Maybe America should be taking itself more seriously? I always laugh at how you Americans dismiss Chinese developments saying they copied you, or Russia. Have you looked at your education system lately? FYI, the rest of the world is amazed you can design a working bicycle, let alone a stealth fighter.
The rest of the world only get a part of the picture with regards to the US educational system. Big cities drive down the numbers, inner city schools in New York, Los Angeles and Baltimore are abysmal. But travel 20 minutes to one of the suburbs and the schools are fantastic. The smart kids from a middle to upper class school district or one of the new charter schools can hold their own with kids from anywhere in the world. It's leading to a more distinct stratification of society, there are the really poor and uneducated, the middle class and uneducated, the middle class educated and the upper class(here it doesn't matter if you're educated or not, your family's fortune will carry you).
This only happened because Sony took away "Other OS". Few of the people with the requisite skills were interested in pwning the PS3 because they had the option to do what they wanted with their machines. Sony forced their hands. Sony lost. Fuck Sony.
Yes, but of course its only a matter of time until global warming deniers, creationists, geocentrists, and/or hollow earth believers hijack this discussion and use it as grounds to dismiss every objectional fact that's ever been established.
If you cling to questionable science, what makes you any different? A secular faith is no less of a faith than any other and no more of a science than a field where debate is encouraged and expected.
Because it I don't disagree that this may occur some places, I just haven't seen it. But I want to be sure you have, and are not just spreading an urban legend.
That's a fair question. I have not experienced it first hand, but I have seen it as an outside observer.
Even in academia, there's an establishment and people who are powerful within that establishment are rarely challenged. A new upstart in the field will be summarily ignored and dismissed for having the arrogance to challenge someone who's widely respected. Even if that respected figure is incorrect, many people will just go along to keep their careers moving forward.
Several years ago, this small town police department had a problem with officers and drugs. They have since been purged. These officers are more than willing to lie about low level crimes, but they have received enough scrutiny from the state and possible federal officials that they play drug cases by the book.
I have acquaintances that used to be involved in some illegal activity. They were once stopped by the police and the police were adamant about searching the car. The request to search was denied. The police started to threaten. They called for drug sniffing dogs to be brought in, because if they got a hit from the dogs there would be probable cause to search without a warrant. Well. My acquaintances stuck to their principles and refused to allow the search. The police made them sit on the curb for roughly an hour while a K9 officer was brought in with his drug sniffing dog. There were no drugs on the car or on its occupants so the dog didn't indicate. The police had to let them go. The police were unhappy.
I don't know Florida law but where I live, there's an automatic one year suspension of driving privileges if you refuse to take the DUI test. What I'm getting at is this, if there is no such penalty for refusal. I'd refuse even was I wasn't drinking, make them take the time and energy to get the judge to issue a warrant and then I'd show 0.00% on the breathalyzer. I do not like police and I have no desire to make their job any easier.
Says the person who, in every political discussion, tries to assert he's a 'sane Republican'.
I have no specific memory of using that term, but even if I did it would have been in response to a claim about all Republicans being insane. By providing a counter example, I'd disprove the assertion.
Yeah, that's not an attempt to get approval.
No. It's not. I really don't give a fuck what some libtard like you thinks.
The goddamn 'sane' Republicans are the problem. You just keep pretending everything's nice and good over there and it's only a few crazies that you want nothing to do with, but we're not morons...we see how Republicans use crazies to get elected.
We find those fringe elements preferable to you. You are the problem.
Those crazy people are less repugnant than you are.
Oh, look, it's you, a level 13 Justifier of Republicans with +3 armor against anyone pointing out misbehavior of Republicans
Oh, look. A level 1 Leftist bomb thrower.
The reason 'Republicans don't trust Democrats.' is that Republican yammerers like Limbaugh and Beck, for the past two decades, have constantly invented conspiratorial nonsense about Democrats, and the people who've been listening to them for two decades have now gotten elected to office.
