The problem is capital gains taxes become a race to the bottom. If we up our capital gains tax, investors will just move their money overseas where other countries who are happy to undercut the US.
There's a reason most tech companies are "Irish" corporations.
Relying on nuclear weapons to suppress human conflict is like when the National Park Service meticulously suppressed every forest fire.
Things went great for a while, until unburned fuel built up and got out of hand in a catastrophic conflagration that was far worse than what the sum of all the smaller fires would have been.
Wait... did you just put forward the case for having lots more world wars using conventional weapons? Because that's kind of the direction it looks like you're going there.
It's ok. Just like regular forest fires, regular world wars with conventional weapons will just clear out all the dead wood! How could we have missed this? Here we've had relative peace and prosperity for 70 years, but now that we know it's propped up with the human equivalent of dead leaves and brush, can we really continue?
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I'm sure you think you were making some kind of cogent point there. However, speaking in baby talk to try and mock someone else just makes you look retarded. I have no idea what you are trying to say, nor do I care to.
Slashdot should fully support this, but as usual accusations of racism triggered most of the posters and mods. This angle is probably the best way you can fight back against H1B abuse, but the programmed Pavlovian response is hard to overcome.
Or perhaps most of us would rather problems with H1B abuse be solved directly rather than through underhanded identity politics. That way madness lies.
> Sure, plain text has a place, but with HTML I can reply to a colleagues email and highlight my comments or point out issues in various colors in the body of the email* rather than breaking things bit by bit as I would have to do in a plaintext email.
> * See what I did here? I used HTML to emphasize the point I was making. How would you easily do that in plain text?
You're right. There is *absolutely* NO way to _emphasize_ a point in regular text.
I'm saying the "idea" is that bringing in business leaders looking to enrich themselves will hopefully still try to enrich themselves, but do so in such a way as to benefit everyone.
So in your book, removing corruption is replacing one group who want to enrich themselves with another group who want to enrich themselves?
To be fair, the idea is that group that is getting replaced was enriching themselves through bribery and corruption. The new group will hopefully try to enrich themselves by making laws and regulations less hostile to business.
That the Republicans then talked of further delaying for the next 4 years should Clinton win sends an even more ominous message that they care more about politics than the Constitution, the Country and *all* of its people.
Where in the Constitution does it say there must be 9 supreme court justices?
Will you complain if Trump nominates us up to 11 justices and congress doesn't blanket approve his choices?
Sure it does, but those bases belong to that country called USA.
If California secedes, of course we'll nationalize that land.
Holy shit you people are retarded. Have you not heard of Fort Sumpter? "Nationalizing" army bases didn't work out so well last time a state tried to secede.
Paternity fraud is equivalent to pyramid schemes, long-term cons, or any other form of white-collar fraud, and that is the level at which it should be prosecuted.
I would rather be violently raped than have my wife impregnated by another man and then be tricked into raising it.
There's a stigma (and shame) attached with both, but being cuckolded is guaranteed to throw your life into a tailspin, while being violently raped is only mostly-like to.
the average number of heterosexual partners has to be the same for males and females.
The mean, yes, but not the median. In this case, the mean is worthless.
One man can impregnate 100 women whilst 99 men remain celibate. This produces a mean of 1 sex partner for men, but it clearly is not representative.
It's so bad that the mere mention of feminism, or often misunderstood feminist jargon, triggers a Pavlovian response from many otherwise quite rational people.
So are you saying we should move to a post-feminism world? I think everyone would welcome that - that way ideas can be weighed and challenged on their merits rather than their ideological purity.
America is one of the only countries with a fascination with homeschooling and private schools.
Individual liberty is a (or was) a core American ideal. We're also one of the only countries to enshrine into law the ability to speak one's mind without fear of oppression and to our ourselves to defend against oppression.
The benefits from homeschooling are erased when adjusted for income ...you often end up with children who are brainwashed and socially awkward.
Care to cite your sources? This is literally the opposite of almost every single study that's been done. Here's a good area to start: Wiki.
