Bill, you gotta tell me if this is a joke. If it's real, my math professor wife is going to get a kick out of it.
However, she has said that in the past 2 years, she's seen an improvement in the quality of the non-Asian American students. They seem to be better prepared, but that's just anecdote. I was talking to a high-school teacher who said they're trying to teach math more like other places in the world. For example, instead of making Calculus a semester-long course, with Calc I, II, etc, they're teaching it more simply as a set of tools that you look up when you need them. So, they give it several weeks during other math courses and that's it. A lot of kids get hung up on Calculus and if they could just get through it and move on, they'd be better off.
Then read carefully, only researchers making similar suggestions are being pestered. On;y they are leaving the field. What remains is people looking for the biological/physiological cause and how to treat it.
From what see, it looks like anyone who suggests that there may be a psychological compotent to CFS is being pestered.
Let's look at another case: low back pain. It used to be that the only treatment for low back pain was surgery. But surgery never worked. There was no consideration of the possibility of a psychological component until Dr Robert Addison, in Chicago's Rehabilitation Institute insisted that it be looked into. Well it turns out that a malady that was considered to be 100% physical could not be cured until the psychological component was addressed. So now, low back pain (and pain management generally) is treated via multiple approaches. Low back pain may be a much better comparison for CFS than ulcers.
The people who are CFS activists online are demanding that their disease be seen only as a physical phenomenon. They come down hard if any psychological factor is discussed AT ALL. It doesn't matter how promising the research. If someone mentions a psychological component, the brigade descends, and as with most online brigading, it gets very ugly very fast. The people who are doing this research are trying to help. They don't deserve to have this kind of harassment.
Convictions for corruption are probably the worst metric to use to measure if a state is corrupt of not. It assumes that the corruption somehow stops at the court system. I assure you, it does not. Judges in Texas are famously corrupt.
The same jackoffs that think Elon Musk is going to take them to Mars and have them driving autonomous vehicles are also skeptical of...vaccines (which have been around and effective since the 1700s)
I have to believe some of this is the Trump Effect. That fucking degenerate thinks vaccines cause autism, so even admitting the possibility that he is fallible could cause the entire constructed worldview to start to unravel.
Vaccinate your fucking kids, you goofballs. Don't make 8chan your go-to source for information about how the world works. You still have a choice.
Forget Chicago, New York, California. The state of Texas has by far the most corrupt politicians in the nation. From the governor on down to local sheriffs, they all have their hands out to someone who's only happy to put a little something in it.
This came as a surprise to me when lived in South Texas. Texans love to talk about their love of freedom and hatred for big government and regulation, but it turned out to be the exact opposite. This is a real shame, because the people of Texas, the actual citizens, are some of the nicest, most decent people you could meet. But decades of unabashed corruption and gerrymandering have completely destroyed anything like true representation. Only recently has this been changing a little bit, because the energy industry in Texas is slowly losing it's mojo.
They've covered in up using Koch Brothers money and energy industry wealth, but if you look closely, you quickly learn that Texas state politicians are so corrupt it would make a Chicago alderman blush.
Ouch! Cue the inevitable flame war between Tool and Muse fans. =P
Don't you talk shit about Muse. I watched Bohemian Rhapsody not long ago, and while it was kind of a mediocre music biopic, it also reminded me that hysterical, operatic British hard rock is in desperately short supply these days. Say what you will about Muse, but at least they're stepping up to the plate to take a swing. Yes, their music is derivative, and yes their lyrics are sophomoric, but they're at least trying for the mantle left empty by Queen.
Plus, their music is terrific for playing video games.
Tool, on the other hand, is kind of meh. I hope that brings some clarity to this discussion.
"Comprise" means "include" not "compose". "Comprise" implies these are all the things included, where "include" leaves open the possibly that you didn't list everything.
It's never correct to say "comprised of" any more than "included of"; That's just someone trying to look smart but instead babbling nonsense. If you want to say "composed of", say "composed of". If you want to use "comprise", use it just like you would "include".
It hurts me to say it, but you are absolutely correct, and I endorse your rant.
