wrong, you can't just say having a different arbitrary set of genes makes you a different species, magneto. we all know your agenda but the bottom line is that if Marvel girl were to bear my offspring they would indeed be viable, and therefore she is human... or am I a mutant?
Therefore, its a rather low likelyhood that she'll set the house on fire by forgetting a pizza in the oven, but she can't obsess about problems the way I can
You should think about buying a kitchen timer if you really think this is a major issue.
take this, a george foreman grill and a dance dance revolution machine and you've got a night on the town without ever having to leave your parent's basement.
can you imagine what our economy would be like if all of our professionals dropped their careers to follow their dreams? we'd be a nation of ballerinas and astronauts.
Work isn't supposed to be fun, that's why it's called work.
right, I think it's more the publishing what they found that was the issue (something the cops don't do).
I don't mind a bum digging through my trash looking for recyclables but I would have a problem with him knocking on my neighbors' doors and telling them that I subscribe to swank.
didn't we decide that dumpster diving is perfectly legal? you should be able to tell the cop you were just looking for good trash.
I live in a city and behind my building is a dumpster that gets picked through by at least 10 homeless people every day (sad but true). I have never seen a cop hassle any of them over it.
A while ago there was a citizens group that tried to get a ban enforced claiming that some of these people are identity thieves looking for personal information with which to get credit cards, etc... they didn't get it though...
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I guess that they're going either to make some almost tasteless meat that you're going to eat with lots of sausage, or extra spiced meat that doesn't need anything before it can be eaten, maybe not even cooking.
I agree with almost all of what you said but still it is my opinion that geometry and calculus are worthless skills to most people and you haven't convinced me otherwise.
I don't think chemistry plays a part in the average kitchen. I'm not a chef, but I'm sure they're taught what they need to know about chemistry in culinary school, I'm sure few people remember what they learned in 9th grade.
I also disagree that higher math and science teach people how to 'think', people already know how to think by 10th grade, and all these classes do for most of us is force us to memorize formulas that we'll soon forget and deal with our math anxiety.
knowing how to finance a mortgage is more important than knowing how to factor polynomials. knowing about good nutrition is better than knowing your way around a pig's innards. It's important to know not to eat paint but I don't think a chemistry class is required to pull that off.
Personally I think that all of high school math and science can be made electives. We make our kids struggle through 4 years of this stuff when only 5% of them ever go on to use it.
If a kid is no good at math, he's not going on to become an engineer so I think it's better to let him pursue his own interests.
when was the last time your boss asked you to solve a differential equation or dissect a pig?
showing teachers that Math, English and even fine arts are so much more needed skills...
fine arts is only an important skill if you were born rich. For the rest of us, it's all about communication skills and being emotionally healthy.
I never had a computer class where I felt even remotely challenged because the teachers weren't up to it. That was ok because I was independently motivated to learn.
If you're reading/. right now odds are you weren't one of the cool kids and your education happened more in the hallway than it did in the classroom, You probably don't remember a thing you learned in grade 8 but I bet you remember getting stuffed into a locker.
Point is, the single thing schools can do to improve education is getting teachers and counselors who care about the kids. Everything else will fall into place once that happens.
for those of us not in the know, furthur was the name of the bus ken kesey rode on with the merry pranksters and in the electric kool-aid acid test.
it's also the name of the tour the surviving grateful dead members organized after Jerry Garcia died.
The Grateful Dead was really the first jam band to encourage bootlegging and tape-trading as a grass roots way to get their music heard without caving in to Payola for air time.
One thing I didn't see on the list was nanotechnology, which is going to hugely impact the future.
no but if you look at the results for the poll on that page you'll see that 45% of the people thought nanotech would have the most significant impact on our future.
Last week I was at the dentist and I commented on how there haven't been any improvements in dentistry in my lifetime, people still brush and floss the same way as when I was a kid (ok there's sonicare)
I want to see microscopic robots living in my teeth and tidying up for me.
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wrong, you can't just say having a different arbitrary set of genes makes you a different species, magneto. we all know your agenda but the bottom line is that if Marvel girl were to bear my offspring they would indeed be viable, and therefore she is human... or am I a mutant?
