My girlfriend, both of my parents, and the majority of my extended family are all teachers, so I think I have it on good authority that the correlation ratio between well-funded schools and highly achieving students is approaching one.
Good authority, and unbiased, objective analysis to boot!
As a result, it's perfectly obvious that US industry has stepped up to the plate and provided the US with the BEST broadband in the world, at the lowest prices.
Are you sure about this business of the US having the cheapest and best broadband?
Only one problem - US broadband is incapable of transmitting sarcasm effectively.
It was not Steyn who said that Muslims are "breeding like mosquitoes..."
You and others have pointed this out, and good catch. However, it should be said that even if those were his own words and opinions, that is his right to hold them, endowed by his Creator - if I may say Creator on Slashdot.:)
Except for poor Fidel, who had to send away for a Spanish doctor for his health care. I guess he didn't want to be a burden on the people's health care system.
I was reading an editorial in the WSJ about the how successful "the surge" allegedly is, and found it to stretch things and manipulate quotes. I decided to abandon it out of frustration. While moving my eyes away, I happened to glance at the author: "Karl Rove". R. Murdoch has Foxitized it, as feared.
Are you saying that Karl Rove is a reporter for the WSJ?
If they also stopped all their crimes entirely, stopped their disconnection and fair game policies and stopped suing people for spreading their beliefs, oh and stopped harassing their critics and using bull-baiting tactics then yes they'd be a religion, but as you can see, that's a lot more than simply stopping charging.
Traditional religious groups do all of those things though
No, they don't, not by any reasonable measure*. It's this kind of "pox on all their houses" attitude that makes discussing Scientology on Slashdot futile. Based on the comments alone, a visitor might have a hard time figuring out what the original article was about.
* Okay, maybe one major religion engages these tactics. Out of respect for tolerance and diversity, I won't mention the name, but it sounds like "his lawn."
At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. ORDB begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, March 26th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
It immediately reminded me of an old German Shepard once in our family, particularly the sequence on ice when it badly slipped: it looked exactly like our poor old shep when his back legs went on him. Man, I almost shed a tear at that point of the vid!
I agree. I kind of got worked up when the guy kicked it.
Personally, I'd like to see health care as a citizen's right, like most other westernized countries.
I don't know about the other westernized countries you're talking about, but in the United States, rights are special things, not granted by the government. We see rights as given to us by our Creator... oops, sorry, I forgot I shouldn't say that... we see rights as natural things, like sunlight. Now, a government can come along and block out our sunlight, a la Mr. Burns, but that is an infringement on our sunlight; the government does not actually provide sunlight.
So, if the government were to disappear, Americans would still have their natural rights. We would have our right to free speech, to bear arms, to freely associate, etc. But if the government provided health care, and said government disappeared, so would the health care.
(I know, not all Americans see rights as I have described. I have used this as a rhetorical device.)
...I would like an open internet, not a network being monitored left and right...
If it's an open internet, it's certainly open to being monitored.
I want my personal messages to be personal, and not being read by a god damn agency somewhere.
Then you may want to refrain from sending your personal messages over an essentially public network that was pretty much designed to pass your message through an indefinite number of points before being delivered.
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How can you be sure it's him? He posted anonymously.
Good authority, and unbiased, objective analysis to boot!
I kid, I kid...
Only one problem - US broadband is incapable of transmitting sarcasm effectively.
For nerds, yes!
I can recite the script to Monty Python's Holy Grail - "Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!"
You and others have pointed this out, and good catch. However, it should be said that even if those were his own words and opinions, that is his right to hold them, endowed by his Creator - if I may say Creator on Slashdot. :)
To be fair, he said "modern people," not "muslims" - so you can see the distinction.
Sorry, er, um, I'm new here, and forgot where I was posting!
When do we get to see "10 Worst Slideshows on the Internet?" Those Flash TiVo ads made me dizzy.
Exactly.
Just get rid of your user comments. Solves everything.
Yeah, take that Slashdot, you bunch of right-wing, neo-con war-mongers!
Except for poor Fidel, who had to send away for a Spanish doctor for his health care. I guess he didn't want to be a burden on the people's health care system.
Uh, what country do you think this is?
Typing in those programs was a pain, but it did help the future programmer:
- You learned to type (if you couldn't before)
- You learned to debug. Those listings always had at least one bug, plus the ones you introduced.
- The tiny fonts ruined your eyes so you could get those cool glasses!
Well, I'm not so sure about that last one!A LOT more, and for systems like the Amiga, DOS, etc. Unfortunately, it looks as though the site is obsolete, at least for current content.
And Obama sure can afford them this fall.
Are you saying that Karl Rove is a reporter for the WSJ?
...somebody tell the GoDaddy girl that her tits are going to have to get bigger.
No, they don't, not by any reasonable measure*. It's this kind of "pox on all their houses" attitude that makes discussing Scientology on Slashdot futile. Based on the comments alone, a visitor might have a hard time figuring out what the original article was about.
* Okay, maybe one major religion engages these tactics. Out of respect for tolerance and diversity, I won't mention the name, but it sounds like "his lawn."
At noon today (Eastern Standard Time), the long dead ORDB spam identification system began returning false positives. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. ORDB begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, March 26th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
I agree. I kind of got worked up when the guy kicked it.
I thought the population "bomb" was a bit passe, anyway, and the prophets of doom had switched to global warming - er, I mean global climate change.
I don't know about the other westernized countries you're talking about, but in the United States, rights are special things, not granted by the government. We see rights as given to us by our Creator... oops, sorry, I forgot I shouldn't say that... we see rights as natural things, like sunlight. Now, a government can come along and block out our sunlight, a la Mr. Burns, but that is an infringement on our sunlight; the government does not actually provide sunlight.
So, if the government were to disappear, Americans would still have their natural rights. We would have our right to free speech, to bear arms, to freely associate, etc. But if the government provided health care, and said government disappeared, so would the health care.
(I know, not all Americans see rights as I have described. I have used this as a rhetorical device.)
Hey, mods, don't forget the GP post that provided the setup for that sweet line! That guy deserves some credit, too. :)
If it's an open internet, it's certainly open to being monitored.
Then you may want to refrain from sending your personal messages over an essentially public network that was pretty much designed to pass your message through an indefinite number of points before being delivered.