No. I was responding to the comment that sometimes expressing skepticism about widely accepted "new" things is good...no matter how widely accepted, or "cool" our peers think it is. Maybe we don't need to reflexively reject all analog just because there is a new, cool, digital alternative.
Even though they knew HD was possible, and better, they convinced many of us to buy libraries full of our favorite movies in DVD format...which they knew we would then replace with BluRay. Running headlong towards the latest fad or "next big thing" is often ill-advised. Thanks Slashdot for a bit of sorely needed skepticism from time to time.
Americans themselves successfully used this methodology against the British between 1775 and 1781.
True.
It is said that North Vietnamese war leader Ho Chi Minh admired George Washington because of his successful use of guerrilla war against the British.
You aren't thinking big enough. When a really big machine is scheduled to go down for PM, it would be helpful for the team to do a "walk-through" before hand. Electricians, machinists, pipe-fitters, and millwrights might be able to pre-plan and coordinate all of their assignments prior to the shut-down. New members of the team could be brought up to speed pre-shutdown also.
Franklin Covey used to recommend that you never leave home without it. Plus those quotes of the day are just precious...I will no longer recommend the FC version of the planner though, after they reneged on a "money back if not satisfied" promise. They proved to me that their company is without honor.
are trading houses spending hundreds of millions of dollars on high speed, fiber optic, trunk lines, in an effort to cut milliseconds from their transaction times? Give me a break puddin cake!
To use discrimination to correct discrimination is not fair, and if I may be so bold, not true to our basic American principles of equal treatment under the law. I say this as a political Progressive. Did/do we have a problem with racial discrimination? Yes! Should we all fight to end unequal treatment under the law? Yes! Is Affirmative Action the tool we should use to correct it? No! If we agree that discrimination is illegal (against the principle that all citizens have a right to Equal Treatment under the law), we can not use racial discrimination to correct the problem. And please do not argue that AA is not a form of discrimination because we can use different terms to describe how we discriminate against one individual in favor of another. This emperor has no clothes.
in your game? Will the stalls have doors? Can the user open the stall doors? Can the user close the stall doors for privacy? Will users be able to leave the restroom without first washing their hands?
Well, we could mandate all able bodied and minded citizens must serve in the militia. And that even in retirement from said militia, they must own and maintain their weapon. Losing the weapon because of criminal activity, or mental instability would be a source of great personal shame.
So...It wasn't clear to me if you mean you think we need "other" carbon fuels, or other non-carbon fuels...Cause I clearly asked about staying on our carbon binge. You seem to be saying that since we need energy (I don't disagree) we need to continue our reliance on carbon fuels. Did I misunderstand you?
it's not an either or proposition. some politicians are stupid (or maybe just ignorant and incurious), some are coldly calculating the strategies that allow them to gain money/power.
It does not help that half of all potential voters have below average intelligence, or are incurious, or are ignorant, or suffer various combinations of all three.
I pretty much had to teach myself about the genius of the Bill of Rights. I mourn the fact that all people do not embrace their importance, or share my passion for defending the individual liberty for all individuals that philosophy protects. I do not have an answer to this tragedy. I wish I did. Taking the money out of politics might be a step in the right direction though....I'm just sayin...
that it will be very difficult or even impossible to make it a "smart" projectile. I'm guessing that even the most advanced electronics and guidance mechanics can not stand up to that G force. Anyone with expertise in these things please comment.
teaching the scientific method. Those students who can absorb (and not all can) the concept of disciplined critical thinking, do not need to have examples of pseudoscience discussed, as those examples become self evident to the properly educated. Any teacher who says "I believe" in evolution, red shifted star light, plate tectonics, etc., has already lost this battle. Saying instead "We are compelled by evidence, observation, and rigorous testing, to accept this explanation, until such time that further evidence, observation, and rigorous testing compel us to change our opinion." is the only correct way to teach science. That many teachers fall short of this ideal, is painfully obvious. Discussing faux science is a waste of precious time.
