Two questions: who is the Christian programmer who put this openly theist comment in the config, and why hasn't he been fired yet? I assume Wikipedia has a policy against bigots on staff.
A customer is someone who gives you money. Firefox users aren't Firefox customers. When you use open source, you take what the devs give you, and say thank you. You don't like it? Fork the project and make your own, that's how it works.
The common cold is not strep throat. They are two entirely different diseases. A cold is caused by viruses and there is no medical treatment on this planet, in any hospital anywhere, that can do anything to help. Strep throat is a bacterial infection. Idiot anti-science morons...it's people like you who go to the hospital and scream until you get prescribed something, anything, regardless of how it affects antibiotic resistance in the rest of the population.
I'm curious: if the wife had come in with a serious disease and instead been given a cursory examination and sent home with allergy medication, what would have happened in Italy? Just say, oh well, the hospital was negligent, nothing to be done?
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. If your wife DID have a serious lung disease, you WOULD have sued the hospital for not doing enough tests, and the hospital WOULD have been legally culpable. Freaking weaboos.
Actually, they do. Europe, especially. But I'm sure that has everything to do with the FDA wanting to make sure new treatments don't kill more patients than they save.
Huh. I had exactly the opposite experience. Coming into my first government job on contract, I was ready to bust ass and get things done, or else. You know, work or perish. The government offices were incredibly laid-back. I specifically remember a long list of faxes I had to send out, and it was 5pm and I wasn't done yet. I was shocked when the boss (appeared on public TV on Sundays) said "knock off, we'll pick it up tomorrow." If it had been anywhere else I'd have been there until I was done. The other shock was seeing the career employees at these places and their unhurried approach to work. After that, I never wondered why it took 12 weeks to get my new license in the mail, or whatever.
Socialism is the answer. The means of production are owned by the government. Instead of greedy corporate CEOs, we'll have professional government employees running companies. These people have no incentive to make a profit, so they'll do a much better job running things.
I thought the solid surfaces of gas giants weren't rocky at all, but rather hydrogen compressed to a metallic state under extreme pressure? Without the pressure, the gas would melt and then boil away. I thought rocky planets were basically accretions of asteroid junk.
Amazing. The guy was certified to fly the Messerschmitt 109, the Heinkel 111, and the MiG 17. From the link:
ALL MAKES AND MODELS OF SINGLE AND MULTI ENGINE PISTON POWERED AUTHORIZED AIRCRAFT. (This is the big one. If the FAA gives you this type rating, to fly ANYTHING that has one or two piston engines, you are in a very elite class of pilot. Very few pilots get this rating. There might be more guys playing quarterback in the NFL than pilots that have this rating.)
Here's a moral dilemma for you. You are a journalist, on the docks down by the river taking some photos. It's a nice day, partly cloudy, about 1pm. A man floats by, screaming for help, obviously drowning. If you had the choice between taking a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the man drowning, or throwing the man a rope, which shutter speed and setting would you use?
First, he was 74, not 80. I don't know where you get that bullshit. Second, the crash was due to mechanical failure. See photo here. Third, you think maybe because the guy is living life, racing fighter planes, is why he's above ground at the age of 74 when many of his peers are six feet under or pissing themselves at nursing homes? He passed the physical exams with flying colors, which include reflexes and eyesight. I'm sure he would be the first to disqualify himself if he felt even the least bit unworthy to fly.
Yes, you're the only one who thinks it's strange. Asshole.
No, wrong. The very idea of "teenager" did not exist until 1950s America. The idea that there is a separate stage between childhood and adulthood is a new one. The fact that people think it's always been this way because it's been this way since they were born shows a sad lack of education and knowledge of history.
Anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be true but unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise unrepresentative of typical cases.
Also, anecdotal evidence can be inaccurate, sometimes based on anecdotes, second-hand accounts of events or hearsay.
Anecdotal evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, can be used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalising from an insufficient amount of evidence. For example "my grandfather smoked like a chimney and died healthy in a car crash at the age of 99" does not disprove the proposition that "smoking markedly increases the probability of cancer and heart disease at a relatively early age". While the evidence is true, it does not warrant the conclusion made from it.
