Actually, the mental gymnastics a "conservative" in the US has to go through is impressive. I'm surprised their brains aren't jelly.
"Government is bad, vote for me!" That's just the start of a spiraling, self-fulfilling, co-dependent, paradoxical, dissonant relationship the right has with government.
Why, with all that extra money, you could pay to send your kids to school, hire a policeman to protect you, hire some firemen to keep your house from burning down, build some roads (if you can get your neighbors to chip in)...
I can't tell if you're serious. Poe's Law and all.... I mean, neighbors banding together to share the cost of things that will benefit them all... that sounds downright governmentish.
Too often our first question is "how can government solve this?" rather than "why can't this be solved by people exercising their liberty?"
The people are the government. Why does every right-leaning person want to pit citizen vs government all the time? People organize to get things done. Is that evil?
I'm a hockey fan and it's not unusual to see goalies get beat by what seem like simple shots. Someone skates over the blue line into the offensive zone and shoots an average wrist shot towards the goal. It's a routine save for the goalie under normal conditions... a really low percentage shot. But if the shot gets tipped, even ever so slightly and even a long ways away from the goalie, the goalie can have trouble with it.
It's because the goalie reads the shot not by plotting the course of the puck but by seeing so many shots that by the motion of the shooter's stick and body language, he already knows where the shot is going and reacts accordingly. A tip, even a foot away from the shooter's release, turning a 20 foot shot into a 19 foot one, throws it all to the wind. You'd think it would give the goalie enough time to make the save but he's already moving to the top right corner before he realizes is going bottom left.
I'm sure it's the same in baseball. Batters don't have time to judge the ball's trajectory itself so they rely on the pitcher's delivery to tell them where the pitch is going. When a knuckleball comes their way, there's nothing to read because even the pitcher doesn't know where it's going.
I honestly don't understand. IT people need to be trusted with very important data. Each time one of these surveys come out they demonstrate that they can't be trusted with data.
As an IT guy, I wouldn't consider for a second walking out with data that's not mine. What the hell is wrong with the rest of you?
I bought a refurb laptop from Newegg a couple of months ago and received it with an obvious screen defect. The CSR was very nice and helpful and got me an RMA and a UPS label and all that lickety split, no hassle. I sent it in and got an email update a few days later that there was nothing wrong and they were sending it back. So I called in again and this CSR was very helpful too and got me the refund with very little hassle again.
I don't know what's going on in their laptop repair department.... a manager that doesn't care?
Any time I've had to interact with a Newegg CSR, this time and others, things have been splendid and I've never had an issue getting a problem resolved.
Ax yourself if there's a difference between correct language and popular language. My heart sank when I picked up Webster's and one of the "accepted" pronunciations of "ask" was "aks".
So I would wager there is language - words we all agree upon that can be used to communicate - and then there are proper ways to use those words. "Me want cookie" are words we all know and communicate pretty effectively. However, it is not "proper".
Those stupid statisticians can't even tell me if if the next coin flip is going to be heads or tails! How can I expect their "models" and "predictions" over 1000 flips are going to be even close to reality?!
I tried carrying on some ice skates a few years ago. Nearly missed my flight as I had to go back to the ticket counter and leave them there for a local friend to pick up ship to us.
I have no idea what I was thinking considering all the robberies that have occurred at skatepoint lately.
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Actually, the mental gymnastics a "conservative" in the US has to go through is impressive. I'm surprised their brains aren't jelly.
"Government is bad, vote for me!" That's just the start of a spiraling, self-fulfilling, co-dependent, paradoxical, dissonant relationship the right has with government.
Why, with all that extra money, you could pay to send your kids to school, hire a policeman to protect you, hire some firemen to keep your house from burning down, build some roads (if you can get your neighbors to chip in)...
I can't tell if you're serious. Poe's Law and all.... I mean, neighbors banding together to share the cost of things that will benefit them all... that sounds downright governmentish.
