What does your story have to do with anything? Really, that seems like a complete non sequitur.
Are you trying to equate the pervy behavior of one teacher 20 years ago with the central tenet of the conservative movement (unquestioned deregulation). And then you're wondering why I call conservatives stupid?
I could concieve of making statements about conservatives without inherent slander, but then they would not honest statements.
This is exactly the kind of idiocy I was talking about. Of the items listed, only 1 and 5 have any sort of factual content, and what factual content is there is entirely irrelevant to the point. Let's look at the quality of thought that goes into these typical conservative positions.
1) This is the same as saying "Lightning can cause fires naturally, so I can never be convinced of arson"
2) "A biphasic curve exists, therefore we are always on the right hand side of the curve"
3) Somehow single payer health care wouldn't reduce tort costs and eliminate money wasted on insurance company profits?
5) If you're not properly educated about it, it's not really a choice. If you want to reduce abortions, you have to provide and encourage, cheap (preferably free), stigma free contraceptives to everyone. Being both anti-abortion and anti-sex ed is exactly the kind of stupidity that characterizes the conservative.
Explain then how the conservative rejection of evolution has anything to do with regulations. Or their rejection of sex education. See, it's not that conservatives are against regulations. They're against regulations that don't promote their fairy tales.
It's the antiscience that comes first, otherwise they'd have to ask themselves whether there was a scientific basis to reject regulation. The idea that regulation in itself is bad is itself a fairy tale. The same people who argue for tough on crime legislation for individuals argue against any sort of restraint on the part of the most powerful, and therefore most dangerous institutions. These people have no grip on reality whatsoever.
That's a healthy stance to take. The left does stick its foot in its mouth from time to time, but we also call each other out on it. When Al Sharpton tells a whopper, it doesn't get repeated by every dittohead out there for example.
Generally, when someone on "the left" tells a lie, it's about being on the left. c.f. Obama. Hope and change. Now that's a howler.
It's not just AGW where conservatives are unwilling to face reality. It's economics, where faith compells them to continue cutting taxes on the rich in the face of ever growing inequality. Or health care, where conservatives cannot face the reality that we have the highest health care costs in the West and some of the poorest outcomes. Or contraception, where conservatives continue to push for abstinence only education, ignoring countless studies which prove it ineffective. I could go on...
Essentially you can turn on the news and find any conservative pushing any typical conservative wedge issue. Their position will be completely based in fantasy. This is why there's no liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh. We don't need to listen to blow hards make shit up for us to believe. We just listen to the news and decide for ourselves.
Of course it doesn't. That's why it's funny. The truth that makes it funny is the reverse. Liberals have a bias towards reality, whereas conservatives base their opinions on ego and fairy tales.
Reality has a well known liberal bias. Of course conservatives are going to distrust science. This is going to be the case anywhere and everywhere conservativism is popular.
Are you a member of any protected class? Display that information prominently on your Facebook page. When you are asked for your account information, give it to them. When you don't get the job, sue them.
Isn't the point of Red Hat the support they provide? If you're not buying the support, why run Red Hat at all? Debian can do anything Red Hat can, and it's completely free.
They think differently, no matter how much BS the Greens and Liberals tell you - people in the 3rd world do NOT think or act like YOU.
Sounds like you're in denial about just how utterly corrupt our own governments are. If we in the West needed aid, do you really think our governments and business leaders would keep their fingers out of that pot?
and despite the ever-popular fairy-tale about the evil bankers foreclosing on the poor ignorant farmer, at the peak of the Great Depression they suffered a mere one tenth of the foreclosure rate we experienced just two years ago
Remarkable how efficient the propaganda machine has become in the intervening 80 years.
Nothing. There is nothing you can do. We are totally and utterly fucked and there's nothing anyone can do about it. We're not getting out of this hole without another Civil War.
We are the problem. We, the collective of the American Voter, are the reason why these types of transgressions keep happening,
Hold on. We The People don't exist in a vacuum. We have been constantly propagandized, and deliberately undereducated for decades. You can't blame us for that.
We don't have to emit exajoules of energy to destroy humanity. We only need to harness naturally occuring sources of energy. Like the sun. If we figured out a way to trap more of the sun's energy, we would slowly but surely increase the temperature of the planet to the point at which it becomes uninhabitable.
If f(little L) (the fraction of star systems that actually go on to develop life at some point) in the Drake equation goes past one,
The terms of the Drake equation are proportions. They cannot "go past one". A value of 1 would mean that every star system develops life at some point.
The Drake Equation is still useless like that, we have no idea what half the probabilities are, and any one of those can be so exceptionally small that the other ones being near 1 won't matter.
The Drake Equation is useful as a tool for understanding which probabilities are unknown. That's all it was ever meant to be.
You're absolutely right. The correct thing to do in this case is to try the officers in question for kidnapping, and their superiors AND the IAD for being an accessory to kidnapping. Making settlement payouts from the general fund does nothing to deter future crimes on the part of these thugs.
Sounds like you have an itch. Scratch it. You have a legitimate business need for this software, use some of that corporate money and invest in the tools you need. Then open source them so we can all enjoy.
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What does your story have to do with anything? Really, that seems like a complete non sequitur.
Are you trying to equate the pervy behavior of one teacher 20 years ago with the central tenet of the conservative movement (unquestioned deregulation). And then you're wondering why I call conservatives stupid?
I could concieve of making statements about conservatives without inherent slander, but then they would not honest statements.
