They wouldn't have to do this if we just closed tax loopholes, then America would actually have the money to teach its youth.

Technology is not the solution; you can't scale attention.

Dude, it isn't that you had a small sample size, it's that you're extrapolating from independent contexts. There's a large difference between what people will say on posts IN facebook among friends (i.e. a semblance of privacy) versus what some warm body clicks for a quarter on mechanical turk (no semblance of privacy and perhaps an intent to please the questioner and adjust to the bias of the question).

Your "fun picture" at a "department party" or whatever (I RTFirstA but not this justification drivel) attempts to locate the issue in the image, but fails to account for the different contexts and motivations. It also fails to differentiate between 'do you like/are you offended by this' versus 'would you share this and what would you say about it'.

Your "experiment" is akin to trying to generalize that ballet shoes (liking/offensiveness of these images) aren't very good (no bias) because you played basketball in them (paid someone to answer a survey). And the metaphor in that last sentence was deliberately contorted as an example of how you structured your experiment incorrectly and extrapolated the results from an improper experiment.

Throwing stats about sample sizes, percentages and previous glory mean nothing if you're measuring the wrong thing ... and still coming up short.

This is coming from a husband of a two breastfed kids who only says in public that I agreed with breastfeeding so I'd see more nipplage around the house ....

your post when compared to your signature - priceless.

obviously midnight isn't related to it being around the middle of the night....

Slate magazine just ran a story about how most, if not all, Hollywood blockbusters are starting to follow a single format/structure:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollywood_and_blake_snyder_s_screenwriting_book_save_the_cat.single.html/

note - if you click the link at the end of the article you'll also see how the article is written in the same format! - how consistent!

this update probably has a some relationship to Nvidia's handheld device Shield being able to play android games, especially because some of these features can be found on Steam and probably nvidia's own tegrazone. The question may then become is the 'syncing' among android apps and/or across these other platforms...

That's why people should get on the America's Test Kitchen bandwagon. The recipes they put into their books and on their Public Television show (of the same name) are tested in their kitchen sometimes 20-60 times for the most "bulletproof" version. Check out this article for more about the magazine/movement.

I bought two of their books and record their show. Every recipe I've tried I've messed up a little bit and the dish still came out with rave reviews from myself, wife and party guests.

perhaps the only anecdotal evidence is that in humans when the older kids are scared they make the younger ones go first.

1. yeah, because having an internet connection is obviously a signal that one's household is an indicator of the people in that household either being productive or being on the brink of becoming productive... So now that these poor black folk have an internet connection they are going to become 'bankable (get bank accounts), good jobs and better education(al opportunities). I find it relatively stupid that people think signing up for broadband is supposed to bridge some 'digital divide'. Why don't we start focusing on the 'paycheck divide' which is probably a much more reliable indicator of opportunity being converted into economic reality... So let's applaud google's "get out the broadband effort" and forget about how Lilliputian of a distance that step gets one across the 'digital divide'... 2. I was just about to post the same article.

I hope they include SpaceChem - it's a fantastic puzzle game that many people have thought to liken to teaching chemistry, industrial manufacturing and programming.

Irony outed. Didn't know that you could post the word nigger on slashdot. and thanks for the google books search. righteous.

Accidentally replacing nookd with kindled (or verse visa) is hilarious.

But...

When you intentionally mar a national treasure due to current political correctness:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/06/1555251/the-continued-censorship-of-huckleberry-finn/ - where they searched and replaced "ni99a" with "slave" from Huckleberry Finn...

Well that's just arrogant (demonstrates a belief in the superiority of current social mores over historical realities) spineless (so our genteel sexting children don't have to face the fact that some Americans enslaved and legislated the inferiority of a whole race) and impoverishing (robs people of the opportunity for a real authentic discussion of the troubled history of race in this country).

i heard Microsoft signed a lease with the oil companies to build these new datacenters on the icecaps to accelerate global warming . . .