PROTIP: Mizzou, et al are not all lies. They actually happened and we have video evidence. Ignoring it and relying on other liberals to deny that it happens does not change the reality of it happening.
AthanasiusKircher, you should have used self-censorship. Self-censorship is civil behavior and etiquette and such.
Government censorship is a true evil. The other kind is not worth talking about because it is ultimately a form of self-censorship. That is, an organization that runs a web-site that allows user comments is practicing self-censorship when it removes or alters posts because of language or topic or other such criteria.
Well, let's see. The US hacked the Iranian government (or government contractors if you believe such a thing really exists there) and the Iranians hacked private businesses. Only a Sanders supporter will fail to see the difference between a government and private business.
Maybe the ones they laid off were the ones as bad at math as triplevenfall. 80 employees remaining and 40 pink slips means they had 120 employees to start with. 25% of that is 30 and 40 out of 120 is 33%.
The course in question was at UC Berkely and Dinesh D'Souza wrote about it years ago. There was no test question. Please read with comprehension as the goal.
Because certain students were so enamored by the "no rote facts" mindset, they were easily led astray by one of their professors and when someone tried to point out the fallacy by using the facts (the actual dates), the students didn't want to listen because they were busy enjoying the concept and they didn't need any facts to do that. The whole point is that without facts as a basis it is far to easy to teach false concepts.
GP didn't say the US equals the Western World. He said "the only significant (and cruel) state sponsored gender discrimination remaining in the western world" happens in the US.
The US is a subset of the Western world so his statement is accurate and yours is pointless.
"I am normally pretty supportive of feminist agendas as treating everyone equally is a strangely compelling idea, but I feel that this is such an easy target that I cannot ignore it."
The inability to see the internal contradiction within that sentence is a very common trait among those who are "pretty supportive of feminist agendas."
Have you not been paying attention, man. The whole point of identity politics is to be able to more easily inform people that they are out of line, out of step with their "peers" and to be able to denigrate those that don't fit the stereotype as "identify haters".
There is no "identities all the way down" because those at the top decide which identities are valid, who fits the identity and which opinion the identity will have.
No, the point is that if anybody had bothered to teach those supposed adult college kids some basic facts (the dates of those events) or had the asshole college professor decided to use those actual facts, then he would not have been able to lead his students astray. But the teacher was able to teach falsehoods by using the mantra that "memorizing rote facts is useless" to not teach the facts that showed the lie of his concept.
My point was that the teacher in question was using the "no facts" mantra to his advantage to teach bogus concepts. His students ate it up because they liked what they were hearing and they had already been taught that facts only get in the way of learning so they didn't bother looking for them.
So always having to calculate 2+3=5 is somehow better than memorizing 2+3=5? Some of that basic algebra and number theory is based on knowing some key facts. Sometimes having the basics memorized is very useful. Being able to quickly run calculations for larger numbers is also useful. I was required to memorize at least all the single digit addition tables and multiplications through 12*12. I don't remember all of them any more but generally remember the smaller ones and quickly calculate the larger ones of that group. I will agree that memorizing anything beyond the single-digit tables is not of any value.
That would depend entirely upon the class and the rules, wouldn't it.
I see the whole problem is that we, as a society in general, have decided that rules don't matter and learning is for rubes and such. Regardless of opinions to the contrary, the moral decay of society is real and it is not a good thing.
Exactly, open book tests are meant to simulate (in a fashion) the real world where you have access to all manner of reference material to do your job but you need to have enough familiarity with the subject to know where to look and what you are looking for.
Because some "rote facts" help you determine that certain concepts are bullshit. One example i read about is that a college professor at a prominent California university was teaching his Black Studies students that a slave uprising in the French Caribbean helped kickstart the French Revolution. His students ate it up because this was the first time they had been taught how big of an influence on World History "their" culture had had. The biggest problem with that whole thing was not that most of those students were not descended from anything relating to the slave uprising and so it really wasn't their culture. No, the biggest problem was that the slave uprising happened about 12 years after the French Revolution so it could not possibly have had any influence on the French Revolution.
