However, we have some scientific conclusions that we haven't changed in forever. Obviously, if things started falling up, we'd take another look at gravity (a short one, of course, since we'd all be dead within minutes).
We know some things to an extremely high confidence level, and these things are almost never changed. We believe other things with a low confidence level, and they change frequently.
Both an unvaccinated child and a child with a loaded gun are more likely to kill others than vaccinated children who do not yet know of their Second Amendment rights. The child with the loaded gun is more dangerous, that's all.
So, what you're saying is "Help! Stop me before I vote again!".
I've come to the conclusion that human beings are moral agents, and are responsible for their actions. Therefore, the ones responsible for his election are the ones that actually voted for him, both in primaries and the general election.
Critical thinking involves looking for the best information and making your own decisions based on it. Giving up one trust chain and randomly adopting another isn't critical thinking.
There's one thing I'll tell you: the current system was not created by millennials. You need to blame its problems on earlier generations. (BTW, would you care to guess how many Boomers are tech-illiterate? I'd guess more than half.)
Like everything else, a name that is cool now may be out of favor later. Radio Shack came into being when it called to mind a good radio technician capable of doing what it took in a little shack built on the deck of a freighter or passenger ship. It implied new and exciting techiness. Come the 1990s, and a "shack" is nothing impressive, with overtones of "shacking up".
Various Sambo's changed their name to something more acceptable, so that wasn't the problem. The demise was likely due to a change in management policy, according to the article you cited.
There is honor and respect in getting something done. My code is in daily use in more than one place right now, although there's nothing the users can do to find out it's mine.
A couple of years ago, HR was giving a presentation on the new advancement track (including Team Lead moving to Manager etc.) and I asked "What about advancement for those of us who never ever want to get into Management?". I got a "we're working on that" response, and haven't seen anything since.
Yup. Just like every other new generation. We like to remember ourselves like we are now, only younger, but that isn't the case. We used to be very much like the Millennials, back when we were the new generation.
Okay, I'll give you one example. Consider McGuire's "Every Heart a Doorway", which won the Hugo and, in my opinion, well deserved it. Please explain to me how it lacks in world-building. Please explain the formula McGuire followed. Please explain where it was something McGuire should write. Please explain the narrow-mindedness and the politics.
McGuire usually writes pretty standard urban fantasy, which I consider very well done. Every so often, her mind seems to jump a track and we get something unexpected, and that's what I most like about her.
Please read Every Heart a Doorway by McGuire, and tell me where the concern is for equality, justice, trans alien rights, and minorities. I suppose you can take "murder is wrong" as relating to justice, but I don't see any of the others.
In which case, I'd suggest that you read Jemisin's last two Hugo winners, along with McGuire's "Every Heart a Doorway". They don't seem to pay attention to borders.
Are you sure the apparent magic in the Obelisk Gate isn't advanced science? The people with it have special structures in their brains; where did they come from? The last book in the series might well explain it in more or less scientific terms.
The taxpayer expenses involved in registering copyright are minimal, and, again, you're putting a serious burden on the little guy while barely discommoding the big corporations.
There's lots of things that aren't morally OK. You said "You might as well try to argue it's fine to steal from retailers." despite that not being the same thing. Why not "You might as well try to argue it's fine to sexually harass people" or "You might as well try to argue it's fine to misrepresent people", as examples of things that aren't morally OK. In all cases, piracy is not morally dubious for the same reasons what you quote is.
Heck, you were the one that claimed that there was no pay gap, not me. If what you mean is that women make only slightly less than men in the same job description, go ahead. That doesn't mean there isn't a substantial pay gap overall, and raises the question of why men's jobs tend to pay better.
You were overgeneralizing about the woman engineer who's paid less, and if I remember the studies right there was a small pay gap between women and men in the same job, just not a large one.
The nation rejected Trump in favor of Clinton, but the Electoral College put Trump into office. ("The nation" is the collective population.)
Also, I'm not necessarily in favor of stopping people from being brain-dead.
Clinton would have been a far better President, as would any current politician with anywhere near the chops to consider running, and I'm including Michele Bachmann in that group. Those people at least know what it is to be President, which Trump apparently doesn't.
The country and the world will recover. I'm not nearly as sanguine about the Republican Party. It may be time for another realignment of the two-party system.
The armed civilians performed reasonably well in the Revolutionary War, although it was necessary for Washington to raise and train a real army. The Taliban were capable of being nuisances against Western armies, but they weren't going to stop them. I'm partly drawing on experience from WWII, in which it was shown that a poorly armed, poorly led, poorly trained regular force was more than a match for a group of armed civilians.
Slashdot Mirror
At least in the First World, we don't need thimerosal, and we generally removed it from our vaccines. This didn't stop the anti-vaxxers.
However, we have some scientific conclusions that we haven't changed in forever. Obviously, if things started falling up, we'd take another look at gravity (a short one, of course, since we'd all be dead within minutes).
