Just because a woman would like jewelry doesn't make her a heathen or a greedy slob. Quit demonizing women when you would easily spend $4,000 on computer equipment.
Human slavery exists in Africa and it has nothing to do with diamond mines. In almost every continent young girls as young as six years old are sold into prostitution. Neighboring tribes capture people or conquer a people and sell them into real slavery, with no wages, in Northern Africa.
If you are attempting to be politically aware, why not protest the involvement of the World Bank or International Monetary Fund, of which the U.S. is the majority, which enslaves developing nation with high-interest loans that only causes crushing debt....the debt that makes it impossible to build infrastructure, schools or services for its people.
It would be nice if naysayers on Slashdot would say no to that kind of enslavement rather than complainign about having to buy a jewel for their lover and best friend on some kind of misguided attempt at social awareness.
People work in the diamond industry for money. Without a job their families or themselves starve.
So, not buying diamonds does not hurt the industry so much as it does the individual worker. And their $5 a day is a lot compared to the rest of the continent which makes about $15 per month.
I was at a small daily newspaper near Kings Canyon-Sequoia National parks when I heard a rumor that Clinton was coming to town and declaring most the Sierra around us the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
I hunted people down and asked them, and eventually someone cracked and told me.
I broke the story....beating my competition and even the LA Times. I covered the president at the monument even though my boss was trying to give it to his golden boy, but I managed to make him give it to me. I was happier then than I have been in a while.
Except maybe when the Colorado River Aqueduct blew a hole and flooded last week.
The story that made me pissed off and depressed is probably my best work, though. Where I wrote about a 13-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet. I felt that if I didn't make people care that a great little girl died there was no point in writing it.
I covered her life and family and then cried until I fell asleep.
Obligatory reference:I am a journalist and I think....
There are some great science writers in the world. Journalists who really know their stuff...but in a newsroom editors are not interested in the number of polysyllabic words you can use, they're interested in how easily it flows. (I just tried to use the word "flange" and they nearly had an aneurysm.)
We're supposed to write at an eighth grade level, although for many it's now a sixth grade level, and even I try to throw in a college vocabulary word once in a while. I think we should all have to learn a new word sometime.
I think the few journalists that pull off entertaining and informative (I'm not even putting in responsible because that's ethically a given....if they're irresponsible they will most likely be fired) are people who've been in the business a while and have lots of institutional knowledge to present it in a fresh and accessible way.
Science journals aside, the regular reader is looking to learn a little about science but not enough to make s/he get a book to read about it. Think Psychology Today. Some psychology information with much more entertainment about how it relates to sex. Sex, teehee!
I'm a journalist with science background. I actually read books about things I don't know so I can explain them.
Many people I work with are not English majors nor are they broadly "anti-science." Many actually have computer geekness in their souls.
The point is that journalists use what you give them. If you don't reiterate your main points or explain them clearly or concisely to someone who doesn't know much about nuclear physics you won't have a good story about what you're working on.
You have to take responsibility for your own media and find someone you feel is unbiased, well-read and knows something about what they write about.
Aside from the few dinosaurs in my newsroom, most of us are willing to learn new things and meet new people....that's why we became journalists.
Now go start bad-mouthing the medical profession for God's sake!
I guess if I were creating something that people in the tech sector want, yes, having a web page is important.
But, let's say you make custom wedding gowns or custom pepper grinders. While it would be nice to have a webpage, not everyone has the time/effort/money to do it.
There are some people out there who are artisans and can't operate a computer, but their craft is so great people are put on waiting lists.
This is all true. So, while it is convenient for us, it's not always convenient for them.
If you've ever backpacked, keeping the weight of your pack down is paramount.
And your idea of needing a laptop to tour South America is ludicrous. A freaking pencil and notebook weighs 1/10 of the weight of one laptop.
NO ONE NEEDS A LAPTOP WHILE BACKPACKING! NOT ONE PERSON.
The whole reason to backpack into the wilderness is to escape your stupid pointless existence of phones, laptops and pointless office conversation, not to bring it with you.
What nauseates me is that people like you think this is a way to live: Go on a wilderness vacation and bring your cellphone nad laptop with you.
I'm so glad that in my travels I never met anyone so unappreciative of the earth's secrets.
Good god, can't you stand a trip to South America without looking at your email?
You're going to be seeing unusual and unique sites, perhaps ruins of an ancient city and you're worried about getting Internet access? What about absorbing a cultural experience, discovering new worlds?
Nope, where the hell can I pick up a signal?
And they wonder why there's an image of the Ugly American.
World reports have shown that subsistence farmers, those that farm for food to live, are all ready working on marginal land which in sub-Saharan Africa is becoming desert due to erosion and mineral exhaustion.
As for deserts, they aren't the No. 1 choice for many people....except when you get old and want to live in a furnace like Palm Springs.
As for Arizona, they grow a lot of oranges there, dorkboy.
Scientists are creating organs from genetic material, basically growing organs from part bodies. I don't know the logistics, but I'm sure they'd love to be able to create a part human with only a brain stem so we can harvest away.
They want to do that to us all right now. You have a "donor" on your driver's license, don't you?