Homeschooling is filled with far more faith and indoctrination than public schooling. That's the entire reason most people homeschool. So they can enforce their worldview on their children to the exclusion of all others. In most countries in the world, homeschooling is heavily regulated or even banned, and their public education is better for it.
This very thread is about public school being used to indoctrinate kids! They don't even try to hide the fact they're trying to push a left-wing agenda on kids in school anymore.
And nobody is limiting access to private schools, nor do they argue its poor quality. The argument is that you should not get any tax breaks or vouchers towards it, because that would be to the detriment of public education, essentially funding the rich at the expense of the poor.
That's right, only the upper class would benefit from the extra couple grand a year. Many, if not most, parents would like to put their kids in private school but they can't afford it. Anything that makes success easier to reach for the everyday American (but also benefits the rich) is clearly bad policy.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but he/she might be referring to programs like CPM, which had mixed results when I was in school.
The problem isn't that it uses real world examples (those are excellent in teaching the "why" instead of just the "how"), it's that there is also an emphasis on group participation and strange unorthodox methods that aren't necessarily better.
As for "New Math" being five decades ago... I've seen some relative's kids' homework that is required to be solved in strange ways using matrices, etc, that is definitely outside of the realm of traditional math.
Can anyone tell me what "fostering inclusive identities of computer scientists" actually means?
What you're supposed to think it means: "Make it so misogyny, racism, and homophobia that pervades computing (and only computing) doesn't make women and minorities feel unwelcome in tech jobs."
What it really means: "White, heterosexual men are bad and keeping others from competing. The only reason there are fewer women and minorities in computing is because the evil White-Patriarchy makes off-color jokes occasionally, not because of any personal choices, lower socio-economic status, or education."
I know this will get me labeled as a right-wing crazy (even though I'm not, I'm equally disgusted with the political-right), but this is such a perfect microcosm of what the Democratic Party actually pushes vs what they say they want to accomplish:
1. Push diversity in a field that is already pretty diverse (unless you exclude Asians, which these people always do).
2. Switch the focus from technical knowledge to social grouping (they tried this in Math in the 90's with obviously poor results).
3. Don't pirate movies or music! Those are our biggest campaign donors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ethical concerns!
I admire your sangfroid - you find the indoctrination 'unsettling', whereas I find it downright disturbing and more than a little bit scary.
Too much passion in a statement tends to alienate people who might otherwise be receptive; however, I do find the situation deeply disturbing.
What's more unsettling is how there are active campaigns to ban homeschooling and limit access to private schools, even though outcomes for both are almost always better than public schools. Couple that with the ideological takeover of education and it makes you fear for the future.
It sounds like this is more of framework that is mostly about educational standards for teaching right-think in CS. There is a horrific amount of PC buzzwords in there,when the real focus of education should be teaching students the skills they need.
This crazy overreach with indoctrination in schools is unsettling. Apart from the pledge of allegiance, it was pretty subtle and frowned upon when I was in school. I think most teachers actually cared about teaching and kept the crazies who wanted to use the position to indoctrinate in check.
Now it's the other way around.
Cleese's comedy was at its peak when it highlighted government nonsense or the frailties of the human condition, the arbitrary nature of the olympics, messed up class politics.
It sounds like you've never heard of one of Monty Python's largest run-ins with censorship due to "offending" a group of people. Allow me to introduce you to Life of Brian.
They had a hell of a time with being censored for offending christians. I'd argue John Cleese has had more experience with being censored due to "offensiveness" more than almost anyone alive. If he thinks times are getting worse than before, I'll take him at his word considering he's one of the most qualified people to make such a statement.
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or you could have a rational capital gains tax...
The problem is capital gains taxes become a race to the bottom. If we up our capital gains tax, investors will just move their money overseas where other countries who are happy to undercut the US.
There's a reason most tech companies are "Irish" corporations.
My analogy is spot on.
Either it was a bad analogy, or you are seriously saying we need to kill off tens to hundreds of millions of people every couple of decades.
My bad for assuming you weren't a monster.
Relying on nuclear weapons to suppress human conflict is like when the National Park Service meticulously suppressed every forest fire.
