Thanks for the pop-psych analysis, but the only problem I have is with clueless slashdotters with no first-hand knowledge running down my country by claiming that it has a history that is any more violent than any other. If all the information you have is what you learned from a third-world country's educational system, then consider yourself as uninformed as the typical MSNBC sycophant.
A compass will give you the local magnetic north. I'm looking at a 2005 sectional for the North Carolina area (I use it as a poster on my cube wall). There is a dashed magenta line approximately halfway between RDU and GSO that specifies an 8 degree W correction to get true north. Not all of these dashed magenta lines are straight.
When within the boundaries of a controlled airport, the compass GUARANTEES that every plane agrees on what the heading is. When ATC tells you to take a heading of 20 degrees, he needs to know that your 20 degrees is the same as his 20 degrees. All the compasses within the area will be under the same magnetic flux, and will agree.
Can you guarantee that my GPS will agree with your smartphone? Good luck with that.
Besides, sectionals are printed every 6months, contain correctional lines for compass corrections (local variations are all over the place). This is one of the reason for the requirement to have a sectional less than 6mos old.
As the son of a white man and an Indian woman, I say fuck you.
Yes, all of those things happened. As the parent stated, they are part of our heritage. They are ugly. But, we learned from them. Recovered from them. Grew stronger as a nation from them.
If you want to isolate and dwell on them, then there is only one appropriate answer. Fuck you.
No...and for those of us with a clue, the joke is on them as much as it ever was. Twain is laughing so hard, there is seismic activity around his grave.
Except, Mark Twain isn't used to teach history. It is used to teach literature. Specifically, the masterful use of irony, wit and sarcasm. Those are indispensable tools to any generation.
Adults are more than welcome to make their own choice regarding whether or not to read the original. In the meantime, school-aged children shouldn't be forced schools to read words they find personally abhorrent.
Bwhahaha!! Dude, I've got three words for you....Black Entertainment Channel. Go watch it for a few hours during the afternoon and prime-time (you know, when children would be watching) and then come back and tell us about how all the poor little black children are so emotionally impacted by the word nigger.
Maybe it should come under some sort of false advertising laws. I can't sell a water-color my boy did in the 3rd grade as the "Mona Lisa". How can I purposely change the story of a classic novel and sell it as that novel?
or you could just have an opening that explains the context and meaning of the word nigger in the time and place the book takes place in. You could boldly confront the issues of slavery and racisim and teach children something important about their history and the history of the human race.
Or we can go the other way and show kids that the best way to avoid facing difficult topics directly is to define them away.
Or we can use the book to show how a clever author can use a negative word for a positive. The word nigger may have been accepted by polite society of the time, but it was just as derogatory then as it is now. The novel clearly depicts how STUPID polite society of the time was. A major theme of the novel is and inspection of the un-questioned prejudices accepted by polite society.
Maybe we could teach children to inspect and think about the world around them? Ffft! How is that supposed to increase a standardized test score. Let's just read the kids stories from Mother Goose, and call it education.
So, I let my younger son watch BET (Black Entertainment Channel. A US cable channel devoted to all things African American.) He repeated a joke from Dave Chappel during class in the 8th grade. He was suspended for "intimidation".
But, what if you look at it, not as censorship, but as translation.
Because, Samuel Clemmons was a unapologetic satirist. The only people using the derogatory words were the idiots of the book, the so-called "fine and upstanding citizens of society" were fools, criminals and murderers. The fact that the words are more hideous now makes the fools of the book look even more foolish.
Mark Twain is turning in his grave...with laughter...and the fools still don't get the joke.
You may have read the story, but you never grokked it.
In the story, which of the characters carried any sort of nobility? Would it be the white con-artist? The foolish white parish members they conned? Could it be the feuders, killing each other for reasons they could not recall? Maybe it would be the mostly clueless Huck-Finn himself?
In the story, who used the words "nigger" and "injun"? Did the nobility of those who used the words increase or decrease through the use of said words?
The derogatory words are a very necessary is illustrative part of the novel. More so, considering how derogatory the word have become. Mr. Clemmons would have had some very sharp and witty remarks for the foolishness of those seeking to remove them now.
But what about warmers whose only answer is either to return us to the standard of living of the cavemen, or to impose a new tax regime an draconian controls. When the temperatures go up, it is due to man caused global warming, "scientist" need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control. When the temperatures go down, it is men causing global warming, "scientist" need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control. When it is pointed out that the records have been manipulated, it is brushed away as "scientific debate", the "scientist" need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control. When it is pointed out that the measurement instruments have been recording bad data due to local heating sources, the "scientist" claim to have added "correction factors", then claim they need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control.
It's clear there is some motive, because every. single. one. of their conclusions is 'We need more funding for studies and move regulatory control', no matter what facts they've decided to finally accept or dismiss.
