There are men and women in the Congo, slaving away in giant pits in order to extract gold and other precious metals from the earth. This gold will go into phones and tablets made by companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft
Unless they all walked there and are wearing homemade clothes from home grown cotton weaved by hand into fabric, and "printed" their flyers by hand by writing them using sustainably harvested carbon pencils on home made papyrus, and organized the protest through word of mouth (which was probably aided by the fact that they all live in the same cave) rather than using email and iPhones, they are being disingenuous by protesting against resources used for technology that they themselves use and enjoy.
Now wait a minute. I'm as liberal as the day is long, and I say fuck these protesters. I mean, it's all good to be "protesting the man" for being the man and stuff, but showing up at some guy's house? Oh, but wait! Are they giving out cookies? I'll grab my pitchfork and be right over!
What they may *really* be protesting (whether or not this is the stated goal), I think, is that your average Googler is one of the "haves" who will always have a reasonably good job, be able to afford to live in SF or wherever. They, on the other hand, have worked hard for a long time, yet they see their standard of living slipping. They identify with the oppressed and their horrible living and working conditions. That is a noble cause perhaps, but they are obviously doing it wrong, like protesting against the bus driver over the bus fare.
Or you could just... not bother with this nonsense. Even posting on Slashdot is more useful than living a life of mediocrity by being in a relationship. It just sounds tedious and boring.
That depends on how you define mediocrity. If you only date tedious and boring women, then you are doomed to mediocrity. Rule #1 is: don't be tedious and boring.
If the article is saying that taking these drugs perks the bug up as much as it does you perhaps the easy way to make it stop being contagious is to smoke some weed
You may still have a fever, but it will be an *awesome* fever!
We don't have MPs in the US. We have representatives.
Actually, corporate interests have representatives. We have nothing.
In seriousness though, in my case, I have one rep I'm pretty happy with, one partisan hack (but at least she's *my* partisan hack), a state government that could kiss my ass, and another senator that is *their* partisan hack.
So yeah, nearly nothing.
Here are the two propositions that you are comparing:
Opinions of regular people are just as valid as those of experts
A gross majority of experts are lying to get funding
What would you say is the likelihood of each being true? Just because neither is 0% or 100% doesn't make them equivalent.
The likelihood of the first being true is near 0%, but only because I believe the majority of experts are not lying to get funding. If there were a majority of lying -for-funding academics, there would be so much noise from the whistleblowers that it would be in the headlines every single day, because if there is one thing academics enjoy almost as much as getting their research funded, it's stabbing each other in the back over faulty research. You left out a very important point though, corollary to the first item: what is the likelihood of complete idiots' opinions being as valid as experts' opinions?
So your fallacy is in believing that I'm a climate change skeptic. My last comment, that "we're screwed", is because in many so-called skeptics' minds, none of climate science is valid and never will be valid, just because. Anyway, have a nice day.
Kim Dotcom hasn't been in the news much lately, so I thought it said Kim Jong-Un for a second. "Oppan Pyongyang style"
No, Kim Jong-Un's album has been delayed after he accidentally killed all of his bandmates. Because the traitorous bastards said Kim was out of tune! Some nerve..
actually what is happening is that most climate change skeptics do not dismiss that the climate is changing, We know you mean AWG change. We simply believe that either
A - there is not enough data or data has been cherry picked to push an agenda
There is quite a bit of data by now. The fact is, climate skeptics are also pushing an agenda, and the preponderance of data points to actual, anthropogenic change.
B - there is change and it is natural, who do we think we are to believe we have as much power to actually change the climate or
This is patently ridiculous. Why? Because there are billions of us, and we are burning everything. The "we are mere humans" argument is anti-scientific at best.
C - The costs to "stop" if thats even possible climate change is far greater than we are willing to spend.
This is true, but it is changing. Those companies/countries that adapt more rapidly than others will have a competitive edge.
A lot of colleges count AP classes (and I suppose your scores on exams) as one of many entrance criteria. My daughter chose to take drama classes instead of loading up on APs and she did not get into her first choice U. So, screw them.
AP credits are (sometimes) counted toward graduation requirements, typically as ungraded credit hours, so you don't have to take as intense a schedule as you otherwise might.
The other meme is that experts only maintain their positions on climate change because they would lose research funding otherwise. In short, there is no academic integrity.
I don't believe that is exclusively an American problem.
But you must admit we are currently the reigning champs of delusion.
By what measure? They're burning "witches" and "warlocks" alive in Kenya today, and in Tanzania they prize body parts hacked off of living albinos (often children) as good luck charms.
As maddening as it is to see some fools hold signs that say "God hates fags!" and "Thank God for dead soldiers!" at funerals for servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan, it's not quite the same.