The reason is that the diamond planet is not being used to advance a political objective. Climate science is. It's always unfortunate to see science politicized, but global warming mongers are abusing science to create an atmosphere of urgency in order to pass legislation to satisfy a leftist agenda. Sorry to say, but that's the truth. All of science suffers, but to global warming proponents it's worth the cost if they win.
So....what? If this time, we give more difficult tests to religionists than atheists, we can block out the morons and have a better government. Heck, we don't even need to bias the tests - we just need to include a question like: How old is the Earth (1) 6000 years old (2) 6 billion years old. Anyone who answers (1) is a freaking moron and can't vote. What's wrong with that? Just imagine how much better our society would be if religionists were disenfranchised. The Tea Party would disappear overnight, and who among the following would disagree with that: Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Dan Savage, Paul Krugman, Julian Assange, Hugo Chavez, Janeane Garofalo, Al Franken, Barack Obama, Micheal Moore, Evo Morales, Hillary Clinton. Can you seriously say you are on the opposite end of the agreement of these intellectual heavyweights? The problem was not that the intelligence test was being abused. The problem was the Blacks were being disenfranchised due to their race.
Just as I expected, the right-wing nutbag majority modded my post down to -1. Typical. If you agree with Ron Paul on immigration issues, I can only assume you're one of them. Get a fucking education at a real university, and learn what modern thought is on immigration. Hint: it's not fences, it's welcoming diversity.
For what it's worth, it's now easier in China to buy real Louis Vuitton bags than fakes. Several years ago, the fake markets were wide open and real LV stores were nonexistent. However, since the Great Cleanup of 2008 (Olympic year), the fake markets have been largely shut down. Real LV stores have opened legitimate operations. There's one within two miles of my house, and believe me, it's real. After being in factory business for a while, you can tell a real from a fake by the quality of materials, the stitching, etc. Sort of like how geeks can tell a phishing email right away by how it sounds, simply by virtue of receiving so many phishing emails, as opposed to the Great Unwashed Morons of Middle America who actually think there is a Nigerian prince on the other end of the connection. What morons! Can you believe the Constitution permits these people to vote! "Yeah, I sent my life savings to a person who contacted me by email, but I still maintain my political enfranchisement"...puh-LEEZ! We need an intelligence test before allowing voting...but I digress.
The fact is that legitimate LV shops have opened up, and the fake shops have been shut down the the power of the government. That's the nice thing about living in China, you really do have a one-to-one relationship with the government you live under, rather than the "laissez-faire" non-relationship that Americans have with their federal government. I imagine that it must be the same in other civilized countries like Europe, even though I've never been there.
Funny thing is, the elimination of the fakes is driving innovation in the local market. Now that everyone can't get an LV bag for $50, local brands are appearing to fill the gap between "crap no-name bag" and "luxury genuine foreign brand". Mr. Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan is operating on a three-year-old dead meme. I'm not saying that LV fakes aren't available, I'm saying that they're not readily available in fake markets like they were a few years ago. This opens everything for the local innovators (those expressly given permits by the government to innovate, of course). Chinese brands are not well-known because local merchants always default to making fakes - a dumb idea intended to maximize corporate profits on the backs of the workers. With the wise move by the government (which, in China, is staffed by scientists, engineers, and other no-bullshit-style atheists) to permanently close the fake markets, the intended consequences are to make independent innovation a reality. With any luck, we can only hope that American corporate CEOs will find themselves regulated in the same way. Imagine how better America would be if the government were run by scientists and engineers, and nutso religion-mongers were not allowed to hold office, much less vote?
Has anyone here ever even considered the risks of sending a NUCLEAR REACTOR through the Earth's atmosphere on a rocket? What's the failure rate for rockets, 10%? That's a ten percent chance of spewing radioactivity all over the planet, totally unacceptable. Perhaps acceptable to teabaggers and other "America Firsters", but the rest of the sane population of the planet thinks differently. You can't differentiate between military application and those capabilities which are civil and commercial in nature. Nuclear anything is bad, according to leading environmental and climate change scientists (fully accredited with Ph.D's and serving as professors at elite universities, mind you). Don't forget that October 1-8 is "Keep Space for Peace Week".
