No, there is no benefit especially in high school. High school is about control, not actually educating people. Teach rigid solutions to simple problems, and collect a paycheck. Mandated quarterly and monthly testing ensures that free thinking does not happen in public schools. Only the tests matter. If teachers attempt to teach their students, their students will do poorly on the tests. The tests are designed so that all steps must be followed to get a correct answer, even if those steps can be simplified. The tests are how teachers keep their jobs, and get raises. The only thing the administrators need to understand to do their job is make sure that the test scores are good.
There is no carrot and stick, there are only whips. Count how many administrators are required to operate outside of the school. That is the number of whippings each teacher faces whenever they attempt to act on their professional skills and "teach" a child in a school.
Sure, there are exceptions but you didn't ask about the exception. The normal is what I describe, just talk to a teacher who has been in the public school system for more than 5 years.
Who is to be the arbiter of what should and should not be said? Do they know the motive of every statement a person makes every time they make them? How can anyone teach people bad arguments if they can't hear them? The answer to those questions are "Nobody", "Fat Chance", and "Impossible".
If you fear debate and are so inadequate in your own opinion that you wish to censor, remain a hermit. Hide in your house and hire a good delivery person. The world is full of contrary opinions, and you can't possibly agree with them all.
I have no issues with Freedom of Speech because I trust my own opinions, beliefs, and ability to debate. I can defend my opinion rationally and factually, even when it's not the popular argument. I am not always right, and I do make mistakes. That is how I improve myself and my opinions and I welcome debate so that I can improve.
Believing that speech can be controlled and regulated is a delusion. From the times of Ancient Greece to present people have tried, all to no avail. You can only control your own ability to hear the arguments and defend your own position.
In a rare moment of defending Fox "News" I believe that what they did was perfectly valid. They did not force anyone to watch the video. Anyone that didn't want to see it had ample opportunity to avoid the video. If you go out of your way to feel offended, then you deserve to be offended.
Well I don't use Android either, for exactly the reasons you state. Not that I think Apple is that much better. That said, I don't use Siri and know how to disable location services and other information that makes it easy. Yup, IPs are still track-able as is tower information but those are supposed to require warrants (yes, I know better but at least I have the law on my side).
Be honest about what Canonical was doing. Without any user knowledge they were forwarding _ALL_ of your searches to Amazon, even what should have been a local search (locate). Key in on that part "Without any user knowledge" and you see the big problem with _on_by_default_ "Lens". Then note the clear lack of information in Release notes about what this was and how it worked.
I don't often find RMS to be agreeable, but when he told people to all out boycott Ubuntu/Canonical I had a rare moment of agreement.
While surely correcting the person's grammar could be called appropriate, the rest is simply ignorant rambling. French media has already been telling it's citizens to turn in anyone that did not participate in the moment of silence for Charlie Hebdo because they are terrorists. People with opinions that differ from the current political party are also being labelled terrorists.
France is seeing today the ole "if you are not with us you are against us" bullshit that led to the US adopting the Patriot act which did not harm or hinder any terrorists, it harmed and hindered Americans and created massive new government programs to increase a police state that was already growing.
America is in a police state today, the fact that people are not being shot in the street doe not change that fact. Meanwhile world wide terrorism has grown, terrorist regimes have gained more power and nearly have control of 3 countries in the Middle East. I hope the French people don't fall for the gag, but it may be too late.
Sorry, but "Linux" from Canonical is not something I'll willingly use even (and perhaps especially) on a phone. Oh, I know I know.. after they got caught installing spyware they completely changed.. or so they say.
Look, if I had time to dig I may change my tune. I don't, and they lost my trust. Not that I was ever a user of Ubuntu, but up until they got caught I was not against them either.. thinking that getting more people into Linux was a good thing and they made it easier.
yeah yeah.. all of them other guys are bad too. At least I know what to do to protect myself a bit from those other guys.
If you carry around your phone 24/7 then you are a really sad person in my opinion. Life away from the constant Twitter and Facebook feeds is really quite nice. That said, I have no qualms either moving or asking people to stop taking pictures if they happen to continue after I move. You are kind of right that people are tracked more often than they may think. At the same time, many of us are not tracked as often as you seem to think.
