Not sure why you got insightful for regurgitating the jocks versus nerds stereotype. Should have got "inciteful."
Jocks and nerds are not a parallelism. I played sports my whole life and still studied mechanical engineering and learned Basic, Fortran, Perl, PHP, SQL, electronics etc... Sports - especially football - teach valuable skills such as personal determination, belief in yourself to achieve, social skills like team work and dealing with situations where one must follow direction, the ability to see the big picture rather than an introverted masturbation of self interested elite-ness, and a slew of other skills necessary for a *career* outside of the programmer's cube.
What successful nerds and talented jocks have in common is passion and determination. That's what kids lack today. Schools train our kids to be socialists waiting for a handout creating expectation of rewards for failure. Media and peers encourage kids to be apathetic; to wait for someone else to solve their problems or to obtain their goals. Look at the current issues facing the Obama administration - its outright responsibility- shift and accountability-shift from the individual to the taxpayers - especially the *successful* taxpayers.... No one seems to be accountable for their own failures!
To be good at any skill requires dedication, involvement, and perseverance. A well rounded nerd is simply a rare and unlikely individual due to the need to avoid those things that distract one from reading, studying, and experimenting.
If we really want "'cool' nerds" we need to eliminate any idea that someone else is going to earn/provide a living for us. We need to correct American ideas about entitlement and destroy concepts of "every one gets a trophy and all that other wimply crap. We need to give Nobel Prizes to people who actually accomplish stuff rather than people we hope will accomplish stuff. And we need to give computer jobs to Americans and keep American companies in America.
Bullshit to you - Its only revisionist if you fail to note I am talking about California - not the entire USA.
California required the use of oxygenates in its clean-air gasoline program in 1992 (and eliminations of lead additives). MTBE is an Ether which have been found to be cleaner than Alcohol additives. ethanol produces 54% more CO2 as global warming pollutant than gasoline. I clearly remember MTBEs sold to Californian voters as the solution to clean air emissions. www.arb.ca.gov/
"The California Air Resources Board predicted that the addition of oxygenates to fuels would reduce ozone precursors by 15%, reduce benzene emissions by 50% and reduce CO emissions by 11%; these reductions are equivalent to removing emissions from 3.5 million vehicles." http://mtbe.ucdavis.edu/page2.html
the bullshit is calling AGW a fact. Its the prevailing theory - that, apparently, has political backing in the scientific community, not just scientific backing.
Introducing political opinion is what sours the milk, so to speak.
As an individual (fiscally conservative capitalist, socially liberal) I conserve, recycle, reuse on a personal level... haven't driven to work in 15 yrs...
But this AGW is sticky with conspiracy. Especially in light of these emails... And the Democrat solution (not liberal, socialist, green) is to punish the rich with taxes and penalties without requiring any accountability or responsibility on the individual consumer level - ie the majority of us and Democrat special interest groups. Like most Democrat policies, its responsibility-shift.
Scientists are not emotionless and infallible. Too many times has fake data been exposed that have everlasting irreversible effects on society (talking to plants, subliminal advertising for 2 examples). It amounts to sudo-science superstition.
Seemingly much of the "symptoms" of AGW are ambiguous and fluctuating - and sometimes indistinguishable from natural conditions. Recent scientific reports say the planet is greener (lush) than ever due to the high amount of CO2...
Taking care of the planet is an unarguable position. However, who we lump all the blame and and financial responsibility on is serious business. It's bullshit that Democrats always blame the rich for their own consumer habits, and its bullshit that the rich cut environment-safe corners solely to increase profit for the execs and board of directors.
... MTBE's in California were sold to us by the environmentalists. It was supposed to be safer than leaded fuels. It cost billions of dollars and taxes to change of the refinery and distribution industries. Then, shortly after legislated implementation, we discovered MTBE's were WORSE than lead.
The same "worse situation" has been demonstrated with ethanol blended fuels but the environmentalists are still pushing it on us.
Does one have to be informed at this point to be skeptical of environmental science after these examples AND knowledge that the scientific community is actively deleting information and consciously manipulating information to achieve a perceived desirable end?
As long as there are humans involved it is valid to be skeptical regarding power, authority, motivation and credibility.
Additionally, scientific theories that were once accepted fall or are significantly revised all the time. One doesn't need to be informed to have a valid skepticism. Consider all the chemicals that harm us that we were previously told were safe.
is this even possible with a Comcast account? Between the 250GB monthly cap and the switching from PBE to BE if you have 70% sustained use of download bandwidth, I don't think so. Max is like 8.3 GB per day over 30 days....Dont think its possible for AT&T DSL either. I think this 34GB/day number is inflated.
