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Re:More importantly
Here's a Pic https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/...
You must be American to be able to fit a 151MW power station on a trailer.
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Re:the vacuum of space between your ears
maybe you can explain to us how that is supposed to work?
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Of course they had to hire more "workers"
They keep running out of "workers".
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Re:You'll have to tear out much of Europe's housin
Actually, I'm in Iceland, but not like it matters. And no, "public" does not in any way, shape, or form mean "not a parking garage". The word "public" has a very specific meaning. Just like the word private does. They're antonyms.
You cannot equip a grass verge with an electric plug
Yes you most certainly can. It's actually easier to install charging stations in grass than concrete. You run a trenching tool down the grass, lay down conduit, fill in the trench, and install the posts. And hey, if you don't want the posts for aesthetic reasons? No problem.
Look, the fact that you're arguing that something "can't be done" where there are places that it already is abundantly done should clue you in to the fact that you're wrong.
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Re:Starship Troopers
I have seen SST a few times, and my friends and I discussed it quite a lot at the time and here was some of the things that we came up with:
No, they didn't use gun sights because they were firing smart bullets that would track targets within maybe 3 degrees divergence of their fired direction. This would allow you to spray and still consistently hit the target.
Except remember there was the one propaganda video where the soldiers were interacting with kids and showing them the rifle. They handed out handfuls bullets that were clearly dumb projectiles. And I think in the attack on Whiskey Outpost when the bugs are charging you can see bullets kicking up dust around the bugs where they are missing.
What we perceived as body armor due to the low budget of the film was actually supposed to be smart gear, carrying ammo, locator beacons for friend or foe ID, food, water, battery pack, etc (I don't remember them all carrying backpacks, just a few and those probably had LAW or HE charges or other specialized hardware).
The ones carrying backpacks were medics (the radio was a backpack as well). And they did have pouches for ammo, grenades, and most probably rations. After the first battle with the Roughnecks it shows rations, supplies, and shelters in containers that were probably dropped after the battle, so no need for the soldiers to carry packs.
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Re:visual + social = competence + profit
Here's another one.
If you're already reconceiving the card as an eBay click-bait eternal keepsake, you could go so far as to turn the card into a stiff menu-like pop-up book, where an Oscar (in actual gold leaf) pops up when the card is opened (plus sundry visual security clues as per my parent post).
Cards would be made for all nominees (to maintain information symmetry during the process).
For the losers, the gold-leaf Oscar pop-up is replaced by a sultry Michigan J. Frog (who actually sings, if we want to go full Taiwanese Hallmark).
It would all be so millennial (everyone gets a prize).
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Re:There's no doubt that...
http://imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.ne... In the mutually exclusive case, some percentage of the time, a disagreeing user is going to reply instead of abusively moderating. That is a net benefit.
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Re:nothing new under the sun
Money is not the worst part of divorce.
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Re:Anti-math and anti-science ...
The problem with your oversimplification is that the holy book of Christianity encourages pacifism
Have you actually read the Bible?
As a side note, the Awkward Moments (Not found in your average) Children's Bible that these illustrations came from are great books.
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Re:Anti-math and anti-science ...
The problem with your oversimplification is that the holy book of Christianity encourages pacifism
Have you actually read the Bible?
As a side note, the Awkward Moments (Not found in your average) Children's Bible that these illustrations came from are great books.
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Re:Neat
Wrong.
People driving the speed limit on open freeway often have many drivers passing them. This creates contention points in high-speed traffic, leading to a sharp increase in risk. In other words: if the traffic travels at 80mph, driving at the posted 55mph is forcing a dangerous condition.
Speed limits are not posted based on risk, but on zoning and road design. A two-lane undivided highway in a commercial zone is 30mph, even if that commercial zone has wide lanes, minimal traffic, wide shoulders, and no pedestrians because it's an urban sprawl area. Such roads are effectively equivalent to posted 45mph roads and, in the absence of a speed limit sign, a driver is reasonable to assume the posted speed is likely 45mph.