Yes, sometimes facts help us weed out bogus "concepts". And for math and physics students, it is absolutely necessary to understand the formulas and how to do all that by hand if you are going to pursue any kind of related career because having the fundamental understanding helps you to know what the computers are doing. And actually memorizing addition and multiplication tables really is necessary to considering one's self a semi-educated adult.
You mean like the bogus claims by leftists that Republicans were running the South and created all the Jim Crow laws and that it was Democrats who went down there to protest against the Republican Governor Wallace and that Sen. Byrd was never in the KKK until they all of a sudden remember that he was completely reformed?
Is that the re-writing you are claiming is happening? Or maybe the rewriting that makes the claim that not one single person ever mentioned the 2nd amendment applying to individual private citizens until the NRA fabricated the story somewhere in the 1980s? It really does not take very long to prove that many of the Founding Fathers were under the impression that every one of the rights mentioned in the Bill of Rights applies to private individuals.
In the majority of US states, a person is justified in assuming that an armed assailant is always going to take a life or cause great bodily harm if you were to choose not to cooperate. Since preventing death or great bodily harm is a valid legal reason to use deadly force so if said landlord reacts before the money is taken then deadly force would be justified. Some states also allow the use of deadly force to stop an in progress felony so shooting someone that has already grabbed the money might be considered justifiable in those states. Remember that morally questionable is not always legally questionable.
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PROTIP: Mizzou, et al are not all lies. They actually happened and we have video evidence. Ignoring it and relying on other liberals to deny that it happens does not change the reality of it happening.
AthanasiusKircher, you should have used self-censorship. Self-censorship is civil behavior and etiquette and such.
Government censorship is a true evil. The other kind is not worth talking about because it is ultimately a form of self-censorship. That is, an organization that runs a web-site that allows user comments is practicing self-censorship when it removes or alters posts because of language or topic or other such criteria.
Try the other definition of free. Maybe the definition that mentions restrictions instead of price.
And what kind of idiot believes that thinking this (or any other) president is a dumbass or motherfucker or whatever makes somebody a racist?
So mass surveillance is having a chilling effect on the climate?
Doesn't that mean that mass surveillance is beneficial to the earth so we should be doing more of it?
Well, let's see. The US hacked the Iranian government (or government contractors if you believe such a thing really exists there) and the Iranians hacked private businesses. Only a Sanders supporter will fail to see the difference between a government and private business.
Maybe the ones they laid off were the ones as bad at math as triplevenfall. 80 employees remaining and 40 pink slips means they had 120 employees to start with. 25% of that is 30 and 40 out of 120 is 33%.
The course in question was at UC Berkely and Dinesh D'Souza wrote about it years ago. There was no test question. Please read with comprehension as the goal.
Because certain students were so enamored by the "no rote facts" mindset, they were easily led astray by one of their professors and when someone tried to point out the fallacy by using the facts (the actual dates), the students didn't want to listen because they were busy enjoying the concept and they didn't need any facts to do that. The whole point is that without facts as a basis it is far to easy to teach false concepts.
Well, since NSF means National Science Foundation and not National pseudo-Science Foundation, I would expect them to only fund Science.
Since they are also funding pseudo-Science, then they are not being very careful about their funding choices as claimed by dlenmn.
GP didn't say the US equals the Western World. He said "the only significant (and cruel) state sponsored gender discrimination remaining in the western world" happens in the US.
The US is a subset of the Western world so his statement is accurate and yours is pointless.
"I am normally pretty supportive of feminist agendas as treating everyone equally is a strangely compelling idea, but I feel that this is such an easy target that I cannot ignore it."
The inability to see the internal contradiction within that sentence is a very common trait among those who are "pretty supportive of feminist agendas."
If the NSF is in the business of funding anything in the Social pseudo-sciences, then it is not being very careful.
