Saddam ordered the soldiers to do what they did. I never ordered anyone to own slaves. Why should I pay reparations for keeping slaves? No one in my family history ever owned a slave, so even "generational guilt" doesn't enter into it.
Keep your "social justice" to yourself. If you feel you owe someone something for what others did, go ahead and try to settle the score. Don't come around my place looking to take my stuff or make me change the way I live because you want to tar me with the same guilt you feel.
So, even those questions you claim are "wrong" can be asked, as long as you don't ask religion or "superstition" for answers. So, where do you go to get answers to these "wrong" questions?
As far as knowing anything apart from using the scientific method, here's a question: "What is beauty?" When that can be quantified, measured, analyzed, falsifiable theorems developed, and controlled experiments performed, that's when I accept Science as the only way to gain knowledge.
Until then, I know what beauty is, because I determine it subjectively. I can function quite well on non-objective knowledge, and I can function equally well using the answers I've obtained through my faith and religion. You can call that "stupid" if you want to, but remember who first insulted whom when you ponder who the intolerant one is...
"The notion that we need to quit poisoning the planet is just outrageous!"
If it only ended there, most people wouldn't have a problem. The problem begins when environmentalists preach that everything we humans do is "unnatural" or "harmful to the environment." The religious implication is that we humans are not part of the environment, that we are somehow not supposed to do anything, since all that we do harms the "pristine" environment.
"promoting a learning enviroment where one is exposed to people different than us so we learn some tolerance in our younger days is also just absolutely ridiculous."
When done at the point of a gun, it's not ridiculous, it goes against the right of free association in the Bill of Rights. The amendment doesn't say "the right to freely assemble will only be abridged if there are insufficient numbers of ethnic or racial minority members in the assembly."
"And social justice?"
"Social justice" is one of those keywords that are used to mean "spread the guilt around to everyone not directly responsible". The idea that being judged a member of a group makes you personally responsible for the actions of everyone in that group, especially across generations and across geographical distances, is the basis of "social justice." Reparations for slavery, "affirmative action" hiring quotas, speech codes in universities, these are all means to hold people responsible for the actions of others, in the name of "social justice."
I have enough sins on my own hands, I refuse to be responsible for, and refuse to be punished for, the sins of anyone else.
And even more accurate to say that ordinary citizens are in favor of drastically reducing illegal immigration and requiring assimilation requirement policies, as well as tightening the borders.
First off, God bless you and your fellow soldiers, airmen, Marines, sailors, Guardsmen, civilians, and whoever else I can't think to name but still remember. There are a lot of us here in the States who agree with what you're doing and why, and pray for your success with the mission and your safe return home.
There has always been distrust of Government, ever since the Founders created the US, and although a small amount is healthy, for a few decades now there has been an overrreaction on the part of a vocal few, mostly the children and grandchildren of privilege, who think that our peaceful, representative government means them harm by default. They are taught that we are all undeserving of our peace and comfort, and see fascists in every uniform. They presume that any tool that can be used by law enforcement will be used, by default, to harm them. This leads them to advocate a "by any means necessary" approach to "protesting" where "protesters" can use any means including violence, assault, and theft as part of their "protest." I can't see them as rational, as aguments based on reality don't seem to affect them, so for the most part I ignore them unless they are disrupting my life directly.
As an electronic tech by training, I admit I'm queasy about shooting high energy microwaves around willy-nilly (I know, they're directed and not as high energy as a military radar, but still), so I'd like to see this have as much testing as possible. But, if it turns out to be no more hazardous than other things we use, and if it is at least as effective as other tools, why not allow it? In your situation, I'm sure the more lives that can be saved by dispersing riots, the better.
Detroit, huh? I was a little kid during those riots, I lived in a small apartment off Grand River pretty close to Tiger Stadium, and I remember sitting on the front steps watching the flames a couple blocks away. One night during that week I looked out from a window and saw a sea of flashing lights, someone had reported a sniper on the roof of our apartment! Wouldn't it be coincidence if your Dad was one of those officers?
