Where have I heard this before? Fraud...Nigeria....Ahhh!
"Hello, my friend. I am a Nigerian Prince with a great offer for you. I need $1,000 to regain my homeland. In return, I am willing to sell you a million dollars in US Treasury bonds..."
Yeah, I said it. Thanks to us - you, me, and all the other retards that let these guys decide where to spend our money, we'll soon be behind China, Japan, and even India in space exploration. Pretty soon, if you want to be anything worthwhile, you better learn Chinese.
Apple has finally met someone who can spank them good - the PRC. Do you really think the ChiComm courts aren't going to rule in favor of a company owned by a Party member? Apple is about to get their ego knocked downed a notch. You can argue all you want, but this will be decided in a party back room, with a lot of money; not in a way a bunch of naive American lawyers might think.
Apple will take it like a prison bitch and move on. What are they going to do, leave their biggest manufacturing hub and the world's fastest growing tech market? Yeah, good luck with that. Apple has learned what GM and others learned long ago. You do business in China at the pleasure of China. Apple's only been in the screwing game for 30+ years; the Chinese have been doing it for over 5,000.
It's easy to solve this issue. Make a federal law that any such changes in charges are considered a nullification of the original contract, allowing the contractee to renegotiate or seek a contract with another service. Let's see how big Randall's balls are when people leave AT&T in droves...if they aren't, already.
Learn your government structure a little better. Congress is in charge of authorizing all monetary appropriations. Otherwise, do you think the President would have to submit every budget proposal to Congress? There are a few senators who have already submitted plans to strip the authority from TSA agents; and the airlines have said a few times they would be more than willing to fund private security firms, who would be more responsible to customer feedback. That's the problem with the TSA. They've been given carte blanc to do as they please, without any repercussions. For all that, how many terrorists have been found by the TSA? Zero!
Tools like the Kindle are great to assist learning; but let's face it: the weakness/strength to learning is always the teacher. These are great as a substitute for the books/paper in the classroom, but not as a substitute for human instruction. Yes, there are a few who are able to learn from Khan Academy or from e-books alone. The vast majority, however, need that human to get them through the rough patches. Most home-schooling relies on mom and dad for that, and they tend to not be the greatest of instructors, as a whole. It's the reason most states are considering requiring parents have the same qualifications as teachers. It also eliminates the social factor for these kids. Where I am, I've seen more than a few "veal" being home-schooled. If they associate, it's with others who are home schooled. They will never be required to deal with social interactions of differing social groups until they go to college, unless they happen to be lucky enough to have a parent that forces them into these situations.
I'm all for the elimination of the textbook industry that makes millions each year off changing a few sentences and claiming a "new edition" for which you have to pay $50-$200. Unless you have a certain physical or mental handicap, however, homeschooling offers no advantages other than raising your little baby sheltered from having to face the real world.
I love it when I hear comments like, " if you wanted to live a safe life, you shouldn't be in the military in the first place." You expect dangers in combat, or from high op-tempo. It's ignorant and spoken like a true civilian to say that a shitty aircraft is an expected way to die.
In the past two fighter aircraft contracts, Lockheed-Martin has given us an aircraft too expensive, too mission inflexible and too dangerous to fly in any present-day theater; and a fighter/attack craft our military will see in an operational capacity by the end of the decade...if we're lucky, at a cost 2-3 times the original estimate. In the meantime, our best aircraft is the F/A-18 E/F, an aircraft tracing its lineage to the early 80's; and the F-15, an aircraft going back to the 70's. Hell, the best ground attack aircraft we have is the friggin' A-10! None of which, I might add, were given to us by Lockheed.
With their current success record, do they really deserve our dollars?
Pilots are becoming nothing more than subway drivers in these planes. It's one thing to have a computerized navigation system, but when you have computer software controlling every facet of airplane operation, you are just asking for trouble. You have to have a backup where you can hit a switch and control the stick and throttle manually, without worrying that the thrust vectors are going to push your A330 with the thrust for a Cessna.
Yes, he gave us the Ultima series and Ultima online. He also failed to get the sequel done, and gave us...Tabula Rasa. This is the game he changed genres on in midstream, put out an unfinished game, then, as the game danced on the edge of oblivion, decided to play Major Tom.
