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Comment You were doing great until ... (Score 1) 276

... that "Please educate yourself" thing

Do you really think that sheeples are capable of educating themselves??

The fact is that they remain sheeples because they ...

1. They are not willing to change
2. They are satisfied with what / who they are
3. They do need some kind of 'leaders' to lead them
4. Their lives would be empty if they do not regurgitate whatever their 'leaders' told them

Comment Do not ever underestimate yourself (Score 1) 529

... it'll be 95% Asian / 4.9% Caucasian in no time ...

Where I was from it was 100% Asians

Where I am now it's a mix

Where I was in the HS it was 80% Blacks, less than 2% Asians

But when I get to the U the ones who can compete against me are the Whites

So don't gimme that " 95% Asian / 4.9% Caucasian " thing. You know it ain't true

It might probably be in the ratio of 30% Asian / 68% Caucasian / 2% others, but if that is what it is, I say let it be

Comment I just have to laugh! (Score 1) 529

They do not under perform because of race. They under perform because the schools are crap, they don't get funding, can't get new school books, can't get good teachers (well they get some, but not a uniformly higher level)

I just have to laugh when reading the crap that you have written!

I came from China, and when I landed on the US soil, I actually went to Chinatown to work (kitchen helper) because I was practically penny-LESS at that time

I did not go to school for at least 8 months and when I did, I went to a public school where the blacks were like 80% of the school population

Don't you tell me about broken school, lack of new books and all those shits, I have been through all that

And yet, I went to college on my own (without any help from anybody) and from there I move up my career ladder

Do I have to tell you that I didn't speak one word of English (nor understand anything) when I arrived at the US of A?

I just have to laugh at you guys regurgitating the same old SHIT every single time when AA has been questioned --- if an Asian kid like me could move up, why can't the Blacks/Hispanics?

And no, I didn't have my "tiger mom" with me --- I came to USA by my own, as a refugee, my family was still in China at that time

Comment Re:Affirmative Action (Score 5, Insightful) 529

Affirmative Action's original intent seeks to cease historical racism and racists/sexists from claiming that people of color or sex cannot attend a legal institution

Fuck you!

I am an Asian American and I will tell you to stuff that goddamn 'historical racist/sexist' excuse back where the sun never shines

I never need any affirmative action to get to where I am

I never applied for any aid, and never receive any either

And in academic study I never get - and never even thought of getting - any break just because I am a "minority"

I do not believe in the bullshit that because of some 'historical event' I am in any way 'disadvantaged'

And I will say the same "Fuck You!" to those who say that "Affirmative Action" is still needed

--- --- ---

That said, regarding the TFA, I do not know why they complaint about the 140 point above the White thing when the fact is that the Hispanic and the Blacks are being enrolled into ivy league colleges (and all other colleges as well) with really, and I mean, unbelievably low scores!

What they are doing is that they are forcing the talented individuals to share the same class with idiots, they are actually discriminating against those with genuine talents

I dunno man ... This AA thing is a fucked up thing to begin with and it's 2015 and we still getting stuck with this fucked up thing

When will America grow up?

In Japan, in Korea, in China they do not have AA --- and their economies are growing leaps and bounds and everybody can attest to their technological achievements

America should get rid of this fucked up AA thing, or else we can never catch up to those living in East Asia

Submission + - Musk denies berating employee (ibtimes.co.uk)

Taco Cowboy writes: An upcoming on Elon Musk has several claims that Musk has vehemently denied

Musk denied that he ever reprimand a Tesla employee for missing a work event to be at the birth of his child

Musk claims that it is "Total BS and hurtful to claim that I told a guy to miss his child's birth just to attend a company meeting"

Musk reportedly sent an email to the employee, saying: "That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don't"

In another tweet, ( https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s... ) Musk has publicly denied another claim that Musk has once said to a potential investor "My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail"

Musk, who has been married three times and twice to the same woman, with whom he filed for a second divorce in December 2014, talked about finding the time to date. "I would like to allocate more time to dating, though. I need to find a girlfriend. That's why I need to care out just a little more time. I think maybe even another five to 10 — how much time does a woman want a week? Maybe 10 hours? That's kind of the minimum? I don't know"

There are other quotes from the book that Musk has not issued any denial, yet, including:

... from Christie Nicholson, the daughter of an advisor to Musk... "One night he told me, 'If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal'"


Submission + - Mutation, not Natural Selection, which led to the rise of new species (phys.org) 1

Taco Cowboy writes: Blair Hedges, a biologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, has proposed a provocative alternative to the natural selection view of evolution

According to Mr. Hedges, Adaptation had little to do with it. It was simply a matter of chance and time

No matter what the life form — plant or animal, insect or mammal — it takes about 2 million years for a new species to form. Random genetic events, not natural selection, play the main role in speciation

