If by "leading the way" you mean "stigmatizing bike riders as too poor to own a car", then you're right. I see about 1-2 people per month wearing spandex, which means they're riding recreationally. The rest are working poor...to be looked down upon, in the same way that normal Americans look down on rural residents.
So, the story sounds like we're talking about putting in a coal mine next to the Humanities building. Is this what's going to happen, or is it just that university-owned land will be opened to development?
The law mandates that 50 percent of all fees and royalties from the mineral leases will be retained by the university where those minerals are mined, 35 percent will be distributed across the state system, and another 15 percent will go towards subsidizing student tuition.
PS "Mother Jones" isn't what you'd call an unbiased source when it comes to this sort of reporting. Other stories from their front page: "Hating on Software Companies", "Should Obama Flat Out Call Romney a Liar?", and "Joe Biden Smiles, Laughs, and Mostly Kicks Ass". It's biased and they make no secret of it. For an example of how this affects reporting, see the following:
The vice president of a company went to the chairman of the board and said, 'We are thinking of starting a new program. It will help us increase profits, but it will also harm the environment.' The chairman of the board answered, 'I don't care at all about harming the environment. I just want to make as much profit as I can. Let's start the new program.' They started the new program. Sure enough, the environment was harmed.
Did the chairman harm the environment intentionally? In a 2003 study, 82 percent of respondents said yes, he did. But now consider this:
The vice president of a company went to the chairman of the board and said, 'We are thinking of starting a new program. It will help us increase profits, and it will also help the environment.' The chairman of the board answered, 'I don't care at all about helping the environment. I just want to make as much profit as I can. Let's start the new program.' They started the new program. Sure enough, the environment was helped.
Did the chairman help the environment intentionally? Only 23 percent of respondents said yes.
what Europeans thinks is not that they have any kind of innate superiority - that's simply not in the European mindset- Europeans are simply much more rational than that
LOL! Read through that and see if you can spot the contradiction.
It's not a "US/Canadian" joke. It's an oldy moldy that when I first saw it had a cruise ship in the buttmonkey role. It's only recently that ugly nationalism has changed the roles around. The next time I saw it, it appeared as British ship vs. Irish lighthouse. This was in a printed book, before the internet. Honestly, like all ugly jokes, it says more about the person telling it than it does anything else.
It's all about "supporting conclusions that you wish were true." It's a good thing that our modern scientific minds are immune to this sort of fallacy.
Hm, what was the last time Congress declared war? Or are we just making shit up now?
I don't think Europeans are innately superior. Well, a lot of your countrymen do, and they aren't shy about saying it. Try these keywords: "fat, hamburgers, Wal-Mart, fascist". That should help you become familiar with these repugnant attitudes after a bit of searching.
This is yet another career-ender for some unfortunate officer. These incidents aren't even called "relieved" any more, they're flat-out called "firings". They have skyrocketed in recent years, so much so that the Navy Times keeps a list, updating it frequently. It is a long list. A few of them are justified, such as "a loss of confidence in Parkerâ(TM)s ability to command" (incompetent) or "a survey found a poor command climate" (officer is such a prick above and beyond normal officer prickishness that it makes his subordinates do a bad job). A few are DWI or other arrests, which makes sense as you don't want someone with that lack of self-control in charge of nuclear weapons. A lot of these firings are what's called "zipper failure" or more formally "having an âoeunduly familiar relationshipâ with a female member of the crew." Hey, humans are humans, you put females on a ship and this is what will happen. Well, equal opportunity, right? Cmdr. Etta Jones was fired for among other things, taking a 9mm pistol out of a gun safe and pointing it hat her crew. It's a hard life being a Navy commander, all eyes are on you and you can be held accountable for everything, even if you didn't do it.
Those evil Americans! Making their insidious GPS service available to the world for free! Bringing billions of dollars of cost savings to foreigners all over the world in the form of reduced fuel costs, increased agricultural efficiency, and time saved. They had it all planned from the beginning, those bastards!
Look, if you're going to mindlessly bash the Americans, do it right. Say something like "GPS was conceived by the perverted violent minds of the military, while our Galileo is a system of peace. Thus proving, once again, the innate superiority of Europeans over the Americans we have looked down upon ever since we kicked their sorry asses out of our own countries for having the wrong religion."
On its final exam each year, beginning in 1931, the Japanese Naval Academy asked its students, âoeHow would you carry out a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?â
I notice you left off "involved parents" from you "we do bad things" list. The #1 predictor of good school performance is parents. I'm not going to mention the elephant in the room, just like you.
You're not their customer, you were never their customer. Normal people (funny how that word works) are not wanted. They cater to the wealthy, and as a member of the non-wealthy, you had no place there. £600 is a pittance, if you were actually a customer you could afford that easily. It's like someone off the street wanting to kick the tires of Sun Enterprise gear. It just ain't gonna happen unless you represent a company with a million dollar budget.
That's nice, but does nothing for "the scientific community should never have their hands tied behind their back because of religious superstitions." This quote is anti-Islamic, and Obama is quite clearly supporting religion. So...go ahead and try to reconcile the two. I'll wait.
