They are real, but they have next to nothing to do with Iraq. Bush had a pre-existing vendetta against Iraq and when he saw the opportunity to justify an attack, he took it. If we were looking to go after terrorism we wouldn't be letting the Taliban retake Afghanistan and we wouldn't be so buddy buddy with Saudi Arabia. If were looking for WMDs we would have gone to North Korea. The simple fact is that, instead, we went after a guy who tried to kill our President's father on idiotic false pretenses and fucked it up big time. The reason laws are now being passed to prevent leaks is to prevent the American people from ever knowing the whole truth about our murderer-in-chief.
Ummmmmmm, do you know what the Constitution is? I can tell you what it definitely isn't, and that's the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence separated us from England. When the Constitution was put in effect 1789, we were quite happily separate from the Crown. Not that I disagree with the sentiment of the quote, our founding fathers were nothing short of heroes, and the Declaration and the Constitution are both incredible documents, but they were two separate documents.
Repeat after me: I believed the President's lies I believed the President's lies I believed the President's lies. When you're done with that tell me just what the fuck you think that Iraq being a bad place to go on vacation for an American has to do with terrorism? Then, stop being an ignorant fuckwit and realize that the majority of the Iranian populace has no problem with Americans, they're just frustrated by the American military presence the region. Ahmadinejad didn't come to power by promising nuclear war; he came to power by promising to keep our military out, a goal most Iranians, understandably, share. However, since they are not the animals you seem to think they are, they are not likely to take it out on any Western looking traveler in their land. You know what, fuck you, if you really believed what you're saying you'd be in Iraq right now, but you're too busy being an asshole.
Teaching without computers has its merits and its limitations. I think the happy medium, for intro courses at least, is to ask to see pseudocode. It teaches the students good programming principles while not chaining them to any one language or program. Of course, also require an executable program, but only after decent pseudocode has been submitted. This can extend to mid-level courses and understanding various data structures. This is where the variety of tools should be introduced. Introduce an IDE, or two. Begin allowing projects to be submitted in the student's chosen language. By the time students have reached the advanced level, they should be able to choose the best tools for the job. By this time, most of the non-majors will have ceased their study of CS, and most of the majors who never belonged there in the first place will have quit. Grade the remainder on their results, inquire about their methods. If you feel that their methods are holding them back, provide guidance.
Amen. Many times my CS exams require us to write functions out on paper. Write a function that won't compile, lose points. It was rough at first, but forcing me to write code on paper made me much better at writing code in general.
They've also had excellent videos completely devoid of live performances, I'm thinking specifically of "Do the Evolution." Pearl Jam with Seth McFarlane animating the video. That might be my favorite video ever.
I live in the country, on 10 acres. She had an invisible fence that kept her on my property. That dog was 10 years old and everyone else who came to my house managed to not hit her, but then again its pretty easy to avoid a dog when you're not going 20 mph in my driveway. How about fucking off and dying?
You obviously either don't own a TV or computer, or are just ignoring the enormous amount of crappy racial humor going around. I say crappy not because it offends me, but because most of it's not funny. If you don't believe me try watching South Park, Mind of Mencia, virtually anything on BET, Minoriteam and The Boondocks on Adult Swim... hell, just turn on your TV, I guarantee you don't need my help. Then, if you really want to lower your IQ a few points, check out the Internet. You'd think people would get tired of hearing about lazy Mexicans, slanty-eyed Asians, dorky white guys, drunken Irishman, flaming homosexuals, man-hating lesbians, and whatever black stereotype you choose to name, but they don't. Until people learn that jackasses like Carlos Mencia aren't funny racial humor will still sell in America, and if it sells in America, it plays in America.
I used to salute the flag in a different fashion back in high school. Got me kicked out of more than a few classes. Maybe the best thing my parents ever did for me was to tell me that no one could force me to say "under God" if I thought God was bullshit. My allegiance lies neither with that flag nor that non-existent deity, but to the ideals of our Founding Fathers. I don't think it's any coincidence that the only teacher who ever understood that was my US History teacher.
The FedEx guy ran over my dog once. He's out a job and 2 grand. He got off easy. If I had my way, I would have run over his mother and called it even.
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"Why is it that nobody can frustrate IE users, in your view, but its perfectly acceptable to frustrate non-IE users (which has already been going on for years)?"
