The average of assaults against gay men and transgender men is way bellow the average in assaults against men in general. But just because they are part of a minority their injuries and deaths are suddenly more important through some weird exercise of rationalization.
How is that measured? A closet gay gang member is evaluated in the non-gay statistics. So the number of hate-crime murders is below the number of non-hate murders. That's a good thing that it's lower, and a bad thing that we have any at all. But it says nothing about the number of gay people assaulted.
So, if someone is mugged, when do they evaluate their sexual orientation? Or, if it's not evaluated for every crime, how do they keep the statistics you are claiming?
Like the people all jealous of the hipster douches in the '80s with those PCs. Only a hipster douche would have one.Since you have a computer of some kind to post, you are what you hate. I guess that explains all the hate. You hate yourself, so you have to hate everyone else.
Progress as in change, not necessarily as in "moving forward", as that is only defined later, as "forward" is the path to a destination, and until you get to that destination, you don't know if you were going forward or backward at any point in time.
I am old enough to remember the same sorts of arguments against PCs. They were toys for the elite yuppies, and would never be useful for the poorer people.
In my case, I was taught phonics for years. I was illiterate in a class of literates. Until, about 2-3 years after everyone else was reading, I started reading whole sentence reading (about 5 year jump, taking me to above where the class was). I'd read the whole sentence in whole-word style, then repeat back the sentence, with understanding. Everyone else in the class was still sounding out the letters and couldn't read for comprehension yet. Of course, this led to lots of failing grades for not matching "expected". Finland teaches whole word and is considered the best public education in the world.
If reading is understanding what's on paper, then whole word is superior. If reading is sounding out the word without comprehension, then phonics is better. As an adult, I don't mind missing phonics. Though, I have trouble writing sometimes (still better than most, but some stupid mistakes creep in sometimes), and I can't help but think that it's related to the large gap in education where I spent my time in school fighting the system, rather than learning.
For second grade, I spent most of my lunch periods locked in a closet, and was beat for learning differently than others. The irony is that my mother lied about our address to get me in that school so that I'd get a better education than the neighborhood school my sister went to. I was only there a year, before I went to St. Mark's School of Texas, where I got 3 years of excellent education and abuse and bullying.
I tested it on my kids, and didn't even know there was a controversy. I never could sound out words. I was raised under the "sound out only" rules. When I finally, despite all their efforts to the contrary, started reading like an adult, I read faster and with fewer errors than anyone in the class. It just took me 2 years of being functionally illiterate in a room of literates to jump 5 grades in a day.
Finland (arguably the best education in the world) does just that. Expose them to words and letters, but don't start reading until they are old enough to read words. I'd have been exactly on track in the Finland system. So maybe that's why they get better results for less money than the US. They use methods that are better suited to how children learn, rather than forcing children at an unnatural pace, based on what some senile old educators dictate should be covered on that year's standardized tests.
Communication is the goal. If you write as you speak, it's considered poor, as writings should be "more formal" but that was a declaration from a previous age when whiting cost money. Now, I can write something and be seen by hundreds in a few minutes. Something that would cost $1000 (or so, inflation over 200+ years isn't exact) in revolutionary times. So when you are paying that much to have your words seen, you would consider them more. When I can post about something and have a large audience, and I can edit/delete/repost with ease, why should I think about what I'm saying?
So the real problem with writing is that it's becoming more like spoken language, when before, they were almost separate dialects. That always annoys the purists.
Google Glass is not AR. Also, the apps I would use aren't available, and I'm not skilled enough to make them (and every app I'd thought up uses only the internal-facing camera). So it holds no utility to me, even if it is interesting.
the anti-change liberals? Those are "conservatives". That the political area has co-opted and corrupted them doesn't change the non-political meaning. Unless you are bashing Democrats specifically. Unless you are saying you'll be assaulted liberally.
I hate Google Glass and its commercialization of the surveillance state.
