Little in return?? Why just look at all the generous aerospace contractor donations this project generated for Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker. You call THAT a FAILURE??
This only doesn't make sense if you don't understand that NASA's *REAL* job is to funnel money to politically-connected contractors and produce a lot of PR bullshit. Anything science-related or any actual accomplishments in space are just a byproduct.
Hot outside: That's global warming, man! Cold outside: That's global warming, man! Storming outside: That's global warming, man! Mild outside: That's global warming, man! Forrest Fire: That's global warming, man! Flood: That's global warming, man! Raining frogs and locusts: That's global warming, man!
what an awkward for this to come up as america is involved in more oppression, incarceration and war within its borders and across the globe than any other nation since WW2
America has done bad things, no doubt. But I hardly think it compares to regimes like Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, pretty much any regime in Kosovo, Somalia, etc.
The U.S. generally only plays harsh when countries don't play ball (don't sell it oil, support the USSR/Russia over the U.S., etc.). And it has a nasty history of looking the other way when friendly oppressive regimes serve its economic interests (as in Chile, Saudi Arabia, etc.). But life under direct U.S. rule is far from "oppressive." And even in its economic interests, the U.S. will only look the other way for so long if a friendly dictator becomes openly oppressive.
And all of this hardly makes the U.S. exceptional. Pretty much every developed country does similar scummy things in its own economic and political interests. The U.S. is only exceptional in the reach of its economic and military power. Its methodology and philosophy is pretty unexceptional. In fact, U.S. colonialism is pretty light-handed compared with the historical colonialism of other European countries. The U.S. gives its conquered territories at least some autonomy. Compare that the British and French empires.
And if you want to talk heavy-handed, take a look at Israel sometime. The U.S. is downright sweet and cuddly compared to them. When the U.S. wants to stop your nuclear weapons program, they might send a computer virus and some economic sanctions after you. Israel just goes right to blowing up your nuclear scientists with car bombs.
IIRC, there was a Madonna music video from many years back (before YouTube had pretty much every much video available), where the pirate sites were flooded with a fake video of Madonna bad-mouthing pirates, posing as the real music video.
The CDC goes WAY beyond just issuing objective, disinterested alerts. Their press conferences often sound more like the rantings of a nutcase holding up a "The End is Nigh!" sign than the objective and qualified observations of serious medical professionals. Remember their H1N1 "pandemic" press conferences?
Or maybe the reality is that we don't really need such a large and complex federal agency to deal with diseases as a matter of course, and so they have to regularly create bullshit boogeymen virus scares to maintain the illusion that their budget should be sacrosanct.
Don't worry, there is always some new PANDEMIC VIRUS THAT'S GOING TO KILL US ALL around the corner. As long as the CDC needs funding, there is always a new threat on the horizon. I remember as a kid being scared to death when the CDC announced that the Russian Flu was going to devastate the U.S. Oh, how naive I was back then. My dad just laughed when II came home crying from school because some gullible teacher had thought it wise to scare the shit out of her elementary students. He told me that there was always someone predicting the end of the world, and they were always full of shit. "When real disaster comes, no one ever sees it coming," he concluded.
The question now is whether the gender roles and stereotypes we have, which evolved from those beginnings, make any sense at all.
If you think you can reason your way out of primal urges, inclinations, and desires--well, good luck with that. It doesn't "make sense" that we're still fucking. Pregnancy could easily be handled today with safe and sterile in-vitro fertilization and we could just get rid of old-fashioned sex altogether, with its nasty STD's and unplanned pregnancies and what-not. And if we were reasonable, we would do this. It "makes sense" after all. But again, good luck with that.
Even in isolated tribes in the Amazon who've been cut off from the world for centuries and have never seen "Western patriarchy" or a single pink princess outfit, women and girls still tend to take on nurturing and homemaking roles while the men hunt and gather.
I never treat any of my girls as princess. I treat them as normal human beings - normal human beings who understand the danger of this world and who are alert to the dangers around them
I treat mine as kids, who know fuck-all about the world and need to be protected, educated, and most of the time just allowed to be kids and have fun.
Well, I don't know of any "silver bullet" (as he puts it) to get girls into science. But I definitely do know a silver bullet to get a rebellious and angry daughter: having an overbearing asshole father who wants to force her into his particular profession of choice--regardless of what SHE wants to do.
Make drivers open and make it possible to use your smartphones with OS'es other than yours. That should also include your stylus input, for which you are currently market leader.
Yeah, well, Samsung REALLY wanted to endanger their cash cow by doing all that...I mean they REALLY did, man. They went on and on about how much they really wanted to just do it.
But Jim said "no."
Now, keep in mind that Samsung fully feels your pain. And just between Samsung and you, they acknowledge that Jim is a mega-dick and all. But that's just the way it is, you know. But Samsung does thank you for your purchase, and still wants to remain bros.
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Little in return?? Why just look at all the generous aerospace contractor donations this project generated for Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker. You call THAT a FAILURE??
This only doesn't make sense if you don't understand that NASA's *REAL* job is to funnel money to politically-connected contractors and produce a lot of PR bullshit. Anything science-related or any actual accomplishments in space are just a byproduct.
Hot outside: That's global warming, man!
Cold outside: That's global warming, man!
Storming outside: That's global warming, man!
Mild outside: That's global warming, man!
Forrest Fire: That's global warming, man!
Flood: That's global warming, man!
Raining frogs and locusts: That's global warming, man!
