I guess we should overthrow the government - but oh, wait, opposing Obama is racist. Plus, the entire university system of the USA is vehemently opposed to Americans owning weapons that might be used to achieve this aim. Ah well, it was a good run while it lasted.
Pretty tricky. I loaded it (from overseas via VPN) and it gave me results. I then disabled my VPN and tried again - I get a marketing page, with no hint that results could ever be obtained. Pretty slick on Google's part, there.
...until the moment that science proves something that contradicts your political beliefs. Then suddenly, science is relative and biased. Just look into intelligence research or research into intersex relations.
I don't buy for a second that men are more likely to be the victims of violence, intimidation and other physical threats.
It's absolutely true. Go to fbi.gov and look at the stats.
Men are more likely to do all of those, but they are more likely aimed at women.
Wrong. Women do not make up the majority of crime victims.
When was the last time you worried about being raped walking home at night?
Most rape occurs between acquaintances. The prototypical "rapist with a knife" makes up a rather small proportion of these crimes. Again, fbi.gov. Facts are your friends, they help you become educated and disregard biased propaganda promulgated by political groups with an agenda. It sounds like you've been a victim of their false narratives.
...and yet you would be screaming about "thoughtcrime" and "it's illegal to arrest people for precrime" if the NSA had actually alerted law enforcement. Isn't it wonderful doing the whole "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing?
By the way, what part of the NSA's charter approves domestic spying on Americans for law enforcement purposes?
Stanley Baldwin was right when he said that. Then, engine technology improved and fighters went faster. It's like the Maginot Line, everyone likes to say the designer was an idiot because of 20/20 hindsight.
Typical...blame America. The Condorde failed due to economics. It wasn't Bu$hitler who killed it, as much as you'd like to rewrite the story to make it sound that way.
I see that nobody has mentioned the elephant in the room. That's expected...otherwise it wouldn't be an elephant. Let's use critical thinking and examine the words used: "in parts of the deep south of the United States".
It means African-Americans. Any time you see "education" and "deep South" in the same sentence, it's dog whistle racism. This article is criticizing their scores and compares them to other countries without discrimination. This article is racist and should not even be here. Shame, shame on Slashdot editors.
Yes, because people we hate can never, ever perform virtuous acts. Whenever they do, it is up to Us Good People[tm] to viciously shit all over them. It's just what we do.
I'd be careful about that "slippery slope" problem you're talking about. It's an inefficiency of democracy, but it is more than balanced out by democracy's incredible positives. Go down that road, and you end up like this:
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
The fallacy that you are under is that "more money = solves the government's problems". This, in fact, is not the case.
When government receives new money, the first thing they do is blow it on stupid stuff and reward their supporters. Secondly, they buy votes with new "free money" programs. Third, they then borrow money against the next 10-20 years of this new revenue, and spend it immediately. Then what happens?
Government is out of money, raise taxes, get more money, cycle repeats. It's a sad story. I wish that new taxes would once and for all fix the government's problems, but they don't. It's like trying to cure obesity with more food.
Has anyone considered that (1) Japan is already overpopulated, and (2) mass immigration would destroy the Japanese culture, or at least alter it beyond all recognition.
You appear to be judging Japan by American standards. America does not set the standards for the world, nor are other countries bound in any way to follow American laws. In fact, they can do whatever they damn well please. Stop insisting that other cultures follow your idea of "normal".
And yet, if you live in the big city, your children go to horrid schools where the other kids will beat the shit out of them on a daily basis. But hey...fiber! Because living outside of the city is the same as halfway up a mountain.
Quick sanity test: is the New York Times a liberal newspaper?
If you don't know, then you are dangerously uninformed. The Grey Lady itself answered in the affirmative. Anyone who thinks the NYT is objective is a freaking idiot.
The Chinese aren't investing in solar out of some good green-hearted ideal. The US Navy can cut off China's oil supply at any time, and China knows it. You can't attribute to altruism what was due to lacking any sort of choice in the matter.
It's more like liberalism has set itself up as the One True Truth[tm], and anyone who disagrees with it is branded as outcast, evil, insane. Progressives have labels for people who disagree with them, and being labeled like this is grounds to lose your job or have a SWAT team called on you in the middle of the night. They simply don't understand how anyone can hold a contrary opinion. They also can't understand how they could be racist as well, even though they think that people can't think for themselves and accept moral agency for their actions, depending on what race they are.
Thanks for admitting your bias, though. It always gets denied and it's nice to see it admitted up front for once. It's like the time the New York Times came right out and admitted it was a liberal newspaper and not objective at all.
Valuing your own people over foreigners isn't socialism, it's national socialism. True socialists are internationals, and don't see any problem with massive importation of H1Bs.
I'm sure it feels really good to get your leftism out in front of everyone and spread the hate, but I've got news for ya buddy: American corruption is nowhere on the scale that it is in Mexico or China.
And who are these Americans who like to talk about Mexican and Chinese corruption? Got a citation? Or did you just pull some bullshit out from nowhere because it matched your pre-existing mental state?
Strict utilitarian ethics is monstrous sociopathy. Something people don't realize because they're too busy looking down from their ivory tower on the common folk, and lambasting them for having the nerve to be common.
Whew! Communism was right all along? Cool, we can totally have it here then, you've just hit on the solution that absolves Communists of responsibility for their crimes!
Oops, except that Communism was tried in many, many other countries, big and small, and it always turned out the same way: in human misery. Maybe you need to re-think your underlying assumptions instead of trying to cobble together tenuous scenarios in which the crimes of Communism weren't its fault, really.