And I hate shoes and their commercialization of the surveillance state.
See, just because someone states an opinion as fact doesn't make it true. You hate progress and tech. Go feed you horse and work on your wooden buggie.
There is no SIM in it. It can't send anything to Google without going through the attached phone. If you don't know what your phone is doing, the glasses don't make a difference.
Even the anti-immigrant sentiment that you get today is more anti-Hispanic than anything else.
Yes. Nationalism is a veil to hide racism, not nationalism. There still is "pure" nationalism in the US, but much less than other places. I think that's because the US doesn't have as much of an identity. Our national foods are hamburgers, pizza and hot dogs (none of which "invented" in the US, just given a US flair). France has race riots because there are multi-generation French families without citizenship (a few edge cases where France violates international law by causing a "stateless national" to be born by denying citizenship to a child born of two parents who were legally born in and never have never left France) . Though as I look now on Wikipedia, that's not the case. It must have been 10-20 years ago when they were more militant when there were a few edge cases that slipped in.
At least the US would never consider official ethnic cleansing. We have no reference ethnicity to consider normal. Even "white" doesn't' work as a baseline, as it can be considered to include a number of hated Arabic peoples, and would exclude the mostly accepted East Asians.
In the southern states, I've seen places where they would finance they system for no more than the drop in your power bill. So the system was "free". You can't afford "free".
I believe that electricity will be much more expensive than we have now.
In the right areas, PV is cheaper than grid power. The "right area" is growing every day.
Once you install solar, your bills won't go up unless your usage does, so long as you put in a right-sized system. So, solar reduces poverty. Some places will install systems for "free".
What he was tried for was unrelated to what Iraq was invaded for. By your (implied) logic, cops should plant drugs on murder suspects to help get a conviction of something else, after all there must be some real substance somewhere, even if the initial arrest was 100% fraudulent and illegal. The ends justify the means, right?
You say we can't drill arbitrary places to find geothermal, and that may eventually prove to be true, but don't you think we ought to be trying? Such a thing, if perfected, will last longer than the sun itself.
And is roughly as safe as fracking. Pumping stuff into the ground to get something else out sounds familiar, even if it's just water in and heat out.
Wind has an extremely small penetration in the electrical generation market right now. If you ramp it up to 100% or more to account for windless days, there's nowhere you're not going to be able to see one (do you WANT a landscape like that?) and there will be billions of dead birds.
Nah, there won't be that many dead birds. Wind is still much better than geothermal everywhere. The forced earthquakes and such it causes.
The problem with green power is it's best to have multiple ones. Wind works at night, and solar works on windless days. Having some storage to even out the generation differences would make all the difference. With storage in place, PV is much better than solar thermal, and wind is a better "top-up" for the batteries, though many areas reliably use it for base generation, as it can be a constant power source, but is area dependent, like geothermal.
Long story short, there is plenty of blame to go around. but we can either waste our time blaming people who are no longer in a position to do anything or we can work on those we can
Blaming people in power now doesn't fix it either. Fixing it fixes it. Both parties are the problem, not any one of them. Reagan had record setting deficits, followed by Bush doing the same. Clinton had the first balanced budget in many years, then Jr set new records again, followed by Obama. Picking the current president for the only focus of complaint is silly. Especially when Clinton is dismissed for having a Republican House, and Obama currently has a Republican House.
You can tell the people who have no support for their irrational opinions. They mention some personality they don't like. Nancy Pelosi thinks so, so it must be wrong.
It's not her views that people object to, but her status as an un-prosecuted war criminal. And yes, we avoid evil criminals wherever possible, including G. Gordon Liddy.
The SAR types I know want amateurs out of the way because looking for one guy lost often ends up looking for 15 lost people. If he can help with demonstrably zero risk to himself, I don't know an SAR type that would be against it at all. They would just make sure he's lost next if he found the lost person and went directly to the private news helicopter with the information, rather than involving SAR.
