I appreciate your sentiment. I apologize that it was to your post that I made such as statement. I should have posted to Garcia's statement. It just bothers me to hear Americans say what a pack of assholes Americans are... as if it sets them apart from the other Americans.
Nah, this particular story is not bad, I rather like it.
What I'm talking about is the number of posts that do tend to inform me that I am a hick, fat, lazy, and stupid, all because I live in the US.
It was intended to be a humorous poke at the fact that it seems that we are unable to speak about the United States, on Slashdot at least, in a positive light.
I'm a libertarian, and not particularly fond of Bush. I hated the "shut up and support the guy" regime that seemed to be in place a couple of years ago. That said, I'm nothing like that and kind of resent the idea that someone would think that I am.
Rather, I know that daily I log in, and see some asshole posting saying that I suck merely because I am from the United States. Slashdot has become quite... annoying. People advocating open source who run Windows, people posting to an American board about how much Americans suck. The best part is people weighing in on academic topics, saying that what is widely considered to be true in the field is, in fact, false, despite lacking the background knowledge to make such statements.
Yeah, it was really more intended to be funny. I just hate when people use a concept that is impossible to prove as fact. They use it loosely, so you can't say "you don't know that".
Nice.
That hotspot could also, potentially, be used to launch nuclear weapons and online hunting.
Ahh, good point. I got quite frustrated with the matter.
Anyway, I think that you raise a valid point. It would be good to see people doing more with their lives. I don't necessarily think that it needs to be intellectual, just something. I think that by and large people tend to become idle, and that the years pass by, bringing little. That's pretty sad.
You don't sound intelligent at all, resorting to merely insulting me to make your point. You should, instead, come up with something more concrete.
Your view is not showing any semblance of "global awareness." I am quite globally aware. I have made comparisons that did not bring down judgement on other countries, but merely sought to state "they're not better than us." They're not. You don't sound more intelligent by merely calling me stupid.
As for this humility bit. You have called me stupid. All I did was defend that I am not. I didn't say how great I am. I didn't say who I work with or what I do.
Please just stop this foolishness. You're annoying me, and I have important work to do.
That doesn't strike at my core argument though. People from other countries, and inside our own country, feel that they can, with impunity, call Americans stupid and lazy. That makes this strictly a comparative matter.
Listening to our AC friend slam on me has been quite an exercise as well. He has failed to form a single cogent argument the whole time, while relying on my reaction to being called dumb to guide the conversation. His argument is, however, revealing. He states that "France is a first-world country" (though he "fucks up" (to use a term he seems to understand) the hyphenation). He then makes comparison to a rural American state. The implication is multifold. First, that third-world countries are, per capita, less intelligent. Second, that the US is a third-world country. Third, that France, as a first-world country, is somehow, per capita, more intelligent.
He then proceeds to call me arrogant and so forth. His argument has all of the markings of a 14 year old, with little knowledge of what he is talking about, assuming that he knows it all because of his home schooling. In reality, I am only partly the product of a public education. I attended some private institutions, and, of course, am at an Ivy Leauge institution now, making me the product also of private education. That said, attending public school gave me an appreciation that not all that was good flowed forth from my neatly contained private world. Perhaps sometime, this youth will have life experiences that will reveal such things to him. I will hold no ill will toward him, but merely hope that he experiences that which he must to expand his world view in time to do something meaningful with his life.
I have no way of measuring your intelligence aside from your comments.
The point of my post was not to say that the people of France are any less intelligent than the people of the US, but to say that it is improbable that they are any more intelligent.
Your arument is poorly structured. You show that I have no reason to enter intellectual combat with you, as you come unarmed.
I don't think that people in other countries are that intelligent by comparison. That's all that I'm saying. I think that the entire planet is populated by mostly ignorant masses.
Do you think if you moved to France that all of the sudden you'd be surrounded by people bearing PhDs?
I thought that my public school had a few shortcomings. Despite high scores on acceptance tests, I never made it into the gifted program... I did go to regional science fairs, got into a few national programs, and won a few national awards however.
I'm in graduate school at Cornell now. Hey, look at all of those international students... I bet that they wanted to come to this nifty American school.
I still think that it is dumb to call all of your countrymen dumb. If you dislike them so much, and think that residing in this country speaks so poorly of you, why don't you move to another country?
I'm not saying that to be aggressive. I mean it. If I thought that America was all that bad, I'd move.
My university states their caps outright in the contract. There is no hidden restriction. When I signed up, I knew that I was getting fiber optic service, and that usage above my cap would cost me money.
I don't know if you're an American, but I will go ahead and say this. An American calling American's dumb doesn't make himself sounds smart. An American calling Americans dumb sounds kind of like this, no matter how eloquently he puts it.
"Duhhhh, HI! I'm an American! Look at meeeee! I'm dummbbbbbb!! American schools suck! I'm the product of an American education. That must make me dummbbbbb!!! American's love Dubya! Dubya is dumb! Americans are dumbbbbb! But not meee. I'm smart, because I call Americans dumbbbbb."
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Being a scoutmaster is volunteer. Only a handful of positions in scouts actually pay.
Awesome.
They could throw you in the special housing unit or kill you.
Since the RIAA is trying to buy a few laws, it will be just like that if we don't stop them.
You go in for Disorderly Conduct at some protest... then they kill you for having an MP3 player.
Heh, thanks. You actually made my day.
I don't think that I would ever invest in anything named BM.
Eh.
I'm not so much a troll.
I appreciate your sentiment. I apologize that it was to your post that I made such as statement. I should have posted to Garcia's statement. It just bothers me to hear Americans say what a pack of assholes Americans are... as if it sets them apart from the other Americans.
Nah, this particular story is not bad, I rather like it.
