FYI: Black holes do not suck, either. They're pretty cool.
While temperature measurement of a black hole is bound to be a bit difficult, I'm willing to bet that by almost any measure they are hot rather than cool.
I The last thing we need to be sending to people who are starving to death and getting shot by wandering bands of "people's militias" is a damn computer.
Your frequently stated argument is bogus.
I have lived as an expatriate in rural Africa for many years, and have personally known both starvers and shootees. They are a tragic but small minority of the people of Africa.
One of the biggest problems facing the education system in the country in which I lived (Ghana) is the expense and unavailability of teaching materials.
Rare is the classroom where anyone other than the teacher has a textbook, and frequently even the teacher doesn't have one.
The OLPC project directly addresses this issue, making low cost (free) teaching materials available on the desks of the children.
Delivering education to people addresses many of the underlying issues that cause the starving and shooting.
Wow. You've clearly got a Bachelor's Degree. I can tell because you used a lot of very well constructed sentences comprised of effective vocabulary, in which you completely and thoroughly said pretty much nothing. Every finely crafted sentence after the first was, actually, just a waste. But that's how our schools teach people to write.
I won't comment on whether or not I have a degree of any sort or what type of degree it is if I do have one. What I will tell you is that I've always felt that my education is far too important to me to be trusted to the complete strangers who call themselves professionals because they have made a profession out of something that is not inherently a business transaction. To abandon my education (let alone my edification) to them would be a failure to take responsibility for my own life. Modern education has many primary purposes but enlightened, tough-minded individuals who are capable of critical thinking and are not easily misled by propaganda and misinformation is definitely not one of them.
Oops. I didn't mean to post that anonymously (I should watch where I click eh?). This is my writing.
'Tis not. It's mine! You just quoted the parent and claimed it as yours! I'm the one who has to watch where I click.
I think that it was in a discussion of an article about featuring RIAA that I first encountered the phrase "95% of statistics are invented on the spot"
I suppose the 95% figure was meticulously researched and published in a peer-review journal?
. and this is why I should not be so quick to press submit after hitting preview . but hey, if i effectively. communicated, I guess. it doesn't matter. where i put the period
Correct punctuation increases the redundancy and reduces the effort needed to process (read) the information. Incorrect punctuation forces the reader to process word by word rather than chunking the text.
This reduces the effectiveness of your communication.
I'm afraid you've got it wrong. Paint for bacteria is so that bacteria can paint. What I want to know is, even if you get a brush that small, how do you teach a bacterium to paint? I wouldn't have thought a bacterium capable of the artistic creativity to produce anything interesting in any case.
This is the first post I'm making informing you of your new, patent-holding, overlord. I suggest you welcome him, you insensitive Clod!
In 1993 I patented overlording, so I suggest you welcome your new meta-overlord.
In a pre-emptive move, I also patented meta-overlording, meta-meta-overlording...
(It's turtles all the way down).
It's screw ups like this that make the death penalty a bad idea. While life in prison is a terrible punishment, perhaps more cruel than death, it gives the state a chance to fix its mistakes.
Falsely sending a person to prison cannot be 'fixed', only perhaps ameliorated. The frequent unfunny jokes about homosexual rape in prison show that not only the conviction system is out of control, but the punishment system is as well.
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Anonymous Cowards Anonymous. Now Thursdays eight p.m. at an undisclosed location!
If you're not afraid to show up.
If you really need to keep it safe, commit it all to memory and then shoot yourself in the temple.
hey, the guy might NOT be jewish.
did you consider that?
Works for Shikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and Mormons too!
Because the list is probably numbered, graded and color-coded?
Color coded? The entire population is on the list and coded either yellow or orange.
"Too big to fail" my ass.
There is still hope. They are rapidly becoming small enough to fail.
In Jefferson's time, people regularly fought and died for their beliefs.
It would seem that in these times, people regularly fight and die for the beliefs of others.
FYI: Black holes do not suck, either. They're pretty cool.
