you can chase rhetorical circles all you want but you cannot address this fact:
the people should WANT suggestions for improvement, and the response TFA author got indicates a "superiority complex" mentality
this is correct, and no matter what your experience you cannot contradict it, given what you have indicated
they should welcome suggestions, TFA author was not welcomed and was instead give a line of BS
the fact that you think that b/c you were in the ice line once makes any of the above not correct **shows that Burners and Burning Man is about demonstrating abstract superiority**
they should welcome suggestions, TFA author instead was treated insultingly and rudely....ACCEPT THIS FACT
are you saying that we should compare China and the US on issues like human rights, pollution, civil rights, democracy, and compare the military actions of the countries throughout history? How far back do we go?
is that what you're implying here? that if we did some sort of "side by side" comparison that China would ***NOT*** be a totalitarian, authoritarian state?
China is a teeming, polluted, authoritarian clusterfsk of humanity...good synergy for facebook.com
I'm sure they have tried it, along with lots of other ideas.
except if you read TFA, it's clear the author asked about it and was told it was a "food safety issue" which he checked on and found to be untrue
But that's not even what this is about. What this is about is someone (you) who *really* has no fucking clue what he's talking about, trying to pretend like he does.
again...you ARE indeed proving my point, that Burners like you who over-mystify something just to feel 'cool' and 'in the know' are the problem, pasted below from my OP comment:
...the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
when it's said that someone is at "X year old level" in a language, they mean sentence complexity and vocabulary, not complexity of thought or level of intelligence
YMMV, but in my experience, you only need 2 verb tenses and maybe 300 words of vocabulary to be "yourself" in another language...most human uses simple words to make complex thoughts so you don't need that much to have an identifiable "personality"
I kind of wish we could just ditch "neanderthal" and "cro-magnon" from the lexicon entirely...Cro-Mags are "AMH" and IMHO all the evidence shows that Neanderthals are AMH as well...so let's start from scratch with the genomic comparisons and make a new nomenclature
Back to Earth's Children....from reading the wikipedia, it seems like it might be similar to the film "Clan of the Cave Bear"
Pretty obvious. Because if they didn't care, they could simply not volunteer? The whole point of volunteering is to make something better than it would be if you didn't.
false choice....it's not a binary...it's not a choice between only either a) not volunteer or b) get ice slowly and not improve the system
those are not the only two options
the volunteers should try TFA's idea without a big hassle or drama...they should WELCOME a solution that makes it faster...and so should YOU
you really are continuing to prove my point with all this
We've got to stop with the Neanderthal nonsense...
Neanderthals are *not* the magical missing link, nor does proving/disproving the existence of God or the truth of the theory of Evolution...none of this is in play
This is about legacy academia and how century-old academia wars are burdening good research today.
Clovis Culture theory has been the bane of anthropologists and archaeologists for decades...the only reason it was so entrenched is b/c of flaws in academia.
Neanderthals are the same. The whole notion of "Neanderthals" being a separate thing is just a miscategorization of traits that modern humans have. Maybe they are rare, and have become less attractive over the millenia, but not any different than any other trait.
The traits we collectively call "Neanderthal" are a distinction without a difference.
It's a failure of science that some ideas are irrationally difficult to disprove. Usually it is because people are using the research wrongly to prove a non-science point.
Again...Neanderthals can be variations on modern humans and it **does not disprove evolution!!!**
doesn't matter if they're volunteers...but thanks for confirming for everyone that my first point was accurate, while simultaneously *contributing nothing* to the actual conversation
1st problem is in bold...see, Burning Man is about overcomplicating and mystifying something to make it have social cachet...****ANYTIME**** you ask a question like this to a Burning Man veteran, you should expect a bullshit answer...somehow it will be bullshit
Arctica is a group of people volunteering to dispense ice at burning man.
Feel free to keep disliking something you know nothing about.
So, how does the fact that "Arctica" uses volunteers negate the point I made here:
in other words, the problem lies with the ice truck people ("Arctica")...they are just douchebags...**they could try to make it better but they don't care**....the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
Nothing you said addresses that at all...
They can be volunteers and still douchebags...the point is it's obvious they could do it faster but they dont care
which i feel confirms my theory about Burning Man, as does your last comment
are you saying that Japan does not pad it's crime rates? Or are you criticizing the source in the particular movie, or using movies as sources no matter what, or...?
just criticizing a source with no context is trolling...
The problem w/ the "women only" conclusion is that it myopically focuses on **ONE** factor as if it is the determining factor in mission success.
Part of this is the fault of NASA admin/beauracracy: "We can't spare the weight" is an excuse for all kinds of ideas NASA wanted to kill...
"Too heavy" is almost a trope in NASA/space circles...it's the go-to way for beauracrats to make their presence known.
As others have pointed out, weight and food requirements are not a determining factor in mission success.
At best, the "weight is everything" mentality is obsolete...IMHO it was never about weight ultimately (of course it matters to mission planning)...it was just a handy excuse.