Remember the 1989 launch of Galileo? The military-industrial complex made the decision for you, that such a horrible risk was "acceptable" and went through with launching a plutonium reactor through the biosphere even though dedicated, lifelong environmentalists evaluated the risk as unacceptable. There were those who bravely stood in protest of Galileo, but the American mainstream (i.e. right-wing) media portrayed the heroes as misguided idiots...just like today. Julian Assange, who has become such a big name due to his courageous work with Wiki Leaks, was moved enough by the campaign against the Galileo launch to feature it in the first chapter of his book.. Let's face it, if you're against WikiLeaks, you're pretty much a teabagger, or an anti-intellectual. How else do you justify disagreeing?
Protect the planet, no nukes in space! Again, this is an accredited opinion, backed by the best and most well-funded environmental NGOs, as well as university professors all across academia. The people on the other side of the argument are on the side of the Pentagon. Geekdom typically ignores its responsibilities to the planet in favor of "OOH, SHINY!" or the discredited triumphalism of the Apollo landings. All it takes is a "natural 1" on a d20 and the planet is fucked, permanently. What say you, geeks? Those of you on the political right may excuse yourselves from replying, as your opinions have already been pre-discredited by The Smart People in our society.
Myst? The game that was purely graphics, with no game there? Not surprised you don't like action games. Why not just say that, without the suspicious disclaimer about wanting to warp children's minds? What the hell...
That's Chinese for you. They are pathological about faking - even when the same goods could be sold legitimately - even when they have a good product! They'll still make it a counterfeit.
There's a story I like to tell about stickers. A friend of mine was sourcing some sunglasses. He asks, "Do they have UV protection?" Evidently there's some confusion about translating ultraviolet radiation into Chinese. The translator goes back and forth for a few minutes. Finally the Chinese boss perks up and says, in English, "Oh, yes, we have sticker!" True story.
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Since when is taking photos of naked people a crime? Playboy magazine has been around since 1953. You Christian bigots really need to get a life.
Two questions: who is the Christian programmer who put this openly theist comment in the config, and why hasn't he been fired yet? I assume Wikipedia has a policy against bigots on staff.
A customer is someone who gives you money. Firefox users aren't Firefox customers. When you use open source, you take what the devs give you, and say thank you. You don't like it? Fork the project and make your own, that's how it works.
Whoa - holy crap! How did a racist comment get modded up to +4???
The common cold is not strep throat. They are two entirely different diseases. A cold is caused by viruses and there is no medical treatment on this planet, in any hospital anywhere, that can do anything to help. Strep throat is a bacterial infection. Idiot anti-science morons...it's people like you who go to the hospital and scream until you get prescribed something, anything, regardless of how it affects antibiotic resistance in the rest of the population.
I'm curious: if the wife had come in with a serious disease and instead been given a cursory examination and sent home with allergy medication, what would have happened in Italy? Just say, oh well, the hospital was negligent, nothing to be done?
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. If your wife DID have a serious lung disease, you WOULD have sued the hospital for not doing enough tests, and the hospital WOULD have been legally culpable. Freaking weaboos.
Actually, they do. Europe, especially. But I'm sure that has everything to do with the FDA wanting to make sure new treatments don't kill more patients than they save.
Huh. I had exactly the opposite experience. Coming into my first government job on contract, I was ready to bust ass and get things done, or else. You know, work or perish. The government offices were incredibly laid-back. I specifically remember a long list of faxes I had to send out, and it was 5pm and I wasn't done yet. I was shocked when the boss (appeared on public TV on Sundays) said "knock off, we'll pick it up tomorrow." If it had been anywhere else I'd have been there until I was done. The other shock was seeing the career employees at these places and their unhurried approach to work. After that, I never wondered why it took 12 weeks to get my new license in the mail, or whatever.
Socialism is the answer. The means of production are owned by the government. Instead of greedy corporate CEOs, we'll have professional government employees running companies. These people have no incentive to make a profit, so they'll do a much better job running things.
