Both parents went to college, kids will almost definitely go to college. One parent went to college, still better than even chance that the kids will go to college. Neither parent went to college, then the chances of a kid going to college drop off a cliff.
This narrative keeps being repeated, but it seems to be obvious nonsense. At one point in history almost nobody went to college. Additionally, educational achievement is negatively correlated with number of offsprings (ie. the less schooling you have, the more children you will have on average). If your argument were correct, the number of people with university educations should have decreased over time or at best stayed stagnant. Instead, the percentage of the population with university degrees has more than doubled in the last 50 years, and is 7 times higher than 80 years ago.
I'm not saying that the educational attainment of your parents doesn't play a role, but the EXTENT to which it plays a role is clearly being grossly exaggerated.
If you're too poor to afford more than one iPhone, but you bought an iPhone, you're an idiot. Could have gotten 3 decent android devices for the same price. Or one decent android device and a Chromebook. Then you wouldn't have to worry about programming on a 5 inch screen.
You won't see the "robots" substituting human labor at a given moment, but you are seeing (you've been seeing now from the 70ies, if you've been paying attention) the less-earning people earning less and less.
By "paying attention" you must be talking about your personal anecdotes. Otherwise you would know that wages for most workers (including your "poorest") have remained essentially unchanged for the last 30 years. They declined slightly from the 70s to the mid 90s and have been rising at a similar rate since then.
The whole subprime crisis in the USA can be seen as an "adjustment" in this direction.
Again, nonsense. The subprime crisis was an adjustment for the fact that housing had become insanely overpriced. It's not wages that were the problem but rather the fact that housing had essentially become a ponzi scheme where each successive buyer knew that he could barely afford the house but firmly believed that he would be able to sell for a profit in a few years.
If you have to work for a living that identifies you far more than you origin fairy tale. Convincing American and European working class people otherwise is the key to keeping them in serfdom.
Yeah, this has been a communist talking point for about a century now. One would think that you guys would have given it a rest after Lenin and Stalin came along and freed you from the shackles of serfdom.
Would you stand in a millimeter wave scanner all day
I do; it's called sunlight. My clothes do a pretty good job of blocking the harmful bits, but when it gets really strong I throw on some sunblock. If the 5G towers ever get that strong we might have a bit of a problem; until then I'm not much interested in your FUD.
No, your "mainstream science" are preliminary studies without any evidence of real-world effects. It's a decent starting point if you're looking to justify further research on human beings, but other than that it's meaningless.
Banana equivalent dose has been debunked many times here. The body is designed to handle eating potassium and passes any excess out. It isn't so good with ionising radiation.
You're horribly confused. Potassium emits ionizing radiation. Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation. Ergo far from "debunking" the argument, you've just reinforced it.
You want to take their truck from civilization to the middle of nowhere? Of course that is going to cost you.
The people bringing it back get a break, cause that is what they would have to do anyway.
That's not really how that works. Anyway you can run similar comparisons to other large cities and see what you get. For instance, I just checked Atlanta to Boise and vice versa. It's about the same in each direction; $1,483 to leave Atlanta, and $1,421 to come back. Atlanta isnt "in the middle of nowhere", but you might complain that it has a relatively small population. Fine. At over 2 million people, Huston is one of the largest cities in the USA. From Huston to Boise it's $1,854; from Boise to Huston it's $1,101.
He's right; while the remoteness/isolation of the destination may play some small part in the calculation, this is primarily about supply and demand.
The problem you often see, though, is that a simple, well designed, useful program will slowly, over time, "evolve" into a bloated mess full of "features" which you never use with a UI that makes it difficult to actually find what you're looking for.
As a bonus, if it's an "app", it will also get bogged down with advertisements to help pay for all these new "features" which nobody wanted.
No, it's not a crazy conspiracy theory; it's a really stupid label which basically just means "government". The crazy conspiracy theories are all the other things which nutty people ascribe to this "deep state".
I'm well aware of what Godwin is and isn't. I took his "and I don't care" as an acknowledgement of the irrationality of this particular usage. I suppose it's possible that he meant it in a different way, but either way he's being an idiot.
