As insane as your rant sounds, you actually have a point regarding exposure to male role models. At my son's school there were exactly two male teachers: the PE coach and the special ed teacher. Now that the coach has retired, they are down to one. If you were a male teacher, would you want to even apply at a place like that? You have good guys like my brother being harassed and eventually getting fired from their teaching job because they have a penis. Men are rare in school parent-teacher organizations, too; maybe four or five in a school of 600. A lot of Cub Scout packs are even run by the moms.
I'm not saying it's bad to have mothers involved with their kids. I think that's an important part of having a healthy family dynamic. I'm not saying women shouldn't be involved with community groups; they are indispensable to a functioning society. But dads (and men in general) need to be involved, too. In family life, schools, churches, community organizations, etc.
Your line about women fearing men around their children is right on, too. One of the BSA district guys doesn't have kids and wasn't even a Boy Scout. But he is involved with scouting now as an adult. My wife and I had totally different responses to that: she thought it was creepy, and I thought it was cool. The more strong male role models my son has, the better.
Side note: I wonder how many dads feel ostracized from their daughters' extracurricular activities, like dance class or Girl Scouts?
Not necessarily. Since this is not the object of the phrase "to contact," you needn't use the objective form of the pronoun. Rather the phrase "Who to contact" is being used as a free relative clause, which in turn is used as a subject. Who to contact is Jose Parra. Granted, it sounds a little silly when you put it together, but it's certainly better than "Whom to contact is Jose Parra." From Wikipedia:
In 1990 William Safire suggested: "The best rule for dealing with who vs. whom is this: Whenever whom is required, recast the sentence. This keeps a huge section of the hard disk of your mind available for baseball averages."
Absolutely. Back in the 90's I was a *mumble*Rush Limbaugh fan*mumble* and wore a debt awareness ribbon (Dollar bill folded up to look like those other ribbons that were common at the time). I was told I had to take it off for class pictures because it was a gang sign. WTF? And that was in right-wing whack-a-doo Midland, TX! Then you got the kids that get in trouble for having NORML signs at non-school-related events. And there's kids being told they can't pray in the lunch room before they eat. Don't get me started on the abrogation of the fourth amendments for schoolkids. Taking a kids phone and NOT GIVING IT BACK is theft.
But I guess this is just training our good citizens to get used to the line at the TSA. Airports are sort of like schools in that regard: no right to peaceably assemble. No right to bear arms. No rights regarding unreasonable search and seizure. No freedom of speech. Good luck, Ahmed, on bringing your clock on a plane. You'll probably end up in Gitmo.
Slightly off-topic rant: Some schools must have a "teachers, check your common sense at the door" policy. This is the same sort of thing that leads to 13 year olds getting strip-searched for Advil (and the SCOTUS sides with the schools!). We had a pervy asst. principal with a 3" ruler doing shorts checks on girls to make sure their shorts weren't more than 3" above the knee. Then there's kindergartners getting charged for assault for kissing.
Way off-topic rant: Deer don't hunt their food; you can't show your work turning a point-slope equation into a line graph; and when you combine two trapezoids, there is more than one right answer for what the resultant shape can be. Oh, and not everything needs to be answered in complete sentence form.
Clearly those two quitters were not familiar with this parable. If you are getting a fair wage for your work, STFU. Just because somebody working less hard is getting more than a fair wage doesn't give you the right to complain about what you thought was a fair wage beforehand. I don't know why people seem to think it's unfair to get what they agreed to. It's like when my company stopped giving bonuses. A lot of people were angry, even though there was no official bonus policy, and it was never brought up during the hiring process. To me, I was just getting the wage I had agreed upon. Nothing unfair about that.
I think back when everybody haggled for a price at the general store, this sort of thing would have seemed plain silly. People didn't expect to pay the same amount for the same stuff. Why would they expect to get paid the same amount for the same work? Getting paid the same amount for different work wouldn't seem strange either. Hell, look at most hourly labor today. A lot of them work harder than most pencil pushers, yet they get paid less.
As a manger, I would love having the permission and budget to give my electrician and laborer the same pay as my engineer. As long as the engineer didn't expect a sudden bump in pay because of it. Due to the perverse way my company handles raises, by having two people getting paid more than they are worth, I actually am allotted MORE money for raises in the future, since it's based on a percentage of the total. So it actually works to the engineer's benefit in the long run.
