Yeah, I came into contact with a lot of those folks at RIT / NTID. Having lost my hearing the year before I attended RIT, that whole "mindset" kind-of bugged me; still does. It ain't "culture": it's a fucking disability, and it's nothing to celebrate, let alone perpetuate. Like employers are going to respect that "culture" when you go for a job interview. Like your infant is going to respect that culture when he's crying at night and you can't hear him. Like the cops are going to respect that culture when you need directions to a hospital and you can't understand a word they say.
I'm sorry that your implant doesn't work that well, but your anecdote doesn't fit all sizes. My implant works spiffy, and, to me, things sound about the same as they did before I lost my hearing. Maybe you should talk with your audiologist. Mine, Dr. Murray at the Cleveland Clinic, was freakin' awesome. When I wanted to play around with the mapping, for the sake of "science," she obliged and it was a really eye-opening experience: fuck up the map, and you're going to get a shitty sound.
It depends on the provider. For example, Netflix has "That 70's Show," and it's captioned. Some other Netflix content is not. If it's not captioned, I simply don't watch it.
Apple iTunes is in a similar boat: I rented "The Tillman Story" and it wasn't captioned.
In the engineering fields, yes, typically, there are fewer "correct" ways to do things. However, politics and economics are more social sciences.
"lock-step": When Rush Limbaugh's fans take pride in being called "ditto heads," what does that tell you? In contrast, you will see plenty of self-described "liberals" who disagree with, say, Joe Klein, or Rachel Maddow, or Keith Olbermann, or any "liberal" professional blow-hard. There is no liberal "messiah" to the same degree as Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck.
Well said, particularly the use of "incumbents." No one currently in power wants to see change. That goes for:
- Pols in DC
- Fat-cats in charge of *AA
- Leaders of N. Korea
- Saudi royals
- Owners of the successful local coffee shop
- Local school board president
- Football booster club president
- etc.
WTF are you on about? If lib/prog people were taught "how" to think, wouldn't they be of like mind and more easily controlled? In fact, isn't the biggest problem with the "left" side of the US political spectrum the fact that they're off in so many different directions and can't get their shit together? It's like herding cats.
In contrast, the "right" side of the US political spectrum marches in lock-step unison.
Quick summary:
Right = binary: true/false, yes/no, on/off; Sith Lords
Left = shades of grey; sometimes too many
Depends on where you are. In rural western NY, the tap isn't too bad. I prefer to run it through a "ZeroWater" filter, first. My cats won't touch the tap water I leave for them, though; they only drink the filtered water. Or the ground water collecting in muddy pans outside. Go figure.
In contrast, every time I've been to Florida, for example, the water smells horrible. I wouldn't touch it. No idea what it's like in that particular California community.
But, yeah, you should be able to just drink from the tap.
You can drink Diet Coke, instead, which doesn't have the sugar. However, Diet Coke has its own drawbacks. In my case, I get kidney stones. In addition to all the goodness that comes with Aspartame.
Just have the Conservatives provide the peer-reviewed science behind their assertions. If it's actually science, there should be something testable to support it. If it isn't science, it doesn't belong in science class.
What he's shown so far - and admirably well, evidently - is that he can master what's already known. We have no idea what he can come up with on his own. No slagging on the kid, but, at this point, he's just a walking bio-encyclopedia: he has facts, but we don't know if he has "wisdom." The ability to store all of those bits of information does not directly correlate into the ability to make something from them. We'll have to wait and see how he does.
I hear ya. Even behind our corporate firewall, our security guys took a few of our Solaris systems off the VLAN because they had "unpatched security holes." Never mind that these build systems have to match the systems delivered to the customers so that we can't patch these systems - again, internal, behind the FW, not outward-facing systems - because that would mean we'd have to patch the delivered systems, which would require a full round of verification and validation testing, and management doesn't want to do that, yada yada.
