All of this is very unfortunate. Ideally, the great academic minds of a society should be put to work for the sake of building up that society and addressing its problems. Instead, most Western academics today are using their intellectual capital to answer questions that nobody’s asking on pages that nobody’s reading.
Another reason your college degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on… or even the ink.
Source: Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads | Intellectual Takeout
When asked why it was standing in the way of farmers who want to fix their own tractors, the company replied that farmers didn’t really own their tractors. According to John Deere [PDF], farmers have only “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle,” and farmers (or their mechanics) aren’t allowed to fiddle with the software to effect a repair.
Naturally, that position upset a lot of farmers, who assumed that when they plopped down $75,000 or more for a new tractor, they were buying the whole thing. They felt they should be able to fix their tractors on their own terms. And it turns out that the farmers were right.
Source: Why We Must Fight for the Right to Repair Our Electronics – IEEE Spectrum
In reality, carbon dioxide is the miracle molecule without which most life on Earth would cease to exist. It enables plants of all kinds to convert soil nutrients and water into the fibers, fruits and seeds that are essential to humans and animals. The more CO2 in the air, the faster and better plants grow, and the more they are able to withstand droughts, disease, and damage from insects and viruses. In the process, crop, forest and grassland plants, and ocean and freshwater phytoplankton, exhale the oxygen we breathe.
They believe in fake science.
Source: The Obama EPA’s crooked prosecutors | Watts Up With That?
Our poor – and mind you, we have little or no abject poverty in the U.S., only relative poverty – have cell phones, game consoles, laptop computers and microwave ovens.
Been saying this for years, ever since I visited other countries like Mexico, the Philippines, and Pakistan and saw real poverty.
Source: Animal’s Daily Birth Control News | Animal Magnetism
With the rise of terrorism, one can easily make the case that a disarmed populace is a luxury we can no longer afford.
Gun control I can support.
Source: Must Pack Heat: The Case for Mandating Gun Ownership | Observer
John McCain has a long history of colluding with enemies of the United States… first the North Vietnamese, now the Democrats:
McCain had a unique POW experience. Initially, he was taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was interrogated. By McCain’s own account, after three or four days, he cracked. He promised his Vietnamese captors, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”