I'm not claiming it's rational to do so, but will tell you it's easy for people to make this claim. It is easy because depending on what a person looks for anything (or close) can be called three sixes. III (in writing it looks more like a 1) in ancient Hebrew was pronounced "V", so people will claim that VVV = 666. If they take VW or WV we can claim it's 3 Vs or 666. Similarly 111 and III can be claimed to be 666 also. I have read all kinds of these, and in fact there is a Wiki page and countless other web sites and videos showing how everything from the Catholic Pope to Monster Energy drink is "the number of the beast".
As for the validity of Monster Energy drink they are probably right, and knowing the history of Popes and Catholic Church from inception to today, they could be right (relax, mostly sarcasm).
Because we can no longer correct people in schools for grammar. It's the motive in writing that gets graded today, not the ability to communicate. Government mandates, you are welcome.
Fully agree. Further, I don't really see this as a legal issue (rarity for NYPD, really!)
IMHO, this is like having an undercover agent fake name. Where I do have questions is in their disclosure for the exceptions, and how many exceptions there are (neither of which were published in the article).
This is not the first mass publication of people willingly getting themselves chipped. If enough people start to believe the media (safer, and easier, really! *wink*) then there is no need to force anyone to get chipped.
Here, there are numerous negative comments surrounding the subject. See any of this same negative feedback in the "news"? I have not, yet I have seen people paraded in front of the camera with ID tattoos, and remember a Florida family being portrayed as very happy and "safe" after they were all chipped.
If you want to argue against GP's statement at least make it rational. I study a hell of a lot of history and have found many currencies have been called "tools of Lucifer/Satan" and even sinful, but not a "mark of the beast". The "tool" statement usually relates to money being used as a control mechanism, because it's not an individual mark that was required for a person to buy/sell or even receive currency. The 'sin' arguments usually relate to how people put more faith into money than religion, covet money, and worship money.
Now when Germany was putting numbered tattoos on prisoners and slaves, that was an individual mark that some people claimed was a 'mark of the beast' and used to argue that Hitler was the antichrist. Credit Cards have also been called a 'mark of the beast' because they need to be unique to function, and are tracked to a single person. Fuel to the credit card fire are discussions by both political and business related to 'credit card only' purchasing.
If you cannot see the difference between an organization or government that is using violence and fear to force their beliefs on others, and the world's attempt to stop that, then I feel sorry for you.
Yet the 2nd US war with Iraq had our media doing exactly what you are referring to. Are you going to speak out about the fabricated tales of "yellow cake" that GWB used to steer Congress into declaring war? How about the fabrications of "Mobile WMD factories"? Fabrications of terrorist training camps? These things were playing on every US media channel every day for years?
If you are not speaking out against those things then you are a hypocrite, and be full of self pity.
If you understand that the US Government and US media lied to you about the last Iraq war, what makes you believe them now about anything in the Middle East? You do realize that outside of the US and UK most media outlets print very different stories of what is happening in the Middle East.
Unlike GW Bush, I know the quote. "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."
No, I'm not pro ISIS/ISIL or what ever the fuck politicians are calling them today. I am against our foreign policies which have only succeeded in destroying the lives of millions of Americans and many more people in the Middle East.
If you can't grasp the number of Americans I provided, ask a disabled Vet and his family about it.
To what alternative are you going to turn? Remember, the US went into the Middle East to "liberate" them from dictatorships. After killing the dictators, they fought against anyone they didn't like. Afghanistan under Karzai was far more corrupt than it was under the Taliban, and was far more difficult to control. Libya under Gaddafi was bad, but after we helped kill him and everyone else in power in Libya it's been a complete shamble.
This is why foreign wars were not allowed for well over a century of the US's existence. The only way you can win a foreign war is to conquer and occupy the territory you fight for. We knew this, and wars like Korea and Vietnam proved it. Countless politicians have been speaking out this same message, and ignored by the media of course (they can't serve two masters either).
What we did in Gulf 1 was correct. Stop an invasion and get the hell out. Unless the shores of the USA are being attacked, that is all we should ever do. Sorry, but Iraq 2 was complete and utter bullshit (provably based on complete fabrication). Saddam was not a nice guy, but he never threatened the US in any real sense. Same for Libya, Syria, Iran, and this could be a long list.