This controversial proposal stems from efforts by Hedges and collaborators to build the world’s most comprehensive tree of life — a chart plotting the connections among 50,000 species of Earth’s vast menagerie. Their analysis suggests that speciation is essentially random

Evolutionary biologists find the research effort intriguing, particularly in its size and scope, but they are also somewhat skeptical of the provocative ideas that have emerged. “It’s a huge tour de force” said Arne Mooers, a biologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. “There are lots of interesting claims — the devil will be in the details”

To build the tree, Hedges, his Temple colleague Sudhir Kumar, and their collaborators compiled data from nearly 2,300 published studies, gleaning from each the time when two species diverged from a common ancestor. They used those data to construct a map of relationships among different species, known as a “timetree.” To form a branch, the researchers started with the two species within a closely related taxonomic group that have the most recent common ancestor. Then they added the next closest species, and so on

In a family tree for example, it is akin to starting with siblings, then adding in first cousins and second cousins

Bringing all those branches together results in a comprehensive timetree of life

It will take some time for scientists to sort through the technical details of the paper, which was published in April in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. And while some scientists have been complimentary, others immediately challenged the results, questioning both the accuracy of the tree and the conclusions that Hedges has drawn. “I am very skeptical about inferring patterns of speciation from such a broad overview of the tree of life,” said Chris Jiggins, a biologist at the University of Cambridge in England

“The classic view of evolution is that it happens in fits and starts,” said Michael Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England

A change in the environment, such as a rise in temperatures after an ice age, might spark a burst of speciation as organisms adapt to their new surroundings. Alternatively, a single remarkable adaptation such as flight in the ancestors of birds or hair in mammals might trigger a massive expansion of animals with those characteristics

Hedges argues that while such bursts do occur, the vast majority of speciation is more prosaic and evenly timed

To start, two populations become separated, driven apart by geography or other factors. New species emerge every 2 million years, on average, in a metronomic rhythm tapped out by the random nature of genetic mutations. He likens the process to radioactive decay. It’s impossible to predict when an individual radioactive nucleus will decay, but a clump of many atoms will decay at a highly predictable rate known as the material’s half-life

Similarly, mutations strike the genome randomly, but over a long enough time the accumulation of mutations follows a pattern. “There is a kind of speciation clock ticking along” Hedges said

Submission + - New form of mechanical advantage (youtube.com)

giblits writes: The video here is one of 2 currently up about the creation of the Ice Piston. The thought is to take the ~43500 PSI generating force of expanding ice and using it to operate a piston. Everything is open source and free and the only thing the creator (Dave Whitlock) wants is for this take off and see people innovate with it. A link in the first video leads to a demonstration of his current piston cycling.

Comment Create your own career path (Score 1) 420

... offshoring to other members of the Five Eyes isn't going to reduce costs much ...

The guy is asking for a job which is offshore proof, and you guys go off tangent talking about cost of offshoring to five-eye countries ...
 
Anyway, the one and only way to ensure that what you do does not and will never go offshore is to create that career for yourself

You can never rely on somebody else ... ie., and employer ... because they are there to make a profit

So, pick a field, a field which you know you are very capable in, and start your own business in that field

And since it's YOUR OWN BUSINESS, you, as the boss, get to have the final say on whether you gonna offshore the operation of your own company, or not

Comment America is gradually turning into China (Score 5, Interesting) 241

In order to trade off some of A to get some of B, you have to actually get some of B. In this case, we've given a lot of A and gotten nothing for it

I have read many comments here and what you have said is so very true I just need to add to what you have written

I came from China

I left China back in the early 1970's, way back when the entire Chinese society was in a turmoil, where nobody can live in peace because the social contract between the government and the people had broken down

A political struggle at the top echelon resulted in a power-struggle at every level, and power grab was everywhere ... the so-called 'Red Guard' was a by-product of power-grabbing exercises, mostly at the local level

Anyway, people at large in China had no say --- they kept on losing their liberty, their livelihood, even their lives, --- with some driven into madness and many simply committed suicide since they couldn't take it anymore

To put it in simple terms, to the average Chinese citizens, what they had gone through in between the late 1950's and the early 1970's was that everything they had was taken away, just like that ... yep, without any tradeoff

Now that I am an American, I am alarmed at the current development within the United States of America

The people in the USA will be facing the same thing the people in China faced, if nothing is being done to stop TPTB

What happened back in China was that there was no one who could stop Mao. Zhou En Lai tried his best to slow Mao's incessant hunger for power but he just couldn't muster enough strength to halt Mao in his track. All Zhou could do was to do patchworks here and there

Even Zhou suffered greatly during the social turmoil. His own daughter was brutally slaughtered by Jiang Qin, that feisty wife of Mao, and even with his own daughter slaughtered, Zhou couldn't do anything

