How about we are treated as if we were as important as the marketing department?
I mean, without us, there would be no product to market, correct? So how about we are treated as humans instead of code-cranking-machines who do not need food, sleep, or free time on the weekends.
That would be a nice, huge change.
That all people should be free to choose the life they wish? Without barriers other than their own abilities???
If you choose to be a stay at home mom/dad/husband/wife - all power to you. If you choose not to, great.
I remember when the door-to-door creationists showed up in my neighborhood. Knocking in doors and handing out pamphlets about how evolution is the antithesis or religion, blah blah blah, science is evil, blah blah blah.
Of course the entire conversation starts with "What church do you go to?" Seeing that I was at my mother's house, a Catholic (in name only, pretty much agnostic), I replied with that and they ran away anyways.
Bonus points: The Catholic excuse works pretty well with Jehovah's Witnesses too.
More like, "hey we found these fossils and foot prints and droppings and DNA in a dead, mummified mosquito, this must mean there's dinosaurs! but since no human was alive back then, we can only say that with 99.999% certainty"
Or, "there must be some force that is keeping us on this planet, let's call it gravity!! we can see it act upon matter and we can drop things, but we can't see gravity itself, so we have to call it a theory."
This pretty much lays it out exactly; at least from my point of view of a Democrat - to - Liberal Libertarian convert. (Yes, we exist. No, we don't like big government.)
I have many coworkers from Europe and when they come to visit - they are somewhat shell shocked. They see America as this pinnacle of light in Democracy and Freedom and Free Enterprise and Equality Under Law.... and I have to give them the truth, as it pains me to see them that ignorant of it.
"They've got modern technology without ever having gone through and cultural growth. So they're kind of like Children." Best response ever.
there is little to do to help the savages become civil unless they want to, and they dont. to be civil would require them to give up their absolute control over their women as property and they will never let that happen.
I 1000% agree with you.
Its not necessarily Republican-ism, but or fiscal conservatism, or gun rights, etc, etc. You can be a rocket scientist and a fiscal conservative - those things are all matters of opinion. You can argue over the virtues of owning hand guns or not or the merits of a charity based approach to welfare versus government-financed. Its all well and good; one can agree to disagree.
Education, on the other hand, is all based on fact. Religious people who are not open minded to the fact that other people have different beliefs cannot cope with the idea that science is fact based. Education teaches children to think for themselves and make their own decisions, which is deadly to a faith-based ideological system. Sure, any one can choose to be a Muslim or a Christian or a Buddhist once they are educated in these religions and agree with the teachings - but the vast majority of logical people would not when confronted with ALL the evidence. this is the problem. To keep forcing your faith on other people, they must remain ignorant or you cannot control them.
"Abortion is the taking of a human life. You don't think it's a human life? Um, what makes you qualified to determine what is human life and what is not?"
Because they are MY stem cells, MY DNA, and MY eggs. The government doesn't get to tell me what to do with MY cells that make up MY body.
Being against abortion is not the same as being for the government's control of our bodies. I would never have an abortion, but, I will fight for my right to control myself. With MY second amendment, with MY guns.
10000% agreed!
Is Operating Systems 300-ish level class should be required for all CS students. I double majored in IS and I took the A+ class for IS and Operating Systems class in CS at the same time (on purpose, I added the IS major late, it was only like a 200~ level class) and I must say, learning about Operating Systems from both sides - the programmer of the OS and the power user of the OS - at the same time was a learning experience I wouldn't trade anything in the world for. It hands down made me a better programmer and IT manager at the same time, when you understand WHY the system is deadlocking BEFORE it crashes, why the SQL server is acting in such a way due to X amount of processes doing Y, etc, etc.
It also helped a lot for the N+ and CCNA classes, when we're reprogramming our routers by command line I had a distinct advantage against the IS-only students who had no underlying grasp of the intricacies of the OS - even ones small/simple enough for consumer routers.
> Anybody claims to have The Truth and I just giggle, give us another thousand years and we might.
