I'm going to state the obvious and state you are stating the obvious. This isn't a story about a genius invention, its about an idiotic overreaction to some nerdy kid trying to teach himself something. As such your post doesn't tell us shit....but the ending is especially hilarious. Paraphrasing: "this kid's project is stupid and lame...but it perplexes me and I can't figure it out".
Perhaps you could learn a thing or two from this kid eh?
Its a good thing all the red states have eliminated poverty with all their charity...oh wait, Texas with all its oil riches is #5 in poverty in the US. FYI, the bible belt is all about sharia law when you consider it translates more or less into "religous law". The only difference is which 1000 year old book you take instructions from on how to oppress women and non-believers.
The other 4 people calling you a moron aren't enough. The alarm went off by accident else no one else probably would have seen it. Someone mod parent back down.
If all he did was rip the guts out of a working clock and stuff it in a box, he was probably trying to provoke exactly this reaction.
Well OBVIOUSLY. We all know you can't learn ANYTHING by taking things apart. Any 14 year old should already know how digital circuits work from our amazing educational system. The kid's only possible motive was terrorism. For crying out loud he had a NASA shirt on which we all know stands for Nefariously Attacking Stateside Americans..Kudos to that brave teacher that prevented a massacre.
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
16 of the top 20 college football programs are revenue positive. Everyone else (300+ schools) is pretty much losing money because of football, mainly because they believe in your incorrect narrative.
Why the fuck, when your fucking student that you've known for months and probably met their parents opens the fucking box on their own to show you something where the TIMER ALREADY WENT OFF, is your first thought "this must be a bomb"?!
Indeed, if you're not a bomb expert the only safe move is to assume everything homemade is a bomb. That's why schools never have bake sales anymore. They are full of bombs.
...also, your sig is hilarious in context of your post.
How often do you thing a cyclist changes lanes? Right hand turns are executed from the right shoulder where they usually ride and left turns are from a standstill if there is any traffic. Yeah I know "I saw this one biker go blah bi de blah blahh". The thing is, if a cyclist is careless they'll get run over. If a motorist is careless they'll run over the cyclist.
Apparently it says they know what they're doing cause all that stuff happened and their current market cap is $151B....not that we should be happy about it of course.
Because it's not as though the financial industry could make staggering amounts of money from 'Carbon Credits'.
No, sir. They're doing this for the good of the planet.
Wow, someone getting rich and our environment stabilizing sure sounds like lose lose. Weirdly, its the exact opposite of that. Someone getting rich off saving the environment our society is accustomed to is probably the only chance our society has.
And your Hillary quote begets any number of Republican presidential candidates comparing the Sitting US president to hilter and so on and so forth. We've reached the hyperbole singularity and have nowhere to go but straight to the very bottom. I'm surprised no one has seriously accused the other side of literally eating babies on camera yet but there are still 14 months till the election (as John Oliver put it, there will be babies born before the election who's parents haven't even met yet).
My point is, we're so far off the deep end there is nothing to be gained by pointing out "but but but they said...". Fortunately there is also nothing to be lost! So good sir, I implore you to just give up on all this bullshit till Nov 2 just as I have resolved to do. Enjoy!
If its a year per kid, I'd be tempted to keep having kids. If that catches on, we might wonder if Netflix is encouraging rapid population growth.
No need to wonder, just take a gander on how most of Europe is doing. My Cousin in Germany is on maternity leave with 6 months full pay +6 more months with 2/3rds pay, which has been typical for quite some time. Germany currently has zero/negative population growth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany).
Being present for a child as soon and as long as possible is the best thing you can do for their health/development/etc (and you get benefits as well). If this catches on we might wonder if this encourages lower healthcare costs and crime rates.
Pishhh...Iran could care less about what the US thinks. The real reason they keep at it is because all the/. nuclear fanboys have finally convinced a government how great nuclear is! Kudos fanboys!
/. has commenters to provide a daily (ok, hourly) dose of whining over why some huge and largely successful research project or whatever got it all wrong because they didn't use some pet technology, where said technology would only have worked under ideal circumstances (i.e. a world in which everyone is totally cool with nuclear power) and in reality would have been completely impractical* due to, well, reality. If the article itself is a poorly designed rebuttal requiring billions of people to fundamentally alter their core modus operandi to address a relatively trivial shortcoming, what the hell are we supposed to do here?
*also applies to theories in political and philosophical debates. Don't take those away if you still want visitors to this site.
...and then spend the remaining $1,975,000 fixing all the security breaches and viruses that suddenly have access to your system now that its conveniently on the internet and running on familiar hardware.
Valid point but to make this scenario match climate: we also know a vitamin that increases reading retention is being artificially added to school lunches at a set rate every year. We've done studies on how many vitamins 100000's of kids have eaten in the past and how it affected their scores. So maybe johnny will also take meth and be an outlier (weather) but we're still able to make a reasonable prediction of what average NY test scores will be in 100 years (climate).....also I've been there and there is no way in hell NY has an average GPA of 3.1. BLAMMO!
Thanks for proving my point. I had an idea to write the most infallible and relevant rebuttal to your original post but it all blew up from mutual misinterpretation!
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I'm going to state the obvious and state you are stating the obvious. This isn't a story about a genius invention, its about an idiotic overreaction to some nerdy kid trying to teach himself something. As such your post doesn't tell us shit....but the ending is especially hilarious. Paraphrasing: "this kid's project is stupid and lame...but it perplexes me and I can't figure it out".
Perhaps you could learn a thing or two from this kid eh?
