For me, other peoples' religious beliefs aren't a problem until they start trying to force everyone to behave in accordance with those beliefs. Sooner or later, they ALL try to force others to conform to those beliefs, and that's when the trouble starts.
It's an extension of the corporate problem. They focus on quarterly results to the detriment of long term goal setting, planning, and investment, which is exactly why we DON"T need a businessman in the Whitehouse.
If I were an intelligent person who, for whatever reason, leaned toward the GOP point of view, I would have to rethink my position. The parade of idiots they presented as potential presidential candidates early in the campaign, dopes like this guy Broun, etc., would make me ashamed to call myself a republican. In fact, I would be deeply insulted that the party I support would present these sorts of people as serious presidential contenders. Apparently the GOP doesn't want anyone with any brains at all.
The problem for the rest of us is that there are many more stupid people in the US than smart or even just reasonable people. The GOP knows this and bends over backwards to appeal to the dopes. I'm beginning to think that democracy, at least as practiced in the US, is grossly over-rated.
Say what you want about poor quality of hardware, software, and customer service, there can be no doubt that Apple's marketing department is the best on the planet. Apple marketing people have truly identified their market and successfully targeted them like no one else in history.
The GOP should have hired a bunch of Apple marketing people to run the Romney campaign- they've proven they can sell flawed products over and over.
Are the drivers better, or are the cyclists more senisble?
In the US a lot of bike riders are fantasizing about riding in the TdF and trying to ride bicycles as fast as cars. Those racing bikes they ride are designed so that if you hit something you will be launched head-first over the handlebars.
In countries where bicycles are ridden as transportation they are generally designed for comfort and visibility and people aren't trying to go as fast as cars.
I live in a world where a large portion of the population thinks the world is about 6k years old because an old book and most of the "leaders" they look up to told them so. Many of them also believe that "creation science" is a better explanation for the origin of humans than is evolution, or is at least an equivalent "theory".
If you want to live a happy life in a world like that it is best not to think too much, and by "too much" I mean "at all".
The human race is doomed. Our technology for damaging the earth and killing each other has exceeded our political ability to control it. It will destroy us, soon.
Does anyone know where I can get a Hummer with an engine modified to burn coal? I want to see thick, black trails of smoke behind me everywhere I go. I want to eat the last of the endangered species, drink the last drop of clean water, and wipe my ass with paper made from the last tree.
But teaching kids how to think is not desirable in an economy that can't provide any jobs where they need to think. Thinking leads to people not doing everything their "superiors" tell them to do, and that leads to unhappiness. You kids to grow up to be happy, obedient adults, don't you.
It sounds like you've memorized all the diamond industry marketing material. What do any of those four things have to do with the value of a rock? You could come up with a set of metrics for valuing lumps of coal and it still wouldn't change the fact that a lump of coal is worthless.
You want to know how valuable your diamond is? Try to sell it.
Almost anyone can grasp algebra 1. The way you make them "get it" is to quit handing out medals just for showing up to class and reintroduce some competition for high grades among students. Kids need to do homework (AKA practice) just like any other endeavor. Right now, in schools, there is no consequence for doing poorly. You'll get passed to the next grade level whether you've mastered the current one or not. Teacher and parents keep patting you on the back just for showing up.
I estimate that maybe 80% of my adult patients born after 1975 are on some form of antidepressant drug. I'm starting to think that they were that early/first generation of kids whose self-esteem was made the prime importance in school, rather than learning and achievement. They finish school and get thrown out into the real world where they are expected to perform to some minimum standards and they can't do it and can't understand why, especially in light of the history of being patted on the back for underachievement. The next step is to get prescribed an antidepressant to help their bruised self-esteem cope with the fact that they never learned anything in school and are likely to remain unemployable for the rest of their lives.
So how is wireless inductive charging better than dropping the device into a more efficient cradle? In either case, you have to put the device down in a specific location, onto a device with a wire attached to it.
