Exactly. Just like people who are driving vehicles over ten years old. They've reached their end of life. The manufacturer is no longer supporting them. Go get a new car, or at least a recent used one.
Money is free so there's no problem continually buying something new.
how come during the election season Obama said, flat-out and public, that there was no interference going on and that everything was fine?
Two reasons. A) it would have created confusion and panic in our voting system as to whether votes were being correctly recorded (with electronic voting we don't know, but that's another issue) and B) it would have given another excuse for the con artist to claim the election was being rigged (though you'll note he never said which way it was being rigged).
but it's damned odd that it only became a concern for the Obama administration after Clinton ended up the loser.
No it's not. It was a concern since they called Moscow directly to let them know we knew what they were doing. Similar to above, had Obama said anything about Russia interfering with the election it would have been seen as an excuse and would have given more fire to the con artist's delusions about the election being rigged.
would we even be hearing about any of this, or would the response from the MSM be a demand that the complainers remove their tinfoil chapeaus?
Yes, we would have, because since Hillary would have been president, the same Republican-led House and Senate which are running interference for the con artist over the current Russia investigations, would have spared no expense to get to the bottom of what happened. They would have used it to claim her presidency wasn't legitimate or it was tainted, neither of which they are doing now. They would be digging as deep as possible to find every scrap of information regarding Russia's interference, the exact opposite of what they are doing now where many members are saying it's no big deal and the investigations should be dropped.
Adama flew Laura Roslin in a Raptor. He parked it near a place where he carried her up a hill then sat with her and told her all about the home he would build for them.
Just understanding the laws of physics gives any STEM grad a huge advantage over a liberal arts students in bullshit detection.
Because those physicists who search for elusive particles and then say, "Isn't God grand?" aren't spewing bullshit.
Critical thinking in liberal arts schools is just another indoctrination. Test is how well they agree with the teachers opinions.
Except the opposite is true. Those who graduate from liberal arts schools, on the whole, have better critical thinking skills than do those who graduate from professional or vocational schools. You'll note this study is from 2011.
From a few years ago: the survey reveals that 74 percent of business and nonprofit leaders say they would recommend a twenty-first century liberal education to a young person they know in order to prepare for long-term professional success in today's global economy.
A bit more recent: DePauw University President Brian Casey recently argued in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that liberal arts graduates have the creativity and critical thinking skills that today's employers need.
When managers and employers are asked to identify what traits they want in employees, "without fail they almost perfectly describe liberal-arts graduates," says Casey. "They want people who are creative, who can deal with complexity, who can think for themselves, [and] work with other folks," he adds.
And finally, from August of last year: Experts agree that technical skills can be taught much more easily than soft skills. If you have workers with great communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills, hold onto them. "You can have the best technology and processes in the world, but if your people aren't able to communicate about them, if they aren't effectively demonstrating teamwork, critical thinking and emotional intelligence, it doesn't help your business succeed," King says.
Those kinds of skills always have been emphasized in liberal arts education, and nowadays even technology-focused programs and institutions are integrating these tenets into their curriculum, says PK Agarwal, CEO and regional Dean, Northeastern University Silicon Valley (NUSV).
it is YOU who is a small-minded SJW bigot who would suppress free speech
No one is suppressing "free speech". These idiots are free to spout their nonsense all they want. No one is stopping them.
but in the US the constitution protects free speech and the truest test of free speech is whether you
would allow a person to express opinions you detest.
Again, no one is prohibiting these idiots from saying what they want. Not Harvard, not Facebook, not anyone. They can continue to spout off as much as they want.
adults understand that it's acceptable when other people embrace beliefs with which they disagree.
I'm sure white supremacists such as Steve Bannon have wholeheartedly stepped up and adopted this stance.
Or, maybe you will always be a bigoted SJW prick
So calling out people who deny the holocaust or make fun of people being raped is now a social justice issue? We're not allowed to call them out on their idiocy and assholeness?
hope someone kicks your teeth in some day when you try to tell them what to say and think.
