Fuck you, asshole. My two year old is capable of things my 11 year old is not. My wife and I have discussed her quitting her job so our son can get the help he needs, because adult level doses of amphetamines aren't cutting it. My son scores in the 80th percentile in reading comprehension, and in the 3rd percentile in auditory memory. For every 30 minutes his classmates spend on homework, he spends 2 hours - that's with an adult sitting right next to him refocusing him every 30 seconds. In fifth grade.
I'm an abuser? Come over here, cocksucker, and let me take the frustrations I've felt over the last 8 years and pound your goddamned face in.
Fuck you dude. You don't know what you are talking about.
The failure of Yucca mountain had nothing to do with government. The failure of YM had everything to do with an anti-nuclear lobby that believes we shouldn't be operating nuclear power plants. By opposing new storage sites at every turn, the make it more difficult to operate the existing plants, and much more difficult to build new ones.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here in the US, the government doesn't get to just decide to do something and everyone else has to live with it. We give citizens the opportunity to participate - indirectly, through elections, and directly, through the courts. Enough opposition to Yucca existed that the people were able to prevent the government from doing something they didn't want them to do. If you consider that a failure, then I want nothing to do with governments you consider successes.
Our relationship with the French is complicated. But let me make one thing crystal clear - some of us (usually the liberals) have not forgotten our debt to the French. We owe them our liberty, our philosophy, and our country. In our minds, the French will always be fast friends - even if it seems we do not get along. That debt can never be repaid.
That aside:
1. The number 1 European nationality in the US is British. You know what the best thing is between the British and the French? The Channel.
2. After WW2, the US gave lots of money to countries all over Europe. Etiquette was that you paid a token of it back, and the rest of the debt was forgiven. France never made an effort to pay any back, and that has irritated some Yanks.
3. Making fun of the French is, well - fun. The French are a prideful people (and Americans have a bit of an inferiority complex at times), so watching them come unglued when we call them cheese eating surrender monkeys is entertaining. Plus, they love Jerry Lewis, which none of us understand.
It's not elitist crap. It's well researched sociology and economics. Spending money in some areas saves you money in others.
You are damn straight I don't give a damn about the poor. Emotional arguments are for conservatives. I base my decisions on reality, and the reality is that giving people a pittance for food ends up keeping a small percentage out of prison, and overall saves us money. It's not welfare, it's not charity. It's the same as spending money tuning up your car when it is running fine, so you don't spend more later on a breakdown. To the clueless, a tune up looks like wasted money.
As far as charitable giving amongst conservatives? I'm sure as long it is convenient for them, and they approve of the people they are giving to, that yes they give more to the poor. I believe that you should look after the poor even when it isn't convenient or you don't approve. You know, all the people, all the time. Why? Because it makes economic sense.
The reality is that the budget cannot be balanced right now without destroying the federal government. It can't happen. We have to run deficits for a while. Or, alternatively, where do you propose we cut 1.7 trillion out of the budget that won't eventually cost us more money somewhere else? I mean I know you conservatives get so pissed off that someone might get a free meal, but over here in reality we realize that it is cheaper to give someone a sandwich than put them in prison and give them a sandwich, which is what happens when you remove the social safety net.
You are assuming a fallacy - that corporations will always pass on extra costs to consumers. This is fundamentally untrue. Corporations set their prices by what the market will bear. Sometimes costs are passed on, but usually not.
A great example of this is the moving industry. During the last gas price hike, the moving industry experienced an over 100% increase in their major expense - fuel. But those costs were not passed on to customers, because the market would not bear it. As a result, the independent owner/operators had to eat the costs, driving many of them into bankruptcy. Owner/operators all over the country are selling their trucks, because the moving companies refused to pass on those costs.
I know it is hard for you to understand, but it is possible for people to believe Bush did not do enough and did too little at the same time. For example, I believe security at our ports is abysmal. If someone wanted to sneak a nuke into the country, they could through our port system. Bush did not do enough to secure those. On the other hand, he went completely overboard when he had people waterboarded. We have executed people for doing the same thing to our soldiers.
This can't be summed up in a 5 second soundbite, so most Republicans can't pay attention long enough to grasp it. Which is sad, really. The Democrats are going to have to be their own opposition party, because the remaining Republicans are all incompetent.