Your bias calling people in the middle east worse than animals is telling. You are nothing but an elitist prick who has been successfully brainwashed into believing a fairy tale. You won't go try to make them better, you won't even look at the real struggle most of the people in the Middle East are facing. Here is a hint: The militants are not the majority. Grats on being an ignorant ass, instead of just an ass. If you are not an ignorant ass, then you are a sock puppet.
I think you meant "liberal arts", though poetry is not traditionally "liberal arts" but "communications/creative writing". "Art" like this is the reason I took one Art class in college and 9 semesters of Philosophy.
I am actually a decent painter, have been since I was a kid (I won numerous contests and sponsorships for free hand drawing, painting in mostly acrylics and oils). In my first year while trying to decide a major I took an "art" class, mostly to see if this was something I might pursue as a career. My professor was one of the guys that would call TFA's poem "Poetry". He loved modern art and the extremely abstract, hating anything from any other viewpoint. Each class he would parade his trashy piles of welded together pieces of metal crud, telling everyone what a great "artist" he was (though I don't believe he ever sold a single piece of work). For our midterm assignment he gave us an ink and board assignment for pointillism. Not seeing much I could make as "art" with his required 6-11 dots I went with his maximum 11 dots and had something that looked similar to a couple of birds at about 10ft away if you squinted. I received an E on the assignment. Meanwhile anyone that used 6 dots that looked like nothing received As on the project.
That was an eye opening experience for a young college student. Not only did I find "art" in college to be the single most subjective grading system, but the professors were absolute douche bags. I appealed my E to the Dean who brought in another "great" art professor who also said my 11 dots were excessive for a pointillism project. It was not what the dots appeared to be that counted, it was the emotion they believed I used when placing my dots that was wrong.
Needless to say my major was quickly chosen. I majored in Math and have a Minor in Liberal Arts (Philosophy). Further, fearing permanent brain damage I never strayed within 100ft of the Art Hall during the rest of my education. I saw what it did to those other "art" students, and I could only assume what the professors had was contagious.
Self correction, I did state that it costs more in my initial post. I did place the value on my time and adding about an hour to my commute. Subsequent posts only showed how the cost differential was more than just train fair as you attempted to compare to driving and $0.10/mile. Apologies for the oversight.
Sure, an employer sponsored shuttle that picks up close to home and drops you off right at the office sounds great, but would you be willing to pay the full fare for that if not sponsored by your employer?
This is a silly question, because if my employer stopped paying my choice would be to either pay or work elsewhere.
For the fairs, I will check the fairs in person one day. I have not taken Caltrain and at first thought the same thing about fairs. A person I work with said that the bullet trains now cost 1.00 extra as of December and the web site was wrong, claiming he was paying 8.50 each way. He may have been incorrect.
FWIW, I never said that the train was more expensive than driving, I simply stated that it was expensive. I also emphasized that the train fair is not the only cost to consider when taking public transit. There are lots of fees involved outside of the train that you have to add up to make a real comparison. The one thing I didn't consider in dollars is my time, because many people have a different view of that value.
Book fair on the bullet train, which is 45-50 minutes is a dollar higher rate one way. The 3 zone trip you are referring to is the correct price (almost), but since you hit every stop it's a much longer commute (closer to drive time with traffic). Rates went up not too long ago, which you may not have known.
The bigger problem with mass transit is the lack of convenience. If I am at the train station at 7:01 and miss the bullet train, I have to wait an hour for another train. During prime time trains are every 30 minutes. Compare this to leaving in a car when I want and knowing about when I will get to the office.
Also, the train is only part of the expense. Depending on which lot you park at in MV you have different rates, Muni and Bart are different rates so if you are not within walking distance of Caltrain you are paying another $4.00 minimum per day to commute.
Now compared to what you have to pay to park downtown SF it's cheaper, but that does not make it cheap by any means. Until working up there, I had no sympathy for the company private shuttles. I have since completely changed my mind on that one and take ours every day.
Self driving cars are not a solution to the problem, and can't be the solution to the problem. If passenger trains are too full to carry people, then mass transit needs to be expanded. You know, the system we should have been investing in for half a century and ignored because it hurt someone's net worth.