I'd expect that he'd get community support of the fine or greater, should it come to that. I would continue to operate and document the FAA's case for them, plead not guilty and admit it in open court. Then go to the public with the FAA's stupidity and ask for public support. That type of civil disobedience has worked before. It would work again, for a good cause (like someone trying to follow the rules, but the rules not existing to follow, and the FAA spending more time persecuting search and rescue workers than writing rules so that he can follow them). A $10,000 fine? He'd have that raised in an hour, once his prosecution went wide-spread.
Then figure out how you're going to generate all that while remaining carbon free. Try wind, but you probably won't have a bird left alive in the whole country.
Wind doesn't kill that many birds. I've been to multiple wind farms in multiple countries and have not seen piles of dead birds at the foot of the turbines. It just doesn't happen. It may have happened for some wind farm placed in a migration path, but it doesn't happen in the manner currently asserted by the green-haters.
Solar? How long will it take to ramp that up, and at what cost?
The longer we wait, the longer it will take. So we should start sooner rather than later. Distributed PV is the best solution, with night storage via hydro, kinetic, thermal or chemical batteries (probably in that order).
keep researching geothermal...
Ah, the guy that wants his pet theory to be the only one. It's been researched. It's only viable for areas with active surface thermal (Iceland, and areas with hot springs). It will *never* be viable in arbitrary areas. That's why there isn't that much research into it. You want to see your $300 electric bill got to $3000 and still have rolling blackouts? Try geothermal.
That we are post-sufferage, but pre-equality. When we vote down the ERA because protecting women in law is still not acceptable, we are farther from equality than most anti-feminists assert.
Having traveled a bunch, there are plenty of places that treat people much more equally than the US, gender being one of the things. Strangely, the US is rabidly nationalistic, but less discriminatory on nationalistic terms (Australia and England hate refugees, and actively work to make it harder for them).
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The average of assaults against gay men and transgender men is way bellow the average in assaults against men in general. But just because they are part of a minority their injuries and deaths are suddenly more important through some weird exercise of rationalization.
How is that measured? A closet gay gang member is evaluated in the non-gay statistics. So the number of hate-crime murders is below the number of non-hate murders. That's a good thing that it's lower, and a bad thing that we have any at all. But it says nothing about the number of gay people assaulted.
So, if someone is mugged, when do they evaluate their sexual orientation? Or, if it's not evaluated for every crime, how do they keep the statistics you are claiming?
Like the people all jealous of the hipster douches in the '80s with those PCs. Only a hipster douche would have one.Since you have a computer of some kind to post, you are what you hate. I guess that explains all the hate. You hate yourself, so you have to hate everyone else.
Progress as in change, not necessarily as in "moving forward", as that is only defined later, as "forward" is the path to a destination, and until you get to that destination, you don't know if you were going forward or backward at any point in time.
I am old enough to remember the same sorts of arguments against PCs. They were toys for the elite yuppies, and would never be useful for the poorer people.
You are just jealous. Why all the hate?
In my case, I was taught phonics for years. I was illiterate in a class of literates. Until, about 2-3 years after everyone else was reading, I started reading whole sentence reading (about 5 year jump, taking me to above where the class was). I'd read the whole sentence in whole-word style, then repeat back the sentence, with understanding. Everyone else in the class was still sounding out the letters and couldn't read for comprehension yet. Of course, this led to lots of failing grades for not matching "expected". Finland teaches whole word and is considered the best public education in the world.
If reading is understanding what's on paper, then whole word is superior. If reading is sounding out the word without comprehension, then phonics is better. As an adult, I don't mind missing phonics. Though, I have trouble writing sometimes (still better than most, but some stupid mistakes creep in sometimes), and I can't help but think that it's related to the large gap in education where I spent my time in school fighting the system, rather than learning.
