[quote]Even if the curriculum is faulty, children at school learn to live along with other people.[/quote]... that's hardly true, when is the last time you've been inside a school. the only socialization skills learned in schools are "don't do things where you'll get caught and don't mess with people who can hurt you, also the first rule only applies if you or or parents don't raise such a ruckus that the school gives up on disciplining you for doing things wrong because it's too much of a headache for them".
Oh, it also teaches them to play the poor victim as a method for achieving their ends -- because some random kid throwing shit in class and shouting random crap is a BAD KID, but if that kid has ADD or some other "disorder" it's *just not fair* to punish a kid when he couldn't help it! Nevermind that regardless of where we start we all must learn the same shit to function well as a society and exempting some from those lessons merely because they have a harder time learning those lessons will result in... that's right, they don't learn a damned thing.
I did go to public school and got a decent education out of it, but let's not fool ourselves. Schools aren't places of learning. They're not quite jails run by the inmates, but they're not exactly being run by the guards either. Even good schools are poor models for kids to learn socialization skills from, and once you throw bad schools into the mix it's just a joke. What kind of "living with other people" skills are you going to learn in a classroom where even the teacher is fearful for their life because of idiotic students? Looks like the lesson is "if people are scared of me then I can do as I want and they won't stop me -- they'll be scared of me!" What an awesome thing to learn, amirite?
You're right, bureaucracy is better at raising children than parents. I propose that upon birth we remove children from their parents to prevent any untoward beliefs being implanted in their impressionable young minds and hand them over to government-approved guardians who will raise them with government-approved beliefs. Which are infallible. And unbiased.
To answer the question you posed, no, most home schoolers DON'T do it because they're afraid of evil secular concepts. Man, you are a huge fucking bigot, did you know that? That whole concept is just so rife with hatred and prejudice against any form of religion it's appalling. How do you reconcile the fact that the whole scientific and social explosion during the Renaissance was really fueled by the religious? Can you? It certainly seems that in your world, believing in a silly sky monster means that by default you're some kind of Luddite out there teaching kids that the earth is flat and the center of the universe before them evil scientists can rot their brains with secular garbage. That's pretty sad. Both that you paint so broadly the religious as "bad", and that you exempt the rest as "good" -- clearly somebody who isn't religious wouldn't ever homeschool their kids and teach them crazy claptrap like vaccines causing asperger's or chlorine in water being useless for health and instead being simply a way for Big Bad Industry to dump pollutants directly into our drinking water and make money off it. Yeah. No, you're probably right. Totally.
Looting is unfortunate because it contributes to the breakdown of order but in regards to actual morality, it's a far sight from highway robbery. Looters don't need to shoot at anybody to get their stuff, they just walk up and take it -- and most that shit would've been claimed as a loss by the store it was in anyway. You can't sell food that's been through a flood. It's not safe. If you need it, and it is literally going to be tossed into the trash as soon as the rightful owners return, and monetarily makes no difference to the current owner whether they throw it out or you take it.. well it's damn hard to argue against looting in that scenario. And then you've got highway robbery, where you at the very least have intentions of killing others to take what you need from them. That's actual loss, actual violence. Very different.
I check google news pretty much every day at least once, but it's actually pretty damn rare that there's any headlines that interest me in the slightest. In other words.. it's not Google's fault that newspapers don't produce interesting content. Half the articles are just rehashes of the same article they put out the day before. Sometimes they'll add the sentence or two of details you can catch during station ID and traffic updates on the radio driving to work/school/nowhere particular.
This guy has it, except it's California, not the feds. and don't quote me on it because I think I read it somewhere online -- and you know how trustworthy the internets is -- that diesel cars in CA have tougher emission standards than gasoline cars. Basically California has decided diesels are dirty and they'll have none of it, excepting where it's absolutely necessarily in heavy-duty vehicles, and even those have pretty tough emission standards from what i understand.
In the battle between clean and efficient, California's put its foot down firmly in "clean", and that's decided it for the rest of the nation too.