Virtually zero US cities have a functional mass transit system. The most populated areas in the west are prime examples, and lets take San Francisco Bay as our example (since I live here and have first hand knowledge and experience). VTA handles "some" of the South Bay, but limited to North San Jose and Mountain View. Caltrain handles a single strip running North to south from North San Jose to South (not the city) San Francisco. Bart handles SF -> Oakland, and a straight line down to Fremont. These systems don't connect, use different payment systems, have different rates, and are _MORE_ expensive than driving. Example: I can take Caltrain from Mountain View to SF for 8.00 one way, so 16.00 round trip. Then I have to find another commute service to get from Caltrain to my destination, which is more money and time. Taking our "cheap" (said with a hearty chuckle) mass transit is extremely expensive and time consuming.
Lets not bullshit anyone, this is not our only problem. Industrial pollution is a much bigger problem. Generating electricity is a dirty task and a bigger problem. Plastic is a problem, and cheap "disposable" products are a problem. None of those get addressed by making "self driving cars" and some problems such as vehicle exhaust get worse.
Yet instead of addressing the problems with mass transit, California is dumping many billions into a train from Fresno to Sacramento. Go figure..
In some regions, sure. I live in the SF bay area and am contacted daily by recruiters. I moved here from Detroit however, where there are few jobs and no pay. I laughed at a recruiter from GM who called me and offered me 30K/yr to work as a Senior Team lead when they were pulling IT jobs back to Detroit from overseas about 3 years ago. With the shit economy in Detroit, they had plenty of people willing to work for peanuts because it's peanuts or starve.
I first read papers on the Quantum Vacuum theory called "Expanding Vacuum", and Lawrence Kraus who published several books on this subject used the terms synonymously the first time I heard him speak. In the first paragraph I wrote, I stated exactly "Expanding Vacuum" (also called Quantum Vacuum)." The only thing sloppy is people's ability to read.
Call me a skeptic, but the fact that you don't know the EV/QV theory indicates that you don't really work in Cosmology. At least as a scientist.
There are hundreds of alternative guesses, but very few of them make any testable predictions.
See above, read "A Universe from Nothing" and then talk. Spouting from ignorance does not change my skepticism in your favor.
the burden of proof of anyone positing a change from the status quo is that they have to 1) match the correct results of the existing theory and 2) introduce a new result that the old theory doesn't match.
This is wrong on just about every level, and surely not science. In fact doing this is exactly the Einstein definition of insanity. "Well, we know it's wrong but fuck it..."
Now if we were talking about something like gravity, we have things that are close enough. The Big Bang has never been close, hence most models of the Universe requiring upwards of 90% dark matter and energy (which EV/QV does not require).
There are 2 competing theories for the beginnings of the Universe. One that has been pounded into everyone's heads for the last century called "Big Bang" and another more recent theory called "Expanding Vacuum" (also called Quantum Vacuum).
The Big Bang, as mentioned, has been pounded into everyone's head as the right theory even though people have pointed out countless flaws with the theory since the beginning. The more recent theory has been ignored, largely by people claiming to be pro-science. The Big Bang has even evolved in the last few decades to be more like EV/QV theory. Very few people will say "Hey, what about this other theory" and generate the necessary discussion.
Personally I don't see this as shocking or new. Science likes to hang onto bad theory for as long as possible, people invest a lot of time into their opinions and it's very difficult to change them. History has a good amount of these issues if you care enough to study history (see Newton especially a great book called "Newton and the Counterfeiter).
This is a case where it's not so much people claiming science is a sham, it's people saying "that theory is wrong". Some people lack the knowledge and/or desire to move on to a new/better/different theory. Many of those people are "scientists" who have invested a long long time in a theory that's broken.
Even in places that have mass transit _and_ massive funding for mass transit, improvements are horrible to non-existent (see California).
If I take mass transit, the cost is 80.00/wk to go about 100 miles round trip daily, and I have to walk or bicycle the last 1-2 miles. It's not cheap, it's not convenient, and it's not faster than driving most of the time. In large part, this is due to the California welfare state and a large portion of riders not paying their fair. The bigger part however, is that instead of putting money into this system the legislature decided to build an 80billion dollar bullet train to run from near LA to near SF. Because the only way to get 9 million commuters off the freeway is to do absolutely nothing about it. *sigh*
Detroit is another example of a place that took shit tons of tax payer money to build a fancy merry go round called "The People Mover", which is a laughable system that supports the Casinos, a couple parking garages, and the RenCen.
In other words, demand for public transit does not make public transit happen.