No, Republican's don't trust Democrats because of condescending libtard douchebags, like you. We don't seek, nor do we need your approval of our beliefs.
Which is entirely the fault of people like you, supposedly 'sane' conservatives, who've put up with their crap as useful tools, and then lost control of the party thanks to your massive fuckup named Bush, so now we've got actual elected members of Congress who are birthers, and all it takes is the slightest whisper of 'This bill doesn't ban abortion' to make Republicans not attempt to stop massive worldwide rape.
Ahh. Yes, that's the crux of the matter isn't it? Well, if abortion is not an important issue why won't your side take it off of the table? That's where your douchebaggery is most blatant. You claim that it's not important, but it's important enough for your side to fight for it.
The problem with the left is that it has no mathematical abilities whatsoever, which is why they invariably ruin the economies of countries where they are in charge. How much is 3% of $33? How many time do $100 million go into $800 billion? Both lefties above fail.
They are not thinkers, they are feelers. If they were thinkers, they'd be on the right.
The joke used to be that the Democrats should come out against raping children, and see what the Republicans do. Horrifically, twp weeks ago, they did, and the Republicans, indeed, came in favor of it. Or at least not against it.
It takes time. Republicans don't trust Democrats. If the Democrats are REALLY for something, Republicans need to take a moment and look it over.
On its face, they may say that they want to put an end to child marriage, but Republicans suspect that they're really talking about sneaking some other BS along with it.
Quite true. No matter how much people want to deny it, you can't overcome basic economics. No one will spend their time doing backbreaking farm work if there are no customers for their products.
With a big part of the world suffering from undernutrition, I would think it should be criminal to dedicate cropland to fuel production.
The problem with starving people isn't a shortage of food. The problem is that despots all over the globe understand that it's easy to keep starving people under their boots than those who are well fed. If staying on the dictator's good side means the difference between having a well fed family and watching your children starve to death, most people will choose to shut up and eat the meager portions that they can get.
Look around the world, obesity is increasingly becoming a problem in prosperous nations. After WWII the US was the first to experience this because it was growing and not rebuilding. Since western Europe and Asia have recovered and are growing, people there are getting fatter. It's an odd trade off, either some people starve or some people get obese.
The only thing that we did wrong with ethanol was trying to make it from corn. Look at Brazil, they were able to dramatically reduce their petroleum imports by using domestically produced ethanol. Corn doesn't give us enough return on investment because of its utility as a staple food product, something else would be a much better source.
This case is important because we're involved, if it wasn't important we wouldn't have gotten involved. -Why was it important? Because we were involved. -Why were you involved? Because it was important.
If it's not bullying then why all the hype about upcoming releases and the insurance file? Why not just do what they are theoretically supposed to be doing an release them without all the grandstanding and saber rattling?
I call it self preservation.
He let it be known that he was going to release some documents, in order to protect himself from an entity with billions of dollars he also let it be known that he has more documents that will be released in the event that he meets with an unfortunate end.
I'm a conservative Republican and I have difficulty explaining to other conservatives why network neutrality is important. Somehow, a rumor got started that's extremely difficult to debunk. There are a lot of conservatives out there who think that Net Neutrality is like a "Fairness Doctrine" for the internet. They think that it means that whenever you access a political site, you'll get pop-up windows of other sites that present a contrary viewpoint.
We need to start making people understand what we're talking about and why we need it.
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Maybe America should be taking itself more seriously? I always laugh at how you Americans dismiss Chinese developments saying they copied you, or Russia. Have you looked at your education system lately? FYI, the rest of the world is amazed you can design a working bicycle, let alone a stealth fighter.
The rest of the world only get a part of the picture with regards to the US educational system. Big cities drive down the numbers, inner city schools in New York, Los Angeles and Baltimore are abysmal. But travel 20 minutes to one of the suburbs and the schools are fantastic. The smart kids from a middle to upper class school district or one of the new charter schools can hold their own with kids from anywhere in the world. It's leading to a more distinct stratification of society, there are the really poor and uneducated, the middle class and uneducated, the middle class educated and the upper class(here it doesn't matter if you're educated or not, your family's fortune will carry you).
