Would enrolling troubled youth in a scouting program (pick one you can live with) work to improve citizenship, moral and ethical character?
Would school administrators embrace this as a kind of privately sponsored intervention program to save themselves from fines, penalties and worse?
Now let's get back to the original proposal:
Would enrolling troubled youth in a scouting program (pick one you can live with) work to improve he moral and ethical character?
Would school administrators embrace this as a kind of privately sponsored intervention program to save themselves from fine, penalties and worse?
How do you define 'perfectly normal kids'? Given the very small population of 'gay' kids, how could one consider that 'normal'? And does sexual orientation even really manifest itself in kids 6 to 13 other than a growing awareness going into puberty?
I'll assume you're talking about the BSA for the purpose of this discussion. If you look in the BSA bylaws and operation procedures, the prohibitions related to overt homosexual orientation is on adult leaders, not on the kids.
It seems to me that ethical and moral high grounds have been defined and embodied in religions and culture for 1,000's of years and are the foundation on which successful societies are built. As for the homophobia, I don't understand how supporting the LGBT culture/movement is any more ethical and moral than not supporting it. Please explain. They seem to be the least tolerant bunch of them all.
The root cause is kids that have poor values, role models, or are insecure that leads to online and other bullying.
The US Dept of Ed (or perhaps the principals) should require all kids to join a scouting program, be it American Heritage Girls, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturing, Campfire, etc. These programs all have a goal to help develop character, citizenship, and making ethical and moral choices over a lifetime.
Saw a new VR product - VisualPurple.com - that provide what looks like a SecondLife type 3d interface, except the NPC's can act independently according to some kind of story or workflow script. Their demo shows a Wireless CEO/sales scenario, but this would seem to be ready-made for counter-espionage training.
Why should Google take this seriously? Because the RIAA and MPAA have managed to get a 'man inside' the DoJ and to harness the power of federal government to protect their interests under the guise of movies and songs being a national security issue (via Customs and Border Patrol).
Yup, you heard it here first and now its prior art.
A process and method to publicly lodge a complaint about customer service received using publicly accessible media, internet sites, or email distribution lists.
(fill in the rest).
So now anyone who files a complaint is using a patented process and is liable for license fees.
If an employer requires you to travel as part of your job, and it can be argued that the TSA is taking nude photos and utilizing inappropriate touching during pat downs, what liability is an employer exposed to for making regular 'sexual assault' part of your job description?
I don't think there are general tools since every injury is fairly unique. In the movie My Left Foot, the severely handicapped youth learned to paint with his left foot - the only part he could really control. For your friend, perhaps a standard graphic tablet and pen (suitably tailored/attached) using whatever appendage would work, or fancier there are some eye tracking devices in maker.com or gizmodo.
I like the idea, but would this open a whole new denial of service attack vector? Still, the botnet operators are in it for profit nowadays and this would not make money for them. Perhaps ISPs could detect and shutdown the command and control servers on their networks and perhaps blacklist routes to ISPs that host uncontrolled servers. This would probably work for a while until the botnets become even more agile.
From the games I seen I can draw the following profit opportunities:
F2P comes with a banner or side advertisement. Subscribing eliminates the ad. Example: Runescape. Aggressive would be popup ads or commercials. More subtle is ads incorporated into the game landscape. Example: SecondLife
In game items - cosmetic. You just have to look good in some social games. Aggressive is where you have to have a clothes item to enter an area or complete a quest where you already have a time investment. Example: SecondLife, Farmville.
In game items - functional. These items let you get ahead with better tools or weapons. Aggressive is where it provides a really unfair advantage. Example: Mafia Wars. Some have have items using in game cash you can earn by playing or find along with other kind of cash you have to purchase. Example Farmville, Wizard 101.
Time advantage. Some games have recharge timers where you can just wait 24 hours to recharge, or pay for an instant recharge. Example: Evony, Wizard 101 Pet Games
Content - Games offer a F2P area with access to additional content by subscription or by single cost per area. Examples: Wizard 101. Some games provide a place to put content, but you have to create it. Example: SecondLife.
Content + Subscription - Games that require you to purchase the content and then require a subscription for online play. Examples: Eve Online, World of Warcraft.
Real World purchases - Games that blend game play with real world purchases, such as buying a coffee at 7-11. Example: Mafia Wars, Farmville. Many game makers also have a store where you can buy shirts, hats, mouse pads, etc. Examples: Slashdot, Jagex.
Information - Hints and Helps - Games (typically puzzle quest types) where you might need a hint to complete a puzzle. You get the hints by purchasing a book or magazine, or by calling a help line that charges by the minute providing help via a menu tree. Example: Zork (classic). Newer games might use SMS Texting and let the phone company handle the micro-transactions.
