I giggle when I hear it called "Obamacare", because he didn't exactly work up a sweat pushing for it.
And what little he did do, was almost entirely after the Democrats in Congress had already caved on practically every point, to appease Republican committee members who didn't vote for it even after they got what they wanted.
Democrats are stupid. If they had 1/3 of a clue they could have destroyed the Republican party after 2005.
Seriously, is this a joke? The very first thing I'd chuck away when building a star ship inspired by Star Trek is the design of the Enterprise. There are countless way better, suitable and even more realistic space ship designs than that fragile contraption.
For starts, I'm guessing that an ion drive would have to be mounted along (or symmetrical about) the ship's center of gravity.
This is because all scientists who disagree with that view, no matter how sound their research is, immediately loses credibility when they question the man-made GW idea.
Maybe you would like to direct us to some of that "sound" research.
But I don't know anything about Fox News getting caught straight out lying.
If you care, progressive bloggers report on it all the time. It makes dull reading once you've figured out that FOX habitually misrepresents the facts, but it may be worthwhile reading if somehow you haven't figured that out yet.
They also have a habit of "accidentally" misidentifying Republican politicians as Democrats during the first few days that a scandal hits the news.
Of course, if you saw their map that labeled Iraq as "Egypt" during the Egyptian unrest, you might be willing to dismiss FOX as a collection of clueless amateurs rather than as right-wing propagandists.
FoxNews is the only American news organization that will report issues from the right's perspective. [...] The difference is that every other news organization in the US will only report issues from the left.
Yeah, "liberal" US media.
You should look at the ratio of head counts of Republicans vs. Democrats, conservatives vs. liberals, even men vs. women, that they consistently have on their Sunday morning talking head shows.
I knew the far-right had officially gone full retarded when I had someone tell me climate change was a myth because Al Gore. Seriously, that was the reason why it was a myth: Al Gore. Give me a fucking break.
ISTM that conservatives tend to focus on people rather than on facts. Evolution deniers somehow think they can score a point by discrediting Darwin personally. They are especially keen on real or perceived change of heart, e.g. the (false) story of Darwin's deathbed conversion, the story we had here a week or two back about some scientist saying that global warming hasn't been as radical as he had predicted, or Antony Flew buying in to some intelligent design argument a few years ago.
And they're really keen on authority figures - so long as that figure agrees with them.
They also project that mentality onto everyone else; they can't comprehend why I don't care a fig about what Darwin or Flew thought or said.
When anyone who isn't a climate change "expert" voices skepticism on climate change, all the believers pile on, outraged, about how the person isn't qualified to be making such statements, how they're abusing their position/authority to sound like they know what they're talking about, &c.
Kind of like we do with people who deny other well documented stuff, like evolution, dark matter, vaccinations-dont-cause-autism, atomic theory of matter, etc.
How come everyone respects scientific opinion until it conflicts with their personal beliefs or agenda?
If you can get to the top ranks of a tech company without a CS degree, it's almost like a big FU to all of us that do hold CS degrees.
Not really. It has long been known that there's a glass ceiling for *any* technical skill (programmer, chemist, etc.), and that the only way to rise above a certain level is to switch to management.
If you want to rise to the top, any degree that gets your foot in the door will suffice. Then switch to management as soon as you can.
Study CS if you want to do technical stuff instead of climb the company ladder.
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Indeed. If Osama bin Laden hid on the Moon you would be there by now... for about the same money and with fewer people killed in the process.
I doubt it. Only tiny amount of the USA's post-9/11 security spending went toward I'm gonna git that bastid!
Most of it went toward pointless wars and security theatre.
You need to work on your tail-recursion.
I'll get on that as soon as I finish working on my tail-recursion.
Case in point: Obamacare
I giggle when I hear it called "Obamacare", because he didn't exactly work up a sweat pushing for it.
And what little he did do, was almost entirely after the Democrats in Congress had already caved on practically every point, to appease Republican committee members who didn't vote for it even after they got what they wanted.
Democrats are stupid. If they had 1/3 of a clue they could have destroyed the Republican party after 2005.
Isn't that reason enough? What happened to ambition, curiosity, and doing things "because it's there?"
Actually, the US space effort was motivated by "because Sputnik's there".
Don't worry; it's just a matter of time until someone provokes our latent inferiority complex again.
It should be BAD-Dan, as in "Be A Dork".
Seriously, is this a joke? The very first thing I'd chuck away when building a star ship inspired by Star Trek is the design of the Enterprise. There are countless way better, suitable and even more realistic space ship designs than that fragile contraption.