There is surprisingly little that keeps unscrupulous people from harvesting people like us instead of using a human without the ability to speak or gain consciousness.
Those reared in a laboratory don't have pesky families that would appear on television.
I mistakenly believed the more a person weighed meant more anesthesia. Drug addicts also need more powerful doses of drugs.
So maybe most redheads are heifers or heroin addicts.
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You said no nation threatened the US since 1800s
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You were wrong. Now cloud the subject with statistics that have nothing to do with your incorrect assumption.
Don't lecture me when you don't even know your own facts.
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Freedom of Speech isn't a popularity contest
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It's a right given by the Constitution of the United States.
A lot of people don't like the reading of the Miranda rights. Ernesto Miranda was a scummy rapist that I think most people didn't particularly like. They didn't read him his rights when he was arrested. He gave a confession and it was thrown out of court. Since then his last name, Miranda, is used to inform citizens of their civil right to be silent and say nothing to the police.
Should Miranda have been incarcerated for his confession? Probably. Was he? No, because his civil rights were violated. (He was later convicted for another rape and then stabbed to death in a fight.) And we can't have a totalitarian government where people accused aren't informed of their rights or tortured into confessions...where would it end?
We live in a free society and the price of a free society is civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and artistic freedom. You don't have to agree, and in fact, it's your right, but you have no legal grounds to silence anyone's voice simply because you dislike it.
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Uh, hello, you're wrong....what about WWII?
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Aside from Pearl Harbor which was perpetuated on a U.S. territory, Japan also threatened the borders of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. More than 6,000 military personnel were on the Aleutian Islands to repel Japanese forces.
Please read about history before you attempt to profess it.
I thought I was actually arguing for broadening engineers' educations.
The whole attitude of "I'm not going to read a book unless it's about engineering" is frightening. When I went to MIT I noticed a lot of people there read books, played instruments and were really intelligent in many facets.
I can't say I found an abundance other places.
As for geeks, they're not all engineers. And geeks have sex, I've almost seen that a number of times including the network administrator I sleep with now.
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It rids the body of calcium, so you shrink with osteoporosis.
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Just because a woman would like jewelry doesn't make her a heathen or a greedy slob. Quit demonizing women when you would easily spend $4,000 on computer equipment.
Human slavery exists in Africa and it has nothing to do with diamond mines. In almost every continent young girls as young as six years old are sold into prostitution. Neighboring tribes capture people or conquer a people and sell them into real slavery, with no wages, in Northern Africa.
If you are attempting to be politically aware, why not protest the involvement of the World Bank or International Monetary Fund, of which the U.S. is the majority, which enslaves developing nation with high-interest loans that only causes crushing debt....the debt that makes it impossible to build infrastructure, schools or services for its people.
It would be nice if naysayers on Slashdot would say no to that kind of enslavement rather than complainign about having to buy a jewel for their lover and best friend on some kind of misguided attempt at social awareness.
good luck,
c.
People work in the diamond industry for money. Without a job their families or themselves starve.
So, not buying diamonds does not hurt the industry so much as it does the individual worker. And their $5 a day is a lot compared to the rest of the continent which makes about $15 per month.
It's all relative.
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Whoever's voting, go smoke a bowl and pass out on Funyons, please.
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When I'm woken up at 4:20 a.m. by an earthquake my first instinct isn't to look up usgs.gov but to go back to sleep.
All earthquake reports will still be there at 10 a.m.
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I was at a small daily newspaper near Kings Canyon-Sequoia National parks when I heard a rumor that Clinton was coming to town and declaring most the Sierra around us the Giant Sequoia National Monument.
I hunted people down and asked them, and eventually someone cracked and told me.
I broke the story....beating my competition and even the LA Times. I covered the president at the monument even though my boss was trying to give it to his golden boy, but I managed to make him give it to me. I was happier then than I have been in a while.
Except maybe when the Colorado River Aqueduct blew a hole and flooded last week.
The story that made me pissed off and depressed is probably my best work, though. Where I wrote about a 13-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet. I felt that if I didn't make people care that a great little girl died there was no point in writing it.
I covered her life and family and then cried until I fell asleep.
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I know their "journalism" consists of topless women on Page 3. You'd think they'd be happier.
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I work in print, not TV, nor do I really stand for anything except my paycheck.
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Obligatory reference: I am a journalist and I think....
There are some great science writers in the world. Journalists who really know their stuff...but in a newsroom editors are not interested in the number of polysyllabic words you can use, they're interested in how easily it flows. (I just tried to use the word "flange" and they nearly had an aneurysm.)
We're supposed to write at an eighth grade level, although for many it's now a sixth grade level, and even I try to throw in a college vocabulary word once in a while. I think we should all have to learn a new word sometime.
I think the few journalists that pull off entertaining and informative (I'm not even putting in responsible because that's ethically a given....if they're irresponsible they will most likely be fired) are people who've been in the business a while and have lots of institutional knowledge to present it in a fresh and accessible way.
