I suggest the first step in eliminating America's trademark anti-intellectualism is closing all of the public schools where it is taught. Our literacy rates have declined in direct proportion to the amount of state involvement in education.
On-the-fly textbook editing might be on the agenda, but what makes this initiative so retarded is the sheer gimmickry of it.
Think:
Government schools, who cannot teach and indeed have no interest in teaching basic literacy, are buying laptop computers to hand out to the kids.
What do I make of this? It is another distraction intended to waylay semi-literate parents of these public school inmates into thinking it will somehow foster education in some vague... **insert stream of government/corporate obfuscatory marketing buzzwords**...
oh, I'm sorry, what was I saying? I just read this newsletter from the school district talking about this great new program with laptop computers and stuff and it's gonna make my kids so smart and hey, where's my remote and honey isn't there a bag of Doritos in the kitchen somewhere I'm hungry...
NO! Foster an attitude of freedom. I understand that many people believe that Democracy == freedom. This is absolutely false! I would even go as far as to say democracy is incompatible with freedom but that is an argument for another time.
That's the most intelligent thing I've heard all day.
One of Socrates' main arguments was that democracy put power into the hands of the best public speakers, not the most competent or, above all, ethical people.
Two-and-a-half millenia later, the U.S., with it's democracy/rebublic system, is in the hands of the people with the most well-funded public-relations specialists, with predictably tragic results for the multitudes living under their rule.
Actually, the Abrams option isn't as bad as it seems. Just remove the 40-ton turret. Maintainance requirements are reduced, and you get a substantial boost to performance and gas mileage. This option is not without drawbacks, namely a lack of weaponry and turret crew to keep the driver company on long road trips.
Unfortunately, you are correct. There will always be a rich, deeply antisocial faction that will plot relentlessly to make the whole world conform to their own inner hell. They're like an undead army of soulless megalomaniacs. Cartoon supervillains.
The question we humans must answer is to what degree we will tolerate their criminal schemes. I say we exile them to a barren island and let them prey on each other.
Pardon me. I should have indicated in my initial post that the observed rate of change in Saturn's rotation was on the order of seven minutes per day since the initial readings by the Voyager probes thirty years ago. That is too significant a change to be accounted for by Saturn's moons. That is why the phenomenon is difficult for astronomers to understand.
Ha ha. That would take many, many slingshots in order to have any perceptible effect on Saturn's rotation.
If it is indeed true that Saturn's rotation is slowing, then something very strange is happening with that planet.
The only thing a not especially well-educated person like me can make of this observation is that there is mass migrating upward from Saturn's core, thereby slowing the rotation down. Then again, there are the physicists who posit the existence of strange "hyperdimensional" effects to account for the Saturn behavior.
Don't forget about these people. Skyramps were Werner von Braun's original idea for putting things into orbit. Arrayed against him were the USAF, who favored vertically-launched rockets because they could quickly be fired off in annihillating volleys at the Soviets, and probably the rocket manufacturers themselves, who stood to make far more money from vertical-launch than from von Braun's more efficient method.
Check out the site. It's full of fascinating stuff.
You are wrong. I've seen that raising fines or penalties doesn't lower the crimes. What lower the crimes is when you know that you are going to be caught regardless. If you know there is a big posibility of nothing happening to you, then you will do anything that is ilegal. If every crime is being punished and nobody is learning not to do it, then you can raise the fine/penalty.
So perhaps instead of raising fines, people should raise their level of consciousness. Conscious people abide by just laws. The majority of people are far from "conscious."
Unfortunately, your reasoning is correct. But Wal-Mart and the state would anticipate such a contingency as property owners resisting their advance by force of arms.
That's why they would use real cops armed with automatic weapons, both for the obvious intimidation value and the potential political windfall of a martyred "public servant," that is, a cop killed by one of the evictees.
In any case, somebody killed whilst participating in such banditry is getting their just desserts, regardless of their affiliation.
Hear hear. This is a ruling that any principled person, "conservative" or "liberal," should despise. I, for one, am getting seriously pissed about this parade of outrages from the state.
