fucking douchebag Reagan killed it, feeding into braindead xenophobe's reasoning, oh the great American hero
Re:this is just nonsense.
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in school, they expose children to calculus, music, biology, chemistry, physics, sports, etc.
how many become statisticians, jazz trumpters, geneticists, chemical engineers, cosmologists, professional basketball players, etc?
this reasoning "don't teach programming or we will have a glut of substandard programmers", is, i'm sorry, stupid and i am extremely tired of it. it comes from this place of vain smug exclusivity which is self-serving, mindlessly arrogant, and ignorant of the wider world
we must expose programming to every single child in every single school
why?
because it is now a fundamental building block of the world they live in, and they should know the basic ins and outs
just like math, music, sports, chemistry, biology, etc.
and if some of them want to pursue programming? well now you've also clued in some kids you would have missed. some will suck at it even though they pursue it? oh, this is a new concept to you?
is teaching every kid gym mean professional basketball teams have to cope with a glut of bad basketball players? is teaching every kid chemistry mean pharmaceutical companies have to weed through too many substandard chemists? does teaching physics mean NASA and private space companies are suffering due to too many resumes from physics idiots? do you how see fucking ignorant that sounds?
there is no damage, none, zero, and only upside, to more knowledge
and you are an arrogant with a false sense of superiority, the true uneducated one (on matters of basic social reality), if you think otherwise
Re:javascript continues it's relentless march
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not sure if joke, troll, or serious, but thanks for the laugh
javascript continues it's relentless march
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because it was positioned early in the browser's evolution
that's the big secret
it has no other advantage (well, familiarity with syntax, if you want to advance to java/ c++/ c# i suppose)
now you can write iOS, Android, and Windows code single source with Apache Cordova, and code on the server with node.js
javascript marches on
meanwhile, those who have a pathetic arbitrary need to feel superior have to crap all over javascript and steer beginners away from the language that actually will advance them, in favor of brittle niche choices? why?
javascript has plenty of obvious, longstanding problems and weaknesses
and? who gives a fuck. what language doesn't?
and especially for noobs, it is a great introductory language and should be the primary language for all programming neophytes to learn because of its immediate applicability and, yes, simplicity. a lightweight scripting language is what you want to teach beginners, not how to write an OS
later on, if they become professional programmers, maybe then they can develop fetishes for esoteric languages and derive an artificial sense of superiority from that as well, like some of you assholes
criminal masterminds will always get guns. and use them wisely
casual hotheads simply won't get guns. because they aren't trying hard in life. they'll pick up baseball bats and knives for their idiotic reasons and instead. which is a wonderful impovement, because those are hugely less lethal than a gun
casual hotheads are the assholes that are causing all the senseless death. and for some moronic reason, some americans think it is important that guns be very easy to get for irresponsible hotheads. why?
now mod me down for stating the plain truth
look at all of our social and economic peers. they do not suffer from all the fearmongering bullshit you spout if guns are controlled as the founders intended, as stated in the second amendment
the current intepretation is a product of late 20th century judicial activism in an era of increasing crime and bernie goetz/ dirty harry style anger. it has to do with handguns, individual action, and urban environments
but the second amendment is about long guns, community action, and rural hinterland
as crime declined and continues to decline (due to the waning of the crack epidemic and better policing like COMPSTAT, not handgun ownership) we are at a crossroads where a loud minority insists hothead douchebags walking around half cocked with guns in civil society is good. it's fucking stupid, it's a recipe for unnecessary death, and doesn't impact crime at all
our social and economic peers control hand guns far better, and are not cesspools of rape, murder, and robbery. in fact, they are a mostly equivalent on crime measures as us, but a lot lower than us on measure of murder. because we're the morons with all the extra pointless easy guns
so we shall return to the original intent of the founding fathers: long guns, community action, and rural hinterland (no one wants to take away your shot gun, farmer/ hunter, and you deserve it), and do away with this late 20th century judicial activism about handguns, individual action, and urban environments
you get trained, tested, THEN you get a gun. and we will cut down on the USA's absolutely insane sky high homicide rate compared to our social and economic peers
do you see a problem here that needs correcting? the majority of americans do:
the second amendment refers to a *well-regulated* militia
so if you want to adhere to your actual constitutional rights, then you need training (the 1700s meaning of well-regulated is well-trained) before you get a gun, rather than the current US status quo of handing out guns to any mouth breathing moron who wants one. and with easy guns for any untrained douchebag, we have our pathetic american status quo of high homicide rates
the american legal status quo on guns is not actually in line with the second amendment. we require people to take drivers ed and pass a course before they can drive a car. to be more in line with the second amendment, we need to require people to get gun and safety training, and then pass a test, before getting a gun. thus the *well-regulated* militia refered to in the second amendment
the current understanding of gun rights in the USA is a late 1900s dirty harry style invention of anyone should have a gun, no questions asked. that's not actually the second amendment. why or how do people think they can ignore the *well-regulated* part of the second amendment?