Conversely, the same speed limits are posted in dense pedestrian traffic areas. Two lane with roadside parking is considered wide enough to post 35mph-40mph in a commercial area; yet the amount of pedestrian traffic and drivers exiting the vehicle makes it dangerous to drive that fast.
I'm too busy looking for hazards to pay attention to the speed limit. I travel with the flow of traffic, or at a speed which seems comfortable in absence of other markings. I've had plenty of close calls at and below speed, from drivers trying to door my car to pedestrians surging out into the street; in many cases, the only thing that prevented some moron from becoming a human speed bump was me noticing the way he was moving while on the sidewalk, 10-15 seconds before he darted into the street. The same applies for people about to change lane without a signal, or run a stop sign: you can tell well in advance if you're paying attention, or you can eye your spedometer every 15 seconds and try to claim vehicular manslaughter doesn't apply to you because you were "driving safely".
This is what happens when you look up from your dash and realize the guy ahead of you is merging into your front fender.
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Re:sigh
No one can predict the future.
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Re:I am the 2.75%Nice pic. https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akam...
Pretty sure you aren't the 2.75%
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Cyber Division
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Re:In other Kiev news
It's a bit more complicated than that.
Yes, the east/west division (this is simplified, as Western and Transcarpathian Ukraine are somewhat different, and north/south differences also exist - but it's good enough in first approximation) is an important factor. But I wouldn't say that people in the east are all that supportive of Yanukovich, or that they want to merge with Russia. What they do not want is an "Ukraine for Ukrainians", where there's only one state language and one officially recognized nationality, and anyone who doesn't conform is persecuted or forced to leave.
Now the problem is that the most active/visible part of the opposition on the streets (i.e. the guys throwing Molotov cocktails), initially at least, was from far right Ukrainian nationalist parties. If you watch the footage closely you can see them - e.g. look at this photo, and note the celtic cross and 14/88 on the makeshift shield of one of the guys.
Note, this does not imply that ALL opposition are neo-nazis. There are a lot of folks who are just generally nationalist or westerner in outlook there, and some who don't care one way or the other but got sick and tired of all the corruption in power. However, the neo-nazis are the ones most willing to get onto the barricades and into the fight - and since media generally focused on the more "exciting" parts of the conflict, they end up featuring the neo-nazis more prominently than anyone else. This, in turn, gets many folks in the east nervous. So they don't so much support Yanukovich as tolerate him as a bad option that is still better than the neo-nazis.
Lately, however, their government has done the stupidest thing possible: they have enacted all those new oppressive laws, let the special units off the leash, and even started extrajudicial death squad style hunting down of activists (two protesters were dragged out under gunpoint from the hospital they were treated in; one later found dead and with signs of torture in a nearby forest). So now a lot of people who were on the fence or leaning towards status quo on the basis of stability and personal security are reevaluating things, and Yanukovich is losing popular support everywhere.
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Re:Popularity of space stuff based on replies
I've got two telescopes, but I need neither to see the Pleiades, the Orion Nebula, and the Andromeda Galaxy, all from the middle of Nottingham. I never actually truly appreciated the night sky until last November when I was in Darkest Herefordshire and with the Manor grounds at Bodenham in complete darkness and the nearest village 12 miles away, the sky took on a whole new level of stunning.
No immediate plans to go back to Bodenham, but if/when I do I hope it's during late autumn/winter months again so I can take my telescope this time round. Maybe get some images that plant Jupiter & Taurus, wide field, in Nottingham and Jupiter & Taurus with M42, stacked exposure, in Nottingham, and finally single, tracked exposure of Orion taken with a £50 digital camera and motorised piggyback mount in a private observatory in Herefordshire six feet under.