Yes, but any situation that requires marines requires violence. You don't send the marines on peacekeeping missions. You send them places any sane person would run away from. We want the marines crazy. It's what they are for.
And frankly, how the hell are you supposed to start the charcoal in the 'chimney' starter without newspaper? I use printer paper. Specifically, old manuals that I printed out that are no longer needed.
This is fundamentally false. The reason that the majority of school districts in the US do not segregate by ability is that when you tell someone that they are stupid, eventually they believe it. Tracking students leads to much poorer performance by the students at the lower end.
Yes, this does mean that the students at the upper end don't get the education they could have. But they aren't the ones that need the help.They're smart. They will do just fine.
Because the last time we saw a flu with this mortality rate, it killed between 20 and 100 million. Back then, we had a sixth of the world's current population. So, taking into account modern medicine (the following is just a wild ass guess), let's say it only kills 10% of what it would have in 1918. That's half a million dead in the US alone (300 million people *.4 infection penetration *.04 mortality *.1 = 480,000 dead.) That's more than Katrina, 9/11, the tsunami, and all of the earthquakes for the last 10 years combined. In the US alone. Can you imagine Mumbai?
As of Monday of last week, we knew two things that this flu had in common with the Spanish flu of 1918: that this flu killed healthy adults between 20 and 40, and that the mortality rate given the information at the time was between 4 and 5 percent. In the last week, those mortality figures have not held up, but what we knew last Monday looked positively apocalyptic. We still don't have enough information to rule this thing out as a major plague because we know of less than a thousand cases outside of Mexico. We just don't have a large enough sample, and in 1918, it started out weak in the spring, and slaughtered in the fall. So, given the stakes, I think a little careful scrutiny is warranted. You don't mess around with plague, man. Out of all the natural disasters humans face, it is absolutely the most deadly, and most certain. It will happen. Maybe not this time, but it will.
Because the last time we saw a flu with this mortality rate, it killed between 20 and 100 million. Back then, we had a sixth of the world's current population. So, taking into account modern medicine (the following is just a wild ass guess), let's say it only kills 10% of what it would have in 1918. That's half a million dead in the US alone (300 million people *.4 infection penetration *.04 mortality *.1 = 480,000 dead.) That's more than Katrina, 9/11, the tsunami, and all of the earthquakes for the last 10 years combined. In the US alone. Can you imagine Mumbai?
That's a whole lot of fucking car accidents. Our information has improved in the last week, but what we knew last Monday looked positively apocalyptic. We still don't have enough information to rule this thing out as a major plague. So, given the stakes, I think a little careful scrutiny is warranted. You don't mess around with plague, man. Out of all the natural disasters humans face, it is absolutely the most deadly, and most certain. It will happen. Maybe not this time, but it will.
Sure you can. I'm 36, with 2 kids. After the kids are in bed, I get in at least 2 or 3 hours of gaming every night. It does mean that I don't get to watch TV though - good trade if you ask me.
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I'm an abuser? Come over here, cocksucker, and let me take the frustrations I've felt over the last 8 years and pound your goddamned face in.
She wasn't doing it because her status let her get away with it. She was doing it to reinforce her status. Big difference.
Been using this analogy for years. Swap oven for chef for CPU, and it works wonders.
How much time did you just spend on it?
Yes, I'm a typical slashdotter. I did not read the article.
Feel free to go read something else. Tool.
Then I humbly submit that you and your friends should stay away from the box with the blinking lights. Computers are probably too much for you.
I use the gmail one, works great. Every time I have a browser open, it automatically checks for me. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1264
Wow, you must be so miserable. Your tinfoil hat is too tight.
The failure of Yucca mountain had nothing to do with government. The failure of YM had everything to do with an anti-nuclear lobby that believes we shouldn't be operating nuclear power plants. By opposing new storage sites at every turn, the make it more difficult to operate the existing plants, and much more difficult to build new ones.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here in the US, the government doesn't get to just decide to do something and everyone else has to live with it. We give citizens the opportunity to participate - indirectly, through elections, and directly, through the courts. Enough opposition to Yucca existed that the people were able to prevent the government from doing something they didn't want them to do. If you consider that a failure, then I want nothing to do with governments you consider successes.