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No, there is no benefit especially in high school. High school is about control, not actually educating people. Teach rigid solutions to simple problems, and collect a paycheck. Mandated quarterly and monthly testing ensures that free thinking does not happen in public schools. Only the tests matter. If teachers attempt to teach their students, their students will do poorly on the tests. The tests are designed so that all steps must be followed to get a correct answer, even if those steps can be simplified. The tests are how teachers keep their jobs, and get raises. The only thing the administrators need to understand to do their job is make sure that the test scores are good.
There is no carrot and stick, there are only whips. Count how many administrators are required to operate outside of the school. That is the number of whippings each teacher faces whenever they attempt to act on their professional skills and "teach" a child in a school.
Sure, there are exceptions but you didn't ask about the exception. The normal is what I describe, just talk to a teacher who has been in the public school system for more than 5 years.
Who is to be the arbiter of what should and should not be said? Do they know the motive of every statement a person makes every time they make them? How can anyone teach people bad arguments if they can't hear them? The answer to those questions are "Nobody", "Fat Chance", and "Impossible".
If you fear debate and are so inadequate in your own opinion that you wish to censor, remain a hermit. Hide in your house and hire a good delivery person. The world is full of contrary opinions, and you can't possibly agree with them all.
I have no issues with Freedom of Speech because I trust my own opinions, beliefs, and ability to debate. I can defend my opinion rationally and factually, even when it's not the popular argument. I am not always right, and I do make mistakes. That is how I improve myself and my opinions and I welcome debate so that I can improve.
Believing that speech can be controlled and regulated is a delusion. From the times of Ancient Greece to present people have tried, all to no avail. You can only control your own ability to hear the arguments and defend your own position.
In a rare moment of defending Fox "News" I believe that what they did was perfectly valid. They did not force anyone to watch the video. Anyone that didn't want to see it had ample opportunity to avoid the video. If you go out of your way to feel offended, then you deserve to be offended.
Well I don't use Android either, for exactly the reasons you state. Not that I think Apple is that much better. That said, I don't use Siri and know how to disable location services and other information that makes it easy. Yup, IPs are still track-able as is tower information but those are supposed to require warrants (yes, I know better but at least I have the law on my side).
Be honest about what Canonical was doing. Without any user knowledge they were forwarding _ALL_ of your searches to Amazon, even what should have been a local search (locate). Key in on that part "Without any user knowledge" and you see the big problem with _on_by_default_ "Lens". Then note the clear lack of information in Release notes about what this was and how it worked.
I don't often find RMS to be agreeable, but when he told people to all out boycott Ubuntu/Canonical I had a rare moment of agreement.
While surely correcting the person's grammar could be called appropriate, the rest is simply ignorant rambling. French media has already been telling it's citizens to turn in anyone that did not participate in the moment of silence for Charlie Hebdo because they are terrorists. People with opinions that differ from the current political party are also being labelled terrorists.
France is seeing today the ole "if you are not with us you are against us" bullshit that led to the US adopting the Patriot act which did not harm or hinder any terrorists, it harmed and hindered Americans and created massive new government programs to increase a police state that was already growing.
America is in a police state today, the fact that people are not being shot in the street doe not change that fact. Meanwhile world wide terrorism has grown, terrorist regimes have gained more power and nearly have control of 3 countries in the Middle East. I hope the French people don't fall for the gag, but it may be too late.
Sorry, but "Linux" from Canonical is not something I'll willingly use even (and perhaps especially) on a phone. Oh, I know I know.. after they got caught installing spyware they completely changed.. or so they say.
Look, if I had time to dig I may change my tune. I don't, and they lost my trust. Not that I was ever a user of Ubuntu, but up until they got caught I was not against them either.. thinking that getting more people into Linux was a good thing and they made it easier.
yeah yeah.. all of them other guys are bad too. At least I know what to do to protect myself a bit from those other guys.
If you carry around your phone 24/7 then you are a really sad person in my opinion. Life away from the constant Twitter and Facebook feeds is really quite nice. That said, I have no qualms either moving or asking people to stop taking pictures if they happen to continue after I move. You are kind of right that people are tracked more often than they may think. At the same time, many of us are not tracked as often as you seem to think.