Broken USB connectors is an entirely different issue. USB (and those horrible multipin things apple uses) sucks. Whoever designed the USB connector, and the mini and micro versions, should all be stood against a wall and shot.
We've been going nutz and switching to crappy fluorescent lamps for years because they are more efficient, phone makers have been adopting charging standards that allow a phone charger to be used with any brand of phone, and they've been redesigning those for minimal "vampire" (1W) power use. Now, all of a sudden, we should give up on efficiency?
10 years ago I used to drop my Palm Pilot into a charging/sync cradle. It was efficient and worked reliably. Wireless charging is not an improvement.
Actually, if you read the story, it is not known where she acquired the parasite, and California, by virtue of its large immigrant population, has a bigger share of the problem (at least as it is known right now) than other states.
My comment had nothing to do with where the woman acquired the parasite or what her ethnic heritage is, and was more of a comment on the poor state of everything in California. I was suggesting that the reason almost everything is so screwed up in California is that maybe there's a much larger prevalence of these brain parasites (causing people to do dumb things) than authorities know about.
Jokes and sarcastic comments are never as funny when you have to explain them.
The legislature isn't the problem. The ballot propositions are the problem. California has mob rule, and the mob isn't very bright. 85% of California's budget is determined by ballot measures. The legislature only controls 15% of the budget.
How much could you accomplish if your 5 year old kid controlled 85% of your budget and you only controlled 15%?
that panders to the dumbest element in our society? Wouldn't they see this as a reason to support legalization simply to increase the ranks of the stupid thus increasing the number of people who might vote for them?
No, I guess they wouldn't- they don't believe in science.
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how do they know what happened to the other electronics- the TARGET?
For me, other peoples' religious beliefs aren't a problem until they start trying to force everyone to behave in accordance with those beliefs. Sooner or later, they ALL try to force others to conform to those beliefs, and that's when the trouble starts.
It's an extension of the corporate problem. They focus on quarterly results to the detriment of long term goal setting, planning, and investment, which is exactly why we DON"T need a businessman in the Whitehouse.
Yes, they are!
that works, which is why I will avoid anything that comes from Microsoft.
If I were an intelligent person who, for whatever reason, leaned toward the GOP point of view, I would have to rethink my position. The parade of idiots they presented as potential presidential candidates early in the campaign, dopes like this guy Broun, etc., would make me ashamed to call myself a republican. In fact, I would be deeply insulted that the party I support would present these sorts of people as serious presidential contenders. Apparently the GOP doesn't want anyone with any brains at all.
The problem for the rest of us is that there are many more stupid people in the US than smart or even just reasonable people. The GOP knows this and bends over backwards to appeal to the dopes. I'm beginning to think that democracy, at least as practiced in the US, is grossly over-rated.
Say what you want about poor quality of hardware, software, and customer service, there can be no doubt that Apple's marketing department is the best on the planet. Apple marketing people have truly identified their market and successfully targeted them like no one else in history.
The GOP should have hired a bunch of Apple marketing people to run the Romney campaign- they've proven they can sell flawed products over and over.
Are the drivers better, or are the cyclists more senisble?
In the US a lot of bike riders are fantasizing about riding in the TdF and trying to ride bicycles as fast as cars. Those racing bikes they ride are designed so that if you hit something you will be launched head-first over the handlebars.
In countries where bicycles are ridden as transportation they are generally designed for comfort and visibility and people aren't trying to go as fast as cars.
The concessions are usually in the form of property tax relief.
MS got all sort of tax concessions from the states where they are located.
If corporation are people why don't they pay income tax the same way human beings have to?
I live in a world where a large portion of the population thinks the world is about 6k years old because an old book and most of the "leaders" they look up to told them so. Many of them also believe that "creation science" is a better explanation for the origin of humans than is evolution, or is at least an equivalent "theory".
If you want to live a happy life in a world like that it is best not to think too much, and by "too much" I mean "at all".
The human race is doomed. Our technology for damaging the earth and killing each other has exceeded our political ability to control it. It will destroy us, soon.
