Comment Re: You are so right ! (Score 1) 148
Kids are kids. Kids cry a lot. If any kid that cried was instantly labeled a failure, we would have no successful people at all.
but must NEVER exhibit collective pride in the achievements of their ancestors(that's racism!). It's a deliberate effort to dumb them down and impair their learning ability and achievement to achieve "equality".
So you're saying that schools never celebrate the founding fathers, or Abe Lincoln, or the winning of various wars by white-led armies?
As long as Thanksgiving is celebrated (a feast to mark the massacre of a bunch of native Americans), your whining sounds like bullshit.
Yeah right, race consciousness never existed in non-capitalist economies. I recall reading about an isolated tribe whose name for themselves basically meant "human" and whose name for other people who didn't look like them (like white anthropologists) meant "non-human."
This is quite a common pattern. But in these societies, the number of "humans" is limited by Dunbar's number. Renaissance racism expands the pool of identified "humans" into the millions, and post-Renaissance racism pushes into the thousands of millions and billions, and it draws the boundary in an arbitrary way. Some Indo-Europeans are dismissed as "not white", and some non-Indo-Europeans are allowed into the privileged club because of a lighter pigmentation than others. Modern racism isn't the same as natural pack mentality.
I came from China. Back in China all my teachers are Chinese - as China is full of Chinese naturally my teachers (good and bad) are Chinese
But when I landed on US of A none of my teachers / lecturers / professors (good and bad) happened to be ethnic Chinese
Feeling like a foreigner in a foreign country is not a problem. Feeling like a foreigner in your own country is a problem. It alienates and results in low achievement.
*sigh*
The machine was provided to NASA by the Italian Space Agency to go up with one of their astronauts. The Italians have been hipsters since before the hipsters were hip.
Christ, no. Italians are snappy dressers.
Do you need further proof of the inanity of Obama's space program. ISS should be dismantled at once and the Constellation Program restarted.
You mean Signore Giuseppe Obama, Presidente di Italia...?
"Hey we've got some upcoming technical challenges for future missions that need us to deal with pressurizing and heating liquids" "Okay, what are the parameters?" "A lot like coffee actually" "Well then...let's trial our technology by building an espresso machine."
"In fact, let's buddy up with an international coffee brand, so that someone else can shoulder part of the expense of our liquid pressurisation tests."
(tax dollars indeed!)
I'm doubtful that the first consumer version of the Rift (or the HTC headset that Valve's involved with) will have enough resolution to be useful for coding
...unless you're coding in Scratch.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