Yes. I apply this to science, religion, politics, anything. Modern science (if Aristotle's Physics == modern) is less than three thousand years old. We are but infants in the great experiment known as our universe. If someone cannot accept the fact of the possibility that their own personal philosophy could be wrong, then it is not called faith. I believe that the universe flows as such: Big Bang -> Big Crunch -> Big Bang -> Big Crunch, ad nauseum, but I am willing to change that belief if and when new evidence is presented towards me (as in, it could be multiple universes bumping into each other, but I think that the BB -> BC cycle is more likely. At this present time.) The lack of the ability to change one's beliefs when presented with evidence to the contrary is the textbook definition of a psychological delusion.
Personally, although I doubt it, I hope the Buddhists are correct so maybe I can come back in another thousand years and see what the future scientists have cooked up. (That and I hope Karma truly exists but I doubt it) Until then, I'm not concerning myself with an afterlife that I cannot find reasonable evidence to believe in. If the rapture starts, zombie Jeebus comes back, or Cthulhu attacks, then I will admit I am wrong.
I enjoy reading the articles on Slashdot, following the links, and then looking around on the websites of the links that hold the science-related articles.
Besides many of the blogs mentioned, I enjoy Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/ although it is mainly tech, video games, tech policy (I particularly like the Law & Disorder section), and physics.
Not to sound unoriginal, but that's the only one off the top of my head that I can think of that hasn't been mentioned. Before the pay wall, I read a lot of the New York Times sections on Technology, Science, and Medical Science (yes, the New York Times if heavily liberal but I don't mind so much personally - stay out of the Opinion section if you are not a fan). I also usually skim the USA Today's Science section, and read Wired, PhysOrg, and the NASA blogs (http://www.nasa.gov/).
Also, a book I am reading now called 'Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat' by Ian Marshall and Danah Zohar (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Afraid-Schr%C3%B6dingers-Guide-Science-Thinking/dp/0688161073 ) is a very enjoyable overview of a lot of what they call the 'New Thinking'. Unfortunately it was published in 1997, so its a little behind (as am I), but still a very good read for the scientific layman.
Who the hell said having a child out of wedlock is abandoning them? Oh no, families that are different than mine are scary!!!!
And who said one of the biggest logical fallacies, generalization, is kosher again?
Luckily we all know you're too cowardly to ever act upon your beliefs, or else I would be worried about your hate speech. You're allowed to think and say whatever the hell you want, but if you come close to any of my African American or Haitian American relatives, you are dead.
That likes to cover up its own problems with blame.
Either 1. Brittish parents suck at raising their own kids. This is not unlike the US in any way (or many industrialized/televised nations). They probably also rely on the television, now plus the computer, to raise their kids. They don't have time to get involved in their lives, that's what MTV is for.
Or 2. Kids, being by definition, cannot vote nor enter the wonderfully vicious world of politics, are outsiders of that world. Outsiders looking in, and they see the problems with a different eye than those involved. Who wouldn't be angry, watching problems evolve that you cannot control, in any way?
Leads to a lot of people bitching but hardly anyone voting (much like in US), and nothing gets changed; on the national level, the state level, and the local level. Just more angry people who believe that one person cannot do anything or change anything, so why try?
Take the easy way out. Destroy, not change. Burn it all down.
At least their being proactive, instead of "Oh, my son is too much to handle, let's give him Ritalin so I don't have to try anymore!", "My vote doesn't count so I'm not going to vote.", or "It's all society's fault!" Good and Evil are better than Aloofness, at least they get off their ass and do something.
If it seems shady to you it means you have something to hide
Case in point, the government has the ability to shape the will of the people against scrutinizing their policies. Only criminals care about losing their rights.
I agree. I think they both will be beneficial. That, and who is to say that virtual/gaming athletes (ie - the ones that get paid for it) aren't as dedicated as "real" athletes? Or share the same qualities?
I think sports helped me a great deal personally. Even tho I'm typically a super shy lady, I'm not afraid of raising my voice to get a point across to a whole room of men, much like when I played soccer. I was the stopper, and had to scream down the field to my teammates. Co-ed soccer has taught me how big of a man I can take down using my short stature and low center of gravity. Rugby taught me what to do if they're too big, hehe.