they can't
and we will fix this erroneous late 20th century constitutional activism against the founder's clearly stated intent
stoner philosophy is what we are dealing with here, but because they commit violence, we have to take their "deep thoughts" seriously?
if someone has actual insightful thoughts, they are a strong mind, and they don't resort to violence. if they resort to violence, that's proof we are dealing with a weak mind and mediocre thoughts
if you spout off about sarah connor you're not necessarily highly sensitive and attuned to some great insight into all of our reality that most people don't see. you're just dimwitted and grasping things on the edge of your own personal fuzzy grasp on reality. amazing insights are not partly digested critiques of james cameron movies
it's like taking LSD, and finding yourself transcribing the thoughts of God. when you finally sober up, you find the thoughts of God are: "brain BEZZLED fruit fliesfru ~~ it fli e."
what LSD does is it scrambles and diminishes your consciousness, so mundane things become awesome consciousness spanning phenomena. only because you've temporarily degraded your consciousness to a tiny dim bulb
so: are you really adding to humanity with some amazing breakthrough perception by dropping LSD?
or are you just degrading your perception and intelligence temporarily and only perceiving what seems like a great insight to a temporarily dimmed mind?
now, put aside the LSD, and what if we're dealing with someone's who is honestly just a deluded nut case? that their perceptual powers are weak, and always were weak?
an incredibly sparse exotic few of us are actual great philosophers. and those that are, are not taking axes to satellites. going to violence and force is proof of a weak and dim mind, not a strong and intelligent one
and a distressing large number of us have mediocre thoughts we only think are great philosophies. and then a fringe few have straight up bizarre thoughts, and are happy to commit violent and forceful acts in the name of those ditzy ideas. being a deranged douchebag who thinks of themselves as a great thinker doesn't mean you actually are or that anyone should take you seriously
and even if you are intelligent, say a great programmer or chess player, this does not mean you are necessarily socially intelligent or even socially well-adjusted. so you can have ideas which are laughable to people of average intelligence, but also average social intelligence, more intelligent than your social intelligence. for example, this wackjob:
whether you call yourself a nerd or a geek, if it's important to you to feel superior to others for arbitrary reasons, you're more accurately described as an asshole
But then I remembered that old episode of The Wire where they stick a kid's hand on a copier machine, ask him questions like it's a lie detector, and after he answers, a detective presses the copy button and "LIE" on a piece of paper comes out. The kid actually fell for it when the detectives structured the questions to show he was lying and he broke down and revealed the truth of the incident and gave them their lead.