This is exactly the kind of idiocy I was talking about. Of the items listed, only 1 and 5 have any sort of factual content, and what factual content is there is entirely irrelevant to the point. Let's look at the quality of thought that goes into these typical conservative positions.
1) This is the same as saying "Lightning can cause fires naturally, so I can never be convinced of arson"
2) "A biphasic curve exists, therefore we are always on the right hand side of the curve"
3) Somehow single payer health care wouldn't reduce tort costs and eliminate money wasted on insurance company profits?
4) "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU"
5) If you're not properly educated about it, it's not really a choice. If you want to reduce abortions, you have to provide and encourage, cheap (preferably free), stigma free contraceptives to everyone. Being both anti-abortion and anti-sex ed is exactly the kind of stupidity that characterizes the conservative.
Explain then how the conservative rejection of evolution has anything to do with regulations. Or their rejection of sex education. See, it's not that conservatives are against regulations. They're against regulations that don't promote their fairy tales.
It's the antiscience that comes first, otherwise they'd have to ask themselves whether there was a scientific basis to reject regulation. The idea that regulation in itself is bad is itself a fairy tale. The same people who argue for tough on crime legislation for individuals argue against any sort of restraint on the part of the most powerful, and therefore most dangerous institutions. These people have no grip on reality whatsoever.
That's a healthy stance to take. The left does stick its foot in its mouth from time to time, but we also call each other out on it. When Al Sharpton tells a whopper, it doesn't get repeated by every dittohead out there for example.
Generally, when someone on "the left" tells a lie, it's about being on the left. c.f. Obama. Hope and change. Now that's a howler.
It's not just AGW where conservatives are unwilling to face reality. It's economics, where faith compells them to continue cutting taxes on the rich in the face of ever growing inequality. Or health care, where conservatives cannot face the reality that we have the highest health care costs in the West and some of the poorest outcomes. Or contraception, where conservatives continue to push for abstinence only education, ignoring countless studies which prove it ineffective. I could go on...
Essentially you can turn on the news and find any conservative pushing any typical conservative wedge issue. Their position will be completely based in fantasy. This is why there's no liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh. We don't need to listen to blow hards make shit up for us to believe. We just listen to the news and decide for ourselves.
Of course it doesn't. That's why it's funny. The truth that makes it funny is the reverse. Liberals have a bias towards reality, whereas conservatives base their opinions on ego and fairy tales.
Reality has a well known liberal bias. Of course conservatives are going to distrust science. This is going to be the case anywhere and everywhere conservativism is popular.
Are you a member of any protected class? Display that information prominently on your Facebook page. When you are asked for your account information, give it to them. When you don't get the job, sue them.
Isn't the point of Red Hat the support they provide? If you're not buying the support, why run Red Hat at all? Debian can do anything Red Hat can, and it's completely free.
They think differently, no matter how much BS the Greens and Liberals tell you - people in the 3rd world do NOT think or act like YOU.
Sounds like you're in denial about just how utterly corrupt our own governments are. If we in the West needed aid, do you really think our governments and business leaders would keep their fingers out of that pot?
and despite the ever-popular fairy-tale about the evil bankers foreclosing on the poor ignorant farmer, at the peak of the Great Depression they suffered a mere one tenth of the foreclosure rate we experienced just two years ago
Remarkable how efficient the propaganda machine has become in the intervening 80 years.
This is America. Here it's the corporations who control the government.
Economic espionage is an excellent excuse for implementing centralized control of the internet.
Nothing. There is nothing you can do. We are totally and utterly fucked and there's nothing anyone can do about it. We're not getting out of this hole without another Civil War.
We are the problem. We, the collective of the American Voter, are the reason why these types of transgressions keep happening,
Hold on. We The People don't exist in a vacuum. We have been constantly propagandized, and deliberately undereducated for decades. You can't blame us for that.
We don't have to emit exajoules of energy to destroy humanity. We only need to harness naturally occuring sources of energy. Like the sun. If we figured out a way to trap more of the sun's energy, we would slowly but surely increase the temperature of the planet to the point at which it becomes uninhabitable.
Think we have the technology to do that?
If f(little L) (the fraction of star systems that actually go on to develop life at some point) in the Drake equation goes past one,
The terms of the Drake equation are proportions. They cannot "go past one". A value of 1 would mean that every star system develops life at some point.
The Drake Equation is still useless like that, we have no idea what half the probabilities are, and any one of those can be so exceptionally small that the other ones being near 1 won't matter.
The Drake Equation is useful as a tool for understanding which probabilities are unknown. That's all it was ever meant to be.
Hear, hear!
I'm still using a Sony amp from the 80s. Goes to show you what a decade or two of corporate greed can do.
The CO2 levels that exist today have done lasting damage to the planet. We can't keep emitting CO2 and expect Earth to remaian habitable for humans.
It's not arrogance, it's face. Under really bad and embarrassing situations it probably looks the same from the outside but it's not.
What exactly is the difference? They're both expressions of pride.
In the U.S., we KNOW when we've made mistakes and we learn from them quickly, readily and even hungrily.
How do you explain 30 years of Reaganomics, the war on drugs, private health insurance, etc.?
You're absolutely right. The correct thing to do in this case is to try the officers in question for kidnapping, and their superiors AND the IAD for being an accessory to kidnapping. Making settlement payouts from the general fund does nothing to deter future crimes on the part of these thugs.
Sounds like you have an itch. Scratch it. You have a legitimate business need for this software, use some of that corporate money and invest in the tools you need. Then open source them so we can all enjoy.