At least they mentioned the cause versus effect bit.
But even it continues to allow 'vague' definitions of violent behavior to count.
They don't want to admit that all their studies do crappy things like call 'talking back to the parent' as aggression. Or my personal favorite "refusing to quit playing the game" is 'aggressive' behavior.
Even ignoring a bump key or a lock pick or a hundred other things. Houses are not secured via a key. Keys stop opportunity thieves. They keep alzheimer patients from going into the wrong home.
This is not a big deal.
The things you mention are not related to intelligence.
As a side point, from what I can tell, I don't believe anything that you do. You seem to believe everything politicians pay someone to say. I have news for you. politicians LIE, and when they talk about their opponent, they lie MOST of the time.
But that is irrelevant. Intelligent people do stupid things. They disagree with you. Cripes, some of them even disagree with ME. Believe it or not, there are actually intelligent terrorists and yes, they have intelligent friends.
Both candidates are intelligent beyond a shadow of a doubt.
As for vastly better choices, well NO. McCain was the only electable Republican on the ticket. Everyone else was totally unelectable, given the mess the republican president and congress made.
I worked with Hillary's first Senate campaign. I met her personally. She probably would not recognize me in a crowded room, but I have a picture of her standing next to me at a Senate campaign event. She is a very smart woman, very capable of running the country.
But Obama is a better candidate. He ran a better primary campaign, he picked better issues to focus on, and he is definitely capable of running this country a lot better than that idiot Bush.
Unfortunately, I need to refer you to:
"Douche and Turd", episode #119 of South Park. To summarize:
It's ALWAYS a choice between a Douche and Turd.
Honestly, this time around we have BETTER candidates on both sides than usual. At least this time we have a choice of two intelligent people, as compared to last time when the GOP picked a likeable idiot, while the Democracts picked an unlikeable man.
No, Gore would NOT have got to war with Iraq. Gore would definitely have gone to war with AFGANISTAN, because that is where Alqueada was. Iraq had no WMDs and had NOTHING to do with the 911.
The only reason we went to war with Iraq is because Cheney decided to ignore CIA information and instead go with the false British reports that the CIA told him were lies.
As for the moronic belief that Gore would have taken away all of our guns and destroyed the economy... You do realize that the same election that Gore lost put a Republican majority into Congress, RIGHT? Even if Gore wanted to do what you think, he could nto have.
But while I know you GOP fanboys love to lie about what democrats want to do (only way you know how to convince people to vote for GOP), even your personal silly nightmares don't make any sense at all.
Standard conservative anti-regulation crap. This kind of moronic thinking is how you destroyed the economy.
Part of the governments job is to manipulate behavior. Prevent crime. Encourage marriage. Encourage education. Protect environment. Encourage people to
Hence the POLICE department.
While it is true that some things need to be legally prevented, others need to simply be ENCOURAGED. We don't need the government TELLING US HOW TO DO EVERYTHING. But certain things that the government likes - like say LESS GAS USE they should certainly encourage us to do.
Taxes are a VERY good way to do this. We need to give the government something short of criminal laws to affect our behavior.
Or would you rather the government say "No, we can't encourage with taxes, we will just have to outlaw SUVS?"
Without a comparison, that information is useless.
How about listing the percentage of time on the phone AFTER work that is for work?
Or how about listing the percent of people's free time that is taken by 'overtime'. Or emails from work received in my personal email box.
Or at the VERY least they need to see how much of that 'time spent on line' was done during 9-5 and how much of that 'time spent on line' was during overtime hours.
For many people, it could be 25% spent of online time at work is 'personal', but 90% of that is done in their 9th hour at work. I.E. I really need to be shopping for a birthday present for my wife but the boss needs me here at work, so I'll log on and get something from Amazon while I'm waiting for Joe to call me back with the answer to my question.
The Bar exam is pretty much crap. Unless you are in one of a very few set of lawyer jobs you never use any of it. CPA certification is pretty good from what I hear, but a bit general. That is, it's kind of like taking a test on Ubantu, Windows and Apple Sys Admin when you just are going to be working with Windows stuff.
This is at heart one of the stupidest, illogical arguments around.
The reason for the discussion is the false belief that stars are necessary for planets, life, etc.
