"For historical reasons the best solution to racial problems in society is mixing."
What historical reasons are those? What do you mean by "problem"? What data do you have to support the conclusion that "mixing" is the best solution to that "problem"?
I've never seen tangible evidence to indicate that this society's obsession with "diversity" and "multiculturalism" is justified or that implementing public policy to achieve it yields net positive results.
Yes, you have to prevent them from oxidizing somehow. Dumping them in water or burying them raises a lot of questions though. Would the operation of cutting them down and either digging deep holes to bury them or transporting them to the ocean to be weighted down and dumped be carbon negative? The market need for building materials is presumably being filled with current operations, so I don't think you could store much additional carbon that way. Many logging operations also re-plant.
I wonder if something like hemp wouldn't suck up more carbon than trees and be easier to sequester?
How are we going to implement the "one child per family" option in the places where the population is growing the fastest? Westerners have been trying and failing to teach denizens of the 3rd world to use condoms just to control the spread of disease! These places would be unable to implement or enforce such a policy and you know that any proposal to force population control on the third world, say by putting contraceptives in water supplies, would be roundly criticized as 'racism' and 'eugenics'.
We could at least limit environmental destruction of North America and Europe by cutting off immigration. You wouldn't need to impose child limits on Europeans, USAians and Canadians because they aren't even procreating at replacement levels. As we know however, anti-immigration policies bring out the same whines about 'racism!'
I think peak oil is our best chance at population control. Petroleum scarcity will limit food production, drive up prices and lead to starvation and war. A new world war or nuclear war might be nature's way of population control. I also keep thinking that it's only a matter of time before the emergence of a mutated strain of avian flu that can pass from person to person.
I can see him cutting his own pay as a publicity stunt because cutting expense would go straight into profits which he would benefit from due to his ownership stake. However, he didn't have to give the rest of his employees an average raise of $22,000! Do you really think their increased happiness is going to increase their average productivity to the extent that it generates an additional $2M in profits? I don't see how you can dismiss this as simple "self interest". Most employees would be psyched for a one time bonus of $22,000, but an annual salary increase of $22,000? I think that's pure generosity on his part.
Hey! As long as they pursue their socialist fantasy within the confines of their own company and leave the rest of us out of it, more power to them! Why would you be happy about the prospect of them going out of business? I wish them long life and prosperity. A "skilled worker" would have to be quite the a$$hole if he agrees to work for a certain salary and then gets upset because he isn't making more than the janitor to whom he feels superior. Let him quit and good riddance. The article I read mentioned "clerks" and "customer support reps". Maybe they sub-contract cleaning, security and other menial work?
Because white women between 50 and 70 are equally likely to perpetrate a terrorist attack or hijacking as dark skinned men between 20 and 40?
I wouldn't argue that we ban anyone from air travel based on skin color, religion, clothing, hair style or whatever, but we should sure as hell use profiling and subject people who fit the profile to extra scrutiny.
It isn't "lazy hatred", it's using what we know about past hijackings to prevent future ones.
White boys are failing because the curriculum is teaching everyone else self esteem while white boys are taught that they are nothing but evil oppressors. Everyone else has a "pride" month, while whites get a "shame" century. White people, especially boys, are taught that they must go through life in constant state of collective guilt about the crimes of their ancestors, but must NEVER exhibit collective pride in the achievements of their ancestors(that's racism!). It's a deliberate effort to dumb them down and impair their learning ability and achievement to achieve "equality". It was bad and getting worse when I went to school, I can only imagine how horrible it must be now. I can't help but think that the public school curriculum and it's "shame on white people" and collective guilt BS does long term psychological damage.
That doesn't follow at all. It's not just a "line of thinking" they actually conducted a study which lends support to the idea that race matching leads to improved outcomes.
Maybe a new study will look at gender? It could be that kids raised by mom are taught more effectively by females or that boys have better results with women and girls with men? Who knows until you look?
I agree with the overwhelming majority of what you say. I especially appreciate your stating that 10 people of the same skin color can be orders of magnitude more "diverse" than having the magic rainbow. This prevailing "wisdom" that if you mix the right % of people from different races, genders and ethnic backgrounds you get an ideal outcome is absolute nonsense. AA and quotas are also absolute nonsense. The entire idea that fostering "diversity" and "multiculturalism" will lead to improved outcomes is only a feel-good measure. There is absolutely no empirical evidence to suggest that a work force, student body, government body etc. performs optimally with the "right" mix of races and genders.
However, the article is citing an actual observable phenomenon. Children learn better when taught by a member of their own race. Young kids are not capable of rationalizing thoughts such as yours. e.g. "If the teacher is qualified, who gives a damn?" I can theorize about why this might be true, but would be called a racist, so let's stop at the point where the observed data end.
