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28 Nov 2010, 1:27 pm

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I would buy into that if I didn't have a teacher from New Jersey whom couldn't even find the state I lived in on a map until she actually had to move there. Reason being none of the states west of Pennsylvania was labeled on maps where she went to school, until you got to California.


Isolated event, I'm sure. Geography is essential to meteorology. You can't even read an observation if you don't know the airport codes.



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28 Nov 2010, 1:32 pm

CORRRECTION: THERE WAS A FOOLISH ERA IN WHICH I'D TYPED "TORONTO" INSTEAD OF CANADA. I SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED THAT ERROR. SOMEBODY SHOUTED AT ME TO DO DISHES, THEREBY DISTRACTING ME FROM ENSURING THE BELOW POST WAS PERFECT AND ADDED TIME PRESSURES, WHICH I GENERALLY SPEAKING DISLIKE.

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I would buy into that if I didn't have a teacher from New Jersey whom couldn't even find the state I lived in on a map until she actually had to move there. Reason being none of the states west of Pennsylvania was labeled on maps where she went to school, until you got to California.


There is quite a bit of outrage in Canada over anacedotes of Americans being unable to label the capital city of Canada correctly or even being unable to find Canada on a map.


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28 Nov 2010, 1:47 pm

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There is quite a bit of outrage in Canada over anacedotes of Americans being unable to label the capital city of Toronto correctly or even being unable to find Canada on a map.


I didn't know that Toronto had a capital city.

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28 Nov 2010, 1:55 pm

ruveyn wrote:
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There is quite a bit of outrage in Canada over anacedotes of Americans being unable to label the capital city of Toronto correctly or even being unable to find Canada on a map.


I didn't know that Toronto had a capital city.

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God damnit!


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28 Nov 2010, 2:32 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
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There is quite a bit of outrage in Canada over anacedotes of Americans being unable to label the capital city of Toronto correctly or even being unable to find Canada on a map.


I didn't know that Toronto had a capital city.

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God damnit!


:lol: (sorry)



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28 Nov 2010, 2:36 pm

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I'm alluding to that others take the same stance and therefore create a collective that influences people in such a way. Orwell by himself doesn't have much impact but his attitude is shared by others and that creates a much larger push.

Couple problems here:

1) I control my own attitudes/beliefs and no one else's. I am not responsible for the stances of the US Democratic Party or any other political organization, nor are they responsible for mine.
2) I doubt my views and attitudes are all that common anyways. I think I'm on record a few times as saying that democracy is absurd; that's hardly a sentiment you can expect to hear from anyone in politics.


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28 Nov 2010, 3:59 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:

There is quite a bit of outrage in Canada over anacedotes of Americans being unable to label the capital city of Toronto correctly or even being unable to find Canada on a map.


I didn't know that Toronto had a capital city.

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God damnit!


I realize this was a mistake on his part, but to be fair to MP, Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario, and is easily the most well-known of the provincial capitals because it's also the largest city in Canada. So in this context, saying "the capital city of Toronto" is not entirely wrong (though, admittedly, it's a strange way to phrase the sentence). :P



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28 Nov 2010, 4:37 pm

number5 wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
I would buy into that if I didn't have a teacher from New Jersey whom couldn't even find the state I lived in on a map until she actually had to move there. Reason being none of the states west of Pennsylvania was labeled on maps where she went to school, until you got to California.


Isolated event, I'm sure. Geography is essential to meteorology. You can't even read an observation if you don't know the airport codes.


She didn't teach meteorology, nor am I into meteorology anyways, my area of expertise is Product Data Management which is a subset of Computer Graphics Technology.

I just tend to have a very good long-term memory.



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29 Nov 2010, 12:08 am

Chevand wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:

There is quite a bit of outrage in Canada over anacedotes of Americans being unable to label the capital city of Toronto correctly or even being unable to find Canada on a map.


I didn't know that Toronto had a capital city.

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God damnit!


I realize this was a mistake on his part, but to be fair to MP, Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario, and is easily the most well-known of the provincial capitals because it's also the largest city in Canada. So in this context, saying "the capital city of Toronto" is not entirely wrong (though, admittedly, it's a strange way to phrase the sentence). :P


What I meant to say was something along the lines of "there's outrage in Canada over anecdotes of Americans thinking Toronto is the capital of Canada", but I rephrased my statement. I tend to edit specific parts of sentences in a very fragmented way when I restructure them, so some pretty foolish mistakes sometimes make the final draft - and this really pisses me off as I'm a neurotic perfectionist (and I also have executive dysfunction, which is a pretty crappy combination).


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29 Nov 2010, 12:09 am

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skafather84 wrote:
I'm alluding to that others take the same stance and therefore create a collective that influences people in such a way. Orwell by himself doesn't have much impact but his attitude is shared by others and that creates a much larger push.

Couple problems here:

1) I control my own attitudes/beliefs and no one else's. I am not responsible for the stances of the US Democratic Party or any other political organization, nor are they responsible for mine.
2) I doubt my views and attitudes are all that common anyways. I think I'm on record a few times as saying that democracy is absurd; that's hardly a sentiment you can expect to hear from anyone in politics.


What!! ! The ultra-fatalist has flip-flopped on free will? :P :lol:


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29 Nov 2010, 12:16 am

"Control" used in the colloquial sense of the word. I have not flip-flopped on free will.

However, determinism is not "fatalism."


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29 Nov 2010, 12:17 am

Orwell wrote:
"Control" used in the colloquial sense of the word. I have not flip-flopped on free will.

However, determinism is not "fatalism."


The joke was just too damn funny (and obvious) to resist.


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30 Nov 2010, 12:31 pm

http://nation.foxnews.com/midterm-elect ... -out-power

I know many of you don't like Fox, however I think you'd find the behavior of the Democrats interesting. For all they say they are for bipartisanship, their behavior shows otherwise as pointed out by Republican Steve Buyer.



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30 Nov 2010, 3:56 pm

The dems bent over backwards to include the repubs *before* this election, and received a cold shoulder at every turn; I see no reason why they should continue to do so, especially given that the repubs are now even more radical.



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30 Nov 2010, 4:49 pm

That people give Ayn Rand's madness the time of day and don't see these crazy moral codes as total evil is also baffling to me. I can only conclude that they believe these horrible things out of their own myopic sense of self interest.



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30 Nov 2010, 4:53 pm

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That people give Ayn Rand's madness the time of day and don't see these crazy moral codes as total evil is also baffling to me. I can only conclude that they believe these horrible things out of their own myopic sense of self interest.


What is evil? The notion what we live for our own sakes and not the sake others?

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If I am only for myself, what am I
If not now, then when?

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