Do you guys know who the director of the Federal Aviation Authority is right now? Nobody does, because Trump has never gotten around to appointing one. To be fair, he's been very busy with the golf co-championship and everything, and it probably just slipped his mind.
Since death metal inspires joy, can we start a little thread of our favorite death metal songs?
I'm not a regular death metal listener, but I have to admit that when I hear it I get unreasonably giddy. Here's Cannibal Corpse, who I like because they remind me of a real live version of Deathklok.
I listen to this shit and I'm ready to go put my head through some drywall. In next life, I want to come back as a death metal bass player, but hopefully not Murderface.
You're too fucking boring to matter even a little bit. Keep the boring and stupid inside and just kill yourself. Nobody will ever miss you. You will never matter even a tiny amount.
So, theoretically, if one were to wrap one's wife in this material, then he wouldn't be able to hear her insist that he take the garbage out during the 4th period of the Warrior-Rockets game?
Let's see you buy an 8-ball of crystal meth with a credit card or Apple Pay. You think Robert Kraft is slapping down his Discover Card when he goes to the Chinese rub'n'tug to get his egg roll dipped in sweet and sour?
Do you think that when the human trafficking owner of that Chinese rub'n'tug sells access to Donald Trump that they're taking credit card payments?
Fuck no. There somebody, somewhere, with a wad of currency. As it will ever be.
As the Melania body double famously said, "I really don’t care, do u?"
Is anyone surprised that nobody listened to a bunch of man babies who were upset that their superhero didn't have a penis? The good news is that none of them will be procreating, so the 40 year-old overweight man baby who hangs around the comic book store and jacks off to drawings of Thor genetic profile will soon disappear and the rest of us can go on with our lives.
However, it may drastically reduce the Anonymous Coward population, so comme ci, comme ça, which is Gaelic for "fuck them sad sacks".
I should add that no one, literally NO ONE I know wants to continue with the DST bullshit. No one has ever wanted it as far back as I can recall. I honestly can't think of a single person in my entire life that thought it was a good thing.
We've been changing the clocks since 1918. That means we've been doing this for over a century. Quit your bitching and just change your fucking clock. It won't kill you. All the sturm and drang about circadian rhythms and how badly it messes you up is overdone. Your daddy did it and your granddaddy did it and your great-granddaddy did it and by god it's good enough for you too.
Plus, tomorrow night at 6:30pm I'll still be able to sit on my front porch and read. In June, when I walk the dog at 8:30pm, there will still be light in the sky and I like that. I get up at 5:30am anyway, so it's always dark when I wake up, so nothing changes at that end.
Time is just a social construct. Get with the program and fall back or spring forward or whatever the fuck you're supposed to do tonight. Me, I don't know because I don't wear a wristwatch, so I don't have to change anything. Plus, I've long forgotten how to change the time on my car radio, so at least for the next half a year it will be correct instead of an hour fast.
I went to the doctor and he examined me and ran a battery of tests. His video link robot came back into the room and said, "Mr Ratzo, you're crazy." I told him I wanted a second opinion and he said, "You're ugly, too."
But the video link robot did suggest that I start doing yoga. When I asked him why, he said, "So you can kiss your ass goodbye."
Maybe it needs to be updated for the modern times?
No, the original suffices. Your "update for modern times" is stupid and tone deaf.
First, they came for Alex Jones and I did not speak out -- because I didn't believe in stupid Conspiracy Theories Then they came for the Anti-vaxxers and I did not speak out -- because I didn't believe in anti medicine. Then they came for "Hate Speech" and I did not speak out -- because anyone with a brain knows speech has no feelings. Then they came for the ____
See, in the original, the groups listed were all those who were actively being hunted, oppressed, and killed. Alex Jones is free to spew garbage, he just doesn't get to force private businesses to spew his garbage. He can print pamphlets and make podcasts all day long. Anti-vaxxers are not being rounded up and gassed. They are free to spew their garbage, they just aren't welcome to spew garbage on certain privately-owned websites.
Stop with this moral equivalence. It does not speak well of your own moral compass.
