if i get shouted down for trying to defend an article about chris christie, i'm not going to let this slide. I admitted it had no place, and neither does this.
no, this really doesn't have any place on slashdot, the only way this article tangentially approaches technology or science is in the comments section. non-human intelligence, sentience and non-human rights might be appropriate, if this were new research concerning those topics, but this isn't that.
:) just because you can't hear it, doesn't mean that plants don't scream. pain is an ephemeral thing, i doubt mice remember specific memories for longer than a week, but apparently fear transcends generations. where exactly do you draw the line? do fish feel? do bugs feel? where the hell do we draw the line? is it possible to? sponges? jellyfish?
i took the ap class with 5 other boys. that's 6 boys across 2 grade levels or approximately 400 students. we had 2 white people and the rest minorities. This was in New Jersey by the way, in 2003ish. My university gave me credit. It's patently ridiculous when people are saying that girls aren't taking the AP test... when nobody is taking the test. yay, misleading stats.
woops, you're right of course... sometimes i forget that slashdot is supposed to be about tech. but it is a national story about the nation with the highest GDP in the world... so. I mean, i'm pretty sure most people cared about what was going on with the british back in the day, even outside of europe. But i concede your point, it doesn't belong on slashdot.
this is a regional story with a national scope, as christie was and may still be considered the frontrunner for 2016 republican presidential primary, as well as being an influential governor in the republican party currently. Also it's a 14 lane bridge, and apparently one of the busiest bridges in the world, carrying something like a quarter of a million drivers per day... which would be something like making everybody in Windsor, Ontario (pop. 276k) take a 4 hour time-out per day.
don't know very much about it, but if he compromised any operations at all, knowingly, even a little... yes he is. There you go, an opinion to counterbalance yours.
damn straight, my gubbermint is out to protect me. not the british, not the french, not the germans. that's what their gubbermints are for.
when lives are at stake, you damn well better believe i want a cynical government. Sure, make allies, but no harm making sure they're genuine.
Also, people seem to believe that we all have some god-given right not to be spied on. The only rights you have, are those rights you can enforce. Are you talking over your own personal phone lines, transmitting over your own networks? unless i'm talking to someone in the privacy of my own home, I expect no privacy.
Also, i don't fear my government, because fundamentally, my government is me down to its core. I don't fear big brother for the same reason I don't fear a military coup. We've progressed beyond that, and everybody's got family.
Excellent point, there are also no good muslims, no good catholics, no good jews and no good people in general... you make an excellent point. I seem to remember some sayings about casting stones and another one about paint brushes.
Unless you don't belong to a single group that has skeletons in its closet, you really have no ground to stand on.
it's much easier to criticize an enemy than a friend, but which is the more moral action?
just look up Kamooneh. it's hard to tell who's telling the truth, the police or the man, but the school's got a side too, and they seem to be siding with the po po.
the man was arrested for being a dick to both the managers of the property and the officer on the scene. and, as you don't use someone's restroom when asked repeatedly not to, you shouldn't use someone's utilities without asking... especially when explicitly asked not to.
more along the lines of, "if you want me to believe you can defy gravity, there damn well better not be a giant magnet strapped to your back."
for example, if you say that intelligent design is real, then you better be able to tell me how evolution couldn't account for everything we see... or show me Yahweh's damn signature spelled out in our DNA or something. Occam's razor, show me something that would make me think God is the more probable explanation than whatever i'm seeing.
I have faith, I have faith that peer review is a bitch, and scientific consensus represents conclusions that I would come to myself given the time and ability to reach them.
Prayer in public schools was banned in 1962. a lot has changed since 1962, and you're going to blame the banning of school-led prayer? Why aren't you blaming desegregation, or the drug war, or the defunding of NASA, or sex and violence on TV, or white flight, or increasing economic discrepancy, or oversaturation of fastfood and bad food, or hell, the conservative war on public education?
I am an atheist. My attitude is; hell i'll argue all day if you're up for it, it's stimulating and fun, but finding people to argue with ended for me in college. Changing people's minds is a fruitless task.
let me just remind you, silence is tacit agreement. You might not mind homosexuality, but your church does. you might not think abstinence-only would be very effective, but your church does. you might not think that condoms and contraceptives are the work of the devil, but your church does. We will object when your church tries to impose an arbitrary and absolute morality onto complex real-world situations.
It's hard not to paint you all with the same brush... when you're standing so damn close to each other. the lord gave you a moral compass, i'd say he'd be disappointed if you didn't listen to it now and again.
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at a certain point, it's turtles all the way down.
wow, just wow, i feel bad for the people you're associated with.
i bet you're one of the people who are really angry at the NSA right now...
romulus and remus say hi.
also, some of this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#cite_note-39
they still, as they ever did, taste delicious. :)
if i get shouted down for trying to defend an article about chris christie, i'm not going to let this slide. I admitted it had no place, and neither does this.
no, this really doesn't have any place on slashdot, the only way this article tangentially approaches technology or science is in the comments section. non-human intelligence, sentience and non-human rights might be appropriate, if this were new research concerning those topics, but this isn't that.