For second grade, I spent most of my lunch periods locked in a closet, and was beat for learning differently than others. The irony is that my mother lied about our address to get me in that school so that I'd get a better education than the neighborhood school my sister went to. I was only there a year, before I went to St. Mark's School of Texas, where I got 3 years of excellent education and abuse and bullying.
I tested it on my kids, and didn't even know there was a controversy. I never could sound out words. I was raised under the "sound out only" rules. When I finally, despite all their efforts to the contrary, started reading like an adult, I read faster and with fewer errors than anyone in the class. It just took me 2 years of being functionally illiterate in a room of literates to jump 5 grades in a day.
Finland (arguably the best education in the world) does just that. Expose them to words and letters, but don't start reading until they are old enough to read words. I'd have been exactly on track in the Finland system. So maybe that's why they get better results for less money than the US. They use methods that are better suited to how children learn, rather than forcing children at an unnatural pace, based on what some senile old educators dictate should be covered on that year's standardized tests.
Communication is the goal. If you write as you speak, it's considered poor, as writings should be "more formal" but that was a declaration from a previous age when whiting cost money. Now, I can write something and be seen by hundreds in a few minutes. Something that would cost $1000 (or so, inflation over 200+ years isn't exact) in revolutionary times. So when you are paying that much to have your words seen, you would consider them more. When I can post about something and have a large audience, and I can edit/delete/repost with ease, why should I think about what I'm saying?
So the real problem with writing is that it's becoming more like spoken language, when before, they were almost separate dialects. That always annoys the purists.
Google Glass is not AR. Also, the apps I would use aren't available, and I'm not skilled enough to make them (and every app I'd thought up uses only the internal-facing camera). So it holds no utility to me, even if it is interesting.
the anti-change liberals? Those are "conservatives". That the political area has co-opted and corrupted them doesn't change the non-political meaning. Unless you are bashing Democrats specifically. Unless you are saying you'll be assaulted liberally.
I hate Google Glass and its commercialization of the surveillance state.
And I hate shoes and their commercialization of the surveillance state.
See, just because someone states an opinion as fact doesn't make it true. You hate progress and tech. Go feed you horse and work on your wooden buggie.
There is no SIM in it. It can't send anything to Google without going through the attached phone. If you don't know what your phone is doing, the glasses don't make a difference.
Even the anti-immigrant sentiment that you get today is more anti-Hispanic than anything else.
Yes. Nationalism is a veil to hide racism, not nationalism. There still is "pure" nationalism in the US, but much less than other places. I think that's because the US doesn't have as much of an identity. Our national foods are hamburgers, pizza and hot dogs (none of which "invented" in the US, just given a US flair). France has race riots because there are multi-generation French families without citizenship (a few edge cases where France violates international law by causing a "stateless national" to be born by denying citizenship to a child born of two parents who were legally born in and never have never left France) . Though as I look now on Wikipedia, that's not the case. It must have been 10-20 years ago when they were more militant when there were a few edge cases that slipped in.
At least the US would never consider official ethnic cleansing. We have no reference ethnicity to consider normal. Even "white" doesn't' work as a baseline, as it can be considered to include a number of hated Arabic peoples, and would exclude the mostly accepted East Asians.
I believe that electricity will be much more expensive than we have now.
In the right areas, PV is cheaper than grid power. The "right area" is growing every day.
Once you install solar, your bills won't go up unless your usage does, so long as you put in a right-sized system. So, solar reduces poverty. Some places will install systems for "free".
The only useful point in blaming the old administration is in pointing out that neither major party is doing anything good for the country.
What he was tried for was unrelated to what Iraq was invaded for. By your (implied) logic, cops should plant drugs on murder suspects to help get a conviction of something else, after all there must be some real substance somewhere, even if the initial arrest was 100% fraudulent and illegal. The ends justify the means, right?
You say we can't drill arbitrary places to find geothermal, and that may eventually prove to be true, but don't you think we ought to be trying? Such a thing, if perfected, will last longer than the sun itself.