And there's the strawman. For the third time, no one has told these people they can't say what they want or believe what they want. All that is happened is Harvard has said they're not the kind of people they want to represent them as future alumni. These assholes are free to spout their views as much as they want, and people are free to judge them on those comments. Actions have consequences.
Such as yours, wishing harm to come to people for something which isn't even on topic. The nice thing about freedom of speech is it reveals to the world the true nature of an individual. Such as you. We can all tell what kind of person you are, and judge you for it, yet no one here is preventing from showing your true colors.
It isn't like those metals are harmful to living organisms or anything./sarc
Since the canisters will be released about 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the ground, the space agency says they "pose absolutely no hazard to residents along the mid-Atlantic coast."
When a person is "unmasked" so law enforcement (i.e. the National Security Advisor) can get a better understanding of who is colluding with a foreign government to undermine the U.S. election or government, that's horrible. But when law enforcement (i.e. police) wants to know who is calling in a bomb threat, that's acceptable?
The unraveling of the denials begins. This is the exact same process Putin used when Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine. For months Putin denied Russian troops had been sent in to steal the land. Denial after denial was given.
Then, miraculously, Putin admitted he ordered Russian troops to seize the land. The excuse he used was those Russian troops were "helping" the Crimean sefl-defense forces. And by helping he means the Russian troops were doing the dirty work.
So now the excuse of "patriotic" Russians doing the hacking is being tossed out. What patriotism? Is he now admitting they were helping Trump win the election? That would be an interesting admission since he's denied any Russian meddling in the election despite the overwhelming evidence.
If the con artist does withdraw from the accord we'll be cozy neighbors with Nicaragua and Syria, both of whom are not parties to the accord.
How wonderful is that? We'll be at the same level as a Muslim dictator. At least Nicaragua had a reason not to agree: they didn't feel the accord went far enough.
we could end up with large numbers people starving
Simple solution. Stop having so many babies. Let the population decline until it stabilizes at a point where there are enough people to fill the jobs with a little slack left over.
That's what happens in the wild. When too many animals are born and there isn't enough food to sustain them, the population dies off until it reaches equilibrium with its environment.
Humans should be no different. Reducing the human population would also have side benefits such as less waste, less resource usage, less overall destruction of our environment. It would also reduce the number of unemployed because with a smaller population, classroom size would also be smaller, thus allowing for more personalized education instead of the cookie cutter approach we have now.
The standard of living should also rise because with a smaller number of people available to fill the open jobs, employers would have to pay higher salaries to attract the people they want. Inflation would also rise, but not at a rate sufficient to offset the gain in salaries. Something lacking in this country for at least the past twenty-five years.
Which has squat all to do with giving his money to other people now so they can have a basic income.
I'm glad they are all going to give their wealth to charities once they have they passed on. More people should do it. The point is Zuck says everyone else should be forced to hand over their money so others don't have to work yet is unwilling to lead by example.
If he thinks it's such a great idea then he can remove his wealth from the trust it's hiding in to avoid paying taxes and start distributing it now, or pay the taxes on his wealth which will then be used to provide the seed money for this basic income.
Never ask someone to do something you won't do yourself. That applies to every situation.
I thought this is supposed to be free. Built by the sweat and tears of volunteers. Why would they need funding if it's free? We're told software (and by extension, music) doesn't cost anything which is why "sharing" (with 100 million of your "friends") doesn't cost companies anything.
That means travel, hotels, restaurants, and the cost of whatever it is you are traveling to
Let's use my recent examples. I've taken a few one week vacations over the last year or so, and during that time it's cost me roughly $1,200 for each trip. That's everything from hotels, eating out, travel (gas money) as well as entrance fees to wherever and miscellaneous.
Some of what I visit is free in the sense my taxes have already paid for it, but everything else comes out of my pocket. If I can spend that little for an entire week's vacation and still have a great time, saying people are spending almost twice that over a weekend, even with kids, is a shining example of why people don't have money saved for retirement.
That's only in the U.S. where diesel vehicles (still) throw out clouds of black smoke. In Europe they mandated cleaner burning diesel which resolved that issue.