I'm not afraid to be "pushed around" once I enter the male-predominant field because I know if the worst case happens, I can push back. Or out-smart them. Either or.
My close friend (a male) is completely terrified of spiders and creepy-crawly things. I (a female) love them and love scaring the crap out of male friend for amusement for other friends. Besides the brown recluses in my basement (which will die from RAID - and no, not a hard drive - sometime this week, gotta keep them away from the cats, who knows which will win that one), I think they're so interesting. I want a tarantula. And a baby ball python - my other friend has one and they are adorable!!!!!! Where I live qualifies as "back woods," but no where near as far in as my male friend. We're more concerned about bears and coyotes here, unless a mountain lion shows up randomly, but they haven't been here for a while.
While they do bring up video games, in male friend's defence, I've never met anyone better than him at video games (just don't tell my boyfriend I said that).
Perhaps where you live in approximation to deadly animals makes a difference. Growing up I was taught which snakes and spiders were poisonous as opposed to running away from all of them; there are too many to run away from. "If red touches yellow, you're an unlucky fellow..." and all that. If you see a bear, hope someone else you are with runs slower than you do, jk. Besides, garden snakes are such a pretty color green....
- a tomboy, apparently
Or, nerdy girls (like me and the -only- one other girl that is a Computer Science major at my college) will only breed with nerdy boys with good sperm, while blonds will only breed with the body builders with crappy sperm.... pause for evolution...
Eventually blonds & body builders die off from not being able to reproduce due to generations of crappy sperm, and the nerds are left over to take over the world.
The only thing standing in the way of world domination is premature ejaculation.
Its got Sirius Radio? (looking at the pic) and wireless. What else? Why so secretive? What are they trying to offer us?
I'd like to see something that'll hold MP3s and Sirius Radio and all that fun stuff, but not from Microsoft.
I would enjoy seeing someone wipe it and put a Linux based OS on it or something to that extent.
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How about we are treated as if we were as important as the marketing department? I mean, without us, there would be no product to market, correct? So how about we are treated as humans instead of code-cranking-machines who do not need food, sleep, or free time on the weekends. That would be a nice, huge change.
That all people should be free to choose the life they wish? Without barriers other than their own abilities??? If you choose to be a stay at home mom/dad/husband/wife - all power to you. If you choose not to, great.
I remember when the door-to-door creationists showed up in my neighborhood. Knocking in doors and handing out pamphlets about how evolution is the antithesis or religion, blah blah blah, science is evil, blah blah blah.
Of course the entire conversation starts with "What church do you go to?" Seeing that I was at my mother's house, a Catholic (in name only, pretty much agnostic), I replied with that and they ran away anyways.
Bonus points: The Catholic excuse works pretty well with Jehovah's Witnesses too.
So did my university, so I graduated with certifications AND a diploma or two. For the price of one tuition.
Wish I had mod points to mod this up!!!!!!
"From my personal experience....." is always a giant red flag for an incoming logical fallacy.
Free birth control for everybody!!!!!
More like, "hey we found these fossils and foot prints and droppings and DNA in a dead, mummified mosquito, this must mean there's dinosaurs! but since no human was alive back then, we can only say that with 99.999% certainty"
Or, "there must be some force that is keeping us on this planet, let's call it gravity!! we can see it act upon matter and we can drop things, but we can't see gravity itself, so we have to call it a theory."
If I had mod points, they would all be yours.
This pretty much lays it out exactly; at least from my point of view of a Democrat - to - Liberal Libertarian convert. (Yes, we exist. No, we don't like big government.)
I have many coworkers from Europe and when they come to visit - they are somewhat shell shocked. They see America as this pinnacle of light in Democracy and Freedom and Free Enterprise and Equality Under Law.... and I have to give them the truth, as it pains me to see them that ignorant of it.
Mod up the AC.
"They've got modern technology without ever having gone through and cultural growth. So they're kind of like Children." Best response ever.
there is little to do to help the savages become civil unless they want to, and they dont. to be civil would require them to give up their absolute control over their women as property and they will never let that happen.
