Check out the Basic Stamp from Parallax. There are kits that use it to teach logic, programming, electricity/electronics, etc. Price is good (radio shack has the whole kit for $79 bucks - it's called the "What's a microcontroller" and it comes with everything you need to do a bunch of nifty experiments).
User forum support is pretty good too: http://www.parallax.com/
Dan
That is a generalization. It is the very _definition_ of a generalization, because of the vague language used in the poster's quote. Saying "black communitites" and "same statistical difference" is completely generalized and stereotyping. I work with "some" black people who have a MUCH better education and make MUCH more money than me. Think carefully when you back up somebody's previous generalization.
It would be totally different if the person had said SOME black communities, because that is a subset of "black communities". This isn't the part I was refering to as being racist, but it is anyway. It points the finger at black communities on the whole, which from the statement I gather are composed of "black people", and lumps them all into one socio-economic situation. That's racist because it's sterotyping based on race. Period.
I agree with your second paragraph to a degree, you worded it much better than the first poster did. But you generalize again when you say, "all blacks want the same things".
Given that there is a good statistical probablility that some black people voted for Bush while others voted for Kerry, I'd say your logic is probably flawed - in fact at work today I sat down with two ladies, both black, and listened to them discuss politics. After listening I can tell you that they don't want the same thing.
What you and I probably agree on is that there are many PEOPLE (note I don't denote race here) that are well below the average standards of living here in the US.
Let's try and work together for individuals and families - let's leave the colors behind. "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you."
When I see kids playing, I don't see black kids, I see kids. When I see an older lady I don't see an older black lady, just an older lady. Break out of the box. We need to come together, to help each other. Our leaders haven't done a good job at uniting Americans. We are all brothers and sisters.
Yep, all the "urban centers" is where everyone who works for Microsoft, Dow, GM, Ford, IBM etc were born right?
None of those people were born or raised outside of an "urban center".
Well golly gee whiz mister we don't got the technical stuff you all got but if you don't shut yer trap we'll stop growin yer FOOD you stupid fuck! oh that's right, I'm sure it can be grown on a skyscraper some where. You've got all the answers.
So, those ad campaigns are morally objectionable to you, huh?
"Canada - legal music copying since 1998"
Pretty moral there buddy. Probably got a satellite dish hanging out back too, right? I can see you are proud enough of your "morals" to include them in your sig. Yep, slavery used to be legal too.
FYI - there's a thing called a "remote" that can change channels and mute your TV. You ought to try it sometime. Call me and I'll help you figure out how to use it.
"It's sad that these pukes are so ingorant of any sort of marality that they think it's right and moral to force people at gunpoint to have children they can not support and it's also good to murder thousands of innocent people on a basis of lies."
Dude are you on FUCKING crack?
"force people at gunpoint to have children"
Are you trying to say that abortion is moral and anti-abortion is immoral?
WHO MADE THE CHOICE TO HAVE SEX? WHO'S RESPONSIBILITY IS THAT? DO I HAVE TO WIPE YOUR ASS FOR YOU? TAKE **RESPONSIBLITY** FOR YOUR ACTIONS! DON'T KILL **INNOCENT** LIFE BECAUSE YOU HAD SEX AND DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
When did you get access to Langley computers? YOU MUST BE GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT IS TRUE AND WHAT IS LIE, HUH? You know better than anyone, it's a fact, you have evidence, empiracle. Go ahead and post it to the CNN site if what you say is true, it's all lies. You sound so sure of yourself, you must have proof.
SADDAM KILLED 400,000 PEOPLE BECAUSE HE COULD!! 400,000!!!! WHOS THE FUCKING CRIMINAL HERE? DO YOU HATE IRAQI'S? YOU'D RATHER THAT THEY STILL HAVE A MANAICAL DICK WITH TEETH RULING THEM?
