Conservapedia is down right now, but here is the link to the Conservapedia-Lenski dialog. His first response is very polite, but when Schafly pigheadedly and insultingly keeps at him, Lenski rips him a new asshole with this powerful thing called "facts" (which naturally have a liberal bias). The exchange is on Conservapedia since Lenski basically threatened to put it all over the web if they didn't include the entire exchange unedited.
We could also look at the kids themselves, who want to go get a job immediately after their bachelors degree, rather than live in near poverty for 4 to 6 more years while getting a PhD. Part of what is happening is that the foreign students are more willing to delay gratification.
Hell, even more than that. As a graduate research/teaching assistant you make just enough to get by. Yet, a lot of the Chinese grad students I knew were *still* able to send a few thousand home each year to help their parents. And, considering that one USD in the States is about equal to 1 Yuan in China as far as purchase power goes (at least it was at the time), sending $2000 home to China per year is like sending $16000 a year to someone in the states due to the exchange rate.
No, it's a warning beacon advising more civilized species of interstellar travelers to keep away from from a star system inhabited by homo sapiens sapiens.
And the fact that we refer to ourselves as homo sapiens sapiens provides great mirth for Kang and Kodos.
Oh, and white people aren't moving into all-white Southern neighborhoods because of "white flight". That's another one of your baseless assumptions (have you even been out of the South before???). What they are doing is selling the $800k houses whose mortgages have finally been paid off and moving where they can pay $200k in cash for new construction.
Bull-fucking-shit. Who are they supposedly selling these $800k houses to then?
Moron. They are moving from places like Boston, New York, Northern Virginia, and so on where those prices for a house are *normal*. So, they sell their houses to other people in *that* area and then move to a *different* area where the prices are a lot cheaper. You really fail at reading comprehension. As to the rest of your rant, I was talking about the SOUTH, not the Midwest. If you really are from the Midwest, why are you going so apeshit about the South? I was not complaining in the least about the Midwest. I was complaining about the South and the problems that I personally have had there, along with many other people. Anyway, at least you admitted that the problem is poverty, and not race. So, again, why did you assume that I was not white? Why do you make such a big deal about the fact that the people in the areas you mention are black? There are plenty of vile shitholes riddled with crime that are primarily populated with white people. They just don't make the news. And, historically, white America has done all it could to keep black people in the ghettos, although fortunately that is changing in most places (La JP's notwithstanding).
And, I was not suggesting that black people cannot also be racist. But, we were dealing with the South and the problems therein. There is much racial hatred in the South on both sides. That was pretty much my point, if you had bothered to read. It makes for a very unpleasant atmosphere.
It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with economics, but I was pointing it out in contrast to the GPP's racist-bitch-whine "waah I hate the south because it's all full of whites and I hate whites" bullshit.
Um, moron, I am white. I never said *anything* about hating white people. YOU assumed that. I was simply complaining about all the mono-racial neighborhoods and the fact that tons of white people move into these nearly all-white neighborhoods in the South. The kind of attitude that engenders is similar to yours. It's people like that who would shout "Nigger lover!" at me from the back of their pickup trucks for simply being out with some friends, a few of whom were not white. As the AC GP stated, your response says more about you.
Oh, and white people aren't moving into all-white Southern neighborhoods because of "white flight". That's another one of your baseless assumptions (have you even been out of the South before???). What they are doing is selling the $800k houses whose mortgages have finally been paid off and moving where they can pay $200k in cash for new construction. It gives them over half a million right off the bat for retirement money. Plus, the places they are moving to have very retiree-friendly tax codes.
Anyway, I should have more properly referred to the neighborhoods as largely mono-racial rather than largely white since Southerners tend to segregate themselves more. I guess it is because of all the racial hatred down there brought about by, well, people like you. If I go with my wife to some place like Seattle or New York, *no one notices us*. We're just another couple. If I visit relatives in the South, however, the *best* we get is tons of stares if we go anywhere together. Again, from people like you who then make a bunch of assinine comments to their friends about us while somehow thinking that sound does not travel beyond the person you intended to hear it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you don't live in the southern US. Which makes this post top contender for Ironic Statement of the Year.
I grew up in the South so I can absolutely testify that it does indeed have the highest concentration of idiots that it was ever my displeasure to live around. The real estate is cheaper simply because no one wants to live there, at least until they retire. And then it is mostly white people living in almost all-white neighborhoods. And taxes in places like North Carolina are actually not that much less than New England. Plus, you don't get jack squat for your taxes. I'll take somewhat higher taxes if it lets me live where people are actually somewhat civilized and have at least two working brain cells.