[quote]so you start reading and you realize that in 99.999% of cases, you're staring at something that is some combination of:
a) based on a fundamentally broken assumptions (usually never even stated) b) bad analogies that obfuscate the fact that wheels are being re-invented (usually poorly) c) narrowly defined special case d) broken (provably non-optimal optimization routines)[/quote]
Take this, and apply it to $SOMETHINGNEW. It works. Most new ideas are shit, and it's only through the passage of time do we wind up winnowing out that 0.001% enough to actually throw together into a pile called progress. I'd imagine the vast majority fall under catagory A or C -- people failing to pick their head up and look around from their narrow vision to see that they might be driving wonderfully but they've taken a wrong turn and that last sign read "BRIDGE OUT".
I think you may have missed the part where Microsoft isn't the one distributing this around, it's P2P! Those losers don't care how much bandwidth they're wasting! And hell, if they get pissed at downloading a file four times as large as is justified by the quality they've purchased, they can spend more money to unlock the higher quality content! IT'S BRILLIANT
That is very different. You're still able to make champagne, you just can't CALL it champagne. It's an agreement to keep things clear. It's no different than US regulations on what can and can't be called bourbon. Or Bordeaux wine. It's simply specifying exactly what can be called what -- down to where it's made. It's not stopping anyone from making something exactly the same somewhere else, or something slightly different. Just have to call it something else.
If Mexico's indeed claiming any image of the ruins in their country are under copyright, um, that's fucked up. If it's an actual photo they're talking about, that's somebody's creation and that's understandable. If it's Aztec imagery entirely, they're extending copyright to a time before copyright existed, and after a few examples where Aztec imagery was used without payment to Mexico -- hey, I bet the Conquistadors made some sketches -- this would be shit on by any sane and reasonable person. Then again the Mexican government is rarely sane or reasonable. As in crazier than America. That's pretty bad.
Which is dropping, and will continue to drop, and more and more people realize what bullshit he signed into law. DMCA, we all love that and love Bill for that, right? NAFTA's been working out great hasn't it? How about shutting down our research on Integral Fast Reactors? That's some future tech shit right there, and it's not like our nuclear tech was lagging behind the rest of the world already thanks to NIMBY-ism, but hey too bad now. GE's got some reactors based on that they're designing/building that should be able to drop right in to a coal plant with just some rerouted pipes and a new control room -- they're eying up China, not America. Ohh, and don't forget the Brady Bill, which did not do anything for crime -- crime rates were lower before, and after, that bill's run.
He also signed that awesome internet decency thing that was destroyed by the SCOTUS pretty quick, a telecom reform act that opened the door for ClearChannel to make you not care to ever listen to the radio again, a Marriage Defense bill that allowed states to forbid same-sex marriages and also defined "marriage", federally, as between a man and a woman.. hey that's cool, right?
Bang-up job, Bill, bang-up job! Pretty much EVERYTHING that man did in office is distasteful to.. well the entire/. mindthink. The man is charismatic, though, to the point where people love him enough to forget all the bad things he's done.
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It's way, way way more than that.
The old HL engine -- at least in Natural Selection, but most likely any game on that engine -- your framerate didn't just effect your gravity (which made it so that at certain framerates you could literally jump further, which meant BHopping was sicker)..
it also changed the DPS of weapons. Yep. Weapon firing rate was tied to FPS in a very very odd way. Some dudes did too much testing. Insane.
And you can, visually, tell a difference between 100fps and 50fps and 25fps. Very easily. Takes a few minutes of playing, but there's a clear difference and anybody saying otherwise eats paint chips.
Graphics don't make games good. Graphics can cripple good games. Graphics never make bad games good.
Yeah uh we already do that. VOLUNTEER army. He wasn't drafted, he SIGNED UP for that shit. He didn't snap because he was being forced to fight Muslims (he was a damn shrink, not a grunt), he snapped because he was CRAZY.
Draw correlations between his religion and being crazy at your own peril..
It's not like some dude named Bill was regularly lambasted for him hammy appeals to emotion. Back in like, 92. Totally never happened. People still to this day don't say things like "for the children" and "i feel your pain" in a poor impression of some guy named Bill in an ironic manner.
Insane judicial bureaucracy? Yes, but not in the way you think!
It would lead to judges serving along-side police, to issue on-the-spot warrants. Eventually, as a money-saving initiative, judges themselves would begin to also handle the duties of the police. We then find ourselves starring in Judge Dredd, and summary executions stop becoming abominable and instead become more akin to winning the lottery. Anything but deal with banter between Rocky and Deuce.
