Red herring argument. Your genius isn't really one, so you try to move the debate on something irrelevant.
The argument isn't about how good an electronics engineer he is. Is that really so hard to understand?
It's about civil rights, the over-reaction through fear or ignorance of those in authority, and the seeming likelihood of racism, or at least ridiculous cultural stereotypng.
The police were called, and they are compelled and required to investigate once called. They don't just show up and say, "Eh, whatever," and leave
Next time there is a burglary in your street, see if the police actually investigate it, or just say: "here is a report number to give to your insurance company".
No, the police are not required to do anything.
They are not required to guarantee you protection as an individual, i.e. you can't sue them if they fail to stop someone committing a crime against you. This is because it would be impossible to prvide such protection without some sort of twenty four hour one on one bodyguarding service.
(As for one of the cops ALLEGEDLY saying "it's who I thought it would be", we have no way of knowing 1. whether that was even actually said, or 2. IF it was said, whether it referred to Ahmed personally (i.e., did he have any brushes before because of his interests), or because he was "brown" and Muslim -- the conclusion that everyone who desperately wants to attribute this to racism wants to rush to. And, on that point, if that was the motivation, wouldn't that cop have already felt that upon seeing his name was "Ahmed Mohamed", instead of making an allegedly racist remark right to his face, and only upon seeing him? In short, that allegation doesn't stand up to scrutiny as definitive proof that there was anything racial involved on the part of police in this case, either.)
I assumed "it's who I thought it would be" is a reference to the kid's father, who is apparently well known for speaking up about Islamophobia.
At the same time, this march of Muslims should speak out against Islamic terrorism and the sort of extremism that their religious brethren in the ISIL areas, and the Boko Haram practice in the Middle East, and Africa. Burning folks alive in cages, auctioning off 12 year old girls for sex slavery . . . this is what Islam is all about.
OK, and if you don't parade up and down outside my house every day saying you're not a neo-Nazi paedophile, I can conclude that you are, in fact, a neo-Nazi paedophile? Right?
Something else to consider is this kid's history. Is he a prankster? Or, has he shown anti-social behavior, written long rambling notes about how he'd like to kill the teachers and other students? Is he on anti-psychotic drugs? The schools keep records on that kind of stuff, they should know.
If he had no troubled history, there was no reason to think he'd suddenly turned into an angry, dangerous teen, and was about to enact a murder-suicide revenge fantasy. The school's reaction was way over the top, and cowardly.
Has he denied being a member of the Communist Party? Is he still silent on the Black Dahlia murder of 1947? Has anyone actually heard him denounce the KKK?
For many people, a shower is relaxing. Quiet time of solitude, sometimes the only time of the day to clear your head while cleansing your body, and that needs more than 5 minutes. 5 minute showers are to freshen up in the morning before work or after working out.
Call me old-fashioned, but if I want to relax I lie down and have a nap. Showers wake you up.
Exxon... is a concept, an idea, a piece of paper in some government office at best. It does not make decisions, it does not do anything. It doesn't even exist.
That's like saying the Government or the Army don't exist.
My specific criticism is that it always seems like/. takes the side of NASA (and science/scientists in general) every time on every issue and treats it all like its some kind of democratic process. Then when anyone dares to question "what 99.99% of scientists say" they're modded into oblivion. A key example: climate change. Another one: systemd. Another one: leftist/socialist ideas of economics and social governance.
In any discussion of climate changes there are plenty of people happy to go against the scientific consensus. Leftist/socialist ideas on anything are generally heavily outnumbered by right wing or "libertarian" posters.
But, yes, systemd does indeed seem to provoke a near 100% hatred here.
Darwin was moving away from theistic explanations of natural world for quite sometime. But despite rejecting Biblical explanations of natural sciences, he still believed on God. One of the things that pushed him towards full fledged atheism was the observation that these wasps would lay eggs and paralyze the caterpillars. So that the caterpillars do not die and decay, they stay alive to provide food for the hatched wasp larvae. The caterpillars being eaten alive revolted him and he could not believe a merciful God would that to His creatures. Death of his 10 year old daughter also pushed him away from God. But still, out of deference to his wife he desisted publishing the Origin of species, till his hand was forced by Wallace.
And no, there was no deathbed conversion.
So had he never wondered why a merciful God would let human beings die in childbirth, or of cancer or whatever?
An article and summary using buzzwords and hashtag activism to suggest people should stop using buzzwords and hashtag activism about nuclear issues - just to make the OP feel like they did something more than using buzzwords and hashtag activism.
P.S. Hashtag activism.
Can we please call it "hashtivism"? "Hashtag activism" sounds like something an old person would say, probably via email.
Why do people fear the radiation released by nuclear blasts far more than the damn blast itself?
Most people are irrationally scared of radiation, full stop. It's not even a rational fear, based in a sound knowledge of radiation--that would mean people were not operating on the quaint notion that they're not being exposed to radiation pretty much all the time, with some sources of radiation more or less entirely unavoidable given that there's this really huge fusion reactor about eight lightminutes away that we kinda need.