Because it's NOT acceptable to frustrate non-IE users and it shouldn't be acceptable to frustrate IE users for the very same reason. Being petty and annoying seldom gets anyone anywhere.
I don't remember reading that in the summary, let me check the article............ nope not there either. Interesting that the mere mention of the word Republican, in any context, can yield a knee-jerk response from the right. Interesting indeed.
I wouldn't say the Facebook interface is "full of Apple-like bubbles and plastic-liiking shapes," but then again I like to use words that mean things, the demographic isn't teens, for the most part, and, finally, take a look at Facebook and tell me again how they're losing users to the next big thing. Also, I would think that this particular demographic is notorious for having way too much brand loyalty, not too little. Head over to Aeropostercrombie and Gap to see what I mean.
Thank you for pointing out the simple truth that no one seems to understand. Something being "proven" by science is impossible. We can prove that we have the most likely solution, given our current data and knowledge, but being proven is contrary to the scientific method.
I understand what AIDS does, genius. Its effect is to allow any old disease to infect you, and you eventually die from that infection. Without an immune system weakened by AIDS, that infection most likely either wouldn't have happened or never would have gotten so bad as to kill you. It doesn't make you sound any smarter to keep insisting that AIDS doesn't kill you just because there's an extra step involved. Next up, I can explain that jumping off a building is fatal, even though it's hitting the ground that kills you.
You misunderstand what one person's interpretation of one set of data mean. You see, science is, in fact, based on voting. More precisely, since you seem so interested in using that word as weapon, it is based on peer review. Until a paper has been peer reviewed, it is completely irrelevant to those outside the field. You say Jaworowski "points out the articles mentioned in NATURE," what you do not say is that Jaworowski has submitted his work for publication, had it undergo the process of peer review, and get published. This does not necessarily mean he is wrong, but it does mean that he should by no means be thought of as right. I haven't read his paper, it seems like you have and take his results and methodology to be sound. That's fine, but since I'm not a climatologist and I know very little about global warming, I'm going to wait until some of the experts in the field weigh in on the matter. If this paper refutes our theories on global warming like you say it does, then it will certainly merit discussion.
On the other hand, its entirely possible that every legitimate journal out there has peer reviewed his paper, but Jaworowski doesn't want to tell you about it. If he has, as the grandparent poster pointed out, been cited by Lyndon LaRouche then this is most likely the case. Anyway, to get back to my point, 1 paper that makes erroneous claims based on bad data, methodology, or interpretation does not refute 10,000 papers that say otherwise at all. I'm not necessarily saying Jaworowski's paper is incorrect, but it does smell that way. You can try to back it up all you want, but the fact is that I don't know enough about the subject to pick fact from well written fiction, like approximately 99.9%* of the people reading this. Yippee! Sulphur bubbles! That sounds sciencey, this guy must be smart! Sorry, ain't buying it, get it in The International Journal of Climatology and I'll believe it. Until then, keep trying to impress people who think they can tell their ass from a hole in the ozone layer, it helps them think they're intellectual.
* All cited statistics have a margin of error of 100%.
Right, and cancer only grows and grows until it, by its very size, fucks up the functioning of what's around it. The tumor doesn't kill you, its the effects of the tumor. Kind of like how AIDS doesn't kill you, the effects of AIDS kill you, or how inhaling water doesn't kill you, its the subsequent lack of oxygen that kills you. Thank god you saved us from that mistake.
Yes, yes he did compare you to a drug addict, in that you refuse to consider advice on its merits. The fact that you acted like a sanctimonious prick in your response validates that part of his post, although that might not have been the best way to get his point across, especially given the prickish nature of his first post. The fact is that many parents don't know anything about anything, much less parenting. Note, I didn't say this includes you and I didn't say it includes most parents. That being said, like the grandparent poster, I don't have kids, so I have no experience raising them. What I do have is parents and a sister who is raising my nephew. If I am giving advice on raising children, rest assured I have gotten it from them. That being said, my parents taught me and both of my sisters that being obnoxious was a real fast way to not only not get what we wanted, but to get what we had taken away. That might sound strict, and it was, for a little while. Then we learned that calmly asking for the things we really wanted and not every flashy piece of crap in the store would get us what we wanted. Parents happy, kids happy. I know, I haven't raised children, so what I just said isn't true and obviously makes no sense. Here's some friendly advice that has nothing to do with raising children: Consider the advice being given as well as the person giving it. Just because someone has kids doesn't mean they know anything about raising them, ask your local 15 year old mother.
