Considering that the pay difference between teaching and the private sector is something like 30-50k a year for someone with a masters... how do you expect to attract top people to the job? You get what you pay for, and it looks like you want a KMart quality educational system.
I thought Nagrand was beautiful. Nice to have a well-lighted open environment in a video game instead of the usual son-of-Id toestubbers. The sky reminds me of a Wyeth, and the floating 'islands' are a nice touch.
If there are suckers who don't bother to read the print and take the steps necessary to opt out, and they go around telling people that the company is engaged in fraud when they aren't, those people should be sued. It's libel to make false statements like that, and there really isn't anything else that can be done to put a stop to it.
I'm simply swinging my fists and walking forward. If there are siblings who don't bother to get out of my way, and they go around telling mom that I'm hitting them, those people should be spanked.
Punks and Fools use bandwidth, cool guys just check their email? Not sure what you're getting at here. The ISPs dont' come down from the mountain and bless us with a few gigs a month, we pay them for a service and expect them to deliver what they claim.
It's not so much that the logical fallacy doesn't invalidate a point so much as it doesn't prove one, and even less does it support the counter-argument. I think most people just wave the term around to sound smart, despite never having taken a logic or rhetoric course or havng read anything on the subject beyond the wikipedia page.
More to the point, it's important to know when someone is trying to persuade you to a certain line of reasoning, and when someone is just calling some guy a douche.
Yeah, starting with an ad hominem makes me want to take your arguments seriously.
I know Argumentum Ad Hominem has been waved in your face for a while now, and it might be the only logical fallacy that springs to mind easily. Here's a handy list that you can refer to when you need to make your point and sound like you actually paid attention in high school.
Something else to keep in mind is that a logical fallacy does not automatically invalidate the point some guy was trying to make. Yes, it's an ad hominem attack. Good on you for spotting it. Now tell us what that means to you.
Is there a reason we actually need tortured analogies for something as simple as this? We all get it. You may or may not agree, but bringing your car into the situation has to be the slashdot version of mentioning nazis in usenet.
The federal government of the U.S. was designed for four things and, except for minor details of things that did not exist and were not covered, needs to stick to those four things.
Why? Most of us (republicans, democrats, misc.) are very happy with large government. Care to explain your point of view?
He's saying, in effect, "no all of the Jews were not killed in the holocaust." It should be pretty easy to demonstrate that a country of 32 million people all but vanished, so feel free to throw up a few links.
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low paying job + the ability to fuck with rich foreigners = funtime for Bubba (or your local equivalent). Do not mess with bored public servants.
This isn't personal, but needs to be trotted out every now and then.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Our gift economy will destroy your way of life.
Considering that the pay difference between teaching and the private sector is something like 30-50k a year for someone with a masters... how do you expect to attract top people to the job? You get what you pay for, and it looks like you want a KMart quality educational system.
You got it, pal.
This statement is probably provably false
Don't do that.
I thought Nagrand was beautiful. Nice to have a well-lighted open environment in a video game instead of the usual son-of-Id toestubbers. The sky reminds me of a Wyeth, and the floating 'islands' are a nice touch.
However, given that the poles are due for a reversal
There's no way to tell when the next reversal will come along. We're certainly not 'due' for one.
((if a reversal happens when I post this, that would simply be irony. It wouldn't mean I'm wrong!))
If there are suckers who don't bother to read the print and take the steps necessary to opt out, and they go around telling people that the company is engaged in fraud when they aren't, those people should be sued. It's libel to make false statements like that, and there really isn't anything else that can be done to put a stop to it.
I'm simply swinging my fists and walking forward. If there are siblings who don't bother to get out of my way, and they go around telling mom that I'm hitting them, those people should be spanked.
Could both of you take it to email or something? Jesus.
Good for you, Mr. Exception. Mr. Rule is the guy filling your soft drink.
Punks and Fools use bandwidth, cool guys just check their email? Not sure what you're getting at here. The ISPs dont' come down from the mountain and bless us with a few gigs a month, we pay them for a service and expect them to deliver what they claim.
Platform flame wars are for people who don't do any real work on their computers.
Somewhere a high school teacher is quietly crying himself to sleep.
this is one of the problems Democrats seemed to have, they can't connect with the people, the voters.
You've got to remember that these voters are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
It's not so much that the logical fallacy doesn't invalidate a point so much as it doesn't prove one, and even less does it support the counter-argument. I think most people just wave the term around to sound smart, despite never having taken a logic or rhetoric course or havng read anything on the subject beyond the wikipedia page.
More to the point, it's important to know when someone is trying to persuade you to a certain line of reasoning, and when someone is just calling some guy a douche.
Yeah, starting with an ad hominem makes me want to take your arguments seriously.
I know Argumentum Ad Hominem has been waved in your face for a while now, and it might be the only logical fallacy that springs to mind easily. Here's a handy list that you can refer to when you need to make your point and sound like you actually paid attention in high school.
Something else to keep in mind is that a logical fallacy does not automatically invalidate the point some guy was trying to make. Yes, it's an ad hominem attack. Good on you for spotting it. Now tell us what that means to you.
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Is there a reason we actually need tortured analogies for something as simple as this? We all get it. You may or may not agree, but bringing your car into the situation has to be the slashdot version of mentioning nazis in usenet.
What part of the constitution disallows large government?
Depends on if you're quoting Simpsons or Jhonen Vasquez.
The federal government of the U.S. was designed for four things and, except for minor details of things that did not exist and were not covered, needs to stick to those four things.
Why? Most of us (republicans, democrats, misc.) are very happy with large government. Care to explain your point of view?
Uh, ok "Scoot80". Bet you get a lot of funny looks buying beer.
You must work for an airline.
He's saying, in effect, "no all of the Jews were not killed in the holocaust." It should be pretty easy to demonstrate that a country of 32 million people all but vanished, so feel free to throw up a few links.
Good to have you back, Feynman. We missed you.
No mod points when I need them, but that's probaby the best take on the situation I've seen yet.