Any real policy involves trade offs between what's best for a large number of different groups, each of which has different needs, goals, tolerance for risk, etc. Deciding how to make those tradeoffs and select who's interests take priority in any given situation is largely subjective. While science can help determine how feasible a given proposal is (and even then, it's more in the realm of engineering than science), it's silent on which solution is best.
The general public needs to get over its delusion that scientists are some sort of priesthood that exists to tell them The One True Way and save them the trouble of having to understand issues well enough to make their own informed decisions about what is best.
It's those damn trade studies! Get a damn engineer in there. Shoot, get one that isn't too loud about fudges and has a little charisma and you'll have your One True Way. I volunteer
Shoot my current grad school runs linux in it's ghetto labs. It's like red hat 7, but it's linux. My undergrad school had it's own distro! I think it was just fedora with some university specific configs but still... So I think it's highly dependent on university, and I would be pretty upset if my school's CS dept. did have at least some knowledge.
Don't you see! It's so that the cop can say please remove your glasses so I can compare you photo, then happen to notice that you are in the driver's seat of a motor vehicle without glasses which you are legally required to have and then arrest you.
Man that guy is an asshole. And I've been to his DD it sucks. The kitchen is nasty, and the people behind the counter are all fat kids, and there's never any waffles!
Good thing I posted this on the internet where people have learned to take everything with a grain of salt and realize that I could be from ukraine and be posting this having never been to mary's land or where ever.
Their society is superior. They have managed to subjugate the communist country and make its populace make cheap running shoes. There are but a few ways to measure societal superiority and for most of history that's been it. So there!
When my mom was a U.S. high school girl in the 1940s, she had to take classes in Etiquette. I don't know why U.S. schools stop teaching such things, but it's time to start doing it again. It's not enough to just recite numbers and dates. A citizen must also know how to interact with one's peers without degrading them.
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The government is not your daddy...
Quite interesting. (I'd call it ironic but I'm not quite sure it is appropriate and I don't want the irony nazis coming after me)
I don't care what those frakkin 16 year olds playing Halo/SOCOM/Counter Strike think, gay/fag is not a pejorative. "Lame" is even worse. If someone wants to describe a weapon as "bad" or a player is "unskilled" Then by the Goddess they can develop an actual vocabulary full of words that mean what they are saying.
Gay. Lame fags like you just jealous of teh skillz.
What post office are you talking about!!!??? Certainly not any I've ever been to. I mean they tend to have short lines but that doesn't mean it can't take redicously long to get simple stuff done. I suspect though for both the DMV and the USPS, the wait times are very much a function of time of day. If you go when everyone else typically goes then things take forever. You sneak in other times and it's fine. Problem is everybody goes at the times they go because that's when it's convienent to go. You don't think medicine will be like that?
Amen to that! At this point I almost don't care who wins as long as people stop talking about flag pins and all of this nonsense. I move to ban people from campaining prior to 3 months before the primaries and that the primaries be moved back so there is only 3 months between them and the general elections. I think if you can't convince me to vote for you in 6 mo then you shouldn't be running anyway.
I would really really love to know how the world would be today if the US (and hopefully all the others) put all their defense/war budgets into humanitarian/environmental projects instead. I wonder if it really would be a utopia or if it would have fallen into chaos without the threat of such vast arms.
We'd be speaking Russian? Or German? Or maybe Chinese? Although maybe if you were blond and fair skinned it would be a utopia. Or maybe without the threat of the capitalists the communist utopia would have been achieved. That said I'm of the opinion that if someone doesn't have a really big stick all the people with medium sticks would spend ALL of their time trying to beat the sh*t out of the people with slightly smaller sticks... At least until the guys with the rocks started teaming up...
No you help them quickly then when you get back to work you count all the time before you were interrupted as work time and you proceed to take your lunch break. Repeat until quitting time. If nobody interrupts you, well you were "on call" so that doesn't count as lunch time either.
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...sometimes it's easier to just go into google than to actually use the address bar. frist psot
Any real policy involves trade offs between what's best for a large number of different groups, each of which has different needs, goals, tolerance for risk, etc. Deciding how to make those tradeoffs and select who's interests take priority in any given situation is largely subjective. While science can help determine how feasible a given proposal is (and even then, it's more in the realm of engineering than science), it's silent on which solution is best.
The general public needs to get over its delusion that scientists are some sort of priesthood that exists to tell them The One True Way and save them the trouble of having to understand issues well enough to make their own informed decisions about what is best.
