA has technology for snooping in pencils and paper. When they come knocking on your door, you can eat your notes. A USB stick will not digest.
Maybe there is some kind of edible rice based paper that would dissolve quickly in the stomach . . . ? In old spy movies, folks used to munch down secret notes all the time.
Imagine if the christian church charged admission for services.
Imagine if a christian church ran a vast real estate and financial empire, built palaces with 15,000€ bathtubs for Bishops of Bling, and systemically obstructed justice in cases of sexual abuse of minors.
Oh, yeah . . . no need to imagine. They should be hit with RICO charges.
I can't see any difference between political action committees and churches. The NRA spends money supporting a pro-gun political platform. Churches spend money promoting their own religious beliefs in political platforms.
Like it or not, those Tea Party folks could probably register themselves as a religion. All those Ayn Rand Objectivism rants, like, "Altruism is evil" sounds like religious beliefs to me.
I think all folks should be free to practice whatever religion they choose, or not choose. However, when their religion is organized into something that walks, talks and acts like a business . . . they have no right to escape the taxman than any other folks.
My favorite are "Peoples' Republics", which obviously aren't. At least "Islamic Republics" are honest about what they are.
I'd like to super-size that with side orders of Tesla, Google Glasses and Global Warming . . .
"I'm driving my Tesla, which I bought with bitcoins, wearing Google Glasses, wielding a 3D printed gun, and polluting the atmosphere by using coal produced electricity . . ."
Can anyone beat that . . . ?
Gast = Guest, Arbeiter = Worker . . . so Gastarbeiter = Guest-worker. If you liked playing with Lego, you'll love German.
"Lieber Kinder statt Inder!" means, Rather children instead of Indians! Which meant that the government should pay more attention to social programs encouraging working women to have children, and investing more in tech training for German students . . . instead of importing (cheap) foreign talent.
Of course, the whole plan was a ruse by companies who wanted to drive down the wages of IT workers.
Gastarbeiter
Talk of creating an H-1B program in Germany a while back created a backlash phrase: "Leiber Kinder statt Inder!"
the USA may be forced to accept the idea in order to economically compete.
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
And the idea of internet enabled toasters and refrigerators are absurd.
A lot of stuff that I read on the Internet . . . looks like it has been posted by toasters an refrigerators.
The problem with tech these days, is that too many people are jumping in because they think it is a gold mine. All they need to do, is throw a bit of money and time at it, and they will be the next Gates, Bezos or, aptly named, Zuckerberg ("pile of sugar", in German). I think there will be some very excellent ideas in there with all the trash and gimmicks. But the ratio of crap to good will be about 1000:1.
Actually, that would be Canada's prerogative. And Canada is taking steps to enhance its presence in the Arctic Circle . . . precisely because they are concerned that Russia plans to lay claim to the emerging shipping lanes there.
And Obama has never seen "Ice Station Zebra": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Dogs always give you the feeling that they care about you. The wagging tail, the dumb look in the face, the tongue hanging down to the ground . . .
Forget cats, though. You could sink in quicksand if front of a cat, and it will barely give you a glance the entire time.
Perhaps you meant his son Senator 'Rand' Paul?
. . . or father John Paul II . . . ?
. . . or former Texas Senator H. Ron Peron . . . ?
. . . or even, . . . stretching it . . . , L. Ron Hubbard . . . ?
"Well, you’re obviously being totally naive of course", said the girl, "When you’ve been in marketing as long as I have, you'll know that before any new product can be developed it has to be properly researched. We’ve got to find out what people want from fire, how they relate to it, what sort of image it has for them." The crowd were tense. They were expecting something wonderful from Ford.
"Stick it up your nose," he said.
"Which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know," insisted the girl, "Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?"
"And the wheel," said the Captain, "What about this wheel thingy? It sounds a terribly interesting project."
"Ah," said the marketing girl, "Well, we're having a little difficulty there."
"Difficulty?" exclaimed Ford. "Difficulty? What do you mean, difficulty? It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!"
The marketing girl soured him with a look.
"Alright, Mr. Wiseguy," she said, "if you're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be."
. . . I don't know who they are.
So why choose some of the world's most expensive real estate?
Because rich folks live there, with more money than brains. If you note what they said:
where our backers can of course pay us a visit.
So it seems they are going after rich investors, who want to go by a see a prototype of the toy that they are helping to build. Maybe even sit in the cockpit/driver's seat! So it is more of an entertainment expense, as opposed to a serious investment.
As a non-rich, non-investor, not living in Silicon Valley, all I have to say is . . . have fun.
on the moon?
Actually, Putin has been watching western propaganda films, and has other intentions there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...