The problem with the Earth's population numbers is that the Earthlings that are reproducing rapidly are the brown ones. Oops, you didn't realize this, did you? Racist! LOL
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I guess we should overthrow the government - but oh, wait, opposing Obama is racist. Plus, the entire university system of the USA is vehemently opposed to Americans owning weapons that might be used to achieve this aim. Ah well, it was a good run while it lasted.
Pretty tricky. I loaded it (from overseas via VPN) and it gave me results. I then disabled my VPN and tried again - I get a marketing page, with no hint that results could ever be obtained. Pretty slick on Google's part, there.
...until the moment that science proves something that contradicts your political beliefs. Then suddenly, science is relative and biased. Just look into intelligence research or research into intersex relations.
I don't buy for a second that men are more likely to be the victims of violence, intimidation and other physical threats.
It's absolutely true. Go to fbi.gov and look at the stats.
Men are more likely to do all of those, but they are more likely aimed at women.
Wrong. Women do not make up the majority of crime victims.
When was the last time you worried about being raped walking home at night?
Most rape occurs between acquaintances. The prototypical "rapist with a knife" makes up a rather small proportion of these crimes. Again, fbi.gov. Facts are your friends, they help you become educated and disregard biased propaganda promulgated by political groups with an agenda. It sounds like you've been a victim of their false narratives.
...and yet you would be screaming about "thoughtcrime" and "it's illegal to arrest people for precrime" if the NSA had actually alerted law enforcement. Isn't it wonderful doing the whole "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing?
By the way, what part of the NSA's charter approves domestic spying on Americans for law enforcement purposes?
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
That's a misquote, like "Play it again, Sam."
"Note that I have not tested this code, I have merely proven it correct."
--Donald Knuth
Stanley Baldwin was right when he said that. Then, engine technology improved and fighters went faster. It's like the Maginot Line, everyone likes to say the designer was an idiot because of 20/20 hindsight.
Typical...blame America. The Condorde failed due to economics. It wasn't Bu$hitler who killed it, as much as you'd like to rewrite the story to make it sound that way.
Well, it's not bigoted if you thought that. That's a big difference.
I see that nobody has mentioned the elephant in the room. That's expected...otherwise it wouldn't be an elephant. Let's use critical thinking and examine the words used: "in parts of the deep south of the United States".
It means African-Americans. Any time you see "education" and "deep South" in the same sentence, it's dog whistle racism. This article is criticizing their scores and compares them to other countries without discrimination. This article is racist and should not even be here. Shame, shame on Slashdot editors.
Huh, I didn't know the Soviet Union exported networking equipment in 1973.
Yes, because people we hate can never, ever perform virtuous acts. Whenever they do, it is up to Us Good People[tm] to viciously shit all over them. It's just what we do.
I'd be careful about that "slippery slope" problem you're talking about. It's an inefficiency of democracy, but it is more than balanced out by democracy's incredible positives. Go down that road, and you end up like this:
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
The fallacy that you are under is that "more money = solves the government's problems". This, in fact, is not the case.
When government receives new money, the first thing they do is blow it on stupid stuff and reward their supporters. Secondly, they buy votes with new "free money" programs. Third, they then borrow money against the next 10-20 years of this new revenue, and spend it immediately. Then what happens?
Government is out of money, raise taxes, get more money, cycle repeats. It's a sad story. I wish that new taxes would once and for all fix the government's problems, but they don't. It's like trying to cure obesity with more food.
Has anyone considered that (1) Japan is already overpopulated, and (2) mass immigration would destroy the Japanese culture, or at least alter it beyond all recognition.
You appear to be judging Japan by American standards. America does not set the standards for the world, nor are other countries bound in any way to follow American laws. In fact, they can do whatever they damn well please. Stop insisting that other cultures follow your idea of "normal".
And yet, if you live in the big city, your children go to horrid schools where the other kids will beat the shit out of them on a daily basis. But hey...fiber! Because living outside of the city is the same as halfway up a mountain.
Quick sanity test: is the New York Times a liberal newspaper?
If you don't know, then you are dangerously uninformed. The Grey Lady itself answered in the affirmative. Anyone who thinks the NYT is objective is a freaking idiot.
The Chinese aren't investing in solar out of some good green-hearted ideal. The US Navy can cut off China's oil supply at any time, and China knows it. You can't attribute to altruism what was due to lacking any sort of choice in the matter.
Thanks for admitting your bias, though. It always gets denied and it's nice to see it admitted up front for once. It's like the time the New York Times came right out and admitted it was a liberal newspaper and not objective at all.
Valuing your own people over foreigners isn't socialism, it's national socialism. True socialists are internationals, and don't see any problem with massive importation of H1Bs.
I'm sure it feels really good to get your leftism out in front of everyone and spread the hate, but I've got news for ya buddy: American corruption is nowhere on the scale that it is in Mexico or China.
And who are these Americans who like to talk about Mexican and Chinese corruption? Got a citation? Or did you just pull some bullshit out from nowhere because it matched your pre-existing mental state?
Strict utilitarian ethics is monstrous sociopathy. Something people don't realize because they're too busy looking down from their ivory tower on the common folk, and lambasting them for having the nerve to be common.
Whew! Communism was right all along? Cool, we can totally have it here then, you've just hit on the solution that absolves Communists of responsibility for their crimes!
Oops, except that Communism was tried in many, many other countries, big and small, and it always turned out the same way: in human misery. Maybe you need to re-think your underlying assumptions instead of trying to cobble together tenuous scenarios in which the crimes of Communism weren't its fault, really.
The problem with the Earth's population numbers is that the Earthlings that are reproducing rapidly are the brown ones. Oops, you didn't realize this, did you? Racist! LOL