Point taken. Fortunately, for example, women don't have to worry as much about honor killings here, but there is a fair amount of crazy worldwide. The craziest 5% of any population is pretty fucking crazy.
It's nice to wake up to something like this--people doing good work that could help a lot of people. Even if the particular project fails (if, for example, you cannot measure blood glucose in the tears), the advance in miniaturization and implementation of a contact lens based solution will have a lot of applications.
Then I read all the AC comments about how much this sucks and they don't want it to succeed, because "Google bad!". Screw you guys.
Our engineers are working on a nano-douchebag. We painstakingly compress politician organs into a douchebag form factor, and voila! Le bag de douche! The politicians complain for a few minutes about, you know, having their organs ripped out and stuff, but fuck it, this is science, bitchez! Give it up for science! Also, they whine about it being against the law to kill them or something, but you know how those politicians lie about everything.
explain to me what improvement *needs* to be done? Is your company successful? are the people programming meeting the goals? If the answer is yes, what does diversity matter? This isnt pre school people, we dont need to make everything equal in all ways, If your core group works, and works well, why mess it up by throwing a wrench into it?
we should never hire someone of (race) or (gender) for the sake of having more (race) or (gender) at said company. We should hire (sex) if they can do the job and do it well, same goes with (gender)
More women should become developers and engineers. Working in a diverse company is qualitatively better than when I worked in "the monastery". It is frankly more enjoyable. The company I worked at with no female engineers was unsuccessful, but that is not to say they would have been any better with more women. I would argue that women would bring more diverse opinions than one might otherwise find in an all-male office.
A good question for you is: why are you offended? Have you been unfairly discriminated against for being a man?
Right here. There's plenty of 'em where I work. IT just ain't what it used to be 15 years ago. No need for ongoing quotas or diversity hires, just grab the best candidate, thank you.
It depends on which specialty you are talking about. In my current gig, we have 0 female software developers out of 7 (OK, down to 5 after the layoff, but still...). We have a lot of chemists, and the ratios in the chem positions are thankfully much better. In previous positions, focused on multimedia chip development (so EE's and SW devs) there were NO female engineers at all on a team of 20 or so. There was one when I first arrived, but she left within a year. Anyway, still a lot of improvement to go in the business.
.. because 5 minutes is not long enough at all to hook up with the hottie down the hall and be all "GAAAA!!! We're all going to die!!! Quick!.. now! In the supply closet!!" So we really need at least 20 minutes on the clock at a minimum. I'm going to write my congressman.
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You can manage it, but you may never be able to make it fully go away.
I mark my turf, carefully pissing along the perimeter of my cube. It really keeps people from bothering me, well, until the cops arrive..
My kingdom for a standing-capable desk!
Part of their flyer says:
There are men and women in the Congo, slaving away in giant pits in order to extract gold and other precious metals from the earth. This gold will go into phones and tablets made by companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft
Unless they all walked there and are wearing homemade clothes from home grown cotton weaved by hand into fabric, and "printed" their flyers by hand by writing them using sustainably harvested carbon pencils on home made papyrus, and organized the protest through word of mouth (which was probably aided by the fact that they all live in the same cave) rather than using email and iPhones, they are being disingenuous by protesting against resources used for technology that they themselves use and enjoy.
Now wait a minute. I'm as liberal as the day is long, and I say fuck these protesters. I mean, it's all good to be "protesting the man" for being the man and stuff, but showing up at some guy's house? Oh, but wait! Are they giving out cookies? I'll grab my pitchfork and be right over!
What they may *really* be protesting (whether or not this is the stated goal), I think, is that your average Googler is one of the "haves" who will always have a reasonably good job, be able to afford to live in SF or wherever. They, on the other hand, have worked hard for a long time, yet they see their standard of living slipping. They identify with the oppressed and their horrible living and working conditions. That is a noble cause perhaps, but they are obviously doing it wrong, like protesting against the bus driver over the bus fare.
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Or you could just... not bother with this nonsense. Even posting on Slashdot is more useful than living a life of mediocrity by being in a relationship. It just sounds tedious and boring.
That depends on how you define mediocrity. If you only date tedious and boring women, then you are doomed to mediocrity. Rule #1 is: don't be tedious and boring.
If the article is saying that taking these drugs perks the bug up as much as it does you perhaps the easy way to make it stop being contagious is to smoke some weed
You may still have a fever, but it will be an *awesome* fever!
Antigravity, nuclear fusion, holodeck.
Amateurs. It's COLD fusion. The regular kind is so 20th century.
What I really want to know is if McAfee blocks its own website because of their association with John McAfee. It would make total sense to me..
We don't have MPs in the US. We have representatives.
Actually, corporate interests have representatives. We have nothing.
