Most Americans believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, the moon landings were faked, aliens are visiting the earth, Saddam had WMDs, and professional baseball is exciting.
What is the relevance of these survey results to real politics?
I strongly feel humans should have a smaller footprint and stop damaging the environment.
The rhino has a huge footprint, and can demolish almost any environment in short order. You should be happy to see it gone.
But the most destructive species after humans is the African elephant. Their huge footprint and voracious appetites have turned vast African forests to grassland.
The reason is that everyone has different criteria for what makes a good driver. they are not all using the same absolute scale. Some are safe. Some are fast. Some efficient.
Maybe the NSA could buy them for their new server farm. Does the RT have USB host ability? Or send them as "lottery prizes" to a lucky six million red-flagged citizWtargets. The built-in camera and microphone could come in handy with the special NSA-edition firmware.
One short cliché in the right context can be funny, and I think a little word-play levity does not hurt here. Adding three more just makes you sound mean and childish. Sarah would definitely not be hypocritical enough to approve of such schoolboy name-calling.
One example is not empirical data, it is an anecdote, and a fortunate exception. Many kids with Downs never learn to read. But that does not mean they cannot have a sex life, however uncomfortable that might make some other people.
So she has the mind of an 8 year old? ten? Do you think she is capable of bringing up children? What about the medical complications of pregnancy for a girl with that condition? And the 50% chance of the baby having Downs? Would that be ethical? Why should sterilization not be an option for her parents or carers to consider? I think the main problem is the same as with contraception for teenagers - people are just not comfortable thinking about sex. Girls enjoy sex. We need to get over it. With or without Downs.
A far cry from 40 years ago where kids with down syndrome were sterilised.
They still are. When you have a young adult with raging hormones, but the mind of a three-year-old, it makes a lot of sense, and means you can allow them _more_ independence.
The Guardian is a leftist rag, the Daily Fail is a reactionary rag, they both exist to keep their readers outraged and unthinking.
No, The Guardian is a leftist (mainstream, middle-class) respectable paper, hardly in the same class as the Mail.
True, Guardian readers are easily outraged, spitting out their morning latte over the latest politically incorrect injustice. But unlike Daily Mail readers, they are known to think.
Two million times say $50 per panel is not crazy money.
TFA says "about 12,500 solar (photovoltaic) systems to provide for approximately 500,000 households at an overall cost of about $200 million." So $16,000 per village system. They are not simply putting one small panel and a motocycle battery on each house. The photos in the inhabit.com article are very misleading. Shoddy work, taking somebody else's article, and adding your own vaguely related stock photos.
No, the USA lacks solar panels because everybody is already on the grid. Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense. PVs are still a very expensive way to generate large amounts of power. Only a wealthy country like Germany can afford to waste obscene amounts of money that way, where the benefits are mostly political.
That said, there is no sane reason why countries like the US and Australia should not be use far more solar-powered water heaters, and build homes for passive solar heating. Huge amounts of fossil fuels are being wasted that way.
That accounts for much of President Obama's actions in the war against al Qaida.
What war against al Qaida? You mean that big recruitment drive for them in Iraq, where Al Qaida did not even exist before the US invasion? You mean the lost war against the Taliban, US allies against Russia, who were no threat against the US, and held no grudge until being invaded?
8000 American troops dead, >600,000 Iraqi excess deaths, and worldwide loss of respect. Beats "negligence or inaction" eh?
The government still changes by means of election,
So far as I can see, the election changes very little. Giving people a choice of two figureheads is not democracy. Real democracy needs transparency, accountability and rule of law. Whether there is one party, or two slightly different parties, running things is a relatively minor point.
I've no idea either, but she brought it up, calling herself a "minority". If you look at her website, it seems to be her defining feature. Which is odd considering more than half the population are women, but very few people are kernel developers. Seems to have a big chip on her shoulder. Maybe that's why she works at Intel.
Why American specifically? And how is that relevant? Did the black Americans demand that whites adopt Ebonics or asians wear afros? No, when the black guy gets a seat in the boardroom, he still needs to wear a suit and tie, not a hoodie.
Gaining admittance and equality is not the same as forcing your culture on an existing one.
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Most Americans believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, the moon landings were faked, aliens are visiting the earth, Saddam had WMDs, and professional baseball is exciting.
What is the relevance of these survey results to real politics?
kind and good normal people have been known to turn it off under certain conditions, too fight or defend against that which they believe "evil"
Anders Breivik ?
Doesn't dosing on 2000 IU of D per day stave off cancer according to 100's of studies?
A single 100g dose of vitamin D will guarantee you never die of cancer.
I strongly feel humans should have a smaller footprint and stop damaging the environment.
The rhino has a huge footprint, and can demolish almost any environment in short order. You should be happy to see it gone.
But the most destructive species after humans is the African elephant. Their huge footprint and voracious appetites have turned vast African forests to grassland.
It's like (motor vehicle) driving skills. Everybody thinks they're above average.
that's true, and not at all a contradiction.
