Comment Re:CAFE Kills (Score 2) 1184
As long as we're gonna be legislating technical advances into existence, I'd like to request that congress passes legislation requiring a warp drive is developed by 2020.
As long as we're gonna be legislating technical advances into existence, I'd like to request that congress passes legislation requiring a warp drive is developed by 2020.
'I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can — we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.'
I love the arrogant presumption that my children are a public resource at the collective's disposal. The last I checked, they were individuals entitled to pursue happiness in any way that suited them, not resources at Mr. Nye's disposal tasked with building whatever kind of world he wants to live in. Maybe they have other ideas about what kind of world they want to live in?
Assholes like this guy worry me a lot more than any creationist.
Many Democrats were disenchanted with Obama and probably wouldn't have come out to vote for him again in the fall. But stacking him up against an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy is a pretty fucking great way to motivate them.
Yes, because nothing scares a Democrat quite like the possibility of being forced to take his hand out of other people's pockets.
Posting as AC because I'm still in the business and it wasn't so long ago that IBM was up the chain from my paycheck.
If IBM acquires this division, expect all first-world workers to be downsized systematically while forced to train their third-world replacements under threat of not receiving their severance packages.
Hansen is the kind of scientist that lends legitimacy to the proposition that scientist is a political activist that also wants to take credit for innovations actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs and lay inventors.
Given their recent sales figures, I'd say the attention was hardly negative.
We already have 320 million people in this country! I'd really, really be interested in knowing what skill set isn't represented here, such that we need to import it. Yes, I understand that we're discussing highly skilled people here. However, highly skilled isn't necessarily interchangeable with highly in demand. We already have plenty of Ph.D level people in STEM fields currently unemployed. What makes the foreign talent so much more attractive?
I do find it peculiar that in a nation that already has 320 million people in it, none of them qualify as the "best and the brightest".
It consists of unemployed people from California, who moved to Texas looking for work.
If you're lucky, SpaceX will help to find a solution to your dilemma. Like maybe figuring out a way to create rocket fuel by grinding up environmentalists.....
Given that these days "educated" is pretty much a synonym for "indoctrinated", I'm not sure you'd get a consensus that having spent more time sitting in a classroom is necessarily a positive trait.
While I agree that both sides are not stellar examples of morality, only one of them brainwashes their children. In my opinion, this is sufficient to make it clear-cut.
Have you seen the terrible videos of looting and raping in Japan, like in New Orleans and Haiti?
Oh, wait...
Political incorrectness.
By all means, have yourself a gay Christmas!
It's close to paying back every dime it borrowed, and it's now almost certain that the taxpayers will ultimately pay very little for saving GM.
Who were you calling stupid, sonny?
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
