I hate to be harsh about this, and I do feel sorry for the kids involved (they didn't ask to be taught dumb shit). But wtf do I care if a bunch of bible-thumping loonies want to teach their kids to be fucking stupid, just like mom and dad? If parents want to turn their kids into idiots, that less competition for me when the world needs real engineers to do real shit (stuff that requires real math, not prayer).
Spot on. It's a shame what happened to the GOP. I remember a time when even I would have considered voting for them. I remember admiring George HW Bush even though I disagreed with some of his policies, in my opinion he was a better president than Reagan. But this extremist crowd that has taken over the party nowadays? They scare the crap out of me. I've never seen this level of extremism. And I can't say the Democrats have suffered the same fate, they've actually moved to the right. You know things are bad when a president like Obama, who is almost to the right of Reagan, rolls out a conservative idea for market-based healthcare reform cooked up by the Heritage Foundation that was previously deployed by a conservative governor, and he's denounced as "the most radical Marxist ever to occupy the White House."
Please don't say this. According to Gallup, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form than believe vs 47% who believe either "humans evolved, with God guiding" (32%) or "humans evolved, with God playing no part in the process" (15%). That's a terrifyingly slim margin for something that is strongly supported by actual science.
This is why this is so scary. If kids grow up reading textbooks full of bullshit, I won't be surprised to see such large swathes of the population wallowing in pre-enlightenment ignorance and superstition.
"I never spent much time in school, but I've taught ladies plenty" -- The Fall Guy
"Don't know much about history Don't know much biology Don't know much about science book Don't know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you And I know that if you love me too What a wonderful world this could be" --Sam Cooke
The Woody Character in Cheers, the wise ignoramous who is shown as being smarter than Doctor Frasier Crane who is portrayed as an aloof buffoon.
I could go on.
Ignorance is revered in American culture. It's amazing how easy it is to spot when you start looking for it. It's like the loudly ticking clock that you didn't notice until someone pointed it out, but it's right there, hiding in plain sight.
I disagree with the first part. Many infrastructure projects are completed or at least embarked upon before the demand appears. The Channel Tunnel is one example, there were plenty of ferries operating when digging started.
I disagree with the second part because getting "sufficient" launch traffic is less of an issue than getting an affordable launch system.
are largely extinct now because executives are expected to be able to compose their own emails rather than dictate to a secretary who types out a memo. There's still plenty of clerical work to go around though.
Bus conductors were abolished (apart from a few routes using Routemaster type buses) years ago but there are still plenty of jobs for people wanting to drive pay-on-entry buses who now also do the same work that the conductor used to do.
What job are you doing now? Chances are your job didn't even exist thirty, twenty, maybe even ten years ago. New technology might make some jobs obsolete, but it creates plenty more.
Mod this offtopic if you want but now I can't see my comments, I can't see if anyone has responded to them, and it has become almost impossible to participate in discussions as a result. WTF,/.?
The science and technology are amazingly accurate, the social and cultural changes are not even close; and really the social and cultural issues are far more important. A guaranteed income, mass joblessness, and and strict population controls would all have much, much larger effects on the world we live in than video conferencing and drones on Mars.
It figures. In his writing, the scientific concepts were pretty mind-blowing, but the characters were flat as pancakes and the dialog was abysmal. He struck me as a writer who understands technology a lot better than its effects on people, and he didn't seem to be in tune with how people interact.
The US has spent all its money, and all the money it will ever get already. They voted on hand outs instead of improvements, and the hand outs have won.
Medicare is $100 Trillion in the hole, and I did not mistype that. Obamacare is a desperate attempt to hide the failure of Medicare without admitting to it, but that won't work. Until Medicare and hand outs are reigned in, the US will not do manned space exploration again on its own.
If you don't like these facts, stop voting in the liberals that tell you if only the rich pay a little more all will be good. The rich can't cover a $100 Trillion deficit.
Those who put check-marks next to items on SOWs, and those who can bring people of dissimilar skill-sets together to complete a complex project.
Those in the former should be shot. Those in the later should be praised.
I assume you mean the first item on this list?
Statement Of Work
Scope Of Work
Special Operations Wing
Sign of Weakness (Wyckoff trading theory)
Speaking of Which
Schemes of Work (Department for Children, Schools and Families; UK)
Sound of Water
Suspension of Work
Save Our World
Share of Wallet
Spirit of the Wolf (Everquest)
Stand-Off Weapon
School-on-Wheels
Show Low, AZ, USA (Airport Code)
Superstars of Wrestling (TV Show)
Seal of Wisdom (gaming, world of warcraft)
Start of Word (computer programming)
Switch on Wheels (telecomunications)
Special Order Weapon
Sent on Way
Save Our Waterways (environmental group)
Source of Wealth
Songs of Worship
Subordination of Women
Seriously, I'm getting sick of having to look up acronyms every five minutes. Why can't people just spell out WTF they're talking about these days? SMH.
