Oh... You might want to rush out and write the movie script before someone beats you to the idea. But you might want to try writing a book first, though, and hope that some big producer buys the rights to make the movie.
I attacked the institute. I recall a couple years back some guy that works for them getting his daughter's preschool class to cancel reading The Lorax because he claimed that it is anti-capitalist. Yeah, environmental conservation is bad because it sometimes conflicts with capitalism.
So, his solution for science in schools is to leave schools alone so that they do their own happy thing? That conflicts with what the previous poster said about him wanting it to be banned.
Experience has forced me to agree with von Mises, public schools should be banned from teaching science because they incapable of presenting it correctly and will only cause confusion.
The von Mises institute is capitalist extreme. I'm sure they think that all public schools should teach the masses how to better serve the elite who go to private schools.
Why do they not suggest ways to fix issues they have with science in public schools other than to completely take it away? Do they prefer for the masses to be ignorant?
Ok, let's say I wanted to donate my body to Leonardo's research when I die.
Guess what? The Church won't let me do what I want with my body because it is against their beliefs. And I'm sure the Church scared the hell out of people with ideas that they couldn't go to heaven if their deceased bodies were "desecrated."
Leonardo did his work in the only way he could. Would you rather the world still be ignorant of the body to this day and not have life saving surgeries performed?
His anatomical knowledge came from his post-mortem dissection work, which the Church forbade.
Great minds of the past shouldn't just be honored for their great contributions to art and science. In fact, it may almost be more important that they defied the religiously dictated laws of their times. Even Isaac Newton, who may the most important scientist in our history, dabbled in occult beliefs that some feel led to his gravitational theory.
I tip my hat to Leonardo, Galileo, Newton, and others for having the guts to stand up to the religion to advance humans forward.
And they are such showoffs about it. I was invited over to the zoo last weekend by a gorilla. He was chugging the beers when he suddenly decided to take me to the tool shed to show me the new bandsaw he bought the day before.
From t-squares to circular saws, that ape had it all. I'm envious:(
I recall reading a few years back that movie makers were making extra scenes just for the sake of calling them deleted scenes and selling special editions. Considering that Lucas has the Midas touch, I would suspect that some of these weren't cut solely to shrink the film size.
It's underhanded, but its good news for fans - deleted scenes are deleted for a reason, usually that they suck. In this case, they will probably be better than that.
When I saw the headline about the PSP Firmware being downgraded and looked at the picture of the original Gameboy, for a split second I thought, "Damn, that's quite a downgrade!"
That would have been quite a downgrade put out by SonyxTeam.
This frightning beast is a reminder to Peter of just how wrong his brush with mutation could have gone.
Peter sure got lucky - if he didn't mutate the way he did, the comics would have presented his love life as being like that of the typical Slashdotter. But then again, the Toxic Crusader does pretty well for himself with blind women.
For those of you who don't know, the car appears in pretty much everything Raimi does. It was in the Evil Dead movies (though a "stunt double" was used for some parts). In Spiderman 1, Peter's grandfather drove it when he dropped him off for the library / wrestling event. I haven't seen Spiderman 2, so I don't know where it appears in that.
Damn, I was making all these cakes because I thought it was International Cake Day. Google always lets me know when to celebrate some holiday I'm not familiar with (Like Bastille Day). Now I just look like an idiot. An idiot with a bunch of cakes.
Sure, diversify by bringing in people from other countries. But the "diversification" is almost nothing but students from India and China, prime H1-B targets. They seem to aim for 3% black students, but the US population is 12% black and worldwide, I think more than 15% of people are black Africans. Why is it that I don't see any black Africans taking spots in grad school?
I think what you're saying is that the student population is currently representative of the world population, but the uni. wants it to be representative of the population of the USA?
If they were seeking to match the US population, they would need blacks students to make up 12% of the student body. If they were seeking to make it match the world population, I think it would be more like 15%, but definitely more than the ~3% they seem to aim for.
On a side note, affirmative action is a bunch of BS and the way the powers that be train future H1-B labor. The truth is that in many schools, The over representation is actually from foreign students, particularly from Asia, strong H1-B candidates.
I was looking at some data for U of Washington, the place where they had the infamous "affirmative action bake sale." To make class populations representative of the population of the state, they would need to increase black students from 2.7% to 3.5%, hispanics by something similar, increase white students from 50% to 70%, and drop Asians (huge numbers from outside the US) from 30% to something like 6%.
It's a good thing, they might have had to notify the EPA.
Wouldn't have been a problem - the current admin has upped the allowable amount of detail emissions.
I can see where this is going. Next competition will be $250,000 for converting regolith into water and then there will be $250,000 for converting it into food.
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Oh... You might want to rush out and write the movie script before someone beats you to the idea. But you might want to try writing a book first, though, and hope that some big producer buys the rights to make the movie.
I attacked the institute. I recall a couple years back some guy that works for them getting his daughter's preschool class to cancel reading The Lorax because he claimed that it is anti-capitalist. Yeah, environmental conservation is bad because it sometimes conflicts with capitalism.
So, his solution for science in schools is to leave schools alone so that they do their own happy thing? That conflicts with what the previous poster said about him wanting it to be banned.
Experience has forced me to agree with von Mises, public schools should be banned from teaching science because they incapable of presenting it correctly and will only cause confusion.
The von Mises institute is capitalist extreme. I'm sure they think that all public schools should teach the masses how to better serve the elite who go to private schools.