I'm not claiming it's rational to do so, but will tell you it's easy for people to make this claim. It is easy because depending on what a person looks for anything (or close) can be called three sixes. III (in writing it looks more like a 1) in ancient Hebrew was pronounced "V", so people will claim that VVV = 666. If they take VW or WV we can claim it's 3 Vs or 666. Similarly 111 and III can be claimed to be 666 also. I have read all kinds of these, and in fact there is a Wiki page and countless other web sites and videos showing how everything from the Catholic Pope to Monster Energy drink is "the number of the beast".
As for the validity of Monster Energy drink they are probably right, and knowing the history of Popes and Catholic Church from inception to today, they could be right (relax, mostly sarcasm).
Because we can no longer correct people in schools for grammar. It's the motive in writing that gets graded today, not the ability to communicate. Government mandates, you are welcome.
Fully agree. Further, I don't really see this as a legal issue (rarity for NYPD, really!)
IMHO, this is like having an undercover agent fake name. Where I do have questions is in their disclosure for the exceptions, and how many exceptions there are (neither of which were published in the article).
This is not the first mass publication of people willingly getting themselves chipped. If enough people start to believe the media (safer, and easier, really! *wink*) then there is no need to force anyone to get chipped.
Here, there are numerous negative comments surrounding the subject. See any of this same negative feedback in the "news"? I have not, yet I have seen people paraded in front of the camera with ID tattoos, and remember a Florida family being portrayed as very happy and "safe" after they were all chipped.
If you want to argue against GP's statement at least make it rational. I study a hell of a lot of history and have found many currencies have been called "tools of Lucifer/Satan" and even sinful, but not a "mark of the beast". The "tool" statement usually relates to money being used as a control mechanism, because it's not an individual mark that was required for a person to buy/sell or even receive currency. The 'sin' arguments usually relate to how people put more faith into money than religion, covet money, and worship money.
Now when Germany was putting numbered tattoos on prisoners and slaves, that was an individual mark that some people claimed was a 'mark of the beast' and used to argue that Hitler was the antichrist. Credit Cards have also been called a 'mark of the beast' because they need to be unique to function, and are tracked to a single person. Fuel to the credit card fire are discussions by both political and business related to 'credit card only' purchasing.
If you cannot see the difference between an organization or government that is using violence and fear to force their beliefs on others, and the world's attempt to stop that, then I feel sorry for you.
Yet the 2nd US war with Iraq had our media doing exactly what you are referring to. Are you going to speak out about the fabricated tales of "yellow cake" that GWB used to steer Congress into declaring war? How about the fabrications of "Mobile WMD factories"? Fabrications of terrorist training camps? These things were playing on every US media channel every day for years?
If you are not speaking out against those things then you are a hypocrite, and be full of self pity.
If you understand that the US Government and US media lied to you about the last Iraq war, what makes you believe them now about anything in the Middle East? You do realize that outside of the US and UK most media outlets print very different stories of what is happening in the Middle East.
Unlike GW Bush, I know the quote. "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."
No, I'm not pro ISIS/ISIL or what ever the fuck politicians are calling them today. I am against our foreign policies which have only succeeded in destroying the lives of millions of Americans and many more people in the Middle East.
If you can't grasp the number of Americans I provided, ask a disabled Vet and his family about it.
To what alternative are you going to turn? Remember, the US went into the Middle East to "liberate" them from dictatorships. After killing the dictators, they fought against anyone they didn't like. Afghanistan under Karzai was far more corrupt than it was under the Taliban, and was far more difficult to control. Libya under Gaddafi was bad, but after we helped kill him and everyone else in power in Libya it's been a complete shamble.
This is why foreign wars were not allowed for well over a century of the US's existence. The only way you can win a foreign war is to conquer and occupy the territory you fight for. We knew this, and wars like Korea and Vietnam proved it. Countless politicians have been speaking out this same message, and ignored by the media of course (they can't serve two masters either).
What we did in Gulf 1 was correct. Stop an invasion and get the hell out. Unless the shores of the USA are being attacked, that is all we should ever do. Sorry, but Iraq 2 was complete and utter bullshit (provably based on complete fabrication). Saddam was not a nice guy, but he never threatened the US in any real sense. Same for Libya, Syria, Iran, and this could be a long list.
Your bias calling people in the middle east worse than animals is telling. You are nothing but an elitist prick who has been successfully brainwashed into believing a fairy tale. You won't go try to make them better, you won't even look at the real struggle most of the people in the Middle East are facing. Here is a hint: The militants are not the majority. Grats on being an ignorant ass, instead of just an ass. If you are not an ignorant ass, then you are a sock puppet.