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Re:Popularity of space stuff based on replies
I've got two telescopes, but I need neither to see the Pleiades, the Orion Nebula, and the Andromeda Galaxy, all from the middle of Nottingham. I never actually truly appreciated the night sky until last November when I was in Darkest Herefordshire and with the Manor grounds at Bodenham in complete darkness and the nearest village 12 miles away, the sky took on a whole new level of stunning.
No immediate plans to go back to Bodenham, but if/when I do I hope it's during late autumn/winter months again so I can take my telescope this time round. Maybe get some images that plant Jupiter & Taurus, wide field, in Nottingham and Jupiter & Taurus with M42, stacked exposure, in Nottingham, and finally single, tracked exposure of Orion taken with a £50 digital camera and motorised piggyback mount in a private observatory in Herefordshire six feet under.
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Re:Nice effort, but sets a bad precedent
Not really...
If you actually read his report, there is nothing to it ,beyond what is in the title of this summary.http://khalil-sh.blogspot.ru/p/facebook_16.html
The reproduction steps are entirely gone, there is nothing there for a Dev to go in and investigate with.
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repro:
the vulnerability allow's facebook users to share posts to non friends facebook users , i made a post to sarah.goodin timeline and i got success post
link - > https://www.facebook.com/10151857333098885
of course you may cant see the link because sarah's timeline friends posts shares only with her friends , you need to be a friend of her to see that post or you can use your own authority .
this is a picture shows that post :
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Re:Hmm
You are not issuing personal attacks? Wholly shit dude, fallacy is pretty easy to spot and you started immediately with ad hominem and fabrication. I do understand that you have difficulty with the English language and comprehending what you read, but I will point out that the whole thread is visible for review. If you attack someone's argument based on something other than the argument, it is a minor fallacy at a minimum. I should not have to explain to an educated person why attacking someones credentials is an ad homimen (It should be in the Wiki page, though it may fall under specific title). Then again, you don't seem to be very well educated. Further, you have no visible desire to improve yourself as you repeat the same things over and over. 1. Fallacy+Fabrication => 2. claim facts don't exist, repeat from step 1.
Quite frankly you bore me intellectually. Your opinion is not impressive, it's baseless and speculative at best. If you understood the basics of debate it would at least be entertaining, but you don't understand the basics. Review this document for starters. If you refuse to adhere to the basics kindly go fuck yourself. Yes, I do realize that is a derogatory and offensive suggestion so don't bother replying and whining about it. No, I don't expect you to actually read anything including your own words because you seem to have falsely convinced yourself that knowing the term "fallacy" without understanding it's universal application makes you smart.
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Re:More, more!
Oi, Microsoft! You're doing it wrong!
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Firearms Safety
And yet here we have photo evidence of his wife firing a rifle in a negligent manner. Notice how she is not wearing any ear or eye protection and is shooting in what appears to be an unsafe direction (doesn't appear to be a backstop in that direction). I brought this hypocrisy to his attention on his Facebook page, and being as open to discussion as his is he simply deleted the post and banned my account from accessing his page.
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Re:Flooding
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Re:NSA spied more than China ?
Your link shows that they collected information only from Microsoft in 2007. Not even from Skype. Just Microsoft...
You do know that Bush was still president until Jan 2009? Which meant he also brought on Yahoo and Google (which would include Yahoo Mail and GMail.)
And "...recording meta data on all phone calls in the country..."? You think Obama started that? Really?
You know that the NSA also started that program under Bush:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/8811_493891374010704_1864334744_n.jpg
(2006) ..but please, don't let any silly 'facts' get in the way of your rant. -
1980s all over again
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Re:Cost Per Lumen? BS!
The only things I see holding back LED bulbs are misinformation and lack of availability (Home Depot is the only major brick and mortar store I've found that carries them).