It's the same thing with higher mileage vehicles in Europe. American car manufacturers make vehicles which meet those higher requirements without issue. It's only in the U.S. where they fight tooth and nail to prevent the same thing from happening.
"There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts."
When "alternative facts" are said to be true because they're declared to be true, when vaccines are once again said to cause autism, when the settled science of climate change is used as the reason to build a sea wall around a golf course while at the same time declared to be fiction concocted by a foreign government, it is quite clear the manipulation of the uneducated is the end goal.
This whole debacle of declaring untrue what is patently true is a page taken right out of Putin's playbook. Lie, lie, deny and make the other person appear to be the one who has to prove anything despite the overwhelming evidence already presented.
Yes, it is. Any private company has the right to refuse service/entry to anyone they feel like. Casinos are ones who most use this. They can deny anyone access to their property for any reason.
Even though the casino, or grocery store, or mall or anything else is "open to the public", it is still private property and the owners/managers get to determine who can and cannot come on to that property.
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Perhaps even one of them might have been a security risk.
Being an intelligent (young) woman is most decidedly a threat. We can't have women being involved in the sciences and showing up the men.
The con artist doesn't like intelligent women. That's why they were denied entry to this country.
pretty much the only thing he actually delivered was to start deporting illegal immigrants.
And he's failing at that as well. He promised that in the first hour of him assuming power, he would deport millions of illegals.
Did you hear anything about that happening? No? Huh. How about that. He lied about that as well.
Exactly. Just like people who are driving vehicles over ten years old. They've reached their end of life. The manufacturer is no longer supporting them. Go get a new car, or at least a recent used one.
Money is free so there's no problem continually buying something new.
how come during the election season Obama said, flat-out and public, that there was no interference going on and that everything was fine?
Two reasons. A) it would have created confusion and panic in our voting system as to whether votes were being correctly recorded (with electronic voting we don't know, but that's another issue) and B) it would have given another excuse for the con artist to claim the election was being rigged (though you'll note he never said which way it was being rigged).
but it's damned odd that it only became a concern for the Obama administration after Clinton ended up the loser.
No it's not. It was a concern since they called Moscow directly to let them know we knew what they were doing. Similar to above, had Obama said anything about Russia interfering with the election it would have been seen as an excuse and would have given more fire to the con artist's delusions about the election being rigged.
would we even be hearing about any of this, or would the response from the MSM be a demand that the complainers remove their tinfoil chapeaus?
Yes, we would have, because since Hillary would have been president, the same Republican-led House and Senate which are running interference for the con artist over the current Russia investigations, would have spared no expense to get to the bottom of what happened. They would have used it to claim her presidency wasn't legitimate or it was tainted, neither of which they are doing now. They would be digging as deep as possible to find every scrap of information regarding Russia's interference, the exact opposite of what they are doing now where many members are saying it's no big deal and the investigations should be dropped.
Raptor? I thought it was a Viper.
Adama flew Laura Roslin in a Raptor. He parked it near a place where he carried her up a hill then sat with her and told her all about the home he would build for them.
And yes, I know you're joking.
Just understanding the laws of physics gives any STEM grad a huge advantage over a liberal arts students in bullshit detection.
Because those physicists who search for elusive particles and then say, "Isn't God grand?" aren't spewing bullshit.
Critical thinking in liberal arts schools is just another indoctrination. Test is how well they agree with the teachers opinions.
Except the opposite is true. Those who graduate from liberal arts schools, on the whole, have better critical thinking skills than do those who graduate from professional or vocational schools. You'll note this study is from 2011.
From a few years ago: the survey reveals that 74 percent of business and nonprofit leaders say they would recommend a twenty-first century liberal education to a young person they know in order to prepare for long-term professional success in today's global economy.
A bit more recent: DePauw University President Brian Casey recently argued in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that liberal arts graduates have the creativity and critical thinking skills that today's employers need.
When managers and employers are asked to identify what traits they want in employees, "without fail they almost perfectly describe liberal-arts graduates," says Casey. "They want people who are creative, who can deal with complexity, who can think for themselves, [and] work with other folks," he adds.
