The ones who worry me are the insurance companies: "I see you've been to such and such a club, since that's not a non-smoking establishment, you're going to set your rates as a tobacco user. that will be $100/month extra"
Texas doesn't want those Seattle liberals doing business in their state anyway.
They carry all sorts of nonsense they fly in the face of the creationist agenda. Everybody of any consequence in Texas knows that God created around 6000 years ago, and to say otherwise is heresy, unpatriotic, unchristian, and downright untexan.
"...it feels like we’re conceding manufacturing prowess to other nations. Since manufacturing fuels jobs, that’s a serious problem."
I disagree, the old manufacturing jobs were people manually assemble things just aren't going to be worth what the US expects as a good salary nowadays. We need high value jobs like engineering, IT, and medicine where training and education can shine through.
Not everybody has the brain power to be an engineer. What do you propose those double digit IQ people do? Go on welfare paid for by us highly trained engineers?
If you don't bring the bottom up, they will drag the middle down, and that includes the engineers.
So is this more a case of Star Trek winning (transparent aluminum) or Star Wars winning (transparisteel)?
They both lose.
The initial samples of the new metallic glass were microalloys of palladium with phosphorous, silicon and germanium that yielded glass rods approximately one millimeter in diameter. Adding silver to the mix enabled the Cal Tech researchers to expand the thickness of the glass rods to six millimeters.
No steel/iron or aluminum at all in the mixture, at least according to the article..:-)
You give all of your private information to goohle if you use Gmail too but that doesn't mean that it's ok for the government to go fishing there either.
The simple explanation is that Philosophy of science is a Crank.
I've noticed that the biggest idiots out there are also the ones who resort to "Philosophy of Science" BS. When someone who claims scientific credentials starts citing a philosopher, they have immediately moved into the realm of crank-dom. That includes Penrose's every time he stops backing up his opinion with the math. And Hoyle who wasn't even very good at math, and this coming from someone with just a Bachelor's degree.
I would speculate that at a logical philosophical level, a large number of students are ignorant of what science actually is. Science is often taught as a series of completed results, as a series of facts to be memorized. While to some extent this is difficult to avoid when teaching base knowledge, I suspect many students concentrate on what "gets them the grade", which is demonstrated knowledge of specific material, often memorized. In most high school programs, students are not adequately taught the reasons for knowledge (the International Baccalaureate program is often an exception to this). They are not explicitly taught logic and reason. And since the root of science is logic and reason, I would argue that most students are hobbled in their studies.
Philosophy of science is a joke. With one exception, all of my physics professors thought it was a joke. Well all but the one idiot who didn't actually do any research.
"You really think people look down on doctors and scientists?"
Doctors are highly regarded, scientists however are definitely not. Scientists are the mad freaks who are hell bent on destroying the world, or the clueless fools who carelessly come within a half-second of accidentally wiping out the human race, or are the corrupt assholes sucking down megabucks from (insert taxpayer/government tit, Big Oil, Big Pharma, or other common target here) while doing next to nothing except fabricating results, or at best, scientists are the harmless, socially awkward, nerdy guys in white labcoats with inch-thick glasses endlessly puttering about on something they find fascinating but is absolutely useless. Those stereotypes are pure bullshit as any actual scientist will tell you, but that's how we're viewed.
If you think Doctors are highly regarded, you're wrong. American's have a huge distrust of medical professionals. That's why there are all these alt-med cranks running around, and people die because mommy and daddy listen to Jenny McCarthy as opposed to their doctor.
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Who cares, if they don't want to be in class that badly, they're probably not contributing anyway.
Just inform their parent[s] or guardian on every absence and give them the grade they earn.
If they fail, they fail.
If you coerce them into following the rules like that, they will probably end up the last place we want them to be, law enforcement.
I prefer a mixture of magnesium dust and gunpowder; but to each their own.
And you know for a fact he isn't already doing this?
Advertisers, I could care less about those guys.
The ones who worry me are the insurance companies: "I see you've been to such and such a club, since that's not a non-smoking establishment, you're going to set your rates as a tobacco user. that will be $100/month extra"
Unless your tethering the camera you never need to plug it in. Just pop the card and plug it in.
If you can't pop the card from your camera, you need to replace that cheap POS.
If you don't have a slot on your system to plug in the card, buy an adapter.
But there's no need to actually plug in the camera unless you're tethering, and if you don't know what tethering is, you aren't doing it.
But that totally flies in the face of the tinkle down economics now advocated my most of the members of Congress.
