I don't care how insightful somebody's work may be. If it is too painful to read, it isn't worth it. Some of us purposefully use carefully constructed language designed to cause snobs to glance over our ideas, dude. If you judge a book by it's cover, you're not righteous enough to receive the teachings within.
Facebook is extremely popular in the military, but it's not the SNS of choice for 18-year old soldiers, a group that is primarily from poorer, less educated communities. They are using MySpace.
If Facebook is "extremely popular" then it would be used by the "grunts" and not just the officers as the author claims I'm trying to find a way to point out what's wrong with your "logic", but I can't seem to think of anything that would reach a mind that would formulate that reply in the first place. Still... I'll give it a try:
1- The author did NOT claim "just" the grunts. The dyke says the grunts mostly use MySpace instead Facebook. 2- "As the author claims"? Stop implying she's flat out making this up. The chick's got data, dude. 3- It's a study of class division, you can't get more divided than brass and grunts. Why would you assume that the division does not manifest in cyberspace? etc.
You don't have to be Apple hater to hope it fails (!). [...] enough to hate it. Horrible media scene of Mac which apple.slashdot.org can't find unbiased articles to post is another factor. Fanboys [...] your madness. [...] more mad. Just because they don't want iTunes competitors working inside Mini Safari of iPhone... IMHO of course. I am not calling for boycott, I am just preventing my friends and family from falling into Apple's trick and buy iPhone Yeah, you're obviously not a hater.
My thoughts exactly, from the moment I saw the headline. My thought was "did we just have an article about how their budget doubled after 2001?" They're underfunded like Christians are oppressed;-|
The government has a right to keep things secret to protect people's lives. If public knowledge of something doesn't endanger anyone's life, it should be public knowledge What if it kills thousands to protect but a few?
... internet radio stations that weren't running for profit, but simply for the enjoyment of broadcasting? Hippies and communists, the lot of them. Burn them I say! Burn the witch!
Seriously, they'll be silenced, so that you may return to your regularly scheduled monoculture of Britney Spears' current clone.
That's not what I want though. I want a camera under my control, preferably two (front and back) automatically recording anytime the car is running to some durable media like flash. This should be easily doable with today's technology for a few hundreds dollars installed, would require virtually zero user interaction if set up right, and such a system could easily pay for itself the first time it records a crime or a traffic accident. I'm pretty sure your insurance company, and the government of Britain also want that;-)
The JFK files are due to be released 70 years (the life expectancy) after the facts.
I think it has more to do with protecting people involved. Let's say a 22-year old person was involved, 70 years later he'll be 92, which means most likely dead.
What on earth that has to do with the comment above? If the CIA's master is the president, and heads of the CIA become presidents... There is no line between the master and the servant.
Who decided to invade Iraq in 2003? The Bush administration, or the intelligence community? Bush says he was only acting on the intelligence supplied to him, his critics say he put pressure on intelligence agencies to serve him the selective data he wanted. What makes you think they didn't shake hands on it, and agreed to give each other what they both wanted?
Corporations allow for pooling of capital to achieve great efficiencies and new products. Abusive corporations can squeeze out competitors, raise prices, and prevent new products from challenging their dominance. And kill hundreds of thousands of people in one go. Read GP's link, the DOW section provides a perfect example of how much worse corps are than you think.
Aside from that, your point about false dichotomies is spot on. Keep enlightening people.
the CIA is ultimately a servant of its masters - most often the president Remind again, what did Bush the First do around 1976, 1977... before he became their 'master', as you put it?
So we can find out the truth about who killed JFK with their magic bullets. The JFK files are due to be released 70 years (the life expectancy) after the facts. That way no one who was old enough to remember what happened will be around to contradict the official version of events (nor to suffer the consequences of their actions). Sleep tight, your government is watching you sleep at night.
Do you think it's illegal, immoral, or unethical for the intelligence community to spy on other governments? Yes, of course, but more than that, I think that it's much much worse they spy on private enterprises to give their national businesses an unfair advantage through governmentally executed industrial espionage.
cars begin to offer mounted cameras as optional equipment. Perhaps this would be more useful than a DVD player in the backseat. That's been available for years... as an alternative to a rear view mirror, for backing up large minivans (ah!) and so on.
Besides, "ha" is even shorter than either word, just as effective, and lacking in the Nelson Muntz overtones. If you feel like splurging, you can even add an exclamation point. That's not even laughter, that's surprise.
In this study, they had 241,310 subjects. If memory serves me right, the population standard deviation is 15 points, so we have a margin or error along the order of 15 divided by the square root of 241,310, or 0.03. That is, two orders of magnitude smaller than 3 IQ points, which to you 'seems almost within the margin of error'. Ok, first of all: Deep breath, relax, TGIF and leggo of the bold. Ok, ok, now that you've calmed down a bit...
Is 3 IQ points really the difference between l33t colleges and waste-of-paper diplomas like the summary implies? Is it even noticeable outside of the strict confines an IQ test?
I think these are the issues us non-article-reading, statistical standards ignoring people want to discuss. Not that I wasn't happy to have you parse the article and extract those tidbits for us, bless your angry little heart, but it does seem like an awfully small difference.