The car behind you speeds up, overtakes you, fills up the gap and awaits next opportunity to overtake the car that previously was in front of you. Meanwhile, you slip back to keep your distance, only to have the procedure repeat it self.
The process you are talking about happens to me all the time. Don't really see what the issue is. Let them rear-end somebody if they want to. Getting overtaken by a few people in a hurry never cost me any real time. In fact, I frequently see the overtakers at the same stop light I'm at once we both get off the freeway.
Well said! I think it's a shame they call things "accidents" when it's something like running a red light or speeding. That's just bad driving. But something like falling debris or frolicking wildlife? Pretty fair to call that an accident. In all of the cases I can think of, I would rather have a Google car respond than my own feeble driving abilities. Not to mention, they have superior threat detection.
Can you imagine a human driver making the same decision fast enough to matter? 300 ms translates to 18 feet at 45 mph. Besides, if you find yourself in that position a lot, it probably means you don't leave enough following distance.
Unfortunately, this is not actually the case. Memories are fallible. You have to remember what you did or said, or what opinions you had at the time. Numerous studies have shown that it is trivial to make people remember details in a different way than what really occurred. How many people have heard stories from their childhood so often that they can't remember what is actual memory, and what is reconstructed from the story? I have a hard time remembering which of my siblings did stuff, or which of my friends told me a story. Hell, I've even forgotten an entire day (no drugs involved, honest).
Once I went on a trip with some friends and was excessively tired due to long work schedules. We had a great time hanging out at the lake and jet-skiing. A few years later, I went jet-skiing with the same friends. They were confused when I said I had never been jet-skiing before, and I had no idea how to operate the thing. They said, not only had I been jet-skiing, but that I was quite good at it. To this day, I have no recollection of the first outing. But I accept it as the truth, because they all said it happened. This was in the days before ubiquitous cell phones and digital cameras, and nobody would have brought a camera jet-skiing. So it's their word against mine, and I have to side with them.
I say not paying property tax can result in death because it reduces the cash flow to schools, thus reducing the quality of education, thus reducing the number of well-educated doctors, thus reducing people's access to quality healthcare, leading to worse health outcomes, including death. See! That was easy!
There have been studies showing that humans are not alone, when it comes to the fine art of deception. Certain birds, mammals, and even fish have been known to use some form of deception to improve their situation. One of my favorites is the cuttlefish, which can show flashy male mating patterns on one side of the body, but leave the other side (facing potential competitors) dull and uninteresting.
As far as humans go, I imagine it's part learned and part innate. I have a four-year-old who lies all the time about stupid things that don't carry a negative consequence. Yet she's perfectly honest when I ask her whether she colored on her wall again.
I have read the book. What are you trying to imply? Because if it's a dig against one group or another, I don't understand it.
Of all the futures in all the dystopian novels I've read, Brave New World would be the one I would want to live in most. Unless you consider the Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy to be dystopian, because then I choose the one where John Wayne is president of Hell (Alabama).
Pretty much nothing stops meth head copper thieves.
I don't know about that. 480 volts of AC seems to do the trick around here. We came in one day to find one of our breakers tripped. Go out to check the line, and phase A and B cables got cut. The ground cable was about halfway cut, and the bolt cutters were still laying on the ground. Idiots were right next to the disconnect switch, but weren't sober enough to know to shut it off. Over by the fence was a hand truck, and it looked like something roughly human-sized had been pushed over the barbed wire fence. Of course they were back a few months later... but they never messed with that one line again.
Maybe he means it was "used-up to 20% of battery life," which means the exact opposite of the way it seems at first glance. Still doesn't explain the 8x claim though.
The null hypothesis is the assumption that things don't have a relationship. That is because far more things are not related than are. The size of my shoes is not related to the velocity of the solar wind. The frequency of web forum posts is not related to the life span of dolphins. Pick any two random measurable things, and they will not be related in any provable fashion most of the time. That's why it's so interesting when things are related. The whole point of any scientific research is to disprove the null hypothesis, i.e. prove correlation, for some set of data. If you want to do away with it, you will send us back to the dark ages, where adultery causes fishing shortages, and Jews cause the plague.
There was a pretty good example last month. I don't think any musician listening to the two songs would say one is copied from the other. Maybe inspired by, but not copied. Nearly every march has horns playing upbeats, a trio section, and a stinger at the end. That doesn't mean the estate of John Phillip Sousa should be suing every composer of marches who came after him.
