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Your awesome Tagline
definitely agree. the truth is whatever you make it out to be. except in my opinion for the world to go round, people have to believe in certain objective truths. and have to believe in the concept of truth in general.
lies!!
This is meant in one of those touchy-feely, existential ways, right? We can all be adult enough to admit that some things just…are, right?
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PlayStation Security Breach Could Cause Wider Problems, Affecting Colleges - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Q: If people have PlayStation accounts that have been compromised, how does this affect other accounts they have?
A: There are two right now that we’re really worried about it. It seems pretty clear that the passwords on some or all of the 77 million accounts have now been compromised. Most people reuse passwords across accounts, so if I’m the perpetrator who took these data, I’m going to know your e-mail address, and I’m going to know your password. I can then digitally test them against bank-account Web sites, credit-card-company Web sites, and online-health-record Web sites to see if I can get access to your account. The second thing—and, to my mind, this is even more troubling—is that the challenge answers were breached. When you forget your password, which we almost all do pretty frequently, Web sites have now gone to using these challenge questions, like your first pet or the name of your high school. Most of us answer those questions honestly because that’s the only way we have any hope of remembering the answers when we need them later. If you use the same questions across multiple sites, that means not only can someone go in and access your account, but they can use that to lock you out of your own account.
Q: The PlayStation network is still down, but are there things PlayStation users should be doing with their other accounts?
A: If I knew that my PlayStation password or password-reset questions were the same ones I had used on some other accounts, I would go in and change them today. I would also take this as a really valuable object lesson of why you shouldn’t use the identical password across accounts.
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Source: http://www.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx
So here’s the most baffling thing, these represent record results in both polls. People are at the same time the most historically dissatisfied with the education system yet the most satisfied that they’ve ever been with their own children’s education. Have we all just bought into the dialogue that our education system is awful or are we so diluted that we are incapable of believing that our own children could be suffering in it?
-Joe
Hmmm, this is interesting. I think this may show the public’s opinion on public education and its performance in relation to higher education. Notice how the bottom graph is their oldest child and their satisfaction with their education as opposed to k12. Very interesting seeing as how higher education is mostly for profit whereas k-12 is mostly state subsidized and controlled.
The bottom represents the results from parents of K-12 public school students. It’s still pretty interesting. My bet is that it’s explained by self-selection - people in good neighborhoods/districts were probably overrepresented among those who agreed to respond.
Everybody hears the test scores and sees the news specials…we know that the system is balled up. But the people with the time and interest to sit on the phone with a pollster probably don’t actually experience the system at its worst.
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Lefty ‘Win-Any-Argument’ Card
Only to be used when you have no valid counter argument…or whenever you feel like it.
^ Exactly.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
I love this.
So you think that racial minorities aren’t oppressed at all anymore? Are you serious? Like it or not, racism is still an issue in society, and ignoring that fact is akin to saying that racism is perfectly okay.
This. Anyone who says minorities/women still aren’t oppresses is an ignorant asshole who needs to open their eyes to the world.
You use this word, “oppressed”; I don’t think it means what you think it means.
Oh? How so?
It would take a giant leap to look at life in the (First World) West and try to say that minorities and women are “oppressed” without changing the definition to include the mere existence of stereotypes.
- Internment camps for Jews in Germany = oppression
- Internment camps for Japanese in the US = oppression
- Jim Crow = oppression
- Being excluded for choosing not to conform culturally != oppression
- Making less money because you ask for less money != oppression
Just like Al Sharpton makes it harder to point out real racism every time he makes a stink about something that isn’t, using the word oppression to describe what goes on in the US ruins the power of the word to describe what goes on around the world - real oppression.
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Can I take my liquids on an airplane now?
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Ron Paul is the first legitimate GOP (hardly) contender for president in 2012 and the media is still fascinated with Donald Trump.
But there’s no media bias guys. None at all.
This is a GOOD thing! Trump’s going to take the beatings for the next few months before his inevitable departure…the rest of the field will have been building base support and will have some stability when the media realizes he isn’t a real contender.
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This is what happens when you google titles to Itchy and Scratchy Cartoons
This is a really interesting blog post dealing \with the history of racism as an ideology and psuedoscientific theory. While I didn’t really learn anything new here it is a very well written piece that is quite worthyof being read just because it is so well done.