And is roughly as safe as fracking. Pumping stuff into the ground to get something else out sounds familiar, even if it's just water in and heat out.
Wind has an extremely small penetration in the electrical generation market right now. If you ramp it up to 100% or more to account for windless days, there's nowhere you're not going to be able to see one (do you WANT a landscape like that?) and there will be billions of dead birds.
Nah, there won't be that many dead birds. Wind is still much better than geothermal everywhere. The forced earthquakes and such it causes.
The problem with green power is it's best to have multiple ones. Wind works at night, and solar works on windless days. Having some storage to even out the generation differences would make all the difference. With storage in place, PV is much better than solar thermal, and wind is a better "top-up" for the batteries, though many areas reliably use it for base generation, as it can be a constant power source, but is area dependent, like geothermal.
Long story short, there is plenty of blame to go around. but we can either waste our time blaming people who are no longer in a position to do anything or we can work on those we can
Blaming people in power now doesn't fix it either. Fixing it fixes it. Both parties are the problem, not any one of them. Reagan had record setting deficits, followed by Bush doing the same. Clinton had the first balanced budget in many years, then Jr set new records again, followed by Obama. Picking the current president for the only focus of complaint is silly. Especially when Clinton is dismissed for having a Republican House, and Obama currently has a Republican House.
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You can tell the people who have no support for their irrational opinions. They mention some personality they don't like. Nancy Pelosi thinks so, so it must be wrong.
I oppose murder, but that doesn't mean I want lynch mobs to kill bad people based on false charges.
It's not her views that people object to, but her status as an un-prosecuted war criminal. And yes, we avoid evil criminals wherever possible, including G. Gordon Liddy.
You'd find hundreds of deer and no humans?
The SAR types I know want amateurs out of the way because looking for one guy lost often ends up looking for 15 lost people. If he can help with demonstrably zero risk to himself, I don't know an SAR type that would be against it at all. They would just make sure he's lost next if he found the lost person and went directly to the private news helicopter with the information, rather than involving SAR.
I'd expect that he'd get community support of the fine or greater, should it come to that. I would continue to operate and document the FAA's case for them, plead not guilty and admit it in open court. Then go to the public with the FAA's stupidity and ask for public support. That type of civil disobedience has worked before. It would work again, for a good cause (like someone trying to follow the rules, but the rules not existing to follow, and the FAA spending more time persecuting search and rescue workers than writing rules so that he can follow them). A $10,000 fine? He'd have that raised in an hour, once his prosecution went wide-spread.
Then figure out how you're going to generate all that while remaining carbon free. Try wind, but you probably won't have a bird left alive in the whole country.
Wind doesn't kill that many birds. I've been to multiple wind farms in multiple countries and have not seen piles of dead birds at the foot of the turbines. It just doesn't happen. It may have happened for some wind farm placed in a migration path, but it doesn't happen in the manner currently asserted by the green-haters.
Solar? How long will it take to ramp that up, and at what cost?
The longer we wait, the longer it will take. So we should start sooner rather than later. Distributed PV is the best solution, with night storage via hydro, kinetic, thermal or chemical batteries (probably in that order).
keep researching geothermal...
Ah, the guy that wants his pet theory to be the only one. It's been researched. It's only viable for areas with active surface thermal (Iceland, and areas with hot springs). It will *never* be viable in arbitrary areas. That's why there isn't that much research into it. You want to see your $300 electric bill got to $3000 and still have rolling blackouts? Try geothermal.
That we are post-sufferage, but pre-equality. When we vote down the ERA because protecting women in law is still not acceptable, we are farther from equality than most anti-feminists assert.
Having traveled a bunch, there are plenty of places that treat people much more equally than the US, gender being one of the things. Strangely, the US is rabidly nationalistic, but less discriminatory on nationalistic terms (Australia and England hate refugees, and actively work to make it harder for them).