Yes, to hell with all of the "magic diversity formula" and other nonsense, but hiring black teachers for black students and white teachers for white students to achieve improved results apparently has some empirical basis, so why not do it?
I've only voted 'R' or 'D' once in a presidential election. As for 2016, if Rand Paul gets the 'R' nomination I would probably vote for him. If he betrays the voters and deviates from his campaign rhetoric in the same ways that Bush and Obama did, I'll give up on 'R's and 'D's forever.
I think there was definitely something different about Ron Paul, despite the 'R' next to his name. I don't think he would have changed his message after being elected. That's probably why the MSM and the whole political establishment was against him. With Rand Paul, I'm not so sure, but I'm willing to take a chance.
A nation is defined by its borders and the people of that nation have every right to take actions which serve their collective best interests. If that means defending those borders and limiting the number of people who can cross over and take up residency, so be it.
Agree entirely. People should not criticize the "evil" corporations for behaving exactly the way we should expect them to behave. I like to make the analogy with a great white shark which pursues food the same way a corporation pursues profit. Emotionless and single minded of focus.
If you want to blame someone for economic conditions and the actions of corporations, blame the government! They are the ones that created the incentives for massive out-sourcing and off-shoring of jobs formerly based in the USA. Same with the H1B visa program. Blame the government which created it, not the corporations who pursue their singular mission by taking advantage of it. I could go on and on. Illegal immigration, tax policy, subsidies, bailouts, etc. etc.
I disagree. If anything, the press is minimizing the problem. For every case that gets media attention (white cops beating and killing black people) dozens, if not hundreds of incidents never make it out of local media markets and the online communities who follow this stuff. Check out "Cop Block" and "Filming Cops". You'll find multiple incidents every single day.
Give a government agency hundreds of billions of no-strings-attached taxpayer dollars over a span of many decades and they will develop a few useful things purely by random chance!
If they were accountable for earning a positive ROI on every R&D dollar, they would have gone bankrupt 100 times over.
Yay! Give a government agency annual(inflation adjusted) budgets in the hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of several decades and they will invent something useful by random chance.
You're seriously implying that the internet would not currently exist had it not been for government? I beg to differ.
What's wrong with treating education as a commercial enterprise? Shouldn't the truly relevant metric, short term and long term, be customer satisfaction, with parents and students being the customers? Get rid of government education entirely. Let the market differentiate the good schools and good teachers from the bad. There is no 100% ideal outcome, but the results produced by a system based on competition and the profit motive are going to be superior to the government model.
I'm not "liberal" but I can address the Wall St. issue.
The point is that it is an absolutely glaring double standard in the administration of justice. Government convicts these people of "racketeering" while ignoring literally 1000s of instances of fraud, forgery and perjury committed by the big Wall St. banks. The whole "robosigning" thing wasn't just some minor problem with the paperwork. It was an absolutely massive effort to create and file false affidavits, create and improperly notarize official documents and submit those forged documents to courts and government agencies. If a dozen people conspiring to cheat on standardized tests is "racketeering" what do you call a giant conspiracy to cover up fraud and use forged documents in order to illegally evict people from their homes?
That was my first reaction as well. The only exercise most people in the USA get is walking and often it's only to and from cars or in stores.
Could be useful for military personnel on long treks or for hiking the Appalachian trail or something. IANA physiologist, but my guess would be that this could not only reduce energy usage, but could also prevent or delay the onset of muscle cramps.
Otherwise you're right, most people would prefer to burn more energy while walking.
The "Buy Now with One Click" sucks bad enough on a desktop or laptop. It's even worse on Android devices. I actually read part of the Amazon appstore terms of service and it states that by using their appstore, you agree to this "one click" BS and that all sales are final. Way too easy to buy an app you didn't intend to purchase. Now they're going to have a physical button that can buy things if you knock it on the floor or the cat steps on it? I can just imagine a 2 year old playing with this thing and beating on it like a bongo drum. BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY
Yes, and we need to get federal government out of the student loan business and student loan guarantee business. The availability of guaranteed credit is the primary driver of tuition price increases.
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"For historical reasons the best solution to racial problems in society is mixing."
What historical reasons are those? What do you mean by "problem"? What data do you have to support the conclusion that "mixing" is the best solution to that "problem"?
I've never seen tangible evidence to indicate that this society's obsession with "diversity" and "multiculturalism" is justified or that implementing public policy to achieve it yields net positive results.