I 1000% agree with you. Its not necessarily Republican-ism, but or fiscal conservatism, or gun rights, etc, etc. You can be a rocket scientist and a fiscal conservative - those things are all matters of opinion. You can argue over the virtues of owning hand guns or not or the merits of a charity based approach to welfare versus government-financed. Its all well and good; one can agree to disagree. Education, on the other hand, is all based on fact. Religious people who are not open minded to the fact that other people have different beliefs cannot cope with the idea that science is fact based. Education teaches children to think for themselves and make their own decisions, which is deadly to a faith-based ideological system. Sure, any one can choose to be a Muslim or a Christian or a Buddhist once they are educated in these religions and agree with the teachings - but the vast majority of logical people would not when confronted with ALL the evidence. this is the problem. To keep forcing your faith on other people, they must remain ignorant or you cannot control them.
"Abortion is the taking of a human life. You don't think it's a human life? Um, what makes you qualified to determine what is human life and what is not?"
Because they are MY stem cells, MY DNA, and MY eggs. The government doesn't get to tell me what to do with MY cells that make up MY body.
Being against abortion is not the same as being for the government's control of our bodies. I would never have an abortion, but, I will fight for my right to control myself. With MY second amendment, with MY guns.
10000% agreed! Is Operating Systems 300-ish level class should be required for all CS students. I double majored in IS and I took the A+ class for IS and Operating Systems class in CS at the same time (on purpose, I added the IS major late, it was only like a 200~ level class) and I must say, learning about Operating Systems from both sides - the programmer of the OS and the power user of the OS - at the same time was a learning experience I wouldn't trade anything in the world for. It hands down made me a better programmer and IT manager at the same time, when you understand WHY the system is deadlocking BEFORE it crashes, why the SQL server is acting in such a way due to X amount of processes doing Y, etc, etc. It also helped a lot for the N+ and CCNA classes, when we're reprogramming our routers by command line I had a distinct advantage against the IS-only students who had no underlying grasp of the intricacies of the OS - even ones small/simple enough for consumer routers.
> Anybody claims to have The Truth and I just giggle, give us another thousand years and we might.
Yes. I apply this to science, religion, politics, anything. Modern science (if Aristotle's Physics == modern) is less than three thousand years old. We are but infants in the great experiment known as our universe. If someone cannot accept the fact of the possibility that their own personal philosophy could be wrong, then it is not called faith. I believe that the universe flows as such: Big Bang -> Big Crunch -> Big Bang -> Big Crunch, ad nauseum, but I am willing to change that belief if and when new evidence is presented towards me (as in, it could be multiple universes bumping into each other, but I think that the BB -> BC cycle is more likely. At this present time.) The lack of the ability to change one's beliefs when presented with evidence to the contrary is the textbook definition of a psychological delusion.
Personally, although I doubt it, I hope the Buddhists are correct so maybe I can come back in another thousand years and see what the future scientists have cooked up. (That and I hope Karma truly exists but I doubt it) Until then, I'm not concerning myself with an afterlife that I cannot find reasonable evidence to believe in. If the rapture starts, zombie Jeebus comes back, or Cthulhu attacks, then I will admit I am wrong.
I enjoy reading the articles on Slashdot, following the links, and then looking around on the websites of the links that hold the science-related articles. Besides many of the blogs mentioned, I enjoy Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/ although it is mainly tech, video games, tech policy (I particularly like the Law & Disorder section), and physics.
Not to sound unoriginal, but that's the only one off the top of my head that I can think of that hasn't been mentioned. Before the pay wall, I read a lot of the New York Times sections on Technology, Science, and Medical Science (yes, the New York Times if heavily liberal but I don't mind so much personally - stay out of the Opinion section if you are not a fan). I also usually skim the USA Today's Science section, and read Wired, PhysOrg, and the NASA blogs (http://www.nasa.gov/).
Also, a book I am reading now called 'Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat' by Ian Marshall and Danah Zohar (Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Afraid-Schr%C3%B6dingers-Guide-Science-Thinking/dp/0688161073 ) is a very enjoyable overview of a lot of what they call the 'New Thinking'. Unfortunately it was published in 1997, so its a little behind (as am I), but still a very good read for the scientific layman.