Found it, apparently based on real life Baltimore PD interrogation techniques:
you want people to learn from history. studying war artifacts does not promote war. in fact, studying war artifacts might prevent war. like studying the wreck of a slaving ship won't make people become slavers, but might educate future generations about the vile slave trade to affirm our revulsion to slavery
they are alienating hispanics and all other new americans with their immigration stances. these people are productive, progressively richer, they care and they vote
G.O.P is on a steady decline unless they unhitch their horse from old dumb angry white people
But among Jindal's most provocative suggestions was the demand that the GOP needed to "stop insulting the intelligence of voters" — and display more intelligence itself. Jindal's comments seemed targeted squarely at conservative candidates in Senate races whose comments on rape and abortion appeared to torpedo their electoral chances.
"We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments," Jindal said.
The Louisiana governor also warned that Republicans were too associated with "big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes."
"We must not be the party that simply protects the well-off so they can keep their toys," Jindal said. "We have to be the party that shows all Americans how they can thrive."
it's a good strategy: identify something rich people need and want, then wrangle the idiots with fearmongering into supporting that agenda, even if it hurts the poor idiots. they're idiots, they can't even understand they're hurting themselves. so you have people without adequate healthcare for example, screaming low iq fears about obamacare
this doesn't mean there are no intelligent conservative people, they do exist. stupid liberals also exist
but it's just that if you meet a stupid person, they are more likely to be a conservative, because their simplistic dimwitted way of thinking about the world matches conservative ideology more closely
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found.
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programming is a fundamental building block of our world now. i really don't know what to say to someone who doesn't understand that
truly an intelligent and witty contribution
by which I mean you don't contribute anything nor prove you actually know anything about the topic
Carter started the transition to metric
fucking douchebag Reagan killed it, feeding into braindead xenophobe's reasoning, oh the great American hero
in school, they expose children to calculus, music, biology, chemistry, physics, sports, etc.
how many become statisticians, jazz trumpters, geneticists, chemical engineers, cosmologists, professional basketball players, etc?
this reasoning "don't teach programming or we will have a glut of substandard programmers", is, i'm sorry, stupid and i am extremely tired of it. it comes from this place of vain smug exclusivity which is self-serving, mindlessly arrogant, and ignorant of the wider world
we must expose programming to every single child in every single school
why?
because it is now a fundamental building block of the world they live in, and they should know the basic ins and outs
just like math, music, sports, chemistry, biology, etc.
and if some of them want to pursue programming? well now you've also clued in some kids you would have missed. some will suck at it even though they pursue it? oh, this is a new concept to you?
is teaching every kid gym mean professional basketball teams have to cope with a glut of bad basketball players? is teaching every kid chemistry mean pharmaceutical companies have to weed through too many substandard chemists? does teaching physics mean NASA and private space companies are suffering due to too many resumes from physics idiots? do you how see fucking ignorant that sounds?
there is no damage, none, zero, and only upside, to more knowledge
and you are an arrogant with a false sense of superiority, the true uneducated one (on matters of basic social reality), if you think otherwise
not sure if joke, troll, or serious, but thanks for the laugh
because it was positioned early in the browser's evolution
that's the big secret
it has no other advantage (well, familiarity with syntax, if you want to advance to java/ c++/ c# i suppose)
now you can write iOS, Android, and Windows code single source with Apache Cordova, and code on the server with node.js
javascript marches on
meanwhile, those who have a pathetic arbitrary need to feel superior have to crap all over javascript and steer beginners away from the language that actually will advance them, in favor of brittle niche choices? why?
javascript has plenty of obvious, longstanding problems and weaknesses
and? who gives a fuck. what language doesn't?
and especially for noobs, it is a great introductory language and should be the primary language for all programming neophytes to learn because of its immediate applicability and, yes, simplicity. a lightweight scripting language is what you want to teach beginners, not how to write an OS
later on, if they become professional programmers, maybe then they can develop fetishes for esoteric languages and derive an artificial sense of superiority from that as well, like some of you assholes
sorry:
metric, as in another topic
permanently spring 3 hours ahead
so we wake up and have dismal darkness in the morning (6AM=3AM). lunch means the sun came up just an hour or two ago (12PM=9AM)
but here's the winning point: when we go home (6PM=3PM) we have glorious sunlight all evening with our friends and family
until we go to sleep at midnight (12AM=9PM), the sun setting with us
but really, i just wish the usa would finally go metric like the rest of the modern fucking world
criminal masterminds will always get guns. and use them wisely
casual hotheads simply won't get guns. because they aren't trying hard in life. they'll pick up baseball bats and knives for their idiotic reasons and instead. which is a wonderful impovement, because those are hugely less lethal than a gun
proof:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
casual hotheads are the assholes that are causing all the senseless death. and for some moronic reason, some americans think it is important that guns be very easy to get for irresponsible hotheads. why?