What I'm talking about is the number of posts that do tend to inform me that I am a hick, fat, lazy, and stupid, all because I live in the US.
It was intended to be a humorous poke at the fact that it seems that we are unable to speak about the United States, on Slashdot at least, in a positive light.
I'm a libertarian, and not particularly fond of Bush. I hated the "shut up and support the guy" regime that seemed to be in place a couple of years ago. That said, I'm nothing like that and kind of resent the idea that someone would think that I am.
Rather, I know that daily I log in, and see some asshole posting saying that I suck merely because I am from the United States. Slashdot has become quite... annoying. People advocating open source who run Windows, people posting to an American board about how much Americans suck. The best part is people weighing in on academic topics, saying that what is widely considered to be true in the field is, in fact, false, despite lacking the background knowledge to make such statements.
Oh well.
This story is too US centric, you insensitve clod!
Oh, wait, it is regarding the shortcomings of the United States.
I for one welcome our new America hating overlords (who post regularly to Slashdot).
Yeah, it was really more intended to be funny. I just hate when people use a concept that is impossible to prove as fact. They use it loosely, so you can't say "you don't know that".
Nice.
That hotspot could also, potentially, be used to launch nuclear weapons and online hunting.
including, potentially, financial transactions
Also including, potentially, browsing for porn and hot online cybersex.
Ahh, good point. I got quite frustrated with the matter.
Anyway, I think that you raise a valid point. It would be good to see people doing more with their lives. I don't necessarily think that it needs to be intellectual, just something. I think that by and large people tend to become idle, and that the years pass by, bringing little. That's pretty sad.
You don't sound intelligent at all, resorting to merely insulting me to make your point. You should, instead, come up with something more concrete.
Your view is not showing any semblance of "global awareness." I am quite globally aware. I have made comparisons that did not bring down judgement on other countries, but merely sought to state "they're not better than us." They're not. You don't sound more intelligent by merely calling me stupid.
As for this humility bit. You have called me stupid. All I did was defend that I am not. I didn't say how great I am. I didn't say who I work with or what I do.
Please just stop this foolishness. You're annoying me, and I have important work to do.
No argument on your point here.
That doesn't strike at my core argument though. People from other countries, and inside our own country, feel that they can, with impunity, call Americans stupid and lazy. That makes this strictly a comparative matter.
Listening to our AC friend slam on me has been quite an exercise as well. He has failed to form a single cogent argument the whole time, while relying on my reaction to being called dumb to guide the conversation. His argument is, however, revealing. He states that "France is a first-world country" (though he "fucks up" (to use a term he seems to understand) the hyphenation). He then makes comparison to a rural American state. The implication is multifold. First, that third-world countries are, per capita, less intelligent. Second, that the US is a third-world country. Third, that France, as a first-world country, is somehow, per capita, more intelligent.
He then proceeds to call me arrogant and so forth. His argument has all of the markings of a 14 year old, with little knowledge of what he is talking about, assuming that he knows it all because of his home schooling. In reality, I am only partly the product of a public education. I attended some private institutions, and, of course, am at an Ivy Leauge institution now, making me the product also of private education. That said, attending public school gave me an appreciation that not all that was good flowed forth from my neatly contained private world. Perhaps sometime, this youth will have life experiences that will reveal such things to him. I will hold no ill will toward him, but merely hope that he experiences that which he must to expand his world view in time to do something meaningful with his life.
It's not the truth.
I do not wish to discuss my credentials with a troll, however, what have you done with your life that puts you into a position to judge me?
Yeah, noticed that after posting.
That said, it's not some gross error. It was a minor error that I made while typing. If I read the sentence, and saw it, I would recognize the error.
Listening to this guy call me stupid has not been entertaining.
That was a typing error.
I suppose that you can point to your most recent publications for me?
I have no way of measuring your intelligence aside from your comments.
The point of my post was not to say that the people of France are any less intelligent than the people of the US, but to say that it is improbable that they are any more intelligent.
Your arument is poorly structured. You show that I have no reason to enter intellectual combat with you, as you come unarmed.
I made no spelling or grammatical errors in my post.
Your post was not convincing. Your current argument is not cogent. You do not sound intelligent. You sound condescending. There is a difference.
I don't think that people in other countries are that intelligent by comparison. That's all that I'm saying. I think that the entire planet is populated by mostly ignorant masses.
Do you think if you moved to France that all of the sudden you'd be surrounded by people bearing PhDs?
I went to public school.
I thought that my public school had a few shortcomings. Despite high scores on acceptance tests, I never made it into the gifted program... I did go to regional science fairs, got into a few national programs, and won a few national awards however.
I'm in graduate school at Cornell now. Hey, look at all of those international students... I bet that they wanted to come to this nifty American school.
I still think that it is dumb to call all of your countrymen dumb. If you dislike them so much, and think that residing in this country speaks so poorly of you, why don't you move to another country?
I'm not saying that to be aggressive. I mean it. If I thought that America was all that bad, I'd move.
No problem, honestly.
I'm American. The point of my comment was that American's who say that irritate me.
My university states their caps outright in the contract. There is no hidden restriction. When I signed up, I knew that I was getting fiber optic service, and that usage above my cap would cost me money.
I don't know if you're an American, but I will go ahead and say this. An American calling American's dumb doesn't make himself sounds smart. An American calling Americans dumb sounds kind of like this, no matter how eloquently he puts it.
"Duhhhh, HI! I'm an American! Look at meeeee! I'm dummbbbbbb!! American schools suck! I'm the product of an American education. That must make me dummbbbbb!!! American's love Dubya! Dubya is dumb! Americans are dumbbbbb! But not meee. I'm smart, because I call Americans dumbbbbb."
What's awesome is that Slashdot now comes equiped with readers who can't wait to have their brains controlled! Yay!
Good science, though!