Oh, and in the South, when they fuck something up (*when*, not *if*) they try to act there is something wrong with *you* for trying to get them to fix it. I've even had a cashier who screwed up scanning items (because we know how horribly complicated bar code scanners are to use) and almost overcharging me say "It's only four dollars" when the manager had to come over and fix her screw up.
Unfortunately, the Japanese school system doesn't bother teaching children about all the horrible things the Japanese military did in the past. A lot of them simply don't know things like the Rape of Nanjing, the medical experiments on POWs, and so on even happened.
It's actually quite interesting what Chinese goverment is capable of on technical terms. Most of the goverments are quite clueless when it comes to computer and internet stuff, but Chinese seem to be on the track always.
Indeed. If the UK tried this, not only would it not work, it would somehow leak all the troop and ship locations to everyone in the world, along with Gordon Brown's gay lover's telephone number.
No, that's a 'spark'. Still, it might be disguised as a magnetic current.
GP may be thinking about magnetic circuits which are used in electrical power system design. Magnetic flux is treated as current so you wind up with reluctance = [magneto-motive force]/[magnetic flux].
God created the Dune movie and saw that it was good. Then, the American producers complained that it violated the sacred Two Hour Limit. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then, God cropped Dune to two hours. And lo, there was a pestilence upon the land. And the people cried out to the Lord shouting "What is this shit you have sent us?!" And the Lord pitied them and made the original extended version available on DVD. Then, the Lord in his mercy also gave unto mankind the Sci-Fi Channel version of Dune, which emphasized other aspects of the movie. And all of Israel rejoiced and heaped praise upon the prophets David Lynch and John Harrison. And the land was blessed with milk and honey.
Not seeing a relationship between your remarks and the news item in question, but I feel compelled to ask the questions: If your debt is in US $, aren't you also earning US $ to pay this debt off? How then are you ahead when the US $ is weak?
His mom gives him his allowance in Euros. Although, to be fair, it could just as easily be in Indonesian Rupiah. That's right, even money from a third world country like Indonesia (don't take this as bashing Indonesia, I have relatives from there) is winning against the US dollar.
Of course you might be able to use this to monitor the police, but if so, expect them to implement controls on that asap.
They already do that. When the police beat up someone or hold them down and shoot them in the head repeatedly, lo and behold! all of the cameras in the area are "malfunctioning".
I have thought the same solution could be found here as for Soccer hooliganism. Why not provide a few large arenas where people who want to fight and maybe kill each other can go and do it. Today, muslims from the east entrance, all comers from the west. Whichever side is left standing moves on to the next round robin.
Hell, I'd pay good money to see Pat Robertson and Osama bin Laden in a no-holds-barred cage match! We could probably pay off a lot of the national debt just by selling tickets.
It was an Impulse drive that launched Sputnik and every other object we have sent into space.
Not to be pedantic, but there was IIRC a distinction made between the Impulse Engines on the Enterprise and the rockets. The rockets were sort of a last resort OMG! We're Going To Die! kind of propulsion. I think the impulse engines used the matter-antimatter reaction, but not the dilithium crystals.
Can someone who is even geekier than I give better details?
And then there is the Sony Blu-Ray Drive. It gets your starship moving at FTL speeds. Then, it performs an automatic update, bricking your ship. Finally, your ship bursts into flames before slamming into a passing asteroid.
Holy Grail is great and all, but I think "Life Of Brian" is the best Monty Python movie.
Actually, in an interview about a year ago, John Clease mentioned that, in his experience, Americans tended to favor Holy Grail and Britons tended to favour Life of Brian. He thought it had something to do with the way in which both countries tend to enjoy their humo(u)r. Life of Brian has a continuous plot, whereas Holy Grail is more of a connected series of sketches.
Neither do I believe that broadcasts of stories like The Veldt have entered the public domain, as alleged by archive.org.
Actually, the radio broadcast has entered public domain, even though the original short story is still under copyright. I know this makes no sense, but as Mark Twain once quipped, even God can't make sense of the copyright laws.
Believe it or not, the majority of Twilight Zone episodes merely adapted episodes of the radio series Dimension-X (and X Minus One, itself both continuing and drawing heavily on Dimension-X material) to TV.
Well, to be more accurate, they all drew from the same short stories. Most of Dimension X and X-1 shows were adapted from the sci-fi short stories of the day.