I don't mind (and occasionally use) abbreviations such as "lol" (though Ha ha generally seems appropriate and is only 2 characters longer) Appropriateness: Not if you don't want to sound mean and sarcastic like Nelson.
Length: Look at a qwerty keyboard, "lol" is typed one fingered at great speed, "haha" needs two hands over half the keyboard.
Actually, 'mashup' is a word used in Jamaica and some other former British colonies in Britain. I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....
What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London. 2007, the British Empire lays in ruin. Foreigners walk the streets, many of them... Hungarian. (The foreigners, not the streets.)
Think how much more efficient recycling of cellulose-based waste would be if you didn't have to ship it hundreds of miles to a recycling facility [...] your point about the only purpose behind paper recycling being the recovery of plant fibres doesn't stand up. If used paper can usefully be employed in other ways, there's no reason that these ways should be discounted, simply because they don't produce more paper. Your point seems to have changed since you first posted it.
it seems like fungi-based-recycling is perfectly viable as a supplement to turning waste paper back into paper Explain, carefully, how you'll get the fibers back through fungal digestion of the used paper.
But before you do that, think about all the bleach and chemical additives present in consummer papers, and wonder if you want those in your mushroom soup.
Give me a break. How about spending this money on ways to reduce the world's population growth? You're talking about the 'defense' budget? 'cause... How else do you solve overpopulation by throwing money at it?
an urban area, these solar resources are still quite limited. A vertical farm works by blocking sun from the plebians in the tower's shadow. I take it you haven't seen any cities since 1919? Here's a shocker: They're already full of skyscrapers.
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If you judge a book by it's cover, you're not righteous enough to receive the teachings within.
If Facebook is "extremely popular" then it would be used by the "grunts" and not just the officers as the author claims I'm trying to find a way to point out what's wrong with your "logic", but I can't seem to think of anything that would reach a mind that would formulate that reply in the first place.
Still... I'll give it a try:
1- The author did NOT claim "just" the grunts. The dyke says the grunts mostly use MySpace instead Facebook.
2- "As the author claims"? Stop implying she's flat out making this up. The chick's got data, dude.
3- It's a study of class division, you can't get more divided than brass and grunts. Why would you assume that the division does not manifest in cyberspace?
etc.
Horrible media scene of Mac which apple.slashdot.org can't find unbiased articles to post is another factor.
Fanboys [...] your madness. [...] more mad. Just because they don't want iTunes competitors working inside Mini Safari of iPhone... IMHO of course.
I am not calling for boycott, I am just preventing my friends and family from falling into Apple's trick and buy iPhone Yeah, you're obviously not a hater.
They're underfunded like Christians are oppressed
... internet radio stations that weren't running for profit, but simply for the enjoyment of broadcasting? Hippies and communists, the lot of them. Burn them I say! Burn the witch!Seriously, they'll be silenced, so that you may return to your regularly scheduled monoculture of Britney Spears' current clone.
The JFK files are due to be released 70 years (the life expectancy) after the facts.
I think it has more to do with protecting people involved. Let's say a 22-year old person was involved, 70 years later he'll be 92, which means most likely dead.
That... was... exactly my pointWho decided to invade Iraq in 2003? The Bush administration, or the intelligence community? Bush says he was only acting on the intelligence supplied to him, his critics say he put pressure on intelligence agencies to serve him the selective data he wanted.
What makes you think they didn't shake hands on it, and agreed to give each other what they both wanted?
Read GP's link, the DOW section provides a perfect example of how much worse corps are than you think.
Aside from that, your point about false dichotomies is spot on. Keep enlightening people.
Government is the only remaining bullwark between the thugs who run industry and the people they use up as labour resource and then destroy as a product. Yeah... because no one involved in the highest decision making layers of these corporations ever got elected?
That way no one who was old enough to remember what happened will be around to contradict the official version of events (nor to suffer the consequences of their actions).
Sleep tight, your government is watching you sleep at night.
Ok, ok, now that you've calmed down a bit...
Is 3 IQ points really the difference between l33t colleges and waste-of-paper diplomas like the summary implies?
Is it even noticeable outside of the strict confines an IQ test?
I think these are the issues us non-article-reading, statistical standards ignoring people want to discuss. Not that I wasn't happy to have you parse the article and extract those tidbits for us, bless your angry little heart, but it does seem like an awfully small difference.
Not if you don't want to sound mean and sarcastic like Nelson.
Length:
Look at a qwerty keyboard, "lol" is typed one fingered at great speed, "haha" needs two hands over half the keyboard.
I meant to say 'British colonies in the Caribbean'. Need sleep....
What you originally wrote made perfect sense to me. I thought you meant South London. 2007, the British Empire lays in ruin.
Foreigners walk the streets, many of them... Hungarian. (The foreigners, not the streets.)
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your point about the only purpose behind paper recycling being the recovery of plant fibres doesn't stand up. If used paper can usefully be employed in other ways, there's no reason that these ways should be discounted, simply because they don't produce more paper. Your point seems to have changed since you first posted it.
But before you do that, think about all the bleach and chemical additives present in consummer papers, and wonder if you want those in your mushroom soup.
'cause... How else do you solve overpopulation by throwing money at it?