Activists on both sides of an issue do the same thing. Each side chooses the evidence that supports their predetermined belief.
The other side of "scientific impotence" is "appeal to authority".
Once issues become politicalized it becomes very difficult to make a scientific judgement one way or another because of all the competing agendas and misinformation on both sides.
It's all a very interesting concept but seems much harder than Berners-Lee might think to actually implement.
No kidding. A terrifying amount of critical buisness logic is embedded in Excel spreadsheets because MBAs can't fathom what a relational database much less why it's a Good Thing that you can't simply put any kind of data you want anywhere and he thinks that we can add semantic metadata correctly to everything on the web?
Exactly why the limits SHOULD be less then they are now. Back then, the length of the copyright period was actually promoting the publishing of new material.
So if a writer wanted to keep getting paid he'd need to keep producing new material? What kind of insanity is that? Next thing you know a plumber won't be able to install a bathroom sink once and collect royalties for the rest of his life any more! Electricians won't get to wire up one building and retire! The descendants of the assembly line workers who built the Model Ts will need to find jobs instead of collecting granddad's royalty checks!
giving teachers the pay and respect that will attract good talent, rather than the mediocre-to-abysmal sorry excuses for teachers we mostly get now.
If you'll read Mr Gatto's book you'll understand that the school system has exactly the talent that it needs to accomplish its purpose and it is accomplishing that purpose with superlative efficiency.
If you read the link I gave, you'll see the income and expense streams added up to a positive number.
Read up on the difference between cash flow accounting and accrual accounting.
The net present value of those streams have not been net positive for many decades. Right now the federal government is underwater by about $100 trillion. Clinton didn't even make a dent in that number.
The federal budget is not balanced as long as the government needs to rob FICA revenue to shore up the general fund.
An even more stringent definition of a balanced budget would be that the net present value of all income and expense streams add up to a positive number. By that definition the US federal government is hopelessly bankrupt.
Please someone tell me, why shouldn't these soulless suits be lined up and shot, and the event televised for the education of other similar corporate psychopaths?
Because those same psychopaths fund the election campaigns of every important member of Congress as well as the President, and they are important providers of high-paying jobs for former bureaucrats and regulators.
Clinton never ran a budget surplus. He got close though, but only because he robbed from the Social Security trust fund (just like every president has for the last half-century).
I think that we are in agreement. I was talking about those urbanites who want to ban hunting because the entirety of their ecological knowledge comes from Disney cartoons.
I'm sure that the majority of the rank-and-file are reasonably sane. I was referring specifically to the people at the top of a few prominent organizations.
Over-population due to non-hunting isn't just some goofy idea that a bunch of gun nuts cooked up. It's a very real, observable phenomenon in many parts of the world.
You're dealing with a segment of the population which is so detached from reality that you might as well be trying to talk someone out of a cult.
cut the brake lines on your car if in some way your death would help save animals
The general public hasn't had a lot of exposure to attitudes of the leadership of "animal rights" organizations so few realize what lunatics they really are.
The only word to describe people like that is insane.
I would agree only if the definition of rape was tightened up a bit from what it is currently. If we're talking about clear-cut acts of violence then sure, just don't count, "I didn't really want to but I didn't want to say no either because then he might have broken up with me" as rape.
It's always been my experience that it costs far, FAR more to execute someone than to imprison them for life when you take into account that the appeals process is expensive.
If you're rewriting the law anyway you might as well fix that too. There's no inherent reason that the appeals process needs to be that expensive.
USB thumbdrives are so cheap and BIOS support for booting from USB is so prevalent now that it's just easy enough to keep a thumbdrive plugged into all your computers and use an initramfs to boot from. Then you can do whatever you want with your hard drives.
I'd imagine that you'd use a small enough bomb that the deposit of hydrocarbons, which are still under a substantial amount of rock below the ocean floor, would be unaffected.
