On the contrary. I expect it to be broadcast far and wide on the various entertainment news shows. With only a little disclaimer that it has not gone through peer review, that there is no known mechanism for the results, and that it is contrary to other, peer-reviewed existing studies.
I suggest that if you want to limit who comes into the country, you include those born into the country in that limit as well. Or are you arguing that a british slacker is better than a nigerian slacker?
Except that the UK is not your house. This latest round of scapegoating is just old-school xenophobia, dressed up in double-talk that tries to pretend that one person is better than another because they were born on a different side of an imaginary line.
It's on the internet, so it must be true? I see one flat statement being contradicted by another flat statement. Tell me - why should I believe Kappan magazine over the secretary of Education? Or heck, vice versa? All I know is that long summer breaks were common for a long time where I'm from - where a long time is end of 19th century. And they certainly could not have been influenced by american urban middle-class parents.
Shit happens. Not to mention that I disdain extrapolating what the future should be, and then write laws to make sure that the future matches what a completely unfounded assumption of the future looked like. These hypothetical scenarios, while heart-tugging, are ridiculous and should in no way be used to create laws that apply to everybody.
I like fixed, limited copyright terms. I proposed 14 years elsewhere, I can live 20. I find the current system an abomination, and a destruction of cultural works. Disney has profited from public works to the tune of billions, and refused to put anything back. I call that piracy. Off with their heads!
Or alternatively, a static set of time starting with the creation of the work. Tom Clancy wrote a book and the mob tossed him to the fishes a day later? It's still under copyright for 14 years. His heirs get that copyright as part of the general assets.
Tom Clancy wrote a book and the mob tosses him to the fishes 14 years later? His heirs get his money and other real assets. But not the copyright.
Disregarding for a second that a window with children should not be in control of the assets of a dead process - No. If you're a successful author, you leave an estate that consists of the money you made. If you weren't a successful author, you still leave what you earned.
This idea that somehow creative works should sustain the livelihood of someone who didn't create them astounds and befuddles me.
Yes, I know, I've made this comment a number of times. But the implications of this idea are too nauseating for me just let them slide.
Wait, is this one of those apologetics posts where someone needs to "discuss" creationism for a class? Can you at least make a handle? You're giving ACs a bad name.
You really should actually study some Economics. You know, not make up shit, but actually learn from those who know more than you. Wikipedia is a handy start. You'll find that market failures and externalities are common terms in any economic discussion, including those by and with various Nobel Prize winners.
So? What's the point of building an estate if you can't pass it to your children?
Intellectual work is not part of an estate. It does not diminish if shared, it is often built on the work that others have shared freely and, in the case of entertainment, is what it is because of its audience.
If you want to leave behind an estate, make money and pass that on. To consider intellectual works part of an estate diminishes human capital and is an insult to those who created it - for it means that achievements can be appropriated by those who had no part in it.
Just for kicks, I decided to google for your string. I found one incident that was related on a blog. Summary of incident: driver backs out of a parking spot, hits a biker, biker group gets mad, driver ends up getting hit in the back of the head with an object. No verification is possible on this incident, and I certainly can't find your implication that this a common incident - or even happened more than once.
As for the cyclist gangs, that's just the regularly scheduled critical mass ride. It's a *normally* well policed and well organized event - there are plenty where I am and in other places in the world, and it's the first time I've heard any altercation happen that was started by a cyclist.
No, to me, your post sounds like typical road rage: the road belongs to me, and everyone else on it is a raging idiot who should be shot. Not to mention that I knew the instant I read the word elitist, I knew the direction your post would go in. I'm pretty sure also you're part of the idiots who sit in traffic school and think they're perfect drivers, and that everything that happens to them is the fault of other people.
Oh wait - that's unconstitutional and will just transform the US into a communist country like the PRK.
This really can't be anything more than a massive government boondoggle. I blame this idea on american voters who think that the gas tax is the devil. The money for roads has to come from somewhere, and if the gas tax isn't doing it, it will come through some other tax.
Personally, I think gas is too cheap anyway. Raise the gas tax on gasoline, and you'll see an explosion in public transportation, fuel-efficient cars, etc. Yeah, there'll be an initial hit on transportation business. But if the tax is raised incrementally, it can be done slow enough to keep up with improvements in fuel-efficient technologies.