now mod me down for stating the plain truth
look at all of our social and economic peers. they do not suffer from all the fearmongering bullshit you spout if guns are controlled as the founders intended, as stated in the second amendment
the current intepretation is a product of late 20th century judicial activism in an era of increasing crime and bernie goetz/ dirty harry style anger. it has to do with handguns, individual action, and urban environments
but the second amendment is about long guns, community action, and rural hinterland
as crime declined and continues to decline (due to the waning of the crack epidemic and better policing like COMPSTAT, not handgun ownership) we are at a crossroads where a loud minority insists hothead douchebags walking around half cocked with guns in civil society is good. it's fucking stupid, it's a recipe for unnecessary death, and doesn't impact crime at all
our social and economic peers control hand guns far better, and are not cesspools of rape, murder, and robbery. in fact, they are a mostly equivalent on crime measures as us, but a lot lower than us on measure of murder. because we're the morons with all the extra pointless easy guns
so we shall return to the original intent of the founding fathers: long guns, community action, and rural hinterland (no one wants to take away your shot gun, farmer/ hunter, and you deserve it), and do away with this late 20th century judicial activism about handguns, individual action, and urban environments
you get trained, tested, THEN you get a gun. and we will cut down on the USA's absolutely insane sky high homicide rate compared to our social and economic peers
do you see a problem here that needs correcting? the majority of americans do:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/...
i am referring to the wording of the second amendment
are you saying that in addition to required training (well-regulated), anyone who has a gun has to also register with a militia?
in accordance to the second amendment, that seems to be indeed a more accurate reading of our fundamental rights
i was talking about training
you're changing the subject
the second amendment refers to a *well-regulated* militia
so if you want to adhere to your actual constitutional rights, then you need training (the 1700s meaning of well-regulated is well-trained) before you get a gun, rather than the current US status quo of handing out guns to any mouth breathing moron who wants one. and with easy guns for any untrained douchebag, we have our pathetic american status quo of high homicide rates
the american legal status quo on guns is not actually in line with the second amendment. we require people to take drivers ed and pass a course before they can drive a car. to be more in line with the second amendment, we need to require people to get gun and safety training, and then pass a test, before getting a gun. thus the *well-regulated* militia refered to in the second amendment
the current understanding of gun rights in the USA is a late 1900s dirty harry style invention of anyone should have a gun, no questions asked. that's not actually the second amendment. why or how do people think they can ignore the *well-regulated* part of the second amendment?
they can't
and we will fix this erroneous late 20th century constitutional activism against the founder's clearly stated intent
thank you, exactly
stoner philosophy is what we are dealing with here, but because they commit violence, we have to take their "deep thoughts" seriously?
if someone has actual insightful thoughts, they are a strong mind, and they don't resort to violence. if they resort to violence, that's proof we are dealing with a weak mind and mediocre thoughts
you're such a hack
if you spout off about sarah connor you're not necessarily highly sensitive and attuned to some great insight into all of our reality that most people don't see. you're just dimwitted and grasping things on the edge of your own personal fuzzy grasp on reality. amazing insights are not partly digested critiques of james cameron movies
it's like taking LSD, and finding yourself transcribing the thoughts of God. when you finally sober up, you find the thoughts of God are: "brain BEZZLED fruit fliesfru ~~ it fli e."
