A bad leader will convince the populace that what is a bad idea is actually a good idea.
The problem is, nobody wants to evaluate ideas on their own merit, they want others to tell us what to think.
I have no issue with drinking recycled water, because I was taught about the great water cycle in grade school. Its all recycled water at this point. The fact that people have irrational feelings about it is besides the point.
You just made the case for what I have been proposing for a long long time. The problem isn't a network problem, it is a captive last mile customer base problem. Change that dynamic (last mile) and you change the world.
Each Municipality should build out its own last mile infrastructure to a COLO facilty and then companies like Comcast, Netflix and Time-Warner can find creative ways of providing services the customer (us) actually want. As long as the BIGTELCO companies have a captive audience, then we (the "customers") are actually the product.
I would even suggest that IE is just a minority of browsers surfing the net these days. Every time I use IE, I wonder how anyone considers it useful. Just yesterday, I saw a very interesting rendering bug in IE (I have to use it for testing) on a website. Apart from being slow and clumsy, it is still that buggy.
Explain to me how "emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships" will work out by your view of what should be taught in Sex Ed? After all, you seem to think I didn't read the whole sentance (which I did) or even the article (Which I did).
In short, what you failed to see, is exactly the problem I was pointing out. Yet you failed to see it still.
I think you're missing the point, because you're thinking like an adult, not a 60 month old child. When children say "the teacher said to touch mine/hers/his private parts" because the teacher was following prescribed terminology in teaching "sexual education", then what the child learned isn't what was being taught.
Thinking like an adult, and thinking little kids think like adults are two different things. The sad thing is, we're using cookie cutter techniques on individuals, and ridiculing anyone that see things differently. Good job, you've become exactly what you hate in others.
The problem isn't the naming convention. The problem is we are afraid of "connotations" in words. This is how "Retarded" became "Slow", became "Special" and so on until instead of ruining one word, we ruin a whole bunch trying to not "offend" anyone. We need to get over it.
emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships
Those aren't "Sexual Education" materials, those are Psychology Materials. And do you want your average 4-6 grade teacher teaching these things to 9-12 year old kids?
I don't want my kids (or grandkids) to get this information from poorly equipped teachers who have 30 new kids to raise every year. These things require Nurturing, something one cannot get from Institutional Factory Education models.
I suspect that "none are at fault" is probably true. But what is often left unsaid, the cars, while being legal, were doing something unexpected.
My Great Aunt, had four car accidents in two years. None were her fault, yet they all kind of were. She was doing things in unexpected ways, that were completely legal, but not ordinary. People expect certain patterns, and when someone is outside of those patterns, it causes accidents. Not the fault, but rather the cause.
He also called for better sex education in schools
When I'm with a girl, I'll wish I was watching pornography, because I'll never get rejected.
Sex education does nothing to solve the real issues these Peter Pans are suffering. I'm pretty sure that the guy in the quote knows all about how "sex" works, probably in more detail than is actually needed.
TI-83 is a scam run on Schools, Students and Teachers. There are books written on how to do math on THIS calculator. They don't teach math, they teach math on this Calculator.
Poor people don't have a chance, because in order to start a business, one has to have the money to start a business. And one certainly needs to pay off government for all the taxes, licensing, and business fees to start a business. Just ask the poor kids (not) selling lemonade.
Taxes are regressive. Overly Burdensome government red tape is regressive. Poor people don't have a chance.
I think you misunderstood my point. People keep saying Baltimore was about "race", a black man died yada yada yada. And you are most certainly right, few, if any, black people would have cared if it was a white guy. I know, my white cousin was killed, while being unarmed in a parked car in a residential driveway. Very few people actually gave a shit.
Gray's death is almost certainly the fault of the police. They are certainly responsible for the care of those in their custody (look at the definition). AND that is what we need to focus on, not Gray's Race.
You're right, the ones using race when speaking about people are RACIST. My point, in case you missed it, was that it is LIBERALS who constantly refer to race and race relations, pitting "whites" vs "blacks" vs "latinos" vs... where are the Asians in this conversation? Oh right, because you can't negatively stigmatize a race that succeeds in spite of past racism (Chinese railroad slaves).
My point was that it is LIBERALS who keep saying blacks can't make it without help, and THAT is racist. I was saying that blacks don't need white help, because that keeps blacks as a subclass, and inferior. LIBERALS do that, not me.
I just wonder if you say the same thing about Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, calling them racist for keeping on about how blacks need white people's help. I rather doubt it.
No sir, you are the racist, because you're too damn afraid of letting blacks off the DNC Plantation of white guilt and white help. But keep thinking you're not racist by saying blacks need white help.
Afghanistan was occupied by Soviet Union during the years leading up to the first WTC bombing. Regime change there was overthrowing the Soviet Puppet State. Unless you think that is a bad thing? IS that what your point is?
Yeah, you should actually read the CONTEXT of the actions during the years mentioned in the wikipedia article you posted. When the Soviet Union Pulled its troops, the Muhajadeen we supported took over. Yes, these are the same people that became Al Qaeda.