I agree, except for replacing "misinformation" with "confusing information", and the manufacturers are responsible for this. Take for example the following photo:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/11607_10151447644678611_203176319_n.jpgWe can see here, 2 GU10 bulbs. The one on the left is a 28W halogen, the one on the right is a 4.5W LED bulb (they both have a similar beam angle - 36 degrees for the halogen, 35 degrees for the LED). Both claim to be "equivalent" to a 35W "conventional" (by which I assume they mean tungsten) bulb. However, look at the light output - the halogen claims to output 600 lumen whilst the LED bulb says 200 lumen. So clearly different manufacturers use different criteria for what "equivalent" means - the halogen appears to be saying that its total light output is equivalent to a 35W tungsten, whilst the LED bulb appears to be saying that its brightness is equivalent to a (presumably unshaded) 35W tungsten. By the criteria used for the LED bulb, you could manufacture a tungsten bulb that is labelled as being "more efficient" than a tungsten bulb, simply by narrowing the beam angle with a reflector!
Some of the bigger brands put even less information on their packaging - on the same shelves were Phillips 5W LED GU10 bulbs that simply gave an "equivalent to" figure - no information about how many lumens or candela they output, no information about beam angle.
Also, people shopping for bulbs are almost certainly going to be doing like-for-like replacement: if I'm buying a GU10 bulb then the chances are I'm replacing an existing GU10 bulb, which is almost certainly going to be a halogen (since traditionally GU10s are halogen), not an unshaded tungsten bulb with an almost isotropic radiant flux. So telling me what "conventional" bulb it is equivalent to (whether thats done by comparing lumens or candela) is pretty much useless. Instead, I'm most likely to want to know what wattage of halogen its going to replace - if I've got a 50W halogen GU10 already and I'm buying an LED bulb, I want to know which LED bulb will give me the same results as the bulb I'm replacing.
How is anyone supposed to make a decision when the information provided is either nonexistent or unstandardised and misleading?
What I needed is for a standardisation of the information provided:
1. The actual wattage of the bulb - i.e. how much power it is going to draw.
2. The total light output in lumens.
3. The brightness in candela. Especially important for bulbs that are traditionally used unshaded, such as GU10s.
4. The beam angle. Again, important for bulbs that are usually unshaded.
5. Colour temperature.
6. What standard bulb this is equivalent to for a like-for-like replacement (i.e. if you're replacing a conventional ~isotropic tungsten bulb then it should be compared against that, if you're replacing a halogen GU10 then that bulb should be the comparison instead). Obviously this becomes problematic where the beam angles are different (e.g. I just bought a LED GU10 with a 120 degree beam - far wider than you'll get from a standard halogen GU10).
7. The life expectancy of the bulb.And this information should be printed on *all* bulbs, even the conventional ones, so that someone in a shop can pick up any 2 bulbs and compare the information between them.
I was under the impression that the EU had, several years ago, made some of this information (such as the lumen output) mandatory, but there are still a lot of bulbs on the shelves that don't include any of this data.
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Re:Um...
What markus said. My car (European 2012 Honda Civic, not to be mixed up with the quite different American 2012 Honda Civic) has a 150hp/350nm diesel engine and does 0-60 MPH in 8.3 seconds (with about 50 MPG on the highway and 40 MPG in town). It's not sports car performance of course but the oomph is very much comparable to non-sports car gasoline engines. Also, the turbo is almost completely seamless.
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Re:Wrong lesson.
I played for the couple of hours I could, last night. Even if you control all the cities in a region yourself, there is still a global market that is being interacted with. When the server was having connection problems (but would still let you play), the oil that I was exporting would no longer export and sit in the stockpile until I was alerted it was full. This was affecting my overall economy, because as an oil town, a lot of my economy was dependent on that global export. The market prices are determined by overall supply/demand on the particular server you're connected to (each server being a sim globe as it were). As others have pointed out, this is of course something that didn't have to be multiplayer, but does add an additional interesting variable to the game. Here's a screenshot of the market graph.
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Re:Why do people put up with Facebook?
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Re:Why do people put up with Facebook?
