Alternatively, why do you think that Government has removed Rhetoric and Logic from public schools? It makes it a one sided fight.
I don't know where you're getting your ideas, but "Rhetoric and Logic" are part of every High School and college curriculum I've ever seen. They're just not usually called that any more. Usually it's labelled "Argumentative" or "Persuasive" writing/speaking. Every degree program I've seen requires a course in it, and every high school curriculum I've seen mandates it in at least one grade level if not more.
You're essentially telling your loved ones that an ideal is more important than their safety and well-being
I'm not essentially telling them that, I'm explicitly telling them that, except replace "safety" and "well-being" with "privilege" and "class-status." You have no idea what safety and well-being actually mean.
Especially considering that many spouses won't stick around long for that.
Other people's poor marriage choices are not my problem.
If Nader published "Unsafe at any speed" today he would probably be heckled by the press, sued by the corps, and have a dozen charges on him cooked up by the feds.
Most of that has happened to Nader at one time or another.
In early March 1966, several media outlets, including The New Republic and The New York Times, reported that GM had tried to discredit Nader, hiring private detectives to tap his phones and investigate his past, and hiring prostitutes to trap him in compromising situations
Sorry but records are not held in simple files. I guess you have never worked with multiple complex databases.
FTFY.
Also:
cat recorddel.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DBI; my ($username, $password, $database, $recordname) = @_; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:database=$database;" .
"host=localhost;port=3306", $username, $password);
$SQL= "delete from PHONERECORDS where RECORDNAME=$recordname";
Yet another example of, "If you give a man half a book, you make a fool of him."
Did you miss the word raw? The IQ score is a normalized score. The raw score is a raw score on the same test. People today with 100 IQs on MODERN IQ tests score higher than 100 on OLD tests.
Well ya if you want to believe that Wikipedia is the endall source of information...but...in today's world: "False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people.
You must be drunk. You just repeated your parent.
For example, a "false flag operation" is a terrorist act committed by one group for the express purpose of discrediting another group, which is framed for it. Just sayin...
Because the translated script by itself is not useful. There is no reason to pirate subtitles alone, so there's no need for those to be protected too. If I download fan-made subtitles, I still need to get the movie for them to be useful. It's the AUDIOVISUAL part which contains the entertainment utility (and deserving of some protection).
A book is different because it is solely the words themselves that contain the entertainment utility.
But, it's not a feature of English, it's a feature of some dialects of English.
This is a meaningless sentence. There is no such thing as "English." There is only a collection of mutually intelligible dialects that is referred to as English. Saying that something is not a feature of the collection, but only a feature of a subset is redundant. There are very few features that are universal across all dialects of English.
Or, to put it another way, how long do you think you'd be able to keep a job writing business memos or reports if you were using double negatives for emphasis? I'm guessing you'd very quickly be made to either change the language, or change your job.
This is a stupid point and it has nothing to do with linguistics. The fact that some dialects are considered low status and others carry social prestige does not make either correct or wrong. There is no such thing as "correct" English. There are two major dialects which are treated as educational standards (which is what you are referring to), but that is an arbitrary social status, and neither of them is "correct" (and they differ from each other in several substantial ways such that they certainly couldn't both be correct even if such a thing existed as a "correct" language).
"In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive...
This statement is wrong, and impressively so for a linguistics professor. It is filled with presumptions that are almost universally rejected by linguists (the idea of a uniform/correct standard of a language being the primary offense here). In SOME dialects of English a double negative forms a positive (and even in Standard American English this is not universal). In many (probably most, but I'm too lazy to do anything resembling an exhausting review of the literature right now) dialects of English a double negative is either the same as a simple negative or an intensifier of a negative. AAVE is the obvious example.
he has committed an extremely serious act of treason
Cunts like you are what has ruined this country. You probably would have voted for Nixon with glee.
The idea that exposing government malfeasance is treason is the most insidious bullshit I have ever heard. If the government does it, it IS illegal, and it SHOULD be exposed. Anything less is the real treason--treason against the people.
I'll ask you since I'd like to know: I've heard that one of the most positive innovations for traffic lights is the inclusion of a "timer bar". A bar light along side the normal traffic signals indicates how long the single has until it changes. I've heard that the places it was tested vastly reduced the number of collisions and injuries. Is there any truth to that?
I don't know about timer bars, but in Bangkok they have countdown timers for both green and red. You always know exactly how many seconds until the light changes at a glance. Better than a timer bar, I would think.
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I teach in a US high school using the Common Core State Standards. I teach Persuasive writing every single year.
Alternatively, why do you think that Government has removed Rhetoric and Logic from public schools? It makes it a one sided fight.
I don't know where you're getting your ideas, but "Rhetoric and Logic" are part of every High School and college curriculum I've ever seen. They're just not usually called that any more. Usually it's labelled "Argumentative" or "Persuasive" writing/speaking. Every degree program I've seen requires a course in it, and every high school curriculum I've seen mandates it in at least one grade level if not more.
I'm all for a wider diversity of readings, but you need to lay off the crack-pipe. Virtually all of those "diverse authors" are also mono-cultural.
You're essentially telling your loved ones that an ideal is more important than their safety and well-being
I'm not essentially telling them that, I'm explicitly telling them that, except replace "safety" and "well-being" with "privilege" and "class-status." You have no idea what safety and well-being actually mean.
Especially considering that many spouses won't stick around long for that.
Other people's poor marriage choices are not my problem.
You need better friends who actually care about their families. Some things are more important that hot pockets and mortgages.
That is the incorrect question. The correct question is: "Why aren't you firing 100%?"
