Intelligent design is not science. It has nothing to do with science. It dresses up in a white lab coat and has frizzy hair and tries to look like science, but it's still argument from authority, based only on faith.
So, yeah, if a science teacher mentions it (other than as a great example of how not to do science), the science teacher isn't doing her job.
I have no issue with prayer in school. (I'm trying to figure out how you'd keep prayer OUT of school.) I have a tremendous issue with a teacher leading a prayer during class time. If my (hypothetical) kid wants to pray, he can pray. He doesn't need any help.
That's a little disingenuous. While I agree that the reactionary Christian right does not even speak for the majority of Christians, they certainly do run the show right now, and they're in a position to tell us ALL what to do.
Finding a really good dishwasher detergent is a problem.
Terrorism is not a problem. It's a tool that governments use to popularize their oppressive tactics. "We need these strict new laws to Fight Terrorism!"
Conversely, I hope that you know a sincere non-Christian, one whose life exudes the love of the people around him/her, and really investigate what their life, attitude, and behavior are like. I dare say that would have an impact on your own perspective.
Christianity doesn't have a monopoly on good souls. In my personal experience, it doesn't even have a disproportionately high incidence of good souls.
"The time spent on two-way only accumulates as you TALK. I beep you, talk for a short period of time, and then wait for your response. I don't lose time waiting for you to get back to me."
If you're worried about me wasting your time, don't call me.
"Still, the fact that a single beep (or buzz, in silent mode) can let me know someone is trying to reach me is a lot nicer than the continual buzzing of a phone ringer while I'm talking to a client or in a line somewhere."
This is different from other phones how exactly? My Treo has a switch on the top. When I put it in silent mode, it vibrates once and leaves me alone. Why do I need the two-way?
You're welcome to draw whatever mistaken impressions you wish from my blog. You've obviously got a template you're fitting me into, and I know better than to try to correct your mis-impressions.
I don't know whether it would be easier if I were colored. I do know it would have been easier to get a scholarship, which would have saved me having to work two jobs to get through school, which I guess would probably have allowed me to spend more time on my schoolwork, which would have improved my GPA, and maybe gotten a job in the industry.
For the record, I'm interested in designing civil transports. Unfortunately, the only way to get the expertise to do that, is to work for military contractors. I have no interest in killing dark skinned foreigners, and I happen to think that the current foreign policy of the United States is pretty awful. But hey, I wouldn't want to upset your preconceptions, so you feel free to ignore that part.
I'm not bitter about my situation. I chose it, and I am satisfied with the results. My point is simply this: The world isn't giving ANYBODY handouts, unless one happens to come from a family of privilege and power. I think it's pretty silly to assert that, just because I'm white, I have it easier than anybody else. That's the attitude I was responding to in that blog entry, and I stand by it.
Congratulations on your success in your chosen field of endeavor. Do you think that makes you somehow superior to me?
OK, in that case Libertarianism doesn't have a "difficulty", people with no integrity have a "difficulty". And I think their difficulty is bigger than what political party they are a member of.
Oh, so I'm a bigot because I don't spend all my time hunting down racist remarks, and berating the silly people that make them? I'm responsible for the assertions of one person: Myself.
And anybody who thinks that perhaps outsourcing might not be the great idea that some bureaucrats think it is, they must be racists too?
If you can't take criticism, stop talking. I'm just as free to respond to you as you are to say stuff.
I don't think I was being over-sensitive. You called everybody on Slashdot a bigot. I lampooned how silly your blanket assertion is.
Nothing self aggrandizing about it. It's a simple statement of fact. And, yes, it's something of which I'm justifiably proud. Where's your degree from?
The individual authors would retain copyright, and could readily assign that copyright to an proxy entity (be that a person or an organization). Since the Mozilla Foundation did not write any code, it does not have any rights to the code that other people wrote, unless those people assign their rights to the Foundation.
Wow, I don't know why I didn't do that. I can't wait to see what my life is like when I stop being friends with the people I work with! I mean, I have to spend half my waking hours each weekday with these people...it'll be a lot better if I don't act like I like them.
I'm so glad that I don't work with folks like you.
Leave your work at the door? Absolutely. Leave the relationships with other people at the door? Absolutely not.
I repaired a faulty potato gun with a piece of duct tape and a Red Stripe bottlecap. Seemed to get an even better spark than the factory electrode on the BBQ igniter.
The rednecks I was hanging out with gave me the Werner Heisenberg Award for Excellence in Field Engineering. Those were some smart rednecks.
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Intelligent design is not science. It has nothing to do with science. It dresses up in a white lab coat and has frizzy hair and tries to look like science, but it's still argument from authority, based only on faith.
So, yeah, if a science teacher mentions it (other than as a great example of how not to do science), the science teacher isn't doing her job.
I have no issue with prayer in school. (I'm trying to figure out how you'd keep prayer OUT of school.) I have a tremendous issue with a teacher leading a prayer during class time. If my (hypothetical) kid wants to pray, he can pray. He doesn't need any help.
"The vast majority of "us" are leaving you alone"
That's a little disingenuous. While I agree that the reactionary Christian right does not even speak for the majority of Christians, they certainly do run the show right now, and they're in a position to tell us ALL what to do.
Look at what happened last week to Senator Frist.
Ring around the collar is a problem.
Finding a really good dishwasher detergent is a problem.
Terrorism is not a problem. It's a tool that governments use to popularize their oppressive tactics. "We need these strict new laws to Fight Terrorism!"