But even when you are "copying" the nature of copyright law still stifles innovation of transformation. I arrange music for a wind ensemble at my church. In order to even do that, I have to get written permission from the original copyright holder, which isn't trivial in most cases. That's time I could be writing music instead of doing paperwork. Yes, I could write my own tunes, but a congregation isn't going to connect with original music like they do with something they've heard 50 times before.
Then you've got companies who make a business model out of publishing public domain works, copyrighting the edition, and then suing anybody else who tries to publish the same public domain work. Not just music either, but books and photographs, too. Granted, this isn't a rampant problem, but it's enough of a concern/annoyance that some people drop out of creative markets altogether.
Sorry. My ignorance of Twitter shows. My understanding was that unless you "follow" somebody, their post will not be pushed to your device. Yes, it's searchable, but so is everything else on the Internet. It's nothing that could have caused panic on the plane or otherwise terrorized large numbers of people. If anything seeing the guy taken away in handcuffs was probably more horrifying for the people on the plane, than if they had seen a random string of letters with no inkling of what it actually meant.
Boys have a high tolerance for failure, eh? Try telling my son that. His teacher asks questions that either have more than one right answer, but she'll only accept one answer (which polygon can you make out of two trapezoids?). Or sometimes she's just dead wrong (deer do not hunt for food). But if he doesn't get 100% on everything, he's completely heartbroken. We've tried telling him it's no big deal as long as he tried his best. We've tried telling him his teacher made an error. But he becomes completely inconsolable. Nothing helps. Poor kid.
WTF? Did you even read the article? They're harassing the CTO of a security firm because he dared to point out security flaws in airplanes. Cracking a joke on Twitter to your friends is not the same thing as threatening to bring down a plane. Just because he does private sector research instead of publishing for peer review does not mean he's not a researcher. I do R&D in my job, but it's all trade secret. Am I not doing research since I don't publish? I think the FBI out-assholed this guy by a long shot, and I'm surprised to see a comment like yours modded to +5.
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As insane as your rant sounds, you actually have a point regarding exposure to male role models. At my son's school there were exactly two male teachers: the PE coach and the special ed teacher. Now that the coach has retired, they are down to one. If you were a male teacher, would you want to even apply at a place like that? You have good guys like my brother being harassed and eventually getting fired from their teaching job because they have a penis. Men are rare in school parent-teacher organizations, too; maybe four or five in a school of 600. A lot of Cub Scout packs are even run by the moms.
I'm not saying it's bad to have mothers involved with their kids. I think that's an important part of having a healthy family dynamic. I'm not saying women shouldn't be involved with community groups; they are indispensable to a functioning society. But dads (and men in general) need to be involved, too. In family life, schools, churches, community organizations, etc.
Your line about women fearing men around their children is right on, too. One of the BSA district guys doesn't have kids and wasn't even a Boy Scout. But he is involved with scouting now as an adult. My wife and I had totally different responses to that: she thought it was creepy, and I thought it was cool. The more strong male role models my son has, the better.
Side note: I wonder how many dads feel ostracized from their daughters' extracurricular activities, like dance class or Girl Scouts?
In 1990 William Safire suggested: "The best rule for dealing with who vs. whom is this: Whenever whom is required, recast the sentence. This keeps a huge section of the hard disk of your mind available for baseball averages."
Now imagine you live in such a country where there are idiotic, religious nutjobs running the show...
Whaddyamean "imagine"? I live in Texas, you insensitive clod!
Those idiots are using full-size photos and scaling them down to thumbnails. WTF?! Who does that anymore?
Absolutely. Back in the 90's I was a *mumble*Rush Limbaugh fan*mumble* and wore a debt awareness ribbon (Dollar bill folded up to look like those other ribbons that were common at the time). I was told I had to take it off for class pictures because it was a gang sign. WTF? And that was in right-wing whack-a-doo Midland, TX! Then you got the kids that get in trouble for having NORML signs at non-school-related events. And there's kids being told they can't pray in the lunch room before they eat. Don't get me started on the abrogation of the fourth amendments for schoolkids. Taking a kids phone and NOT GIVING IT BACK is theft.
