Comment Re:Hide in plain sight (Score 1) 147
If only you could pass those damned astro-navs....
Just write, "I am a fish," on the exam.
If only you could pass those damned astro-navs....
Just write, "I am a fish," on the exam.
Is the daily beast biased? Who knows, but bias or not when you're right, you're right, and when you're wrong, you're wrong.
Unless you live under a rock, you know the answer is YES, MOST ASSUREDLY, YES.
It seems like you already hate the daily beast (why I don't know) but unless you have proof of the contrary, or a good reason to suspect their wrong, announce it rather than saying something to the effect of "well I just hate them." In other words, attack the argument, not the person.
I don't know where you draw the conclusion that I HATE the daily beast. I never said or implied any such thing. I merely pointed out that they are biased. If you spend more than a minute reading the website that fact will become obvious. I did not say their data was invalid; I merely pointed out that the conclusions and slant of the article makes their agenda obvious.
I'm already about to graduate from college myself, and after that happens I intend on being self employed and/or contracting, so AA doesn't apply to me in either case, nor do I have any kids, thus I have no dog in this fight.
FYI, I graduated almost 30 years ago on a scholarship for DC residents that was intended to increase black attendance at GWU; they did not turn me down because I happen to be white. I have no dog in the fight either.
At the same time though, when I spot an injustice I will call it out, regardless of whether or not it affects me.
I'm with you there. Because I grew up in DC (very predominantly black), I have seen some serious institutionalized discrimination over the years. It is rampant, in pretty much everywhere I've lived (from coast to coast). If you don't see it, you are likely too young or too blind. AA is supposed to be a form of their "40 acres and a mule" that they never got.
Third, when I say AA is working as intended, I mean exactly that: It is keeping the races aligned according to a rather arbitrary definition of what percent of them "ought to be" there, with complete disregard of the number of them who even apply to begin with or actually do belong there.
On that, you are misinformed. People such as Jesse Jackson may use such proportions to show what he perceives as discrimination, but actual AA laws in the US do no such thing. You can begin your education in this area with JFK's executive order 10925 and go from there.
I never said that it is intended to fuck over Asians,
Okay, my bad, but it looked like it to me when you said: "affirmative action is very much applying to Asians. A) It shits on them B) It is working as intended." Do you see how easy it is draw that conclusion from your words?
however and this is the key: Its intended result does have the effect of fucking over Asians, even though fucking over Asians isn't the intent of the program itself.
I disagree with your conclusion that Asians are being "fucked over" based solely on the fact that they would gain if AA were tossed. If speed limits were abolished, people would drive faster, consuming more fuel. Does this mean that gas stations are being "fucked over" by speed limits? No.
Tests have already been done on countless millions of people. None of them complained about being dead, said they'd rather be doing something else, or petitioned to be made no-longer dead. Zero.
Our common sense (and some very strong instincts) tell us it's an extremely bad thing, but thousands of years of observations suggest that once it happens, nobody really cares anymore.
You've just been ignoring their complaints. They're screaming in pain in various haunted houses.
That's the problem with conspiracy theories. The proponents of such theories usually believe that there is some exclusive group of a few people actively engaged in a secret plot to accomplish some stated goal by pursuing or suppressing some seemingly harmless agenda.
FYI: I'm one of those people in such an exclusive group, you insensitive clod!
No, but both Palin and Romney could tell several years ago that Russia was an actual problem. Unlike Obama and his red line fickleness. Well that's alright, he's off to his what? 197th round of golf, and later today he'll be flying out to Hollywood for his 290th fundraising event. Pressing issues you know.
Where were you complaints when Bush Jr was becoming the president with the most time off from work? Google it.
Inflation may cost our wealthy creditors, but it will help the much, much larger part of us who have mortgages, student loans, car loans, credit card debt, business loans, etc.
How so? Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that all loans closely follow inflation rates.
For example if the inflation goes to 600%, wouldn't your loan immediately become 600% of the total amount you borrowed in the past?
A most definite NO. Some loans are linked to inflation (more accurately to particular interest rates), but they generally have lifetime caps on the order of 10 percentage points.
Gold is useful (you can attract women with it), and has all the other features except divisibility for small amounts, and portability for large amounts, so for a long time it was the best currency.
Finally, someone with a convincing argument for gold being intrinsically useful.
My biggest complaint about the mp3 music player industry is: Why are they still over selling 1/2/4GB devices!?!?!?!?!? Honestly, I can't even imagine why Apple, Sony, Philips and other large brands that I find in my average tech store even bother to have/sell, but actively promote these minuscule devices. At least 128GB approaches a reasonable size for today's music collections. To me it is similar to Linus' rant about laptop monitors.
Except if you pack it with 192KHz samples instead of 44.1KHz, your capacity effectively goes down to 128/3 = 42 GB. Apple still offers the iPad Classic with 160 GB for $249.
"Old man, take a look at my wife..."
FTFY (porno music)
I can see how a constant stream of telemetry might be cost-prohibitive, but what about a squirt of data consisting of -
- Flight Number
- Lat / Long
- Airspeed
- Groundspeed
- Altitude
- Compass heeding
While you're at it, why not have it put this data out as twitter feed?
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