Stop talking rubbish. There is no connection between the natural radiation from the sun and being given a lethal dose of radiation from an atomic bomb, causing you to die a slow painful death. Fear of the latter is entirely rational.
I'd differentiate between leftism and the ostensible social goods they champion, for example a complete welfare state existed back in the Roman empire long before Marx put pen to paper.
So what's your point? That Marx was reviving an old idea, and therefore he's a plagiarist? Or that the only Real Welfare State is based on widespread slavery and imperialism?
Thank you for offering a great example of what Costlow says is wrong with Millennials. Outrage, minimal analysis, bumper sticker solutions. The only thing keeping it from being a perfect example is the use of actual hashtags.
Bravo!
I especially enjoued OP's insightful comment:
* What specific actions would free humanity from the threat of nuclear catastrophe?
The attitudes of the left towards e.g. food production and the entire field of economics are just as totally anti-science and devoid of consideration for facts as the attitudes of the right towards e.g. global warming.
The attitude of peple on the left to GM food and companies like Monsanto is not anti-science it's anti-Corporation or (if you prefer) anti-Global Capitalism.
America was also face to face with the army that had won the largest war in history.
Somehow that isn't quite what I heard in history class. It seems that no one won the war on their own. If the US and Austrailia weren't pounding Japan into dust, the US and Britain pounding Italy into dust (mostly in Africa), and the US and Britain pounding on Germany, how long would Russia have survived?
At the time Germany invaded Russia, the USA weren't in the war and Britain had been pushed out of mainland Europe. What stopped Hitler from conquering Russia was the Russians, at enormous cost to both sides.
full pre-emptive nuclear strike against any nation with nuclear triad capabilities will only do one thing effectively: get 100's of millions or billions of human beings killed
Do you know that by 2100 the projected human population on this planet might hit 12 to 13 Billion?
A wholesale purging / thinning of the burgeoning human population _before_ it explodes further might turn out to be a Good Thing[im]
And the purging will be in the richest, most technologically advanced countries. You'll be left with palces like Somalia and some lost tribes of the Amazon inheriting the world.
The US was involved (via the CIA) in subverting democracy and supporting dictatorships in many South and Central American countries during the Cold War including Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras (in rough chronological order).
There are other ways of furthering your country's interests than overt military invasion.
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Red herring argument. Your genius isn't really one, so you try to move the debate on something irrelevant.
The argument isn't about how good an electronics engineer he is. Is that really so hard to understand?
It's about civil rights, the over-reaction through fear or ignorance of those in authority, and the seeming likelihood of racism, or at least ridiculous cultural stereotypng.
Next time there is a burglary in your street, see if the police actually investigate it, or just say: "here is a report number to give to your insurance company". No, the police are not required to do anything.
They are not required to guarantee you protection as an individual, i.e. you can't sue them if they fail to stop someone committing a crime against you. This is because it would be impossible to prvide such protection without some sort of twenty four hour one on one bodyguarding service.
(As for one of the cops ALLEGEDLY saying "it's who I thought it would be", we have no way of knowing 1. whether that was even actually said, or 2. IF it was said, whether it referred to Ahmed personally (i.e., did he have any brushes before because of his interests), or because he was "brown" and Muslim -- the conclusion that everyone who desperately wants to attribute this to racism wants to rush to. And, on that point, if that was the motivation, wouldn't that cop have already felt that upon seeing his name was "Ahmed Mohamed", instead of making an allegedly racist remark right to his face, and only upon seeing him? In short, that allegation doesn't stand up to scrutiny as definitive proof that there was anything racial involved on the part of police in this case, either.)
I assumed "it's who I thought it would be" is a reference to the kid's father, who is apparently well known for speaking up about Islamophobia.
The governments have used the threat of Islamic terrorism to chip away at our rights.
Indeed.
Once the threat is removed, then we can fight back against our governments intrusions to our privacy
I can't believe you are that naive. We will always be at war with Eastasia.
At the same time, this march of Muslims should speak out against Islamic terrorism and the sort of extremism that their religious brethren in the ISIL areas, and the Boko Haram practice in the Middle East, and Africa. Burning folks alive in cages, auctioning off 12 year old girls for sex slavery . . . this is what Islam is all about.
OK, and if you don't parade up and down outside my house every day saying you're not a neo-Nazi paedophile, I can conclude that you are, in fact, a neo-Nazi paedophile? Right?
Something else to consider is this kid's history. Is he a prankster? Or, has he shown anti-social behavior, written long rambling notes about how he'd like to kill the teachers and other students? Is he on anti-psychotic drugs? The schools keep records on that kind of stuff, they should know.
If he had no troubled history, there was no reason to think he'd suddenly turned into an angry, dangerous teen, and was about to enact a murder-suicide revenge fantasy. The school's reaction was way over the top, and cowardly.
Has he denied being a member of the Communist Party? Is he still silent on the Black Dahlia murder of 1947? Has anyone actually heard him denounce the KKK?
Plenty of questions remain unanswered.
The fact is a lot of Slashdot's value comes from user commentary.
That, and the thoughtful analysis of slashdot's favourite regular contributor, Bennet Haselton.