But I guess this is just training our good citizens to get used to the line at the TSA. Airports are sort of like schools in that regard: no right to peaceably assemble. No right to bear arms. No rights regarding unreasonable search and seizure. No freedom of speech. Good luck, Ahmed, on bringing your clock on a plane. You'll probably end up in Gitmo.
Slightly off-topic rant: Some schools must have a "teachers, check your common sense at the door" policy. This is the same sort of thing that leads to 13 year olds getting strip-searched for Advil (and the SCOTUS sides with the schools!). We had a pervy asst. principal with a 3" ruler doing shorts checks on girls to make sure their shorts weren't more than 3" above the knee. Then there's kindergartners getting charged for assault for kissing.
Way off-topic rant: Deer don't hunt their food; you can't show your work turning a point-slope equation into a line graph; and when you combine two trapezoids, there is more than one right answer for what the resultant shape can be. Oh, and not everything needs to be answered in complete sentence form.
No. It was Indiana. And it didn't pass.
Clearly those two quitters were not familiar with this parable. If you are getting a fair wage for your work, STFU. Just because somebody working less hard is getting more than a fair wage doesn't give you the right to complain about what you thought was a fair wage beforehand. I don't know why people seem to think it's unfair to get what they agreed to. It's like when my company stopped giving bonuses. A lot of people were angry, even though there was no official bonus policy, and it was never brought up during the hiring process. To me, I was just getting the wage I had agreed upon. Nothing unfair about that.
I think back when everybody haggled for a price at the general store, this sort of thing would have seemed plain silly. People didn't expect to pay the same amount for the same stuff. Why would they expect to get paid the same amount for the same work? Getting paid the same amount for different work wouldn't seem strange either. Hell, look at most hourly labor today. A lot of them work harder than most pencil pushers, yet they get paid less.
As a manger, I would love having the permission and budget to give my electrician and laborer the same pay as my engineer. As long as the engineer didn't expect a sudden bump in pay because of it. Due to the perverse way my company handles raises, by having two people getting paid more than they are worth, I actually am allotted MORE money for raises in the future, since it's based on a percentage of the total. So it actually works to the engineer's benefit in the long run.
You misspelled hype thesis.
The car behind you speeds up, overtakes you, fills up the gap and awaits next opportunity to overtake the car that previously was in front of you. Meanwhile, you slip back to keep your distance, only to have the procedure repeat it self.
The process you are talking about happens to me all the time. Don't really see what the issue is. Let them rear-end somebody if they want to. Getting overtaken by a few people in a hurry never cost me any real time. In fact, I frequently see the overtakers at the same stop light I'm at once we both get off the freeway.
He means before you get your driver's license you should have to prove yourself in adverse conditions. Seems like a fair argument to me.
Well said! I think it's a shame they call things "accidents" when it's something like running a red light or speeding. That's just bad driving. But something like falling debris or frolicking wildlife? Pretty fair to call that an accident. In all of the cases I can think of, I would rather have a Google car respond than my own feeble driving abilities. Not to mention, they have superior threat detection.
Can you imagine a human driver making the same decision fast enough to matter? 300 ms translates to 18 feet at 45 mph. Besides, if you find yourself in that position a lot, it probably means you don't leave enough following distance.
Unfortunately, this is not actually the case. Memories are fallible. You have to remember what you did or said, or what opinions you had at the time. Numerous studies have shown that it is trivial to make people remember details in a different way than what really occurred. How many people have heard stories from their childhood so often that they can't remember what is actual memory, and what is reconstructed from the story? I have a hard time remembering which of my siblings did stuff, or which of my friends told me a story. Hell, I've even forgotten an entire day (no drugs involved, honest).
Once I went on a trip with some friends and was excessively tired due to long work schedules. We had a great time hanging out at the lake and jet-skiing. A few years later, I went jet-skiing with the same friends. They were confused when I said I had never been jet-skiing before, and I had no idea how to operate the thing. They said, not only had I been jet-skiing, but that I was quite good at it. To this day, I have no recollection of the first outing. But I accept it as the truth, because they all said it happened. This was in the days before ubiquitous cell phones and digital cameras, and nobody would have brought a camera jet-skiing. So it's their word against mine, and I have to side with them.
I say not paying property tax can result in death because it reduces the cash flow to schools, thus reducing the quality of education, thus reducing the number of well-educated doctors, thus reducing people's access to quality healthcare, leading to worse health outcomes, including death. See! That was easy!