I'll take the jail time, thanks. I'm not going to let the threat of jail time compel me to revoke my own morals or those of generations of people who will come after me. It's our rights we're standing up for here.
And what will your wife and children do for sustenance in the meantime?
I'm not saying that you don't have a valid argument. I'm saying that it ain't that simple.
The counter point is that as the density increases, I don't have to drive as far to get what I want. I now generally walk to the grocery store. It is literally "in my backyard" and it is easier to just walk over there than it is to drive, find a parking space, and then walk the rest of the way.
You would think it would be a big win for everybody. You would be wrong.
It's a BIG loser for the dispatchers and salesmen. When I hired on for RTC, they gave us an indepth class on how to get more driving hours in a day. It involved sleeping and driving in four hour shifts. Now, WHY would they do this?
Because, clients would gravitate to the company that could deliver on time. There were penalties, up to and including simply refusing to accept the load, for not delivering on time. Salesmen would indiscriminately put tickets for hauls in. No consideration was taken for capacity. Dispatchers were responsible for seeing that the loads got hauled. Dispatchers could say something along the lines of, "Yeah. That's not possible. Trucks don't move that fast." Dispatchers who said something along those lines would end up asking, "You want fries with that?"
The bottom man on the pole was the driver. He got handed a ticket that said he had to haul a load 1000 miles by noon tomorrow. He could say something along the lines of "Yeah. Given our current space-time continuum and the laws of the Interstate Highway System, that is not physically possible." The next thing he would say is, "You want fries with that?"
The impairment testing would document that a driver was unfit to drive, something most drivers know already. After an accident, the first thing the insurance company would ask for is to see the results of the impairment test, and then deny the claim because the driver had been turned around with a forged log book after a 1500 mile marathon run.
Impairment testing is a win for everyone, except for the people that would be responsible for installing them.
But you can assess intentions. I wrestled in high school. Later as a coach, I could confidently instruct wrestlers to watch the opponents eyes, both in order to get an idea of their intentions and to never broadcast your move.
Someone's intentions give hints to their character.
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Thanks for the pop-psych analysis, but the only problem I have is with clueless slashdotters with no first-hand knowledge running down my country by claiming that it has a history that is any more violent than any other. If all the information you have is what you learned from a third-world country's educational system, then consider yourself as uninformed as the typical MSNBC sycophant.
Yes. The ATM protocol was limited to 64byte packet for this very reason.
A compass will give you the local magnetic north. I'm looking at a 2005 sectional for the North Carolina area (I use it as a poster on my cube wall). There is a dashed magenta line approximately halfway between RDU and GSO that specifies an 8 degree W correction to get true north. Not all of these dashed magenta lines are straight.
You missed one.
When within the boundaries of a controlled airport, the compass GUARANTEES that every plane agrees on what the heading is. When ATC tells you to take a heading of 20 degrees, he needs to know that your 20 degrees is the same as his 20 degrees. All the compasses within the area will be under the same magnetic flux, and will agree.
Can you guarantee that my GPS will agree with your smartphone? Good luck with that.
Besides, sectionals are printed every 6months, contain correctional lines for compass corrections (local variations are all over the place). This is one of the reason for the requirement to have a sectional less than 6mos old.
But the publisher will sell it to the school system. Censorship by the state accomplished.
As the son of a white man and an Indian woman, I say fuck you.
Yes, all of those things happened. As the parent stated, they are part of our heritage. They are ugly. But, we learned from them. Recovered from them. Grew stronger as a nation from them.
If you want to isolate and dwell on them, then there is only one appropriate answer. Fuck you.
Did they even understand huckle berry fin?
No...and for those of us with a clue, the joke is on them as much as it ever was. Twain is laughing so hard, there is seismic activity around his grave.
Except, Mark Twain isn't used to teach history. It is used to teach literature. Specifically, the masterful use of irony, wit and sarcasm. Those are indispensable tools to any generation.
Adults are more than welcome to make their own choice regarding whether or not to read the original. In the meantime, school-aged children shouldn't be forced schools to read words they find personally abhorrent.
Bwhahaha!! Dude, I've got three words for you....Black Entertainment Channel. Go watch it for a few hours during the afternoon and prime-time (you know, when children would be watching) and then come back and tell us about how all the poor little black children are so emotionally impacted by the word nigger.
Maybe it should come under some sort of false advertising laws. I can't sell a water-color my boy did in the 3rd grade as the "Mona Lisa". How can I purposely change the story of a classic novel and sell it as that novel?
His opinion matters as much as anyone with nothing more than an ancestral relationship.
Besides, in the history of humanity, people of African descent were not the only ones to have been held as slaves.
or you could just have an opening that explains the context and meaning of the word nigger in the time and place the book takes place in. You could boldly confront the issues of slavery and racisim and teach children something important about their history and the history of the human race.
Or we can go the other way and show kids that the best way to avoid facing difficult topics directly is to define them away.
