Civil Disobediance.
POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Friday, October 24, 2025 19:32
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Originally posted by SignyM:
And then again there's Sarge's unwarranted arrogance. He has all the subtlety of a newly converted Xtian fundamentalist because, by god, he has THE TRUTH on his side.
Coming at people that way guarantees rejection.
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I think that's more than a little harsh. Sarge has always elloquently defended his position. It might not be something you agree with but he has presented it honestly and without gimmickry and name calling.
Men have tunnel vision, we get fixated on something we are subject to confirmation bias, we become just a little too obcessive.
Case in point. At DragonCon last year I went to a workshop on resin casting props. Now I haven't complely given up on making a Firefly fan film and being able to cast resin would make building "Vera" and several other props easier. Three weeks ago I found a local supplier of materials and I've been working on it since then. On Saturday I was in the car with the Missus and my Spidey sense finally registered she was annoyed. I asked what was wrong and she said "I know you're pleased with this stuff and I am usually interested but it is the ONLY thing you have talked about this week."
So there... simple subject not likely to change the human race, one dumb male... obscession...
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080523162916.htm
Public Schools As Good As Private Schools In Raising Math Scores, Study Says
ScienceDaily (May 27, 2008) — Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students.
It's a much longer article which explains and supports previous studies that show the same thing.
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Originally posted by Fletch2:
So there... simple subject not likely to change the human race, one dumb male... obscession...
Stole it from another thread but thought it was appropriateisall
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Quote:He thinks that his girlfriend's reaction is because he "pointed out" that the emperor has no clothes. The whole problem is encapsulated in that exchange: He's convinced that there is an emperor, he knows who it is, the emperor has no clothes... and everyone else who believes otherwise is a deluded fool.
I think that's more than a little harsh. Sarge has always elloquently defended his position. It might not be something you agree with but he has presented it honestly and without gimmickry and name calling.
It's the "deluded fool" part she was reacting to.
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Let's party like it's 1929.
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Hey- I'M the insufferable prig here...don't go giving away my hard-earned title Signy!!!
isall
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Original Post of Citizen.
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It seemed earlier you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences, which simply isn't true.
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
you suggested that whole reams of society, including technological base, could be removed if we didn't want them, without causing 'unintended' consequences
Who said this ?
Frem or Citizen ?
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the idea of the style I propose is doing away with structures that nearly everybody wants gone with the full understanding of how that would limit your technology and production base
the idea of the style I propose is doing away with structures that nearly everybody wants gone with the full understanding of how that would limit your technology and production base
the idea of the style I propose is doing away with structures that nearly everybody wants gone with the full understanding of how that would limit your technology and production base
the idea of the style I propose is doing away with structures that nearly everybody wants gone with the full understanding of how that would limit your technology and production base
the idea of the style I propose is doing away with structures that nearly everybody wants gone with the full understanding of how that would limit your technology and production base
Who said THIS ?
Frem or Citizen ?
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CHRISISALL If a personal relationship isn't based on mutal respect then in my book it's exploitative.
But I w/draw the personal comment and will edit my previous post to suit.
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Just hate family feuds is all.
The show, I mean. Fight hereabouts are common.
In the war zoneisall
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Frem- I think I understand why Cit's is frustrated. Here's the point (I think). You said
Quote:I believe Cit's point is that nobody has a "full undestanding" ,and that furthermore nobody CAN can have a "full understanding". What he is concerned about is unintended consequences... the point being that unintended consequences are, by defintion, those that you didn't/ couldn't foresee. Now maybe there are smarter people out there who really DO know which technological/ social pieces are linchpins and which ones aren't. Are you one of them? Because I know I'm not and personally, I think some of that information is in the realm of "can't be fully known". At least not on the timeframe that will do any good.
the idea of the style I propose is doing away with structures that nearly everybody wants gone with the full understanding of how that would limit your technology and production base
But if we can agree that some of that information is unknowable, perahps we can get to discussing the things that seem relatively clear-cut.
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