It's kind of like a polar bear saying "All life we know of requires temperatures below 0 to survive. Therefore the fact that we have a temperature below 0 is a wondrous, one in a million thing"
The flaw with this logic is pretty obvious because we don't live in that environment. But that SAME error applies to us when people that are NOT biologists try to talk about how life requires the physical laws of the current universe.
The only universe we truly understand is the one with the physical constants as is are. If we want to postulate a universe with a different set of physical laws, why not postulate one where stars FORM under different circumstances.
Most importantly, you are not some super-genius that knows what a minor change in the universe is. You think you do, only because of arrogance. The things you are trying to change, thinking they are minor changes are NOT minor changes.
The 'universal constants' are interconnected. There is no such thing as a 'minor' change to them.
Here is a secret to making secure passwords that you won't forget.
Username: Franklin.
Web site: www.washingtonmutual.com
Favorite ice cream flavor: 31
Password: FRANWASH31
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Username: FCROMWELL
Web site: www.ebay.com
Password: FCROEBAY31
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This is a 'rule based' password system. Hint: Don't use the same rule I just used, make up your own.
You are correct. And off topic.
If the article said "New York City will ever catch up with Japan, you would be on topic.
I agree that America needs more work. But I started this link by objecting to a specific, totally UNREASONABLE claim, not to the general premise that the US needs more broadband.
The general premise is correct, but their ridiculous headline and central topic of the article: Compare USA to Japan, is a bad one.
If you want to discuss a different topic, such as that american cities are worse than japanese cities, go right ahead. I agree with you.
But that is not what the article is about. The article is about the country as a whole, and the article is stupid.
No, you did NOT shoot down my excuse. Why? Because I did not make an excuse. What you did was ignore my statement, and instead shot down something that I did not say.
Here, let me try once more to make it clear to you:.
1. I agree with you that People in Manhattan are getting screwed out of broadband.
2. You made a pretty good argument.
3. In fact, you made a BETTER arguement than the original poster and original link.
4. But I did not read your argument before I posted.
5. Unlike you, they made a MORONIC argument. They did not say "we need better broadband" Instead, they said "we need to beat JAPAN, a country that has huge advantages.
6. Nothing you have said supports THEIR argument, that we need to beat japan.
Accept your victory on the point you care about.
Now, realize that it is NOT what we are talking about. It is OFF TOPIC
The discussion is not about what the article should have said, but instead about what the article did in fact say.
It's sort of like us both hearing someone say "God, that police officer was a Nazi." and then having me say "He didn't kill anyone". Then you start talking about how he violated our civil rights. It doesn't matter that he violated the civil rights, we are talking about a specific claim of "Nazism", which was unfounded.
Similarly, the fact that American cities clearly need more broadband may be true, but is NOT relevant to the discussion of whether or not a comparison to Japan is reasonable.
But this article is not comparing the US to Scandinavia. It compares us to Japan. Your are totally correct, that the US can do a lot better. But the first step is to start with REASONABLE goals, not stupid ones.
Japan is a relatively small island, with little space for farming and herding.
And you wish to compare the entire USA, with it's HUGE wilderness areas to Japan?
You are surprised that a country that includes Alaska, a place so wild they have to pay people to live there, has a lower average broadband connection than a small, civilized, advanced Island nation.
Let me make this clear: It is a GOOD thing that the US is not moronic enough to wire our large, open country to the same extent that a small, island country can.
Next thing, someone will complain that Japan eats more fish per capita than the US does.
First, they investigated based on the fact that they thought anyone with that much stuff LIKELY violated the law.
In other words, they don't know a law he violated, they just knew that we have lots of laws and they disliked what he did so they investigated.
They even CONFISCATED STUFF without yet finding any real law breakage.
How would you like it if someone said, you know your car is full of tons of dangerous explosives, then they confiscate and say "We likely think we MIGHT find something illegal on it."
Would you be satisified if they returned it three days later? Would you be satisfied if they returned MOST of it 3 days later, but kept parts of it saying "We haven't definitely found anything illegal yet, but we want to keep looking?"
A reasonable response would have been to let the police look around for ONE HOUR. If they want to take stuff, or even stay for more than one hour, they should have got a warrant.
There are a ton of 'not really laws'. that the government does not enforce unless they dislike you. I won't bother to mention the president and his little "arrested but not charged for cocaine" thing.