That's some wonderful quote mining there. The majority of the page says "no", but you dig for the couple parts which say "well, there's this weird result in this one study". I'm always amazed how professionals like yourself manage to find the one nugget of shit in a pile of gold.
Your quoted study found that it affects male rats but not female rats. Even without looking at their methodology, that tells me one of two things is going on. Either:
1. Their study is crap, and there's no actual effect, or 2. Miniscule changes in brain chemistry can have a significant impact on this effect, which means the results are useless when it comes to figuring out effects on humans.
Either way it doesn't tell us anything useful. Unless you're really really worried about the health of male rats.
None of that changes the fact that cellphones and cellphone towers put out low level non ionizing radiation which does not cause any negative health effects.
Nonsense. It's implicit in the original comment, and it's an integral part of the left-wing rhetoric surrounding indigenous peoples. Natives are painted as these holistic gurus with a close connection to nature, so that you can use them as figureheads in your protests against things like the Dakota Pipeline. It's a useful fiction.
There's so much lunacy in your comment that it's obvious you're suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome. The only thing you got right (and the only thing which is supported by your "sources") is that a hospital was bombed in Afghanistan. Everything else is some sick fantasy you concocted.
It's incredible. I'm reading through this thread and it seems like basically the more egregiously you lie, the more "insightful" your post is modded. I would love to see what would happen if you were to claim that the jail system in it's entirety consisted of nothing but court appointed rich white male lawyers riding around kidnapping innocent black children to use as slaves in their underground salt mines. The mods would be in such extacy they'd find a way to give you +5,000.
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Both parents went to college, kids will almost definitely go to college. One parent went to college, still better than even chance that the kids will go to college. Neither parent went to college, then the chances of a kid going to college drop off a cliff.
This narrative keeps being repeated, but it seems to be obvious nonsense. At one point in history almost nobody went to college. Additionally, educational achievement is negatively correlated with number of offsprings (ie. the less schooling you have, the more children you will have on average). If your argument were correct, the number of people with university educations should have decreased over time or at best stayed stagnant. Instead, the percentage of the population with university degrees has more than doubled in the last 50 years, and is 7 times higher than 80 years ago.
I'm not saying that the educational attainment of your parents doesn't play a role, but the EXTENT to which it plays a role is clearly being grossly exaggerated.
If you're too poor to afford more than one iPhone, but you bought an iPhone, you're an idiot. Could have gotten 3 decent android devices for the same price. Or one decent android device and a Chromebook. Then you wouldn't have to worry about programming on a 5 inch screen.
You won't see the "robots" substituting human labor at a given moment, but you are seeing (you've been seeing now from the 70ies, if you've been paying attention) the less-earning people earning less and less.
By "paying attention" you must be talking about your personal anecdotes. Otherwise you would know that wages for most workers (including your "poorest") have remained essentially unchanged for the last 30 years. They declined slightly from the 70s to the mid 90s and have been rising at a similar rate since then.
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The whole subprime crisis in the USA can be seen as an "adjustment" in this direction.
Again, nonsense. The subprime crisis was an adjustment for the fact that housing had become insanely overpriced. It's not wages that were the problem but rather the fact that housing had essentially become a ponzi scheme where each successive buyer knew that he could barely afford the house but firmly believed that he would be able to sell for a profit in a few years.
If you have to work for a living that identifies you far more than you origin fairy tale. Convincing American and European working class people otherwise is the key to keeping them in serfdom.
Yeah, this has been a communist talking point for about a century now. One would think that you guys would have given it a rest after Lenin and Stalin came along and freed you from the shackles of serfdom.
Would you stand in a millimeter wave scanner all day
I do; it's called sunlight. My clothes do a pretty good job of blocking the harmful bits, but when it gets really strong I throw on some sunblock. If the 5G towers ever get that strong we might have a bit of a problem; until then I'm not much interested in your FUD.