Have you not been paying attention, man. The whole point of identity politics is to be able to more easily inform people that they are out of line, out of step with their "peers" and to be able to denigrate those that don't fit the stereotype as "identify haters".
There is no "identities all the way down" because those at the top decide which identities are valid, who fits the identity and which opinion the identity will have.
And you pretty much just made his case.
No, the point is that if anybody had bothered to teach those supposed adult college kids some basic facts (the dates of those events) or had the asshole college professor decided to use those actual facts, then he would not have been able to lead his students astray. But the teacher was able to teach falsehoods by using the mantra that "memorizing rote facts is useless" to not teach the facts that showed the lie of his concept.
My point was that the teacher in question was using the "no facts" mantra to his advantage to teach bogus concepts. His students ate it up because they liked what they were hearing and they had already been taught that facts only get in the way of learning so they didn't bother looking for them.
So always having to calculate 2+3=5 is somehow better than memorizing 2+3=5? Some of that basic algebra and number theory is based on knowing some key facts. Sometimes having the basics memorized is very useful. Being able to quickly run calculations for larger numbers is also useful. I was required to memorize at least all the single digit addition tables and multiplications through 12*12. I don't remember all of them any more but generally remember the smaller ones and quickly calculate the larger ones of that group. I will agree that memorizing anything beyond the single-digit tables is not of any value.
That would depend entirely upon the class and the rules, wouldn't it.
I see the whole problem is that we, as a society in general, have decided that rules don't matter and learning is for rubes and such. Regardless of opinions to the contrary, the moral decay of society is real and it is not a good thing.
Exactly, open book tests are meant to simulate (in a fashion) the real world where you have access to all manner of reference material to do your job but you need to have enough familiarity with the subject to know where to look and what you are looking for.
Because some "rote facts" help you determine that certain concepts are bullshit. One example i read about is that a college professor at a prominent California university was teaching his Black Studies students that a slave uprising in the French Caribbean helped kickstart the French Revolution. His students ate it up because this was the first time they had been taught how big of an influence on World History "their" culture had had. The biggest problem with that whole thing was not that most of those students were not descended from anything relating to the slave uprising and so it really wasn't their culture. No, the biggest problem was that the slave uprising happened about 12 years after the French Revolution so it could not possibly have had any influence on the French Revolution.
Yes, sometimes facts help us weed out bogus "concepts". And for math and physics students, it is absolutely necessary to understand the formulas and how to do all that by hand if you are going to pursue any kind of related career because having the fundamental understanding helps you to know what the computers are doing. And actually memorizing addition and multiplication tables really is necessary to considering one's self a semi-educated adult.
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"Except that quantum things are real", but not until you open the box. Before that they are both real and not real.
Did you not notice where I mentioned armed assailants and most states give the benefit of the doubt, legally, to the victim of an armed assailant?
You mean like the bogus claims by leftists that Republicans were running the South and created all the Jim Crow laws and that it was Democrats who went down there to protest against the Republican Governor Wallace and that Sen. Byrd was never in the KKK until they all of a sudden remember that he was completely reformed?
Is that the re-writing you are claiming is happening? Or maybe the rewriting that makes the claim that not one single person ever mentioned the 2nd amendment applying to individual private citizens until the NRA fabricated the story somewhere in the 1980s? It really does not take very long to prove that many of the Founding Fathers were under the impression that every one of the rights mentioned in the Bill of Rights applies to private individuals.
No, rent is usually paid up front. The month or two up-front charge is what establishes that.
In the majority of US states, a person is justified in assuming that an armed assailant is always going to take a life or cause great bodily harm if you were to choose not to cooperate. Since preventing death or great bodily harm is a valid legal reason to use deadly force so if said landlord reacts before the money is taken then deadly force would be justified. Some states also allow the use of deadly force to stop an in progress felony so shooting someone that has already grabbed the money might be considered justifiable in those states. Remember that morally questionable is not always legally questionable.