Things went great for a while, until unburned fuel built up and got out of hand in a catastrophic conflagration that was far worse than what the sum of all the smaller fires would have been.
Wait... did you just put forward the case for having lots more world wars using conventional weapons? Because that's kind of the direction it looks like you're going there.
It's ok. Just like regular forest fires, regular world wars with conventional weapons will just clear out all the dead wood! How could we have missed this? Here we've had relative peace and prosperity for 70 years, but now that we know it's propped up with the human equivalent of dead leaves and brush, can we really continue?
GPP's analogy was bad and he should feel bad.
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I'm sure you think you were making some kind of cogent point there. However, speaking in baby talk to try and mock someone else just makes you look retarded. I have no idea what you are trying to say, nor do I care to.
This comes to mind: http://i.imgur.com/n8umjWj.png
Slashdot should fully support this, but as usual accusations of racism triggered most of the posters and mods. This angle is probably the best way you can fight back against H1B abuse, but the programmed Pavlovian response is hard to overcome.
Or perhaps most of us would rather problems with H1B abuse be solved directly rather than through underhanded identity politics. That way madness lies.
> Sure, plain text has a place, but with HTML I can reply to a colleagues email and highlight my comments or point out issues in various colors in the body of the email* rather than breaking things bit by bit as I would have to do in a plaintext email.
> * See what I did here? I used HTML to emphasize the point I was making. How would you easily do that in plain text?
You're right. There is *absolutely* NO way to _emphasize_ a point in regular text.
Netflix blocks VPNs.
I'm saying the "idea" is that bringing in business leaders looking to enrich themselves will hopefully still try to enrich themselves, but do so in such a way as to benefit everyone.
So in your book, removing corruption is replacing one group who want to enrich themselves with another group who want to enrich themselves?
To be fair, the idea is that group that is getting replaced was enriching themselves through bribery and corruption. The new group will hopefully try to enrich themselves by making laws and regulations less hostile to business.
That the Republicans then talked of further delaying for the next 4 years should Clinton win sends an even more ominous message that they care more about politics than the Constitution, the Country and *all* of its people.
Where in the Constitution does it say there must be 9 supreme court justices? Will you complain if Trump nominates us up to 11 justices and congress doesn't blanket approve his choices?
... so most crime is done by, *gasp* conservative trump supporters.
It's been reported on, maybe you just put on the blinders.
The fact that this is 'insightful' is also kind of insane.
Citation Needed.
Good to know that further Russian aggression in Europe will have Trump's blessing.
Maybe our NATO allies can start meeting their military spending obligations, then.
Sure it does, but those bases belong to that country called USA.
If California secedes, of course we'll nationalize that land.
Holy shit you people are retarded. Have you not heard of Fort Sumpter? "Nationalizing" army bases didn't work out so well last time a state tried to secede.
Paternity fraud is equivalent to pyramid schemes, long-term cons, or any other form of white-collar fraud, and that is the level at which it should be prosecuted.
I would rather be violently raped than have my wife impregnated by another man and then be tricked into raising it.
There's a stigma (and shame) attached with both, but being cuckolded is guaranteed to throw your life into a tailspin, while being violently raped is only mostly-like to.
the average number of heterosexual partners has to be the same for males and females.
The mean, yes, but not the median. In this case, the mean is worthless.
One man can impregnate 100 women whilst 99 men remain celibate. This produces a mean of 1 sex partner for men, but it clearly is not representative.
It's so bad that the mere mention of feminism, or often misunderstood feminist jargon, triggers a Pavlovian response from many otherwise quite rational people.
So are you saying we should move to a post-feminism world? I think everyone would welcome that - that way ideas can be weighed and challenged on their merits rather than their ideological purity.
America is one of the only countries with a fascination with homeschooling and private schools.
Individual liberty is a (or was) a core American ideal. We're also one of the only countries to enshrine into law the ability to speak one's mind without fear of oppression and to our ourselves to defend against oppression.
The benefits from homeschooling are erased when adjusted for income
...you often end up with children who are brainwashed and socially awkward.
Care to cite your sources? This is literally the opposite of almost every single study that's been done. Here's a good area to start: Wiki.