Let's not be ridiculous. Just because you tinkered with firewalls - and even there, you were probably playing with Linux's open-source stuff, rather than writing your own from scratch - not everyone who majors in CS has. My work over the last few years - real-time healthcare and diagnostics - is probably not what everyone else worked on. It's simplistic to say that just because I worked on RT healthcare projects, everyone should know as much as I do about them.
And, if you live in or near Chicago, you don't even have to have strings on your guitar - people will still throw money in your cup.
I remember this one dude who camped out at a particular corner. He had maybe three strings on his guitar. I wanted to buy a pack of strings for him, but then I figured, "Why bother?" He's obviously doing well enough with his three-string chords.
The landscapers in my western NY town are all white. Rednecks, but white. The construction guys are either Native American or white. What race are we talking, here?
So anyone of faith is someone who is unreasonable?
I prefer to call them "irrational." Faith requires the subjugation of "reality" in preference to that which can not be proven or disproven. If I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to any reasonable person that water is wet, but you continue to believe otherwise - perhaps because a book written thousands of years ago by guys who couldn't even figure out indoor plumbing says that water is NOT wet - I'd say that's quite irrational.
Maybe I'm missing something very subtle on your part, but I think the OP is saying that, when buying a chocolate bar that has nuts in it by design, like an Almond Joy, it's all kinds of stoopid to say, "May contain nuts." Of course it does! I bought it because, dammit, sometimes I feel like a nut!
That warning is needed when you buy a chocolate bar that you would not expect to have nuts, but there just might be some, or residue, present.
OTOH, maybe Mars could still apply that warning to Almond Joys to cover their ass in case an almond isn't applied correctly. There, they could say, "Well, see, we said it may contain nuts: we never guaranteed that it would." Seems like a crap-shoot either way.
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Maybe you could, I don't know, skip the article?
Yeah, I came into contact with a lot of those folks at RIT / NTID. Having lost my hearing the year before I attended RIT, that whole "mindset" kind-of bugged me; still does. It ain't "culture": it's a fucking disability, and it's nothing to celebrate, let alone perpetuate. Like employers are going to respect that "culture" when you go for a job interview. Like your infant is going to respect that culture when he's crying at night and you can't hear him. Like the cops are going to respect that culture when you need directions to a hospital and you can't understand a word they say.
I'm sorry that your implant doesn't work that well, but your anecdote doesn't fit all sizes. My implant works spiffy, and, to me, things sound about the same as they did before I lost my hearing. Maybe you should talk with your audiologist. Mine, Dr. Murray at the Cleveland Clinic, was freakin' awesome. When I wanted to play around with the mapping, for the sake of "science," she obliged and it was a really eye-opening experience: fuck up the map, and you're going to get a shitty sound.
It depends on the provider. For example, Netflix has "That 70's Show," and it's captioned. Some other Netflix content is not. If it's not captioned, I simply don't watch it.
Apple iTunes is in a similar boat: I rented "The Tillman Story" and it wasn't captioned.
My wife and son are enrolled members of the Seneca Nation of Indians. I don't think they have a problem with that term.
http://www.sni.org/
In other words, we jumped the shark with fricken lasers!
In the engineering fields, yes, typically, there are fewer "correct" ways to do things. However, politics and economics are more social sciences.
"lock-step": When Rush Limbaugh's fans take pride in being called "ditto heads," what does that tell you? In contrast, you will see plenty of self-described "liberals" who disagree with, say, Joe Klein, or Rachel Maddow, or Keith Olbermann, or any "liberal" professional blow-hard. There is no liberal "messiah" to the same degree as Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck.
Well said, particularly the use of "incumbents." No one currently in power wants to see change. That goes for:
- Pols in DC
- Fat-cats in charge of *AA
- Leaders of N. Korea
- Saudi royals
- Owners of the successful local coffee shop
- Local school board president
- Football booster club president
- etc.
WTF are you on about? If lib/prog people were taught "how" to think, wouldn't they be of like mind and more easily controlled? In fact, isn't the biggest problem with the "left" side of the US political spectrum the fact that they're off in so many different directions and can't get their shit together? It's like herding cats.