LK
Maybe electrical codes and safety devices have improved in the past 19+ years...?
You sir, have never visited Ohio.
LK
I've never even owned a gun.
What are you, Canadian?
LK
This only happened because Sony took away "Other OS". Few of the people with the requisite skills were interested in pwning the PS3 because they had the option to do what they wanted with their machines. Sony forced their hands. Sony lost. Fuck Sony.
I'm actually thinking about getting a PS3 now.
LK
3. Going to jail for a crime that you committed does not count as "harm".
Doesn't sound like much fun to me.
LK
Yes, but of course its only a matter of time until global warming deniers, creationists, geocentrists, and/or hollow earth believers hijack this discussion and use it as grounds to dismiss every objectional fact that's ever been established.
If you cling to questionable science, what makes you any different? A secular faith is no less of a faith than any other and no more of a science than a field where debate is encouraged and expected.
LK
Because it I don't disagree that this may occur some places, I just haven't seen it. But I want to be sure you have, and are not just spreading an urban legend.
That's a fair question. I have not experienced it first hand, but I have seen it as an outside observer.
LK
Even in academia, there's an establishment and people who are powerful within that establishment are rarely challenged. A new upstart in the field will be summarily ignored and dismissed for having the arrogance to challenge someone who's widely respected. Even if that respected figure is incorrect, many people will just go along to keep their careers moving forward.
LK
I was thinking more along the lines of 'well mister, I ain't going to rape your butt no more, but you sure have a purty mouth'...
You, sir, are either as brilliant as I am or you are just as sick and twisted. That's pretty much what I thought when I read the summary.
LK
Several years ago, this small town police department had a problem with officers and drugs. They have since been purged. These officers are more than willing to lie about low level crimes, but they have received enough scrutiny from the state and possible federal officials that they play drug cases by the book.
I don't care what you think, because I figured out something very important I am going to keep repeating.
THE 2010 SENATE REPUBLICANS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF ABORTIONS (According to many House Republicans, and Lord Kano.)
[citation needed]
I have acquaintances that used to be involved in some illegal activity. They were once stopped by the police and the police were adamant about searching the car. The request to search was denied. The police started to threaten. They called for drug sniffing dogs to be brought in, because if they got a hit from the dogs there would be probable cause to search without a warrant. Well. My acquaintances stuck to their principles and refused to allow the search. The police made them sit on the curb for roughly an hour while a K9 officer was brought in with his drug sniffing dog. There were no drugs on the car or on its occupants so the dog didn't indicate. The police had to let them go. The police were unhappy.
I don't know Florida law but where I live, there's an automatic one year suspension of driving privileges if you refuse to take the DUI test. What I'm getting at is this, if there is no such penalty for refusal. I'd refuse even was I wasn't drinking, make them take the time and energy to get the judge to issue a warrant and then I'd show 0.00% on the breathalyzer. I do not like police and I have no desire to make their job any easier.
LK
Says the person who, in every political discussion, tries to assert he's a 'sane Republican'.
I have no specific memory of using that term, but even if I did it would have been in response to a claim about all Republicans being insane. By providing a counter example, I'd disprove the assertion.
Yeah, that's not an attempt to get approval.
No. It's not. I really don't give a fuck what some libtard like you thinks.
The goddamn 'sane' Republicans are the problem. You just keep pretending everything's nice and good over there and it's only a few crazies that you want nothing to do with, but we're not morons...we see how Republicans use crazies to get elected.
We find those fringe elements preferable to you. You are the problem.
Those crazy people are less repugnant than you are.
LK
Oh, look, it's you, a level 13 Justifier of Republicans with +3 armor against anyone pointing out misbehavior of Republicans
Oh, look. A level 1 Leftist bomb thrower.