I WILL bother to mention the fact that large chemical companies ROUTINELY break the law and no one does anything about it. They get a pass from an inspector after a promise of "we'll fix it later".
The citizen was trying to be nice and proove he did nothing wrong. I'm sure he expected a quick once over and nothing. He knew he was doing nothing seriously wrong.
There used to be american kids studying home chemistry. We used to have kits to build rockets.
Now, a bunch of silly fools that never took chemistry even in college are doing their best to outlaw what every intelligent child in the 60s and 70s did for fun.
As a result, the US has not been doing groundbreaking chemistry in over a decade.
Granted, computers are a big lure, but chemistry is the basis of our industry. We need to ENCOURAGE kids and adults to do chemistry, not prevent it with idiotic, foolish laws.
If it is not more dangerous than fertilizer and diesel fuel, or styrofoam and gasoline, than it should be legal for a 16 year old kid to buy in the mail, without a license.
Anythinge else is rank hipocracy and stupidity.
P.S. I am not recommending a 12 year old do explosive experiments unsupervised, but I hate to tell you, THEY DO IT ANYWAY. They just go and get an aerosole can and a lighter, instead of ordering a kit.
3. They negotiated permanent things that were totally reasonable IF the profits continued.
4. The profits dropped like a stone.
5. With the permanent benfits set so high, this turned a small hole into a GIGANTIC hole.
I am not saying the companies are not partially responsible. But one of the things that caused the major problems is the unions. They quite frankly OUT-NEGOTIATED the big companies.
That works fine if you are one of several people. But when you did such a wonderful job negotiating a pay raise that your own pay raise drives a company into bankruptcy, hey, you should be smart enough to admit that you went overboard and actually killed the goose that layed the golden egg.
The problem with GM and Ford's union contracts are not the pay or the schedule or the benefits even.
The problem continues to be:
1. Man power requirements (You need an electrician to change the break room's lightbulb. No, it can't be the same electrician that changes the factory floor lightbulb.)
2. Incrediblly stupid retirement plans. Among them the "Economy Killer" 'defined benefit' plans instead of 401Ks. They killed the airlines before big oil did, and they killed Detroit.
But if you punish enough criminals, you DO change and impact the culture.
This man is damaged piece of crap. I feel sorry for him, having been abused as a child, but that does not excuse him taking out his crap on the rest of us.
He is a semi-professional 'troll', going around pissing people off and laughing at them.
He routinely engages in low-level criminal actions, knowing that he is unlikely to get caught and arrested for doing things that are the equivelent of spray painting a car.
I hope he finally gets what he so richly deserves, legal punishment.
The fact that it 'usually' not without your knowledge is irrelevant. If it is done once without your knowledge, than that should be what we are talking apart
It's sort of like saying "usually the cops don't knock people off a bike and claim the bike guy rammed them"
1. Create a personal email system designed not for mass emailing, but instead for simple one on one communication. As you it is pretty hard to offend a lot of people one on one, lets TRUST everyone.
2.Have some shmuck decided to start using it to send out something they found important to everyone.
3. Have that single bad action get picked up by two seperate idiots. Spammers and mailing listers.
4. Have spam get so bad that people detest it, it is a major problem.
5. Have the obnoxious mailing listes, who are already abusing our personal messengering system get lazy about maintaining their system, not putting in appropriate and neccessary methods that stop sending email to people that don't read their email. (Example: code that auto-replies when the email is opened. If it doesn't get activated 3 times, you are removed from the mailing list. But wait, the 'not a spammer' doing the mailing lists care more about their numbers than offending people.)
5. We creat a system designed to stop unwanted mail.
6. Have the idiots that stole our person to person email system and used it for mass mailing instead of using other viable technology (Feeds and other push technology) get mad that our 'stop unwanted email.'
MAILING LISTS ARE SPAM. Yes, they are the best kind of spam, the kind many people read, but that does NOT change the fact that they are spam. They are bulk mailing that while it may be solicted once, quickly ends up becomgin unsolicated. Solication does not last forever. At best it lasts for maybe six months, and then should be renewed. Or better yet, STOP USING EMAIL. There are other ways to get this done right. The Internet does NOT owe you a way to use email to send out unsolicated bulk mailings.