In seriousness though, in my case, I have one rep I'm pretty happy with, one partisan hack (but at least she's *my* partisan hack), a state government that could kiss my ass, and another senator that is *their* partisan hack. So yeah, nearly nothing.
Here are the two propositions that you are comparing:
What would you say is the likelihood of each being true? Just because neither is 0% or 100% doesn't make them equivalent.
The likelihood of the first being true is near 0%, but only because I believe the majority of experts are not lying to get funding. If there were a majority of lying -for-funding academics, there would be so much noise from the whistleblowers that it would be in the headlines every single day, because if there is one thing academics enjoy almost as much as getting their research funded, it's stabbing each other in the back over faulty research. You left out a very important point though, corollary to the first item: what is the likelihood of complete idiots' opinions being as valid as experts' opinions?
So your fallacy is in believing that I'm a climate change skeptic. My last comment, that "we're screwed", is because in many so-called skeptics' minds, none of climate science is valid and never will be valid, just because. Anyway, have a nice day.
Kim Dotcom hasn't been in the news much lately, so I thought it said Kim Jong-Un for a second. "Oppan Pyongyang style"
No, Kim Jong-Un's album has been delayed after he accidentally killed all of his bandmates. Because the traitorous bastards said Kim was out of tune! Some nerve..
actually what is happening is that most climate change skeptics do not dismiss that the climate is changing, We know you mean AWG change. We simply believe that either A - there is not enough data or data has been cherry picked to push an agenda
There is quite a bit of data by now. The fact is, climate skeptics are also pushing an agenda, and the preponderance of data points to actual, anthropogenic change.
B - there is change and it is natural, who do we think we are to believe we have as much power to actually change the climate or
This is patently ridiculous. Why? Because there are billions of us, and we are burning everything. The "we are mere humans" argument is anti-scientific at best.
C - The costs to "stop" if thats even possible climate change is far greater than we are willing to spend.
This is true, but it is changing. Those companies/countries that adapt more rapidly than others will have a competitive edge.
Yeah, well I think Chauvin was an asshole, but hell, if you'd been badly wounded in a war, you might be pretty cranky yourself.
AP credits are (sometimes) counted toward graduation requirements, typically as ungraded credit hours, so you don't have to take as intense a schedule as you otherwise might.
We are kinda screwed..
I don't believe that is exclusively an American problem.
But you must admit we are currently the reigning champs of delusion.
By what measure? They're burning "witches" and "warlocks" alive in Kenya today, and in Tanzania they prize body parts hacked off of living albinos (often children) as good luck charms. As maddening as it is to see some fools hold signs that say "God hates fags!" and "Thank God for dead soldiers!" at funerals for servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan, it's not quite the same.
Point taken. Fortunately, for example, women don't have to worry as much about honor killings here, but there is a fair amount of crazy worldwide. The craziest 5% of any population is pretty fucking crazy.
I don't believe that is exclusively an American problem.
But you must admit we are currently the reigning champs of delusion.
Y'all fancy scientists with yer fancy "facts" and whatnot.
Then I read all the AC comments about how much this sucks and they don't want it to succeed, because "Google bad!". Screw you guys.
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(patent pending, so don't even think about it)
explain to me what improvement *needs* to be done? Is your company successful? are the people programming meeting the goals? If the answer is yes, what does diversity matter? This isnt pre school people, we dont need to make everything equal in all ways, If your core group works, and works well, why mess it up by throwing a wrench into it? we should never hire someone of (race) or (gender) for the sake of having more (race) or (gender) at said company. We should hire (sex) if they can do the job and do it well, same goes with (gender)
More women should become developers and engineers. Working in a diverse company is qualitatively better than when I worked in "the monastery". It is frankly more enjoyable. The company I worked at with no female engineers was unsuccessful, but that is not to say they would have been any better with more women. I would argue that women would bring more diverse opinions than one might otherwise find in an all-male office.
A good question for you is: why are you offended? Have you been unfairly discriminated against for being a man?
Right here. There's plenty of 'em where I work. IT just ain't what it used to be 15 years ago. No need for ongoing quotas or diversity hires, just grab the best candidate, thank you.
It depends on which specialty you are talking about. In my current gig, we have 0 female software developers out of 7 (OK, down to 5 after the layoff, but still...). We have a lot of chemists, and the ratios in the chem positions are thankfully much better. In previous positions, focused on multimedia chip development (so EE's and SW devs) there were NO female engineers at all on a team of 20 or so. There was one when I first arrived, but she left within a year. Anyway, still a lot of improvement to go in the business.
or super-sharkanos.
.. because 5 minutes is not long enough at all to hook up with the hottie down the hall and be all "GAAAA!!! We're all going to die!!! Quick! .. now! In the supply closet!!" So we really need at least 20 minutes on the clock at a minimum. I'm going to write my congressman.
You are really ruining the party dude.