For starts, I'm guessing that an ion drive would have to be mounted along (or symmetrical about) the ship's center of gravity.
Public Schools are known to FUCKING EVERYBODY to be gigantic and expensive fail-whales.
If anyone reading this is a public school teacher, administrator, or school board member: fuck you.
Sounds like someone got too many wedgies and whirlies while he was in school.
This is because all scientists who disagree with that view, no matter how sound their research is, immediately loses credibility when they question the man-made GW idea.
Maybe you would like to direct us to some of that "sound" research.
But I don't know anything about Fox News getting caught straight out lying.
If you care, progressive bloggers report on it all the time. It makes dull reading once you've figured out that FOX habitually misrepresents the facts, but it may be worthwhile reading if somehow you haven't figured that out yet.
They also have a habit of "accidentally" misidentifying Republican politicians as Democrats during the first few days that a scandal hits the news.
Of course, if you saw their map that labeled Iraq as "Egypt" during the Egyptian unrest, you might be willing to dismiss FOX as a collection of clueless amateurs rather than as right-wing propagandists.
FoxNews is the only American news organization that will report issues from the right's perspective. [...] The difference is that every other news organization in the US will only report issues from the left.
Yeah, "liberal" US media.
You should look at the ratio of head counts of Republicans vs. Democrats, conservatives vs. liberals, even men vs. women, that they consistently have on their Sunday morning talking head shows.
Not being an American [...] delivering an accurate describtion [...]
In English it's "description", but I think I like your spelling better.
I knew the far-right had officially gone full retarded when I had someone tell me climate change was a myth because Al Gore. Seriously, that was the reason why it was a myth: Al Gore. Give me a fucking break.
ISTM that conservatives tend to focus on people rather than on facts. Evolution deniers somehow think they can score a point by discrediting Darwin personally. They are especially keen on real or perceived change of heart, e.g. the (false) story of Darwin's deathbed conversion, the story we had here a week or two back about some scientist saying that global warming hasn't been as radical as he had predicted, or Antony Flew buying in to some intelligent design argument a few years ago.
And they're really keen on authority figures - so long as that figure agrees with them.
They also project that mentality onto everyone else; they can't comprehend why I don't care a fig about what Darwin or Flew thought or said.
It's turtles all the way down!
Uhm.. yeah. Sometimes I get my elephants and turtles mixed up.
the mathematics leaves no doubt that the wavefunction is not just a statistical tool, but rather, a real, objective state of a quantum system.
If that's the case, I would suppose that wavefunctions have wavefunctions.
Facebook, or any social network, will naturally deteriorate with the next generation gap.
No teenager or young adult wants to be in the same social space as their parents
So to be rebellious they'll create Assbook.
I guess I am the only person on the planet who never got a facebook account
Me too!
Hey - we should be friends, and maybe use the internet to keep track of what other like-minded people are doing.
We, the undersigned, all agree -
Thad N. D. Knight
U. Wilby
Hope Leslie Holding
A. Little-Wiener
N. D. Hand
U. Wayne King
Wayne Kerr
The United States will one day be destroyed by the Muslim terrorists.
Maybe wetting the bed will help.
When anyone who isn't a climate change "expert" voices skepticism on climate change, all the believers pile on, outraged, about how the person isn't qualified to be making such statements, how they're abusing their position/authority to sound like they know what they're talking about, &c.
Kind of like we do with people who deny other well documented stuff, like evolution, dark matter, vaccinations-dont-cause-autism, atomic theory of matter, etc.
How come everyone respects scientific opinion until it conflicts with their personal beliefs or agenda?
Several years ago the DoD listed it as one of the primary threats to national security for this century.
...Dajaz1.com's lawyers are about to make some easy money off the RIAA.
I bet you thought they were a (gang suppression) unit,
but they're actually a gang (suppression unit).
Yea... an accountant. He already said that.
To retread an old joke about politicians:
Q: How do you know an accountant is lying?
A: His pencil is moving.
It's amazing how many of these supposed CEOs are glorified accountants.
In our takeover-squeeze-discard corporate culture, it's the auditors that thrive.
If you can get to the top ranks of a tech company without a CS degree, it's almost like a big FU to all of us that do hold CS degrees.
Not really. It has long been known that there's a glass ceiling for *any* technical skill (programmer, chemist, etc.), and that the only way to rise above a certain level is to switch to management.
If you want to rise to the top, any degree that gets your foot in the door will suffice. Then switch to management as soon as you can.
Study CS if you want to do technical stuff instead of climb the company ladder.