What about answering his first question? Who's studies show that GMOs are safe? I have yet to see any long term studies that show GMO crops are safe, without a doubt. I've only seen long term studies that question whether GMO is actually safe or not.
Are you serious? 12 years of tax returns. He's been in office for 4. So he released 8 years of tax returns prior to him being in office. Romney has only released 2 years of tax returns. Do you consider 8 to be like 2? Or are you just trolling?
There are so many 'safe' networks which are Internet attached: power plants, -nuclear- power plants, top secret military data, and so on
Although top secret military data may exist on a 'safe' network that is Internet attached, I can guarantee you that no military network classified SECRET, and above, is Internet attached.
Besides abstract thinking, math isn't easy for many. It wasn't meant to be. It wasn't for me. But its through hardwork, discipline, and determination that we learn to master it. What does it say to our youth when society says its acceptable to quit a difficult subject simply because you don't understand it the first time? Reinforcing that kind of mentality is hugely detrimental to the future of our society.
I'd beg to differ with that statement. How much simpler can you possibly get than what Wikipedia has? There are no drop down menus in obscure places you have to find. There aren't a bunch of different settings to look for. Functionality from one page to another is the always the same, unlike all the other aforementioned sites. Wikipedia is the epitome of simplicity. The writer is just delirious.
This is just browser usage for w3schools. The first paragraph underneath the charts even states
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser alternatives.
when it comes to lawyers do not assume they have an ounce of common sense and depend upon them to charge you for their own mistakes.
don't always assume that what they're doing is out of ignorance.
a friend of mine works for a boutique patent firm suing a larger company for violating their patent. when they asked for the source to a program that produces a ~30 line output, the larger company sent 10 gigs of source code, historic source code, accompanying documents, and other crap and told them to sift through it to find it. on top of that, they only had a month or so to go through all of it.
my point is, sometimes, its a stall tactic to drive up costs and or to just add unnecessary complications for the other side
When I got pulled over for speeding before, I did research on the radar guns they use and I the longest distance I could find in use was 1/4 mile. If someone is shooting from several miles out, they likely aren't using it to manufacturers specifications.
I'm all for freedom of information. But in this instance, what reason do we have to release it to people that aren't working at research labs? Why would the hobbyist need access to this? I agree, we need to release this to researchers so we can develop a vaccine. But can a person who's not working at a serious research facility develop a vaccine before the eco-terrorist with basic biology skills develop a weaponized form of the virus? I'm not an SME on the field, but I'd bet that the answer is no.
And for all those saying you guns can kill people or that nuclear technology can kill people. First off, a gun kills a few, maybe tens of people at a time, at most. A weaponized virus will kill millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions at a time. And as for nuclear technology, it takes substantial infrastructure to weaponize nuclear technology. It only takes a home lab to weaponize a biological threat. So please, stop comparing apples and oranges.
The government has no reason to prevent this information from getting to legitimate research institutions. In fact, they've already said that they want this to go to legitimate research institutions. They'res just trying to prevent this from getting in the hands of the religious nut that wants to start the second coming of christ or the eco-terrorist that feels humans should be exterminated from this planet.
"And if said virus, having mutated in wild, killed your family, and the vaccine wasn't ready in time thanks to idiots who wanted to make it harder to discover with their security theater?"
We can't even figure out a vaccine effective against all strains of the seasonal flu. What makes you think that the strain that the researchers developed is going to be the same strain that occurs in nature?
If the terrorists have a grasp of biology, and the resources at the level they would be able to actually do these things
Its not the smart terrorists that are of concern. I don't think groups like the Taliban, Al Qaida, etc would be crazy enough to do something like this. Its the at home ecoterrorist or crazy Christian that wants to start the second coming of Christ that scares me. This type of research previously required a masters of Phd in the field to put together this virus. Now they want to release a paper that would make it easy enough for a bio major with a bachelor's and a basic kit capable of releasing said virus. No thanks.
Why can't they just release it to specific organizations that have a need for this kind of research like pharmaceutical companies and specific research labs? Why does the whole world need to have this info?
Some call it security through obscurity... so after you've hardened your network, do you publish a map of your network infrastructure public for the whole world to see? I mean, not doing that would be security though obscurity too wouldn't it?
wouldn't a glancing blow theory require that the object that glanced the earth to be immense in size? it couldn't have just been a meteor or asteroid. i'd imagine it'd be a planet sized object. which leads me to wonder, what is a planet doing just floating around like that?
