Kansas is doing a lot better in terms of education than, say, California.
Kansas is in a state of total collapse, including their education system. The entire state is in a freefall into the shitter, and it's been entirely run by conservative Republicans.
Well, it doesn't help that we've been reading Slashdot articles about "breakthrough" advances in solar and battery technology that never went anywhere about three times a month for the past five years. It makes you jaded after a while.
Those advances in solar and battery technology have gone a lot farther than your beloved, "Private Industry Space Exploration", which still hasn't been able to put a human being into space.
I'm down on self-driving cars. I would love to have one myself, but the technology won't be here in the next five years, probably much longer.
I would love to see self-driving cars. Unfortunately, they won't be ubiquitous in the lifetime of anyone reading Slashdot today. We may get jet-packs before self-driving cars.
Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
"It can't find the lane markings!" Kerssemakers griped to Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was at the wheel. "You need to paint the bloody roads here!"
There is also the prospect of dirt getting in the way when things depend on one-molecule-thick layers.
The same people who believe that self-driving cars will track the white lines on the highway are suddenly made aware that dirt gets in the way when it comes to renewable energy.
I'm serious. Nothing will turn a Slashdotter against the possibilities of technology faster than a discussion about renewable energy.
This seems to be another case of scientists going "I can do this in the lab" and engineers just shaking their heads.
All technological advances start that way. Remember the Manhattan Project? The space program? Einstein?
Nothing makes a certain type of Slashdotter anti-technology faster than a development in renewable energy. The same people who are talking about a manned mission to Mars will go, "...but renewable energy isn't practical!"
Uh, no. I'm safe from whole classes of crime in my own car which involve taxi drivers. My car also has far superior crash safety to any taxi I've ever been in.
You're about 1/4 as likely to be in a traffic accident and hurt in a taxi than in your personal car.
I wish you would tour the dreaded Republican States. Hydropower, windpower, solar power, all popping up
That's because they tell you yahoos one thing and do another for themselves. The corporations, like Exxon, who have spent the most time and money trying to discredit climate scientists are the very ones who are planning their corporate future based on climate change being real.
It's about as safe as being a passenger in your own car. With the millions of taxi rides every day, how many do you think result in harm to the passenger?
Read the fucking article, these were actors performing scenes from a play, and skits.
Maybe you should read the article:
As such, she would find herself saddled with a role, that of a warmhearted maid that misused her talents and, more often than not, distressed the actress herself. But her very presence led the way for everything of color to come over the next half century.
She had to play a fucking servant and Waters herself was ashamed of the role, but needed the work.
Your example exemplifies why there is a B.E.T. And it exemplifies your bigotry.
African Americans were quite common on TV from the beginning
Common, my ass. It was a minstrel show. Black people to entertain white people. You find many people in dramatic series? Comedy shows besides Amos & Andy (played by two white guys on radio, by the way). How 'bout a Playhouse 90?
If it comforts you to think of yourself as not racist, I don't care. But just be aware that your counter-examples just draw a big underscore under your bigotry.
We have B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television) on cable tv, but if someone made W.E.T.
Someone did make W.E.T.
It's called "television". It took about half a century before a black face showed up on television who wasn't playing a sport. And the only reason they were allowed in sports is because they were so much better than white players it was starting to get a little embarrassing to keep them out.
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Kansas is in a state of total collapse, including their education system. The entire state is in a freefall into the shitter, and it's been entirely run by conservative Republicans.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...
https://www.salon.com/2015/06/...
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http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
Those advances in solar and battery technology have gone a lot farther than your beloved, "Private Industry Space Exploration", which still hasn't been able to put a human being into space.
I would love to see self-driving cars. Unfortunately, they won't be ubiquitous in the lifetime of anyone reading Slashdot today. We may get jet-packs before self-driving cars.
And no true scotsman pays attention to the white lines on the highway.
Here's a little bit of recent self-driving car news for you, from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article...
The same people who believe that self-driving cars will track the white lines on the highway are suddenly made aware that dirt gets in the way when it comes to renewable energy.
I'm serious. Nothing will turn a Slashdotter against the possibilities of technology faster than a discussion about renewable energy.
All technological advances start that way. Remember the Manhattan Project? The space program? Einstein?
Nothing makes a certain type of Slashdotter anti-technology faster than a development in renewable energy. The same people who are talking about a manned mission to Mars will go, "...but renewable energy isn't practical!"
You're about 1/4 as likely to be in a traffic accident and hurt in a taxi than in your personal car.
That's because they tell you yahoos one thing and do another for themselves. The corporations, like Exxon, who have spent the most time and money trying to discredit climate scientists are the very ones who are planning their corporate future based on climate change being real.
Face it, you're being had.
Wait, are you really arguing that we shouldn't pay attention to what they do, we should pay attention to what they say?
That explains a lot, actually.
It's a good thing bin Laden wasn't from Kentucky, where there are 4.4 million people, and 4.2 million are related by blood.
Sure, just as soon as we use a "market-based approach" to fossil fuels, instead of providing taxpayer subsidies that dwarf those for renewables.
And by "endorse", I assume you mean, "doing everything they can to kill renewable energy".
http://usuncut.com/news/solarc...
http://www.scholarsstrategynet...
https://newrepublic.com/articl...
http://mic.com/articles/130336...
Plus, both of the leading GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are climate deniers.
https://youtu.be/J_xVWfGjk0o
https://youtu.be/KyulquUwi1Q
Yes.
http://www.film4.com/media/ima...
It's about as safe as being a passenger in your own car. With the millions of taxi rides every day, how many do you think result in harm to the passenger?
You're not married, are you?
Taxi drivers are a lot more likely to be assaulted by their passengers than the other way around.
Play it again, Johnny.
I wonder what was the last time that happened? Do you know? I couldn't find the answer with a few minutes googling.
A little civics lesson: A bill doesn't become law until the president signs it, or his veto is overridden. And there are not enough votes to override.
Maybe you should read the article:
She had to play a fucking servant and Waters herself was ashamed of the role, but needed the work.
Your example exemplifies why there is a B.E.T. And it exemplifies your bigotry.
Common, my ass. It was a minstrel show. Black people to entertain white people. You find many people in dramatic series? Comedy shows besides Amos & Andy (played by two white guys on radio, by the way). How 'bout a Playhouse 90?
If it comforts you to think of yourself as not racist, I don't care. But just be aware that your counter-examples just draw a big underscore under your bigotry.
Massa loves his singing and dancing and sports.
"Amos and Andy"
kek
I found this one in your high school yearbook.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
Someone did make W.E.T.
It's called "television". It took about half a century before a black face showed up on television who wasn't playing a sport. And the only reason they were allowed in sports is because they were so much better than white players it was starting to get a little embarrassing to keep them out.