Good. Let's call it a tax. It makes it easier to move to a single payer system in the future.
Most people don't know what's in the ACA.
Most people like what's in the ACA.
In 30 years?
Too often our first question is "how can government solve this?" rather than "why can't this be solved by people exercising their liberty?"
The people are the government. Why does every right-leaning person want to pit citizen vs government all the time? People organize to get things done. Is that evil?
I'm a hockey fan and it's not unusual to see goalies get beat by what seem like simple shots. Someone skates over the blue line into the offensive zone and shoots an average wrist shot towards the goal. It's a routine save for the goalie under normal conditions... a really low percentage shot. But if the shot gets tipped, even ever so slightly and even a long ways away from the goalie, the goalie can have trouble with it.
It's because the goalie reads the shot not by plotting the course of the puck but by seeing so many shots that by the motion of the shooter's stick and body language, he already knows where the shot is going and reacts accordingly. A tip, even a foot away from the shooter's release, turning a 20 foot shot into a 19 foot one, throws it all to the wind. You'd think it would give the goalie enough time to make the save but he's already moving to the top right corner before he realizes is going bottom left.
I'm sure it's the same in baseball. Batters don't have time to judge the ball's trajectory itself so they rely on the pitcher's delivery to tell them where the pitch is going. When a knuckleball comes their way, there's nothing to read because even the pitcher doesn't know where it's going.
I've also heard that around half of school children have below average reading comprehension and geometry skills.
Damn it, no mod points.
I think the distinction of the way Google handles the data they've collected is important.
I honestly don't understand. IT people need to be trusted with very important data. Each time one of these surveys come out they demonstrate that they can't be trusted with data.
As an IT guy, I wouldn't consider for a second walking out with data that's not mine. What the hell is wrong with the rest of you?
I bought a refurb laptop from Newegg a couple of months ago and received it with an obvious screen defect. The CSR was very nice and helpful and got me an RMA and a UPS label and all that lickety split, no hassle. I sent it in and got an email update a few days later that there was nothing wrong and they were sending it back. So I called in again and this CSR was very helpful too and got me the refund with very little hassle again.
I don't know what's going on in their laptop repair department.... a manager that doesn't care?
Any time I've had to interact with a Newegg CSR, this time and others, things have been splendid and I've never had an issue getting a problem resolved.
I have a modest proposal to quickly raise our test scores.
Here's my ask Slashdot:
Are you actively trying to disgust long term users?
I used to check Slashdot daily. Maybe I'll just check in on Rob Malda's Google+ stream from now on.
I really like the saying I heard somewhere once: "It's easier to world-proof the kid than kid-proof the world"
What, exactly, is their point? Complaining that their taxes are too high when their taxes are historically low?
Photography as art is going nowhere soon. Same with photojournalism, most likely.
Commercial photography is what's going to be replaced.
Ax yourself if there's a difference between correct language and popular language. My heart sank when I picked up Webster's and one of the "accepted" pronunciations of "ask" was "aks".
So I would wager there is language - words we all agree upon that can be used to communicate - and then there are proper ways to use those words. "Me want cookie" are words we all know and communicate pretty effectively. However, it is not "proper".
I wonder what the long term effects of being angry and hating a good portion of our countrymen are
Am I the only one waiting minutes for a slashdot page to load?
Those stupid statisticians can't even tell me if if the next coin flip is going to be heads or tails! How can I expect their "models" and "predictions" over 1000 flips are going to be even close to reality?!
Which economic numbers back up your opinion?
As a horny adolescent, I think Leisure Suit Larry's age check did more to teach me about history than any classes I took.
I tried carrying on some ice skates a few years ago. Nearly missed my flight as I had to go back to the ticket counter and leave them there for a local friend to pick up ship to us. I have no idea what I was thinking considering all the robberies that have occurred at skatepoint lately.
But I need to be OUTRAGED by something!!!
I can text, check my Facebook, AND drive with no problems. I think I'm one of only about 20 world-wide that can do it.