Shareholders have practically zero influence over the operation of any companies except in the very most nebulous indirect way. Shareholders aren't going to stop you from getting fired, OR fire you, but your bosses will if you're causing them headaches.
Hahaha.. you're suggesting that you confront your boss with evidence that he made a wrong decision, and that that evidence is your poor work? That might work, but more likely your boss will see "My policy is working, and this jagoff is sandbagging and throwing a tantrum to get his way, so I'll just have a talk about his dropping work quality and tell him we're concerned about his future with the company if it continues. I AM FUCKING GOD HERE!!"!1!!"
I personally think you took one step too far when you afforded the CoS the respect of referring to them as an organized religion. They're not, catholicism is, there's a huge difference.
I see, so we should change what we say and how we express ourselves depending on the racial composition of the group we are in.
Sounds wonderfully progressive. Perhaps, some day, we may even set up separate facilities for those of different racial backgrounds, so that all may feel free and comfortable amongst those to whom they can express themselves freely!
I almost jumped down your throat about the police not being involved with the Walmart incident, but then I realized the idiots you were referring to were the crowd-folk.
It's not often I see a post that involves police and idiots and doesn't lump them into one catagory
nicotine itself has not ever been found to be carcinogenic. tobacco smoke? sure, sure, but not nicotine. nicotine isn't a safe chemical, it's actually pretty deadly, but there's been nothing to suggest or prove that nicotine, by itself, causes cancer.
True, but idiots somehow surviving their bad choices are an important part of our story. Today it might be "Billy shot heself in the leg scratchin his nuts with his gun", but change a few details around and tomorrow it could be "Billy ran into the collapsing orphanage as it burned and saved everybody". Improbable survival in the face of extreme idiocy and bad choices is key to our survival as a species.
Hell, Canadians worship maple trees and that doesn't make them retarded, why would worshipping corn make Mayans retarded? As the Canadians prove, it's entirely possible to be retarded for reasons unrelated to your vegetative deity of choice.
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[quote]Even if the curriculum is faulty, children at school learn to live along with other people.[/quote] ... that's hardly true, when is the last time you've been inside a school. the only socialization skills learned in schools are "don't do things where you'll get caught and don't mess with people who can hurt you, also the first rule only applies if you or or parents don't raise such a ruckus that the school gives up on disciplining you for doing things wrong because it's too much of a headache for them".
Oh, it also teaches them to play the poor victim as a method for achieving their ends -- because some random kid throwing shit in class and shouting random crap is a BAD KID, but if that kid has ADD or some other "disorder" it's *just not fair* to punish a kid when he couldn't help it! Nevermind that regardless of where we start we all must learn the same shit to function well as a society and exempting some from those lessons merely because they have a harder time learning those lessons will result in... that's right, they don't learn a damned thing.
I did go to public school and got a decent education out of it, but let's not fool ourselves. Schools aren't places of learning. They're not quite jails run by the inmates, but they're not exactly being run by the guards either. Even good schools are poor models for kids to learn socialization skills from, and once you throw bad schools into the mix it's just a joke. What kind of "living with other people" skills are you going to learn in a classroom where even the teacher is fearful for their life because of idiotic students? Looks like the lesson is "if people are scared of me then I can do as I want and they won't stop me -- they'll be scared of me!" What an awesome thing to learn, amirite?
You're right, bureaucracy is better at raising children than parents. I propose that upon birth we remove children from their parents to prevent any untoward beliefs being implanted in their impressionable young minds and hand them over to government-approved guardians who will raise them with government-approved beliefs. Which are infallible. And unbiased.
To answer the question you posed, no, most home schoolers DON'T do it because they're afraid of evil secular concepts. Man, you are a huge fucking bigot, did you know that? That whole concept is just so rife with hatred and prejudice against any form of religion it's appalling. How do you reconcile the fact that the whole scientific and social explosion during the Renaissance was really fueled by the religious? Can you? It certainly seems that in your world, believing in a silly sky monster means that by default you're some kind of Luddite out there teaching kids that the earth is flat and the center of the universe before them evil scientists can rot their brains with secular garbage. That's pretty sad. Both that you paint so broadly the religious as "bad", and that you exempt the rest as "good" -- clearly somebody who isn't religious wouldn't ever homeschool their kids and teach them crazy claptrap like vaccines causing asperger's or chlorine in water being useless for health and instead being simply a way for Big Bad Industry to dump pollutants directly into our drinking water and make money off it. Yeah. No, you're probably right. Totally.
