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  1. Re:I know this won't be a popular sentiment, but.. on Intellectual Property Rights: The Quiet Killer of Rio+20 · · Score: 1

    If AGW is happening, then your political leanings dictate if you get to live in a huge house next to Al Gore or in a green shanty designed lesson your impact on the environment.

  2. Bigfoot on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...This decay would leave behind a ‘footprint’ ...

    They've been finding Bigfoot foot prints for decades.

  3. Re:Search (as most people use it) not CLI on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 0

    Google also understands Political Correctness and Agendas:

    Your search - Colt 1911 - did not match any shopping results.

    Suggestions:

            Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
            Try different keywords.
            Try more general keywords.
            Try fewer keywords.
            Try searching for BB guns instead of dangerous Firearms
            Does your mother know you want to buy a gun?
            Did you know you are 100 million times more likely to kill your own infant daughter with that gun?
            Wouldn't you rather buy a nice Chessboard instead?
            Did you know that Jack Kennedy and J.F Kennedy were assassinated with guns like you want?
            YOU are the reason for gang violence.

  4. Re:really?? on Has the Command Line Outstayed Its Welcome? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There will always be some function that can't be done in the GUI because they didn't knkow how to do it that way or they forgot.

    There will always be some function that is faster to do in the CLI than it it in the GUI, especially if you know what you are doing.

  5. Re:culture? on Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture? · · Score: 1

    $$$$$$$$

  6. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    So sunglasses and 70's music is racist also.

    I see.

    Racists behind every tree.

  7. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Which is the point of the this whole cluster fuck of a story. They oppose supposed "critical thinking" that is actually nothing but re-education.

  8. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Yes, you already condemned the entire document based on your biased and twisted reading of it.

    You think it's about religion and cast every statement in that context. That's how you "covered it".

    So congratulations, you have mastered reading comprehension (if we use the OBE standard).

  9. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    No one is arguing that critical thinking skills should not be taught.

    The argument is about curriculums that are nothing but OBE with a goal of indoctrinating students to a particular viewpoint.

  10. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Put another way, teachers shouldn't substitute their own beliefs for those taught to the children by their parents.

    All this reminds me of arguments over the meaning of the Second Amendment.

  11. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    "We oppose...and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

    So any made up curriculum that is just relabeled OBE and is primarily for what can only be called re-education in the worst sense of the term, will be opposed. This actually further narrows the opposition to programs in the sense that they need to meet two criteria for being opposed.

    Or, you can just make up whatever meaning you want based on your interpretation of the whole document. Call it Outcome Based Reading Comprehension.

  12. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Clearly, the comma denotes an enumerated list..."Higher Order Thinking Skills, critical thinking skills and similar". Three categories.

    "that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning)" is the conditional portion. Any of the three categories are opposed if they meet this condition.

    Really, it's so easy a caveman could do it.

  13. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Try to understand..."Cool" has been declared a racists word, regardless of the circumstances.

    Try using the phrases "calling a spade a spade" in any context related to Obama or any other nationally recognized individual of color. You'd find yourself being compared to the KKK, Jim Crow laws and probably White Supremacists to boot.

  14. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Then you will be held back one year.

  15. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    According to the CBC it doesn't matter what you are thinking when you use words. If they say they are racist, then you are a racist.

  16. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    You haven't been paying attention for the last 3.5 years, have you?

  17. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    You have to give Slashdot one thing. Compared to places like Huffington Post, et.al, people here will sometimes be swayed by others.

    Of course both are in a class above DailyKOS or Demunderground or FreeRepublic where you have to pass an ongoing loyalty test. No dissent allowed there.

  18. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    You buy a big screen TV and it doesn't work and you can't take it back. Do you throw it out? Yes.
    Do you then go to that same store and buy the same TV? No.
    Are you working longer and longer to pay "your fair share"? Yes.
    Is the Unemployment rate at 8+% after having been near or over 10% Yes.

    Empirical works great when deciding courses of action. And recognizing when you are being scammed a second time by the same people IS a HOTS.

  19. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 0

    "spade a spade"

    Ahem...now you are racist.

  20. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    "and proceed to troll the crap out of each other, like tonight."

    ROFLMAO!

  21. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 0

    Because our school should be all about telling the children that mommy and daddy are fucking morons and nothing they've told you is true.

    Belief in Santa Claus at 4 and 5 is a "fixed belief". Would you suggest schools challenge this? We can't have happy children living in innocence now can we? Let's rip away all that crap and teach them that life is hard, people want to fuck you over and there's pretty much nothing you can do except fuck them over first. Oh...and that Santa is a gay pedophile.

    All that crap about what is right and wrong? Your parents are full of it. Right is what feels good. Wrong is what stops you from feeling good.

    You should work on your HOTS.

  22. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 0

    So then you should be firmly against teaching the 2 + 2 =5 if it makes Johnny feel good about himself.

  23. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Apparently your teachers were opposed to teaching reading comprehension skills.

  24. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    A link to the Huffington Post, which links to Reddit, which links to a pamphlet that evidently is written a few grade levels above the Reddit poster's.

  25. Re:Breathless summary by the clueless on Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Don't be a coward. Post under your account name and take the Kama hit.