We know some things to an extremely high confidence level, and these things are almost never changed. We believe other things with a low confidence level, and they change frequently.
Both an unvaccinated child and a child with a loaded gun are more likely to kill others than vaccinated children who do not yet know of their Second Amendment rights. The child with the loaded gun is more dangerous, that's all.
So, what you're saying is "Help! Stop me before I vote again!".
I've come to the conclusion that human beings are moral agents, and are responsible for their actions. Therefore, the ones responsible for his election are the ones that actually voted for him, both in primaries and the general election.
Critical thinking involves looking for the best information and making your own decisions based on it. Giving up one trust chain and randomly adopting another isn't critical thinking.
There's one thing I'll tell you: the current system was not created by millennials. You need to blame its problems on earlier generations. (BTW, would you care to guess how many Boomers are tech-illiterate? I'd guess more than half.)
Personally, I found that hair dye made a very large difference in my employability.
Where in Europe? If programmers are commonly unionized in Europe, it doesn't mean that happens in your country. Europe's a big place.
Like everything else, a name that is cool now may be out of favor later. Radio Shack came into being when it called to mind a good radio technician capable of doing what it took in a little shack built on the deck of a freighter or passenger ship. It implied new and exciting techiness. Come the 1990s, and a "shack" is nothing impressive, with overtones of "shacking up".
Various Sambo's changed their name to something more acceptable, so that wasn't the problem. The demise was likely due to a change in management policy, according to the article you cited.
There is honor and respect in getting something done. My code is in daily use in more than one place right now, although there's nothing the users can do to find out it's mine.
A couple of years ago, HR was giving a presentation on the new advancement track (including Team Lead moving to Manager etc.) and I asked "What about advancement for those of us who never ever want to get into Management?". I got a "we're working on that" response, and haven't seen anything since.
Some of us old farts aren't interested in starting our own business. That requires its own skill set.
Yup. Just like every other new generation. We like to remember ourselves like we are now, only younger, but that isn't the case. We used to be very much like the Millennials, back when we were the new generation.
If you don't like his really depressing fantasy, don't worry. He has written really depressing science fiction and detective stories also.
Okay, I'll give you one example. Consider McGuire's "Every Heart a Doorway", which won the Hugo and, in my opinion, well deserved it. Please explain to me how it lacks in world-building. Please explain the formula McGuire followed. Please explain where it was something McGuire should write. Please explain the narrow-mindedness and the politics.
McGuire usually writes pretty standard urban fantasy, which I consider very well done. Every so often, her mind seems to jump a track and we get something unexpected, and that's what I most like about her.
Please read Every Heart a Doorway by McGuire, and tell me where the concern is for equality, justice, trans alien rights, and minorities. I suppose you can take "murder is wrong" as relating to justice, but I don't see any of the others.
In which case, I'd suggest that you read Jemisin's last two Hugo winners, along with McGuire's "Every Heart a Doorway". They don't seem to pay attention to borders.
It's unfortunate, but "Obelisk Gate" really does deserve that Hugo. It wasn't to your taste, but it is a very good book, and many people thought so.
Are you sure the apparent magic in the Obelisk Gate isn't advanced science? The people with it have special structures in their brains; where did they come from? The last book in the series might well explain it in more or less scientific terms.
Flips of a fair coin average around 50% heads. Climate predictions average out to warming more or less like we've been experiencing.
The taxpayer expenses involved in registering copyright are minimal, and, again, you're putting a serious burden on the little guy while barely discommoding the big corporations.
There's lots of things that aren't morally OK. You said "You might as well try to argue it's fine to steal from retailers." despite that not being the same thing. Why not "You might as well try to argue it's fine to sexually harass people" or "You might as well try to argue it's fine to misrepresent people", as examples of things that aren't morally OK. In all cases, piracy is not morally dubious for the same reasons what you quote is.
Heck, you were the one that claimed that there was no pay gap, not me. If what you mean is that women make only slightly less than men in the same job description, go ahead. That doesn't mean there isn't a substantial pay gap overall, and raises the question of why men's jobs tend to pay better.
You were overgeneralizing about the woman engineer who's paid less, and if I remember the studies right there was a small pay gap between women and men in the same job, just not a large one.
The nation rejected Trump in favor of Clinton, but the Electoral College put Trump into office. ("The nation" is the collective population.)
Also, I'm not necessarily in favor of stopping people from being brain-dead.
Clinton would have been a far better President, as would any current politician with anywhere near the chops to consider running, and I'm including Michele Bachmann in that group. Those people at least know what it is to be President, which Trump apparently doesn't.
The country and the world will recover. I'm not nearly as sanguine about the Republican Party. It may be time for another realignment of the two-party system.
The armed civilians performed reasonably well in the Revolutionary War, although it was necessary for Washington to raise and train a real army. The Taliban were capable of being nuisances against Western armies, but they weren't going to stop them. I'm partly drawing on experience from WWII, in which it was shown that a poorly armed, poorly led, poorly trained regular force was more than a match for a group of armed civilians.