Conversely, I hope that you know a sincere non-Christian, one whose life exudes the love of the people around him/her, and really investigate what their life, attitude, and behavior are like. I dare say that would have an impact on your own perspective.
Christianity doesn't have a monopoly on good souls. In my personal experience, it doesn't even have a disproportionately high incidence of good souls.
So, if you run across a bogus Wikipedia entry, you can fix it.
How do you fix a bogus Reuters news report that's totally uncorroborated by the people it's reporting on?
"The time spent on two-way only accumulates as you TALK. I beep you, talk for a short period of time, and then wait for your response. I don't lose time waiting for you to get back to me."
If you're worried about me wasting your time, don't call me.
"Still, the fact that a single beep (or buzz, in silent mode) can let me know someone is trying to reach me is a lot nicer than the continual buzzing of a phone ringer while I'm talking to a client or in a line somewhere."
This is different from other phones how exactly? My Treo has a switch on the top. When I put it in silent mode, it vibrates once and leaves me alone. Why do I need the two-way?
This makes absolutely no sense to me.
My phone has a speakerphone feature, and no two way feature.
If I don't want to hear my phone ring, I turn it on silent mode. Again: No two-way feature required.
The reason there exists a "two-way" feature is so that Nextel can charge you premium prices for a crappy half-duplex phone call.
Very glad to hear it. It's important to measure your value only by the size of your paycheck.
You're getting good at this projection thing. Do you need a hug?
You're welcome to draw whatever mistaken impressions you wish from my blog. You've obviously got a template you're fitting me into, and I know better than to try to correct your mis-impressions.
I don't know whether it would be easier if I were colored. I do know it would have been easier to get a scholarship, which would have saved me having to work two jobs to get through school, which I guess would probably have allowed me to spend more time on my schoolwork, which would have improved my GPA, and maybe gotten a job in the industry.
For the record, I'm interested in designing civil transports. Unfortunately, the only way to get the expertise to do that, is to work for military contractors. I have no interest in killing dark skinned foreigners, and I happen to think that the current foreign policy of the United States is pretty awful. But hey, I wouldn't want to upset your preconceptions, so you feel free to ignore that part.
I'm not bitter about my situation. I chose it, and I am satisfied with the results. My point is simply this: The world isn't giving ANYBODY handouts, unless one happens to come from a family of privilege and power. I think it's pretty silly to assert that, just because I'm white, I have it easier than anybody else. That's the attitude I was responding to in that blog entry, and I stand by it.
Congratulations on your success in your chosen field of endeavor. Do you think that makes you somehow superior to me?
OK, in that case Libertarianism doesn't have a "difficulty", people with no integrity have a "difficulty". And I think their difficulty is bigger than what political party they are a member of.
I think the notion of a general attitude applied to a group of people is bigotry.
How's the aeronautical engineering program at Oxford?
Oh, so I'm a bigot because I don't spend all my time hunting down racist remarks, and berating the silly people that make them? I'm responsible for the assertions of one person: Myself.
And anybody who thinks that perhaps outsourcing might not be the great idea that some bureaucrats think it is, they must be racists too?
If you can't take criticism, stop talking. I'm just as free to respond to you as you are to say stuff.
I don't think I was being over-sensitive. You called everybody on Slashdot a bigot. I lampooned how silly your blanket assertion is.
Nothing self aggrandizing about it. It's a simple statement of fact. And, yes, it's something of which I'm justifiably proud. Where's your degree from?
The individual authors would retain copyright, and could readily assign that copyright to an proxy entity (be that a person or an organization). Since the Mozilla Foundation did not write any code, it does not have any rights to the code that other people wrote, unless those people assign their rights to the Foundation.
What's wrong with that?
Aardpig's Sig: Where blanket accusations of bigotry are OK...
Wow, I don't know why I didn't do that. I can't wait to see what my life is like when I stop being friends with the people I work with! I mean, I have to spend half my waking hours each weekday with these people...it'll be a lot better if I don't act like I like them.
I'm so glad that I don't work with folks like you.
Leave your work at the door? Absolutely. Leave the relationships with other people at the door? Absolutely not.
What's the baseline incidence of cancer in the general population?
If 9.5% of groundhogs and 10% of space farers die of cancer, I think I'll take my chances headed to Mars.
Hell, I'd take my chances anyway. Odds are better than those with smoking...
Does a blue dress with Chief Executive spoo on it count as a uniform?
It may be easy to make them secure, but it is not easy to make them not suck monkey ass.
Using Lotus Notes and being subjected to its litany of UI and stability debacles makes you a victim, no matter how competent you are.
That's not a problem with Libertarianism, that's a problem with people who lack integrity.
And if you don't have the choice?
Note that he said "This is the way science will be done", not "This is the way I'd rather do science".
I'm all for manned exploration of everything, but robots is pretty cheap.
I repaired a faulty potato gun with a piece of duct tape and a Red Stripe bottlecap. Seemed to get an even better spark than the factory electrode on the BBQ igniter.
The rednecks I was hanging out with gave me the Werner Heisenberg Award for Excellence in Field Engineering. Those were some smart rednecks.
So your assertion is that no Libertarian has the integrity to apply his own principles to himself?
I'm not a Libertarian, I'm a libertarian, but I still think you're tarring with a pretty broad brush...
"The difficulty of Libertarianism: not 'I must be free' but 'That other jerk must be free, as well'."
Why is that a difficulty?
"the vast majority of problems people have with Notes are incompetent developers and incompetent admins."
Way to blame the victims.