I'm in Baltimore County, specifically Catonsville. Thanks for the help. I only wish that programs like this were more visible. I shouldn't have had to learn about this from Slashdot.
When I was a little kid I could walk to McDonalds. I usually had enough money on me to buy some of their crap, my parents were more than happy to keep a few bucks in my pocket to fund my comic book habit since I was reading them from age 5. I never did, not even once. A couple times when we were out driving somewhere we stopped there, but I didn't like it. My parents didn't have much time to cook, but one cooked chicken is food for a week if you're creative. I've been posting to this thread more than I've ever posted before, and its because I now realize how grateful I am that my parents cooked for me. Spend a little bit of time learning how to cook and you can quickly and easily make food that tastes better and treats you better than fast food. Give that food to your kids and they'll stay away from McDonalds for their whole lives.
I do have one problem with the parent post. As a New Jersey resident who has spent time living in Brooklyn, I will not stand for your badmouthing of pizza. I don't care how unhealthy it is, if I can get good pizza I will eat it AT LEAST once a week. That said, I'm at my school in Baltimore and I haven't eaten pizza since last time I was home.
I'm 21 years old now, so I feel like I have some perspective on this. I lived in Bayonne, NJ until I was 8. I walked to school everyday, with a few older kids from next door. I walked to the comic store when I felt like it. In fact, I walked wherever I wanted to, whenever I wanted to, provided it was light out. I never felt like I was in danger, and neither did my parents. It seems to me that if I was 10 years younger and saying that a lot of people would want to put my parents up on charges, but I think they knew what they were doing.
Seriously. My mom knows how to cook and my dad knows how to barbecue. After eating the food I ate while I was growing up I can only handle eating McDonalds very rarely. Before anyone says anything about how that's because my parents had the luxury of time, both of my parents worked full time and were supporting 3 kids. My mom divorced her first husband and spent 7 years as a single mother working full time, sometimes more. She still cooked almost every night. My dad commutes 2 hours every day to a full time job. Cooking a decent meal doesn't take so long that they couldn't do it, what's your excuse?
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They are real, but they have next to nothing to do with Iraq. Bush had a pre-existing vendetta against Iraq and when he saw the opportunity to justify an attack, he took it. If we were looking to go after terrorism we wouldn't be letting the Taliban retake Afghanistan and we wouldn't be so buddy buddy with Saudi Arabia. If were looking for WMDs we would have gone to North Korea. The simple fact is that, instead, we went after a guy who tried to kill our President's father on idiotic false pretenses and fucked it up big time. The reason laws are now being passed to prevent leaks is to prevent the American people from ever knowing the whole truth about our murderer-in-chief.
Ummmmmmm, do you know what the Constitution is? I can tell you what it definitely isn't, and that's the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence separated us from England. When the Constitution was put in effect 1789, we were quite happily separate from the Crown. Not that I disagree with the sentiment of the quote, our founding fathers were nothing short of heroes, and the Declaration and the Constitution are both incredible documents, but they were two separate documents.
Repeat after me: I believed the President's lies I believed the President's lies I believed the President's lies. When you're done with that tell me just what the fuck you think that Iraq being a bad place to go on vacation for an American has to do with terrorism? Then, stop being an ignorant fuckwit and realize that the majority of the Iranian populace has no problem with Americans, they're just frustrated by the American military presence the region. Ahmadinejad didn't come to power by promising nuclear war; he came to power by promising to keep our military out, a goal most Iranians, understandably, share. However, since they are not the animals you seem to think they are, they are not likely to take it out on any Western looking traveler in their land. You know what, fuck you, if you really believed what you're saying you'd be in Iraq right now, but you're too busy being an asshole.
Teaching without computers has its merits and its limitations. I think the happy medium, for intro courses at least, is to ask to see pseudocode. It teaches the students good programming principles while not chaining them to any one language or program. Of course, also require an executable program, but only after decent pseudocode has been submitted. This can extend to mid-level courses and understanding various data structures. This is where the variety of tools should be introduced. Introduce an IDE, or two. Begin allowing projects to be submitted in the student's chosen language. By the time students have reached the advanced level, they should be able to choose the best tools for the job. By this time, most of the non-majors will have ceased their study of CS, and most of the majors who never belonged there in the first place will have quit. Grade the remainder on their results, inquire about their methods. If you feel that their methods are holding them back, provide guidance.