How do you substantiate "Almost got nicotine poisoning!?" You'd have to be an infant to get poisoned *from eating it*.
This a so much BS its ridiculous how far away from science this article and comment stray. Smell does not equal toxin. People have become absolutely retarded when it comes to second hand smoke.
Fixing hardware that smells like cigarettes has no secondhand smoke risks.
Modern news agencies are strapped to find unique 24/7 content so they air this crap to fill up space between real events. its just the new version of showing the same damn Iraq vase being looted on a 24 hour loop.
The news isn't news any more. its 100% biased opinionated crap with economic and political motives. By acting like the tweets are valid content, the media will be able to say , "See - we want a completely unqualified yahoo in office. This is progress."
Informative and unilateral news in print, television, and radio is dead. To get that content, Google-it form the source. VIVA Idiocracy!
Maybe I don't understand the nature nor purpose of these mods, but isn't what you do on your hardware your own business if you are not stealing from Microsoft?
I don't fear zombies at all. I hope we are invaded and eaten because modern society sucks. We spend most of our 80 years of life doing completely insignificant things. A zombie invasion would wipe all this nonsense out.
Wow - irrational Apple hate. We sure hate those are successful...
Apple's network is closed for quality issues, but still the most open network in regards to user accessibility. We have more to fear from special interest biased politicians - and politicians in general - than we do from Apple who makes things we actually like and work. Compared to Apple products, the work politicians have done in the last 100 years are still in an extreame pre-alpha instable and buggy phase. Why would anyone value a politician's opinion to begin with?
A company has an obligation to insure the quality of the products and services it said. If we look at Microsoft - their 3rd party contributors are riddled with incompatibilities and gaping security holes. Not to mention the MS etremely closed media system is worse than the Apple system. Half of MS media doesnt even work with MS media apps. Apple's iTunes etc are available to the most computer users regardless of their OS. Where was this yahoo politician 5 years ago when MS was the only solution?
As for things like software, apps, etc. Closed systems is standard amongst video game consoles, video games (PS[x], Nintendo,XBox, Sony hardware in general, Adobe Flash) And consumers are generally OK with it. How is the iPhone any different? Sure we all bitch about it - I know I bitched about not being able to play MS media for years. When Apple delivered something I could access I jumped on it. And everyone else is jumping on it because it works the best. Apple is the quality leader that all other computer software and hardware makers strive to be.
When will these buffoons realize *you cannot save everyone*. We should let people crash and die. The more people who distract themselves who die off the better. Instead of airbags, we should have air-bombs. Accidents would blow up those involved....Killing the victims saves us the cost of their medical care, disability payouts, and their endless lawsuits.
Hopefully after awhile people would actually watch what they are doing behind the wheel.
Agreed - we as consumers have the right to use however much energy we decide to purchase.
"There's more Chinese pollution in LA now than the local stuff." Our air quality tests don't differentiate where its home-grown pollution or Chinese pollution. We Californians are having to pay for Chinese pollution! We lose our jobs to Chinese labor, and are children are put in harms way from Chinese manufacturing practices.
Additionally, there are other ramifications to this glass: - Special glass means an increase in manufacturing costs, which means an increase in cost to the consumer, - Higher price tag on the car due to special glass means higher CA registrations fees - Special glass means glass repairs will be more costly to glass repair companies now that they will have to stock more than one type of glass - Special glass means the glass repair will be more costly to the consumer, thus the poorer consumers will drive longer with glass that is damaged and possibly obstructs their view or causes the Heating/AC system to run ineffitiently
How much money are you spending on advertising? How many hours have you spent promoting it? "Great written reviews and even good reviews from professional sites" help, but it takes a lot more make *any product* popular. That, or a chance mention by iTunes staff or Apple commercials.
It sounds to me that app developers are making the same exact mistake ecommerce stores are making: setting and forgetting. Apple has 85000+ apps - you need to do something to make it known to us, to the world.
Sheesh, you even fail to promote it in your rant... "I'm not going to whore the product out by mentioning it here" is EXACTLY the wrong attitude to have if your 500 development hours have any value. Whores make more money than bitches.
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Not sure why you got insightful for regurgitating the jocks versus nerds stereotype. Should have got "inciteful."
Jocks and nerds are not a parallelism. I played sports my whole life and still studied mechanical engineering and learned Basic, Fortran, Perl, PHP, SQL, electronics etc... Sports - especially football - teach valuable skills such as personal determination, belief in yourself to achieve, social skills like team work and dealing with situations where one must follow direction, the ability to see the big picture rather than an introverted masturbation of self interested elite-ness, and a slew of other skills necessary for a *career* outside of the programmer's cube.