I am not a supporter of foreign interference, mainly because of the unintended consequences that always results, so don't put me in your preconceived box. My personal view is one similar to Prime Directive of Star Trek lore.
He didn't say "Overthrow Democratically Elected Governmnets".. he said "Occupy".
Further, what part of Afghanistan had democratically elected government during the 80's, when it was occupied by Soviet Union, and where Al Queda was formed?
I'm not purposefully ignorant, I happen to know the full history of the region up to the first World Trade Center Bombing. The point is, the original post to which I was responding, is completely ignorant. Just because he is spouting left wing talking points, doesn't mean they have any basis in truth. I asked the question, his response was more talking points, and ignorant.
One cannot quantify nor even qualify morality in any sort of models. Which is why I propose that we stop insisting that we can quantify and qualify economic morality.
Does morality affect economics? Sure. To what degree? That is unknowable.
trying to play king maker, gun runner, behind the scenes operator
Criteria... not met. The accusation was "Occupation". And we (USA) actually supported the Muslims in Afghanistan when they were invaded by the Soviet Union (actual occupying force).
You might actually want to review who actually occupied Afghanistan during the 80s
Uber is a computer company, masquerading as a taxi service. The cars are not the service, the software back end is. They are a high tech backend to a old school front end. They differentiate themselves not on the service (getting passenger from A to B), but on the ability to get riders and drivers together using Computers.
Uber doesn't own the cars. Uber doesn't drive the passengers. They are a software company.
There are two kinds of approaches to profit. Short term profit, risking long term viability, and long term approach to profit, that risks short term viability. A third kind, using a balanced approach, risks some of both; short term profit, long term profit in exchange for viability.
Realizing that profit, viability and so on is neither good nor bad, but how we measure things is key to understand economics. Arguing "morality" in economics is simply a fools errand and distracts from free flow of commerce. PEOPLE on the other hand are supposed to act morally.
So, you're saying black people need white people's help, because they can't help themselves? You are saying that black people can't excel without white people helping them. Do you realize how fucking racist that is?
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A bad leader will convince the populace that what is a bad idea is actually a good idea.
The problem is, nobody wants to evaluate ideas on their own merit, they want others to tell us what to think.
I have no issue with drinking recycled water, because I was taught about the great water cycle in grade school. Its all recycled water at this point. The fact that people have irrational feelings about it is besides the point.
You just made the case for what I have been proposing for a long long time. The problem isn't a network problem, it is a captive last mile customer base problem. Change that dynamic (last mile) and you change the world.
Each Municipality should build out its own last mile infrastructure to a COLO facilty and then companies like Comcast, Netflix and Time-Warner can find creative ways of providing services the customer (us) actually want. As long as the BIGTELCO companies have a captive audience, then we (the "customers") are actually the product.
I would even suggest that IE is just a minority of browsers surfing the net these days. Every time I use IE, I wonder how anyone considers it useful. Just yesterday, I saw a very interesting rendering bug in IE (I have to use it for testing) on a website. Apart from being slow and clumsy, it is still that buggy.
Explain to me how "emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships" will work out by your view of what should be taught in Sex Ed? After all, you seem to think I didn't read the whole sentance (which I did) or even the article (Which I did).
In short, what you failed to see, is exactly the problem I was pointing out. Yet you failed to see it still.
I think you're missing the point, because you're thinking like an adult, not a 60 month old child. When children say "the teacher said to touch mine/hers/his private parts" because the teacher was following prescribed terminology in teaching "sexual education", then what the child learned isn't what was being taught.
Thinking like an adult, and thinking little kids think like adults are two different things. The sad thing is, we're using cookie cutter techniques on individuals, and ridiculing anyone that see things differently. Good job, you've become exactly what you hate in others.
It is worse than that. Now a days, the poor liberal women on college campus' think that words are rape.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...
Or Ebola for short ....
The problem isn't the naming convention. The problem is we are afraid of "connotations" in words. This is how "Retarded" became "Slow", became "Special" and so on until instead of ruining one word, we ruin a whole bunch trying to not "offend" anyone. We need to get over it.
emotions, physical contact and romantic relationships
Those aren't "Sexual Education" materials, those are Psychology Materials. And do you want your average 4-6 grade teacher teaching these things to 9-12 year old kids?
I don't want my kids (or grandkids) to get this information from poorly equipped teachers who have 30 new kids to raise every year. These things require Nurturing, something one cannot get from Institutional Factory Education models.
I suspect that "none are at fault" is probably true. But what is often left unsaid, the cars, while being legal, were doing something unexpected.
My Great Aunt, had four car accidents in two years. None were her fault, yet they all kind of were. She was doing things in unexpected ways, that were completely legal, but not ordinary. People expect certain patterns, and when someone is outside of those patterns, it causes accidents. Not the fault, but rather the cause.