He was quite the stoner scientist, that one.
what an awkward for this to come up as america is involved in more oppression, incarceration and war within its borders and across the globe than any other nation since WW2
America has done bad things, no doubt. But I hardly think it compares to regimes like Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, pretty much any regime in Kosovo, Somalia, etc.
The U.S. generally only plays harsh when countries don't play ball (don't sell it oil, support the USSR/Russia over the U.S., etc.). And it has a nasty history of looking the other way when friendly oppressive regimes serve its economic interests (as in Chile, Saudi Arabia, etc.). But life under direct U.S. rule is far from "oppressive." And even in its economic interests, the U.S. will only look the other way for so long if a friendly dictator becomes openly oppressive.
And all of this hardly makes the U.S. exceptional. Pretty much every developed country does similar scummy things in its own economic and political interests. The U.S. is only exceptional in the reach of its economic and military power. Its methodology and philosophy is pretty unexceptional. In fact, U.S. colonialism is pretty light-handed compared with the historical colonialism of other European countries. The U.S. gives its conquered territories at least some autonomy. Compare that the British and French empires.
And if you want to talk heavy-handed, take a look at Israel sometime. The U.S. is downright sweet and cuddly compared to them. When the U.S. wants to stop your nuclear weapons program, they might send a computer virus and some economic sanctions after you. Israel just goes right to blowing up your nuclear scientists with car bombs.
Actually, just looked it up. It was a song file, not a video file:
http://www.mtv.com/news/1471321/madonna-to-pirates-what-the-f-do-you-think-youre-doing/
IIRC, there was a Madonna music video from many years back (before YouTube had pretty much every much video available), where the pirate sites were flooded with a fake video of Madonna bad-mouthing pirates, posing as the real music video.
More likely threatened.
Just yesterday, they were the bastion of trustworthy software. Now this!
It's like my grandpa always used to say "Kid, you DO NOT fuck with the The HD-DVD Promotion Group!"
have you ever READ the original reports and release from the CDC? Pretty dry stuff.
Yeah, I've heard about some of their objective and disinterested reports on "disease."
You do realize that in GTA V (as in real life) there is the option of going through the whole thing *not* beating up any hookers, right?
A grammar Nazi could read "War and Peace" and come away from it only with a list of misspellings and grammatical mistakes.
The CDC goes WAY beyond just issuing objective, disinterested alerts. Their press conferences often sound more like the rantings of a nutcase holding up a "The End is Nigh!" sign than the objective and qualified observations of serious medical professionals. Remember their H1N1 "pandemic" press conferences?
The fact that the defense budget is bloated (and it is, VERY MUCH SO) doesn't justify the CDC being bloated, just because it's on a smaller scale.
Or maybe the reality is that we don't really need such a large and complex federal agency to deal with diseases as a matter of course, and so they have to regularly create bullshit boogeymen virus scares to maintain the illusion that their budget should be sacrosanct.
Don't worry, there is always some new PANDEMIC VIRUS THAT'S GOING TO KILL US ALL around the corner. As long as the CDC needs funding, there is always a new threat on the horizon. I remember as a kid being scared to death when the CDC announced that the Russian Flu was going to devastate the U.S. Oh, how naive I was back then. My dad just laughed when II came home crying from school because some gullible teacher had thought it wise to scare the shit out of her elementary students. He told me that there was always someone predicting the end of the world, and they were always full of shit. "When real disaster comes, no one ever sees it coming," he concluded.
CDC issues yet another alarmist virus scare to maintain funding. Film at eleven.
Next year, rinse, repeat, rinse repeat, rinse, repeat
Best to keep this planet as stable as possible, 'cause we're stuck here and ain't no one coming to save us.
The question now is whether the gender roles and stereotypes we have, which evolved from those beginnings, make any sense at all.
If you think you can reason your way out of primal urges, inclinations, and desires--well, good luck with that. It doesn't "make sense" that we're still fucking. Pregnancy could easily be handled today with safe and sterile in-vitro fertilization and we could just get rid of old-fashioned sex altogether, with its nasty STD's and unplanned pregnancies and what-not. And if we were reasonable, we would do this. It "makes sense" after all. But again, good luck with that.
assuming we even still have a space program
We do. It's just in Russia now.
Does this game run on Linux?
Sure, but not your distro. Sorry.
Even in isolated tribes in the Amazon who've been cut off from the world for centuries and have never seen "Western patriarchy" or a single pink princess outfit, women and girls still tend to take on nurturing and homemaking roles while the men hunt and gather.
I never treat any of my girls as princess. I treat them as normal human beings - normal human beings who understand the danger of this world and who are alert to the dangers around them
I treat mine as kids, who know fuck-all about the world and need to be protected, educated, and most of the time just allowed to be kids and have fun.
Well, I don't know of any "silver bullet" (as he puts it) to get girls into science. But I definitely do know a silver bullet to get a rebellious and angry daughter: having an overbearing asshole father who wants to force her into his particular profession of choice--regardless of what SHE wants to do.
Make drivers open and make it possible to use your smartphones with OS'es other than yours. That should also include your stylus input, for which you are currently market leader.
Yeah, well, Samsung REALLY wanted to endanger their cash cow by doing all that...I mean they REALLY did, man. They went on and on about how much they really wanted to just do it.
But Jim said "no."
Now, keep in mind that Samsung fully feels your pain. And just between Samsung and you, they acknowledge that Jim is a mega-dick and all. But that's just the way it is, you know. But Samsung does thank you for your purchase, and still wants to remain bros.