Homeschooling is filled with far more faith and indoctrination than public schooling. That's the entire reason most people homeschool. So they can enforce their worldview on their children to the exclusion of all others. In most countries in the world, homeschooling is heavily regulated or even banned, and their public education is better for it.
This very thread is about public school being used to indoctrinate kids! They don't even try to hide the fact they're trying to push a left-wing agenda on kids in school anymore.
And nobody is limiting access to private schools, nor do they argue its poor quality. The argument is that you should not get any tax breaks or vouchers towards it, because that would be to the detriment of public education, essentially funding the rich at the expense of the poor.
That's right, only the upper class would benefit from the extra couple grand a year. Many, if not most, parents would like to put their kids in private school but they can't afford it. Anything that makes success easier to reach for the everyday American (but also benefits the rich) is clearly bad policy.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but he/she might be referring to programs like CPM, which had mixed results when I was in school.
The problem isn't that it uses real world examples (those are excellent in teaching the "why" instead of just the "how"), it's that there is also an emphasis on group participation and strange unorthodox methods that aren't necessarily better.
As for "New Math" being five decades ago... I've seen some relative's kids' homework that is required to be solved in strange ways using matrices, etc, that is definitely outside of the realm of traditional math.
Can anyone tell me what "fostering inclusive identities of computer scientists" actually means?
What you're supposed to think it means: "Make it so misogyny, racism, and homophobia that pervades computing (and only computing) doesn't make women and minorities feel unwelcome in tech jobs."
What it really means: "White, heterosexual men are bad and keeping others from competing. The only reason there are fewer women and minorities in computing is because the evil White-Patriarchy makes off-color jokes occasionally, not because of any personal choices, lower socio-economic status, or education."
I know this will get me labeled as a right-wing crazy (even though I'm not, I'm equally disgusted with the political-right), but this is such a perfect microcosm of what the Democratic Party actually pushes vs what they say they want to accomplish:
1. Push diversity in a field that is already pretty diverse (unless you exclude Asians, which these people always do).
2. Switch the focus from technical knowledge to social grouping (they tried this in Math in the 90's with obviously poor results).
3. Don't pirate movies or music! Those are our biggest campaign donors^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ethical concerns!
I admire your sangfroid - you find the indoctrination 'unsettling', whereas I find it downright disturbing and more than a little bit scary.
Too much passion in a statement tends to alienate people who might otherwise be receptive; however, I do find the situation deeply disturbing.
What's more unsettling is how there are active campaigns to ban homeschooling and limit access to private schools, even though outcomes for both are almost always better than public schools. Couple that with the ideological takeover of education and it makes you fear for the future.
I'm not blaming people for being offended by them. I'm blaming people for trying to censor them for being offensive.
A big part of comedy is at the expense of an idea, a person, a place, the comedian themself, etc. There will always be someone who is offended.
It sounds like this is more of framework that is mostly about educational standards for teaching right-think in CS. There is a horrific amount of PC buzzwords in there,when the real focus of education should be teaching students the skills they need.
This crazy overreach with indoctrination in schools is unsettling. Apart from the pledge of allegiance, it was pretty subtle and frowned upon when I was in school. I think most teachers actually cared about teaching and kept the crazies who wanted to use the position to indoctrinate in check.
Now it's the other way around.
And now those same christians are the ones yelling loudest about "PC Culture!"
You're right! If you're against "PC" censorship then you must be a pro-censorship christian. Glad you cleared that up for us.
Clearly, it's impossible to think both groups are wrong in seeking to censor things that offend them.
Cleese's comedy was at its peak when it highlighted government nonsense or the frailties of the human condition, the arbitrary nature of the olympics, messed up class politics.
It sounds like you've never heard of one of Monty Python's largest run-ins with censorship due to "offending" a group of people. Allow me to introduce you to Life of Brian.
They had a hell of a time with being censored for offending christians. I'd argue John Cleese has had more experience with being censored due to "offensiveness" more than almost anyone alive. If he thinks times are getting worse than before, I'll take him at his word considering he's one of the most qualified people to make such a statement.