He also called for better sex education in schools
When I'm with a girl, I'll wish I was watching pornography, because I'll never get rejected.
Sex education does nothing to solve the real issues these Peter Pans are suffering. I'm pretty sure that the guy in the quote knows all about how "sex" works, probably in more detail than is actually needed.
Why wasn't my HP 12C allowed? Oh right, because the books didn't know RPN.
TI-83 is a scam run on Schools, Students and Teachers. There are books written on how to do math on THIS calculator. They don't teach math, they teach math on this Calculator.
stop treating black people poorly.
But treating white people poorly is okay!!!
How about this ...
stop treating people poorly.
No racist terminology at all.
Poor people don't have a chance, because in order to start a business, one has to have the money to start a business. And one certainly needs to pay off government for all the taxes, licensing, and business fees to start a business. Just ask the poor kids (not) selling lemonade.
Taxes are regressive. Overly Burdensome government red tape is regressive. Poor people don't have a chance.
I think you misunderstood my point. People keep saying Baltimore was about "race", a black man died yada yada yada. And you are most certainly right, few, if any, black people would have cared if it was a white guy. I know, my white cousin was killed, while being unarmed in a parked car in a residential driveway. Very few people actually gave a shit.
Gray's death is almost certainly the fault of the police. They are certainly responsible for the care of those in their custody (look at the definition). AND that is what we need to focus on, not Gray's Race.
You're right, the ones using race when speaking about people are RACIST. My point, in case you missed it, was that it is LIBERALS who constantly refer to race and race relations, pitting "whites" vs "blacks" vs "latinos" vs ... where are the Asians in this conversation? Oh right, because you can't negatively stigmatize a race that succeeds in spite of past racism (Chinese railroad slaves).
My point was that it is LIBERALS who keep saying blacks can't make it without help, and THAT is racist. I was saying that blacks don't need white help, because that keeps blacks as a subclass, and inferior. LIBERALS do that, not me.
I just wonder if you say the same thing about Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton, calling them racist for keeping on about how blacks need white people's help. I rather doubt it.
No sir, you are the racist, because you're too damn afraid of letting blacks off the DNC Plantation of white guilt and white help. But keep thinking you're not racist by saying blacks need white help.
Afghanistan was occupied by Soviet Union during the years leading up to the first WTC bombing. Regime change there was overthrowing the Soviet Puppet State. Unless you think that is a bad thing? IS that what your point is?
Yeah, you should actually read the CONTEXT of the actions during the years mentioned in the wikipedia article you posted. When the Soviet Union Pulled its troops, the Muhajadeen we supported took over. Yes, these are the same people that became Al Qaeda.
I am not a supporter of foreign interference, mainly because of the unintended consequences that always results, so don't put me in your preconceived box. My personal view is one similar to Prime Directive of Star Trek lore.
He didn't say "Overthrow Democratically Elected Governmnets" .. he said "Occupy".
Further, what part of Afghanistan had democratically elected government during the 80's, when it was occupied by Soviet Union, and where Al Queda was formed?
I'm not purposefully ignorant, I happen to know the full history of the region up to the first World Trade Center Bombing. The point is, the original post to which I was responding, is completely ignorant. Just because he is spouting left wing talking points, doesn't mean they have any basis in truth. I asked the question, his response was more talking points, and ignorant.
So, by your definition, we occupy Britain, Japan, Germany, Cuba ....
http://www.bibliotecapleyades....
One cannot quantify nor even qualify morality in any sort of models. Which is why I propose that we stop insisting that we can quantify and qualify economic morality.
Does morality affect economics? Sure. To what degree? That is unknowable.
our occupation of Muslim countries
trying to play king maker, gun runner, behind the scenes operator
Criteria ... not met. The accusation was "Occupation". And we (USA) actually supported the Muslims in Afghanistan when they were invaded by the Soviet Union (actual occupying force).
You might actually want to review who actually occupied Afghanistan during the 80s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Uber is a computer company, masquerading as a taxi service. The cars are not the service, the software back end is. They are a high tech backend to a old school front end. They differentiate themselves not on the service (getting passenger from A to B), but on the ability to get riders and drivers together using Computers.
Uber doesn't own the cars. Uber doesn't drive the passengers. They are a software company.
There are two kinds of approaches to profit. Short term profit, risking long term viability, and long term approach to profit, that risks short term viability. A third kind, using a balanced approach, risks some of both; short term profit, long term profit in exchange for viability.
Realizing that profit, viability and so on is neither good nor bad, but how we measure things is key to understand economics. Arguing "morality" in economics is simply a fools errand and distracts from free flow of commerce. PEOPLE on the other hand are supposed to act morally.
So, you're saying black people need white people's help, because they can't help themselves? You are saying that black people can't excel without white people helping them. Do you realize how fucking racist that is?
It depends upon where you are. In Wyoming, it isn't a big deal. In San Fransisco or Chicago, it is.
I personally would feel much safer in Wyoming than in Chicago. But that is me.