At any rate, keep up the good work, God speed, and come home safe!
(I hope you get to read this before it's modded into negative territory)
By the way, today was the first that I heard about this move. Did Congress just wake up and go, "let's jerk around the rest of the world and prove we're the biggest bully around?" Shouldn't something like this be discussed and synchronized with trading partners or something?
Um, no. US isn't setting policy for the rest of the world. What we do is our business.
Actually,it will affect securities and futures traders, because the market will open an hour earlier and close an hour earlier than before, for an extra two months a year. International traders will have to make adjustments that they weren't prepared for, and software will have to be modified that wasn't scheduled for (or budgeted for) change.
he always had that built in time for dealing with the unforeseen problem.
It's the boss' job to allow for that, not yours. Or, if it's yours, it's also your job to explain to him that you are allowing for things like that. If you lie to your boss about how long it will take you to do something, then all that happens is you both allow for unforeseen problems, and the schedule gets out of whack.
This has to be the funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot in years!
The boss never factors in the possibility of failure. Never, never, never. He has to tell his boss that everything will be done sooner, with fewer resources, and will perform better than the previous estimate.
If the boss doesn't like the numbers we developers give him, why does he ask?
He was one of the most intelligent musicians I've ever heard of, and even though I disagreed with some of his views, no one could say he hadn't thought them through.
The first time I ever saw him perform was on the old (old, old) SNL, when he did "Slime from the Video". I was floored. Just after that I went and bought "Sheik Yerboutie" just to hear more.
I hadn't thought of this till now, but I'll bet his testimony is available somewhere on the net. It might be worth copying and sending in to the local Congresscritters...
I'm just thankful they never had this kind of rating system on books when I was growing up, or else I wouldn't have been able to read most of the science fiction and mystery novels I devoured as a boy. Of course they had something like it for comic books, which is why most of the DC titles from the late 50's/early 60's were so insipid.
Naturally, some jackass or other still tries to keep "the wrong books" out of the hands of the "impressionable children," every so often. Can't let the poor things be exposed to those nasty "idea" thingys now, can we...
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I'd really like to have a low-power multi-core 64 bit chip blazing away in my next iMac.
Isn't "chip blazing away" and "Intel" kind of redundant?
"Meet me on the bridge."
"We don't have a bridge, sir."
"No bridge?"
"No, sir."
"Why aren't I notified about these things?!?!"
How do figure that?
Saddam ordered the soldiers to do what they did. I never ordered anyone to own slaves. Why should I pay reparations for keeping slaves? No one in my family history ever owned a slave, so even "generational guilt" doesn't enter into it.
Keep your "social justice" to yourself. If you feel you owe someone something for what others did, go ahead and try to settle the score. Don't come around my place looking to take my stuff or make me change the way I live because you want to tar me with the same guilt you feel.
So, even those questions you claim are "wrong" can be asked, as long as you don't ask religion or "superstition" for answers. So, where do you go to get answers to these "wrong" questions?
As far as knowing anything apart from using the scientific method, here's a question: "What is beauty?" When that can be quantified, measured, analyzed, falsifiable theorems developed, and controlled experiments performed, that's when I accept Science as the only way to gain knowledge.
Until then, I know what beauty is, because I determine it subjectively. I can function quite well on non-objective knowledge, and I can function equally well using the answers I've obtained through my faith and religion. You can call that "stupid" if you want to, but remember who first insulted whom when you ponder who the intolerant one is...
So, the only questions we humans should ever ask are those that can be answered by science?
What a cold, sterile, rigid world that would be...
When done at the point of a gun, it's not ridiculous, it goes against the right of free association in the Bill of Rights. The amendment doesn't say "the right to freely assemble will only be abridged if there are insufficient numbers of ethnic or racial minority members in the assembly."
"Social justice" is one of those keywords that are used to mean "spread the guilt around to everyone not directly responsible". The idea that being judged a member of a group makes you personally responsible for the actions of everyone in that group, especially across generations and across geographical distances, is the basis of "social justice." Reparations for slavery, "affirmative action" hiring quotas, speech codes in universities, these are all means to hold people responsible for the actions of others, in the name of "social justice."