And finally, from August of last year: Experts agree that technical skills can be taught much more easily than soft skills. If you have workers with great communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills, hold onto them. "You can have the best technology and processes in the world, but if your people aren't able to communicate about them, if they aren't effectively demonstrating teamwork, critical thinking and emotional intelligence, it doesn't help your business succeed," King says.
Those kinds of skills always have been emphasized in liberal arts education, and nowadays even technology-focused programs and institutions are integrating these tenets into their curriculum, says PK Agarwal, CEO and regional Dean, Northeastern University Silicon Valley (NUSV).
Sooo, speaking of bullshit detector.
Looks like she was just another one of the Obama logic-bomb employees.
No, she was another of the many incompetents in this administration. She was hired on February 13th. Guess who was in the White House on that day?
it is YOU who is a small-minded SJW bigot who would suppress free speech
No one is suppressing "free speech". These idiots are free to spout their nonsense all they want. No one is stopping them.
but in the US the constitution protects free speech and the truest test of free speech is whether you would allow a person to express opinions you detest.
Again, no one is prohibiting these idiots from saying what they want. Not Harvard, not Facebook, not anyone. They can continue to spout off as much as they want.
adults understand that it's acceptable when other people embrace beliefs with which they disagree.
I'm sure white supremacists such as Steve Bannon have wholeheartedly stepped up and adopted this stance.
Or, maybe you will always be a bigoted SJW prick
So calling out people who deny the holocaust or make fun of people being raped is now a social justice issue? We're not allowed to call them out on their idiocy and assholeness?
hope someone kicks your teeth in some day when you try to tell them what to say and think.
And there's the strawman. For the third time, no one has told these people they can't say what they want or believe what they want. All that is happened is Harvard has said they're not the kind of people they want to represent them as future alumni. These assholes are free to spout their views as much as they want, and people are free to judge them on those comments. Actions have consequences.
Such as yours, wishing harm to come to people for something which isn't even on topic. The nice thing about freedom of speech is it reveals to the world the true nature of an individual. Such as you. We can all tell what kind of person you are, and judge you for it, yet no one here is preventing from showing your true colors.
"But you see, Evolution can't be right because. . ."
"No, you're wrong. We've gone over this dozens of times before."
"Well then, there's this which means. . ."
"No, it doesn't. You're wrong again. I just explained why you're wrong."
"But that doesn't include this which. . ."
"Yes, it does. You're wrong. Get over it. You're plain, flat out wrong. Nothing you say makes sense. All of it's been shown to be false."
"Nuh uh. I still have. . . . my imagination."
It isn't like those metals are harmful to living organisms or anything. /sarc
Since the canisters will be released about 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the ground, the space agency says they "pose absolutely no hazard to residents along the mid-Atlantic coast."
When a person is "unmasked" so law enforcement (i.e. the National Security Advisor) can get a better understanding of who is colluding with a foreign government to undermine the U.S. election or government, that's horrible. But when law enforcement (i.e. police) wants to know who is calling in a bomb threat, that's acceptable?
The hypocrisy runs deep.
The unraveling of the denials begins. This is the exact same process Putin used when Russia stole Crimea from Ukraine. For months Putin denied Russian troops had been sent in to steal the land. Denial after denial was given.
Then, miraculously, Putin admitted he ordered Russian troops to seize the land. The excuse he used was those Russian troops were "helping" the Crimean sefl-defense forces. And by helping he means the Russian troops were doing the dirty work.
So now the excuse of "patriotic" Russians doing the hacking is being tossed out. What patriotism? Is he now admitting they were helping Trump win the election? That would be an interesting admission since he's denied any Russian meddling in the election despite the overwhelming evidence.
If the con artist does withdraw from the accord we'll be cozy neighbors with Nicaragua and Syria, both of whom are not parties to the accord.
How wonderful is that? We'll be at the same level as a Muslim dictator. At least Nicaragua had a reason not to agree: they didn't feel the accord went far enough.
we could end up with large numbers people starving
Simple solution. Stop having so many babies. Let the population decline until it stabilizes at a point where there are enough people to fill the jobs with a little slack left over.