:) just because you can't hear it, doesn't mean that plants don't scream. pain is an ephemeral thing, i doubt mice remember specific memories for longer than a week, but apparently fear transcends generations. where exactly do you draw the line? do fish feel? do bugs feel? where the hell do we draw the line? is it possible to? sponges? jellyfish?
your moral lines are arbitrary.
i took the ap class with 5 other boys. that's 6 boys across 2 grade levels or approximately 400 students. we had 2 white people and the rest minorities. This was in New Jersey by the way, in 2003ish. My university gave me credit. It's patently ridiculous when people are saying that girls aren't taking the AP test... when nobody is taking the test. yay, misleading stats.
noise complaint. try standing in front of someone's house in the dead of night and just screaming at them. see what happens.
coulda said the same thing about getting shot in a movie theatre... only in florida.
nm completely correct, but talk about minutiae.
anybody else amused by the incremental error of changing 212 FTA to 213 for no apparent reason?
please run your post through a spellcheck... analyzing isn't spelled that way... and it just seems incredibly more disturbing in context... oh god.
because, small light objects can't dodge, they don't have the will to live that would make a tornado-sensing bee cluster bomb the best thing evs.
woops, you're right of course... sometimes i forget that slashdot is supposed to be about tech. but it is a national story about the nation with the highest GDP in the world... so. I mean, i'm pretty sure most people cared about what was going on with the british back in the day, even outside of europe. But i concede your point, it doesn't belong on slashdot.
276k vehicles on average, daily. sounds parochial.
this is a regional story with a national scope, as christie was and may still be considered the frontrunner for 2016 republican presidential primary, as well as being an influential governor in the republican party currently. Also it's a 14 lane bridge, and apparently one of the busiest bridges in the world, carrying something like a quarter of a million drivers per day... which would be something like making everybody in Windsor, Ontario (pop. 276k) take a 4 hour time-out per day.
don't know very much about it, but if he compromised any operations at all, knowingly, even a little... yes he is. There you go, an opinion to counterbalance yours.
damn straight, my gubbermint is out to protect me. not the british, not the french, not the germans. that's what their gubbermints are for.
when lives are at stake, you damn well better believe i want a cynical government. Sure, make allies, but no harm making sure they're genuine.
Also, people seem to believe that we all have some god-given right not to be spied on. The only rights you have, are those rights you can enforce. Are you talking over your own personal phone lines, transmitting over your own networks? unless i'm talking to someone in the privacy of my own home, I expect no privacy.
Also, i don't fear my government, because fundamentally, my government is me down to its core. I don't fear big brother for the same reason I don't fear a military coup. We've progressed beyond that, and everybody's got family.
Excellent point, there are also no good muslims, no good catholics, no good jews and no good people in general... you make an excellent point. I seem to remember some sayings about casting stones and another one about paint brushes.
Unless you don't belong to a single group that has skeletons in its closet, you really have no ground to stand on.
it's much easier to criticize an enemy than a friend, but which is the more moral action?
just look up Kamooneh. it's hard to tell who's telling the truth, the police or the man, but the school's got a side too, and they seem to be siding with the po po.
the man was arrested for being a dick to both the managers of the property and the officer on the scene. and, as you don't use someone's restroom when asked repeatedly not to, you shouldn't use someone's utilities without asking... especially when explicitly asked not to.
more along the lines of, "if you want me to believe you can defy gravity, there damn well better not be a giant magnet strapped to your back."
for example, if you say that intelligent design is real, then you better be able to tell me how evolution couldn't account for everything we see... or show me Yahweh's damn signature spelled out in our DNA or something. Occam's razor, show me something that would make me think God is the more probable explanation than whatever i'm seeing.
I have faith, I have faith that peer review is a bitch, and scientific consensus represents conclusions that I would come to myself given the time and ability to reach them.
Prayer in public schools was banned in 1962. a lot has changed since 1962, and you're going to blame the banning of school-led prayer? Why aren't you blaming desegregation, or the drug war, or the defunding of NASA, or sex and violence on TV, or white flight, or increasing economic discrepancy, or oversaturation of fastfood and bad food, or hell, the conservative war on public education?
I am an atheist. My attitude is; hell i'll argue all day if you're up for it, it's stimulating and fun, but finding people to argue with ended for me in college. Changing people's minds is a fruitless task.
let me just remind you, silence is tacit agreement. You might not mind homosexuality, but your church does. you might not think abstinence-only would be very effective, but your church does. you might not think that condoms and contraceptives are the work of the devil, but your church does. We will object when your church tries to impose an arbitrary and absolute morality onto complex real-world situations.
It's hard not to paint you all with the same brush... when you're standing so damn close to each other.
the lord gave you a moral compass, i'd say he'd be disappointed if you didn't listen to it now and again.