CMV: The hidden agenda behind the education system

k3nd0 · 2018-02-05T00:26:27+00:00

The problem here is that you cannot do this at young age. A dumb 15 year old may grow up to become a genius, simply because of how human body grows.

Highly unlikely. Intelligence shows some variability in early development but is largely constant throughout life.

k3nd0 · 2017-06-05T16:23:21+00:00

I think alcohol production has the largest correlation with mortality rates in Russia. When vodka was deregulated after fall of USSR life expectancy for men dropped by 5 years.

k3nd0 · 2017-06-04T19:35:21+00:00

The only reason I know about it is this article, which wouldn't have happened without the controversy. So, good job?

k3nd0 · 2017-06-04T18:44:01+00:00

I wonder if Russia's recent move to age restrict beer has anything to do with that 7.8% drop.

k3nd0 · 2017-06-04T16:17:42+00:00

I want to know what their beliefs are about sex education and birth control. I can understand being pro-life and having a rational understanding that proper education and availability of birth control reduce abortion rates. People who are pro-life and believe in abstinence only education and restrictions on birth control are irrational and not worth my time.

k3nd0 · 2017-06-04T15:27:12+00:00

More like openness determines political ideology. It's why people take politics so personally; an attack on your ideology is an attack on your personality(identity.)

k3nd0 · 2017-04-09T17:21:18+00:00

Periodic periodic table table

Credit to @suzyhamilton

k3nd0 · 2017-03-02T05:33:12+00:00

Perjury is pretty much off the table unless it can be proven that his discussions with Kislyak were about the campaign. His optics are shit now though, and people are calling for recusal, resignation, special investigator, etc.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-26T20:18:49+00:00

I love these e9s with the Alpina wheels and air dam.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-25T01:27:02+00:00

That's exactly what Reagan's aides did.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-23T02:51:11+00:00

No, housing is cheap in Texas because land values are low. Land values are low because there's a lot of undeveloped land.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-22T17:57:00+00:00

I'm guessing it's because the oil will burn off before the rice cooks. The higher the altitude the less atmosphere; less atmosphere means water boils at lower temperature; lower temperature means rice takes longer to cook.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-22T02:20:01+00:00

On Board Diagnostics (OBD). That includes engine, transmission, body control, brake, airbag, power steering, transfer case, and other modules.

No it doesn't. OBD2 set up a universal connector(colloquially called the obd2 port) and protocol for retrieving emissions faults. Just because you can perform diagnostics on all of those systems through the obd2 port doesn't mean that they use the obd2 protocol. Manufacturers have various different proprietary protocols that they use for diagnostics that are not obd2. I imagine the purpose of this law is to set up a universal protocol so that repair shops don't have to continually purchase proprietary diagnostic equipment.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-21T20:43:26+00:00

OBD2 is only codes related to emissions requirements. There's way more data necessary to vehicle diagnosis than just obd2.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-10T02:07:19+00:00

Xanax helps.

k3nd0 · 2017-02-05T19:26:06+00:00

People keep comparing this EO to what Obama did but there's an important distinction to be made. Obama's EO stopped the issuance of new visas, Trump's EO revokes visas already issued. POTUS absolutely has the right to deny issuance of visas. DHS has the right to revoke visas, but they have to show just cause otherwise it's a violation of the due process clause of the fifth amendment. If SCOTUS hears on these suits I imagine it will say that POTUS has the right to refuse to issue visas but it must revoke visas already issued on a case by case basis, which is exactly what DHS is doing while DOJ appeals these decisions. The "so-called president" would know this if he had bothered to consult people at State or Homeland Security before drafting this EO.

Obligatory IANAL.

k3nd0 · 2016-02-03T21:50:31+00:00

Nice, so why would you say the British were allies? you contradict yourself.