One person quoted in the story basically gave the cynical statement about not needing the pill, people could just exercise.
Well, the death rate for liposuction is about 19 deaths per 100,000 operations. (Note, this compares with a death rate of only 1 death per 100,000 elective surgeries, so it is rather poor).
If the pill actually works, and eliminates liposuction, that is quite a few lives saved, not to mention plastic surgeons that are freed up to do the "burn remedies and birth defects that are the reason we got into this buisness" (cue eyebrow raise here).
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But even it continues to allow 'vague' definitions of violent behavior to count.
They don't want to admit that all their studies do crappy things like call 'talking back to the parent' as aggression. Or my personal favorite "refusing to quit playing the game" is 'aggressive' behavior.
Even ignoring a bump key or a lock pick or a hundred other things. Houses are not secured via a key. Keys stop opportunity thieves. They keep alzheimer patients from going into the wrong home. This is not a big deal.
The things you mention are not related to intelligence. As a side point, from what I can tell, I don't believe anything that you do. You seem to believe everything politicians pay someone to say. I have news for you. politicians LIE, and when they talk about their opponent, they lie MOST of the time. But that is irrelevant. Intelligent people do stupid things. They disagree with you. Cripes, some of them even disagree with ME. Believe it or not, there are actually intelligent terrorists and yes, they have intelligent friends. Both candidates are intelligent beyond a shadow of a doubt. As for vastly better choices, well NO. McCain was the only electable Republican on the ticket. Everyone else was totally unelectable, given the mess the republican president and congress made. I worked with Hillary's first Senate campaign. I met her personally. She probably would not recognize me in a crowded room, but I have a picture of her standing next to me at a Senate campaign event. She is a very smart woman, very capable of running the country. But Obama is a better candidate. He ran a better primary campaign, he picked better issues to focus on, and he is definitely capable of running this country a lot better than that idiot Bush.
It's ALWAYS a choice between a Douche and Turd.
Honestly, this time around we have BETTER candidates on both sides than usual. At least this time we have a choice of two intelligent people, as compared to last time when the GOP picked a likeable idiot, while the Democracts picked an unlikeable man.
The only reason we went to war with Iraq is because Cheney decided to ignore CIA information and instead go with the false British reports that the CIA told him were lies.
As for the moronic belief that Gore would have taken away all of our guns and destroyed the economy... You do realize that the same election that Gore lost put a Republican majority into Congress, RIGHT? Even if Gore wanted to do what you think, he could nto have.
But while I know you GOP fanboys love to lie about what democrats want to do (only way you know how to convince people to vote for GOP), even your personal silly nightmares don't make any sense at all.
While it is true that some things need to be legally prevented, others need to simply be ENCOURAGED. We don't need the government TELLING US HOW TO DO EVERYTHING. But certain things that the government likes - like say LESS GAS USE they should certainly encourage us to do.
Taxes are a VERY good way to do this. We need to give the government something short of criminal laws to affect our behavior.
Or would you rather the government say "No, we can't encourage with taxes, we will just have to outlaw SUVS?"
That alone makes it far superior to Chrome.
How about listing the percentage of time on the phone AFTER work that is for work?
Or how about listing the percent of people's free time that is taken by 'overtime'. Or emails from work received in my personal email box.
Or at the VERY least they need to see how much of that 'time spent on line' was done during 9-5 and how much of that 'time spent on line' was during overtime hours.
For many people, it could be 25% spent of online time at work is 'personal', but 90% of that is done in their 9th hour at work. I.E. I really need to be shopping for a birthday present for my wife but the boss needs me here at work, so I'll log on and get something from Amazon while I'm waiting for Joe to call me back with the answer to my question.
The Bar exam is pretty much crap. Unless you are in one of a very few set of lawyer jobs you never use any of it. CPA certification is pretty good from what I hear, but a bit general. That is, it's kind of like taking a test on Ubantu, Windows and Apple Sys Admin when you just are going to be working with Windows stuff.
The reason for the discussion is the false belief that stars are necessary for planets, life, etc. It's kind of like a polar bear saying "All life we know of requires temperatures below 0 to survive. Therefore the fact that we have a temperature below 0 is a wondrous, one in a million thing"
The flaw with this logic is pretty obvious because we don't live in that environment. But that SAME error applies to us when people that are NOT biologists try to talk about how life requires the physical laws of the current universe.