Looting is unfortunate because it contributes to the breakdown of order but in regards to actual morality, it's a far sight from highway robbery. Looters don't need to shoot at anybody to get their stuff, they just walk up and take it -- and most that shit would've been claimed as a loss by the store it was in anyway. You can't sell food that's been through a flood. It's not safe. If you need it, and it is literally going to be tossed into the trash as soon as the rightful owners return, and monetarily makes no difference to the current owner whether they throw it out or you take it.. well it's damn hard to argue against looting in that scenario.
And then you've got highway robbery, where you at the very least have intentions of killing others to take what you need from them. That's actual loss, actual violence. Very different.
It's not even that, really.
I check google news pretty much every day at least once, but it's actually pretty damn rare that there's any headlines that interest me in the slightest.
In other words.. it's not Google's fault that newspapers don't produce interesting content. Half the articles are just rehashes of the same article they put out the day before. Sometimes they'll add the sentence or two of details you can catch during station ID and traffic updates on the radio driving to work/school/nowhere particular.
Why build such a device? .. maybe because punching holes in humans is a lot more awesome than any railgun. Unless it's a planet-shooting railgun. Hmm.
This guy has it, except it's California, not the feds.
and don't quote me on it because I think I read it somewhere online -- and you know how trustworthy the internets is -- that diesel cars in CA have tougher emission standards than gasoline cars. Basically California has decided diesels are dirty and they'll have none of it, excepting where it's absolutely necessarily in heavy-duty vehicles, and even those have pretty tough emission standards from what i understand.
In the battle between clean and efficient, California's put its foot down firmly in "clean", and that's decided it for the rest of the nation too.
[quote]so you start reading and you realize that in 99.999% of cases, you're staring at something that is some combination of:
a) based on a fundamentally broken assumptions (usually never even stated)
b) bad analogies that obfuscate the fact that wheels are being re-invented (usually poorly)
c) narrowly defined special case
d) broken (provably non-optimal optimization routines)[/quote]
Take this, and apply it to $SOMETHINGNEW. It works. Most new ideas are shit, and it's only through the passage of time do we wind up winnowing out that 0.001% enough to actually throw together into a pile called progress. I'd imagine the vast majority fall under catagory A or C -- people failing to pick their head up and look around from their narrow vision to see that they might be driving wonderfully but they've taken a wrong turn and that last sign read "BRIDGE OUT".
(fuck yeah, car/driving analogy!)
I think you may have missed the part where Microsoft isn't the one distributing this around, it's P2P! Those losers don't care how much bandwidth they're wasting! And hell, if they get pissed at downloading a file four times as large as is justified by the quality they've purchased, they can spend more money to unlock the higher quality content! IT'S BRILLIANT
That is very different. You're still able to make champagne, you just can't CALL it champagne. It's an agreement to keep things clear. It's no different than US regulations on what can and can't be called bourbon. Or Bordeaux wine. It's simply specifying exactly what can be called what -- down to where it's made. It's not stopping anyone from making something exactly the same somewhere else, or something slightly different. Just have to call it something else.
If Mexico's indeed claiming any image of the ruins in their country are under copyright, um, that's fucked up. If it's an actual photo they're talking about, that's somebody's creation and that's understandable. If it's Aztec imagery entirely, they're extending copyright to a time before copyright existed, and after a few examples where Aztec imagery was used without payment to Mexico -- hey, I bet the Conquistadors made some sketches -- this would be shit on by any sane and reasonable person. Then again the Mexican government is rarely sane or reasonable. As in crazier than America. That's pretty bad.
Good products... you mean, good for starting pantsfires?
Which is dropping, and will continue to drop, and more and more people realize what bullshit he signed into law. DMCA, we all love that and love Bill for that, right? NAFTA's been working out great hasn't it? How about shutting down our research on Integral Fast Reactors? That's some future tech shit right there, and it's not like our nuclear tech was lagging behind the rest of the world already thanks to NIMBY-ism, but hey too bad now. GE's got some reactors based on that they're designing/building that should be able to drop right in to a coal plant with just some rerouted pipes and a new control room -- they're eying up China, not America. Ohh, and don't forget the Brady Bill, which did not do anything for crime -- crime rates were lower before, and after, that bill's run.