Slashdot Mirror
Bill, you gotta tell me if this is a joke. If it's real, my math professor wife is going to get a kick out of it.
However, she has said that in the past 2 years, she's seen an improvement in the quality of the non-Asian American students. They seem to be better prepared, but that's just anecdote. I was talking to a high-school teacher who said they're trying to teach math more like other places in the world. For example, instead of making Calculus a semester-long course, with Calc I, II, etc, they're teaching it more simply as a set of tools that you look up when you need them. So, they give it several weeks during other math courses and that's it. A lot of kids get hung up on Calculus and if they could just get through it and move on, they'd be better off.
Seventy comments and no one has thought to post this? What's happened to Slashdot?
https://youtu.be/N-_mHedypEU
From what see, it looks like anyone who suggests that there may be a psychological compotent to CFS is being pestered.
Let's look at another case: low back pain. It used to be that the only treatment for low back pain was surgery. But surgery never worked. There was no consideration of the possibility of a psychological component until Dr Robert Addison, in Chicago's Rehabilitation Institute insisted that it be looked into. Well it turns out that a malady that was considered to be 100% physical could not be cured until the psychological component was addressed. So now, low back pain (and pain management generally) is treated via multiple approaches. Low back pain may be a much better comparison for CFS than ulcers.
The people who are CFS activists online are demanding that their disease be seen only as a physical phenomenon. They come down hard if any psychological factor is discussed AT ALL. It doesn't matter how promising the research. If someone mentions a psychological component, the brigade descends, and as with most online brigading, it gets very ugly very fast. The people who are doing this research are trying to help. They don't deserve to have this kind of harassment.
Convictions for corruption are probably the worst metric to use to measure if a state is corrupt of not. It assumes that the corruption somehow stops at the court system. I assure you, it does not. Judges in Texas are famously corrupt.
https://www.statesman.com/news...
http://lawflog.com/?p=1957
https://www.texasobserver.org/...
The same jackoffs that think Elon Musk is going to take them to Mars and have them driving autonomous vehicles are also skeptical of...vaccines (which have been around and effective since the 1700s)
I have to believe some of this is the Trump Effect. That fucking degenerate thinks vaccines cause autism, so even admitting the possibility that he is fallible could cause the entire constructed worldview to start to unravel.
Vaccinate your fucking kids, you goofballs. Don't make 8chan your go-to source for information about how the world works. You still have a choice.
Forget Chicago, New York, California. The state of Texas has by far the most corrupt politicians in the nation. From the governor on down to local sheriffs, they all have their hands out to someone who's only happy to put a little something in it.
This came as a surprise to me when lived in South Texas. Texans love to talk about their love of freedom and hatred for big government and regulation, but it turned out to be the exact opposite. This is a real shame, because the people of Texas, the actual citizens, are some of the nicest, most decent people you could meet. But decades of unabashed corruption and gerrymandering have completely destroyed anything like true representation. Only recently has this been changing a little bit, because the energy industry in Texas is slowly losing it's mojo.
They've covered in up using Koch Brothers money and energy industry wealth, but if you look closely, you quickly learn that Texas state politicians are so corrupt it would make a Chicago alderman blush.
Trump fans are a friendly sort, no?
Listen, pgmrdlm, promise us that if you plan on shooting up a grade school or something that you'll talk to a counselor first. Please.
Don't you talk shit about Muse. I watched Bohemian Rhapsody not long ago, and while it was kind of a mediocre music biopic, it also reminded me that hysterical, operatic British hard rock is in desperately short supply these days. Say what you will about Muse, but at least they're stepping up to the plate to take a swing. Yes, their music is derivative, and yes their lyrics are sophomoric, but they're at least trying for the mantle left empty by Queen.
Plus, their music is terrific for playing video games.
Tool, on the other hand, is kind of meh. I hope that brings some clarity to this discussion.
Tool songs aren't actually a million hours long. They just seem that way.
It hurts me to say it, but you are absolutely correct, and I endorse your rant.
No one has been nominated for FAA director since January of 2017. It's a minor detail that was somehow skipped in all the activity.