Why do they not suggest ways to fix issues they have with science in public schools other than to completely take it away? Do they prefer for the masses to be ignorant?
Please see my and an AC's response to the reply before yours.
Anyway, what about Galileo and Newton? What bodies did they exhume? That's right, they had guts to defy asinine laws that prevented free thought.
Ok, let's say I wanted to donate my body to Leonardo's research when I die.
Guess what? The Church won't let me do what I want with my body because it is against their beliefs. And I'm sure the Church scared the hell out of people with ideas that they couldn't go to heaven if their deceased bodies were "desecrated."
Leonardo did his work in the only way he could. Would you rather the world still be ignorant of the body to this day and not have life saving surgeries performed?
From the article:
His anatomical knowledge came from his post-mortem dissection work, which the Church forbade.
Great minds of the past shouldn't just be honored for their great contributions to art and science. In fact, it may almost be more important that they defied the religiously dictated laws of their times. Even Isaac Newton, who may the most important scientist in our history, dabbled in occult beliefs that some feel led to his gravitational theory.
I tip my hat to Leonardo, Galileo, Newton, and others for having the guts to stand up to the religion to advance humans forward.
"Maybe that's a metric fuckton of work for someone who really doesn't want to put the time into it."
For our non-metric friends, that is equivalent to 1.5 shitloads of work.
And they are such showoffs about it. I was invited over to the zoo last weekend by a gorilla. He was chugging the beers when he suddenly decided to take me to the tool shed to show me the new bandsaw he bought the day before.
:(
From t-squares to circular saws, that ape had it all. I'm envious
How will filesharing *ever* have credibility now that the VietCong supports it?
Hey, if communism means free music and movies, I'm all for it. Screw capitalism and its "downloading is stealing" attitude!
No no, it takes space balls. They will get away with it if the Schwartz is strong in them.
I recall reading a few years back that movie makers were making extra scenes just for the sake of calling them deleted scenes and selling special editions. Considering that Lucas has the Midas touch, I would suspect that some of these weren't cut solely to shrink the film size.
It's underhanded, but its good news for fans - deleted scenes are deleted for a reason, usually that they suck. In this case, they will probably be better than that.
Someone please tell me what part of this is flamebait.
When I saw the headline about the PSP Firmware being downgraded and looked at the picture of the original Gameboy, for a split second I thought, "Damn, that's quite a downgrade!"
That would have been quite a downgrade put out by SonyxTeam.
This frightning beast is a reminder to Peter of just how wrong his brush with mutation could have gone.
Peter sure got lucky - if he didn't mutate the way he did, the comics would have presented his love life as being like that of the typical Slashdotter. But then again, the Toxic Crusader does pretty well for himself with blind women.
Sam Raimi's yellow 1973 Oldsmobile.
For those of you who don't know, the car appears in pretty much everything Raimi does. It was in the Evil Dead movies (though a "stunt double" was used for some parts). In Spiderman 1, Peter's grandfather drove it when he dropped him off for the library / wrestling event. I haven't seen Spiderman 2, so I don't know where it appears in that.
Damn, I was making all these cakes because I thought it was International Cake Day. Google always lets me know when to celebrate some holiday I'm not familiar with (Like Bastille Day). Now I just look like an idiot. An idiot with a bunch of cakes.
Well, according to Wiki, the Monorail is named for its inventor, Monovius Railerton. Oh wait, it wasn't from Wiki, it was that other website.
Sure, diversify by bringing in people from other countries. But the "diversification" is almost nothing but students from India and China, prime H1-B targets. They seem to aim for 3% black students, but the US population is 12% black and worldwide, I think more than 15% of people are black Africans. Why is it that I don't see any black Africans taking spots in grad school?
I think what you're saying is that the student population is currently representative of the world population, but the uni. wants it to be representative of the population of the USA?
If they were seeking to match the US population, they would need blacks students to make up 12% of the student body. If they were seeking to make it match the world population, I think it would be more like 15%, but definitely more than the ~3% they seem to aim for.
Knowing that, you tell me what they are doing.
Yep, H1-B visas will bring that cheap labor in.
On a side note, affirmative action is a bunch of BS and the way the powers that be train future H1-B labor. The truth is that in many schools, The over representation is actually from foreign students, particularly from Asia, strong H1-B candidates.
I was looking at some data for U of Washington, the place where they had the infamous "affirmative action bake sale." To make class populations representative of the population of the state, they would need to increase black students from 2.7% to 3.5%, hispanics by something similar, increase white students from 50% to 70%, and drop Asians (huge numbers from outside the US) from 30% to something like 6%.
It's a good thing, they might have had to notify the EPA.
Wouldn't have been a problem - the current admin has upped the allowable amount of detail emissions.
Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans
WASHINGTON, DC--Dynamic, well-liked Tyler Sheehan was found dead in the floodwaters, much to President Bush's horror.
The Onion appears to still be doing its satirical news thing.
Soylent green is regolith! Reeegooliiittth!
As previously reported, there is a $250,000 prize for converting regolith into Oxygen.
I can see where this is going. Next competition will be $250,000 for converting regolith into water and then there will be $250,000 for converting it into food.
Once you cut out the commercials and DJ blabber, that will leave approximately 1 hour of actual music that should fit nicely into that 64 megs.
Seriously, does anyone bother with the radio? I swear that I can make a 5 mile trip without hearing a single song on most stations.