If I'm reading it correctly, a 76 X 1000 ellipse. Kind of like some comets, except that it never reaches the inner (or outer) solar system. Maybe we need to redefine a few things.
that if a prisoner misbehaves he, or she, may lose their reading privileges for a period of time. How can anyone argue against that completely reasonable policy?
about the lack of backward compatibility in 3D CAD software. SolidWorks (for instance, but they all are pretty much guilty of the same strategy) will not allow you to save a file that can be opened by a previous version. They pretty much force you to buy a "subscription" to keep your software up to date, and hope your customers/stakeholders all do the same. They say it's impossible to create a converter that would allow backward compatibility.....
No. Newton had no explanation for WHY his math worked out (in the small part of the Cosmos he could observe at the time) Einstein had an explanation, the math to predict and confirm his explanation, and observations that have proved his explanation correct (so far) It is wrong to compare Newton and Einstein this way. Einstein did MUCH more than refine Newton's incorrect math.
Longevity? Yes for sure. Enlightenment? The denial of scientific methodology is not very enlightened, is it? I could be wrong. And you assume to much about the gentile part don't you? maybe? I'm just saying...
Suspected of doing evil. Not the same thing as having survivability. Lots of evil things may survive the test of time. That doesn't make them less evil. I could be wrong though...
I accept your apology. My comments were clearly in the context of indoctrinating children into a religious creed (which was also the topic of the original post). Pretty good smoke screen though.
Any creed that requires the indoctrination of children for its survival is suspect. If it can't wait until adulthood to present evidence in its favor there is a very good chance that something evil is at its core. Forced ignorance is evil. Voluntary, self enforced ignorance is only slightly less evil, but at least an adult has a choice about being ignorant.
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No. I was responding to the comment that sometimes expressing skepticism about widely accepted "new" things is good...no matter how widely accepted, or "cool" our peers think it is. Maybe we don't need to reflexively reject all analog just because there is a new, cool, digital alternative.
Even though they knew HD was possible, and better, they convinced many of us to buy libraries full of our favorite movies in DVD format...which they knew we would then replace with BluRay. Running headlong towards the latest fad or "next big thing" is often ill-advised. Thanks Slashdot for a bit of sorely needed skepticism from time to time.
Americans themselves successfully used this methodology against the British between 1775 and 1781.
True.
It is said that North Vietnamese war leader Ho Chi Minh admired George Washington because of his successful use of guerrilla war against the British.
You aren't thinking big enough. When a really big machine is scheduled to go down for PM, it would be helpful for the team to do a "walk-through" before hand. Electricians, machinists, pipe-fitters, and millwrights might be able to pre-plan and coordinate all of their assignments prior to the shut-down. New members of the team could be brought up to speed pre-shutdown also.
Franklin Covey used to recommend that you never leave home without it. Plus those quotes of the day are just precious...I will no longer recommend the FC version of the planner though, after they reneged on a "money back if not satisfied" promise. They proved to me that their company is without honor.
are a couple of the more practical, less warm and fuzzy, places where I thought VR would have been employed much sooner.
are trading houses spending hundreds of millions of dollars on high speed, fiber optic, trunk lines, in an effort to cut milliseconds from their transaction times? Give me a break puddin cake!
that data mining is going on in this establishment...
To use discrimination to correct discrimination is not fair, and if I may be so bold, not true to our basic American principles of equal treatment under the law. I say this as a political Progressive. Did/do we have a problem with racial discrimination? Yes! Should we all fight to end unequal treatment under the law? Yes! Is Affirmative Action the tool we should use to correct it? No! If we agree that discrimination is illegal (against the principle that all citizens have a right to Equal Treatment under the law), we can not use racial discrimination to correct the problem. And please do not argue that AA is not a form of discrimination because we can use different terms to describe how we discriminate against one individual in favor of another. This emperor has no clothes.
in your game? Will the stalls have doors? Can the user open the stall doors? Can the user close the stall doors for privacy? Will users be able to leave the restroom without first washing their hands?
