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Comment Re: Corruption (Score 1) 457

What a stupid argument. All that matters in college is if you are willing to pay the price and do the work. If you score a 20 on your ACT because you hated high school but got an A in your college classes because you studied your ass off, does it matter? ACT is simply a test of knowledge not ability to learn. Sure, you may have to take some remedial classes when you start college to catch up but that doesn't mean you aren't college material.

Comment Re: Should be simple enough to try it on animals (Score 5, Informative) 646

You've apparently never been around a pig farm in real life. They make those sounds when their distressed by new things. Unfamiliar locations, being stuck in something. They dont make them from being suffocated by nitrogen. Nitrogen doesn't give any signals to the body there is a problem. You simply pass out. Google OSHA nitrogen accidents to find out how quickly and how dangerous it is.

Comment Re: Random (Score 1) 592

Job hunting is stressful. Not always in a good way. Not knowing if your risk losing your residence, your car, or where you're getting your next meal from is incredibly stressful and does make it harder. It's hard to give a good interview when your only thoughts are, "don't mess up, don't mess up....."

Comment Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed prin (Score 2) 530

Supporting some one's right to say something does not mean you support that view. I support the right for anti-abortion protestors to say their message in a public space, but I'm pro-choice. I support the right so someone with an opposite political view of mine so say what they believe, even if I don't agree. I like being surrounded by opposing views to my own, because it challenges my own assumptions and allows me to improve myself, or it allows me to identify thing that I intrinsically disagree with.

Comment Re: Because they've abandoned their claimed prin (Score 3, Informative) 530

That fight has already hit the supreme court. Certain things are illegal when it comes to free speech. Inciting violence is one of them. Free speech doesn't mean I have to listen. Free speech also doesn't mean free from consequences. The only way to effectively address speech we don't like is to allow it to exist in a society that allows open discord on the subject. As soon as you make it illegal you create the need to keep it in private which only strengthens it. If you aren't exposed to contradictions to your belief you cannot change your belief. Surround yourself with the same view, creates a stronger reality of that view.

Comment Re: a person is a person (Score 1) 403

No the issue is how much of China is rural populations that don't use any significant amount of carbon. Do we, the US, have a carbon problem? Yes, absolutely, but you can't compare single measures like total output, per capita output, or a similar singular measure to determine which pollutes more. They only give a general comparison on their own.

Comment Re: How the fuck (Score 4, Insightful) 418

As a manager and supervisor I wouldn't put you out on the floor without a senior to ensure you could handle and to QA the work. The first 6-12 months are hour learning and trust building phase. I expect mistakes during this time and I expect your peers to work with you on new projects to ensure those mistakes don't happen .

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