Eminent domain for wealthy private interests is nothing other than a social program for wealthy criminals. That the American state would have the nerve to codify in such a brazen manner the most basic tenet of the elite--"might makes right"--is truly a disgusting sign of the times we live in. May it serve as a wake-up call to the common people.
I don't know precisely how this forced march to serfdom will end, but it is not going to be pretty. I'm envisioning scenes like that of the bulldozed squatter camp in They Live.
KOffice is lightweight, but perhaps a lightweight office suite is good enough for most people. Another way to consider the relationship between the two suites is to say that KOffice helps keep OOo lean.
Clinton should have said "how dare you ask me that question?" and then left the room.
I think Clinton's strategy for handling the Lewinsky hearing was masterful. Think about it: he appears on TV, made-up to look as bedraggled as possible, knowing full well that if he appears tired and humiliated he will inevitably evoke the sympathy of his audience. He sat through it all and the strategy worked.
Don't get me wrong; Clinton was as amoral a president as the U.S. has ever had but his skill as a pure politician, and by that I mean "a totally unscrupulous public speaker," was unmatched. The guy is a political genius.
Comedians are often the most deadly serious people in society because they point out, albeit in a humorous fashion, a lot of the things we're too complacent or hypocritical to see in ourselves. Want to hear a funny "joke" to illustrate this principle in action?
Here is an old Arab proverb that goes something like this:
"Five percent of the people think. Ten percent of the people think they think. And eighty-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
I chuckled the first time I heard that one, as clearly the saying was coined with humor in mind. So it's a joke, right? Or is it an accurate assessment of the way human society functions? Or is it both?
Perhaps you think all those comedians are trivial clowns with nothing important to say, but I respectfully disagree.
While everyone is looking, and we constantly hear about these magic bullets that can target cancer but leave everything else intact, the truth is that we have the same options against cancer that we have had for decades -- killing large numbers of cells (cancerous or not) using surgery, radiation, or chemcials.
Do a Google search for "IP6." It's a substance found in a number of food crops. Check this guy's website for the article. Sardi is one of that rare breed called "the anti-AMA doctor."
The AMA and the pharmacutical companies are full of shit. When insitutions like these become sufficiently corrupt, they become fixated upon maintaining their priveliged position in society rather than upholding their stated purpose.
Nobody's mentioned PC Linux OS. That's the only distro I've used that has ever configured sound correctly on boot. It rivals Mepis and Ubuntu for refinement and ease of use.
Sounds like bad portion control. Upper management, as in "the guys who drive around enforcing uniformity among franchisees," would not be happy with that, I suspect. But this is an instance where the workers have the right idea putting service first and giving people lots of sauce. The packets are cheap. It's stuff like taco meat and vegetables that cost an arm and a leg.
If the packets are so damned expensive that Taco Bell is losing money on them by providing them in adequate quantities, then they need to raise their prices and focus on providing a better "total experience" to the customer. In the simplest terms, that means associating a warm, fuzzy feeling in the minds of customers with the act of dining at their establishment.
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I suggest the first step in eliminating America's trademark anti-intellectualism is closing all of the public schools where it is taught. Our literacy rates have declined in direct proportion to the amount of state involvement in education.
Think:
Government schools, who cannot teach and indeed have no interest in teaching basic literacy, are buying laptop computers to hand out to the kids.
What do I make of this? It is another distraction intended to waylay semi-literate parents of these public school inmates into thinking it will somehow foster education in some vague... **insert stream of government/corporate obfuscatory marketing buzzwords** ...
oh, I'm sorry, what was I saying? I just read this newsletter from the school district talking about this great new program with laptop computers and stuff and it's gonna make my kids so smart and hey, where's my remote and honey isn't there a bag of Doritos in the kitchen somewhere I'm hungry...
That's the most intelligent thing I've heard all day.
One of Socrates' main arguments was that democracy put power into the hands of the best public speakers, not the most competent or, above all, ethical people.
Two-and-a-half millenia later, the U.S., with it's democracy/rebublic system, is in the hands of the people with the most well-funded public-relations specialists, with predictably tragic results for the multitudes living under their rule.