Which reminds me, since the infamous Capricorn One is mentioned here from time to time, the basic premise of *that* abomination actually comes from the X-1 show The Cave of Darkness (which I believe is also the name of the original short story). The X-1 story, however, is actually quite good especially since it was not also melded with Fake Moon Landing conspiracy theories. Of course, the great Buzz Aldrin has already shown us how to deal with people like that!
Sigh. That was The Outer Limits, not The Twilght Zone. You've just given me this image of Mayor Quimby telling Leonard Nimoy "May the force be with you!"
Troll??? More like truth. For the right-wing Bush-lover who modded him troll, try to look up the connection between the Bush family and the Hitler regime during WWII. In other news, apparently the Soviets didn't really find Hitler's body at his bunker.
Tyranny-loving politicians always try to scare the shit out of you to make it seem like they have no choice but to take your freedoms away. And it is always something horrible, like kidnapping or child rape. That way, if you don't give them what they want, then *you* must be responsible for their kidnapping/rape/death since you stood by and didn't let them do anything.
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Conservapedia is down right now, but here is the link to the Conservapedia-Lenski dialog. His first response is very polite, but when Schafly pigheadedly and insultingly keeps at him, Lenski rips him a new asshole with this powerful thing called "facts" (which naturally have a liberal bias). The exchange is on Conservapedia since Lenski basically threatened to put it all over the web if they didn't include the entire exchange unedited.
Hell, even more than that. As a graduate research/teaching assistant you make just enough to get by. Yet, a lot of the Chinese grad students I knew were *still* able to send a few thousand home each year to help their parents. And, considering that one USD in the States is about equal to 1 Yuan in China as far as purchase power goes (at least it was at the time), sending $2000 home to China per year is like sending $16000 a year to someone in the states due to the exchange rate.
And the fact that we refer to ourselves as homo sapiens sapiens provides great mirth for Kang and Kodos.
I heartily agree with you. In fact, one of the best explanations I've heard of this comes from, of all people, Bill Maher. So ask your doctor... ^_^
Moron. They are moving from places like Boston, New York, Northern Virginia, and so on where those prices for a house are *normal*. So, they sell their houses to other people in *that* area and then move to a *different* area where the prices are a lot cheaper. You really fail at reading comprehension. As to the rest of your rant, I was talking about the SOUTH, not the Midwest. If you really are from the Midwest, why are you going so apeshit about the South? I was not complaining in the least about the Midwest. I was complaining about the South and the problems that I personally have had there, along with many other people. Anyway, at least you admitted that the problem is poverty, and not race. So, again, why did you assume that I was not white? Why do you make such a big deal about the fact that the people in the areas you mention are black? There are plenty of vile shitholes riddled with crime that are primarily populated with white people. They just don't make the news. And, historically, white America has done all it could to keep black people in the ghettos, although fortunately that is changing in most places (La JP's notwithstanding).
And, I was not suggesting that black people cannot also be racist. But, we were dealing with the South and the problems therein. There is much racial hatred in the South on both sides. That was pretty much my point, if you had bothered to read. It makes for a very unpleasant atmosphere.
Um, moron, I am white. I never said *anything* about hating white people. YOU assumed that. I was simply complaining about all the mono-racial neighborhoods and the fact that tons of white people move into these nearly all-white neighborhoods in the South. The kind of attitude that engenders is similar to yours. It's people like that who would shout "Nigger lover!" at me from the back of their pickup trucks for simply being out with some friends, a few of whom were not white. As the AC GP stated, your response says more about you.
Oh, and white people aren't moving into all-white Southern neighborhoods because of "white flight". That's another one of your baseless assumptions (have you even been out of the South before???). What they are doing is selling the $800k houses whose mortgages have finally been paid off and moving where they can pay $200k in cash for new construction. It gives them over half a million right off the bat for retirement money. Plus, the places they are moving to have very retiree-friendly tax codes.
Anyway, I should have more properly referred to the neighborhoods as largely mono-racial rather than largely white since Southerners tend to segregate themselves more. I guess it is because of all the racial hatred down there brought about by, well, people like you. If I go with my wife to some place like Seattle or New York, *no one notices us*. We're just another couple. If I visit relatives in the South, however, the *best* we get is tons of stares if we go anywhere together. Again, from people like you who then make a bunch of assinine comments to their friends about us while somehow thinking that sound does not travel beyond the person you intended to hear it.
I grew up in the South so I can absolutely testify that it does indeed have the highest concentration of idiots that it was ever my displeasure to live around. The real estate is cheaper simply because no one wants to live there, at least until they retire. And then it is mostly white people living in almost all-white neighborhoods. And taxes in places like North Carolina are actually not that much less than New England. Plus, you don't get jack squat for your taxes. I'll take somewhat higher taxes if it lets me live where people are actually somewhat civilized and have at least two working brain cells.
