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Comment narrow minded people (Score 1) 285

"you’re basically saying an astronaut’s life is worth twenty-eight billion dollars"

Such a simplistic way of looking at it.

What is the price that is needed to pay for human exploration? what has it always been? Blood of course; a astronauts death is tragic, but the reward for that is much bigger than any one person and astronauts are very much aware of this.I dont think that anyone one of them think, 'they spent 28 billion dollars to save me' So so shallow.

They are heros because they do something that is highly dangerous and they will really never directly benefit from it other then status and even that is hardly anything anymore, instead this country worships athletes, movie stars and singers, the more drugged out and retarded, the more news time and celebrity status, its sickening. While i am sure astronauts make good money, its not CEO money....but it should be. Romney should pay 15% taxes directly to them simply for the privilege of being in the same country, that spineless fake.

Comment Re:education is the problem (Score 0) 241

But again, your focused on showing the students they need to prove to the world they can succeed through grades instead of focusing on education.

Basically, if you take all the BS everyone looks at, remove it, then focus on just teaching...alot of these problems will remove themselves.

I dont belive there should be grades, grades are not a indication on learning...its a indication on how indoctrinated you are to play the educational game.(hence the cheating)

Lots of people go through college and come out not knowing a fucking thing, its not that they are stupid, its not that they cheated, its that the human mind is not built to remember obscure facts, infact, memory is highly unreliable.

Knowledge comes through experience, training and curiosity, these are things that should be focused on throughout the educational life of a person; not grades and tests.

Comment education is the problem (Score 1, Insightful) 241

Cheating is a byproduct of a failed education system. Instead of driving students to learn, we drive them to show the world they can succeed; Students cheat because they don't want to take time to learn a subject, and why is that?

The solution is not to come up with ways to stop the students from cheating, the solution is to come up with ways to make education interactive and enjoyable therefore minimizing the desire to cheat on a test (test in themselves is a band-aid solution to this very problem)

Again we have large institutions forcing a solution that is against the very nature of the people they are overseeing.

Comment Re:So what defines a "life" anyway? (Score 1) 1004

I am with you on the sports...I am working on getting my son into science and looking up to people who do something for the world; Parents who encourage there kids to worship sports figures are not doing there kids any favors as well as the world.

but alas, parents only have so much control...so my son still may end up being one of those people who think that the latest super star is somehow important to the world, all i can do is point out how ridiculous looking up to figures like that really is.

Comment Re:Wag the Dog (again) (Score 1) 515

"- how are bytes being counted? Bytes are not counted like phone minutes. Packets are re-transmitted out of necessity. Do they count twice?"

Not only would they be counted twice, but the ISP will be preforming 'maintenance' every day slowing the internet to a crawl and forcing websites to retransmit over and over again...

I dont think this will happen, but if it did, you can be sure that you are going to be charged for every bit that passes over there network..even if its there fault.

Comment Re:Who loses out (Score 3, Insightful) 515

I think the metered result from the wireless companys will look back as a failure. When the technology was new they could justify a metered way of doing things, the internet started in similar fashion, you remember 250 hours free from AOL? yes i know, nightmares of AOL, but you do remember that right? it was dropped eventually and the same thing is happening with wireless. Currently i pay 50.00 a month for unlimited text, data, and voice, i can even tether it to my laptop.

No, i dont think ISP will go to metered with much results, it was tried i believe and the backlash caused them to pull back..now with so much bandwidth required for free services like youtube, but also paid service like netflix, the company that will try this will lose to other company's who wont touch this; and if they all try this, then its time to start a ISP that wont..it will happen the same way the internet started and where wireless is going, eventually, a ISP will offer unlimited to compete with big money, then big money will need to follow suit to keep themselves in big money.

that being said, if they do this...ill cancel my internet and use a open wifi. (adding another level of problems for ISP)

Comment Re:I may be wrong ... (Score 5, Insightful) 515

So Mr Romney is going to do better? you want to see a HUGE sell out, look at him and is multiple stances on every issue depending on who is paying the most

Seriously, blaming this on one administration, one congress, or one party is utterly ignorant. Fact is, the rich have far to much control and mr rich guy himself taking the mantel of presidency will lead our country back to double down bush era, less taxes and more power for the rich; more hardship for everyone else.

And if you think the recording industry will have less control with a republican in the white house...well then i will take back my statement that your ignorant, instead ill just call you plain stupid.

Lets just be clear, i cannot imagine the American people will accept romney as a president, i think he will lose and lose big. If the right wing was serious about anything, they would put up electable candidates...huntsman was a good choice, but retards herd the stupid in that party, in turn, the right wing has gone from a political party to a cult.

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