That aside:
1. The number 1 European nationality in the US is British. You know what the best thing is between the British and the French? The Channel.
2. After WW2, the US gave lots of money to countries all over Europe. Etiquette was that you paid a token of it back, and the rest of the debt was forgiven. France never made an effort to pay any back, and that has irritated some Yanks.
3. Making fun of the French is, well - fun. The French are a prideful people (and Americans have a bit of an inferiority complex at times), so watching them come unglued when we call them cheese eating surrender monkeys is entertaining. Plus, they love Jerry Lewis, which none of us understand.
Sorry, my original source was incorrect. The actual sentence was 15 years hard labor.
You are damn straight I don't give a damn about the poor. Emotional arguments are for conservatives. I base my decisions on reality, and the reality is that giving people a pittance for food ends up keeping a small percentage out of prison, and overall saves us money. It's not welfare, it's not charity. It's the same as spending money tuning up your car when it is running fine, so you don't spend more later on a breakdown. To the clueless, a tune up looks like wasted money.
As far as charitable giving amongst conservatives? I'm sure as long it is convenient for them, and they approve of the people they are giving to, that yes they give more to the poor. I believe that you should look after the poor even when it isn't convenient or you don't approve. You know, all the people, all the time. Why? Because it makes economic sense.
The reality is that the budget cannot be balanced right now without destroying the federal government. It can't happen. We have to run deficits for a while. Or, alternatively, where do you propose we cut 1.7 trillion out of the budget that won't eventually cost us more money somewhere else? I mean I know you conservatives get so pissed off that someone might get a free meal, but over here in reality we realize that it is cheaper to give someone a sandwich than put them in prison and give them a sandwich, which is what happens when you remove the social safety net.
A great example of this is the moving industry. During the last gas price hike, the moving industry experienced an over 100% increase in their major expense - fuel. But those costs were not passed on to customers, because the market would not bear it. As a result, the independent owner/operators had to eat the costs, driving many of them into bankruptcy. Owner/operators all over the country are selling their trucks, because the moving companies refused to pass on those costs.
This can't be summed up in a 5 second soundbite, so most Republicans can't pay attention long enough to grasp it. Which is sad, really. The Democrats are going to have to be their own opposition party, because the remaining Republicans are all incompetent.
Yes, but any situation that requires marines requires violence. You don't send the marines on peacekeeping missions. You send them places any sane person would run away from. We want the marines crazy. It's what they are for.
And frankly, how the hell are you supposed to start the charcoal in the 'chimney' starter without newspaper? I use printer paper. Specifically, old manuals that I printed out that are no longer needed.
Yes, this does mean that the students at the upper end don't get the education they could have. But they aren't the ones that need the help.They're smart. They will do just fine.
As of Monday of last week, we knew two things that this flu had in common with the Spanish flu of 1918: that this flu killed healthy adults between 20 and 40, and that the mortality rate given the information at the time was between 4 and 5 percent. In the last week, those mortality figures have not held up, but what we knew last Monday looked positively apocalyptic. We still don't have enough information to rule this thing out as a major plague because we know of less than a thousand cases outside of Mexico. We just don't have a large enough sample, and in 1918, it started out weak in the spring, and slaughtered in the fall. So, given the stakes, I think a little careful scrutiny is warranted. You don't mess around with plague, man. Out of all the natural disasters humans face, it is absolutely the most deadly, and most certain. It will happen. Maybe not this time, but it will.
That's a whole lot of fucking car accidents. Our information has improved in the last week, but what we knew last Monday looked positively apocalyptic. We still don't have enough information to rule this thing out as a major plague. So, given the stakes, I think a little careful scrutiny is warranted. You don't mess around with plague, man. Out of all the natural disasters humans face, it is absolutely the most deadly, and most certain. It will happen. Maybe not this time, but it will.
Has her own PC, right next to mine. Surfs Perez while I conquer the world; recently got into Peggle.
Sure you can. I'm 36, with 2 kids. After the kids are in bed, I get in at least 2 or 3 hours of gaming every night. It does mean that I don't get to watch TV though - good trade if you ask me.
In case anyone is interested, this is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Democrats disagree. Republicans line up.
Dude, you need to lay off the Fox News. You've been smoking a few too many teabags.