"It's a lot easier to be worried about white church issues when you don't have to worry about putting food on the table. Mississippi has a poverty rate approaching 20% whereas the national average is nearly half that for all races but 23% nationally for blacks. Quite frankly, it's also the reason I think hypocrite whenever I hear white folks getting all uppity about "values" when black communities are still stuck with the same statistical difference on lifespan, education, home ownership and business ownership, infant mortality that they've always had with white people."
Dude, your above statement is a racist generalization. Lumping "White Folks" or "Blacks" together when making blanket statments is the definition of a stereotype. Next are you gonna say that white folks can't dance and black people love chicken?
_PEOPLE_ are concerned about things that are important to them - it doesn't matter what color they are.
The people who have to _distinguish_ the color are the ones with the problem. Every person is an individual. When the whole world starts to think like that, we won't have a need for the word "Racist".
Do all Black people want the same thing? That's what it sounds like when you say, "Only Washington DC has a higher concentration of black folks (61%, no wonder they can't get representation in Congress".
I didn't realize that Black people were a new Borg Collective! Support all people, rich, poor, from any background. Promote that.
This has to do with the Bible being the "inerrant word of God".
Either you believe the bible is mostly right, completely right, somewhat right, or not right. Believing in evolution means that you believe the bible is not "completely right" - that it's not a fact, it's a story.
That's a slippery slope to go down. If it's not right in one area how are we to know when it is in another area? That's the human's problem, that we can depend on ourselves and our own judgement.
Speak to someone who really really knows ancient hebrew to see what he/she thinks the Creation in Genesis means. Then decide.
Dan
Hi Mark - I'm a fan of Ubuntu, thanks for sponsoring it.
My question is this: Do you have any plans or ideas about the future of higher level managed languages on the Linux desktop? Specifically either.Net, Java, or a homegrown equivalent? I remember there was some talk of this a while back, and I'm really excited to think of how having a portable higher level language with a very large installed developer base might speed application development on OSS.
Thanks for your time,
Dan
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Check out the Basic Stamp from Parallax. There are kits that use it to teach logic, programming, electricity/electronics, etc. Price is good (radio shack has the whole kit for $79 bucks - it's called the "What's a microcontroller" and it comes with everything you need to do a bunch of nifty experiments). User forum support is pretty good too: http://www.parallax.com/ Dan
That is a generalization. It is the very _definition_ of a generalization, because of the vague language used in the poster's quote. Saying "black communitites" and "same statistical difference" is completely generalized and stereotyping. I work with "some" black people who have a MUCH better education and make MUCH more money than me. Think carefully when you back up somebody's previous generalization.
It would be totally different if the person had said SOME black communities, because that is a subset of "black communities". This isn't the part I was refering to as being racist, but it is anyway. It points the finger at black communities on the whole, which from the statement I gather are composed of "black people", and lumps them all into one socio-economic situation. That's racist because it's sterotyping based on race. Period.
I agree with your second paragraph to a degree, you worded it much better than the first poster did. But you generalize again when you say, "all blacks want the same things".
Given that there is a good statistical probablility that some black people voted for Bush while others voted for Kerry, I'd say your logic is probably flawed - in fact at work today I sat down with two ladies, both black, and listened to them discuss politics. After listening I can tell you that they don't want the same thing.
What you and I probably agree on is that there are many PEOPLE (note I don't denote race here) that are well below the average standards of living here in the US.
Let's try and work together for individuals and families - let's leave the colors behind. "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you."
When I see kids playing, I don't see black kids, I see kids. When I see an older lady I don't see an older black lady, just an older lady. Break out of the box. We need to come together, to help each other. Our leaders haven't done a good job at uniting Americans. We are all brothers and sisters.
Peace
I think that "puritanical Christian right-wing" is a big fat sterotype. Do you categorize people as niggers, spics, and waps too? Grow up.
Another jem you got here.
Yep, all the "urban centers" is where everyone who works for Microsoft, Dow, GM, Ford, IBM etc were born right?
None of those people were born or raised outside of an "urban center".
Well golly gee whiz mister we don't got the technical stuff you all got but if you don't shut yer trap we'll stop growin yer FOOD you stupid fuck! oh that's right, I'm sure it can be grown on a skyscraper some where. You've got all the answers.