The only universe we truly understand is the one with the physical constants as is are. If we want to postulate a universe with a different set of physical laws, why not postulate one where stars FORM under different circumstances.
Most importantly, you are not some super-genius that knows what a minor change in the universe is. You think you do, only because of arrogance. The things you are trying to change, thinking they are minor changes are NOT minor changes.
The 'universal constants' are interconnected. There is no such thing as a 'minor' change to them.
Here is a secret to making secure passwords that you won't forget. Username: Franklin. Web site: www.washingtonmutual.com Favorite ice cream flavor: 31 Password: FRANWASH31 Same guy, different web site: Username: FCROMWELL Web site: www.ebay.com Password: FCROEBAY31 -------- This is a 'rule based' password system. Hint: Don't use the same rule I just used, make up your own.
I agree that America needs more work. But I started this link by objecting to a specific, totally UNREASONABLE claim, not to the general premise that the US needs more broadband.
The general premise is correct, but their ridiculous headline and central topic of the article: Compare USA to Japan, is a bad one.
If you want to discuss a different topic, such as that american cities are worse than japanese cities, go right ahead. I agree with you.
But that is not what the article is about. The article is about the country as a whole, and the article is stupid.
Here, let me try once more to make it clear to you:.
1. I agree with you that People in Manhattan are getting screwed out of broadband.
2. You made a pretty good argument.
3. In fact, you made a BETTER arguement than the original poster and original link.
4. But I did not read your argument before I posted.
5. Unlike you, they made a MORONIC argument. They did not say "we need better broadband" Instead, they said "we need to beat JAPAN, a country that has huge advantages.
6. Nothing you have said supports THEIR argument, that we need to beat japan.
Accept your victory on the point you care about.
Now, realize that it is NOT what we are talking about. It is OFF TOPIC
The discussion is not about what the article should have said, but instead about what the article did in fact say.
It's sort of like us both hearing someone say "God, that police officer was a Nazi." and then having me say "He didn't kill anyone". Then you start talking about how he violated our civil rights. It doesn't matter that he violated the civil rights, we are talking about a specific claim of "Nazism", which was unfounded.
Similarly, the fact that American cities clearly need more broadband may be true, but is NOT relevant to the discussion of whether or not a comparison to Japan is reasonable.
But this article is not comparing the US to Scandinavia. It compares us to Japan. Your are totally correct, that the US can do a lot better. But the first step is to start with REASONABLE goals, not stupid ones.
That means compare us to Scandinavia, not Japan.
Have you seen a psychologist recently?
Better check your credit cards, maybe another of your personalities has been seeing him without your knowledge.
And you wish to compare the entire USA, with it's HUGE wilderness areas to Japan?
You are surprised that a country that includes Alaska, a place so wild they have to pay people to live there, has a lower average broadband connection than a small, civilized, advanced Island nation.
Let me make this clear: It is a GOOD thing that the US is not moronic enough to wire our large, open country to the same extent that a small, island country can.
Next thing, someone will complain that Japan eats more fish per capita than the US does.
In other words, they don't know a law he violated, they just knew that we have lots of laws and they disliked what he did so they investigated.
They even CONFISCATED STUFF without yet finding any real law breakage. How would you like it if someone said, you know your car is full of tons of dangerous explosives, then they confiscate and say "We likely think we MIGHT find something illegal on it."
Would you be satisified if they returned it three days later? Would you be satisfied if they returned MOST of it 3 days later, but kept parts of it saying "We haven't definitely found anything illegal yet, but we want to keep looking?"
A reasonable response would have been to let the police look around for ONE HOUR. If they want to take stuff, or even stay for more than one hour, they should have got a warrant.
There are a ton of 'not really laws'. that the government does not enforce unless they dislike you. I won't bother to mention the president and his little "arrested but not charged for cocaine" thing.
I WILL bother to mention the fact that large chemical companies ROUTINELY break the law and no one does anything about it. They get a pass from an inspector after a promise of "we'll fix it later".
The citizen was trying to be nice and proove he did nothing wrong. I'm sure he expected a quick once over and nothing. He knew he was doing nothing seriously wrong.