Yeah, a prophet he is not.
First, they shouldn't be put in a position where they have to raise more money in this method. If state funding of education were prioritized over, say, road beautification projects or officials' salaries, maybe they wouldn't resort to these methods
Second, and more important, the schools need to remember they are STATE schools, funded by the state. If they want to recruit outside the state, they should have their funding from the state deducted for every out-of-state student over a certain percentage of the school body they enroll. Hey, they are making as much as 5-10 times the money off these out-of-state kids, so they should have funds withheld appropiately. These places tend to forget the money they get from local taxpayers dwarfs any amount they get for recruiting out-of-state.
I love how biased that article is. Muslims are the ones who came up with a way to combat the plague, through isolation of patients and lancing of boils. What did Christians do? They killed all the cats, because cats are demon servants of witches, thereby letting the rats carrying the plague spread. They burned at the stake all the women who had any medical knowledge of herbal and medical lore as witches. They bled people with leeches and by cutting their veins open. Oh, and they walked down the roads flagellating themselves.
Yeah, that was the way to follow Jesus in loving thy neighbor.
Wrong on one count. Hitler was a documented Christian. He believed God chose the German people, the Aryan, as the supreme race, and looked favorably on them when their race was pure. Most of the German people who followed him were also "good Christians". He got a lot of his support from the works of Martin Luther, a Munich native and devout anti-Semite.
How about, instead of everyone crying about the leaning of the site, you REGISTER and GIVE your opinion. They are very good at setting the questions in a way that reflects left, right AND center. Its percentages reflect those opinions of those who register.
Right now, this is the best "third option." Do you think you will affect things just by sitting at home and crying like a 3 year old, not doing anything to change what's been going on the past hundred and fifty years, with two sides basically flipping a coin for control while we suffer? Is sitting on your ass working out well with this default looming over our heads?
At the least, this offers, if enough people get motivated in the REAL American center, a way to let politicians know their time is limited. The internet is the one place where opinion can still be heard, unfiltered by a talking head or a PAC. It's about time we organized it ourselves according to our true beliefs and ideals.
I guess you never heard of a compost toilet. It's cheap, clean, less water-intensive, and uses worms to do the "dirty work." I worked at a camp that used these. They were easy to maintain. Hell, kids as young as 11 were able to keep them going. The compost was odorless and could be used to fertilize crops...which would be another asset to these regions, where the soil has been eroded and dried to nothing.
The bigger issue is how ass-hats can make a joke out of something that is a major problem. Illnesses such as cholera, dysentery and E-coli, among others, are spread through improper waste disposal; yet all most of the 5-year-olds can do is snicker and crack windows jokes at the man who just happens to run a charity that has done more for the African continent than the US and UN combined.
Nice way to keep the internet ass-hat stereotype going.
I can see this going all kinds of wrong. "Frank" gives his account of fighting with elements in San Francisco: "It wasn't looking good. We were cornered. Then luvz2sp00g and his unit Serenity Now came to the rescue, using incredibly powerful weapons to take down the aliens. However, I couldn't understand why they stooped over the dead to rub their genitalia in their faces..."
They aren't too excited about rushing a product to sale for a couple of reasons
The main reason is...they don't NEED to. The Wii is still the number one seller out there, and has universal appeal. The PS3 is the elite blue ray graphics console, and the 360 is the FPS console. Both have their niches. The Wii won't be in trouble because everyone, from 8 year olds to grandmas in assisted living centers, can and does play the Wii. Yeah, the "gamer" niche isn't there, but really, that market isn't that big in comparison. Plus, you still have to shell out $500-$600 for a DECENT 360 or PS3 with motion control, whereas you get a Wii for half the price, complete with access to all Nintendo's proprietary games.
The second reason also goes to the PS3 and, especially, the 360. When the PS3 came out, it was priced way out of reach, and manufacturing wasn't yet up to par with mass production for a good price. They lost money. The 360 was made by Microsoft. In other words, like their OS's, it was buggy as hell and had its own version of the BSoD(red ring, anyone?) The Wii? smooth release, no major issues, priced for volume, and fun for a broad audience. I guarantee that, when the Wii 2 or whatever it is called comes out, the same will be true.
Nintendo has been in this business for decades. They know what works, and they listen to what works, not a bunch of flamers looking for the next big shiny.
