Bingo! This is exactly right. Where's the mod points when I need them? It's not about making memory fast, it's about finding other interesting things to do while you wait so that there's always work getting done. These things do have a fatal shortcoming though...
Traditional news media at least attempts to make sure they got the story right. They do fact checking, carefully organize sources, etc. All that stuff you had to learn when writing research papers.
LOL! I call bullshit. Two words for you: Jayson Blair
-- subsurface water, volcanism, recent meteor strikes, martians, what have you -- anything and everything except the only thing that has ever been observed to cause (e.g.) polar heating.
I'm not sure why you throw McVeigh in with the rest of the terrorist activity we've seen lately. It doesn't fit the pattern. It was a singular event. The rest form a pattern of coordinated attacks by a specific group of people. You say that (other than McVeigh) there was only one attack in 20 years. Actually, there was:
1983 - Bombing of marine barracks in Beruit
1993 - The the first WTC attack
1998 - The bombing of 2 embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
2000 - The attack on the USS Cole
2001 - WTC/Pentagon
Since the "war on terror" (which is the dumbest sounding thing I've ever heard of, mind you) began in late 2001 there has been nothing. Not a sausage. Not so much as a firecracker on US soil. There has been one attack in Spain which caused those with less solid manbits to demand a pull-out and there has now been an attack in London. Hopefully the brits stick it out with another display of their famous tenacity. If they fold like a cheap tent the way the spaniards did, we're in for a rough ride.
Oh, and BTW, if you want to pin an increase in terrorism on a president's foriegn policy, check the timeline there. We got hit once under The Gipper and he took a lot of slack from the press for his military actions while in office, but we didn't get hit again. We got hit once under Bubba. His actions drew hardly a grumble from the press (aside from a few shrill conservatives) and we got hit several more times. We got hit once under W, and he's certainly taking his share of heat, but not a darned thing has happened since. It seems to me that a president's response to an incident of terrorism has an inverse relationship of success to criticism.
There's a good chunk of the world is below average intelligence...
Roughly half, I'd say. And if you did get rid of that half, there would still be roughly half that were below average intelligence. And if you got rid of them, there would still be.... yada yada...
In light of my undying optimism and hope for the future of all mankind, I am going to refrain from assuming what others have, that you need instruction. Instead I will assume that this was one of the more masterful trolls we will see on/. today. Well done.
As someone who has recently purchased doors that were not pre-hung, I would have to disagree with this statement. You are mostly right in your basic point, though. Most people don't build their cabinets by hand, they buy prebuilt ones and have them installed into the house after it is built. Most people don't build their own trusses, they have them prefabbed and put up with a crane. There are still lots of folks who build their own cabinets, build their own roofs, and hang their own doors, though, so you can't just say "you just can't find a door for sale nowadays that also doesn't come with a frame."
There is a difference between what is common and what is possible.
Well, I must admit that I didn't read your parent post, and I'm too lazy to scroll up. (that at least gives everyone a reason to feel superior to me. Glad we got that out of the way) Having said that, I don't think the point of the various statements is that any given woman is automatically less skilled than any given man. I think the idea is that out of a population of women, it is less likely that any one member will be skilled. That does not mean that if she _IS_ skilled she can't be just as skilled (or more so) than a man. Get it? Nobody is saying that any given woman is inherently less capable than any given man. In my experience there have been many women who were just as skilled as their male counterparts, there just weren't as many of them. There has always been a high ratio of men to women. Saying that women as a group are less likely to follow the path that would teach them a high level of technical skill is different from saying that any given woman who has followed that path is necessarily unskilled.
In short, if you're feeling like you are being told that as a female you are less skilled than a male, that is your own insecurity showing. Nobody that I have read so far is saying that.
Posting a link in your comments is a sure way to get yourself/.'ed. It would be funny to watch a guy get himself/.'ed in a thread about ISPs shutting off ports that generate too much traffic.
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Bingo! This is exactly right. Where's the mod points when I need them? It's not about making memory fast, it's about finding other interesting things to do while you wait so that there's always work getting done. These things do have a fatal shortcoming though...
(although whether a 13-year old can still be considered a "child" is unclear to me...
You must not have a teenage daughter.
Sweet! Can we get some around the great lakes to get rid of the seagulls?
I think it would be even more appropriate to call it Linux with a SunOS kernel. :-)
Thank God I do not buy music anymore.