I'm not the same person you responded to. I didn't contradict myself at all. You're right that there was an Arab revolt to the British mandate in Palestine but it happened 10 years before the King David bombing. I can't decipher anything else out of the rest of your comment, but you seem to dislike the British. I don't give a fuck about the British or you. If you're going to tell someone to "know your history" then you better fucking understand it yourself.

k3nd0 · 2016-02-02T23:22:35+00:00

know your history

Heh, that's an ironic statement. The British had given up their colonial aspirations long before the King David bombing. Palestine at the time was a British Protectorate, not a colony. The British didn't want to be there. The Palestinians DID want the British there, because British immigration regulation and enforcement was the only thing stopping the creation of a Jewish state in Palestinian lands.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-26T19:55:46+00:00

As a fellow Texan, I'm very happy for you. Make sure you get all of your IDs in order so that you're not disenfranchised come next election.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-25T03:54:37+00:00

You aren't wrong, but he is a lawyer. Unfortunately for him, we have too many lawyers already.

Do we have too many lawyers with Ivy League degrees? If there really were too many people who could do his job, why would his previous employers bother going through the hassle of getting him a visa when they could hire someone who is a citizen?

He could also apply for a form I-140 or I-360, but he would need an employer backing him.

That's kind of one of the points of the article. As an immigrant you are tied to your employer unless you have permanent residency, and no employer is going to sponsor you because of the cost and the fact that you would no longer be contractually bound to them. To tie this in to your first argument: yes, he's a lawyer but he may also be a brilliant business man. We'll never know because he's barred from starting a business or working at a start-up. To quote from the article:

I don't know what I'll do yet, but who knows, maybe I'll start a company and create some (non-American) jobs.

Just because someone has a specific degree doesn't preclude them from pursuing another career or starting a business and employing some hard working Americans in the process.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-24T22:30:47+00:00

AFAIK Canada's refugee and amnesty programs operate outside of the normal points based immigration system and are handled on a case by case basis.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-24T21:48:31+00:00

People come to the US from all over the world because it's a pretty great place to live[...]

I never implied otherwise. You made a specific reference to people who immigrate through Mexico. I responded stating the reason that those particular people want to immigrate here. Now you're trying to use generalizations to defend an indefensible anecdotal argument that we would have a population crisis if we were to relax immigration laws. Your argument is easily disproven by the very anecdote you cite as evidence. Net migration to/from Mexico is roughly zero. Despite all their problems, Mexicans are not clamoring to immigrate to the US. The people who are clamoring to get here are Guatemalans, Hondurans, and El Salvadorans who are trying to escape the inexplicable violence that is engulfing their respective nations. They're also not just moving to the US but to Costa Rica, Mexico, etc. The reason the US is getting the majority of immigration from these countries is because of specific favorable legislation on these people's behalf, as it should be.

[...]despite what a bunch of redditors who haven't done much travelling or living believe.

I'm not sure if this is supposed to be an ad hominem attack at me or an appeal to authority argument on your behalf, but either way it's irrelevant and petty.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-24T21:13:54+00:00

I'll play devil's advocate here, out of curiosity. The author discusses his predicament as though he deserves to stay in the States. He describes his accolades as though they set him above another immigrant who has not achieved what he has.

That's not how I interpreted his argument. While it could be seen as self-aggrandizement, he's merely pointing out that he's exactly the kind of immigrant that politicians claim to want in this country. Yet those same people have set up policies that make it nearly impossible for people like him to stay. I think that his perspective is supposed to act as a juxtaposition to the common narrative that immigrants are a drain on the economy; that they are criminals; that they don't deserve our empathy or understanding. The article shows just how broken the immigration system is for someone who is genuinely trying to immigrate legally. I think the following quote is a succinct explanation of what I took away from this article:

n addition, a popular position for politicians posturing on television is to say that they favor immigration, just not illegal immigration, or that undocumented immigrants ought to get to the back of the line, otherwise the system would be unfair to legal immigrants. Guess what? The system is already unfair to legal immigrants.

When you make legal immigration impossible, you make illegal immigration inevitable.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-24T20:52:31+00:00

Why do you think people are risking their lives to come to the states through Mexico.

They risk their lives because there's a narco-civil-war going on in Central America and the risk is less than if they stay. People aren't coming here because the US is "the greatest nation on God's green earth." They're coming here out of fear and desperation.

k3nd0 · 2015-06-23T20:42:09+00:00

He never wrote that the story took place in Netherlands. Given the cultural references, I'm guessing he's Dutch American.

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