Does anyone know where I can get a Hummer with an engine modified to burn coal? I want to see thick, black trails of smoke behind me everywhere I go. I want to eat the last of the endangered species, drink the last drop of clean water, and wipe my ass with paper made from the last tree.
But teaching kids how to think is not desirable in an economy that can't provide any jobs where they need to think. Thinking leads to people not doing everything their "superiors" tell them to do, and that leads to unhappiness. You kids to grow up to be happy, obedient adults, don't you.
You didn't read that post carefully. He didn't say BOOM. He said BOM. I have heard many hydrogen balloons exploding and they all said BOM!
It sounds like you've memorized all the diamond industry marketing material.
What do any of those four things have to do with the value of a rock?
You could come up with a set of metrics for valuing lumps of coal and it still wouldn't change the fact that a lump of coal is worthless.
You want to know how valuable your diamond is? Try to sell it.
They ALL count as work, eventually.
Almost anyone can grasp algebra 1. The way you make them "get it" is to quit handing out medals just for showing up to class and reintroduce some competition for high grades among students. Kids need to do homework (AKA practice) just like any other endeavor. Right now, in schools, there is no consequence for doing poorly. You'll get passed to the next grade level whether you've mastered the current one or not. Teacher and parents keep patting you on the back just for showing up.
I estimate that maybe 80% of my adult patients born after 1975 are on some form of antidepressant drug. I'm starting to think that they were that early/first generation of kids whose self-esteem was made the prime importance in school, rather than learning and achievement. They finish school and get thrown out into the real world where they are expected to perform to some minimum standards and they can't do it and can't understand why, especially in light of the history of being patted on the back for underachievement. The next step is to get prescribed an antidepressant to help their bruised self-esteem cope with the fact that they never learned anything in school and are likely to remain unemployable for the rest of their lives.
Some people do not have the logical thinking skills that are required to be a successful programmer.
So how is wireless inductive charging better than dropping the device into a more efficient cradle? In either case, you have to put the device down in a specific location, onto a device with a wire attached to it.
Broken USB connectors is an entirely different issue. USB (and those horrible multipin things apple uses) sucks. Whoever designed the USB connector, and the mini and micro versions, should all be stood against a wall and shot.
FYI, if you have to find a job as a computer scientist via Craig's list, it's time to find a different line of work.
Jeez, no wonder I have to pay 6.8% for my student loans. They can't even get their money back out of computer science degree holders...
We've been going nutz and switching to crappy fluorescent lamps for years because they are more efficient, phone makers have been adopting charging standards that allow a phone charger to be used with any brand of phone, and they've been redesigning those for minimal "vampire" (1W) power use. Now, all of a sudden, we should give up on efficiency?
10 years ago I used to drop my Palm Pilot into a charging/sync cradle. It was efficient and worked reliably. Wireless charging is not an improvement.
Actually, if you read the story, it is not known where she acquired the parasite, and California, by virtue of its large immigrant population, has a bigger share of the problem (at least as it is known right now) than other states.
My comment had nothing to do with where the woman acquired the parasite or what her ethnic heritage is, and was more of a comment on the poor state of everything in California. I was suggesting that the reason almost everything is so screwed up in California is that maybe there's a much larger prevalence of these brain parasites (causing people to do dumb things) than authorities know about.
Jokes and sarcastic comments are never as funny when you have to explain them.
Are you in California?
The legislature isn't the problem. The ballot propositions are the problem. California has mob rule, and the mob isn't very bright. 85% of California's budget is determined by ballot measures. The legislature only controls 15% of the budget.
How much could you accomplish if your 5 year old kid controlled 85% of your budget and you only controlled 15%?
about California if it turns out the problem is much more common than currently understood.
Maybe it's just because I've seen every episode of BB.
Who is so desperate to keep Jobs' name in the press that they'd stretch things this far?
that panders to the dumbest element in our society? Wouldn't they see this as a reason to support legalization simply to increase the ranks of the stupid thus increasing the number of people who might vote for them?
No, I guess they wouldn't- they don't believe in science.