Also...there is some misplaced feminism here...women have been dismissed from science b/c sexism for centuries, and often the reasons given are something **other than gender**...a beaurecratic answer that belies the real motivation for the decision.
All in all, dumb analysis like in TFA are a legacy of sexism and bad beaurecratic management...it's like the sexism equivalent of what the CIA calls "blowback"
I'd asked a handful of Burning Man veterans about this, and they said that Arctica had tried this at one point, but was required to stop by Nevada health code regulations, which treated ice as a "food product" and therefore said that it could not be moved out onto the counter until an order has been placed. This sounded puzzling to me...
this is why i don't like Burning Man...
1st problem is in bold...see, Burning Man is about overcomplicating and mystifying something to make it have social cachet...****ANYTIME**** you ask a question like this to a Burning Man veteran, you should expect a bullshit answer...somehow it will be bullshit
2nd problem is in italics...the problem is not trusting your own common sense! obviously they are full of shit and just making stuff up to sound like they know what is going on
in other words, the problem lies with the ice truck people ("Arctica")...they are just douchebags...they could try to make it better but they don't care....the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
If you're in a position to actually hire new graduates, how much do you care about applicants' alma maters?
depends on the school!
some schools matter, and some do not....and some that matter are a benefit, and some are a drawback!
if an applicant came from a program that distinguishes itself among others by *requiring all grads to make a capstone project* for example...that could be a point in the applicants favor over others who did not do a capstone
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IMHO, either Ebola is easier to transmit than we are being told _OR_ these Ebola doctors who get the disease are FSKING IDIOTS
if it is so damn hard to get, how the hell do Doctors who should be the best at following procedure can get?
i think people are just morons, no matter what degrees they have
you can chase rhetorical circles all you want but you cannot address this fact:
the people should WANT suggestions for improvement, and the response TFA author got indicates a "superiority complex" mentality
this is correct, and no matter what your experience you cannot contradict it, given what you have indicated
they should welcome suggestions, TFA author was not welcomed and was instead give a line of BS
the fact that you think that b/c you were in the ice line once makes any of the above not correct **shows that Burners and Burning Man is about demonstrating abstract superiority**
they should welcome suggestions, TFA author instead was treated insultingly and rudely....ACCEPT THIS FACT
I have to disagree.
do you? what are you disagreeing with?
YMMV means "your milage may vary"...it's a way to qualify your statement so pendantic people won't respond the way you have
so are you disagreeing with me when I indicated YMMV? do you NOT think the phenomenon varies by person?
or do you disagree that what I said was what i experienced? are you saying that I was NOT able to 'be myself' within the constraints I laid out?
if you are sure then you should have more detail...i said "2 tenses" and so if not 2 then how many? how do you know?
calling her "Chinese" makes as much sense as calling Barack Obama "Kenyan"
so you're criticizing the dumb Time article or w/e it was that I read?
are you saying I'm wrong somehow for saying "i read she was Chinese"?
i demand an explanation
i read she was Chinese somewhere...hmm...
what is the point of this question?
are you saying that we should compare China and the US on issues like human rights, pollution, civil rights, democracy, and compare the military actions of the countries throughout history? How far back do we go?
is that what you're implying here? that if we did some sort of "side by side" comparison that China would ***NOT*** be a totalitarian, authoritarian state?
China is a teeming, polluted, authoritarian clusterfsk of humanity...good synergy for facebook.com
I'm sure they have tried it, along with lots of other ideas.
except if you read TFA, it's clear the author asked about it and was told it was a "food safety issue" which he checked on and found to be untrue
But that's not even what this is about. What this is about is someone (you) who *really* has no fucking clue what he's talking about, trying to pretend like he does.
again...you ARE indeed proving my point, that Burners like you who over-mystify something just to feel 'cool' and 'in the know' are the problem, pasted below from my OP comment:
...the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
and you did just that in the quoted portion above
to be fair, that's still bragable
when it's said that someone is at "X year old level" in a language, they mean sentence complexity and vocabulary, not complexity of thought or level of intelligence
YMMV, but in my experience, you only need 2 verb tenses and maybe 300 words of vocabulary to be "yourself" in another language...most human uses simple words to make complex thoughts so you don't need that much to have an identifiable "personality"
China and it's totalitarian, authoritarian government and lack of individual rights make great synergy for facebook.com
also: his wife is Chinese
whoa!
mind=blown
I checked it out...seems interesting
I kind of wish we could just ditch "neanderthal" and "cro-magnon" from the lexicon entirely...Cro-Mags are "AMH" and IMHO all the evidence shows that Neanderthals are AMH as well...so let's start from scratch with the genomic comparisons and make a new nomenclature
Back to Earth's Children....from reading the wikipedia, it seems like it might be similar to the film "Clan of the Cave Bear"
Pretty obvious. Because if they didn't care, they could simply not volunteer? The whole point of volunteering is to make something better than it would be if you didn't.
false choice....it's not a binary...it's not a choice between only either a) not volunteer or b) get ice slowly and not improve the system
those are not the only two options
the volunteers should try TFA's idea without a big hassle or drama...they should WELCOME a solution that makes it faster...and so should YOU
you really are continuing to prove my point with all this
We've got to stop with the Neanderthal nonsense...