Yes, you have to prevent them from oxidizing somehow. Dumping them in water or burying them raises a lot of questions though. Would the operation of cutting them down and either digging deep holes to bury them or transporting them to the ocean to be weighted down and dumped be carbon negative? The market need for building materials is presumably being filled with current operations, so I don't think you could store much additional carbon that way. Many logging operations also re-plant.
I wonder if something like hemp wouldn't suck up more carbon than trees and be easier to sequester?
How are we going to implement the "one child per family" option in the places where the population is growing the fastest? Westerners have been trying and failing to teach denizens of the 3rd world to use condoms just to control the spread of disease! These places would be unable to implement or enforce such a policy and you know that any proposal to force population control on the third world, say by putting contraceptives in water supplies, would be roundly criticized as 'racism' and 'eugenics'.
We could at least limit environmental destruction of North America and Europe by cutting off immigration. You wouldn't need to impose child limits on Europeans, USAians and Canadians because they aren't even procreating at replacement levels. As we know however, anti-immigration policies bring out the same whines about 'racism!'
I think peak oil is our best chance at population control. Petroleum scarcity will limit food production, drive up prices and lead to starvation and war. A new world war or nuclear war might be nature's way of population control. I also keep thinking that it's only a matter of time before the emergence of a mutated strain of avian flu that can pass from person to person.
I can see him cutting his own pay as a publicity stunt because cutting expense would go straight into profits which he would benefit from due to his ownership stake.
However, he didn't have to give the rest of his employees an average raise of $22,000! Do you really think their increased happiness is going to increase their average productivity to the extent that it generates an additional $2M in profits?
I don't see how you can dismiss this as simple "self interest". Most employees would be psyched for a one time bonus of $22,000, but an annual salary increase of $22,000? I think that's pure generosity on his part.
The average salary is already $48,000, so you only need to multiply 121 by the $22,000 increase. He's also reducing his own salary by about 900,000.
$2.2M - 121x$22k + $900k =~ $438k
Still in the black if the profit estimate holds true.
Hey! As long as they pursue their socialist fantasy within the confines of their own company and leave the rest of us out of it, more power to them!
Why would you be happy about the prospect of them going out of business? I wish them long life and prosperity.
A "skilled worker" would have to be quite the a$$hole if he agrees to work for a certain salary and then gets upset because he isn't making more than the janitor to whom he feels superior. Let him quit and good riddance.
The article I read mentioned "clerks" and "customer support reps". Maybe they sub-contract cleaning, security and other menial work?
Because white women between 50 and 70 are equally likely to perpetrate a terrorist attack or hijacking as dark skinned men between 20 and 40?
I wouldn't argue that we ban anyone from air travel based on skin color, religion, clothing, hair style or whatever, but we should sure as hell use profiling and subject people who fit the profile to extra scrutiny.
It isn't "lazy hatred", it's using what we know about past hijackings to prevent future ones.
White boys are failing because the curriculum is teaching everyone else self esteem while white boys are taught that they are nothing but evil oppressors. Everyone else has a "pride" month, while whites get a "shame" century. White people, especially boys, are taught that they must go through life in constant state of collective guilt about the crimes of their ancestors, but must NEVER exhibit collective pride in the achievements of their ancestors(that's racism!). It's a deliberate effort to dumb them down and impair their learning ability and achievement to achieve "equality".
It was bad and getting worse when I went to school, I can only imagine how horrible it must be now. I can't help but think that the public school curriculum and it's "shame on white people" and collective guilt BS does long term psychological damage.
That doesn't follow at all. It's not just a "line of thinking" they actually conducted a study which lends support to the idea that race matching leads to improved outcomes.
Maybe a new study will look at gender? It could be that kids raised by mom are taught more effectively by females or that boys have better results with women and girls with men? Who knows until you look?
I agree with the overwhelming majority of what you say. I especially appreciate your stating that 10 people of the same skin color can be orders of magnitude more "diverse" than having the magic rainbow. This prevailing "wisdom" that if you mix the right % of people from different races, genders and ethnic backgrounds you get an ideal outcome is absolute nonsense. AA and quotas are also absolute nonsense. The entire idea that fostering "diversity" and "multiculturalism" will lead to improved outcomes is only a feel-good measure. There is absolutely no empirical evidence to suggest that a work force, student body, government body etc. performs optimally with the "right" mix of races and genders.
However, the article is citing an actual observable phenomenon. Children learn better when taught by a member of their own race. Young kids are not capable of rationalizing thoughts such as yours. e.g. "If the teacher is qualified, who gives a damn?" I can theorize about why this might be true, but would be called a racist, so let's stop at the point where the observed data end.