The reason is that everyone has different criteria for what makes a good driver.
they are not all using the same absolute scale. Some are safe. Some are fast. Some efficient.
But I'm a typical Slashdot user with exceptional spatial ability and no social insight. you insensitive clod.
Maybe the NSA could buy them for their new server farm. Does the RT have USB host ability?
Or send them as "lottery prizes" to a lucky six million red-flagged citizWtargets. The built-in camera and microphone could come in handy with the special NSA-edition firmware.
One short cliché in the right context can be funny, and I think a little word-play levity does not hurt here. Adding three more just makes you sound mean and childish.
Sarah would definitely not be hypocritical enough to approve of such schoolboy name-calling.
See my OP for first-hand empirical data.
One example is not empirical data, it is an anecdote, and a fortunate exception. Many kids with Downs never learn to read.
But that does not mean they cannot have a sex life, however uncomfortable that might make some other people.
So she has the mind of an 8 year old? ten? Do you think she is capable of bringing up children? What about the medical complications of pregnancy for a girl with that condition? And the 50% chance of the baby having Downs?
Would that be ethical? Why should sterilization not be an option for her parents or carers to consider?
I think the main problem is the same as with contraception for teenagers - people are just not comfortable thinking about sex.
Girls enjoy sex. We need to get over it. With or without Downs.
A far cry from 40 years ago where kids with down syndrome were sterilised.
They still are. When you have a young adult with raging hormones, but the mind of a three-year-old, it makes a lot of sense, and means you can allow them _more_ independence.
Could it reverse the neurological issues?
Hard to say until the animal trials are complete. So far Algernon is doing well.
The Guardian is a leftist rag, the Daily Fail is a reactionary rag, they both exist to keep their readers outraged and unthinking.
No, The Guardian is a leftist (mainstream, middle-class) respectable paper, hardly in the same class as the Mail.
True, Guardian readers are easily outraged, spitting out their morning latte over the latest politically incorrect injustice.
But unlike Daily Mail readers, they are known to think.
.I would have thought at least there would have been a foul smell, but...oh well, that's movie magic for ya.
Most cinemas did not have Smell-O-Rama in the '70s. And the head was fresh.
Two million times say $50 per panel is not crazy money.
TFA says "about 12,500 solar (photovoltaic) systems to provide for approximately 500,000 households at an overall cost of about $200 million."
So $16,000 per village system. They are not simply putting one small panel and a motocycle battery on each house.
The photos in the inhabit.com article are very misleading. Shoddy work, taking somebody else's article, and adding your own vaguely related stock photos.
No, the USA lacks solar panels because everybody is already on the grid.
Peru is using photovoltaics to provide small amounts of electricity without the infrastructure cost, which makes perfect sense.
PVs are still a very expensive way to generate large amounts of power. Only a wealthy country like Germany can afford to waste obscene amounts of money that way, where the benefits are mostly political.
That said, there is no sane reason why countries like the US and Australia should not be use far more solar-powered water heaters, and build homes for passive solar heating. Huge amounts of fossil fuels are being wasted that way.
That accounts for much of President Obama's actions in the war against al Qaida.
What war against al Qaida? You mean that big recruitment drive for them in Iraq, where Al Qaida did not even exist before the US invasion?
You mean the lost war against the Taliban, US allies against Russia, who were no threat against the US, and held no grudge until being invaded?
8000 American troops dead, >600,000 Iraqi excess deaths, and worldwide loss of respect. Beats "negligence or inaction" eh?
The government still changes by means of election,
So far as I can see, the election changes very little. Giving people a choice of two figureheads is not democracy.
Real democracy needs transparency, accountability and rule of law. Whether there is one party, or two slightly different parties, running things is a relatively minor point.
What the hell does her gender have to do with it?
I've no idea either, but she brought it up, calling herself a "minority".
If you look at her website, it seems to be her defining feature. Which is odd considering more than half the population are women, but very few people are kernel developers. Seems to have a big chip on her shoulder. Maybe that's why she works at Intel.
American Civil Rights Movement.
Why American specifically?
And how is that relevant? Did the black Americans demand that whites adopt Ebonics or asians wear afros?
No, when the black guy gets a seat in the boardroom, he still needs to wear a suit and tie, not a hoodie.
Gaining admittance and equality is not the same as forcing your culture on an existing one.
If Sarah cannot stand the heat, she should go back to the kitchen.
See - now that is political incorrectness.
Lets just recall that Guantanamo is essentially a holding pen for POWs. I
No. If that were the case, the US might have to abide by the Geneva Convention. Including repatriating them after the war.
How is this for impressive then:
Britain admits to using 'brutal' vacuum bomb against Taliban
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/britain-admits-using-vacuum-bomb/story-e6frg6to-1111116704067
Is this where KSM got the idea?
Spot the fed may just turn into hack-the-fed
I hope you are not suggesting DEFCON might go Brazilian on them?
Who knows? An Orwellian surveillance state is a lot more serious than soccer.
I heard the NSA shot it down.
Another false lead on Snowden then?
Your hovercraft is full of .. what?