What successful nerds and talented jocks have in common is passion and determination. That's what kids lack today. Schools train our kids to be socialists waiting for a handout creating expectation of rewards for failure. Media and peers encourage kids to be apathetic; to wait for someone else to solve their problems or to obtain their goals. Look at the current issues facing the Obama administration - its outright responsibility- shift and accountability-shift from the individual to the taxpayers - especially the *successful* taxpayers.... No one seems to be accountable for their own failures!
To be good at any skill requires dedication, involvement, and perseverance. A well rounded nerd is simply a rare and unlikely individual due to the need to avoid those things that distract one from reading, studying, and experimenting.
If we really want "'cool' nerds" we need to eliminate any idea that someone else is going to earn/provide a living for us. We need to correct American ideas about entitlement and destroy concepts of "every one gets a trophy and all that other wimply crap. We need to give Nobel Prizes to people who actually accomplish stuff rather than people we hope will accomplish stuff. And we need to give computer jobs to Americans and keep American companies in America.
Bullshit to you - Its only revisionist if you fail to note I am talking about California - not the entire USA.
California required the use of oxygenates in its clean-air gasoline program in 1992 (and eliminations of lead additives). MTBE is an Ether which have been found to be cleaner than Alcohol additives. ethanol produces 54% more CO2 as global warming pollutant than gasoline. I clearly remember MTBEs sold to Californian voters as the solution to clean air emissions. www.arb.ca.gov/
"The California Air Resources Board predicted that the addition of oxygenates to fuels would reduce ozone precursors by 15%, reduce benzene emissions by 50% and reduce CO emissions by 11%; these reductions are equivalent to removing emissions from 3.5 million vehicles."
http://mtbe.ucdavis.edu/page2.html
the bullshit is calling AGW a fact. Its the prevailing theory - that, apparently, has political backing in the scientific community, not just scientific backing.
Introducing political opinion is what sours the milk, so to speak.
As an individual (fiscally conservative capitalist, socially liberal) I conserve, recycle, reuse on a personal level... haven't driven to work in 15 yrs...
But this AGW is sticky with conspiracy. Especially in light of these emails... And the Democrat solution (not liberal, socialist, green) is to punish the rich with taxes and penalties without requiring any accountability or responsibility on the individual consumer level - ie the majority of us and Democrat special interest groups. Like most Democrat policies, its responsibility-shift.
Scientists are not emotionless and infallible. Too many times has fake data been exposed that have everlasting irreversible effects on society (talking to plants, subliminal advertising for 2 examples). It amounts to sudo-science superstition.
Seemingly much of the "symptoms" of AGW are ambiguous and fluctuating - and sometimes indistinguishable from natural conditions. Recent scientific reports say the planet is greener (lush) than ever due to the high amount of CO2...
Taking care of the planet is an unarguable position. However, who we lump all the blame and and financial responsibility on is serious business. It's bullshit that Democrats always blame the rich for their own consumer habits, and its bullshit that the rich cut environment-safe corners solely to increase profit for the execs and board of directors.
... MTBE's in California were sold to us by the environmentalists. It was supposed to be safer than leaded fuels. It cost billions of dollars and taxes to change of the refinery and distribution industries. Then, shortly after legislated implementation, we discovered MTBE's were WORSE than lead.
The same "worse situation" has been demonstrated with ethanol blended fuels but the environmentalists are still pushing it on us.
Does one have to be informed at this point to be skeptical of environmental science after these examples AND knowledge that the scientific community is actively deleting information and consciously manipulating information to achieve a perceived desirable end?
As long as there are humans involved it is valid to be skeptical regarding power, authority, motivation and credibility.
Additionally, scientific theories that were once accepted fall or are significantly revised all the time. One doesn't need to be informed to have a valid skepticism. Consider all the chemicals that harm us that we were previously told were safe.
A theory remains a theory forever. "Facts" are just theories with no credible counter theories.
is this even possible with a Comcast account? Between the 250GB monthly cap and the switching from PBE to BE if you have 70% sustained use of download bandwidth, I don't think so. Max is like 8.3 GB per day over 30 days. ...Dont think its possible for AT&T DSL either. I think this 34GB/day number is inflated.
wow - never knew that. I am a little less dumb.
so... are we supposed to overlook that percent is spelled "per cent" in an article about dumbing down?
Kids will be pushing the button nonstop for nonissues. Kids do the majority of bulling as it is.
Endless useless meetings and reports vs forging and basic survival
How do you substantiate "Almost got nicotine poisoning!?" You'd have to be an infant to get poisoned *from eating it*.