I completely agree with the need for PE. I'm not saying we shouldn't have PE. I"m saying we should have longer class days. Why shouldn't kids be at school for 8 hours a day or more? The majority of kids that are doing well are having additional studies at home anyways because either the parents know how to or they can afford a tutor. What about the parents that can't do either? That's why we need the kids to stay at school longer.
you're such a fucking idiot. i tried to let it go. but i can't.
first off, i already told you in this post that your understanding of "dog whistle" is wrong. so for one second, try to stop being such a fucking idiotic twat and educate yourself.
secondly, in my earlier post, i stated very clearly that the overall problem is:
the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries.
unfortunately, that wasn't specific enough for you. but you know what? you never said to be spe-fucking-cific you stupid ass. but not to worry, two paragraphs later in the same fucking post i stated for you the specific problems. i.e.:
we have a system where kids only go to school 6 hours a day, 1 of which is physical education and one of which is recess/lunch time. that leaves only 4 hours of actual class time instruction. to top that off, they don't go to school for 2 or 3 weeks during the winter and 3 months during the summer because they need some sort of break.
but since clearly not smart enough to extract the problem i'm implying, its that the students are only getting 4 hours of instruction a day which isn't enough. i then followed with this specific problem...
the good teachers are not getting compensated enough. the only ones doing a good job are the ones that actually have a passion for just teaching; and there aren't enough of those types of people in the US to educate all our children. all the other smart people are going into the private sector where they're getting paid double or triple what teachers are getting paid.
the problem is the very first fucking sentence. hopefully you're smart enough to figure out that one. then finally, i listed this specific problem..
although its not really a school system problem, the american culture likes to tag smart people with derogatory terms like geek and nerd and they actually get teased in school.
so yes, i know what the fuck specific means and i even listed it out for you but your minuscule brain clearly couldn't discern what the fuck i was trying to say. so hopefully this post cleared it up for your stupid ass. now shut the fuck up and go back to grammar school. maybe the second time around, you'll actually learn how to comprehend stuff you read.
how did i not state the problem? i explicitly stated
the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries
. then i went on to state that bad teachers are just one part of the overall problem and went on to state another problem:
we have a system where kids only go to school 6 hours a day, 1 of which is physical education and one of which is recess/lunch time. that leaves only 4 hours of actual class time instruction. to top that off, they don't go to school for 2 or 3 weeks during the winter and 3 months during the summer because they need some sort of break.
and another...
the good teachers are not getting compensated enough. the only ones doing a good job are the ones that actually have a passion for just teaching; and there aren't enough of those types of people in the US to educate all our children. all the other smart people are going into the private sector where they're getting paid double or triple what teachers are getting paid.
and another...
although its not really a school system problem, the american culture likes to tag smart people with derogatory terms like geek and nerd and they actually get teased in school.
so where did i not state a problem? do people even read these posts or do they just feel this need to say something and start typing?!
holy shit, did you even read what i said? let me restate the problem for you since reading comprehension is apparently your fail..
the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries.
and no, both of us understand capitalization. one of us just isn't so damn pretentious that he needs to make himself feel superior by insulting someone else's lack of capitalization. and yes, you are a troll
i'm not sure if you're just being a troll or just really stubborn... but isn't it obvious what the problem is? the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries. i don't think anyone bothered "identifying" it to you because it was so obvious, we just assumed you'd know what we're talking about here.
as for the business analogy, you totally missed the point. yes, bankruptcy and not being profitable might be the problem, but firing someone won't solve it. there are so many possibilities and likely many reasons why the business is failing. firing the bad apples is just one part of the solution. just like firing the bad teachers is also just one part of the solution to our problem. there are numerous other problems, however. for instance...
we have a system where kids only go to school 6 hours a day, 1 of which is physical education and one of which is recess/lunch time. that leaves only 4 hours of actual class time instruction. to top that off, they don't go to school for 2 or 3 weeks during the winter and 3 months during the summer because they need some sort of break. for what?
the good teachers are not getting compensated enough. the only ones doing a good job are the ones that actually have a passion for just teaching; and there aren't enough of those types of people in the US to educate all our children. all the other smart people are going into the private sector where they're getting paid double or triple what teachers are getting paid.
although its not really a school system problem, the american culture likes to tag smart people with derogatory terms like geek and nerd and they actually get teased in school.
and i didn't even get into the politics of the education system. i'm not well enough informed about that to speak authoritatively but my friends that are teachers tell me how screwed up it is all the time.