In all honesty, these sound to me like other crackpots trying to make a crackpot look like a crackpot. They're "in the movement", so to speak, and buy in to the ridiculous concepts. Cybernetic totalist WTF? Who can use that sort of language with a straight face, other than someone who's totally unaware that he's a crackpot?
"We who advocate Birth Control... lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit Eugenics without Birth Control seems to us a house builded[sic] upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit."
-- Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control and Racial Betterment," Feb 1919.
"I believe that now, immediately, there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them."
-- Margaret Sanger, 1950
She's the founder of Planned Parenthood, in case you didn't notice. In other news, "dysgenic" was recognized by my spellchecker as a non-word. Sad, eh? What's that we say about the memory hole? Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it?
What about when the mafia who controls the unions comes around looking to get paid? What about when politicians looking for paybacks for favors granted to the union demand you employ 50 people who will collect paychecks and yet never show up for work?
What he really means, in a nutshell: "Programming, as a job, needs to be available to society at large, to better recognize the "janitor" role that they actually fulfill, instead of the "John Carmack rockstar" role that all programmers think that they are, but aren't."
You win the award for "totally unable to view a concept of another time outside of his 2012 blinkers". As if other cultures were exactly like our own at this point in time and were all about sex, all the time. You forgot to mention the point that if women didn't like sex, then they'd just suffer spousal rape. That's standard modern dogma. You are sentenced to write a 2,000 word self-criticism due in one week which will be reviewed by a representative of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, and a contribution of $500 or the same in labor at minimum wage rates to the that organization.
The supersonic transport design dates from the early 1960s. The only reason it was delayed until 1976 was squabbling and lack of money. Do try to keep up.
Ah, but it is not out of context. The common feeling is that religion - all religion - should be disrespected and banished from the public sphere. Indeed, it should be illegal for parents to teach it to their children. And yet, here is Obama, preaching otherwise. Cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
Ah, but you're neglecting the fact that serious reviewers are expected to judge all literature by politically correct standards that didn't exist 25 years ago. Go ahead, say something about old literature withOUT condemning it for failing to meet our modern expectations. Not gonna happen - not in any respected forum or journal, that's for sure.
What, not ANOTHER person who fell for the "military autobahns" myth. Nazi Germany moved its troops around by rail.
And I don't envy the Turks their Chinese rail system. This would be the same one that crashed last year in Wenzhou. It will be shoddily built and have problems from day one. I also note that China had no problems confiscating land from the little people to build rail - something that Americans typically don't like at all. But hey, the Interstate highway system is just a rusting cold war relic. Right. +4 Informative. *sigh*
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But they're not the ones who get to tell the story, eh? Rural people = evil morons in the culture that everyone consumes.
If by "leading the way" you mean "stigmatizing bike riders as too poor to own a car", then you're right. I see about 1-2 people per month wearing spandex, which means they're riding recreationally. The rest are working poor...to be looked down upon, in the same way that normal Americans look down on rural residents.
The law mandates that 50 percent of all fees and royalties from the mineral leases will be retained by the university where those minerals are mined, 35 percent will be distributed across the state system, and another 15 percent will go towards subsidizing student tuition.
PS "Mother Jones" isn't what you'd call an unbiased source when it comes to this sort of reporting. Other stories from their front page: "Hating on Software Companies", "Should Obama Flat Out Call Romney a Liar?", and "Joe Biden Smiles, Laughs, and Mostly Kicks Ass". It's biased and they make no secret of it. For an example of how this affects reporting, see the following:
The vice president of a company went to the chairman of the board and said, 'We are thinking of starting a new program. It will help us increase profits, but it will also harm the environment.' The chairman of the board answered, 'I don't care at all about harming the environment. I just want to make as much profit as I can. Let's start the new program.' They started the new program. Sure enough, the environment was harmed.
Did the chairman harm the environment intentionally? In a 2003 study, 82 percent of respondents said yes, he did. But now consider this:
The vice president of a company went to the chairman of the board and said, 'We are thinking of starting a new program. It will help us increase profits, and it will also help the environment.' The chairman of the board answered, 'I don't care at all about helping the environment. I just want to make as much profit as I can. Let's start the new program.' They started the new program. Sure enough, the environment was helped.
Did the chairman help the environment intentionally? Only 23 percent of respondents said yes.
what Europeans thinks is not that they have any kind of innate superiority - that's simply not in the European mindset- Europeans are simply much more rational than that
LOL! Read through that and see if you can spot the contradiction.
It's not a "US/Canadian" joke. It's an oldy moldy that when I first saw it had a cruise ship in the buttmonkey role. It's only recently that ugly nationalism has changed the roles around. The next time I saw it, it appeared as British ship vs. Irish lighthouse. This was in a printed book, before the internet. Honestly, like all ugly jokes, it says more about the person telling it than it does anything else.
It's all about "supporting conclusions that you wish were true." It's a good thing that our modern scientific minds are immune to this sort of fallacy.
Hm, what was the last time Congress declared war? Or are we just making shit up now?
I don't think Europeans are innately superior.