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Re:Mass Mail
I wouldn't know anything about that at all!!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/533496_4414778401537_1045480076_n.jpg
(note: These are just the political spam collected for this past election, not counting the multiple items a day for credit card offers and other various junk)
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Re:Not surprised at all.
They were Telstra linesmen for almost all of the visits. The contractors actually bothered to contact me when they were coming - the Telstra tech's just turned up, did the work incorrectly, and then left. The last one who came was a contractor, and he fixed up the patching to the MDF from the building sub-exchange on all six lines. Even he couldn't believe how badly it had been botched. Crossed pairs, pairs tagged incorrectly, and since Telstra only issued one job for one line at a time, this had meant so many different visits.
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Re:More importantly
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Re:It's retail. What did they expect?
I posted this above, also, but I worked for Lowe's about five years ago, and at that time, Depot paid more than Lowe's did. I know both have been hurting lately, but I was making $11.55 as a CSR in Flooring ($12.05 when I left at the end of 2007) in 2005. At the time, they gave a 10% raise if you moved up to Team Leader, and again to Sales Specialist or Department Manager (I started in 2003 at $9.50). Start looking for opportunities for advancement, work hard, and kiss ass, the lack of the last being the thing that finally boned me.
But yeah - loading 15 50# bags of mortar and a pallet of 65# tile boxes wasn't worth $12/hour then, let alone now. Or concrete or shingles, which really sucked since they weren't even my department.
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Re:Apple overflowing with cash
I worked five years for Lowe's (2003-2008) in Cincinnati, started at $9.50 and quit at $12.05, I believe. I was a model employee, however, up until the point when I realized I could bring home the same amount bussing tables in half the hours each week.
Haha, I actually still have a pay stub from 2005 in my desk drawer (because I'm a pack rat). $11.55 in November 2005.
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Re:Time to become an entrepreneur
haha, dolt, had to google that. Although can you really tell that from the picture? you mean how she beat this boy I taught maths to in an arm wrestle LOL https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/33710_1320086776977_3049207_a.jpg come to think of it I think she would have beaten me... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/231064_1039089612837_7741_n.jpg Although, i give
/. effect a whole new meaning... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/4174_1131299213833_1055937_n.jpg Thats me more recently on the left :P This post will get modded off topic again... -
Re:Time to become an entrepreneur
haha, dolt, had to google that. Although can you really tell that from the picture? you mean how she beat this boy I taught maths to in an arm wrestle LOL https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/33710_1320086776977_3049207_a.jpg come to think of it I think she would have beaten me... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/231064_1039089612837_7741_n.jpg Although, i give
/. effect a whole new meaning... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/4174_1131299213833_1055937_n.jpg Thats me more recently on the left :P This post will get modded off topic again... -
Re:Time to become an entrepreneur
haha, dolt, had to google that. Although can you really tell that from the picture? you mean how she beat this boy I taught maths to in an arm wrestle LOL https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/33710_1320086776977_3049207_a.jpg come to think of it I think she would have beaten me... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/231064_1039089612837_7741_n.jpg Although, i give
/. effect a whole new meaning... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/4174_1131299213833_1055937_n.jpg Thats me more recently on the left :P This post will get modded off topic again... -
Re:So....
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Re:Time to become an entrepreneur
Anecdotal evidence much? my wife is above average. not sure if this will work... https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228639_1039096493009_1093411821_30118290_5323_n.jpg
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All time low, first time in history
This reminded me of something I saw on Faszbook the other day (safe for work).
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Yo Dawg...
This had to be done...
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Re:This just might be the end of this
ZT is idiotic, in my opinion. Sure, when you allow human judgment into the picture, you also allow for biases and selective enforcement. Those are both problems, and I would be wrong to argue otherwise. ZT, though, leads to suspensions and arrests ibuprofen to school, or suspending first graders for bringing Cub Scouts gear to school.