The reason 'Republicans don't trust Democrats.' is that Republican yammerers like Limbaugh and Beck, for the past two decades, have constantly invented conspiratorial nonsense about Democrats, and the people who've been listening to them for two decades have now gotten elected to office.
No, Republican's don't trust Democrats because of condescending libtard douchebags, like you. We don't seek, nor do we need your approval of our beliefs.
Which is entirely the fault of people like you, supposedly 'sane' conservatives, who've put up with their crap as useful tools, and then lost control of the party thanks to your massive fuckup named Bush, so now we've got actual elected members of Congress who are birthers, and all it takes is the slightest whisper of 'This bill doesn't ban abortion' to make Republicans not attempt to stop massive worldwide rape.
Ahh. Yes, that's the crux of the matter isn't it? Well, if abortion is not an important issue why won't your side take it off of the table? That's where your douchebaggery is most blatant. You claim that it's not important, but it's important enough for your side to fight for it.
LK
The problem with the left is that it has no mathematical abilities whatsoever, which is why they invariably ruin the economies of countries where they are in charge. How much is 3% of $33? How many time do $100 million go into $800 billion? Both lefties above fail.
They are not thinkers, they are feelers. If they were thinkers, they'd be on the right.
Case in point.
The joke used to be that the Democrats should come out against raping children, and see what the Republicans do. Horrifically, twp weeks ago, they did, and the Republicans, indeed, came in favor of it. Or at least not against it.
It takes time. Republicans don't trust Democrats. If the Democrats are REALLY for something, Republicans need to take a moment and look it over.
On its face, they may say that they want to put an end to child marriage, but Republicans suspect that they're really talking about sneaking some other BS along with it.
LK
The only people who'd pay that kind of money are the same kind who will now be apologists for this douchebag legal move.
LK
Quite true. No matter how much people want to deny it, you can't overcome basic economics. No one will spend their time doing backbreaking farm work if there are no customers for their products.
LK
With a big part of the world suffering from undernutrition, I would think it should be criminal to dedicate cropland to fuel production.
The problem with starving people isn't a shortage of food. The problem is that despots all over the globe understand that it's easy to keep starving people under their boots than those who are well fed. If staying on the dictator's good side means the difference between having a well fed family and watching your children starve to death, most people will choose to shut up and eat the meager portions that they can get.
Look around the world, obesity is increasingly becoming a problem in prosperous nations. After WWII the US was the first to experience this because it was growing and not rebuilding. Since western Europe and Asia have recovered and are growing, people there are getting fatter. It's an odd trade off, either some people starve or some people get obese.
LK
The only thing that we did wrong with ethanol was trying to make it from corn. Look at Brazil, they were able to dramatically reduce their petroleum imports by using domestically produced ethanol. Corn doesn't give us enough return on investment because of its utility as a staple food product, something else would be a much better source.
LK
This case is important because we're involved, if it wasn't important we wouldn't have gotten involved.
-Why was it important?
Because we were involved.
-Why were you involved?
Because it was important.
rinse
repeat
And Hitler was bisexual...
It doesn't matter. I think that the OP was trying to make the point that this isn't "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that matters".
I agree.
LK
If it's not bullying then why all the hype about upcoming releases and the insurance file? Why not just do what they are theoretically supposed to be doing an release them without all the grandstanding and saber rattling?
I call it self preservation.
He let it be known that he was going to release some documents, in order to protect himself from an entity with billions of dollars he also let it be known that he has more documents that will be released in the event that he meets with an unfortunate end.
LK
I'm a conservative Republican and I have difficulty explaining to other conservatives why network neutrality is important.
Somehow, a rumor got started that's extremely difficult to debunk. There are a lot of conservatives out there who think that Net Neutrality is like a "Fairness Doctrine" for the internet. They think that it means that whenever you access a political site, you'll get pop-up windows of other sites that present a contrary viewpoint.
We need to start making people understand what we're talking about and why we need it.
LK
Yeah, one man and his loose knit band of info leakers are REALLY bullying a multi-billion dollar international corporation...
Nice try.