Then again, I don't expect politicians to stand for this, nor for enough voters to understand the concept.
I think part of the problem with that statistic is that in the public schools, you get the kids from the worst socio-economic classes in the nation. Try teaching someone that math matters when his buddy in the gang got shot in front of his eyes, he doesn't know his dad, and his mom is selling drugs from home.
For parents who have the proper education and how know how to pass it on, homeschooling can produce excellent results. But realize this is a self-selected sample, and it won't work for everyone.
You claim argument from authority, I claim argument of ignorance: I cannot conceive of it, therefore it cannot be true. Quite frankly, I'd rather trust Dirac on matters of physics that some random poster on a random website with absolutely no knowledge of physics.
Normally, when you arrive at a point where everyone in the world has to be retarded, is out to get you or has to hate you personally for the situation to be understandable, it is safe to assume that the reverse is to true. You're ignorant, paranoid or hate everybody. Sort of like if you keep dating assholes, the problem is with you, not with the world.
Apparently, you missed all the hoopla around the Obama hope poster, which for quite a while was mired in a copyright fight. And that image was much more of a transformation than the jokerization of the Time Magazine cover, not to mention that it was initially not possible to identify the owner of the original picture.
So in short, this is a tempest in a teapot - a completely expected situation that is being blown out of proportion by people with an axe to grind.
Ohhh.... trolls have evolved! This troll uses whole sentences, attempts to establish cause and effect, has an introduction, main point, and a summary... and yet is as much a troll as "Asians are fags, kekeke".
Just to demonstrate the scope of trolling, solipsism a philosophical concept that argues that only the mind can be proven to exist. It has nothing to do with remote kills being easier to perform than a personal stabbing.
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On the contrary. I expect it to be broadcast far and wide on the various entertainment news shows. With only a little disclaimer that it has not gone through peer review, that there is no known mechanism for the results, and that it is contrary to other, peer-reviewed existing studies.
This mythology of the Puritans "founding the country" is progressive-era propaganda.
Don't you mean socially-and-religiously-conservative-era propaganda?
No, I'm implying that americans don't tend to influence french law-making very much.
I suggest that if you want to limit who comes into the country, you include those born into the country in that limit as well. Or are you arguing that a british slacker is better than a nigerian slacker?
Except that the UK is not your house. This latest round of scapegoating is just old-school xenophobia, dressed up in double-talk that tries to pretend that one person is better than another because they were born on a different side of an imaginary line.
Knowledge can change - no shit. We all know that. Doesn't change that by current knowledge, everyone is of African descent.
It's on the internet, so it must be true? I see one flat statement being contradicted by another flat statement. Tell me - why should I believe Kappan magazine over the secretary of Education? Or heck, vice versa? All I know is that long summer breaks were common for a long time where I'm from - where a long time is end of 19th century. And they certainly could not have been influenced by american urban middle-class parents.
Shit happens. Not to mention that I disdain extrapolating what the future should be, and then write laws to make sure that the future matches what a completely unfounded assumption of the future looked like. These hypothetical scenarios, while heart-tugging, are ridiculous and should in no way be used to create laws that apply to everybody.
I like fixed, limited copyright terms. I proposed 14 years elsewhere, I can live 20. I find the current system an abomination, and a destruction of cultural works. Disney has profited from public works to the tune of billions, and refused to put anything back. I call that piracy. Off with their heads!
Or alternatively, a static set of time starting with the creation of the work. Tom Clancy wrote a book and the mob tossed him to the fishes a day later? It's still under copyright for 14 years. His heirs get that copyright as part of the general assets.
Tom Clancy wrote a book and the mob tosses him to the fishes 14 years later? His heirs get his money and other real assets. But not the copyright.
Disregarding for a second that a window with children should not be in control of the assets of a dead process - No. If you're a successful author, you leave an estate that consists of the money you made. If you weren't a successful author, you still leave what you earned.
This idea that somehow creative works should sustain the livelihood of someone who didn't create them astounds and befuddles me.
Yes, I know, I've made this comment a number of times. But the implications of this idea are too nauseating for me just let them slide.
Wait, is this one of those apologetics posts where someone needs to "discuss" creationism for a class? Can you at least make a handle? You're giving ACs a bad name.
