Comment Re:Extend the lifespan of B-52 beyond 2040? (Score 1) 403
I guess, if you don't count domestic violence: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,IRBC,,ARE,4e4a2c0c2,0.html
it was noticeable in at least one American that they pronounced 'about' with an extra beat in the 'ow' part. So a two syllable word sounded like it had three syllables
It's a diphthong.
Language is neat!
I agree!
Reality doesn't care about your ideology at all, actually.
Don't anthropomorphize reality; It hates that.
Strictly speaking, attributing a lack of caring to something is not anthropomorphizing it, since it in fact does not care. Attributing caring to it would be anthropomorphizing.
Can anyone come up with a single typically conservative position that has a sound basis in science?
Small, efficient government costs less money?
There are at least 3,141 school districts in the U.S. This is one of them.
Yay for pi thousand!
Now I might well be wrong here, but doesn't the leading edge of the aysmmetric airfoil have to be higher than the trailing edge to create lift once power is applied?
Nope, camber can be used to generate lift.
Stupid religious people and their "morals"
Well, that's just a straw man.
I was referring to using it to "prove" something. The world is flat. Anyone who says otherwise knows in their heart that they're wrong! You could use the same argument with god and pretty much anything, really.
It means absolutely nothing and proves nothing.
True. That was just the inference I was getting from your post.
I'm kinda bored, and was looking to rob someone for fun...
Why would I give you my address? I may be a moral relativist, but that doesn't mean I don't have my own moral code or wish for myself to be hurt. I don't even see how your comment was relevant to mine.
I was assuming you would think that someone robbing you would be "bad," and suggesting that someone with different morals might not agree. In my experience, most moral relativists lack the internal logical consistency to see that without an external framework "atrocious" acts such as rape, murder, and genocide can't be declared objectively "evil," since there is no such thing. You seem not to have this problem, so I have no argument with you. I just wanted to see if you were logically consistent.
Oh, I see. The "you know in your heart that you're wrong" argument that religious types seem to love to use.
Right? Stupid religious people and their "morals"... BTW, what's your address? I'm kinda bored, and was looking to rob someone for fun...
I do not believe in a god, but I don't believe in organ donation either. I don't generally see a high quality of life for the recipients. In most cases it's just prolonging the agony.
I've got a buddy with Cystic Fibrosis. He got a double lung transplant, and went from being an invalid to mountain biking, snow boarding, and running.
So, what would you call people from the Americas? You know, North- and South America?
I guess it depends... do these hypothetical persons have countries of which they are citizens? If so, that would probably be how I would refer to them.
Slashdot is populated predominantly by engineer types. Engineers believe in processes and systems, engineers believe in the objective world and the scientific method.
So engineers have a tendency to support a political stance based around solving problems by engineered solutions, in other words, government programs. Tell an engineer that the government is broken and he'll try to fix it. Tell him that it is corrupt and he'll device decision making processes around human flaws.
How many engineer types do you know that think management/bureaucracy is great at their place of employment? Why would it be any different in government? Engineer types also tend to be cynical, hence distrust government, and be pro-libertarian. I know it's popular to be anti-libertarian on Slashdot, but I think it's just about as popular to be pro-libertarian.
The 99th percentile starts at about $6M in net worth. Again, that's great money, but you're not going to quit your day job.
I would quit my job. $6M is $100K/yr for 60 years. Invested well, the interest would make it even more.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