This a so much BS its ridiculous how far away from science this article and comment stray. Smell does not equal toxin. People have become absolutely retarded when it comes to second hand smoke.
Fixing hardware that smells like cigarettes has no secondhand smoke risks.
adding it to phone and tv made those items "necessary" for life. Is the gov going to ensure everyone has gaming console as well?
Modern news agencies are strapped to find unique 24/7 content so they air this crap to fill up space between real events. its just the new version of showing the same damn Iraq vase being looted on a 24 hour loop.
The news isn't news any more. its 100% biased opinionated crap with economic and political motives. By acting like the tweets are valid content, the media will be able to say , "See - we want a completely unqualified yahoo in office. This is progress."
Informative and unilateral news in print, television, and radio is dead. To get that content, Google-it form the source. VIVA Idiocracy!
I guess I am not following how a modded box hurts MS when you go online to XBox Live.
Maybe I don't understand the nature nor purpose of these mods, but isn't what you do on your hardware your own business if you are not stealing from Microsoft?
I don't fear zombies at all. I hope we are invaded and eaten because modern society sucks. We spend most of our 80 years of life doing completely insignificant things. A zombie invasion would wipe all this nonsense out.
Wow - irrational Apple hate. We sure hate those are successful...
Apple's network is closed for quality issues, but still the most open network in regards to user accessibility. We have more to fear from special interest biased politicians - and politicians in general - than we do from Apple who makes things we actually like and work. Compared to Apple products, the work politicians have done in the last 100 years are still in an extreame pre-alpha instable and buggy phase. Why would anyone value a politician's opinion to begin with?
A company has an obligation to insure the quality of the products and services it said. If we look at Microsoft - their 3rd party contributors are riddled with incompatibilities and gaping security holes. Not to mention the MS etremely closed media system is worse than the Apple system. Half of MS media doesnt even work with MS media apps. Apple's iTunes etc are available to the most computer users regardless of their OS. Where was this yahoo politician 5 years ago when MS was the only solution?
As for things like software, apps, etc. Closed systems is standard amongst video game consoles, video games (PS[x], Nintendo,XBox, Sony hardware in general, Adobe Flash) And consumers are generally OK with it. How is the iPhone any different? Sure we all bitch about it - I know I bitched about not being able to play MS media for years. When Apple delivered something I could access I jumped on it. And everyone else is jumping on it because it works the best. Apple is the quality leader that all other computer software and hardware makers strive to be.
When will these buffoons realize *you cannot save everyone*. We should let people crash and die. The more people who distract themselves who die off the better. Instead of airbags, we should have air-bombs. Accidents would blow up those involved. ...Killing the victims saves us the cost of their medical care, disability payouts, and their endless lawsuits.
Hopefully after awhile people would actually watch what they are doing behind the wheel.
Agreed - we as consumers have the right to use however much energy we decide to purchase.
"There's more Chinese pollution in LA now than the local stuff."
Our air quality tests don't differentiate where its home-grown pollution or Chinese pollution. We Californians are having to pay for Chinese pollution! We lose our jobs to Chinese labor, and are children are put in harms way from Chinese manufacturing practices.
Additionally, there are other ramifications to this glass:
- Special glass means an increase in manufacturing costs, which means an increase in cost to the consumer,
- Higher price tag on the car due to special glass means higher CA registrations fees
- Special glass means glass repairs will be more costly to glass repair companies now that they will have to stock more than one type of glass
- Special glass means the glass repair will be more costly to the consumer, thus the poorer consumers will drive longer with glass that is damaged and possibly obstructs their view or causes the Heating/AC system to run ineffitiently
How much money are you spending on advertising? How many hours have you spent promoting it? "Great written reviews and even good reviews from professional sites" help, but it takes a lot more make *any product* popular. That, or a chance mention by iTunes staff or Apple commercials.
It sounds to me that app developers are making the same exact mistake ecommerce stores are making: setting and forgetting. Apple has 85000+ apps - you need to do something to make it known to us, to the world.
Sheesh, you even fail to promote it in your rant... "I'm not going to whore the product out by mentioning it here" is EXACTLY the wrong attitude to have if your 500 development hours have any value. Whores make more money than bitches.
Amen. Did you know 100% of criminals were children once? Childhood leads to criminal activity! Where's my multi-million dollar grant?
Darn, I thought you were going to say here we go again with another frivolous "all monopolies are bad" complaint...
Whats the point of inventing and innovating if you have to surrender your accomplishments to other companies. This is a load of poop.
Try a heavy piece of non-glare glass
LOL - I try not to shamelessly promoto myself
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