I think you meant "liberal arts", though poetry is not traditionally "liberal arts" but "communications/creative writing". "Art" like this is the reason I took one Art class in college and 9 semesters of Philosophy.
I am actually a decent painter, have been since I was a kid (I won numerous contests and sponsorships for free hand drawing, painting in mostly acrylics and oils). In my first year while trying to decide a major I took an "art" class, mostly to see if this was something I might pursue as a career. My professor was one of the guys that would call TFA's poem "Poetry". He loved modern art and the extremely abstract, hating anything from any other viewpoint. Each class he would parade his trashy piles of welded together pieces of metal crud, telling everyone what a great "artist" he was (though I don't believe he ever sold a single piece of work). For our midterm assignment he gave us an ink and board assignment for pointillism. Not seeing much I could make as "art" with his required 6-11 dots I went with his maximum 11 dots and had something that looked similar to a couple of birds at about 10ft away if you squinted. I received an E on the assignment. Meanwhile anyone that used 6 dots that looked like nothing received As on the project.
That was an eye opening experience for a young college student. Not only did I find "art" in college to be the single most subjective grading system, but the professors were absolute douche bags. I appealed my E to the Dean who brought in another "great" art professor who also said my 11 dots were excessive for a pointillism project. It was not what the dots appeared to be that counted, it was the emotion they believed I used when placing my dots that was wrong.
Needless to say my major was quickly chosen. I majored in Math and have a Minor in Liberal Arts (Philosophy). Further, fearing permanent brain damage I never strayed within 100ft of the Art Hall during the rest of my education. I saw what it did to those other "art" students, and I could only assume what the professors had was contagious.
Self correction, I did state that it costs more in my initial post. I did place the value on my time and adding about an hour to my commute. Subsequent posts only showed how the cost differential was more than just train fair as you attempted to compare to driving and $0.10/mile. Apologies for the oversight.
Block JavaScript from unwanted sources like Facebook I don't care what they do!
One does not, nor did they, need Legos to do this.
Patent pending?
Sure, an employer sponsored shuttle that picks up close to home and drops you off right at the office sounds great, but would you be willing to pay the full fare for that if not sponsored by your employer?
This is a silly question, because if my employer stopped paying my choice would be to either pay or work elsewhere.
For the fairs, I will check the fairs in person one day. I have not taken Caltrain and at first thought the same thing about fairs. A person I work with said that the bullet trains now cost 1.00 extra as of December and the web site was wrong, claiming he was paying 8.50 each way. He may have been incorrect.
FWIW, I never said that the train was more expensive than driving, I simply stated that it was expensive. I also emphasized that the train fair is not the only cost to consider when taking public transit. There are lots of fees involved outside of the train that you have to add up to make a real comparison. The one thing I didn't consider in dollars is my time, because many people have a different view of that value.
Book fair on the bullet train, which is 45-50 minutes is a dollar higher rate one way. The 3 zone trip you are referring to is the correct price (almost), but since you hit every stop it's a much longer commute (closer to drive time with traffic). Rates went up not too long ago, which you may not have known.
The bigger problem with mass transit is the lack of convenience. If I am at the train station at 7:01 and miss the bullet train, I have to wait an hour for another train. During prime time trains are every 30 minutes. Compare this to leaving in a car when I want and knowing about when I will get to the office.
Also, the train is only part of the expense. Depending on which lot you park at in MV you have different rates, Muni and Bart are different rates so if you are not within walking distance of Caltrain you are paying another $4.00 minimum per day to commute.
Now compared to what you have to pay to park downtown SF it's cheaper, but that does not make it cheap by any means. Until working up there, I had no sympathy for the company private shuttles. I have since completely changed my mind on that one and take ours every day.
Self driving cars are not a solution to the problem, and can't be the solution to the problem. If passenger trains are too full to carry people, then mass transit needs to be expanded. You know, the system we should have been investing in for half a century and ignored because it hurt someone's net worth.
