Bill Nye would enthusiastically agree that kids (and adults) should "ask those questions and not just believe what (ANYONE, including) Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them.
Especially given that he sometimes can be pretty darn wrong.
Then again there is little doubt that Nye will listen to scientists when he screws up, whereas Palin is in all likelihood incapable of self correction.
Not a Trump fan, but Facebook is perceived as infrastructure by its users, yet has all the underpinnings to skew the users access to information without them ever noticing.
It is really an Orwellian level of power in the hands of just one company. That they now could get triggered to use it for political influence is unsettling.
It's a style that echos his rhetoric and speechifying to a T. He probably doesn't type them himself, but if he's not the originator, than he found himself a perfect mini-me.
It's one thing to guard your borders, i.e. "the Trump Wall", but he also promised to expel all illegal immigrants. The kind of intrusive control required to round up all illegal immigrants in the US will create a police state.
That's where you are wrong. And there is first class analysis available to back that up, because he has a remarkably unique style, that allows to identify the tweets penned by the 'master' himself:
Nevertheless, when it comes to tweeting I still think he exhibits very high competence in terms of employing this medium to his advantage (BTW this is not and endorsement of his politics).
Any plans to share the X ray profile it with law enforcement agencies in other countries? Probably not, because this dude only acted on it when Homeland security came knocking.
Good for him than gun manufactures are indemnified from product liability in the US.
... yet labeled as juice is the normal. Many times I picked up bottles that call itself juice and then there are no vitamins listed under the nutritional info. How Minute Maid, for instance, manages to do that while using real fruit as an ingredient is beyond me.
I am typing this on a 17'' unibody early 2009 MacBook.
Bought it off ebay and never had an issue with it. Love the display size, really don't see why I should trade it in for 4K resolution on a smaller screen.
If anything I may purchase a 17'' mobile Dell workstation.
Our 2nd generation iPad is also still in use, despite a crack in the screen. The kids still get plenty of fun time out of it.
My boy is on the spectrum, he was always surprisingly outgoing. Chatting up other kids on the play ground and happy to engage in play with just about anybody. But he still couldn't make friends. Mostly that was, I think, because he has the typical autism funnel attention, and only likes to talk about whatever he obsesses about. This typically worked well on adults, and he was able to carry conversations with them way above his apparent age level, as long as they adhered to his interest, but it did not work well with other kids.
He didn't have a friend for the longest time, only now in grade 5 he finally has somebody who always wants him to come over. It probably helps that he now obsesses about Minecraft and video games in general. He is a walking encyclopedia on the history of video games, and the way he now chats up adults is to ask them what their favourite video game was when they were kids.
He is surprisingly also interested enough to attend tap dance lessons, his interest is lukewarm, but so far he is going. He also happens to be quite handsome (of course I am not impartial in that). It is amusing to see how many of the little girls at the dance school go out their way to greet him (while he hardly acknowledges their existence). I think he will be OK.
Funny this reminds me more of my own childhood. I broke my arms ten times.
Then again I was always mortified by falling when I pulled stunts like this.
Odd thing is, and I am very grateful for this, my boy who has been diagnosed with being on the spectrum, has actually a lot of common sense. Wouldn't say he'd never do anything like that, but he is generally quite prudent.
In fact, when he was little, about five or six, he would take warnings so to heart that he'll get obsessive about it. I warned him of the danger of outlets, but made clear it's only when he sticks something in them that it'll be a danger, yet for years afterwards he would not get close to an outlet or sit near to one.
Nowadays he mostly obsesses about Minecraft and he wants to learn to code videogames. I am counting myself lucky that his condition is quite mild, and that it seems to channel it into something that could make him a pretty penny someday.
He missed his hundreds birthday by a couple months.
A very prominent person on the spectrum Paul Dirac died at the ripe age of 82.
The wide spread diagnosis of Aspergers and Autism disorder only gained traction well into the second half of the 20th century. This makes the data basis inherently skewed.
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No reason to make it more gruesome. This punishment was for deserters, it was handed down to Roman soldiers, not civilians as you imply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bill Nye would enthusiastically agree that kids (and adults) should "ask those questions and not just believe what (ANYONE, including) Bill Nye the Science Guy is trying to tell them.
Especially given that he sometimes can be pretty darn wrong.
http://backreaction.blogspot.c...
Then again there is little doubt that Nye will listen to scientists when he screws up, whereas Palin is in all likelihood incapable of self correction.
Not a Trump fan, but Facebook is perceived as infrastructure by its users, yet has all the underpinnings to skew the users access to information without them ever noticing.
It is really an Orwellian level of power in the hands of just one company. That they now could get triggered to use it for political influence is unsettling.
It's a style that echos his rhetoric and speechifying to a T. He probably doesn't type them himself, but if he's not the originator, than he found himself a perfect mini-me.
It's one thing to guard your borders, i.e. "the Trump Wall", but he also promised to expel all illegal immigrants. The kind of intrusive control required to round up all illegal immigrants in the US will create a police state.
Be careful what you wish for.