Yes, to hell with all of the "magic diversity formula" and other nonsense, but hiring black teachers for black students and white teachers for white students to achieve improved results apparently has some empirical basis, so why not do it?
I've only voted 'R' or 'D' once in a presidential election. As for 2016, if Rand Paul gets the 'R' nomination I would probably vote for him. If he betrays the voters and deviates from his campaign rhetoric in the same ways that Bush and Obama did, I'll give up on 'R's and 'D's forever.
I think there was definitely something different about Ron Paul, despite the 'R' next to his name. I don't think he would have changed his message after being elected. That's probably why the MSM and the whole political establishment was against him. With Rand Paul, I'm not so sure, but I'm willing to take a chance.
A nation is defined by its borders and the people of that nation have every right to take actions which serve their collective best interests. If that means defending those borders and limiting the number of people who can cross over and take up residency, so be it.
Agree entirely. People should not criticize the "evil" corporations for behaving exactly the way we should expect them to behave. I like to make the analogy with a great white shark which pursues food the same way a corporation pursues profit. Emotionless and single minded of focus.
If you want to blame someone for economic conditions and the actions of corporations, blame the government! They are the ones that created the incentives for massive out-sourcing and off-shoring of jobs formerly based in the USA. Same with the H1B visa program. Blame the government which created it, not the corporations who pursue their singular mission by taking advantage of it. I could go on and on. Illegal immigration, tax policy, subsidies, bailouts, etc. etc.
For your safety and the safety of your fellow citizens, always film the police when they're interacting with the public.
I disagree. If anything, the press is minimizing the problem. For every case that gets media attention (white cops beating and killing black people) dozens, if not hundreds of incidents never make it out of local media markets and the online communities who follow this stuff.
Check out "Cop Block" and "Filming Cops". You'll find multiple incidents every single day.
"Look at how many coders Amerikan schools are creating and they don't meet our needs."
Bollocks. They don't meet your need for people who will work long hours for crap pay and few benefits.
Advertise a job with decent salary and benefits and you'll be able to find all of the American coders you want.
Give a government agency hundreds of billions of no-strings-attached taxpayer dollars over a span of many decades and they will develop a few useful things purely by random chance!
If they were accountable for earning a positive ROI on every R&D dollar, they would have gone bankrupt 100 times over.
Yay! Give a government agency annual(inflation adjusted) budgets in the hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of several decades and they will invent something useful by random chance.
You're seriously implying that the internet would not currently exist had it not been for government? I beg to differ.
What's wrong with treating education as a commercial enterprise?
Shouldn't the truly relevant metric, short term and long term, be customer satisfaction, with parents and students being the customers?
Get rid of government education entirely. Let the market differentiate the good schools and good teachers from the bad. There is no 100% ideal outcome, but the results produced by a system based on competition and the profit motive are going to be superior to the government model.
I'm not "liberal" but I can address the Wall St. issue.
The point is that it is an absolutely glaring double standard in the administration of justice. Government convicts these people of "racketeering" while ignoring literally 1000s of instances of fraud, forgery and perjury committed by the big Wall St. banks.
The whole "robosigning" thing wasn't just some minor problem with the paperwork. It was an absolutely massive effort to create and file false affidavits, create and improperly notarize official documents and submit those forged documents to courts and government agencies. If a dozen people conspiring to cheat on standardized tests is "racketeering" what do you call a giant conspiracy to cover up fraud and use forged documents in order to illegally evict people from their homes?
Uhhhh, I think the presence of the cycle is what makes cycling more efficient than walking.
That was my first reaction as well. The only exercise most people in the USA get is walking and often it's only to and from cars or in stores.
Could be useful for military personnel on long treks or for hiking the Appalachian trail or something. IANA physiologist, but my guess would be that this could not only reduce energy usage, but could also prevent or delay the onset of muscle cramps.
Otherwise you're right, most people would prefer to burn more energy while walking.
I'm sure that the Russian and Chinese hackers are absolutely terrified of Obama's penalties.
The "Buy Now with One Click" sucks bad enough on a desktop or laptop. It's even worse on Android devices. I actually read part of the Amazon appstore terms of service and it states that by using their appstore, you agree to this "one click" BS and that all sales are final. Way too easy to buy an app you didn't intend to purchase.
Now they're going to have a physical button that can buy things if you knock it on the floor or the cat steps on it? I can just imagine a 2 year old playing with this thing and beating on it like a bongo drum.
BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY
"We need chapter 7 or 11 for student loans. "
Yes, and we need to get federal government out of the student loan business and student loan guarantee business. The availability of guaranteed credit is the primary driver of tuition price increases.