So, those ad campaigns are morally objectionable to you, huh?
"Canada - legal music copying since 1998"
Pretty moral there buddy. Probably got a satellite dish hanging out back too, right? I can see you are proud enough of your "morals" to include them in your sig. Yep, slavery used to be legal too.
FYI - there's a thing called a "remote" that can change channels and mute your TV. You ought to try it sometime. Call me and I'll help you figure out how to use it.
Classy.
That sounds like it's based on cold hard facts. Right.
Thanks for the worthless info.
What do New York and San Fransico _produce_? Lots of factories and farm land downtown NYC and San Fran lemme tell you.
"It's sad that these pukes are so ingorant of any sort of marality that they think it's right and moral to force people at gunpoint to have children they can not support and it's also good to murder thousands of innocent people on a basis of lies."
Dude are you on FUCKING crack?
"force people at gunpoint to have children"
Are you trying to say that abortion is moral and anti-abortion is immoral?
WHO MADE THE CHOICE TO HAVE SEX? WHO'S RESPONSIBILITY IS THAT? DO I HAVE TO WIPE YOUR ASS FOR YOU? TAKE **RESPONSIBLITY** FOR YOUR ACTIONS! DON'T KILL **INNOCENT** LIFE BECAUSE YOU HAD SEX AND DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
When did you get access to Langley computers? YOU MUST BE GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT IS TRUE AND WHAT IS LIE, HUH? You know better than anyone, it's a fact, you have evidence, empiracle. Go ahead and post it to the CNN site if what you say is true, it's all lies. You sound so sure of yourself, you must have proof.
SADDAM KILLED 400,000 PEOPLE BECAUSE HE COULD!! 400,000!!!! WHOS THE FUCKING CRIMINAL HERE? DO YOU HATE IRAQI'S? YOU'D RATHER THAT THEY STILL HAVE A MANAICAL DICK WITH TEETH RULING THEM?
"It's a lot easier to be worried about white church issues when you don't have to worry about putting food on the table. Mississippi has a poverty rate approaching 20% whereas the national average is nearly half that for all races but 23% nationally for blacks. Quite frankly, it's also the reason I think hypocrite whenever I hear white folks getting all uppity about "values" when black communities are still stuck with the same statistical difference on lifespan, education, home ownership and business ownership, infant mortality that they've always had with white people."
Dude, your above statement is a racist generalization. Lumping "White Folks" or "Blacks" together when making blanket statments is the definition of a stereotype. Next are you gonna say that white folks can't dance and black people love chicken?
_PEOPLE_ are concerned about things that are important to them - it doesn't matter what color they are.
The people who have to _distinguish_ the color are the ones with the problem. Every person is an individual. When the whole world starts to think like that, we won't have a need for the word "Racist".
Do all Black people want the same thing? That's what it sounds like when you say, "Only Washington DC has a higher concentration of black folks (61%, no wonder they can't get representation in Congress".
I didn't realize that Black people were a new Borg Collective! Support all people, rich, poor, from any background. Promote that.
Peace.
This has to do with the Bible being the "inerrant word of God". Either you believe the bible is mostly right, completely right, somewhat right, or not right. Believing in evolution means that you believe the bible is not "completely right" - that it's not a fact, it's a story. That's a slippery slope to go down. If it's not right in one area how are we to know when it is in another area? That's the human's problem, that we can depend on ourselves and our own judgement. Speak to someone who really really knows ancient hebrew to see what he/she thinks the Creation in Genesis means. Then decide. Dan
Hi Mark - I'm a fan of Ubuntu, thanks for sponsoring it. My question is this: Do you have any plans or ideas about the future of higher level managed languages on the Linux desktop? Specifically either .Net, Java, or a homegrown equivalent? I remember there was some talk of this a while back, and I'm really excited to think of how having a portable higher level language with a very large installed developer base might speed application development on OSS.
Thanks for your time,
Dan