You really should actually study some Economics. You know, not make up shit, but actually learn from those who know more than you. Wikipedia is a handy start. You'll find that market failures and externalities are common terms in any economic discussion, including those by and with various Nobel Prize winners.
That's like saying that you don't need more than 10K of RAM to write good software. It's ludicrous, and the excuse of the lazy
So? What's the point of building an estate if you can't pass it to your children?
Intellectual work is not part of an estate. It does not diminish if shared, it is often built on the work that others have shared freely and, in the case of entertainment, is what it is because of its audience.
If you want to leave behind an estate, make money and pass that on. To consider intellectual works part of an estate diminishes human capital and is an insult to those who created it - for it means that achievements can be appropriated by those who had no part in it.
Just for kicks, I decided to google for your string. I found one incident that was related on a blog. Summary of incident: driver backs out of a parking spot, hits a biker, biker group gets mad, driver ends up getting hit in the back of the head with an object. No verification is possible on this incident, and I certainly can't find your implication that this a common incident - or even happened more than once.
As for the cyclist gangs, that's just the regularly scheduled critical mass ride. It's a *normally* well policed and well organized event - there are plenty where I am and in other places in the world, and it's the first time I've heard any altercation happen that was started by a cyclist.
No, to me, your post sounds like typical road rage: the road belongs to me, and everyone else on it is a raging idiot who should be shot. Not to mention that I knew the instant I read the word elitist, I knew the direction your post would go in. I'm pretty sure also you're part of the idiots who sit in traffic school and think they're perfect drivers, and that everything that happens to them is the fault of other people.
Oh wait - that's unconstitutional and will just transform the US into a communist country like the PRK.
This really can't be anything more than a massive government boondoggle. I blame this idea on american voters who think that the gas tax is the devil. The money for roads has to come from somewhere, and if the gas tax isn't doing it, it will come through some other tax.
Personally, I think gas is too cheap anyway. Raise the gas tax on gasoline, and you'll see an explosion in public transportation, fuel-efficient cars, etc. Yeah, there'll be an initial hit on transportation business. But if the tax is raised incrementally, it can be done slow enough to keep up with improvements in fuel-efficient technologies.
Then again, I don't expect politicians to stand for this, nor for enough voters to understand the concept.
Errr.... you missed the socio- part of the socioeconomic issue, or the issue of home-schooled kids being a self-selected sample.
Again, home-schooling can work. But I still haven't seen anything that says that homeschooling works in all situations.
I think part of the problem with that statistic is that in the public schools, you get the kids from the worst socio-economic classes in the nation. Try teaching someone that math matters when his buddy in the gang got shot in front of his eyes, he doesn't know his dad, and his mom is selling drugs from home.
For parents who have the proper education and how know how to pass it on, homeschooling can produce excellent results. But realize this is a self-selected sample, and it won't work for everyone.
You claim argument from authority, I claim argument of ignorance: I cannot conceive of it, therefore it cannot be true. Quite frankly, I'd rather trust Dirac on matters of physics that some random poster on a random website with absolutely no knowledge of physics.
am i insane? is everyone here stupid?
Normally, when you arrive at a point where everyone in the world has to be retarded, is out to get you or has to hate you personally for the situation to be understandable, it is safe to assume that the reverse is to true. You're ignorant, paranoid or hate everybody. Sort of like if you keep dating assholes, the problem is with you, not with the world.
Considering that Japan won the World Baseball Classic, I think they have a fair claim to being a better global baseball champion than the US.
Apparently, you missed all the hoopla around the Obama hope poster, which for quite a while was mired in a copyright fight. And that image was much more of a transformation than the jokerization of the Time Magazine cover, not to mention that it was initially not possible to identify the owner of the original picture.
So in short, this is a tempest in a teapot - a completely expected situation that is being blown out of proportion by people with an axe to grind.
Hey look, three AC trolls replying with the same content within minutes of each other. Joe, don't you have other things to do than browse Slashdot?
Ohhh.... trolls have evolved! This troll uses whole sentences, attempts to establish cause and effect, has an introduction, main point, and a summary... and yet is as much a troll as "Asians are fags, kekeke". Just to demonstrate the scope of trolling, solipsism a philosophical concept that argues that only the mind can be proven to exist. It has nothing to do with remote kills being easier to perform than a personal stabbing.
that time I canceled my WoW account. Then I got back on. What outside world?