There are a few very good reasons to be worried about mathematics.
The first is that a lot of kids are growing up and getting out of school without the basic abilities to balance a check book. This is something I'm able to teach a child with Down Syndrome. Why is this important? We operate in a capitalist society. Statistical mathematics can give someone an edge. If the population as a whole can't even get percentages and averages down, don't you think people who are able to grasp these concepts can take advantage of the fact?
Second, once you get into Algebra and Geometry, you are dealing with spatial relationships, how you can use math to relate to the world. You are working the basic calculating ability of the mind, allowing it to expand in its abilities. A chess player is great with a level playing field. Try to get the same to deal with modern littoral warfare, or anything since WWII, and he will need a grasp on spatial relationships.
Finally, you are exercising the MIND. It has been proven that people working games that deal with mathematics keep active areas that are linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. If you don't use the various synapses, they have been proven to atrophy over time. This can create obstructions and slowing of basic thinking, not just higher thought. Remember, once you stop progressing, however slowly, you are on the road to death.
Only in America would some butt clowns think of better ways to do stuff while driving, instead of just not doing distracting things while driving! What did you do(those of you who were around then) when you didn't have a phone with you 24/7? Nothing...NOTHING...is that important that you need to distract your attention while in control of a 2-3 ton vehicle. in the last 3 months up here, we had a cyclist made a paraplegic because of a girl texting that "didn't see him", and another girl that got killed swerving head-on into the opposite lane. It's also been proven by studies done by the NHTSA(look it up, you geniuses that seem never to have seen them) that any distraction that forces your attention elsewhere(talking on the phone, texting, noisy brats in the car) increases the likelihood of an accident substantially.
But go ahead, think that you are an exception, that you are entitled to be hooked up 24/7 to trivial BS. As a paramedic, I'm sure I'll see your sorry ass sometime down the road...literally.
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Where have I heard this before? Fraud...Nigeria....Ahhh!
"Hello, my friend. I am a Nigerian Prince with a great offer for you. I need $1,000 to regain my homeland. In return, I am willing to sell you a million dollars in US Treasury bonds..."
Yeah, I said it. Thanks to us - you, me, and all the other retards that let these guys decide where to spend our money, we'll soon be behind China, Japan, and even India in space exploration. Pretty soon, if you want to be anything worthwhile, you better learn Chinese.
Apple has finally met someone who can spank them good - the PRC. Do you really think the ChiComm courts aren't going to rule in favor of a company owned by a Party member? Apple is about to get their ego knocked downed a notch. You can argue all you want, but this will be decided in a party back room, with a lot of money; not in a way a bunch of naive American lawyers might think.
Apple will take it like a prison bitch and move on. What are they going to do, leave their biggest manufacturing hub and the world's fastest growing tech market? Yeah, good luck with that. Apple has learned what GM and others learned long ago. You do business in China at the pleasure of China. Apple's only been in the screwing game for 30+ years; the Chinese have been doing it for over 5,000.
Adjust your sarcasm detector
It's easy to solve this issue. Make a federal law that any such changes in charges are considered a nullification of the original contract, allowing the contractee to renegotiate or seek a contract with another service. Let's see how big Randall's balls are when people leave AT&T in droves...if they aren't, already.
Learn your government structure a little better. Congress is in charge of authorizing all monetary appropriations. Otherwise, do you think the President would have to submit every budget proposal to Congress? There are a few senators who have already submitted plans to strip the authority from TSA agents; and the airlines have said a few times they would be more than willing to fund private security firms, who would be more responsible to customer feedback. That's the problem with the TSA. They've been given carte blanc to do as they please, without any repercussions. For all that, how many terrorists have been found by the TSA? Zero!
Tools like the Kindle are great to assist learning; but let's face it: the weakness/strength to learning is always the teacher. These are great as a substitute for the books/paper in the classroom, but not as a substitute for human instruction. Yes, there are a few who are able to learn from Khan Academy or from e-books alone. The vast majority, however, need that human to get them through the rough patches. Most home-schooling relies on mom and dad for that, and they tend to not be the greatest of instructors, as a whole. It's the reason most states are considering requiring parents have the same qualifications as teachers. It also eliminates the social factor for these kids. Where I am, I've seen more than a few "veal" being home-schooled. If they associate, it's with others who are home schooled. They will never be required to deal with social interactions of differing social groups until they go to college, unless they happen to be lucky enough to have a parent that forces them into these situations.