The experience from China should be a lesson to the Americans ... that is, even if you have someone who has conscience INSIDE the power structure, it is still NOT ENOUGH when TPTB turns ugly

And if the Americans don't do something now --- frankly, even now, it may be too late --- they and their children will eventually be facing a similar fate the Chinese faced some 50 years ago

I certainly don't wish that to America, my adopted country, but I am afraid that too many of the Americans are way too brainwashed to be able to comprehend what is going on and what is going to come

Comment That is a totally wrong approach (Score 2) 241

When it's your job to catch bad guys, everyone starts looking like a bad guy

Anyone who follows the above approach ain't not going to catch many crooks

You simply do not catch crooks by hammering everybody and their dogs

Top crime investigators throughout history don't treat everybody like criminal. Instead, they put themselves in the shoes of the criminals so that they can get to see what the criminals see, think what the criminals think, and understand what the criminals gonna do next ... and then all they have to do is to set a trap for those criminals

And in the case of this so-called 'chief' of FBI, all I can say that under his tutelage FBI ain't going to achieve anything meaningful

Submission + - Car size meteor exploded over England (portadowntimes.co.uk)

Taco Cowboy writes: ASTRONOMERS have caught the moment a meteorite turned into a fireball as powerful as a nuclear explosion just 21 miles above the Earth

Footage of the "car-sized" meteorite burning up in the atmosphere was so good because it was destroyed much lower than the usual 50 to 70 miles up

Experts believe it broke off an asteroid in orbit between Mars and Jupiter and headed towards earth at 100,000mph

The video was recorded by the United Kingdom Meteor Observing Network in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on Sunday, 26th April, 2015, at around 10.10pm. The huge ‘fireball’ was seen right across the country, and reportedly lit-up much of Ireland and parts of northern England "like daylight" for about five seconds

The blast was so visible that the Irish Coast Guard contacted Astronomy Ireland as they were receiving so many reports of possible distress flares

Astronomy Ireland are appealing to any companies who operate CCTV cameras to check their recordings for Sunday night around 10:10pm to see if they recorded the fireball near the horizon as photographic records like this are extremely valuable

"If you were in space looking down, you would have seen Ireland lit up for a few seconds. People in urban areas with their lights on watching their TVs with windows facing the right direction have reported seeing it"

Additional reports are available from
http://www.portadowntimes.co.u...
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/...
http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/new...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

Comment Re:Because of the action of a few ... (Score 1, Insightful) 195

... We just want to have our own Islamic state in Arabia without interference from you foreigners ...

If you guys want to have your own Islamic State in Saudi Arabia, nobody cares

You guys can take down the House of Saud

You guys can turn Mecca into whatever you want

Nobody cares

But no, you guys want to have your "Islamic State" in places where Islam is not the original religion --- In Northern Iraq and in Syria there were Christians and the Yazidis living there even before you goddamn pedophilic Mohammad was born --- and you guys attempt to build your so-called "Islamic State" by murdering the Christians, the Kurds, the Yazidis

Go back to your Saudi Arabia and do whatever fuck you want --- and stop meddling with other people's religion and stop slaughtering other people just because they do not agree with your version of Islam

Comment Because of the action of a few ... (Score 3, Insightful) 195

... everyone suffers

That's the price all of us have to pay when we, the majority, cannot and/or dare not to, control the action of the few

No matter if it's USA or France of Belgium or the Netherlands or Germany, as long as our society can not (and/or dare not to) confront those Islamists and get them to ditch their barbaric behavior, all of us will suffer

You guys saw what happened in Garland Texas just days before

You guys saw the length the government of Germany has to go --- including canceling at least two public events --- just to prevent the events becoming a bloodbath by the hands of the Islamists

And that's not all ... the Madrid train station bombing, the Boston Marathon bombing, the London Tube bombing, what happened to the World Trade Center of New York City, and so on ...
 
As long as we, the majority refuse to, or are too afraid of confronting them Islamists straight on, TPTB will formulate stuffs like the Patriot Act, NSA, and whatnots, in the name of 'tackling Islamic Terrorism', and at the end of the day, it is US, the non-Islamists, lost the most

If them Islamists want to live in the West, they better behave like the Western people do

I am not born in the States, I am from China. But as long as I am staying in the United States of America, I respect the society, the people, and the culture of America --- even though I may not see eye-to-eye with everything that they do

If the Islamists insist on behaving like animals they can go back to where they came from --- they get to do whatever they like in the wide sand fields of Saudi Arabia, I don't care

I am sick and tired of them Islamists --- they create trouble EVERYWHERE

Not only in the United States, Europe, they also make troubles in Australia, in Russia, in Thailand, in Kenya, in China, in Nigeria, and so on, and so forth

The world at large has been very tolerant with them, but there is a limit to everything

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