If Nader published "Unsafe at any speed" today he would probably be heckled by the press, sued by the corps, and have a dozen charges on him cooked up by the feds.
Most of that has happened to Nader at one time or another.
In early March 1966, several media outlets, including The New Republic and The New York Times, reported that GM had tried to discredit Nader, hiring private detectives to tap his phones and investigate his past, and hiring prostitutes to trap him in compromising situations
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader#Automobile_safety_activism
We were damn sure that there was some wild sex going on with our neighbors, and it turns out that they were just swing dancing
And you believed that story?
Sorry but records are not held in simple files. I guess you have never worked with multiple complex databases.
FTFY.
Also:
cat recorddel.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
my ($username, $password, $database, $recordname) = @_;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:mysql:database=$database;" .
"host=localhost;port=3306", $username, $password);
$SQL= "delete from PHONERECORDS where RECORDNAME=$recordname";
$DeleteRecord = $dbh->do($SQL);
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n\n";
if($DeleteRecord){
print "Success";
}
else{
print "Failure
$DBI::errstr";
}
-EOF-
crontab -e
0 0 1 * * recorddel.pl admin god VerizonRecords "Joe Dirt"
M-X M-S
M-X M-C
This is truly the kind of technology only the Ancients and the Asgard could dream of.
Corollary doesn't mean what you think it does.
The Corollary would be: If it's A-OK, you won't think you have to consult the legal department.
This is a very different statement than the one you came up with. Go back to high school Geometry.
Those processes probably don't exist yet.
crontab -e
0 0 1 * * rm -rf "Joe Dirt's Records"
M-X M-S
M-X M-C
That's some fancy pants futurismic sci-fi technojiggle right there. I can see why the cellphone companies have not figured out how to do it.
Doesn't change the FACT that there is zero evidence of any decline.
The median IQ score is, by definition, 100....
Yet another example of, "If you give a man half a book, you make a fool of him."
Did you miss the word raw? The IQ score is a normalized score. The raw score is a raw score on the same test. People today with 100 IQs on MODERN IQ tests score higher than 100 on OLD tests.
Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=IQ+rise+over+time&l=1
Smashing it with a sledgehammer does not count as a viable battery removal technique.
Well ya if you want to believe that Wikipedia is the endall source of information...but...in today's world: "False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people.
You must be drunk. You just repeated your parent.
For example, a "false flag operation" is a terrorist act committed by one group for the express purpose of discrediting another group, which is framed for it. Just sayin...
So was your parent. Go home gvibe, you're drunk.
Cool story bro, but median (raw) IQ scores have been rising for decades if not centuries. Idiocracy is provably false, and, also, a stupid movie.
Mod Parent -1 Brain Rotted by Pop Science Books.
That is not how evolution works. Natural selection doesn't give a flying fuck about the value judgements you impose on behaviors.
Because the translated script by itself is not useful. There is no reason to pirate subtitles alone, so there's no need for those to be protected too. If I download fan-made subtitles, I still need to get the movie for them to be useful. It's the AUDIOVISUAL part which contains the entertainment utility (and deserving of some protection).
A book is different because it is solely the words themselves that contain the entertainment utility.
But, it's not a feature of English, it's a feature of some dialects of English.
This is a meaningless sentence. There is no such thing as "English." There is only a collection of mutually intelligible dialects that is referred to as English. Saying that something is not a feature of the collection, but only a feature of a subset is redundant. There are very few features that are universal across all dialects of English.
Or, to put it another way, how long do you think you'd be able to keep a job writing business memos or reports if you were using double negatives for emphasis? I'm guessing you'd very quickly be made to either change the language, or change your job.
This is a stupid point and it has nothing to do with linguistics. The fact that some dialects are considered low status and others carry social prestige does not make either correct or wrong. There is no such thing as "correct" English. There are two major dialects which are treated as educational standards (which is what you are referring to), but that is an arbitrary social status, and neither of them is "correct" (and they differ from each other in several substantial ways such that they certainly couldn't both be correct even if such a thing existed as a "correct" language).
"In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive...
This statement is wrong, and impressively so for a linguistics professor. It is filled with presumptions that are almost universally rejected by linguists (the idea of a uniform/correct standard of a language being the primary offense here). In SOME dialects of English a double negative forms a positive (and even in Standard American English this is not universal). In many (probably most, but I'm too lazy to do anything resembling an exhausting review of the literature right now) dialects of English a double negative is either the same as a simple negative or an intensifier of a negative. AAVE is the obvious example.
California IS a legal open carry state. Almost no one does it, but as long as you legally own the gun you can legally open carry.
No, no, a thousand times no.
The constitution enumerates the powers of the government. IT DOES NOT ENUMERATE RIGHTS.
This kind of ignorance is why Fuhrer Obama gets away with being such a fascist prick.
Idiots like you are what is wrong with this country.
Just because Bush should have been tossed out too does not mean we still shouldn't toss out Obama.
he has committed an extremely serious act of treason
Cunts like you are what has ruined this country. You probably would have voted for Nixon with glee.
The idea that exposing government malfeasance is treason is the most insidious bullshit I have ever heard. If the government does it, it IS illegal, and it SHOULD be exposed. Anything less is the real treason--treason against the people.
I'll ask you since I'd like to know: I've heard that one of the most positive innovations for traffic lights is the inclusion of a "timer bar". A bar light along side the normal traffic signals indicates how long the single has until it changes. I've heard that the places it was tested vastly reduced the number of collisions and injuries. Is there any truth to that?
I don't know about timer bars, but in Bangkok they have countdown timers for both green and red. You always know exactly how many seconds until the light changes at a glance. Better than a timer bar, I would think.