Who the hell said having a child out of wedlock is abandoning them? Oh no, families that are different than mine are scary!!!! And who said one of the biggest logical fallacies, generalization, is kosher again? Luckily we all know you're too cowardly to ever act upon your beliefs, or else I would be worried about your hate speech. You're allowed to think and say whatever the hell you want, but if you come close to any of my African American or Haitian American relatives, you are dead.
That likes to cover up its own problems with blame.
Either 1. Brittish parents suck at raising their own kids. This is not unlike the US in any way (or many industrialized/televised nations). They probably also rely on the television, now plus the computer, to raise their kids. They don't have time to get involved in their lives, that's what MTV is for.
Or 2. Kids, being by definition, cannot vote nor enter the wonderfully vicious world of politics, are outsiders of that world. Outsiders looking in, and they see the problems with a different eye than those involved. Who wouldn't be angry, watching problems evolve that you cannot control, in any way?
Leads to a lot of people bitching but hardly anyone voting (much like in US), and nothing gets changed; on the national level, the state level, and the local level. Just more angry people who believe that one person cannot do anything or change anything, so why try?
Take the easy way out. Destroy, not change. Burn it all down.
At least their being proactive, instead of "Oh, my son is too much to handle, let's give him Ritalin so I don't have to try anymore!", "My vote doesn't count so I'm not going to vote.", or "It's all society's fault!" Good and Evil are better than Aloofness, at least they get off their ass and do something.
If it seems shady to you it means you have something to hide
Case in point, the government has the ability to shape the will of the people against scrutinizing their policies. Only criminals care about losing their rights.
I agree. I think they both will be beneficial. That, and who is to say that virtual/gaming athletes (ie - the ones that get paid for it) aren't as dedicated as "real" athletes? Or share the same qualities? I think sports helped me a great deal personally. Even tho I'm typically a super shy lady, I'm not afraid of raising my voice to get a point across to a whole room of men, much like when I played soccer. I was the stopper, and had to scream down the field to my teammates. Co-ed soccer has taught me how big of a man I can take down using my short stature and low center of gravity. Rugby taught me what to do if they're too big, hehe. I'm not afraid to be "pushed around" once I enter the male-predominant field because I know if the worst case happens, I can push back. Or out-smart them. Either or.
My close friend (a male) is completely terrified of spiders and creepy-crawly things. I (a female) love them and love scaring the crap out of male friend for amusement for other friends. Besides the brown recluses in my basement (which will die from RAID - and no, not a hard drive - sometime this week, gotta keep them away from the cats, who knows which will win that one), I think they're so interesting. I want a tarantula. And a baby ball python - my other friend has one and they are adorable!!!!!! Where I live qualifies as "back woods," but no where near as far in as my male friend. We're more concerned about bears and coyotes here, unless a mountain lion shows up randomly, but they haven't been here for a while. While they do bring up video games, in male friend's defence, I've never met anyone better than him at video games (just don't tell my boyfriend I said that). Perhaps where you live in approximation to deadly animals makes a difference. Growing up I was taught which snakes and spiders were poisonous as opposed to running away from all of them; there are too many to run away from. "If red touches yellow, you're an unlucky fellow..." and all that. If you see a bear, hope someone else you are with runs slower than you do, jk. Besides, garden snakes are such a pretty color green.... - a tomboy, apparently
Or, nerdy girls (like me and the -only- one other girl that is a Computer Science major at my college) will only breed with nerdy boys with good sperm, while blonds will only breed with the body builders with crappy sperm. ... pause for evolution ...
Eventually blonds & body builders die off from not being able to reproduce due to generations of crappy sperm, and the nerds are left over to take over the world.
The only thing standing in the way of world domination is premature ejaculation.
^^^is a female with a dual major in computer science & information systems.
go me.
now give me a job.
GO CANADA!
I wish we (the US) were as cool as Canada.
Its got Sirius Radio? (looking at the pic) and wireless. What else? Why so secretive? What are they trying to offer us? I'd like to see something that'll hold MP3s and Sirius Radio and all that fun stuff, but not from Microsoft. I would enjoy seeing someone wipe it and put a Linux based OS on it or something to that extent.