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What about answering his first question? Who's studies show that GMOs are safe? I have yet to see any long term studies that show GMO crops are safe, without a doubt. I've only seen long term studies that question whether GMO is actually safe or not.
Are you serious? 12 years of tax returns. He's been in office for 4. So he released 8 years of tax returns prior to him being in office. Romney has only released 2 years of tax returns. Do you consider 8 to be like 2? Or are you just trolling?
Shoot down them Taliban fighter jets!
There are so many 'safe' networks which are Internet attached: power plants, -nuclear- power plants, top secret military data, and so on
Although top secret military data may exist on a 'safe' network that is Internet attached, I can guarantee you that no military network classified SECRET, and above, is Internet attached.
Besides abstract thinking, math isn't easy for many. It wasn't meant to be. It wasn't for me. But its through hardwork, discipline, and determination that we learn to master it. What does it say to our youth when society says its acceptable to quit a difficult subject simply because you don't understand it the first time? Reinforcing that kind of mentality is hugely detrimental to the future of our society.
yea... try calling a native Taiwanese person Chinese and see how well that goes for you
I'd beg to differ with that statement. How much simpler can you possibly get than what Wikipedia has? There are no drop down menus in obscure places you have to find. There aren't a bunch of different settings to look for. Functionality from one page to another is the always the same, unlike all the other aforementioned sites. Wikipedia is the epitome of simplicity. The writer is just delirious.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to the browser that comes preinstalled with their computer, and do not seek out other browser alternatives.
when it comes to lawyers do not assume they have an ounce of common sense and depend upon them to charge you for their own mistakes.
don't always assume that what they're doing is out of ignorance.
a friend of mine works for a boutique patent firm suing a larger company for violating their patent. when they asked for the source to a program that produces a ~30 line output, the larger company sent 10 gigs of source code, historic source code, accompanying documents, and other crap and told them to sift through it to find it. on top of that, they only had a month or so to go through all of it.
my point is, sometimes, its a stall tactic to drive up costs and or to just add unnecessary complications for the other side
They did. It would have been a lot more to search 97 million documents by pigeons
FTFY
50 feet away to several miles
When I got pulled over for speeding before, I did research on the radar guns they use and I the longest distance I could find in use was 1/4 mile. If someone is shooting from several miles out, they likely aren't using it to manufacturers specifications.
This is basic human socializing
I don't get it
I'm all for freedom of information. But in this instance, what reason do we have to release it to people that aren't working at research labs? Why would the hobbyist need access to this? I agree, we need to release this to researchers so we can develop a vaccine. But can a person who's not working at a serious research facility develop a vaccine before the eco-terrorist with basic biology skills develop a weaponized form of the virus? I'm not an SME on the field, but I'd bet that the answer is no.
And for all those saying you guns can kill people or that nuclear technology can kill people. First off, a gun kills a few, maybe tens of people at a time, at most. A weaponized virus will kill millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions at a time. And as for nuclear technology, it takes substantial infrastructure to weaponize nuclear technology. It only takes a home lab to weaponize a biological threat. So please, stop comparing apples and oranges.
The government has no reason to prevent this information from getting to legitimate research institutions. In fact, they've already said that they want this to go to legitimate research institutions. They'res just trying to prevent this from getting in the hands of the religious nut that wants to start the second coming of christ or the eco-terrorist that feels humans should be exterminated from this planet.
Security through obscurity has NEVER worked
If that's such a bad practice, show me an organization that publishes all their internal IP addresses and network infrastructure to the public.
"And if said virus, having mutated in wild, killed your family, and the vaccine wasn't ready in time thanks to idiots who wanted to make it harder to discover with their security theater?"
We can't even figure out a vaccine effective against all strains of the seasonal flu. What makes you think that the strain that the researchers developed is going to be the same strain that occurs in nature?
If the terrorists have a grasp of biology, and the resources at the level they would be able to actually do these things
Its not the smart terrorists that are of concern. I don't think groups like the Taliban, Al Qaida, etc would be crazy enough to do something like this. Its the at home ecoterrorist or crazy Christian that wants to start the second coming of Christ that scares me. This type of research previously required a masters of Phd in the field to put together this virus. Now they want to release a paper that would make it easy enough for a bio major with a bachelor's and a basic kit capable of releasing said virus. No thanks.
Why can't they just release it to specific organizations that have a need for this kind of research like pharmaceutical companies and specific research labs? Why does the whole world need to have this info?