Neanderthals are *not* the magical missing link, nor does proving/disproving the existence of God or the truth of the theory of Evolution...none of this is in play
This is about legacy academia and how century-old academia wars are burdening good research today.
Another example: Clovis Culture http://www.examiner.com/articl...
Clovis Culture theory has been the bane of anthropologists and archaeologists for decades...the only reason it was so entrenched is b/c of flaws in academia.
Neanderthals are the same. The whole notion of "Neanderthals" being a separate thing is just a miscategorization of traits that modern humans have. Maybe they are rare, and have become less attractive over the millenia, but not any different than any other trait.
Look at Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev
The traits we collectively call "Neanderthal" are a distinction without a difference.
It's a failure of science that some ideas are irrationally difficult to disprove. Usually it is because people are using the research wrongly to prove a non-science point.
Again...Neanderthals can be variations on modern humans and it **does not disprove evolution!!!**
so where was his "strong anti-authoritarian and anti-military streak" when he was rolling over for the NSA **for years**...
Google invades privacy for profit and for decades gave the NSA (and god knows who else) an unaccountable back door to all our data
you're trying to pass the Kool-Aide and it's not going to fly...
...yours
why dont you explain? if it is lol funny then you should be able to say why
doesn't matter if they're volunteers...but thanks for confirming for everyone that my first point was accurate, while simultaneously *contributing nothing* to the actual conversation
1st problem is in bold...see, Burning Man is about overcomplicating and mystifying something to make it have social cachet...****ANYTIME**** you ask a question like this to a Burning Man veteran, you should expect a bullshit answer...somehow it will be bullshit
So, how does the fact that "Arctica" uses volunteers negate the point I made here:
in other words, the problem lies with the ice truck people ("Arctica")...they are just douchebags...**they could try to make it better but they don't care**....the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
Nothing you said addresses that at all...
They can be volunteers and still douchebags...the point is it's obvious they could do it faster but they dont care
which i feel confirms my theory about Burning Man, as does your last comment
TFA's tech is all an extension of Google Glass in a way
Google's after the defense contractor market now...developing/marketing Glass as a consumer product was an afterthought and mostly for PR, imho
also: I reject your acknowledgement of my feelings
so what were you suggesting then? when you said this:
We already have all the worst sides of authoritarianism, so why not get what few good things there are, too?
you're an idiot
just because some asshats are screening new hire's facebook page doesn't mean we should surrender all privacy rights
really, everything about your post is upside-down...
are you saying that Japan does not pad it's crime rates? Or are you criticizing the source in the particular movie, or using movies as sources no matter what, or...?
just criticizing a source with no context is trolling...
The problem w/ the "women only" conclusion is that it myopically focuses on **ONE** factor as if it is the determining factor in mission success.
Part of this is the fault of NASA admin/beauracracy: "We can't spare the weight" is an excuse for all kinds of ideas NASA wanted to kill...
"Too heavy" is almost a trope in NASA/space circles...it's the go-to way for beauracrats to make their presence known.
As others have pointed out, weight and food requirements are not a determining factor in mission success.
At best, the "weight is everything" mentality is obsolete...IMHO it was never about weight ultimately (of course it matters to mission planning)...it was just a handy excuse.
Also...there is some misplaced feminism here...women have been dismissed from science b/c sexism for centuries, and often the reasons given are something **other than gender**...a beaurecratic answer that belies the real motivation for the decision.
All in all, dumb analysis like in TFA are a legacy of sexism and bad beaurecratic management...it's like the sexism equivalent of what the CIA calls "blowback"
I'd asked a handful of Burning Man veterans about this, and they said that Arctica had tried this at one point, but was required to stop by Nevada health code regulations, which treated ice as a "food product" and therefore said that it could not be moved out onto the counter until an order has been placed. This sounded puzzling to me...
this is why i don't like Burning Man...
1st problem is in bold...see, Burning Man is about overcomplicating and mystifying something to make it have social cachet...****ANYTIME**** you ask a question like this to a Burning Man veteran, you should expect a bullshit answer...somehow it will be bullshit
2nd problem is in italics...the problem is not trusting your own common sense! obviously they are full of shit and just making stuff up to sound like they know what is going on
in other words, the problem lies with the ice truck people ("Arctica")...they are just douchebags...they could try to make it better but they don't care....the problem with this system is that Burning Man as an event encourages this superiority complex mentality
If you're in a position to actually hire new graduates, how much do you care about applicants' alma maters?
depends on the school!
some schools matter, and some do not....and some that matter are a benefit, and some are a drawback!
if an applicant came from a program that distinguishes itself among others by *requiring all grads to make a capstone project* for example...that could be a point in the applicants favor over others who did not do a capstone