Nicker on 21/7/2010 at 03:16
Quote Posted by CCCToad
For example, Bill Gates has been funding research in how to perform mass sterilizations in order to control world population.
Windows 7 is not really mass sterilisation, it just makes internet porn so accessible that people forget how to actually have procreative sex, even if they want to.
Enchantermon on 21/7/2010 at 03:28
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I will humbly sit here and say you are a lucky mofo. Congrats on graduation, I hope ya do well and make some $$$$:).
Thanks. I'm glad I'm finally done (at least until I go back for my Master's, if I decide to). I don't know that I'm really all that lucky though; I just worked really hard to get to where I am.
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Homeschooling may not be the ultimate answer, but at least it's an option available to those who would rather see their kids as engineers rather than cooks at the local Wendy's
While I agree that the US education system isn't the best right now, there's no reason that products of it can't be successful; they just have to apply themselves. If they can keep a steady A-B average through high school and get at least an average score on the SAT, that should be enough to grant them entrance to a good college and some scholarships to help them pay for it. As long as they keep up their work ethic, they'll be fine. It's nowhere near impossible, but it's hard work. As long as kids are taught that they have to work for what they want instead of slacking off and/or expecting it to be handed to them, then no matter how they get their education, they'll be fine.
Muzman on 21/7/2010 at 03:37
Quote Posted by CCCToad
Read this thread. Even for the ones not arguing about homeschooling, its still pretty amusing to see people's blood boiling and even more amusing when others react by displaying exactly the attitude that the article describes.
Who do you find fits this description besides RBJ? (not that he does, but I'm sure he's the unstated target)
Do you honestly think that 'thinking you know better than someone else' is somehow vindication of this 'ruling class' thesis? Pretty thin. I reckon you could have found that a bit more easily in something shorter that made more sense
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One point about the "eugenist" term: Eugenics is beginning to see a bit of a comeback in intellectual circles. For example, Bill Gates has been funding research in how to perform mass sterilizations in order to control world population.
It's trite to say 'citation needed', but Citation Needed. Which intellectual circles? Is there some implication that 'the common man', however you define it, would automatically be against such things?
Are you finding you get increasing amounts of your news from Prison Planet?
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My own take on the article: its most valid point is that both America's right and left are similar because they subscribe wholeheartedly to the belief that it is their prerogative to force their vision of life on the rest of the world, no matter whether they want it or not. There isn't that much difference between the Obama staffer who wants to force people to "say the right things" or be sent to prison and the Neocons who wanted to force Iraqis to be democratic.
Dude, the whole world's been pointing out "America"s problem with its manifest destiny thing for a good while. A fairly common innate sense of superiority makes this cheap isolationism all the easier to foster, across any socioeconomic divisions, I'd say. Doesn't mean the attitude actually grasps what posessing this ginormous planet shaping economy actually grants or entails, the reverse really. Oh but I'm being a condescending big city intellectual again aren't I.
At risk of doing it again; a theory/argument whose best confirmation is disagreement with it is kinda automatically crap. And why this notion, if that's the best thing you got out of it, needs to be couched in long winded anti-intellectual, anti "Expert", provincialist dogma (laced with out and out lies) is beyond me.
What ever happened to kids who hated it when old farts went on and on about how much better it was in the old days. It's been turned up a few notches lately, I'll grant them that. It's not 1950s idealism anymore. It's 1850s instead, some of it 1750s.
Tocky on 21/7/2010 at 05:00
The bald faced lies make me the most uncomfortable. It's as if with Fox now willing to present its opinion as fact people are losing the distinction. The tea party starts out with a hatred of Obama and works at filling in the details with internet apocrapha. They wave thier guns and shout about rights being taken when the opposite has been happening. DC is now open season with repeal of the ban so that "they's gonna take muh guuuuun" is obvious paranoid bullshit and if anything the "liberals" have been bending over backward while the tea party neanderthals whine about not getting what they want all the while getting everything they want.
And quite frankly I'm getting damned sick of this fear of evolution. If your religion won't stand a little honest thought then you are a stupid fuck for believing it. Play with your snakes and yodle in the corner but don't expect me to give you the respect you won't give me.*
No order of the arrow mon?
*Not directed at anyone unless you see yourself in the statement.
Enchantermon on 21/7/2010 at 05:03
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No order of the arrow mon?
Yes, actually.
Tocky on 21/7/2010 at 05:11
They still whack you with it or have they gone all cuddly?
Enchantermon on 21/7/2010 at 05:18
Only by hand on the shoulder. Very hard. No objects were involved in the whacking.
Tocky on 21/7/2010 at 05:27
Back in the day it was whack it till it broke. They were unnoticeably notched to break though.
Koki on 21/7/2010 at 05:35
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
My point was that homeschooling didn't stunt my ability to interact socially
Written on CommShat, 2010.07.21 at 0340 GMT+2
Queue on 21/7/2010 at 06:00
How does he train his social interactions to walk around on their hind legs like that?
Aw shit.... My stupid public skool education is showing, again. I only learnt (that's right, irregular verbs!) the first definition for stunt. What a gyp.