Oh there eco tourism trip will be fairly rough so much that the leader took along his wife and young children 4 scientists 26 paid tourists it's PR trip not science to go redo a century old expedition Awareness/PR is not science (unless it's quantifying it or otherwise studying it) these guys were a bunch of prats taking a vacation under the guise of science. The expedition is lead by Chris Turney a UNSW prof who happens to also to be pimping a carbon reclamation start up he help found any science would be tainted by his conflict of interest. Sure there were reporters paying to go along it should have had a lot of great photo's and heart and minds sort of fluff and drivel but little of that ya know hard science stuff.
Real scientists are pissed about this boondoggle, it pulled an icebreaker away from unloading supplies for the station only unloading about 1/3 of the supplies, some of the new research gear and all the people to go rescue these guys. Effectively cutting down the time they have to do there work that not photogenic science stuff.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
Funny how quickly legions of irrational idiots bust out the ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies every time someone questions their political correctness-driven groupthink 'outrage.' People questioning these political agitators are not bigots. They know this 'outrage' is purposely designed to get as big a yield as possible regardless of what qualifies as a reasonable response to specific circumstances.
People like you are like that smarmy, overconfident yet easily-needled kid in class who gets picked on all the time because he gets unreasonably upset over nothing. To hide his insecurity, he's always looking for a reason to be 'outraged' at others' behavior so that he has justification to 'smite' them (or get authority to do so). The fact that making offhand comments on the internet results in career suicide suggests a culture wide ailment. The fact that most of this irrationality can be traced right back to the 'social justice' PC crowd's enough-is-never-enough position is not a surprise.
*snore*
You've got some nerve complaining about "ad hominem attacks" in a rant that's completely laced with them. Fuck you, you racist-defending sack of shit.
So only the victims of racism should be offended by racism?
Well there is this thing in legal theory called "standing". The idea crudely is that for things that don't rise to the level of a crime, then one needs to demonstrate that one has been adversely affected by the behavior or activity. If one can't do this, such as would be the case with a whiny, anonymous person at a keyboard, then one doesn't have standing and hence, the judge can tell them to shut up and get lost.
I think this is an excellent way to deal with the endless, useless complaints of racism for behavior and opinions that harms no one aside possibly from the instigator. As a bonus, it gives you more time for your other odious habits.
"Standing" only applies to legal cases. We're not talking about legal cases, we're talking about being offended.
That's the funny thing. I haven't read very many comments from South Africans, or Africans in general, demonstrating their anger. The majority of the "outrage" seems to be coming from Europeans and North Americans.
Which African news sources have you been following? Clearly you must be following more of them than news sources in North America and Europe, since you've made a comprehensive enough survey to be able to say where the majority of the outrage (or as you put it, "outrage" in sneering quotation marks) is coming from.
I hesitate to call what has happened "entertainment". It was more of a good old' fashioned mob, but "on a computer". People get a rush out of being outraged and being part of a communal attack on an errant individual or group.
So only the victims of racism should be offended by racism? We in the west had no business being offended by Apartheid in South Africa? Only Syrians should be offended by what their government is doing to them? Only black people should be offended by the treatment of blacks in America? Only Indians should be offended by the racist remarks that appear on/. every time their country is mentioned? Only children should be offended by child abuse? Only women should be offended when a woman gets raped?
They can wip (sic) themselves up into a vast moral outrage, feel very superior to the person in question (even if the likelihood is fairly high that they've said the same or worse) and eak out some vicarious revenge that they can use to pump up their ego.
And...? What's wrong with feeling superior to a racist? You say that like it's a bad thing. I think it's a good thing.
(even if the likelihood is fairly high that they've said the same or worse)
Projecting, much? Can't say I've ever cracked a racist joke about catching AIDS in Africa. I've never said the same or worse. The likelihood of saying the same or worse is pretty low for most normal people. Maybe not for you, but it is for me. But then I'm not the one defending racism here.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
What if I told you I know a very well educated micro biologist who refuses to vaccinate his 7 kids? His wife's education is in psychology, but they are still educated, and they steadfastly refuse to vaccinate and when I try to argue I'm told "you don't know enough science to argue with me".
I'd tell him he's being fucking stupid and tell him to get his kids vaccinated before he gets somebody killed. Want fries with that?
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I hate to be harsh about this, and I do feel sorry for the kids involved (they didn't ask to be taught dumb shit). But wtf do I care if a bunch of bible-thumping loonies want to teach their kids to be fucking stupid, just like mom and dad? If parents want to turn their kids into idiots, that less competition for me when the world needs real engineers to do real shit (stuff that requires real math, not prayer).