And her vagina dispenses vanilla ice cream.
Dude, you forgot the umlaut.
Actually, the Abrams option isn't as bad as it seems. Just remove the 40-ton turret. Maintainance requirements are reduced, and you get a substantial boost to performance and gas mileage. This option is not without drawbacks, namely a lack of weaponry and turret crew to keep the driver company on long road trips.
The question we humans must answer is to what degree we will tolerate their criminal schemes. I say we exile them to a barren island and let them prey on each other.
Only if you tolerate it.
It's just framebait, that's all.
Pardon me. I should have indicated in my initial post that the observed rate of change in Saturn's rotation was on the order of seven minutes per day since the initial readings by the Voyager probes thirty years ago. That is too significant a change to be accounted for by Saturn's moons. That is why the phenomenon is difficult for astronomers to understand.
If it is indeed true that Saturn's rotation is slowing, then something very strange is happening with that planet.
The only thing a not especially well-educated person like me can make of this observation is that there is mass migrating upward from Saturn's core, thereby slowing the rotation down. Then again, there are the physicists who posit the existence of strange "hyperdimensional" effects to account for the Saturn behavior.
Check out the site. It's full of fascinating stuff.
So perhaps instead of raising fines, people should raise their level of consciousness. Conscious people abide by just laws. The majority of people are far from "conscious."
Don't forget boomsticks.
That's why they would use real cops armed with automatic weapons, both for the obvious intimidation value and the potential political windfall of a martyred "public servant," that is, a cop killed by one of the evictees.
In any case, somebody killed whilst participating in such banditry is getting their just desserts, regardless of their affiliation.
They almost always have an agenda beyond interpreting the law.
Eminent domain for wealthy private interests is nothing other than a social program for wealthy criminals. That the American state would have the nerve to codify in such a brazen manner the most basic tenet of the elite--"might makes right"--is truly a disgusting sign of the times we live in. May it serve as a wake-up call to the common people.
I don't know precisely how this forced march to serfdom will end, but it is not going to be pretty. I'm envisioning scenes like that of the bulldozed squatter camp in They Live.
KOffice is lightweight, but perhaps a lightweight office suite is good enough for most people. Another way to consider the relationship between the two suites is to say that KOffice helps keep OOo lean.
It's a Puritan thing. Puritans are obsessed with sex. Obsessed. They fear it and hate it, but most of all, they hate themselves for enjoying it.
I think Clinton's strategy for handling the Lewinsky hearing was masterful. Think about it: he appears on TV, made-up to look as bedraggled as possible, knowing full well that if he appears tired and humiliated he will inevitably evoke the sympathy of his audience. He sat through it all and the strategy worked.
Don't get me wrong; Clinton was as amoral a president as the U.S. has ever had but his skill as a pure politician, and by that I mean "a totally unscrupulous public speaker," was unmatched. The guy is a political genius.
Here is an old Arab proverb that goes something like this:
"Five percent of the people think. Ten percent of the people think they think. And eighty-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
I chuckled the first time I heard that one, as clearly the saying was coined with humor in mind. So it's a joke, right? Or is it an accurate assessment of the way human society functions? Or is it both?
Perhaps you think all those comedians are trivial clowns with nothing important to say, but I respectfully disagree.
Do a Google search for "IP6." It's a substance found in a number of food crops. Check this guy's website for the article. Sardi is one of that rare breed called "the anti-AMA doctor."
The AMA and the pharmacutical companies are full of shit. When insitutions like these become sufficiently corrupt, they become fixated upon maintaining their priveliged position in society rather than upholding their stated purpose.
Nobody's mentioned PC Linux OS. That's the only distro I've used that has ever configured sound correctly on boot. It rivals Mepis and Ubuntu for refinement and ease of use.
If the packets are so damned expensive that Taco Bell is losing money on them by providing them in adequate quantities, then they need to raise their prices and focus on providing a better "total experience" to the customer. In the simplest terms, that means associating a warm, fuzzy feeling in the minds of customers with the act of dining at their establishment.
More than one restauranteur (using the term loosely) has told me that they make more per serving on fountain drinks than anything else on the menu.