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Activists on both sides of an issue do the same thing. Each side chooses the evidence that supports their predetermined belief.
The other side of "scientific impotence" is "appeal to authority".
Once issues become politicalized it becomes very difficult to make a scientific judgement one way or another because of all the competing agendas and misinformation on both sides.
Because the pipe didn't break off at the BOP; it fell over sideways.
Regulators don't work - the companies just buy them off directly or indirectly.
The only thing that works is accountability.
Of course, they'll buy off the prosecuters too.
Maybe the best thing we can do in cases like this is publish the home address of the individuals responsible and let nature take it's course.
No kidding. A terrifying amount of critical buisness logic is embedded in Excel spreadsheets because MBAs can't fathom what a relational database much less why it's a Good Thing that you can't simply put any kind of data you want anywhere and he thinks that we can add semantic metadata correctly to everything on the web?
That would be less effective, as that way there's no assurance that the target isn't viewing the tab when it refreshes.
This attack only works if you allow Javascript by default, instead of only whitelisting sites that you trust.
So if a writer wanted to keep getting paid he'd need to keep producing new material? What kind of insanity is that? Next thing you know a plumber won't be able to install a bathroom sink once and collect royalties for the rest of his life any more! Electricians won't get to wire up one building and retire! The descendants of the assembly line workers who built the Model Ts will need to find jobs instead of collecting granddad's royalty checks!
If you'll read Mr Gatto's book you'll understand that the school system has exactly the talent that it needs to accomplish its purpose and it is accomplishing that purpose with superlative efficiency.
Read up on the difference between cash flow accounting and accrual accounting.
The net present value of those streams have not been net positive for many decades. Right now the federal government is underwater by about $100 trillion. Clinton didn't even make a dent in that number.
The federal budget is not balanced as long as the government needs to rob FICA revenue to shore up the general fund.
An even more stringent definition of a balanced budget would be that the net present value of all income and expense streams add up to a positive number. By that definition the US federal government is hopelessly bankrupt.
That's why the people who have the authority to do such a thing believe that they shouldn't
They don't care what the peasants think.
Because those same psychopaths fund the election campaigns of every important member of Congress as well as the President, and they are important providers of high-paying jobs for former bureaucrats and regulators.
Clinton never ran a budget surplus. He got close though, but only because he robbed from the Social Security trust fund (just like every president has for the last half-century).
This will explain everything.
You couldn't possibly be more wrong about me.
Private schools are not the right answer either. The entire premise of "school" need to be reexamined.
Very good point.
If you believe that text books anywhere are unbiased you've got mental blinders on the size of Texas.
The question people should be asking is, "Why should I turn my children over to a government school in the first place?"
I think that we are in agreement. I was talking about those urbanites who want to ban hunting because the entirety of their ecological knowledge comes from Disney cartoons.
I'm sure that the majority of the rank-and-file are reasonably sane. I was referring specifically to the people at the top of a few prominent organizations.
You're dealing with a segment of the population which is so detached from reality that you might as well be trying to talk someone out of a cult.
The general public hasn't had a lot of exposure to attitudes of the leadership of "animal rights" organizations so few realize what lunatics they really are.
The only word to describe people like that is insane.
The Tyranny of Nice.
I would agree only if the definition of rape was tightened up a bit from what it is currently. If we're talking about clear-cut acts of violence then sure, just don't count, "I didn't really want to but I didn't want to say no either because then he might have broken up with me" as rape.
If you're rewriting the law anyway you might as well fix that too. There's no inherent reason that the appeals process needs to be that expensive.
USB thumbdrives are so cheap and BIOS support for booting from USB is so prevalent now that it's just easy enough to keep a thumbdrive plugged into all your computers and use an initramfs to boot from. Then you can do whatever you want with your hard drives.
I'd imagine that you'd use a small enough bomb that the deposit of hydrocarbons, which are still under a substantial amount of rock below the ocean floor, would be unaffected.