I have enough sins on my own hands, I refuse to be responsible for, and refuse to be punished for, the sins of anyone else.
Easily the funniest thing I've seen on Slashdot in
quite a while!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of tired old jokes...
And even more accurate to say that ordinary citizens are in favor of drastically reducing illegal immigration and requiring assimilation requirement policies, as well as tightening the borders.
"Heh. Strong union!" B. Bunny
Lemme 'splain.
(pause)
No, is too much, lemme sum up:
You can run Darwin without running Mac OS X, but you can't run Mac OS X without running Darwin.
So, to say they should be running Darwin instead of Mac OS X doesn't really make any sense.
They should call it "Quits".
^=====^
First off, God bless you and your fellow soldiers, airmen, Marines, sailors, Guardsmen, civilians, and whoever else I can't think to name but still remember. There are a lot of us here in the States who agree with what you're doing and why, and pray for your success with the mission and your safe return home.
There has always been distrust of Government, ever since the Founders created the US, and although a small amount is healthy, for a few decades now there has been an overrreaction on the part of a vocal few, mostly the children and grandchildren of privilege, who think that our peaceful, representative government means them harm by default. They are taught that we are all undeserving of our peace and comfort, and see fascists in every uniform. They presume that any tool that can be used by law enforcement will be used, by default, to harm them. This leads them to advocate a "by any means necessary" approach to "protesting" where "protesters" can use any means including violence, assault, and theft as part of their "protest." I can't see them as rational, as aguments based on reality don't seem to affect them, so for the most part I ignore them unless they are disrupting my life directly.
As an electronic tech by training, I admit I'm queasy about shooting high energy microwaves around willy-nilly (I know, they're directed and not as high energy as a military radar, but still), so I'd like to see this have as much testing as possible. But, if it turns out to be no more hazardous than other things we use, and if it is at least as effective as other tools, why not allow it? In your situation, I'm sure the more lives that can be saved by dispersing riots, the better.
Detroit, huh? I was a little kid during those riots, I lived in a small apartment off Grand River pretty close to Tiger Stadium, and I remember sitting on the front steps watching the flames a couple blocks away. One night during that week I looked out from a window and saw a sea of flashing lights, someone had reported a sniper on the roof of our apartment! Wouldn't it be coincidence if your Dad was one of those officers?
At any rate, keep up the good work, God speed, and come home safe!
(I hope you get to read this before it's modded into negative territory)
DST - New Time
ST - Time Classic
Worked for Coca-Cola, didn't it?
Back up even further. There won't be any new OS's until we start computing with something other than Von Neumann architecture-based processors.
Imagine the OS for a 1.0E12 node neural net...
The boss never factors in the possibility of failure. Never, never, never. He has to tell his boss that everything will be done sooner, with fewer resources, and will perform better than the previous estimate.
If the boss doesn't like the numbers we developers give him, why does he ask?
oops, meant to reply to you, not myself...
*embarrasment*
He was one of the most intelligent musicians I've ever heard of, and even though I disagreed with some of his views, no one could say he hadn't thought them through.
The first time I ever saw him perform was on the old (old, old) SNL, when he did "Slime from the Video". I was floored. Just after that I went and bought "Sheik Yerboutie" just to hear more.
I hadn't thought of this till now, but I'll bet his testimony is available somewhere on the net. It might be worth copying and sending in to the local Congresscritters...
(raises hand)
I'm just thankful they never had this kind of rating system on books when I was growing up, or else I wouldn't have been able to read most of the science fiction and mystery novels I devoured as a boy. Of course they had something like it for comic books, which is why most of the DC titles from the late 50's/early 60's were so insipid.
Naturally, some jackass or other still tries to keep "the wrong books" out of the hands of the "impressionable children," every so often. Can't let the poor things be exposed to those nasty "idea" thingys now, can we...
Yeah, and I think it was Frank Zappa who testified after her at the Congressional hearings about music ratings.
Wish I'd seen that...
^===^