I would *love* to move to Canada, but it's not like I can take a plane, get an apartment, fill out a form and become a citizen. Not to mention the fact that finding a job, even in Canada, is a bit iffy at the moment.
Apparently the school administration has lost all memory of being teenagers in the 60s and 70s.
Hint: Drugs do not come in big candy colored shapes. Think powders, small tiny pills, pieces of paper, crude plant material, or crudely rolled cigarettes. FYI, Sweet Tarts and M&Ms are still legal in most states.
For the record, I'm 52, program mostly in vb.net and/or C# and am looking forward to figuring out cloud computing.
That said, I agree very much with OpenTuning's statement. The amount of sheer incompetence shown by the people I must deal with in my day-to-day life outside of work is simply mind boggling. I talk to clerks and salespeople in their 20s who seem to think that adding, subtracting and reasoning are quaint products of a bygone era. Apparently all things in life that matter can be found in the telephone screen. Guess I missed the memo.
I don't shout. I hide. As a developer, I manage to arrange large chunks of time where I don't need to interact. I pretend to care about the 4th flavor of agile that is failing as miserably as the previous 3. I stay quiet in meetings unless it's absolutely necessary to point out some obvious fact that has been missed. I try and avoid them altogether.
At this point, I come to work for refuge and reassurance that stupid pills have not been issued to the general populace while I wasn't looking. I'm not convinced.
Entangle all the matter on the ship and move it.000000009 nanometers. Repeat process really fast until you look like you're exceeding lightspeed and moving. In fact, you'll never be anything but stationary. You get around all those movement problems like those UFOs that seem to act like they have no inertia.
> the exact type that orgs like WWF and the like dont care about because theyre not fluffy, colorful or cute You're saying the World Wrestling Federation officially endorses fluffy, colorful cute animals? Does this explain the costumes? Or the female wrestlers? Inquiring minds want to know!
More accurate, anyway. At any rate, I'll believe something has changed when I can talk to somebody who's not in India, knows something, can make a decision and can understand words like "I measured the Comcast line signal strengh for the last 24 hours and it dipped to just above zero 7 times in that period for a total of 95.4 minutes of non-functioning internet time so GET AN ENGINEER TO YOUR SWITCH AND DON'T SENT OUT THE LOCAL DUMBASS AGAIN."
Ha, you young Whippersnapper! Back when I was a boy, we used to track 'em in 11 dimensions. 11! And 8 of those dimensions were *dang* small. And if we missed a dimension, our pappy would throw us through a hole in it so we'd have to squeeze back into the outhouse in the 5th dimension. You kids have it sooo EASY!
I agree. Don't leave it out. Just discuss it in the same neutral, contextual manner as you would the Roman or Mayan polytheism, the Ottoman's practice of Islam, the shamanism of indigenous Brazilian tribes, King Ashoka's Buddhism and the multiple conflicting religions of the Punjab region of India.
It's the promotion of one religion over another in a taxpayer supported forum that's the problem, not information itself.
Correlation does not equal causality. Coincidentally, Marx had atheism as an element in his system because he favored the state. Had he had a religion or two, would it have made any difference? Would the soviet union have succeeded? Economic system failures and religious belief systems are essentially unrelated. We essentially have one data point (i.e. the soviet union). Communist China hosted a number of religions and if you think Cuba has no catholics, I suggest you review the facts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Cuba). Korea, similarly has quite a few Buddhists left (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_North_Korea).
Creationism doesn't detract, it's simply not provable in any scientific sense, and therefore belongs in a philosophy class and/or possibly an anthropology class (e.g. "Creation myths of the world").
Evolution provably happens all the time to numerous creatures and us.
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True. I wasn't a kid in the 80s or 90s. Prescriptions were considered too tame when I was a kid.
I would *love* to move to Canada, but it's not like I can take a plane, get an apartment, fill out a form and become a citizen. Not to mention the fact that finding a job, even in Canada, is a bit iffy at the moment.
We can't do what virtually every other first world democracy has done (i.e. provide taxpayer funded universal medical coverage).
Yes, the USA sure is "special."
Apparently the school administration has lost all memory of being teenagers in the 60s and 70s.
Hint: Drugs do not come in big candy colored shapes. Think powders, small tiny pills, pieces of paper, crude plant material, or crudely rolled cigarettes. FYI, Sweet Tarts and M&Ms are still legal in most states.
Isn't that reasoning circular?
Semantically, you've just said "It's not alive because it's not alive."
Fiddlesticks!
What you're talking about as life is one specific instance of of the more general phenomenon, self-replication.