Some call it security through obscurity... so after you've hardened your network, do you publish a map of your network infrastructure public for the whole world to see? I mean, not doing that would be security though obscurity too wouldn't it?
There are far easier and effective ways of killing people than trying to weaponize a virus
really? how is it far easier to kill millions of people than to weaponize a deadly and highly contagious virus?
wouldn't a glancing blow theory require that the object that glanced the earth to be immense in size? it couldn't have just been a meteor or asteroid. i'd imagine it'd be a planet sized object. which leads me to wonder, what is a planet doing just floating around like that?
Corporations are people!
I completely agree with the need for PE. I'm not saying we shouldn't have PE. I"m saying we should have longer class days. Why shouldn't kids be at school for 8 hours a day or more? The majority of kids that are doing well are having additional studies at home anyways because either the parents know how to or they can afford a tutor. What about the parents that can't do either? That's why we need the kids to stay at school longer.
first off, i already told you in this post that your understanding of "dog whistle" is wrong. so for one second, try to stop being such a fucking idiotic twat and educate yourself.
secondly, in my earlier post, i stated very clearly that the overall problem is:
the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries.
unfortunately, that wasn't specific enough for you. but you know what? you never said to be spe-fucking-cific you stupid ass. but not to worry, two paragraphs later in the same fucking post i stated for you the specific problems. i.e.:
we have a system where kids only go to school 6 hours a day, 1 of which is physical education and one of which is recess/lunch time. that leaves only 4 hours of actual class time instruction. to top that off, they don't go to school for 2 or 3 weeks during the winter and 3 months during the summer because they need some sort of break.
but since clearly not smart enough to extract the problem i'm implying, its that the students are only getting 4 hours of instruction a day which isn't enough. i then followed with this specific problem...
the good teachers are not getting compensated enough. the only ones doing a good job are the ones that actually have a passion for just teaching; and there aren't enough of those types of people in the US to educate all our children. all the other smart people are going into the private sector where they're getting paid double or triple what teachers are getting paid.
the problem is the very first fucking sentence. hopefully you're smart enough to figure out that one. then finally, i listed this specific problem..
although its not really a school system problem, the american culture likes to tag smart people with derogatory terms like geek and nerd and they actually get teased in school.
so yes, i know what the fuck specific means and i even listed it out for you but your minuscule brain clearly couldn't discern what the fuck i was trying to say. so hopefully this post cleared it up for your stupid ass. now shut the fuck up and go back to grammar school. maybe the second time around, you'll actually learn how to comprehend stuff you read.
the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries
. then i went on to state that bad teachers are just one part of the overall problem and went on to state another problem:
we have a system where kids only go to school 6 hours a day, 1 of which is physical education and one of which is recess/lunch time. that leaves only 4 hours of actual class time instruction. to top that off, they don't go to school for 2 or 3 weeks during the winter and 3 months during the summer because they need some sort of break.
and another...
the good teachers are not getting compensated enough. the only ones doing a good job are the ones that actually have a passion for just teaching; and there aren't enough of those types of people in the US to educate all our children. all the other smart people are going into the private sector where they're getting paid double or triple what teachers are getting paid.
and another...
although its not really a school system problem, the american culture likes to tag smart people with derogatory terms like geek and nerd and they actually get teased in school.
so where did i not state a problem? do people even read these posts or do they just feel this need to say something and start typing?!
you are such an idiot that its not even worth formulating an intelligent rebuttal to your asinine remarks
That's what "dog whistle" means. You substitute your bias for what is actually being discussed.
and btw you freaking pretentious ass... that's not what dog whistle means. now get off your high fucking horse.
the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries.
and no, both of us understand capitalization. one of us just isn't so damn pretentious that he needs to make himself feel superior by insulting someone else's lack of capitalization. and yes, you are a troll
i'm not sure if you're just being a troll or just really stubborn... but isn't it obvious what the problem is? the education our children are getting is substandard, especially when compared to numerous other countries. i don't think anyone bothered "identifying" it to you because it was so obvious, we just assumed you'd know what we're talking about here.
as for the business analogy, you totally missed the point. yes, bankruptcy and not being profitable might be the problem, but firing someone won't solve it. there are so many possibilities and likely many reasons why the business is failing. firing the bad apples is just one part of the solution. just like firing the bad teachers is also just one part of the solution to our problem. there are numerous other problems, however. for instance...
and i didn't even get into the politics of the education system. i'm not well enough informed about that to speak authoritatively but my friends that are teachers tell me how screwed up it is all the time.