Some random counterpoints to your post that someone accidentally modded up (there is no other logical explanation aside from the mod also a troll)
"The Free Muslims Coalition believes that there can NEVER be a justification for terrorism." (first line on their "positions" page)
http://theamericanmuslim.org/t... (fatwa agains terrorism)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
Its a good thing all the red states have eliminated poverty with all their charity...oh wait, Texas with all its oil riches is #5 in poverty in the US. FYI, the bible belt is all about sharia law when you consider it translates more or less into "religous law". The only difference is which 1000 year old book you take instructions from on how to oppress women and non-believers.
The other 4 people calling you a moron aren't enough. The alarm went off by accident else no one else probably would have seen it. Someone mod parent back down.
If all he did was rip the guts out of a working clock and stuff it in a box, he was probably trying to provoke exactly this reaction.
Well OBVIOUSLY. We all know you can't learn ANYTHING by taking things apart. Any 14 year old should already know how digital circuits work from our amazing educational system. The kid's only possible motive was terrorism. For crying out loud he had a NASA shirt on which we all know stands for Nefariously Attacking Stateside Americans..Kudos to that brave teacher that prevented a massacre.
The Nazis could easily have won the war, if Hitler wasn't insane
No they couldn't. If Hilter wasn't insane there wouldn't have been a war to win.
Sorry to grammar police you but your punctuation was way off. Reformatted:
What are your thoughts on Donald Trump, another businessman (???), and why are you more qualified to be president?
Not sure how that's any different than saying the terrorist won...
That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.
Uhh...sometimes.
http://www.ncaa.org/about/reso...
http://www.cbssports.com/colle...
16 of the top 20 college football programs are revenue positive. Everyone else (300+ schools) is pretty much losing money because of football, mainly because they believe in your incorrect narrative.
Why the fuck, when your fucking student that you've known for months and probably met their parents opens the fucking box on their own to show you something where the TIMER ALREADY WENT OFF, is your first thought "this must be a bomb"?!
Indeed, if you're not a bomb expert the only safe move is to assume everything homemade is a bomb. That's why schools never have bake sales anymore. They are full of bombs.
How often do you thing a cyclist changes lanes? Right hand turns are executed from the right shoulder where they usually ride and left turns are from a standstill if there is any traffic. Yeah I know "I saw this one biker go blah bi de blah blahh". The thing is, if a cyclist is careless they'll get run over. If a motorist is careless they'll run over the cyclist.
Apparently it says they know what they're doing cause all that stuff happened and their current market cap is $151B. ...not that we should be happy about it of course.
Because it's not as though the financial industry could make staggering amounts of money from 'Carbon Credits'.
No, sir. They're doing this for the good of the planet.
Wow, someone getting rich and our environment stabilizing sure sounds like lose lose. Weirdly, its the exact opposite of that. Someone getting rich off saving the environment our society is accustomed to is probably the only chance our society has.
And your Hillary quote begets any number of Republican presidential candidates comparing the Sitting US president to hilter and so on and so forth. We've reached the hyperbole singularity and have nowhere to go but straight to the very bottom. I'm surprised no one has seriously accused the other side of literally eating babies on camera yet but there are still 14 months till the election (as John Oliver put it, there will be babies born before the election who's parents haven't even met yet).
My point is, we're so far off the deep end there is nothing to be gained by pointing out "but but but they said...". Fortunately there is also nothing to be lost! So good sir, I implore you to just give up on all this bullshit till Nov 2 just as I have resolved to do. Enjoy!
If its a year per kid, I'd be tempted to keep having kids. If that catches on, we might wonder if Netflix is encouraging rapid population growth.
No need to wonder, just take a gander on how most of Europe is doing. My Cousin in Germany is on maternity leave with 6 months full pay +6 more months with 2/3rds pay, which has been typical for quite some time. Germany currently has zero/negative population growth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany).
Being present for a child as soon and as long as possible is the best thing you can do for their health/development/etc (and you get benefits as well). If this catches on we might wonder if this encourages lower healthcare costs and crime rates.
Pishhh...Iran could care less about what the US thinks. The real reason they keep at it is because all the /. nuclear fanboys have finally convinced a government how great nuclear is! Kudos fanboys!
To be fair, the other most common economic troupe is the one where the economist is wrong...
You sound pretty indignant about the whole thing but without the glove slap to the face I'm not really feeling this challenge.
/. has commenters to provide a daily (ok, hourly) dose of whining over why some huge and largely successful research project or whatever got it all wrong because they didn't use some pet technology, where said technology would only have worked under ideal circumstances (i.e. a world in which everyone is totally cool with nuclear power) and in reality would have been completely impractical* due to, well, reality. If the article itself is a poorly designed rebuttal requiring billions of people to fundamentally alter their core modus operandi to address a relatively trivial shortcoming, what the hell are we supposed to do here?
*also applies to theories in political and philosophical debates. Don't take those away if you still want visitors to this site.
...and then spend the remaining $1,975,000 fixing all the security breaches and viruses that suddenly have access to your system now that its conveniently on the internet and running on familiar hardware.
Valid point but to make this scenario match climate: we also know a vitamin that increases reading retention is being artificially added to school lunches at a set rate every year. We've done studies on how many vitamins 100000's of kids have eaten in the past and how it affected their scores. So maybe johnny will also take meth and be an outlier (weather) but we're still able to make a reasonable prediction of what average NY test scores will be in 100 years (climate). ....also I've been there and there is no way in hell NY has an average GPA of 3.1. BLAMMO!
Lighten up
Thanks for proving my point. I had an idea to write the most infallible and relevant rebuttal to your original post but it all blew up from mutual misinterpretation!
So at some point between now and 2100 a new and magical energy source will appear
If the past 3 centuries are any kind of precedent then yes, we'll probably find several.
A bunch of politicians who won't be around in 10 years
Well, we can always dream about that anyway....