Amen. Many times my CS exams require us to write functions out on paper. Write a function that won't compile, lose points. It was rough at first, but forcing me to write code on paper made me much better at writing code in general.
They've also had excellent videos completely devoid of live performances, I'm thinking specifically of "Do the Evolution." Pearl Jam with Seth McFarlane animating the video. That might be my favorite video ever.
I live in the country, on 10 acres. She had an invisible fence that kept her on my property. That dog was 10 years old and everyone else who came to my house managed to not hit her, but then again its pretty easy to avoid a dog when you're not going 20 mph in my driveway. How about fucking off and dying?
You obviously either don't own a TV or computer, or are just ignoring the enormous amount of crappy racial humor going around. I say crappy not because it offends me, but because most of it's not funny. If you don't believe me try watching South Park, Mind of Mencia, virtually anything on BET, Minoriteam and The Boondocks on Adult Swim... hell, just turn on your TV, I guarantee you don't need my help. Then, if you really want to lower your IQ a few points, check out the Internet. You'd think people would get tired of hearing about lazy Mexicans, slanty-eyed Asians, dorky white guys, drunken Irishman, flaming homosexuals, man-hating lesbians, and whatever black stereotype you choose to name, but they don't. Until people learn that jackasses like Carlos Mencia aren't funny racial humor will still sell in America, and if it sells in America, it plays in America.
I prefer "Wiirtual Wessel."
Has it been 3 months since the last time we heard about this yet?
I used to salute the flag in a different fashion back in high school. Got me kicked out of more than a few classes. Maybe the best thing my parents ever did for me was to tell me that no one could force me to say "under God" if I thought God was bullshit. My allegiance lies neither with that flag nor that non-existent deity, but to the ideals of our Founding Fathers. I don't think it's any coincidence that the only teacher who ever understood that was my US History teacher.
The FedEx guy ran over my dog once. He's out a job and 2 grand. He got off easy. If I had my way, I would have run over his mother and called it even.
"Why is it that nobody can frustrate IE users, in your view, but its perfectly acceptable to frustrate non-IE users (which has already been going on for years)?"
Because it's NOT acceptable to frustrate non-IE users and it shouldn't be acceptable to frustrate IE users for the very same reason. Being petty and annoying seldom gets anyone anywhere.
What is the evidence that global warming is causing a "uniform increase" in temperature?
I don't remember reading that in the summary, let me check the article... ... ... ... nope not there either. Interesting that the mere mention of the word Republican, in any context, can yield a knee-jerk response from the right. Interesting indeed.
I wouldn't say the Facebook interface is "full of Apple-like bubbles and plastic-liiking shapes," but then again I like to use words that mean things, the demographic isn't teens, for the most part, and, finally, take a look at Facebook and tell me again how they're losing users to the next big thing. Also, I would think that this particular demographic is notorious for having way too much brand loyalty, not too little. Head over to Aeropostercrombie and Gap to see what I mean.
Thank you for pointing out the simple truth that no one seems to understand. Something being "proven" by science is impossible. We can prove that we have the most likely solution, given our current data and knowledge, but being proven is contrary to the scientific method.
I understand what AIDS does, genius. Its effect is to allow any old disease to infect you, and you eventually die from that infection. Without an immune system weakened by AIDS, that infection most likely either wouldn't have happened or never would have gotten so bad as to kill you. It doesn't make you sound any smarter to keep insisting that AIDS doesn't kill you just because there's an extra step involved. Next up, I can explain that jumping off a building is fatal, even though it's hitting the ground that kills you.
You misunderstand what one person's interpretation of one set of data mean. You see, science is, in fact, based on voting. More precisely, since you seem so interested in using that word as weapon, it is based on peer review. Until a paper has been peer reviewed, it is completely irrelevant to those outside the field. You say Jaworowski "points out the articles mentioned in NATURE," what you do not say is that Jaworowski has submitted his work for publication, had it undergo the process of peer review, and get published. This does not necessarily mean he is wrong, but it does mean that he should by no means be thought of as right. I haven't read his paper, it seems like you have and take his results and methodology to be sound. That's fine, but since I'm not a climatologist and I know very little about global warming, I'm going to wait until some of the experts in the field weigh in on the matter. If this paper refutes our theories on global warming like you say it does, then it will certainly merit discussion.