The policies themselves were not designed with ZT in mind. The policies are human-designed, and intended to be applied by humans, with human reasoning, to human situations. ZT effectively turns them into hard computer programs without actually requiring the policies to be fully elaborated to account for all the extenuating circumstances under which they might be applied. I argue that in most cases, that simply isn't possible. At the very least, it is very far from likely unless you spend considerable effort. If it were easy, we wouldn't have a court system (complete with appellate courts).
And, it doesn't even save you from capriciousness. Instead it leads you to amplify the whims of children. For example, in one of the links above, the student was "caught" because some other kid claimed she had a knife. The likelihood someone gets ratted out (and thus subjected to the worst effects of ZT) varies based on the attitudes and decisions of the fellow classmates, not the now supposedly immune administrators. That just sets the system up for worse outcomes, because a big lever of the system (detection/reporting) is left to the kids, and enforcement is automatic and uncontrolled.
Furthermore, if an administrator does notice something punishable, but lets it slide silently because nobody else notices, who would know? ZT only applies once its obvious to everyone that there's an infraction. The system isn't even airtight at that level, since the decision to let something slide undetected is an individual decision on the part of that administrator, and they can later claim (usually) to not have noticed the infraction.
Explain to me again how the sliver of legal protection offered by ZT isn't idiocy compared to these awful, stupid outcomes?
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Re:Wait, wait, let me get this right
True story, I'm not gay, but when I was living in Atlanta, a lot of my good friends were. I started to see an influx of ads that said things like "Single gay male in NYC? Want to be?" It was kinda funny, if not slightly odd considering I was in an actual relationship at the time, and I was set on "looking for women." Cue the break up, and all of a sudden, Facebook comes to finally believe that I'm straight. They decide to serve me ads like this. This left me with a little bit of self doubt, because assuming their system isn't completely fucked up, what sort of vibe am I giving off?
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Re:Back to the Future
And here's the direct link: (1366x2048px)
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Re:facebook cheat sheet
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Re:What's the point?
That's OK, as snarky goes, yours isn't to bad.
Teacher can home school their kids in a number of ways. Some just instruct their kids outside of public school hours. Some have spouses that handle the instruction during school hours. Some are substitutes so they only work part time. The whole situation makes more sense when you consider that home schooling is so much more efficient that in younger ages, it is easy for home schooled kids to surpass their public school peers with only an hour or two of formal instruction a day. Home schooling also will typically not be restricted to "school time". Home schooling families will take every opportunity to have impromptu lessons day and night. One of the common lessons that are taught to home schooled children is how to learn. Thus, by the time the kids are middle school aged, most of their school work can be done without constant supervision.
No you don't need a degree to be a teacher.
According to your link:
Highest education level of parents
High school diploma or less: 206,000
Vocational/technical or some college: 549,000
Bachelor's degree/some graduate school: 502,000
Graduate/professional degree: 251,000
That is 755,000 and 753,000 respectively. That isn't 60%.
You admit that you don't have any data, you acknowledge that you don't know how the teaching gets done, but you assume that I have confirmation bias. I think it is fair to say that the actual polls I have been involved in are a more reliable source than your stereotype hearsay.
And just for fun, a joke being passed around within the homeschool community:
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Re:Take action at EFF
I wrote my congressman urging him to oppose HR 3261. I got back a polite letter that gave no sense of how he will vote. But given that he's a staunch Republican in the district next door to Speaker Boehner's district, I doubt there are enough constituents who have expressed enough opinions to sway him from the Party Line.
Never the less, I got off my ass and DID SOMETHING! You should too.
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Re:I want one.
Don't bring these things to Alabama. The coal and junk trunks drive dangerously fast as it is.
We also apparently have trouble with people here trying to eat these trucks.
(Hope that link works. That's the first time I've ever posted a direct link to Facebook.)
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Re:Canon or Nikon
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Re:Canon or Nikon