Because one of these morons might grow up to be president. Look what happened last time.
Spot on. It's a shame what happened to the GOP. I remember a time when even I would have considered voting for them. I remember admiring George HW Bush even though I disagreed with some of his policies, in my opinion he was a better president than Reagan. But this extremist crowd that has taken over the party nowadays? They scare the crap out of me. I've never seen this level of extremism. And I can't say the Democrats have suffered the same fate, they've actually moved to the right. You know things are bad when a president like Obama, who is almost to the right of Reagan, rolls out a conservative idea for market-based healthcare reform cooked up by the Heritage Foundation that was previously deployed by a conservative governor, and he's denounced as "the most radical Marxist ever to occupy the White House."
Please don't say this. According to Gallup, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form than believe vs 47% who believe either "humans evolved, with God guiding" (32%) or "humans evolved, with God playing no part in the process" (15%). That's a terrifyingly slim margin for something that is strongly supported by actual science.
This is why this is so scary. If kids grow up reading textbooks full of bullshit, I won't be surprised to see such large swathes of the population wallowing in pre-enlightenment ignorance and superstition.
Yup. Also:
"I never spent much time in school, but I've taught ladies plenty"
-- The Fall Guy
"Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about science book
Don't know much about the French I took
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this could be"
--Sam Cooke
The Woody Character in Cheers, the wise ignoramous who is shown as being smarter than Doctor Frasier Crane who is portrayed as an aloof buffoon.
I could go on.
Ignorance is revered in American culture. It's amazing how easy it is to spot when you start looking for it. It's like the loudly ticking clock that you didn't notice until someone pointed it out, but it's right there, hiding in plain sight.
I disagree with the first part. Many infrastructure projects are completed or at least embarked upon before the demand appears. The Channel Tunnel is one example, there were plenty of ferries operating when digging started.
I disagree with the second part because getting "sufficient" launch traffic is less of an issue than getting an affordable launch system.
are largely extinct now because executives are expected to be able to compose their own emails rather than dictate to a secretary who types out a memo. There's still plenty of clerical work to go around though.
Bus conductors were abolished (apart from a few routes using Routemaster type buses) years ago but there are still plenty of jobs for people wanting to drive pay-on-entry buses who now also do the same work that the conductor used to do.
What job are you doing now? Chances are your job didn't even exist thirty, twenty, maybe even ten years ago. New technology might make some jobs obsolete, but it creates plenty more.
Mod this offtopic if you want but now I can't see my comments, I can't see if anyone has responded to them, and it has become almost impossible to participate in discussions as a result. WTF, /.?
A space elevator would change the economic equation quite a bit and make a lot more of them viable.
The science and technology are amazingly accurate, the social and cultural changes are not even close; and really the social and cultural issues are far more important. A guaranteed income, mass joblessness, and and strict population controls would all have much, much larger effects on the world we live in than video conferencing and drones on Mars.
It figures. In his writing, the scientific concepts were pretty mind-blowing, but the characters were flat as pancakes and the dialog was abysmal. He struck me as a writer who understands technology a lot better than its effects on people, and he didn't seem to be in tune with how people interact.
The US has spent all its money, and all the money it will ever get already. They voted on hand outs instead of improvements, and the hand outs have won.
Medicare is $100 Trillion in the hole, and I did not mistype that. Obamacare is a desperate attempt to hide the failure of Medicare without admitting to it, but that won't work. Until Medicare and hand outs are reigned in, the US will not do manned space exploration again on its own.
If you don't like these facts, stop voting in the liberals that tell you if only the rich pay a little more all will be good. The rich can't cover a $100 Trillion deficit.
Shut the fuck up.
On the one hand you say racism isn't harmful, and in the same breath you talk about a slippery slope into Jim Crow laws.
Screw you.
Project managers come in two flavors:
Those who put check-marks next to items on SOWs, and those who can bring people of dissimilar skill-sets together to complete a complex project.
Those in the former should be shot.
Those in the later should be praised.
I assume you mean the first item on this list?
Seriously, I'm getting sick of having to look up acronyms every five minutes. Why can't people just spell out WTF they're talking about these days? SMH.
It's raining where I live. I'll build an ark.
Oh there eco tourism trip will be fairly rough so much that the leader took along his wife and young children 4 scientists 26 paid tourists it's PR trip not science to go redo a century old expedition Awareness/PR is not science (unless it's quantifying it or otherwise studying it) these guys were a bunch of prats taking a vacation under the guise of science. The expedition is lead by Chris Turney a UNSW prof who happens to also to be pimping a carbon reclamation start up he help found any science would be tainted by his conflict of interest. Sure there were reporters paying to go along it should have had a lot of great photo's and heart and minds sort of fluff and drivel but little of that ya know hard science stuff.