There have been studies showing that humans are not alone, when it comes to the fine art of deception. Certain birds, mammals, and even fish have been known to use some form of deception to improve their situation. One of my favorites is the cuttlefish, which can show flashy male mating patterns on one side of the body, but leave the other side (facing potential competitors) dull and uninteresting.
As far as humans go, I imagine it's part learned and part innate. I have a four-year-old who lies all the time about stupid things that don't carry a negative consequence. Yet she's perfectly honest when I ask her whether she colored on her wall again.
I have read the book. What are you trying to imply? Because if it's a dig against one group or another, I don't understand it.
Of all the futures in all the dystopian novels I've read, Brave New World would be the one I would want to live in most. Unless you consider the Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy to be dystopian, because then I choose the one where John Wayne is president of Hell (Alabama).
Pretty much nothing stops meth head copper thieves.
I don't know about that. 480 volts of AC seems to do the trick around here. We came in one day to find one of our breakers tripped. Go out to check the line, and phase A and B cables got cut. The ground cable was about halfway cut, and the bolt cutters were still laying on the ground. Idiots were right next to the disconnect switch, but weren't sober enough to know to shut it off. Over by the fence was a hand truck, and it looked like something roughly human-sized had been pushed over the barbed wire fence. Of course they were back a few months later... but they never messed with that one line again.
Maybe he means it was "used-up to 20% of battery life," which means the exact opposite of the way it seems at first glance. Still doesn't explain the 8x claim though.
The null hypothesis is the assumption that things don't have a relationship. That is because far more things are not related than are. The size of my shoes is not related to the velocity of the solar wind. The frequency of web forum posts is not related to the life span of dolphins. Pick any two random measurable things, and they will not be related in any provable fashion most of the time. That's why it's so interesting when things are related. The whole point of any scientific research is to disprove the null hypothesis, i.e. prove correlation, for some set of data. If you want to do away with it, you will send us back to the dark ages, where adultery causes fishing shortages, and Jews cause the plague.
There was a pretty good example last month. I don't think any musician listening to the two songs would say one is copied from the other. Maybe inspired by, but not copied. Nearly every march has horns playing upbeats, a trio section, and a stinger at the end. That doesn't mean the estate of John Phillip Sousa should be suing every composer of marches who came after him.
But even when you are "copying" the nature of copyright law still stifles innovation of transformation. I arrange music for a wind ensemble at my church. In order to even do that, I have to get written permission from the original copyright holder, which isn't trivial in most cases. That's time I could be writing music instead of doing paperwork. Yes, I could write my own tunes, but a congregation isn't going to connect with original music like they do with something they've heard 50 times before.
Then you've got companies who make a business model out of publishing public domain works, copyrighting the edition, and then suing anybody else who tries to publish the same public domain work. Not just music either, but books and photographs, too. Granted, this isn't a rampant problem, but it's enough of a concern/annoyance that some people drop out of creative markets altogether.
That is why it is equipped with a small catapult.
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Sorry. My ignorance of Twitter shows. My understanding was that unless you "follow" somebody, their post will not be pushed to your device. Yes, it's searchable, but so is everything else on the Internet. It's nothing that could have caused panic on the plane or otherwise terrorized large numbers of people. If anything seeing the guy taken away in handcuffs was probably more horrifying for the people on the plane, than if they had seen a random string of letters with no inkling of what it actually meant.
Boys have a high tolerance for failure, eh? Try telling my son that. His teacher asks questions that either have more than one right answer, but she'll only accept one answer (which polygon can you make out of two trapezoids?). Or sometimes she's just dead wrong (deer do not hunt for food). But if he doesn't get 100% on everything, he's completely heartbroken. We've tried telling him it's no big deal as long as he tried his best. We've tried telling him his teacher made an error. But he becomes completely inconsolable. Nothing helps. Poor kid.
let your unfriendly god get a bit more closet
Funniest typo all day.
WTF? Did you even read the article? They're harassing the CTO of a security firm because he dared to point out security flaws in airplanes. Cracking a joke on Twitter to your friends is not the same thing as threatening to bring down a plane. Just because he does private sector research instead of publishing for peer review does not mean he's not a researcher. I do R&D in my job, but it's all trade secret. Am I not doing research since I don't publish? I think the FBI out-assholed this guy by a long shot, and I'm surprised to see a comment like yours modded to +5.