Science journals aside, the regular reader is looking to learn a little about science but not enough to make s/he get a book to read about it. Think Psychology Today. Some psychology information with much more entertainment about how it relates to sex. Sex, teehee!
c.
I'm a journalist with science background. I actually read books about things I don't know so I can explain them.
Many people I work with are not English majors nor are they broadly "anti-science." Many actually have computer geekness in their souls.
The point is that journalists use what you give them. If you don't reiterate your main points or explain them clearly or concisely to someone who doesn't know much about nuclear physics you won't have a good story about what you're working on.
You have to take responsibility for your own media and find someone you feel is unbiased, well-read and knows something about what they write about.
Aside from the few dinosaurs in my newsroom, most of us are willing to learn new things and meet new people....that's why we became journalists.
Now go start bad-mouthing the medical profession for God's sake!
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It just sounds so....familiar.
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I guess if I were creating something that people in the tech sector want, yes, having a web page is important.
But, let's say you make custom wedding gowns or custom pepper grinders. While it would be nice to have a webpage, not everyone has the time/effort/money to do it.
There are some people out there who are artisans and can't operate a computer, but their craft is so great people are put on waiting lists.
This is all true. So, while it is convenient for us, it's not always convenient for them.
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It's all in the presentation, man.
You rock and deserve not to pushed off a mountainside by another backpacker because you're using your laptop on the summit.
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If you've ever backpacked, keeping the weight of your pack down is paramount.
And your idea of needing a laptop to tour South America is ludicrous. A freaking pencil and notebook weighs 1/10 of the weight of one laptop.
NO ONE NEEDS A LAPTOP WHILE BACKPACKING! NOT ONE PERSON.
The whole reason to backpack into the wilderness is to escape your stupid pointless existence of phones, laptops and pointless office conversation, not to bring it with you.
What nauseates me is that people like you think this is a way to live: Go on a wilderness vacation and bring your cellphone nad laptop with you.
I'm so glad that in my travels I never met anyone so unappreciative of the earth's secrets.
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Good god, can't you stand a trip to South America without looking at your email?
You're going to be seeing unusual and unique sites, perhaps ruins of an ancient city and you're worried about getting Internet access? What about absorbing a cultural experience, discovering new worlds?
Nope, where the hell can I pick up a signal?
And they wonder why there's an image of the Ugly American.
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Stargate is a syndicated piece of crap on par with Andromeda/Relic Hunter/Tracker with $50 (Canadian) production budgets.
Sure you might watch it once in a while but you would never admit it. What's wrong with you guys?
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World reports have shown that subsistence farmers, those that farm for food to live, are all ready working on marginal land which in sub-Saharan Africa is becoming desert due to erosion and mineral exhaustion.
As for deserts, they aren't the No. 1 choice for many people....except when you get old and want to live in a furnace like Palm Springs.
As for Arizona, they grow a lot of oranges there, dorkboy.
California girl,
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Just a thought, and I'm glad you put the "should" rather than the "do." That's being honest with yourself.
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Scientists are creating organs from genetic material, basically growing organs from part bodies. I don't know the logistics, but I'm sure they'd love to be able to create a part human with only a brain stem so we can harvest away.
They want to do that to us all right now. You have a "donor" on your driver's license, don't you?
There is surprisingly little that keeps unscrupulous people from harvesting people like us instead of using a human without the ability to speak or gain consciousness.
Those reared in a laboratory don't have pesky families that would appear on television.
c.
I mistakenly believed the more a person weighed meant more anesthesia. Drug addicts also need more powerful doses of drugs.
So maybe most redheads are heifers or heroin addicts.
cl.
You were wrong. Now cloud the subject with statistics that have nothing to do with your incorrect assumption.
Don't lecture me when you don't even know your own facts.
c.
It's a right given by the Constitution of the United States.
A lot of people don't like the reading of the Miranda rights. Ernesto Miranda was a scummy rapist that I think most people didn't particularly like. They didn't read him his rights when he was arrested. He gave a confession and it was thrown out of court. Since then his last name, Miranda, is used to inform citizens of their civil right to be silent and say nothing to the police.
Should Miranda have been incarcerated for his confession? Probably. Was he? No, because his civil rights were violated. (He was later convicted for another rape and then stabbed to death in a fight.) And we can't have a totalitarian government where people accused aren't informed of their rights or tortured into confessions...where would it end?
We live in a free society and the price of a free society is civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and artistic freedom. You don't have to agree, and in fact, it's your right, but you have no legal grounds to silence anyone's voice simply because you dislike it.
c.
Aside from Pearl Harbor which was perpetuated on a U.S. territory, Japan also threatened the borders of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. More than 6,000 military personnel were on the Aleutian Islands to repel Japanese forces.
Please read about history before you attempt to profess it.
c.
I thought I was actually arguing for broadening engineers' educations.
The whole attitude of "I'm not going to read a book unless it's about engineering" is frightening. When I went to MIT I noticed a lot of people there read books, played instruments and were really intelligent in many facets.
I can't say I found an abundance other places.
As for geeks, they're not all engineers. And geeks have sex, I've almost seen that a number of times including the network administrator I sleep with now.
Engineers, I'm not positive about, though.
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