Well, a lot of your countrymen do, and they aren't shy about saying it. Try these keywords: "fat, hamburgers, Wal-Mart, fascist". That should help you become familiar with these repugnant attitudes after a bit of searching.
This is yet another career-ender for some unfortunate officer. These incidents aren't even called "relieved" any more, they're flat-out called "firings". They have skyrocketed in recent years, so much so that the Navy Times keeps a list, updating it frequently. It is a long list. A few of them are justified, such as "a loss of confidence in Parkerâ(TM)s ability to command" (incompetent) or "a survey found a poor command climate" (officer is such a prick above and beyond normal officer prickishness that it makes his subordinates do a bad job). A few are DWI or other arrests, which makes sense as you don't want someone with that lack of self-control in charge of nuclear weapons. A lot of these firings are what's called "zipper failure" or more formally "having an âoeunduly familiar relationshipâ with a female member of the crew." Hey, humans are humans, you put females on a ship and this is what will happen. Well, equal opportunity, right? Cmdr. Etta Jones was fired for among other things, taking a 9mm pistol out of a gun safe and pointing it hat her crew. It's a hard life being a Navy commander, all eyes are on you and you can be held accountable for everything, even if you didn't do it.
Look, if you're going to mindlessly bash the Americans, do it right. Say something like "GPS was conceived by the perverted violent minds of the military, while our Galileo is a system of peace. Thus proving, once again, the innate superiority of Europeans over the Americans we have looked down upon ever since we kicked their sorry asses out of our own countries for having the wrong religion."
On its final exam each year, beginning in 1931, the Japanese Naval Academy asked its students, âoeHow would you carry out a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?â
I notice you left off "involved parents" from you "we do bad things" list. The #1 predictor of good school performance is parents. I'm not going to mention the elephant in the room, just like you.
Wow, that sounds great, because what I want is my own culture burned to the ground and destroyed forever. Yay. What a great idea. Rah communism.
You're not their customer, you were never their customer. Normal people (funny how that word works) are not wanted. They cater to the wealthy, and as a member of the non-wealthy, you had no place there. £600 is a pittance, if you were actually a customer you could afford that easily. It's like someone off the street wanting to kick the tires of Sun Enterprise gear. It just ain't gonna happen unless you represent a company with a million dollar budget.
That's nice, but does nothing for "the scientific community should never have their hands tied behind their back because of religious superstitions." This quote is anti-Islamic, and Obama is quite clearly supporting religion. So...go ahead and try to reconcile the two. I'll wait.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
In all honesty, these sound to me like other crackpots trying to make a crackpot look like a crackpot. They're "in the movement", so to speak, and buy in to the ridiculous concepts. Cybernetic totalist WTF? Who can use that sort of language with a straight face, other than someone who's totally unaware that he's a crackpot?
"We who advocate Birth Control... lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit Eugenics without Birth Control seems to us a house builded[sic] upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit."
-- Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control and Racial Betterment," Feb 1919.
"I believe that now, immediately, there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them."
-- Margaret Sanger, 1950
She's the founder of Planned Parenthood, in case you didn't notice. In other news, "dysgenic" was recognized by my spellchecker as a non-word. Sad, eh? What's that we say about the memory hole? Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it?
What about when the mafia who controls the unions comes around looking to get paid? What about when politicians looking for paybacks for favors granted to the union demand you employ 50 people who will collect paychecks and yet never show up for work?
What he really means, in a nutshell: "Programming, as a job, needs to be available to society at large, to better recognize the "janitor" role that they actually fulfill, instead of the "John Carmack rockstar" role that all programmers think that they are, but aren't."
You win the award for "totally unable to view a concept of another time outside of his 2012 blinkers". As if other cultures were exactly like our own at this point in time and were all about sex, all the time. You forgot to mention the point that if women didn't like sex, then they'd just suffer spousal rape. That's standard modern dogma. You are sentenced to write a 2,000 word self-criticism due in one week which will be reviewed by a representative of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, and a contribution of $500 or the same in labor at minimum wage rates to the that organization.
The supersonic transport design dates from the early 1960s. The only reason it was delayed until 1976 was squabbling and lack of money. Do try to keep up.
Ah, but it is not out of context. The common feeling is that religion - all religion - should be disrespected and banished from the public sphere. Indeed, it should be illegal for parents to teach it to their children. And yet, here is Obama, preaching otherwise. Cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.
Ah, but you're neglecting the fact that serious reviewers are expected to judge all literature by politically correct standards that didn't exist 25 years ago. Go ahead, say something about old literature withOUT condemning it for failing to meet our modern expectations. Not gonna happen - not in any respected forum or journal, that's for sure.
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
What, not ANOTHER person who fell for the "military autobahns" myth. Nazi Germany moved its troops around by rail.
And I don't envy the Turks their Chinese rail system. This would be the same one that crashed last year in Wenzhou. It will be shoddily built and have problems from day one. I also note that China had no problems confiscating land from the little people to build rail - something that Americans typically don't like at all. But hey, the Interstate highway system is just a rusting cold war relic. Right. +4 Informative. *sigh*