No, your "mainstream science" are preliminary studies without any evidence of real-world effects. It's a decent starting point if you're looking to justify further research on human beings, but other than that it's meaningless.
Banana equivalent dose has been debunked many times here. The body is designed to handle eating potassium and passes any excess out. It isn't so good with ionising radiation.
You're horribly confused. Potassium emits ionizing radiation. Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation. Ergo far from "debunking" the argument, you've just reinforced it.
You want to take their truck from civilization to the middle of nowhere? Of course that is going to cost you.
The people bringing it back get a break, cause that is what they would have to do anyway.
That's not really how that works. Anyway you can run similar comparisons to other large cities and see what you get. For instance, I just checked Atlanta to Boise and vice versa. It's about the same in each direction; $1,483 to leave Atlanta, and $1,421 to come back. Atlanta isnt "in the middle of nowhere", but you might complain that it has a relatively small population. Fine. At over 2 million people, Huston is one of the largest cities in the USA. From Huston to Boise it's $1,854; from Boise to Huston it's $1,101.
He's right; while the remoteness/isolation of the destination may play some small part in the calculation, this is primarily about supply and demand.
If it's well designed, nobody.
The problem you often see, though, is that a simple, well designed, useful program will slowly, over time, "evolve" into a bloated mess full of "features" which you never use with a UI that makes it difficult to actually find what you're looking for.
As a bonus, if it's an "app", it will also get bogged down with advertisements to help pay for all these new "features" which nobody wanted.
Oh, it is utterly stupid. As I said, that extra shit you're tacking on to it is the retarded conspiracy theory part.
If you think that the M1 and the F35 are state-level projects, you're horribly confused.
No, it's not a crazy conspiracy theory; it's a really stupid label which basically just means "government". The crazy conspiracy theories are all the other things which nutty people ascribe to this "deep state".
I'm well aware of what Godwin is and isn't. I took his "and I don't care" as an acknowledgement of the irrationality of this particular usage. I suppose it's possible that he meant it in a different way, but either way he's being an idiot.
That's some wonderful quote mining there. The majority of the page says "no", but you dig for the couple parts which say "well, there's this weird result in this one study". I'm always amazed how professionals like yourself manage to find the one nugget of shit in a pile of gold.
Your quoted study found that it affects male rats but not female rats. Even without looking at their methodology, that tells me one of two things is going on. Either:
1. Their study is crap, and there's no actual effect, or
2. Miniscule changes in brain chemistry can have a significant impact on this effect, which means the results are useless when it comes to figuring out effects on humans.
Either way it doesn't tell us anything useful. Unless you're really really worried about the health of male rats.
None of that changes the fact that cellphones and cellphone towers put out low level non ionizing radiation which does not cause any negative health effects.
Look up the Inverse square law
Yep, that's a great start. After you're done looking that up, go ahead and look up the power output of the sun vs a radio antenna.
You can't. The existence of that show is incomprehensible.
Thanks for demonstrating my point for me.
You admit to being irrational, then offer your opinion anyway. Why bother speaking if even you understand that your opinion is worthless?
But giving the browser more access to the file structure and networked files, reminds me of the ...
Chrome OS is not a browser. The "OS" part of the name kinda gives it away.
Nonsense. It's implicit in the original comment, and it's an integral part of the left-wing rhetoric surrounding indigenous peoples. Natives are painted as these holistic gurus with a close connection to nature, so that you can use them as figureheads in your protests against things like the Dakota Pipeline. It's a useful fiction.
There's so much lunacy in your comment that it's obvious you're suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome. The only thing you got right (and the only thing which is supported by your "sources") is that a hospital was bombed in Afghanistan. Everything else is some sick fantasy you concocted.
Only if you're a homohomo sapienz yourself.
It's incredible. I'm reading through this thread and it seems like basically the more egregiously you lie, the more "insightful" your post is modded. I would love to see what would happen if you were to claim that the jail system in it's entirety consisted of nothing but court appointed rich white male lawyers riding around kidnapping innocent black children to use as slaves in their underground salt mines. The mods would be in such extacy they'd find a way to give you +5,000.