Of course never minding that Eisenhower was the last actual conservative republican we had in office. They've been god & guns ever since.
So let me get this straight, Wikileaks is upset that someone did to them, what their informants have been doing to others?
I think the poster means they spend a larger percentage of their income.
But this is /. so who knows.
Texas doesn't want those Seattle liberals doing business in their state anyway.
They carry all sorts of nonsense they fly in the face of the creationist agenda. Everybody of any consequence in Texas knows that God created around 6000 years ago, and to say otherwise is heresy, unpatriotic, unchristian, and downright untexan.
But Bush II, said that would cover the cost of the war!
Forget Tetris, when is somebody gonna either release, or clone Lemmings?
If you think your PS3 is too loud, you need to crank up the volume on your amp.
Sure they do.
But by that time they're multimillionaires and can retire without having to worry about it.
Or in cases like Ballmer, they just get off on it.
Never put anything is writing your don't want somebody else's lawyer holding up in court.
Sure, just find me an alternative that's better.
What if you don't care about Yahoo and just want a discount on your connection? Net Neutrality will prevent that, forcing you to pay full price.
But you aren't going to get a discount on the connection. You're still going to pay the full price, like it or not.
Just like you pay for ESPN and Fox !news if you have cable, whether or not you actually want them.
"...it feels like we’re conceding manufacturing prowess to other nations. Since manufacturing fuels jobs, that’s a serious problem." I disagree, the old manufacturing jobs were people manually assemble things just aren't going to be worth what the US expects as a good salary nowadays. We need high value jobs like engineering, IT, and medicine where training and education can shine through.
Not everybody has the brain power to be an engineer. What do you propose those double digit IQ people do? Go on welfare paid for by us highly trained engineers?
If you don't bring the bottom up, they will drag the middle down, and that includes the engineers.
Is this like Star Wars where they're starting with episode 4? Because it's a shame they haven't made more than 1 Matrix movie yet...
What he said...
Only pretentious twits actually care.
So by your logic crystal is transparent lead?
It's been compared to steel....
So is this more a case of Star Trek winning (transparent aluminum) or Star Wars winning (transparisteel)?
They both lose.
The initial samples of the new metallic glass were microalloys of palladium with phosphorous, silicon and germanium that yielded glass rods approximately one millimeter in diameter. Adding silver to the mix enabled the Cal Tech researchers to expand the thickness of the glass rods to six millimeters.
No steel/iron or aluminum at all in the mixture, at least according to the article.. :-)
You give all of your private information to goohle if you use Gmail too but that doesn't mean that it's ok for the government to go fishing there either.
As opposed to your ISP?
The simple explanation is that Philosophy of science is a Crank.
I've noticed that the biggest idiots out there are also the ones who resort to "Philosophy of Science" BS. When someone who claims scientific credentials starts citing a philosopher, they have immediately moved into the realm of crank-dom. That includes Penrose's every time he stops backing up his opinion with the math. And Hoyle who wasn't even very good at math, and this coming from someone with just a Bachelor's degree.
I would speculate that at a logical philosophical level, a large number of students are ignorant of what science actually is. Science is often taught as a series of completed results, as a series of facts to be memorized. While to some extent this is difficult to avoid when teaching base knowledge, I suspect many students concentrate on what "gets them the grade", which is demonstrated knowledge of specific material, often memorized. In most high school programs, students are not adequately taught the reasons for knowledge (the International Baccalaureate program is often an exception to this). They are not explicitly taught logic and reason. And since the root of science is logic and reason, I would argue that most students are hobbled in their studies.
Philosophy of science is a joke. With one exception, all of my physics professors thought it was a joke. Well all but the one idiot who didn't actually do any research.
"You really think people look down on doctors and scientists?" Doctors are highly regarded, scientists however are definitely not. Scientists are the mad freaks who are hell bent on destroying the world, or the clueless fools who carelessly come within a half-second of accidentally wiping out the human race, or are the corrupt assholes sucking down megabucks from (insert taxpayer/government tit, Big Oil, Big Pharma, or other common target here) while doing next to nothing except fabricating results, or at best, scientists are the harmless, socially awkward, nerdy guys in white labcoats with inch-thick glasses endlessly puttering about on something they find fascinating but is absolutely useless. Those stereotypes are pure bullshit as any actual scientist will tell you, but that's how we're viewed.
If you think Doctors are highly regarded, you're wrong. American's have a huge distrust of medical professionals. That's why there are all these alt-med cranks running around, and people die because mommy and daddy listen to Jenny McCarthy as opposed to their doctor.