Oh, and in the South, when they fuck something up (*when*, not *if*) they try to act there is something wrong with *you* for trying to get them to fix it. I've even had a cashier who screwed up scanning items (because we know how horribly complicated bar code scanners are to use) and almost overcharging me say "It's only four dollars" when the manager had to come over and fix her screw up.
Unfortunately, the Japanese school system doesn't bother teaching children about all the horrible things the Japanese military did in the past. A lot of them simply don't know things like the Rape of Nanjing, the medical experiments on POWs, and so on even happened.
Indeed. If the UK tried this, not only would it not work, it would somehow leak all the troop and ship locations to everyone in the world, along with Gordon Brown's gay lover's telephone number.
GP may be thinking about magnetic circuits which are used in electrical power system design. Magnetic flux is treated as current so you wind up with reluctance = [magneto-motive force]/[magnetic flux].
God created the Dune movie and saw that it was good. Then, the American producers complained that it violated the sacred Two Hour Limit. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then, God cropped Dune to two hours. And lo, there was a pestilence upon the land. And the people cried out to the Lord shouting "What is this shit you have sent us?!" And the Lord pitied them and made the original extended version available on DVD. Then, the Lord in his mercy also gave unto mankind the Sci-Fi Channel version of Dune, which emphasized other aspects of the movie. And all of Israel rejoiced and heaped praise upon the prophets David Lynch and John Harrison. And the land was blessed with milk and honey.
Here endeth the lesson.
Who decided which representatives are the ones we get to choose from in our "elections"?
Oh sweet! Thank you! I had completely forgotten where I had read this article!
His mom gives him his allowance in Euros. Although, to be fair, it could just as easily be in Indonesian Rupiah. That's right, even money from a third world country like Indonesia (don't take this as bashing Indonesia, I have relatives from there) is winning against the US dollar.
They already do that. When the police beat up someone or hold them down and shoot them in the head repeatedly, lo and behold! all of the cameras in the area are "malfunctioning".
Hell, I'd pay good money to see Pat Robertson and Osama bin Laden in a no-holds-barred cage match! We could probably pay off a lot of the national debt just by selling tickets.
Not to be pedantic, but there was IIRC a distinction made between the Impulse Engines on the Enterprise and the rockets. The rockets were sort of a last resort OMG! We're Going To Die! kind of propulsion. I think the impulse engines used the matter-antimatter reaction, but not the dilithium crystals.
Can someone who is even geekier than I give better details?
And then there is the Sony Blu-Ray Drive. It gets your starship moving at FTL speeds. Then, it performs an automatic update, bricking your ship. Finally, your ship bursts into flames before slamming into a passing asteroid.
Actually, in an interview about a year ago, John Clease mentioned that, in his experience, Americans tended to favor Holy Grail and Britons tended to favour Life of Brian. He thought it had something to do with the way in which both countries tend to enjoy their humo(u)r. Life of Brian has a continuous plot, whereas Holy Grail is more of a connected series of sketches.
Actually, the radio broadcast has entered public domain, even though the original short story is still under copyright. I know this makes no sense, but as Mark Twain once quipped, even God can't make sense of the copyright laws.
^_^ Indeed! But then, what's a good slashdot thread without a Hitler reference?
Well, to be more accurate, they all drew from the same short stories. Most of Dimension X and X-1 shows were adapted from the sci-fi short stories of the day.
Which reminds me, since the infamous Capricorn One is mentioned here from time to time, the basic premise of *that* abomination actually comes from the X-1 show The Cave of Darkness (which I believe is also the name of the original short story). The X-1 story, however, is actually quite good especially since it was not also melded with Fake Moon Landing conspiracy theories. Of course, the great Buzz Aldrin has already shown us how to deal with people like that!
Sigh. That was The Outer Limits, not The Twilght Zone. You've just given me this image of Mayor Quimby telling Leonard Nimoy "May the force be with you!"
Troll??? More like truth. For the right-wing Bush-lover who modded him troll, try to look up the connection between the Bush family and the Hitler regime during WWII. In other news, apparently the Soviets didn't really find Hitler's body at his bunker.
Tyranny-loving politicians always try to scare the shit out of you to make it seem like they have no choice but to take your freedoms away. And it is always something horrible, like kidnapping or child rape. That way, if you don't give them what they want, then *you* must be responsible for their kidnapping/rape/death since you stood by and didn't let them do anything.