Absolutely! The ONLY thing a standardized test can tell you is how good the individual is AT TAKING A STANDARDIZED TEST. It is the WORST criteria...
you taking a Psych test tomorrow or something? :) I'm not an expert on the subject - if you google some of this stuff, you should be able to...
pessimism (unfortunately) rob, pessimism tends to be a sign of intelligence if only the really intelligent people, like you, would focus their...
You're dead right about that, rob. I didn't mean to say that I thought we'd 'progressed' or come any kind of distance. I just meant that blaming...
I think trying a parliamentary system in the US would at least be a step in the right direction (though of course I'm in favor of a more radical...
RIGHT ON, MAN!!! Nothing pisses me off more than my co-workers shaking their heads and saying "the world has changed". Fucking wake up! America...
sorry my posts are so "behind" we're all writing a LOT I hate biodeterminism - we're past that, even though it seems like nothing's changed....
Okay "incredible" maybe wasn't the right choice of words to describe the journal. I didn't mean that its not credible. :)
reply to Salty I'm not interested in votes at all. There's no one to vote FOR. As I said before, even with different people in the White House,...
I don't think that saying I'd die to end America/Capitalism's reign of terror is disregarding human life - I'm sorry you took it that way. I just...
I was involved politically for a while - going to protests and weekly meetings with a socialist group for a while - but it's so hard. You're not...
If you've never read any Samuel Delany, you don't know what you're missing. William Gibson and Neal Gaiman are my favorite writers - but DHALGREN by...
According to Freud (who is full of shit)? The id. (definitions below taken from a quick google search that landed me on...
Yeah, and I mean a REAL regime change - not a democratic president that'll just do the same things as a republican one but with a softer "people's...
Have you noticed that the higher education expectation keeps getting HIGHER? Like, jobs you used to be able to get with a Master's degree now...
In order to make those kinds of arguments, you really have to subscribe to the idea that people are born with inborn traits - i.e., that Judy Garland...
Oh, I agree with you. Besides, what would be the POINT of creating something EXACTLY like a human? What would be the value in creating something...
my thoughts exactly - i'm on another thread with someone about quantum computing in relation to the theory of parallel universes put forth by David...
i completely disagree with you. a cyborg is simply a being that requires both technological parts and biological parts to survive. there are many...
so is algae, mold, bacteria . . . but i'm misrepresenting myself. i do value human life more than bacteria. i don't think it's "kinder" to...
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