i have bigger problems than what to have for lunch, that doesn't mean i should go hungry until i've paid off my student loans. In fact, i *can't* work on that problem all the time.
People can work on more than one problem at a time. Gov'ts can work on more than one problem at a time through the magic of division of labor. Science can multitask as well. As cool as cold fusion would be not all scientists WANT to work on that, some can't, and sometimes people want other things solved. Some people want hair replacement, some want smaller cell phones. It's unreasonable to ask that every smart person drop what they are doing and work on just one problem. Even if they did, the results might not be any faster or better. Israel has a few million people. Surely a few of them can take the time to figure out if popcorn is too expensive. Surely they won't be missed from the Fix the Palestine Problem committee.
It's childish to say "you can't work on $smallProblem until you've solved $bigProblem". Israel DOES have bigger problems thAn the price of popcorn. But that doesn't mean they can't take 10 minutes to work on that issue.
The word is DRIVER. It's six letters. This nonsense term is more than twice the letters needed to convey the same information. It's worse than writing "okay" when it's supposed to be OK.
i've thought about the egg/sperm donor thing as a sort of experiment in socio-genetics. Instead of having kids with my wife, which would produce another smart honkey but a bit on the short and short sighted side, i would find sperm and egg donors. Each would be a different race from us and each other. Definitely would want donors on the right half of the IQ bell curve. We'd have a smart mixed race kid, who would prolly be good looking.
What does the gov't actually know about you... personally, that they should not? i don't mean "if you have nothing to hide". But seriously, what do you think they know about you personally that they shouldn't?
We don't have privacy in the same way we did before, but now we have another kind: You're irrelevant. The government doesn't give a shit about you personally. You're a number in a database. An ant on the ass of an elephant. They care as much about you as you care about the mites living on your eyelashes.
For one thing the gov't isn't one thing. It's a jumble of agencies that kinda sort connect. But they aren't piling data on *you* and comparing notes (unless you are interesting). Chances are you are not interesting. They don't have the time, money, assets or INCLINATION to do so. Plus, most of them don't want to go to jail. Unless there is a seriously bored GS-6 who passes the time by seeing that you haven't been to a library in five years but go to church on the big three.
It's supremely ego-centric/vain/paranoid to think anyone at the gov't to coalating piles of data on *you*.
There's not much melting. It's more like a salad. All in the same bowl and tossed around a bit.
If the census data about your race would lead to them giving you some break or hassle, i'd agree with you. But that's not the case. This is about finding who we are.
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"has gotten". *sigh*
An English teacher is spinning in her grave somewhere.
So you're saying... the slow blade penetrates the shield.
a bad place to be anything other than human. Though it can also suck to be human.
Bubbles will tessalate into hexagons with the right pressure. i guess it's more stable (closer to circles/spheres) than other shapes.
*whew* /FiOS user
She's a nummy treat.
More like Miata.
How smart is too smart? At what point does smartness become problematic?
Just like my wife.
Balderdash! Everything south of Texas is Mexico.
Jaime died just the once. Not habitually.
i read the post, i know what he meant.
i have bigger problems than what to have for lunch, that doesn't mean i should go hungry until i've paid off my student loans. In fact, i *can't* work on that problem all the time.
People can work on more than one problem at a time. Gov'ts can work on more than one problem at a time through the magic of division of labor. Science can multitask as well. As cool as cold fusion would be not all scientists WANT to work on that, some can't, and sometimes people want other things solved. Some people want hair replacement, some want smaller cell phones. It's unreasonable to ask that every smart person drop what they are doing and work on just one problem. Even if they did, the results might not be any faster or better. Israel has a few million people. Surely a few of them can take the time to figure out if popcorn is too expensive. Surely they won't be missed from the Fix the Palestine Problem committee.
It's childish to say "you can't work on $smallProblem until you've solved $bigProblem". Israel DOES have bigger problems thAn the price of popcorn. But that doesn't mean they can't take 10 minutes to work on that issue.
Don't defend stupid.
Because the Israeli gov't can work on exactly ONE problem at a time. Science can only work on curing cancer and nothing else.
*sigh*
Frack you, subby.
i thought motorist was silly enough.
The word is DRIVER. It's six letters. This nonsense term is more than twice the letters needed to convey the same information. It's worse than writing "okay" when it's supposed to be OK.
Not me, unless the haptics can simulate what it was like to have sex with Demi Moore.
How does this jive with the idea that morality can come only from a divine being? Can EMI prevent the angel on my shoulder from talking to me?
How crumulent is it? We know it's not exactly cromulent, but you've left it's actual cromulence vague.
i've thought about the egg/sperm donor thing as a sort of experiment in socio-genetics. Instead of having kids with my wife, which would produce another smart honkey but a bit on the short and short sighted side, i would find sperm and egg donors. Each would be a different race from us and each other. Definitely would want donors on the right half of the IQ bell curve. We'd have a smart mixed race kid, who would prolly be good looking.
Sounds like an odd thing to do, but if she's cute i'll be a gentleman and offer to push in her stool.
Are there any cute female phycisists?
How do we stop submitters from using questions for headlines?
Why would you quote Bob Saget who raped and murdered a girl in 1990?
Yes, but only on a Beowulf cluster of them in Soviet Russia. YMMV.
Should be finite.
What does the gov't actually know about you... personally, that they should not? i don't mean "if you have nothing to hide". But seriously, what do you think they know about you personally that they shouldn't?
We don't have privacy in the same way we did before, but now we have another kind: You're irrelevant. The government doesn't give a shit about you personally. You're a number in a database. An ant on the ass of an elephant. They care as much about you as you care about the mites living on your eyelashes.
For one thing the gov't isn't one thing. It's a jumble of agencies that kinda sort connect. But they aren't piling data on *you* and comparing notes (unless you are interesting). Chances are you are not interesting. They don't have the time, money, assets or INCLINATION to do so. Plus, most of them don't want to go to jail. Unless there is a seriously bored GS-6 who passes the time by seeing that you haven't been to a library in five years but go to church on the big three.
It's supremely ego-centric/vain/paranoid to think anyone at the gov't to coalating piles of data on *you*.
Unless that's what they WANT us to think!
There's not much melting. It's more like a salad. All in the same bowl and tossed around a bit.
If the census data about your race would lead to them giving you some break or hassle, i'd agree with you. But that's not the case. This is about finding who we are.