Real scientists are pissed about this boondoggle, it pulled an icebreaker away from unloading supplies for the station only unloading about 1/3 of the supplies, some of the new research gear and all the people to go rescue these guys. Effectively cutting down the time they have to do there work that not photogenic science stuff.
Good grammar is a virtue.
Well then it's a fucking stupid analogy, isn't it?
I'm not a mind reader, I'm a reader of what this person wrote in public in black and white.
It was racist. Period.
Suck it up, you racist sack of shit.
Pointing out the corruption of car dealers is racist? I stopped reading at that point. Fuck you and the rest of the klan.
Racist cunt.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
Funny how quickly legions of irrational idiots bust out the ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies every time someone questions their political correctness-driven groupthink 'outrage.' People questioning these political agitators are not bigots. They know this 'outrage' is purposely designed to get as big a yield as possible regardless of what qualifies as a reasonable response to specific circumstances.
People like you are like that smarmy, overconfident yet easily-needled kid in class who gets picked on all the time because he gets unreasonably upset over nothing. To hide his insecurity, he's always looking for a reason to be 'outraged' at others' behavior so that he has justification to 'smite' them (or get authority to do so). The fact that making offhand comments on the internet results in career suicide suggests a culture wide ailment. The fact that most of this irrationality can be traced right back to the 'social justice' PC crowd's enough-is-never-enough position is not a surprise.
*snore*
You've got some nerve complaining about "ad hominem attacks" in a rant that's completely laced with them. Fuck you, you racist-defending sack of shit.
So only the victims of racism should be offended by racism?
Well there is this thing in legal theory called "standing". The idea crudely is that for things that don't rise to the level of a crime, then one needs to demonstrate that one has been adversely affected by the behavior or activity. If one can't do this, such as would be the case with a whiny, anonymous person at a keyboard, then one doesn't have standing and hence, the judge can tell them to shut up and get lost.
I think this is an excellent way to deal with the endless, useless complaints of racism for behavior and opinions that harms no one aside possibly from the instigator. As a bonus, it gives you more time for your other odious habits.
"Standing" only applies to legal cases. We're not talking about legal cases, we're talking about being offended.
That's the funny thing. I haven't read very many comments from South Africans, or Africans in general, demonstrating their anger. The majority of the "outrage" seems to be coming from Europeans and North Americans.
Which African news sources have you been following? Clearly you must be following more of them than news sources in North America and Europe, since you've made a comprehensive enough survey to be able to say where the majority of the outrage (or as you put it, "outrage" in sneering quotation marks) is coming from.
I hesitate to call what has happened "entertainment". It was more of a good old' fashioned mob, but "on a computer". People get a rush out of being outraged and being part of a communal attack on an errant individual or group.
So only the victims of racism should be offended by racism? We in the west had no business being offended by Apartheid in South Africa? Only Syrians should be offended by what their government is doing to them? Only black people should be offended by the treatment of blacks in America? Only Indians should be offended by the racist remarks that appear on /. every time their country is mentioned? Only children should be offended by child abuse? Only women should be offended when a woman gets raped?
They can wip (sic) themselves up into a vast moral outrage, feel very superior to the person in question (even if the likelihood is fairly high that they've said the same or worse) and eak out some vicarious revenge that they can use to pump up their ego.
And...? What's wrong with feeling superior to a racist? You say that like it's a bad thing. I think it's a good thing.
(even if the likelihood is fairly high that they've said the same or worse)
Projecting, much? Can't say I've ever cracked a racist joke about catching AIDS in Africa. I've never said the same or worse. The likelihood of saying the same or worse is pretty low for most normal people. Maybe not for you, but it is for me. But then I'm not the one defending racism here.
Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
8 people, eh? Well that's a representative sample. Of fuck all.
How do you spread a disease?
How about this: Inject a few million people with the virus and release them into the population.
It's vaccinated people who now carry and spread sickness. Not those who are uninfected.
Don't like the sound of that? Sorry. The science holds on this one.
http://www.sott.net/article/269563-You-will-never-look-at-vaccinated-children-the-same-Shedding-Viruses
Let me know when the mothership arrives.
They deserve a fucking education.
What if I told you I know a very well educated micro biologist who refuses to vaccinate his 7 kids? His wife's education is in psychology, but they are still educated, and they steadfastly refuse to vaccinate and when I try to argue I'm told "you don't know enough science to argue with me".
I'd tell him he's being fucking stupid and tell him to get his kids vaccinated before he gets somebody killed. Want fries with that?