It's those damn trade studies! Get a damn engineer in there. Shoot, get one that isn't too loud about fudges and has a little charisma and you'll have your One True Way. I volunteer
Shoot my current grad school runs linux in it's ghetto labs. It's like red hat 7, but it's linux. My undergrad school had it's own distro! I think it was just fedora with some university specific configs but still... So I think it's highly dependent on university, and I would be pretty upset if my school's CS dept. did have at least some knowledge.
Don't you see! It's so that the cop can say please remove your glasses so I can compare you photo, then happen to notice that you are in the driver's seat of a motor vehicle without glasses which you are legally required to have and then arrest you.
Man that guy is an asshole. And I've been to his DD it sucks. The kitchen is nasty, and the people behind the counter are all fat kids, and there's never any waffles!
Good thing I posted this on the internet where people have learned to take everything with a grain of salt and realize that I could be from ukraine and be posting this having never been to mary's land or where ever.
No no weed was made illegal to get the Mexicans out!
What do you think this research is saying?! The women are trying to kill off all of the men! Just very slowly.
In the end though, they'll be left with a planet flashing "12:00" eternally. Ha who's inferior now!
He's a witch! Burn him!
How do you take the textbook back to the bookstore for a refund if you do that? Isn't that the point?
What about a charity who's goal it is to give herpes to CS kids? I think everyone could get behind that.
So your password to donkeypr0n.com is !donkeypr0n_com? Ha now you are p0wned!
Yeah I think a better brag would be "I told you that it was visible 350km away!"
An escalator can never break! It can only become stairs!
http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=41938&title=mitch-hedberg-wall-knocking
Their society is superior. They have managed to subjugate the communist country and make its populace make cheap running shoes. There are but a few ways to measure societal superiority and for most of history that's been it. So there!
When my mom was a U.S. high school girl in the 1940s, she had to take classes in Etiquette. I don't know why U.S. schools stop teaching such things, but it's time to start doing it again. It's not enough to just recite numbers and dates. A citizen must also know how to interact with one's peers without degrading them.
--
The government is not your daddy...
Quite interesting. (I'd call it ironic but I'm not quite sure it is appropriate and I don't want the irony nazis coming after me)
I don't care what those frakkin 16 year olds playing Halo/SOCOM/Counter Strike think, gay/fag is not a pejorative. "Lame" is even worse. If someone wants to describe a weapon as "bad" or a player is "unskilled" Then by the Goddess they can develop an actual vocabulary full of words that mean what they are saying.
Gay. Lame fags like you just jealous of teh skillz.
I disagree completely! I would be spending my days surfing slashdot in my own apartment, if I didn't have any college debt!
What post office are you talking about!!!??? Certainly not any I've ever been to. I mean they tend to have short lines but that doesn't mean it can't take redicously long to get simple stuff done. I suspect though for both the DMV and the USPS, the wait times are very much a function of time of day. If you go when everyone else typically goes then things take forever. You sneak in other times and it's fine. Problem is everybody goes at the times they go because that's when it's convienent to go. You don't think medicine will be like that?
My riches for a mod point...
Amen to that! At this point I almost don't care who wins as long as people stop talking about flag pins and all of this nonsense. I move to ban people from campaining prior to 3 months before the primaries and that the primaries be moved back so there is only 3 months between them and the general elections. I think if you can't convince me to vote for you in 6 mo then you shouldn't be running anyway.
...it's lingerie with a pocket and a GPS. That's dumb. It might be mildly interesting if the GPS was actually somehow integrated with the outfit...
I would really really love to know how the world would be today if the US (and hopefully all the others) put all their defense/war budgets into humanitarian/environmental projects instead. I wonder if it really would be a utopia or if it would have fallen into chaos without the threat of such vast arms.
We'd be speaking Russian? Or German? Or maybe Chinese? Although maybe if you were blond and fair skinned it would be a utopia. Or maybe without the threat of the capitalists the communist utopia would have been achieved. That said I'm of the opinion that if someone doesn't have a really big stick all the people with medium sticks would spend ALL of their time trying to beat the sh*t out of the people with slightly smaller sticks... At least until the guys with the rocks started teaming up...
nope doesn't work. 2.998x10^8 m/s might be teh lawz; but g goes with 1/r^2.
*Whoooosh* (btw zippthorne, no one expects the Spanish inquisition)
No you help them quickly then when you get back to work you count all the time before you were interrupted as work time and you proceed to take your lunch break. Repeat until quitting time. If nobody interrupts you, well you were "on call" so that doesn't count as lunch time either.