In contrast, the "right" side of the US political spectrum marches in lock-step unison.
Quick summary:
Right = binary: true/false, yes/no, on/off; Sith Lords
Left = shades of grey; sometimes too many
Depends on where you are. In rural western NY, the tap isn't too bad. I prefer to run it through a "ZeroWater" filter, first. My cats won't touch the tap water I leave for them, though; they only drink the filtered water. Or the ground water collecting in muddy pans outside. Go figure.
In contrast, every time I've been to Florida, for example, the water smells horrible. I wouldn't touch it. No idea what it's like in that particular California community.
But, yeah, you should be able to just drink from the tap.
You wouldn't be from North Carolina, would you?
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Ha! I can fuck up even that!
You can drink Diet Coke, instead, which doesn't have the sugar. However, Diet Coke has its own drawbacks. In my case, I get kidney stones. In addition to all the goodness that comes with Aspartame.
Just have the Conservatives provide the peer-reviewed science behind their assertions. If it's actually science, there should be something testable to support it. If it isn't science, it doesn't belong in science class.
What he's shown so far - and admirably well, evidently - is that he can master what's already known. We have no idea what he can come up with on his own. No slagging on the kid, but, at this point, he's just a walking bio-encyclopedia: he has facts, but we don't know if he has "wisdom." The ability to store all of those bits of information does not directly correlate into the ability to make something from them. We'll have to wait and see how he does.
I don't suppose you could blow a whistle or something, could you? Do you have enough to show actual malfeasance?
Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
I have just two words for you:
1. Fuck
2. You.
Don't have a nice day; have a debilitating aneurysm instead.
I hear ya. Even behind our corporate firewall, our security guys took a few of our Solaris systems off the VLAN because they had "unpatched security holes." Never mind that these build systems have to match the systems delivered to the customers so that we can't patch these systems - again, internal, behind the FW, not outward-facing systems - because that would mean we'd have to patch the delivered systems, which would require a full round of verification and validation testing, and management doesn't want to do that, yada yada.
Let's not be ridiculous. Just because you tinkered with firewalls - and even there, you were probably playing with Linux's open-source stuff, rather than writing your own from scratch - not everyone who majors in CS has. My work over the last few years - real-time healthcare and diagnostics - is probably not what everyone else worked on. It's simplistic to say that just because I worked on RT healthcare projects, everyone should know as much as I do about them.
And, if you live in or near Chicago, you don't even have to have strings on your guitar - people will still throw money in your cup.
I remember this one dude who camped out at a particular corner. He had maybe three strings on his guitar. I wanted to buy a pack of strings for him, but then I figured, "Why bother?" He's obviously doing well enough with his three-string chords.
The landscapers in my western NY town are all white. Rednecks, but white. The construction guys are either Native American or white. What race are we talking, here?
I prefer to call them "irrational." Faith requires the subjugation of "reality" in preference to that which can not be proven or disproven. If I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt to any reasonable person that water is wet, but you continue to believe otherwise - perhaps because a book written thousands of years ago by guys who couldn't even figure out indoor plumbing says that water is NOT wet - I'd say that's quite irrational.
Um, light travels in copper? How's that work?
Maybe I'm missing something very subtle on your part, but I think the OP is saying that, when buying a chocolate bar that has nuts in it by design, like an Almond Joy, it's all kinds of stoopid to say, "May contain nuts." Of course it does! I bought it because, dammit, sometimes I feel like a nut!
That warning is needed when you buy a chocolate bar that you would not expect to have nuts, but there just might be some, or residue, present.
OTOH, maybe Mars could still apply that warning to Almond Joys to cover their ass in case an almond isn't applied correctly. There, they could say, "Well, see, we said it may contain nuts: we never guaranteed that it would." Seems like a crap-shoot either way.
Sucks to have those food allergies...
Don't tell Chuck Schumer. He'll go apoplectic.