Well, we could mandate all able bodied and minded citizens must serve in the militia. And that even in retirement from said militia, they must own and maintain their weapon. Losing the weapon because of criminal activity, or mental instability would be a source of great personal shame.
So...It wasn't clear to me if you mean you think we need "other" carbon fuels, or other non-carbon fuels...Cause I clearly asked about staying on our carbon binge. You seem to be saying that since we need energy (I don't disagree) we need to continue our reliance on carbon fuels. Did I misunderstand you?
that we can't just end the carbon binge we are on?
it's not an either or proposition. some politicians are stupid (or maybe just ignorant and incurious), some are coldly calculating the strategies that allow them to gain money/power.
It does not help that half of all potential voters have below average intelligence, or are incurious, or are ignorant, or suffer various combinations of all three.
I pretty much had to teach myself about the genius of the Bill of Rights. I mourn the fact that all people do not embrace their importance, or share my passion for defending the individual liberty for all individuals that philosophy protects. I do not have an answer to this tragedy. I wish I did. Taking the money out of politics might be a step in the right direction though....I'm just sayin...
that it will be very difficult or even impossible to make it a "smart" projectile. I'm guessing that even the most advanced electronics and guidance mechanics can not stand up to that G force. Anyone with expertise in these things please comment.
teaching the scientific method. Those students who can absorb (and not all can) the concept of disciplined critical thinking, do not need to have examples of pseudoscience discussed, as those examples become self evident to the properly educated. Any teacher who says "I believe" in evolution, red shifted star light, plate tectonics, etc., has already lost this battle. Saying instead "We are compelled by evidence, observation, and rigorous testing, to accept this explanation, until such time that further evidence, observation, and rigorous testing compel us to change our opinion." is the only correct way to teach science. That many teachers fall short of this ideal, is painfully obvious. Discussing faux science is a waste of precious time.
No, If a loss of reading privilege policy is to be effective, the institution has to have control of reading material. How can it be otherwise?
If I'm reading it correctly, a 76 X 1000 ellipse. Kind of like some comets, except that it never reaches the inner (or outer) solar system. Maybe we need to redefine a few things.
that if a prisoner misbehaves he, or she, may lose their reading privileges for a period of time. How can anyone argue against that completely reasonable policy?
about the lack of backward compatibility in 3D CAD software. SolidWorks (for instance, but they all are pretty much guilty of the same strategy) will not allow you to save a file that can be opened by a previous version. They pretty much force you to buy a "subscription" to keep your software up to date, and hope your customers/stakeholders all do the same. They say it's impossible to create a converter that would allow backward compatibility.....
No. Newton had no explanation for WHY his math worked out (in the small part of the Cosmos he could observe at the time) Einstein had an explanation, the math to predict and confirm his explanation, and observations that have proved his explanation correct (so far) It is wrong to compare Newton and Einstein this way. Einstein did MUCH more than refine Newton's incorrect math.
Longevity? Yes for sure. Enlightenment? The denial of scientific methodology is not very enlightened, is it? I could be wrong. And you assume to much about the gentile part don't you? maybe? I'm just saying...
Suspected of doing evil. Not the same thing as having survivability. Lots of evil things may survive the test of time. That doesn't make them less evil. I could be wrong though...
I accept your apology. My comments were clearly in the context of indoctrinating children into a religious creed (which was also the topic of the original post). Pretty good smoke screen though.
Any creed that requires the indoctrination of children for its survival is suspect. If it can't wait until adulthood to present evidence in its favor there is a very good chance that something evil is at its core. Forced ignorance is evil. Voluntary, self enforced ignorance is only slightly less evil, but at least an adult has a choice about being ignorant.