"Wacky" that's one way to put it.
Running on a platform that promises to round up all illegal immigrants while having profited from them certainly seems wacky.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
That's where you are wrong. And there is first class analysis available to back that up, because he has a remarkably unique style, that allows to identify the tweets penned by the 'master' himself:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/e...
Thought it was hilarious when he re-tweeted Mussolini quotes.
He's of course characteristically unapologetic about it.
http://gawker.com/how-we-foole...
Nevertheless, when it comes to tweeting I still think he exhibits very high competence in terms of employing this medium to his advantage (BTW this is not and endorsement of his politics).
Few people in his age group understand social media.
Trump on the other hand wields Twitter like a sword with the precision of a scalpel.
Must admit I thoroughly enjoyed when he used these skills to eviscerate the Republican establishment.
Have no opinion on his overall intelligence, but obviously somebody must have gotten under his skin to cry uncle like that.
"These normal Americans ..."
Normal as is in not so brown?
Sorry AC, but Trump started as a joke and I dearly hope he doesn't turn the US into one.
True. Too bad my pithy comment has been downvoted.
Never been prouder for a downvote :-)
They should have gone to Trump university.
So much more classy.
All the diploma feature a gold rim, and a facsimile signature of the Donald himself.
Think about how much this is going to be worth on eBay in a couple of years!
Then again when it comes to ISIS/Daesh, I must admit the hard power approach looks very attractive.
These extremist really like this propaganda line, when bragging about themselves and addressing the West:
"We love death more than you love life."
Given this sentiment I am inclined to say, let's help them along. Give them what they so dearly love.
On the other hand, from a more rational point of view, the soft power approach would probably be more cost effective.
Any plans to share the X ray profile it with law enforcement agencies in other countries? Probably not, because this dude only acted on it when Homeland security came knocking.
Good for him than gun manufactures are indemnified from product liability in the US.
... yet labeled as juice is the normal. Many times I picked up bottles that call itself juice and then there are no vitamins listed under the nutritional info. How Minute Maid, for instance, manages to do that while using real fruit as an ingredient is beyond me.
I am typing this on a 17'' unibody early 2009 MacBook.
Bought it off ebay and never had an issue with it. Love the display size, really don't see why I should trade it in for 4K resolution on a smaller screen.
If anything I may purchase a 17'' mobile Dell workstation.
Our 2nd generation iPad is also still in use, despite a crack in the screen. The kids still get plenty of fun time out of it.
My boy is on the spectrum, he was always surprisingly outgoing. Chatting up other kids on the play ground and happy to engage in play with just about anybody. But he still couldn't make friends. Mostly that was, I think, because he has the typical autism funnel attention, and only likes to talk about whatever he obsesses about. This typically worked well on adults, and he was able to carry conversations with them way above his apparent age level, as long as they adhered to his interest, but it did not work well with other kids.
He didn't have a friend for the longest time, only now in grade 5 he finally has somebody who always wants him to come over. It probably helps that he now obsesses about Minecraft and video games in general. He is a walking encyclopedia on the history of video games, and the way he now chats up adults is to ask them what their favourite video game was when they were kids.
He is surprisingly also interested enough to attend tap dance lessons, his interest is lukewarm, but so far he is going. He also happens to be quite handsome (of course I am not impartial in that). It is amusing to see how many of the little girls at the dance school go out their way to greet him (while he hardly acknowledges their existence). I think he will be OK.
Funny this reminds me more of my own childhood. I broke my arms ten times.
Then again I was always mortified by falling when I pulled stunts like this.
Odd thing is, and I am very grateful for this, my boy who has been diagnosed with being on the spectrum, has actually a lot of common sense. Wouldn't say he'd never do anything like that, but he is generally quite prudent.
In fact, when he was little, about five or six, he would take warnings so to heart that he'll get obsessive about it. I warned him of the danger of outlets, but made clear it's only when he sticks something in them that it'll be a danger, yet for years afterwards he would not get close to an outlet or sit near to one.
Nowadays he mostly obsesses about Minecraft and he wants to learn to code videogames. I am counting myself lucky that his condition is quite mild, and that it seems to channel it into something that could make him a pretty penny someday.
... they did not diagnose it back then.
He missed his hundreds birthday by a couple months.
A very prominent person on the spectrum Paul Dirac died at the ripe age of 82.
The wide spread diagnosis of Aspergers and Autism disorder only gained traction well into the second half of the 20th century. This makes the data basis inherently skewed.
Terrible reporting, isn't it?
Good point.
I was driving and, yes I sometimes swear when driving, just so happened I had Siri listen in.
I think her response was perfect. "I usually don't".
No idea how Elon Musk feels about it, but I think it's not quite appropriate.
The fictional Tony Stark made his money with dubious weapons business.
Frankly Elon Musk is the better man.
Yes, your comment is pretty sad, thinking that the spelling is the issue here.
What's even sadder is that I knew some dumbass AC is going to make that comment.
One thing should be not in doubt so:
Sighs aren't even Muslim.
Towel on the head does not make a terrorist.