I thought the solid surfaces of gas giants weren't rocky at all, but rather hydrogen compressed to a metallic state under extreme pressure? Without the pressure, the gas would melt and then boil away. I thought rocky planets were basically accretions of asteroid junk.
This is where America would benefit from a more socialist method of wealth redistribution between schools districts.
*whoosh* Way to totally miss the point, literalist. The situation was a metaphor.
Amazing. The guy was certified to fly the Messerschmitt 109, the Heinkel 111, and the MiG 17. From the link:
ALL MAKES AND MODELS OF SINGLE AND MULTI ENGINE PISTON POWERED AUTHORIZED AIRCRAFT. (This is the big one. If the FAA gives you this type rating, to fly ANYTHING that has one or two piston engines, you are in a very elite class of pilot. Very few pilots get this rating. There might be more guys playing quarterback in the NFL than pilots that have this rating.)
Here's a moral dilemma for you. You are a journalist, on the docks down by the river taking some photos. It's a nice day, partly cloudy, about 1pm. A man floats by, screaming for help, obviously drowning. If you had the choice between taking a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the man drowning, or throwing the man a rope, which shutter speed and setting would you use?
First, he was 74, not 80. I don't know where you get that bullshit. Second, the crash was due to mechanical failure. See photo here. Third, you think maybe because the guy is living life, racing fighter planes, is why he's above ground at the age of 74 when many of his peers are six feet under or pissing themselves at nursing homes? He passed the physical exams with flying colors, which include reflexes and eyesight. I'm sure he would be the first to disqualify himself if he felt even the least bit unworthy to fly.
Yes, you're the only one who thinks it's strange. Asshole.
No, wrong. The very idea of "teenager" did not exist until 1950s America. The idea that there is a separate stage between childhood and adulthood is a new one. The fact that people think it's always been this way because it's been this way since they were born shows a sad lack of education and knowledge of history.
Also, anecdotal evidence can be inaccurate, sometimes based on anecdotes, second-hand accounts of events or hearsay.
Anecdotal evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, can be used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalising from an insufficient amount of evidence. For example "my grandfather smoked like a chimney and died healthy in a car crash at the age of 99" does not disprove the proposition that "smoking markedly increases the probability of cancer and heart disease at a relatively early age". While the evidence is true, it does not warrant the conclusion made from it.
The reason is that the diamond planet is not being used to advance a political objective. Climate science is. It's always unfortunate to see science politicized, but global warming mongers are abusing science to create an atmosphere of urgency in order to pass legislation to satisfy a leftist agenda. Sorry to say, but that's the truth. All of science suffers, but to global warming proponents it's worth the cost if they win.
So....what? If this time, we give more difficult tests to religionists than atheists, we can block out the morons and have a better government. Heck, we don't even need to bias the tests - we just need to include a question like: How old is the Earth (1) 6000 years old (2) 6 billion years old. Anyone who answers (1) is a freaking moron and can't vote. What's wrong with that? Just imagine how much better our society would be if religionists were disenfranchised. The Tea Party would disappear overnight, and who among the following would disagree with that: Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Dan Savage, Paul Krugman, Julian Assange, Hugo Chavez, Janeane Garofalo, Al Franken, Barack Obama, Micheal Moore, Evo Morales, Hillary Clinton. Can you seriously say you are on the opposite end of the agreement of these intellectual heavyweights? The problem was not that the intelligence test was being abused. The problem was the Blacks were being disenfranchised due to their race.
Just as I expected, the right-wing nutbag majority modded my post down to -1. Typical. If you agree with Ron Paul on immigration issues, I can only assume you're one of them. Get a fucking education at a real university, and learn what modern thought is on immigration. Hint: it's not fences, it's welcoming diversity.
For what it's worth, it's now easier in China to buy real Louis Vuitton bags than fakes. Several years ago, the fake markets were wide open and real LV stores were nonexistent. However, since the Great Cleanup of 2008 (Olympic year), the fake markets have been largely shut down. Real LV stores have opened legitimate operations. There's one within two miles of my house, and believe me, it's real. After being in factory business for a while, you can tell a real from a fake by the quality of materials, the stitching, etc. Sort of like how geeks can tell a phishing email right away by how it sounds, simply by virtue of receiving so many phishing emails, as opposed to the Great Unwashed Morons of Middle America who actually think there is a Nigerian prince on the other end of the connection. What morons! Can you believe the Constitution permits these people to vote! "Yeah, I sent my life savings to a person who contacted me by email, but I still maintain my political enfranchisement"...puh-LEEZ! We need an intelligence test before allowing voting...but I digress.