Or we can use the book to show how a clever author can use a negative word for a positive. The word nigger may have been accepted by polite society of the time, but it was just as derogatory then as it is now. The novel clearly depicts how STUPID polite society of the time was. A major theme of the novel is and inspection of the un-questioned prejudices accepted by polite society.
Maybe we could teach children to inspect and think about the world around them? Ffft! How is that supposed to increase a standardized test score. Let's just read the kids stories from Mother Goose, and call it education.
So, I let my younger son watch BET (Black Entertainment Channel. A US cable channel devoted to all things African American.) He repeated a joke from Dave Chappel during class in the 8th grade. He was suspended for "intimidation".
Sometimes, you just can't win.
But, what if you look at it, not as censorship, but as translation.
Because, Samuel Clemmons was a unapologetic satirist. The only people using the derogatory words were the idiots of the book, the so-called "fine and upstanding citizens of society" were fools, criminals and murderers. The fact that the words are more hideous now makes the fools of the book look even more foolish.
Mark Twain is turning in his grave...with laughter...and the fools still don't get the joke.
You may have read the story, but you never grokked it.
In the story, which of the characters carried any sort of nobility? Would it be the white con-artist? The foolish white parish members they conned? Could it be the feuders, killing each other for reasons they could not recall? Maybe it would be the mostly clueless Huck-Finn himself?
In the story, who used the words "nigger" and "injun"? Did the nobility of those who used the words increase or decrease through the use of said words?
The derogatory words are a very necessary is illustrative part of the novel. More so, considering how derogatory the word have become. Mr. Clemmons would have had some very sharp and witty remarks for the foolishness of those seeking to remove them now.
But what about warmers whose only answer is either to return us to the standard of living of the cavemen, or to impose a new tax regime an draconian controls. When the temperatures go up, it is due to man caused global warming, "scientist" need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control. When the temperatures go down, it is men causing global warming, "scientist" need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control. When it is pointed out that the records have been manipulated, it is brushed away as "scientific debate", the "scientist" need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control. When it is pointed out that the measurement instruments have been recording bad data due to local heating sources, the "scientist" claim to have added "correction factors", then claim they need more funding for studies, and the government needs more regulatory control.
It's clear there is some motive, because every. single. one. of their conclusions is 'We need more funding for studies and move regulatory control', no matter what facts they've decided to finally accept or dismiss.
I'll take the jail time, thanks. I'm not going to let the threat of jail time compel me to revoke my own morals or those of generations of people who will come after me. It's our rights we're standing up for here.
And what will your wife and children do for sustenance in the meantime?
I'm not saying that you don't have a valid argument. I'm saying that it ain't that simple.
The counter point is that as the density increases, I don't have to drive as far to get what I want. I now generally walk to the grocery store. It is literally "in my backyard" and it is easier to just walk over there than it is to drive, find a parking space, and then walk the rest of the way.
Just because YOU aren't paying for it, doesn't mean it is cheap.
You would think it would be a big win for everybody. You would be wrong.
It's a BIG loser for the dispatchers and salesmen. When I hired on for RTC, they gave us an indepth class on how to get more driving hours in a day. It involved sleeping and driving in four hour shifts. Now, WHY would they do this?
Because, clients would gravitate to the company that could deliver on time. There were penalties, up to and including simply refusing to accept the load, for not delivering on time. Salesmen would indiscriminately put tickets for hauls in. No consideration was taken for capacity. Dispatchers were responsible for seeing that the loads got hauled. Dispatchers could say something along the lines of, "Yeah. That's not possible. Trucks don't move that fast." Dispatchers who said something along those lines would end up asking, "You want fries with that?"
The bottom man on the pole was the driver. He got handed a ticket that said he had to haul a load 1000 miles by noon tomorrow. He could say something along the lines of "Yeah. Given our current space-time continuum and the laws of the Interstate Highway System, that is not physically possible." The next thing he would say is, "You want fries with that?"
The impairment testing would document that a driver was unfit to drive, something most drivers know already. After an accident, the first thing the insurance company would ask for is to see the results of the impairment test, and then deny the claim because the driver had been turned around with a forged log book after a 1500 mile marathon run.
Impairment testing is a win for everyone, except for the people that would be responsible for installing them.
I got mine for less than $5k. The airplane will cost you around $18k to $20k(USD) minimum.
But, but...I had a former boss tell me that my labor was a commodity that I should seek to sell to the highest bidder.
He said that as he was congratulating me on finding a higher paying job.
Doesn't that make me, a worker, into a capitalist?
Bureaucrats won't be given nearly as much power once the politicians know that they aren't the ones driving anymore.
I'm agreeing with people all over Slashdot the past few days.
Must be the season.
But you can assess intentions. I wrestled in high school. Later as a coach, I could confidently instruct wrestlers to watch the opponents eyes, both in order to get an idea of their intentions and to never broadcast your move.
Someone's intentions give hints to their character.