While temperature measurement of a black hole is bound to be a bit difficult, I'm willing to bet that by almost any measure they are hot rather than cool.
they'll truly know what it means to be excetuted. Bastart.
Broke That For You.
Broek That For You.
And just how do you know that someone with a Pringles can antenna isn't sitting across the state border downloading child porn from your Wifi hotspot?
Now if we could just get some artificial onions to go with that...
I was feeling more like fava beans, and maybe a nice chianti.
What does an nice artificial chianti do and what does it taste like?
I The last thing we need to be sending to people who are starving to death and getting shot by wandering bands of "people's militias" is a damn computer.
Your frequently stated argument is bogus.
I have lived as an expatriate in rural Africa for many years, and have personally known both starvers and shootees. They are a tragic but small minority of the people of Africa. One of the biggest problems facing the education system in the country in which I lived (Ghana) is the expense and unavailability of teaching materials. Rare is the classroom where anyone other than the teacher has a textbook, and frequently even the teacher doesn't have one.
The OLPC project directly addresses this issue, making low cost (free) teaching materials available on the desks of the children.
Delivering education to people addresses many of the underlying issues that cause the starving and shooting.
I still have a PC that has a turbo button. . . .
Yeah, but I'll bet it's real slow running Vista.
And don't forget to cue the spelling/grammar Nazis.
Fixed it for ya.
Fixed it for you.
There, I fixed it for you.
I won't comment on whether or not I have a degree of any sort or what type of degree it is if I do have one. What I will tell you is that I've always felt that my education is far too important to me to be trusted to the complete strangers who call themselves professionals because they have made a profession out of something that is not inherently a business transaction. To abandon my education (let alone my edification) to them would be a failure to take responsibility for my own life. Modern education has many primary purposes but enlightened, tough-minded individuals who are capable of critical thinking and are not easily misled by propaganda and misinformation is definitely not one of them.
Oops. I didn't mean to post that anonymously (I should watch where I click eh?). This is my writing.
'Tis not. It's mine! You just quoted the parent and claimed it as yours! I'm the one who has to watch where I click.
I think that it was in a discussion of an article about featuring RIAA that I first encountered the phrase "95% of statistics are invented on the spot"
I suppose the 95% figure was meticulously researched and published in a peer-review journal?
It's a human rights violation.
But not theft.
. and this is why I should not be so quick to press submit after hitting preview . but hey, if i effectively. communicated, I guess. it doesn't matter. where i put the period
Correct punctuation increases the redundancy and reduces the effort needed to process (read) the information. Incorrect punctuation forces the reader to process word by word rather than chunking the text. This reduces the effectiveness of your communication.
I don't want to DIAF because someone can't stop at two beers.
I know that in modern English almost any noun can be verbed, but how does one "Dangdai International Art Festival"?
What does "literally" mean in the context of a fudge word? The difference between "like" and "literally like" escapes me.
I'm afraid you've got it wrong. Paint for bacteria is so that bacteria can paint. What I want to know is, even if you get a brush that small, how do you teach a bacterium to paint? I wouldn't have thought a bacterium capable of the artistic creativity to produce anything interesting in any case.
The Vatican Reply is reported to be "Take back Jerusalem and we'll talk"
This is the first post I'm making informing you of your new, patent-holding, overlord. I suggest you welcome him, you insensitive Clod!
In 1993 I patented overlording, so I suggest you welcome your new meta-overlord. In a pre-emptive move, I also patented meta-overlording, meta-meta-overlording ...
(It's turtles all the way down).
It's screw ups like this that make the death penalty a bad idea. While life in prison is a terrible punishment, perhaps more cruel than death, it gives the state a chance to fix its mistakes.
Falsely sending a person to prison cannot be 'fixed', only perhaps ameliorated. The frequent unfunny jokes about homosexual rape in prison show that not only the conviction system is out of control, but the punishment system is as well.
Will it work for Marty Feldman? http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3708590080/nm0001204
It makes you want to go today