what LSD does is it scrambles and diminishes your consciousness, so mundane things become awesome consciousness spanning phenomena. only because you've temporarily degraded your consciousness to a tiny dim bulb
so: are you really adding to humanity with some amazing breakthrough perception by dropping LSD?
or are you just degrading your perception and intelligence temporarily and only perceiving what seems like a great insight to a temporarily dimmed mind?
now, put aside the LSD, and what if we're dealing with someone's who is honestly just a deluded nut case? that their perceptual powers are weak, and always were weak?
an incredibly sparse exotic few of us are actual great philosophers. and those that are, are not taking axes to satellites. going to violence and force is proof of a weak and dim mind, not a strong and intelligent one
and a distressing large number of us have mediocre thoughts we only think are great philosophies. and then a fringe few have straight up bizarre thoughts, and are happy to commit violent and forceful acts in the name of those ditzy ideas. being a deranged douchebag who thinks of themselves as a great thinker doesn't mean you actually are or that anyone should take you seriously
and even if you are intelligent, say a great programmer or chess player, this does not mean you are necessarily socially intelligent or even socially well-adjusted. so you can have ideas which are laughable to people of average intelligence, but also average social intelligence, more intelligent than your social intelligence. for example, this wackjob:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
they're not more sensitive to anything, they're not great thinkers, they're not aware of some amazing powerful insight the rest of us are missing
they're just *crazy*
you're talking about perpetual war, different concept from winnable war
they used axes, not hacksaws
so axtivists
whether you call yourself a nerd or a geek, if it's important to you to feel superior to others for arbitrary reasons, you're more accurately described as an asshole
(facepalm)
I was going to say people aren't that stupid.
But then I remembered that old episode of The Wire where they stick a kid's hand on a copier machine, ask him questions like it's a lie detector, and after he answers, a detective presses the copy button and "LIE" on a piece of paper comes out. The kid actually fell for it when the detectives structured the questions to show he was lying and he broke down and revealed the truth of the incident and gave them their lead.
Found it, apparently based on real life Baltimore PD interrogation techniques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
So I guess they could make this new CSI Cyber even 10x more stupid, and a few months later you'd probably start hearing from people something like...
the NSA can use coffee cups to playback conversations from half an hour ago because of reverberating echoes still trapped inside the cup.
(I just made that up, CSI writing team: give me attribution please.)
demographics my friend
old angry stupid white people die
who remains and what groups grow long term?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
you want people to learn from history. studying war artifacts does not promote war. in fact, studying war artifacts might prevent war. like studying the wreck of a slaving ship won't make people become slavers, but might educate future generations about the vile slave trade to affirm our revulsion to slavery
they are alienating hispanics and all other new americans with their immigration stances. these people are productive, progressively richer, they care and they vote
G.O.P is on a steady decline unless they unhitch their horse from old dumb angry white people
The G.O.P. is the party of stupid
The G.O.P. even introduced the term
http://thehill.com/video/in-th...
But among Jindal's most provocative suggestions was the demand that the GOP needed to "stop insulting the intelligence of voters" — and display more intelligence itself. Jindal's comments seemed targeted squarely at conservative candidates in Senate races whose comments on rape and abortion appeared to torpedo their electoral chances.
"We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments," Jindal said.
The Louisiana governor also warned that Republicans were too associated with "big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes."
"We must not be the party that simply protects the well-off so they can keep their toys," Jindal said. "We have to be the party that shows all Americans how they can thrive."
it's a good strategy: identify something rich people need and want, then wrangle the idiots with fearmongering into supporting that agenda, even if it hurts the poor idiots. they're idiots, they can't even understand they're hurting themselves. so you have people without adequate healthcare for example, screaming low iq fears about obamacare
this doesn't mean there are no intelligent conservative people, they do exist. stupid liberals also exist
but it's just that if you meet a stupid person, they are more likely to be a conservative, because their simplistic dimwitted way of thinking about the world matches conservative ideology more closely
http://www.livescience.com/181...
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found.