Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Judah McAuley
Pigs are pretty smart. I bet you could teach them basic algebra. The hard part would be motivating them to care about it and finding the tools for them to express themselves. Actually, that sounds just like teaching kids algebra now that I think about it. Judah On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM, L

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
If you knew what you were writing about. Pardon that if you had a scintilla of an inkling of what is involved, then I'd give your post th response it would deserve. But as you have demonstrated multiple times, discussing the issue with you is like explaining algebra to a pig, it does no good and o

Re: FW: Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

2011-12-06 Thread PT
What do you expect? We all know about Kermit's dark past. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU As to the Fox video .. hahahahaha "Hollywood and the media hates corporate America." 20th Century Fox, FOX News Channel, FOX Studio, New York Post and The Wall Street Journal all must suffer

Re: FW: Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

2011-12-06 Thread Maureen
At least the liberals have the Muppets, who have a higher IQ than all the Republican Presidential candidates combined. Especially Ms. Piggy. She could take Bachmann in a debate any day. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Medic wrote: > > I'm sure both sides are like this, but it so sad to see. >

Re: FW: Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

2011-12-06 Thread Medic
I'm sure both sides are like this, but it so sad to see. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Faux Snooze has jumped the shark again. I suspect that lately Fox has > done it so often that it must have pogo sticks surgically attached. > > http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/20111202

Re: FW: Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

2011-12-06 Thread Maureen
The dumb have always been intimidated by those who are their intellectual superiors, so they lash out with whatever weapon is at their command. It used to be limited to the occasional letter to the editor, full of spelling and grammar errors. Unfortunately, the internet is so easy to use that ev

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread PT
You assume that doing it right necessarily follows proper analysis and that proper analysis precludes rushing in. It is most likely that rushing in will happen whether or not proper analysis is done and doing it right won't be an initial option because of time wasted bickering over proper anal

Re: Annoying email practice

2011-12-06 Thread Casey Dougall
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:23 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > Is there a name for this tom-foolery and can I report domains for it? > > Hatton > > Not that I'm aware of. Just inform your employees how to handle unsolicited emails.

Re: FW: Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

2011-12-06 Thread Scott Stroz
WowI am speechlesswow On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Faux Snooze has jumped the shark again. I suspect that lately Fox has > done it so often that it must have pogo sticks surgically attached. > > http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201112020036 > > I mean come on the

Re: Boars, Gore, and Swords: A Game of Thrones Podcast

2011-12-06 Thread Maureen
I just read the first four books then watched the series again. May go buy the fifth book tonight. I love the books and the show. Can't wait for season two. Really glad they recast the role of Daenerys Targaryen because Emilia Clarke is perfect. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Ras Tafari wro

Re: Interesting blog post on standardized testing in schools

2011-12-06 Thread Maureen
I love quadratic equations and I always excelled on standardized tests. Those I know from school who didn't may have succeeded in other fields, but my observation of their lives is that they struggle to understand issues like the Federal budget, or interest in mortgages, credit scores, even somet

FW: Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

2011-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Faux Snooze has jumped the shark again. I suspect that lately Fox has done it so often that it must have pogo sticks surgically attached. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201112020036 I mean come on there are much more important things to get upset about, but the Muppets. That's almost as good as Fa

Annoying email practice

2011-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
I have all bounces for our email servers forward to me - I do this to keep an eye out for message sent to former employees and also to be proactive in helping the "my email didn't go through" complaints internally. Every now an again I see a sequence of bounced emails going back to the same outsi

Re: Best book review ever

2011-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Ain't science fun. On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > >> This is a book that >> clatters around in a dark closet of irrelevancies for 450 pages before >> it bumps accidentally into its index and stops; but that is not a >> criticism, either, because its author finds it gra

Re: Best book review ever

2011-12-06 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> This is a book that > clatters around in a dark closet of irrelevancies for 450 pages before > it bumps accidentally into its index and stops; but that is not a > criticism, either, because its author finds it gratifying and > refreshing to bang unrelated facts together as a rebuke to stuffy > m

Re: Best book review ever

2011-12-06 Thread Erika L. Rich
That is a great review! For some odd reason I found it hilarious. Thanks for sharing!! On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:43 AM, "Larry C. Lyons" wrote: > > This is the 1st paragraph of a book review -- by the philosopher > Matthew Cartmill -- of Donna Haraway's book, Primate Visions: Gender, > Race and

Re: best CF/PHP IDE with SVN integration?

2011-12-06 Thread Scott Stroz
I use the PHP plugin for Eclipse with Subclipse. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > I am reinstalling OSX Lion on my machine, and am at the point where I need > to install an IDE.  I have been using Eclipse with subclipse, aptana, and > CFEclipse for what seems like foreve

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Sam
The data doesn't support anything. That's why it's bogus science. . On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > you hope. the data doesn't support the idea that this is going away > any time soon. I just hope that when it bites us in the ass AGW > doesn't destroy us. >

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
you hope. the data doesn't support the idea that this is going away any time soon. I just hope that when it bites us in the ass AGW doesn't destroy us. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:48 AM, GMoney wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, PT wrote: > >> >> History says that the likelihood of us not

best CF/PHP IDE with SVN integration?

2011-12-06 Thread Ray Champagne
I am reinstalling OSX Lion on my machine, and am at the point where I need to install an IDE. I have been using Eclipse with subclipse, aptana, and CFEclipse for what seems like forever, but the weight of it has really started to irk me latey. Figure I have the opportunity to make a change right

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread Sam
You can rush in new laws that you have to read to know what's in them or do a proper analysis first and do it right. Imagine that. . On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:39 PM, PT wrote: > > History says that the likelihood of us not really doing anything about > it until it starts biting us in the ass is

Re: 'Fool Me Twice: The Assault on Science in America'

2011-12-06 Thread GMoney
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, PT wrote: > > History says that the likelihood of us not really doing anything about > it until it starts biting us in the ass is almost a certainty. > Not really. History suggests we'll soon forget about it and move on to our next crisis of the decadeand the