That's what happens in the wild. When too many animals are born and there isn't enough food to sustain them, the population dies off until it reaches equilibrium with its environment.
Humans should be no different. Reducing the human population would also have side benefits such as less waste, less resource usage, less overall destruction of our environment. It would also reduce the number of unemployed because with a smaller population, classroom size would also be smaller, thus allowing for more personalized education instead of the cookie cutter approach we have now.
The standard of living should also rise because with a smaller number of people available to fill the open jobs, employers would have to pay higher salaries to attract the people they want. Inflation would also rise, but not at a rate sufficient to offset the gain in salaries. Something lacking in this country for at least the past twenty-five years.
Which has squat all to do with giving his money to other people now so they can have a basic income.
I'm glad they are all going to give their wealth to charities once they have they passed on. More people should do it. The point is Zuck says everyone else should be forced to hand over their money so others don't have to work yet is unwilling to lead by example.
If he thinks it's such a great idea then he can remove his wealth from the trust it's hiding in to avoid paying taxes and start distributing it now, or pay the taxes on his wealth which will then be used to provide the seed money for this basic income.
Never ask someone to do something you won't do yourself. That applies to every situation.
Zuckerberg wants a universal income, he can hand over his own money to set the example.
What? He's not going to voluntarily give up his billions so others can have a basic income? How strange.
Are any of the whiners actually aware of the ethnic conflict behind sunnis and shiites?
No, because Sunni and Shiite aren't ethnicities. They're religious entities.
But keep up the trolling. We have plenty of Russian trolls on here, might as well get some Middle Eastern ones as well.
Just look at all the domestic spying that has been uncovered, admitted to, and simply resumed without anything being done about it.
You mean the domestic spying which got its real start when Bush forced telecom companies to install equipment which allowed the government to listen in on every phone call without a warrant? That he admitted to signing the executive orders and which were subsequently found to be illegal? Who then went and expanded the program?
You mean those hacks who kept saying over and over it's for our protection, that the right to privacy no longer exists?
I thought this is supposed to be free. Built by the sweat and tears of volunteers. Why would they need funding if it's free? We're told software (and by extension, music) doesn't cost anything which is why "sharing" (with 100 million of your "friends") doesn't cost companies anything.
That means travel, hotels, restaurants, and the cost of whatever it is you are traveling to
Let's use my recent examples. I've taken a few one week vacations over the last year or so, and during that time it's cost me roughly $1,200 for each trip. That's everything from hotels, eating out, travel (gas money) as well as entrance fees to wherever and miscellaneous.
Some of what I visit is free in the sense my taxes have already paid for it, but everything else comes out of my pocket. If I can spend that little for an entire week's vacation and still have a great time, saying people are spending almost twice that over a weekend, even with kids, is a shining example of why people don't have money saved for retirement.
That's only in the U.S. where diesel vehicles (still) throw out clouds of black smoke. In Europe they mandated cleaner burning diesel which resolved that issue.
It's the same thing with higher mileage vehicles in Europe. American car manufacturers make vehicles which meet those higher requirements without issue. It's only in the U.S. where they fight tooth and nail to prevent the same thing from happening.
How many of those papers are owned by Rupert Murdoch?
And that's the problem with Linux. You spend more time fiddling with settings to get something to work than you do getting work done
"There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts."
When "alternative facts" are said to be true because they're declared to be true, when vaccines are once again said to cause autism, when the settled science of climate change is used as the reason to build a sea wall around a golf course while at the same time declared to be fiction concocted by a foreign government, it is quite clear the manipulation of the uneducated is the end goal.
This whole debacle of declaring untrue what is patently true is a page taken right out of Putin's playbook. Lie, lie, deny and make the other person appear to be the one who has to prove anything despite the overwhelming evidence already presented.
Which is not a right.
Yes, it is. Any private company has the right to refuse service/entry to anyone they feel like. Casinos are ones who most use this. They can deny anyone access to their property for any reason.
Even though the casino, or grocery store, or mall or anything else is "open to the public", it is still private property and the owners/managers get to determine who can and cannot come on to that property.