Virtually zero US cities have a functional mass transit system. The most populated areas in the west are prime examples, and lets take San Francisco Bay as our example (since I live here and have first hand knowledge and experience). VTA handles "some" of the South Bay, but limited to North San Jose and Mountain View. Caltrain handles a single strip running North to south from North San Jose to South (not the city) San Francisco. Bart handles SF -> Oakland, and a straight line down to Fremont. These systems don't connect, use different payment systems, have different rates, and are _MORE_ expensive than driving. Example: I can take Caltrain from Mountain View to SF for 8.00 one way, so 16.00 round trip. Then I have to find another commute service to get from Caltrain to my destination, which is more money and time. Taking our "cheap" (said with a hearty chuckle) mass transit is extremely expensive and time consuming.
Lets not bullshit anyone, this is not our only problem. Industrial pollution is a much bigger problem. Generating electricity is a dirty task and a bigger problem. Plastic is a problem, and cheap "disposable" products are a problem. None of those get addressed by making "self driving cars" and some problems such as vehicle exhaust get worse.
Yet instead of addressing the problems with mass transit, California is dumping many billions into a train from Fresno to Sacramento. Go figure..
In some regions, sure. I live in the SF bay area and am contacted daily by recruiters. I moved here from Detroit however, where there are few jobs and no pay. I laughed at a recruiter from GM who called me and offered me 30K/yr to work as a Senior Team lead when they were pulling IT jobs back to Detroit from overseas about 3 years ago. With the shit economy in Detroit, they had plenty of people willing to work for peanuts because it's peanuts or starve.
I first read papers on the Quantum Vacuum theory called "Expanding Vacuum", and Lawrence Kraus who published several books on this subject used the terms synonymously the first time I heard him speak. In the first paragraph I wrote, I stated exactly "Expanding Vacuum" (also called Quantum Vacuum)." The only thing sloppy is people's ability to read.
Call me a skeptic, but the fact that you don't know the EV/QV theory indicates that you don't really work in Cosmology. At least as a scientist.
There are hundreds of alternative guesses, but very few of them make any testable predictions.
See above, read "A Universe from Nothing" and then talk. Spouting from ignorance does not change my skepticism in your favor.
the burden of proof of anyone positing a change from the status quo is that they have to 1) match the correct results of the existing theory and 2) introduce a new result that the old theory doesn't match.
This is wrong on just about every level, and surely not science. In fact doing this is exactly the Einstein definition of insanity. "Well, we know it's wrong but fuck it..."
Now if we were talking about something like gravity, we have things that are close enough. The Big Bang has never been close, hence most models of the Universe requiring upwards of 90% dark matter and energy (which EV/QV does not require).
There are 2 competing theories for the beginnings of the Universe. One that has been pounded into everyone's heads for the last century called "Big Bang" and another more recent theory called "Expanding Vacuum" (also called Quantum Vacuum).
The Big Bang, as mentioned, has been pounded into everyone's head as the right theory even though people have pointed out countless flaws with the theory since the beginning. The more recent theory has been ignored, largely by people claiming to be pro-science. The Big Bang has even evolved in the last few decades to be more like EV/QV theory. Very few people will say "Hey, what about this other theory" and generate the necessary discussion.
Personally I don't see this as shocking or new. Science likes to hang onto bad theory for as long as possible, people invest a lot of time into their opinions and it's very difficult to change them. History has a good amount of these issues if you care enough to study history (see Newton especially a great book called "Newton and the Counterfeiter).
This is a case where it's not so much people claiming science is a sham, it's people saying "that theory is wrong". Some people lack the knowledge and/or desire to move on to a new/better/different theory. Many of those people are "scientists" who have invested a long long time in a theory that's broken.
Even in places that have mass transit _and_ massive funding for mass transit, improvements are horrible to non-existent (see California).
If I take mass transit, the cost is 80.00/wk to go about 100 miles round trip daily, and I have to walk or bicycle the last 1-2 miles. It's not cheap, it's not convenient, and it's not faster than driving most of the time. In large part, this is due to the California welfare state and a large portion of riders not paying their fair. The bigger part however, is that instead of putting money into this system the legislature decided to build an 80billion dollar bullet train to run from near LA to near SF. Because the only way to get 9 million commuters off the freeway is to do absolutely nothing about it. *sigh*
Detroit is another example of a place that took shit tons of tax payer money to build a fancy merry go round called "The People Mover", which is a laughable system that supports the Casinos, a couple parking garages, and the RenCen.
In other words, demand for public transit does not make public transit happen.