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.

More excuses for why women don't make good pgrammers, not why there are way less programmers. These are different questions.

is too dangerous. blaming the victim is too easy when we give in to "magical" thinking, or the irrational belief that your invisible friend WANTED person X to die of cancer while they WANTED person y to become a multimillionaire. yeah k. i believe in statistics.

Ignorance really is bliss?

And all the starving people in Africa "deserve" to be starving due to some one's imaginary friend says so?

kthx

"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.

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.

IMO, the idea that any part of the human body is patentable is preposterous, because the human body belongs to all humans. Since instead of patenting 0011010011001, they've pattented "1" doesn't change anything.