He also signed that awesome internet decency thing that was destroyed by the SCOTUS pretty quick, a telecom reform act that opened the door for ClearChannel to make you not care to ever listen to the radio again, a Marriage Defense bill that allowed states to forbid same-sex marriages and also defined "marriage", federally, as between a man and a woman.. hey that's cool, right?
Bang-up job, Bill, bang-up job! Pretty much EVERYTHING that man did in office is distasteful to.. well the entire /. mindthink. The man is charismatic, though, to the point where people love him enough to forget all the bad things he's done.
It's way, way way more than that.
The old HL engine -- at least in Natural Selection, but most likely any game on that engine -- your framerate didn't just effect your gravity (which made it so that at certain framerates you could literally jump further, which meant BHopping was sicker)..
it also changed the DPS of weapons. Yep. Weapon firing rate was tied to FPS in a very very odd way. Some dudes did too much testing. Insane.
And you can, visually, tell a difference between 100fps and 50fps and 25fps. Very easily. Takes a few minutes of playing, but there's a clear difference and anybody saying otherwise eats paint chips.
Graphics don't make games good. Graphics can cripple good games. Graphics never make bad games good.
Yeah uh we already do that. VOLUNTEER army. He wasn't drafted, he SIGNED UP for that shit. He didn't snap because he was being forced to fight Muslims (he was a damn shrink, not a grunt), he snapped because he was CRAZY.
Draw correlations between his religion and being crazy at your own peril..
Yeah, totally new idea.
It's not like some dude named Bill was regularly lambasted for him hammy appeals to emotion. Back in like, 92. Totally never happened. People still to this day don't say things like "for the children" and "i feel your pain" in a poor impression of some guy named Bill in an ironic manner.
Insane judicial bureaucracy? Yes, but not in the way you think!
It would lead to judges serving along-side police, to issue on-the-spot warrants. Eventually, as a money-saving initiative, judges themselves would begin to also handle the duties of the police. We then find ourselves starring in Judge Dredd, and summary executions stop becoming abominable and instead become more akin to winning the lottery. Anything but deal with banter between Rocky and Deuce.
Shareholders have practically zero influence over the operation of any companies except in the very most nebulous indirect way. Shareholders aren't going to stop you from getting fired, OR fire you, but your bosses will if you're causing them headaches.
Hahaha.. you're suggesting that you confront your boss with evidence that he made a wrong decision, and that that evidence is your poor work? That might work, but more likely your boss will see "My policy is working, and this jagoff is sandbagging and throwing a tantrum to get his way, so I'll just have a talk about his dropping work quality and tell him we're concerned about his future with the company if it continues. I AM FUCKING GOD HERE!!"!1!!"
yeah, bosses be crazy, yo.
I personally think you took one step too far when you afforded the CoS the respect of referring to them as an organized religion. They're not, catholicism is, there's a huge difference.
I see, so we should change what we say and how we express ourselves depending on the racial composition of the group we are in.
Sounds wonderfully progressive. Perhaps, some day, we may even set up separate facilities for those of different racial backgrounds, so that all may feel free and comfortable amongst those to whom they can express themselves freely!
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I almost jumped down your throat about the police not being involved with the Walmart incident, but then I realized the idiots you were referring to were the crowd-folk.
It's not often I see a post that involves police and idiots and doesn't lump them into one catagory
nicotine itself has not ever been found to be carcinogenic. tobacco smoke? sure, sure, but not nicotine. nicotine isn't a safe chemical, it's actually pretty deadly, but there's been nothing to suggest or prove that nicotine, by itself, causes cancer.
True, but idiots somehow surviving their bad choices are an important part of our story. Today it might be "Billy shot heself in the leg scratchin his nuts with his gun", but change a few details around and tomorrow it could be "Billy ran into the collapsing orphanage as it burned and saved everybody". Improbable survival in the face of extreme idiocy and bad choices is key to our survival as a species.
Hell, Canadians worship maple trees and that doesn't make them retarded, why would worshipping corn make Mayans retarded? As the Canadians prove, it's entirely possible to be retarded for reasons unrelated to your vegetative deity of choice.