But instead he got shafted by a stupid government
Now, a bunch of silly fools that never took chemistry even in college are doing their best to outlaw what every intelligent child in the 60s and 70s did for fun.
As a result, the US has not been doing groundbreaking chemistry in over a decade.
Granted, computers are a big lure, but chemistry is the basis of our industry. We need to ENCOURAGE kids and adults to do chemistry, not prevent it with idiotic, foolish laws.
If it is not more dangerous than fertilizer and diesel fuel, or styrofoam and gasoline, than it should be legal for a 16 year old kid to buy in the mail, without a license.
Anythinge else is rank hipocracy and stupidity.
P.S. I am not recommending a 12 year old do explosive experiments unsupervised, but I hate to tell you, THEY DO IT ANYWAY. They just go and get an aerosole can and a lighter, instead of ordering a kit.
What happened was:
1. The companies were making BIG profits.
2. The unions saw this and wanted a cut.
3. They negotiated permanent things that were totally reasonable IF the profits continued.
4. The profits dropped like a stone.
5. With the permanent benfits set so high, this turned a small hole into a GIGANTIC hole.
I am not saying the companies are not partially responsible. But one of the things that caused the major problems is the unions. They quite frankly OUT-NEGOTIATED the big companies.
That works fine if you are one of several people. But when you did such a wonderful job negotiating a pay raise that your own pay raise drives a company into bankruptcy, hey, you should be smart enough to admit that you went overboard and actually killed the goose that layed the golden egg.
The problem continues to be:
1. Man power requirements (You need an electrician to change the break room's lightbulb. No, it can't be the same electrician that changes the factory floor lightbulb.)
2. Incrediblly stupid retirement plans. Among them the "Economy Killer" 'defined benefit' plans instead of 401Ks. They killed the airlines before big oil did, and they killed Detroit.
But if you punish enough criminals, you DO change and impact the culture.
This man is damaged piece of crap. I feel sorry for him, having been abused as a child, but that does not excuse him taking out his crap on the rest of us.
He is a semi-professional 'troll', going around pissing people off and laughing at them.
He routinely engages in low-level criminal actions, knowing that he is unlikely to get caught and arrested for doing things that are the equivelent of spray painting a car.
I hope he finally gets what he so richly deserves, legal punishment.
The fact that it 'usually' not without your knowledge is irrelevant. If it is done once without your knowledge, than that should be what we are talking apart It's sort of like saying "usually the cops don't knock people off a bike and claim the bike guy rammed them"
2.Have some shmuck decided to start using it to send out something they found important to everyone.
3. Have that single bad action get picked up by two seperate idiots. Spammers and mailing listers.
4. Have spam get so bad that people detest it, it is a major problem.
5. Have the obnoxious mailing listes, who are already abusing our personal messengering system get lazy about maintaining their system, not putting in appropriate and neccessary methods that stop sending email to people that don't read their email. (Example: code that auto-replies when the email is opened. If it doesn't get activated 3 times, you are removed from the mailing list. But wait, the 'not a spammer' doing the mailing lists care more about their numbers than offending people.)
5. We creat a system designed to stop unwanted mail.
6. Have the idiots that stole our person to person email system and used it for mass mailing instead of using other viable technology (Feeds and other push technology) get mad that our 'stop unwanted email.'
MAILING LISTS ARE SPAM. Yes, they are the best kind of spam, the kind many people read, but that does NOT change the fact that they are spam. They are bulk mailing that while it may be solicted once, quickly ends up becomgin unsolicated. Solication does not last forever. At best it lasts for maybe six months, and then should be renewed. Or better yet, STOP USING EMAIL. There are other ways to get this done right. The Internet does NOT owe you a way to use email to send out unsolicated bulk mailings.
The pill doesn't shed pounds. It adds muscle. Big difference. A lot safer in my opinion to add muscle than it is to shed pounds.
Well, the death rate for liposuction is about 19 deaths per 100,000 operations. (Note, this compares with a death rate of only 1 death per 100,000 elective surgeries, so it is rather poor).
If the pill actually works, and eliminates liposuction, that is quite a few lives saved, not to mention plastic surgeons that are freed up to do the "burn remedies and birth defects that are the reason we got into this buisness" (cue eyebrow raise here).