What about:
* Salt crystals in a supersaturated solution self-replicate.
* Prions self replicate (Without reproducing. Only the shape self replicates)
* Viruses self replicate (Where's the homeostasis?)
* Ideas in a collective social awareness self replicate (e.g. money, religion, cowboy neal)
* And where's the part about "ability to evolve through an optimal number of replication errors in a population?"
Well, I haven't seen your refrigerator. I can tell you that mine is getting there. I really must clean more often.
For the record, I'm 52, program mostly in vb.net and/or C# and am looking forward to figuring out cloud computing.
That said, I agree very much with OpenTuning's statement. The amount of sheer incompetence shown by the people I must deal with in my day-to-day life outside of work is simply mind boggling. I talk to clerks and salespeople in their 20s who seem to think that adding, subtracting and reasoning are quaint products of a bygone era. Apparently all things in life that matter can be found in the telephone screen. Guess I missed the memo.
I don't shout. I hide. As a developer, I manage to arrange large chunks of time where I don't need to interact. I pretend to care about the 4th flavor of agile that is failing as miserably as the previous 3. I stay quiet in meetings unless it's absolutely necessary to point out some obvious fact that has been missed. I try and avoid them altogether.
At this point, I come to work for refuge and reassurance that stupid pills have not been issued to the general populace while I wasn't looking. I'm not convinced.
No, that's just your cell phone. Now answer the damn thing!
Nor I.
Entangle all the matter on the ship and move it .000000009 nanometers. Repeat process really fast until you look like you're exceeding lightspeed and moving. In fact, you'll never be anything but stationary. You get around all those movement problems like those UFOs that seem to act like they have no inertia.
When I was reading "Protector," I wondered why they didn't run them in series. Cumulative thrust would have put the ship closer to light speed.
Damn your anti-dough-ism!
Leavenophiles are united! Heads will roll! We will not loaf; we will RISE to the occasion and defeat the effete fascist flour flouters!!
> the exact type that orgs like WWF and the like dont care about because theyre not fluffy, colorful or cute
You're saying the World Wrestling Federation officially endorses fluffy, colorful cute animals? Does this explain the costumes? Or the female wrestlers? Inquiring minds want to know!
Won't somebody think of the animated sea kittens!?
Never train a social robot from an adolescent male's skill set.
Welcome our dark, smudgy, foul smelling organic overlords.
Oh wait, that's who's been here for millennia already. Damn. Damn. Damn!
The "adult" sports car company. The luxury car with *fantastic* "accessories."
More accurate, anyway. At any rate, I'll believe something has changed when I can talk to somebody who's not in India, knows something, can make a decision and can understand words like "I measured the Comcast line signal strengh for the last 24 hours and it dipped to just above zero 7 times in that period for a total of 95.4 minutes of non-functioning internet time so GET AN ENGINEER TO YOUR SWITCH AND DON'T SENT OUT THE LOCAL DUMBASS AGAIN."
Cheers!
Ha, you young Whippersnapper! Back when I was a boy, we used to track 'em in 11 dimensions. 11! And 8 of those dimensions were *dang* small. And if we missed a dimension, our pappy would throw us through a hole in it so we'd have to squeeze back into the outhouse in the 5th dimension. You kids have it sooo EASY!
Now, get off my lawn!
Right. Put rows of these things on K-Street. Take care of those human dressing roaches and leeches too.
I agree. Don't leave it out. Just discuss it in the same neutral, contextual manner as you would the Roman or Mayan polytheism, the Ottoman's practice of Islam, the shamanism of indigenous Brazilian tribes, King Ashoka's Buddhism and the multiple conflicting religions of the Punjab region of India.
It's the promotion of one religion over another in a taxpayer supported forum that's the problem, not information itself.
Correlation does not equal causality. Coincidentally, Marx had atheism as an element in his system because he favored the state. Had he had a religion or two, would it have made any difference? Would the soviet union have succeeded? Economic system failures and religious belief systems are essentially unrelated. We essentially have one data point (i.e. the soviet union). Communist China hosted a number of religions and if you think Cuba has no catholics, I suggest you review the facts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Cuba). Korea, similarly has quite a few Buddhists left (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_North_Korea).
Creationism doesn't detract, it's simply not provable in any scientific sense, and therefore belongs in a philosophy class and/or possibly an anthropology class (e.g. "Creation myths of the world").
Evolution provably happens all the time to numerous creatures and us.
Why? My experience is that Reuters stories are generally very sloppy. They often seem to distort information to reflect a certain bias.
Yes, and that bias is usually referred to as "laziness" and/or "stupidity."