Traditional news media at least attempts to make sure they got the story right. They do fact checking, carefully organize sources, etc. All that stuff you had to learn when writing research papers.
LOL! I call bullshit. Two words for you: Jayson Blair
Moron's.
Sorry. I can never resist when they're that ironic.
Genuine People Personalities at work. :D
Brain the size of a planet...
Wow. Leveraging solutions? Harnessing synergies for mitigation?
BINGO!
Koreans?
-- subsurface water, volcanism, recent meteor strikes, martians, what have you -- anything and everything except the only thing that has ever been observed to cause (e.g.) polar heating.
:-/
I thought SUVs caused polar heating.
Ok... Now I'm just confused.
Since the "war on terror" (which is the dumbest sounding thing I've ever heard of, mind you) began in late 2001 there has been nothing. Not a sausage. Not so much as a firecracker on US soil. There has been one attack in Spain which caused those with less solid manbits to demand a pull-out and there has now been an attack in London. Hopefully the brits stick it out with another display of their famous tenacity. If they fold like a cheap tent the way the spaniards did, we're in for a rough ride.
Oh, and BTW, if you want to pin an increase in terrorism on a president's foriegn policy, check the timeline there. We got hit once under The Gipper and he took a lot of slack from the press for his military actions while in office, but we didn't get hit again. We got hit once under Bubba. His actions drew hardly a grumble from the press (aside from a few shrill conservatives) and we got hit several more times. We got hit once under W, and he's certainly taking his share of heat, but not a darned thing has happened since. It seems to me that a president's response to an incident of terrorism has an inverse relationship of success to criticism.
That's my line!
If it doesn't burn up during entry, maybe.
The point is, you have a single Jedi with a single blade. Just have three guys fire at different places at the same time. Two of thoes should hit him.
:/
Unless he moves.
One word: Skeksis
I think it would still act like a mouse
/. editor.
I think it would act like a
There's a good chunk of the world is below average intelligence...
Roughly half, I'd say. And if you did get rid of that half, there would still be roughly half that were below average intelligence. And if you got rid of them, there would still be.... yada yada...
In light of my undying optimism and hope for the future of all mankind, I am going to refrain from assuming what others have, that you need instruction. Instead I will assume that this was one of the more masterful trolls we will see on /. today. Well done.
The third branch of government is called the legislative, not the "representative" branch.
wokka wokka!
Noose says: I'm an engineering student. Fiberglass is great in tension along the axis of the fiber, but can't handle compressive loads.
Smart ass says: I'm an engineer also! Why not use fiberglass for the roof?
Uh, dude... What kinds of loads do roofs take?
Glad you're an engineer. I was going to mod you down for this, but there's no -1 dumbass so I decided to just respond.
As someone who has recently purchased doors that were not pre-hung, I would have to disagree with this statement. You are mostly right in your basic point, though. Most people don't build their cabinets by hand, they buy prebuilt ones and have them installed into the house after it is built. Most people don't build their own trusses, they have them prefabbed and put up with a crane. There are still lots of folks who build their own cabinets, build their own roofs, and hang their own doors, though, so you can't just say "you just can't find a door for sale nowadays that also doesn't come with a frame."
There is a difference between what is common and what is possible.
Well, I must admit that I didn't read your parent post, and I'm too lazy to scroll up. (that at least gives everyone a reason to feel superior to me. Glad we got that out of the way) Having said that, I don't think the point of the various statements is that any given woman is automatically less skilled than any given man. I think the idea is that out of a population of women, it is less likely that any one member will be skilled. That does not mean that if she _IS_ skilled she can't be just as skilled (or more so) than a man. Get it? Nobody is saying that any given woman is inherently less capable than any given man. In my experience there have been many women who were just as skilled as their male counterparts, there just weren't as many of them. There has always been a high ratio of men to women. Saying that women as a group are less likely to follow the path that would teach them a high level of technical skill is different from saying that any given woman who has followed that path is necessarily unskilled.
In short, if you're feeling like you are being told that as a female you are less skilled than a male, that is your own insecurity showing. Nobody that I have read so far is saying that.
It was a subtle joke. :P
/.'ed. It would be funny to watch a guy get himself /.'ed in a thread about ISPs shutting off ports that generate too much traffic.
Posting a link in your comments is a sure way to get yourself