On the other hand, its entirely possible that every legitimate journal out there has peer reviewed his paper, but Jaworowski doesn't want to tell you about it. If he has, as the grandparent poster pointed out, been cited by Lyndon LaRouche then this is most likely the case. Anyway, to get back to my point, 1 paper that makes erroneous claims based on bad data, methodology, or interpretation does not refute 10,000 papers that say otherwise at all. I'm not necessarily saying Jaworowski's paper is incorrect, but it does smell that way. You can try to back it up all you want, but the fact is that I don't know enough about the subject to pick fact from well written fiction, like approximately 99.9%* of the people reading this. Yippee! Sulphur bubbles! That sounds sciencey, this guy must be smart! Sorry, ain't buying it, get it in The International Journal of Climatology and I'll believe it. Until then, keep trying to impress people who think they can tell their ass from a hole in the ozone layer, it helps them think they're intellectual.
* All cited statistics have a margin of error of 100%.
Right, and cancer only grows and grows until it, by its very size, fucks up the functioning of what's around it. The tumor doesn't kill you, its the effects of the tumor. Kind of like how AIDS doesn't kill you, the effects of AIDS kill you, or how inhaling water doesn't kill you, its the subsequent lack of oxygen that kills you. Thank god you saved us from that mistake.
Yes, yes he did compare you to a drug addict, in that you refuse to consider advice on its merits. The fact that you acted like a sanctimonious prick in your response validates that part of his post, although that might not have been the best way to get his point across, especially given the prickish nature of his first post. The fact is that many parents don't know anything about anything, much less parenting. Note, I didn't say this includes you and I didn't say it includes most parents. That being said, like the grandparent poster, I don't have kids, so I have no experience raising them. What I do have is parents and a sister who is raising my nephew. If I am giving advice on raising children, rest assured I have gotten it from them. That being said, my parents taught me and both of my sisters that being obnoxious was a real fast way to not only not get what we wanted, but to get what we had taken away. That might sound strict, and it was, for a little while. Then we learned that calmly asking for the things we really wanted and not every flashy piece of crap in the store would get us what we wanted. Parents happy, kids happy. I know, I haven't raised children, so what I just said isn't true and obviously makes no sense. Here's some friendly advice that has nothing to do with raising children: Consider the advice being given as well as the person giving it. Just because someone has kids doesn't mean they know anything about raising them, ask your local 15 year old mother.
I'm in Baltimore County, specifically Catonsville. Thanks for the help. I only wish that programs like this were more visible. I shouldn't have had to learn about this from Slashdot.
When I was a little kid I could walk to McDonalds. I usually had enough money on me to buy some of their crap, my parents were more than happy to keep a few bucks in my pocket to fund my comic book habit since I was reading them from age 5. I never did, not even once. A couple times when we were out driving somewhere we stopped there, but I didn't like it. My parents didn't have much time to cook, but one cooked chicken is food for a week if you're creative. I've been posting to this thread more than I've ever posted before, and its because I now realize how grateful I am that my parents cooked for me. Spend a little bit of time learning how to cook and you can quickly and easily make food that tastes better and treats you better than fast food. Give that food to your kids and they'll stay away from McDonalds for their whole lives.
I do have one problem with the parent post. As a New Jersey resident who has spent time living in Brooklyn, I will not stand for your badmouthing of pizza. I don't care how unhealthy it is, if I can get good pizza I will eat it AT LEAST once a week. That said, I'm at my school in Baltimore and I haven't eaten pizza since last time I was home.
I'm 21 years old now, so I feel like I have some perspective on this. I lived in Bayonne, NJ until I was 8. I walked to school everyday, with a few older kids from next door. I walked to the comic store when I felt like it. In fact, I walked wherever I wanted to, whenever I wanted to, provided it was light out. I never felt like I was in danger, and neither did my parents. It seems to me that if I was 10 years younger and saying that a lot of people would want to put my parents up on charges, but I think they knew what they were doing.
Seriously. My mom knows how to cook and my dad knows how to barbecue. After eating the food I ate while I was growing up I can only handle eating McDonalds very rarely. Before anyone says anything about how that's because my parents had the luxury of time, both of my parents worked full time and were supporting 3 kids. My mom divorced her first husband and spent 7 years as a single mother working full time, sometimes more. She still cooked almost every night. My dad commutes 2 hours every day to a full time job. Cooking a decent meal doesn't take so long that they couldn't do it, what's your excuse?