For many people, a shower is relaxing. Quiet time of solitude, sometimes the only time of the day to clear your head while cleansing your body, and that needs more than 5 minutes. 5 minute showers are to freshen up in the morning before work or after working out.
Call me old-fashioned, but if I want to relax I lie down and have a nap. Showers wake you up.
Exxon ... is a concept, an idea, a piece of paper in some government office at best. It does not make decisions, it does not do anything. It doesn't even exist.
That's like saying the Government or the Army don't exist.
Was it written by a precocious ten year old? It osunds like something from a school essay about One Direction.
Anyone who uses the term Social Justice Warrior might as well have "I'm a reactionary paranoid mingecringer" as their signature.
Can yuo please provide more information or a link, as I have no idea what you're talking about. What woman and what shirt?
My specific criticism is that it always seems like /. takes the side of NASA (and science/scientists in general) every time on every issue and treats it all like its some kind of democratic process. Then when anyone dares to question "what 99.99% of scientists say" they're modded into oblivion. A key example: climate change. Another one: systemd. Another one: leftist/socialist ideas of economics and social governance.
In any discussion of climate changes there are plenty of people happy to go against the scientific consensus. Leftist/socialist ideas on anything are generally heavily outnumbered by right wing or "libertarian" posters.
But, yes, systemd does indeed seem to provoke a near 100% hatred here.
Darwin was moving away from theistic explanations of natural world for quite sometime. But despite rejecting Biblical explanations of natural sciences, he still believed on God. One of the things that pushed him towards full fledged atheism was the observation that these wasps would lay eggs and paralyze the caterpillars. So that the caterpillars do not die and decay, they stay alive to provide food for the hatched wasp larvae. The caterpillars being eaten alive revolted him and he could not believe a merciful God would that to His creatures. Death of his 10 year old daughter also pushed him away from God. But still, out of deference to his wife he desisted publishing the Origin of species, till his hand was forced by Wallace.
And no, there was no deathbed conversion.
So had he never wondered why a merciful God would let human beings die in childbirth, or of cancer or whatever?
An article and summary using buzzwords and hashtag activism to suggest people should stop using buzzwords and hashtag activism about nuclear issues - just to make the OP feel like they did something more than using buzzwords and hashtag activism.
P.S. Hashtag activism.
Can we please call it "hashtivism"? "Hashtag activism" sounds like something an old person would say, probably via email.
Why do people fear the radiation released by nuclear blasts far more than the damn blast itself?
Most people are irrationally scared of radiation, full stop. It's not even a rational fear, based in a sound knowledge of radiation--that would mean people were not operating on the quaint notion that they're not being exposed to radiation pretty much all the time, with some sources of radiation more or less entirely unavoidable given that there's this really huge fusion reactor about eight lightminutes away that we kinda need.
Stop talking rubbish. There is no connection between the natural radiation from the sun and being given a lethal dose of radiation from an atomic bomb, causing you to die a slow painful death. Fear of the latter is entirely rational.
I'd differentiate between leftism and the ostensible social goods they champion, for example a complete welfare state existed back in the Roman empire long before Marx put pen to paper.
So what's your point? That Marx was reviving an old idea, and therefore he's a plagiarist? Or that the only Real Welfare State is based on widespread slavery and imperialism?
Thank you for offering a great example of what Costlow says is wrong with Millennials. Outrage, minimal analysis, bumper sticker solutions. The only thing keeping it from being a perfect example is the use of actual hashtags.
Bravo!
I especially enjoued OP's insightful comment:
* What specific actions would free humanity from the threat of nuclear catastrophe?
1) nuclear disarmament is a start.
If only someone had thought of this before!
Whether or not it's a good thing that the Taliban were overthrown is a different question.
But nuclear weapons are unique in being tools that you can't actually use.
The attitudes of the left towards e.g. food production and the entire field of economics are just as totally anti-science and devoid of consideration for facts as the attitudes of the right towards e.g. global warming.
The attitude of peple on the left to GM food and companies like Monsanto is not anti-science it's anti-Corporation or (if you prefer) anti-Global Capitalism.
America was also face to face with the army that had won the largest war in history.
Somehow that isn't quite what I heard in history class. It seems that no one won the war on their own. If the US and Austrailia weren't pounding Japan into dust, the US and Britain pounding Italy into dust (mostly in Africa), and the US and Britain pounding on Germany, how long would Russia have survived?
At the time Germany invaded Russia, the USA weren't in the war and Britain had been pushed out of mainland Europe. What stopped Hitler from conquering Russia was the Russians, at enormous cost to both sides.
full pre-emptive nuclear strike against any nation with nuclear triad capabilities will only do one thing effectively: get 100's of millions or billions of human beings killed
Do you know that by 2100 the projected human population on this planet might hit 12 to 13 Billion?
A wholesale purging / thinning of the burgeoning human population _before_ it explodes further might turn out to be a Good Thing[im]
And the purging will be in the richest, most technologically advanced countries. You'll be left with palces like Somalia and some lost tribes of the Amazon inheriting the world.
There are other ways of furthering your country's interests than overt military invasion.
Syria is the way it is because Obama refused to interfere
Which was because he didn't want to start World War Three with Russia and China.