Marketing - Games that provide free play, but sell your email address and demographic details to third parties.
IPO - Games that provide free play to build a 1,000,000 user base, at least until the company is sold to investors who then figure out how to monetize it.
There's probably more, but that's the ones I've seen.
I use Blackstar + Mobi Pocket Reader for paperless one-device geocaching. Its ok for city work but I wouldn't rely on it in the countryside. For one, the phone boosts the power to try and get a cell signal and drains the battery in just a few hours.
Maybe there is a link in there to an Android app for you.
Potential applications: Subspace radio, wide area networks on a solar system scale. Just think, no more 3 minute wait for a radio signal from Mars or beyond.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll grab my laptop and be right over.
Would enrolling troubled youth in a scouting program (pick one you can live with) work to improve citizenship, moral and ethical character?
Would school administrators embrace this as a kind of privately sponsored intervention program to save themselves from fines, penalties and worse?
Now let's get back to the original proposal:
Would enrolling troubled youth in a scouting program (pick one you can live with) work to improve he moral and ethical character?
Would school administrators embrace this as a kind of privately sponsored intervention program to save themselves from fine, penalties and worse?
How do you define 'perfectly normal kids'? Given the very small population of 'gay' kids, how could one consider that 'normal'? And does sexual orientation even really manifest itself in kids 6 to 13 other than a growing awareness going into puberty? I'll assume you're talking about the BSA for the purpose of this discussion. If you look in the BSA bylaws and operation procedures, the prohibitions related to overt homosexual orientation is on adult leaders, not on the kids.
It seems to me that ethical and moral high grounds have been defined and embodied in religions and culture for 1,000's of years and are the foundation on which successful societies are built. As for the homophobia, I don't understand how supporting the LGBT culture/movement is any more ethical and moral than not supporting it. Please explain. They seem to be the least tolerant bunch of them all.
The root cause is kids that have poor values, role models, or are insecure that leads to online and other bullying. The US Dept of Ed (or perhaps the principals) should require all kids to join a scouting program, be it American Heritage Girls, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturing, Campfire, etc. These programs all have a goal to help develop character, citizenship, and making ethical and moral choices over a lifetime.
They'll keep it private for sure...
Oh, wait.
You mean its a real Dark Sucker?
I've heard about that in a campfire skit. Isn't that why burnt stuff turns black, because the light gets out?
Link didn't work before.... http://www.visualpurple.com/
If only I could draw more than stick people.....
http://ipwatchdog.com/2009/01/19/riaa-attorney-appointed-to-top-doj-position/id=1594/
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin
its even documented in texts over 4,000 years old. It has a much stronger claim to science than some newer ones, say, global warming for example.
"I'd like a Scrab Cakes with my Paramite Pie side."
Can Tasty Treats be far behind? Or Soylent Green?
A process and method to publicly lodge a complaint about customer service received using publicly accessible media, internet sites, or email distribution lists.
(fill in the rest).
So now anyone who files a complaint is using a patented process and is liable for license fees.
If an employer requires you to travel as part of your job, and it can be argued that the TSA is taking nude photos and utilizing inappropriate touching during pat downs, what liability is an employer exposed to for making regular 'sexual assault' part of your job description?
Here is another fellow born with no arms I think I saw featured on a TV special. http://quazen.com/arts/peter-longstaff-a-foot-painter/
I don't think there are general tools since every injury is fairly unique. In the movie My Left Foot, the severely handicapped youth learned to paint with his left foot - the only part he could really control. For your friend, perhaps a standard graphic tablet and pen (suitably tailored/attached) using whatever appendage would work, or fancier there are some eye tracking devices in maker.com or gizmodo.
I like the idea, but would this open a whole new denial of service attack vector? Still, the botnet operators are in it for profit nowadays and this would not make money for them. Perhaps ISPs could detect and shutdown the command and control servers on their networks and perhaps blacklist routes to ISPs that host uncontrolled servers. This would probably work for a while until the botnets become even more agile.
My bad, you are correct. I must be confusing this with another game product box I saw at a game store.
This could fit under my 5th topic as Progressive Content. Us old timers used to call this product upgrades.
There's probably more, but that's the ones I've seen.
http://www.blackstarnavigation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
I use Blackstar + Mobi Pocket Reader for paperless one-device geocaching. Its ok for city work but I wouldn't rely on it in the countryside. For one, the phone boosts the power to try and get a cell signal and drains the battery in just a few hours.
Maybe there is a link in there to an Android app for you.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/01/5971.ars
Potential applications: Subspace radio, wide area networks on a solar system scale. Just think, no more 3 minute wait for a radio signal from Mars or beyond.