Deicide was good. I had a kid in class some years back and he was a metal head and made me a CD mix of some stuff and Deicide was on it.
Do you guys know who the director of the Federal Aviation Authority is right now? Nobody does, because Trump has never gotten around to appointing one. To be fair, he's been very busy with the golf co-championship and everything, and it probably just slipped his mind.
Nothing matters any more.
Since death metal inspires joy, can we start a little thread of our favorite death metal songs?
I'm not a regular death metal listener, but I have to admit that when I hear it I get unreasonably giddy. Here's Cannibal Corpse, who I like because they remind me of a real live version of Deathklok.
https://youtu.be/482tDopNzoc
I listen to this shit and I'm ready to go put my head through some drywall. In next life, I want to come back as a death metal bass player, but hopefully not Murderface.
Mom, is that you?
So, theoretically, if one were to wrap one's wife in this material, then he wouldn't be able to hear her insist that he take the garbage out during the 4th period of the Warrior-Rockets game?
Asking for a friend.
You have to cook them sous-vide. They come out nice and tender, plus you get the added benefit of listening to them scream.
It's gonna be this way until that degenerate is safely out of office, so get used to it. Just relax and enjoy the ride, sweetheart.
Let's see you buy an 8-ball of crystal meth with a credit card or Apple Pay. You think Robert Kraft is slapping down his Discover Card when he goes to the Chinese rub'n'tug to get his egg roll dipped in sweet and sour?
Do you think that when the human trafficking owner of that Chinese rub'n'tug sells access to Donald Trump that they're taking credit card payments?
Fuck no. There somebody, somewhere, with a wad of currency. As it will ever be.
And no, I'm not making any of the above up:
https://nymag.com/intelligence...
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/...
As the Melania body double famously said, "I really don’t care, do u?"
Is anyone surprised that nobody listened to a bunch of man babies who were upset that their superhero didn't have a penis? The good news is that none of them will be procreating, so the 40 year-old overweight man baby who hangs around the comic book store and jacks off to drawings of Thor genetic profile will soon disappear and the rest of us can go on with our lives.
However, it may drastically reduce the Anonymous Coward population, so comme ci, comme ça, which is Gaelic for "fuck them sad sacks".
We've been changing the clocks since 1918. That means we've been doing this for over a century. Quit your bitching and just change your fucking clock. It won't kill you. All the sturm and drang about circadian rhythms and how badly it messes you up is overdone. Your daddy did it and your granddaddy did it and your great-granddaddy did it and by god it's good enough for you too.
Plus, tomorrow night at 6:30pm I'll still be able to sit on my front porch and read. In June, when I walk the dog at 8:30pm, there will still be light in the sky and I like that. I get up at 5:30am anyway, so it's always dark when I wake up, so nothing changes at that end.
Time is just a social construct. Get with the program and fall back or spring forward or whatever the fuck you're supposed to do tonight. Me, I don't know because I don't wear a wristwatch, so I don't have to change anything. Plus, I've long forgotten how to change the time on my car radio, so at least for the next half a year it will be correct instead of an hour fast.
I went to the doctor and he examined me and ran a battery of tests. His video link robot came back into the room and said, "Mr Ratzo, you're crazy." I told him I wanted a second opinion and he said, "You're ugly, too."
But the video link robot did suggest that I start doing yoga. When I asked him why, he said, "So you can kiss your ass goodbye."
I hope you use protection, because those rent boys at the leather bar tend to be, shall we say, less than hygienic. Just ask Tim Cook.
No, the original suffices. Your "update for modern times" is stupid and tone deaf.
See, in the original, the groups listed were all those who were actively being hunted, oppressed, and killed. Alex Jones is free to spew garbage, he just doesn't get to force private businesses to spew his garbage. He can print pamphlets and make podcasts all day long. Anti-vaxxers are not being rounded up and gassed. They are free to spew their garbage, they just aren't welcome to spew garbage on certain privately-owned websites.
Stop with this moral equivalence. It does not speak well of your own moral compass.
It's not erased. If you long to see some racist Disney cartoons, they are readily available for your viewing pleasure, SuperKendall.
Just a simple search.