I'm all for the elimination of the textbook industry that makes millions each year off changing a few sentences and claiming a "new edition" for which you have to pay $50-$200. Unless you have a certain physical or mental handicap, however, homeschooling offers no advantages other than raising your little baby sheltered from having to face the real world.
I love it when I hear comments like, " if you wanted to live a safe life, you shouldn't be in the military in the first place." You expect dangers in combat, or from high op-tempo. It's ignorant and spoken like a true civilian to say that a shitty aircraft is an expected way to die.
In the past two fighter aircraft contracts, Lockheed-Martin has given us an aircraft too expensive, too mission inflexible and too dangerous to fly in any present-day theater; and a fighter/attack craft our military will see in an operational capacity by the end of the decade...if we're lucky, at a cost 2-3 times the original estimate. In the meantime, our best aircraft is the F/A-18 E/F, an aircraft tracing its lineage to the early 80's; and the F-15, an aircraft going back to the 70's. Hell, the best ground attack aircraft we have is the friggin' A-10! None of which, I might add, were given to us by Lockheed.
With their current success record, do they really deserve our dollars?
Pilots are becoming nothing more than subway drivers in these planes. It's one thing to have a computerized navigation system, but when you have computer software controlling every facet of airplane operation, you are just asking for trouble. You have to have a backup where you can hit a switch and control the stick and throttle manually, without worrying that the thrust vectors are going to push your A330 with the thrust for a Cessna.
I love it how every thread with "apple" in the tag line ends up a flame war between apple fanbois and haters. on-topic, fellas.
Yes, he gave us the Ultima series and Ultima online. He also failed to get the sequel done, and gave us...Tabula Rasa. This is the game he changed genres on in midstream, put out an unfinished game, then, as the game danced on the edge of oblivion, decided to play Major Tom. Yeah, a prophet he is not.
First, they shouldn't be put in a position where they have to raise more money in this method. If state funding of education were prioritized over, say, road beautification projects or officials' salaries, maybe they wouldn't resort to these methods
Second, and more important, the schools need to remember they are STATE schools, funded by the state. If they want to recruit outside the state, they should have their funding from the state deducted for every out-of-state student over a certain percentage of the school body they enroll. Hey, they are making as much as 5-10 times the money off these out-of-state kids, so they should have funds withheld appropiately. These places tend to forget the money they get from local taxpayers dwarfs any amount they get for recruiting out-of-state.
I love how biased that article is. Muslims are the ones who came up with a way to combat the plague, through isolation of patients and lancing of boils. What did Christians do? They killed all the cats, because cats are demon servants of witches, thereby letting the rats carrying the plague spread. They burned at the stake all the women who had any medical knowledge of herbal and medical lore as witches. They bled people with leeches and by cutting their veins open. Oh, and they walked down the roads flagellating themselves.
Yeah, that was the way to follow Jesus in loving thy neighbor.
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Wrong on one count. Hitler was a documented Christian. He believed God chose the German people, the Aryan, as the supreme race, and looked favorably on them when their race was pure. Most of the German people who followed him were also "good Christians". He got a lot of his support from the works of Martin Luther, a Munich native and devout anti-Semite.
Is it just me, or does MABEL sound like a Cylon when she's walking/running?
Am I the only one picturing Ed on the Bebop making little fish to munch through someone's firewall?
How about, instead of everyone crying about the leaning of the site, you REGISTER and GIVE your opinion. They are very good at setting the questions in a way that reflects left, right AND center. Its percentages reflect those opinions of those who register.
Right now, this is the best "third option." Do you think you will affect things just by sitting at home and crying like a 3 year old, not doing anything to change what's been going on the past hundred and fifty years, with two sides basically flipping a coin for control while we suffer? Is sitting on your ass working out well with this default looming over our heads?
At the least, this offers, if enough people get motivated in the REAL American center, a way to let politicians know their time is limited. The internet is the one place where opinion can still be heard, unfiltered by a talking head or a PAC. It's about time we organized it ourselves according to our true beliefs and ideals.