The fact is that legitimate LV shops have opened up, and the fake shops have been shut down the the power of the government. That's the nice thing about living in China, you really do have a one-to-one relationship with the government you live under, rather than the "laissez-faire" non-relationship that Americans have with their federal government. I imagine that it must be the same in other civilized countries like Europe, even though I've never been there.
Funny thing is, the elimination of the fakes is driving innovation in the local market. Now that everyone can't get an LV bag for $50, local brands are appearing to fill the gap between "crap no-name bag" and "luxury genuine foreign brand". Mr. Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan is operating on a three-year-old dead meme. I'm not saying that LV fakes aren't available, I'm saying that they're not readily available in fake markets like they were a few years ago. This opens everything for the local innovators (those expressly given permits by the government to innovate, of course). Chinese brands are not well-known because local merchants always default to making fakes - a dumb idea intended to maximize corporate profits on the backs of the workers. With the wise move by the government (which, in China, is staffed by scientists, engineers, and other no-bullshit-style atheists) to permanently close the fake markets, the intended consequences are to make independent innovation a reality. With any luck, we can only hope that American corporate CEOs will find themselves regulated in the same way. Imagine how better America would be if the government were run by scientists and engineers, and nutso religion-mongers were not allowed to hold office, much less vote?
Has anyone here ever even considered the risks of sending a NUCLEAR REACTOR through the Earth's atmosphere on a rocket? What's the failure rate for rockets, 10%? That's a ten percent chance of spewing radioactivity all over the planet, totally unacceptable. Perhaps acceptable to teabaggers and other "America Firsters", but the rest of the sane population of the planet thinks differently. You can't differentiate between military application and those capabilities which are civil and commercial in nature. Nuclear anything is bad, according to leading environmental and climate change scientists (fully accredited with Ph.D's and serving as professors at elite universities, mind you). Don't forget that October 1-8 is "Keep Space for Peace Week".
Remember the 1989 launch of Galileo? The military-industrial complex made the decision for you, that such a horrible risk was "acceptable" and went through with launching a plutonium reactor through the biosphere even though dedicated, lifelong environmentalists evaluated the risk as unacceptable. There were those who bravely stood in protest of Galileo, but the American mainstream (i.e. right-wing) media portrayed the heroes as misguided idiots...just like today. Julian Assange, who has become such a big name due to his courageous work with Wiki Leaks, was moved enough by the campaign against the Galileo launch to feature it in the first chapter of his book.. Let's face it, if you're against WikiLeaks, you're pretty much a teabagger, or an anti-intellectual. How else do you justify disagreeing?
Protect the planet, no nukes in space! Again, this is an accredited opinion, backed by the best and most well-funded environmental NGOs, as well as university professors all across academia. The people on the other side of the argument are on the side of the Pentagon. Geekdom typically ignores its responsibilities to the planet in favor of "OOH, SHINY!" or the discredited triumphalism of the Apollo landings. All it takes is a "natural 1" on a d20 and the planet is fucked, permanently. What say you, geeks? Those of you on the political right may excuse yourselves from replying, as your opinions have already been pre-discredited by The Smart People in our society.
Myst? The game that was purely graphics, with no game there? Not surprised you don't like action games. Why not just say that, without the suspicious disclaimer about wanting to warp children's minds? What the hell...
That's Chinese for you. They are pathological about faking - even when the same goods could be sold legitimately - even when they have a good product! They'll still make it a counterfeit.
There's a story I like to tell about stickers. A friend of mine was sourcing some sunglasses. He asks, "Do they have UV protection?" Evidently there's some confusion about translating ultraviolet radiation into Chinese. The translator goes back and forth for a few minutes. Finally the Chinese boss perks up and says, in English, "Oh, yes, we have sticker!" True story.