I guess you never heard of a compost toilet. It's cheap, clean, less water-intensive, and uses worms to do the "dirty work." I worked at a camp that used these. They were easy to maintain. Hell, kids as young as 11 were able to keep them going. The compost was odorless and could be used to fertilize crops...which would be another asset to these regions, where the soil has been eroded and dried to nothing. The bigger issue is how ass-hats can make a joke out of something that is a major problem. Illnesses such as cholera, dysentery and E-coli, among others, are spread through improper waste disposal; yet all most of the 5-year-olds can do is snicker and crack windows jokes at the man who just happens to run a charity that has done more for the African continent than the US and UN combined. Nice way to keep the internet ass-hat stereotype going.
They could afford that much for A/C, but Bush couldn't afford for TWO YEARS to give them proper body armor or armor for their HUMMVE's. Nice.
I can see this going all kinds of wrong. "Frank" gives his account of fighting with elements in San Francisco: "It wasn't looking good. We were cornered. Then luvz2sp00g and his unit Serenity Now came to the rescue, using incredibly powerful weapons to take down the aliens. However, I couldn't understand why they stooped over the dead to rub their genitalia in their faces..."
What about my receipt in cuneiform?
They aren't too excited about rushing a product to sale for a couple of reasons
The main reason is...they don't NEED to. The Wii is still the number one seller out there, and has universal appeal. The PS3 is the elite blue ray graphics console, and the 360 is the FPS console. Both have their niches. The Wii won't be in trouble because everyone, from 8 year olds to grandmas in assisted living centers, can and does play the Wii. Yeah, the "gamer" niche isn't there, but really, that market isn't that big in comparison. Plus, you still have to shell out $500-$600 for a DECENT 360 or PS3 with motion control, whereas you get a Wii for half the price, complete with access to all Nintendo's proprietary games.
The second reason also goes to the PS3 and, especially, the 360. When the PS3 came out, it was priced way out of reach, and manufacturing wasn't yet up to par with mass production for a good price. They lost money. The 360 was made by Microsoft. In other words, like their OS's, it was buggy as hell and had its own version of the BSoD(red ring, anyone?) The Wii? smooth release, no major issues, priced for volume, and fun for a broad audience. I guarantee that, when the Wii 2 or whatever it is called comes out, the same will be true.
Nintendo has been in this business for decades. They know what works, and they listen to what works, not a bunch of flamers looking for the next big shiny.
There are a few very good reasons to be worried about mathematics.
The first is that a lot of kids are growing up and getting out of school without the basic abilities to balance a check book. This is something I'm able to teach a child with Down Syndrome. Why is this important? We operate in a capitalist society. Statistical mathematics can give someone an edge. If the population as a whole can't even get percentages and averages down, don't you think people who are able to grasp these concepts can take advantage of the fact?
Second, once you get into Algebra and Geometry, you are dealing with spatial relationships, how you can use math to relate to the world. You are working the basic calculating ability of the mind, allowing it to expand in its abilities. A chess player is great with a level playing field. Try to get the same to deal with modern littoral warfare, or anything since WWII, and he will need a grasp on spatial relationships.
Finally, you are exercising the MIND. It has been proven that people working games that deal with mathematics keep active areas that are linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. If you don't use the various synapses, they have been proven to atrophy over time. This can create obstructions and slowing of basic thinking, not just higher thought. Remember, once you stop progressing, however slowly, you are on the road to death.
Remember the old expression: You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
Only in America would some butt clowns think of better ways to do stuff while driving, instead of just not doing distracting things while driving! What did you do(those of you who were around then) when you didn't have a phone with you 24/7? Nothing...NOTHING...is that important that you need to distract your attention while in control of a 2-3 ton vehicle. in the last 3 months up here, we had a cyclist made a paraplegic because of a girl texting that "didn't see him", and another girl that got killed swerving head-on into the opposite lane. It's also been proven by studies done by the NHTSA(look it up, you geniuses that seem never to have seen them) that any distraction that forces your attention elsewhere(talking on the phone, texting, noisy brats in the car) increases the likelihood of an accident substantially.
But go ahead, think that you are an exception, that you are entitled to be hooked up 24/7 to trivial BS. As a paramedic, I'm sure I'll see your sorry ass sometime down the road...literally.