Therefore, its a rather low likelyhood that she'll set the house on fire by forgetting a pizza in the oven, but she can't obsess about problems the way I can
You should think about buying a kitchen timer if you really think this is a major issue.
take this, a george foreman grill and a dance dance revolution machine and you've got a night on the town without ever having to leave your parent's basement.
computers will be able to have babies.
how long before these 'printers' decide to enslave their human masters? soon we'll be herded into tiny rooms and be forced to be productive
oh wait..
Clippy!
It's one thing to rebuild the Statue of Liberty, I can see how that might be accomplished (albeit at quite a cost).
Yeah right. they still haven't gotten around to fixing that crack in the liberty bell.
You said it buddy.
not even mentioning that the average lindows installation lasts about 15 minutes before it's replaced with a pirated version of XP.
you can't get accurate numbers from sales. maybe from browser stats.
An often (perhaps over) cited analogy is the butterfly effect in which the flapping of a single butterfly's wings in Japan causes a storm in Alaska.
Sounds like a big problem. Maybe we should kill all the butterflies in Japan.
Do what makes you happy.
can you imagine what our economy would be like if all of our professionals dropped their careers to follow their dreams? we'd be a nation of ballerinas and astronauts.
Work isn't supposed to be fun, that's why it's called work.
or perhaps he realized that the one thing he truly loves is beating minorities with a night stick.
basically this whole story is a troll and people will be falling for it for the next 24 hours or so.
good times.
right, I think it's more the publishing what they found that was the issue (something the cops don't do).
I don't mind a bum digging through my trash looking for recyclables but I would have a problem with him knocking on my neighbors' doors and telling them that I subscribe to swank.
didn't we decide that dumpster diving is perfectly legal? you should be able to tell the cop you were just looking for good trash.
I live in a city and behind my building is a dumpster that gets picked through by at least 10 homeless people every day (sad but true). I have never seen a cop hassle any of them over it.
A while ago there was a citizens group that tried to get a ban enforced claiming that some of these people are identity thieves looking for personal information with which to get credit cards, etc...
they didn't get it though...
I guess that they're going either to make some almost tasteless meat that you're going to eat with lots of sausage, or extra spiced meat that doesn't need anything before it can be eaten, maybe not even cooking.
they already made it. it's called 'tofu'
I agree with almost all of what you said but still it is my opinion that geometry and calculus are worthless skills to most people and you haven't convinced me otherwise.
I don't think chemistry plays a part in the average kitchen. I'm not a chef, but I'm sure they're taught what they need to know about chemistry in culinary school, I'm sure few people remember what they learned in 9th grade.
I also disagree that higher math and science teach people how to 'think', people already know how to think by 10th grade, and all these classes do for most of us is force us to memorize formulas that we'll soon forget and deal with our math anxiety.
knowing how to finance a mortgage is more important than knowing how to factor polynomials. knowing about good nutrition is better than knowing your way around a pig's innards. It's important to know not to eat paint but I don't think a chemistry class is required to pull that off.
but that's just my own opinion.
well where I come from its more of an off-white.
Regardless how hard I'm trying, I can't figure out how a "nude button" would look like?
when I read that I figured that nude was just the color.
Personally I think that all of high school math and science can be made electives. We make our kids struggle through 4 years of this stuff when only 5% of them ever go on to use it.
If a kid is no good at math, he's not going on to become an engineer so I think it's better to let him pursue his own interests.
when was the last time your boss asked you to solve a differential equation or dissect a pig?
Pay phones still have some use... doesn't anyone watch The Sopranos?
is it where they change into their gangster clothes?
Pity that MS Word is considered more important than algebra
yes well, more people grow up to be desk jockeys than engineers so maybe it is more important.
showing teachers that Math, English and even fine arts are so much more needed skills...
/. right now odds are you weren't one of the cool kids and your education happened more in the hallway than it did in the classroom, You probably don't remember a thing you learned in grade 8 but I bet you remember getting stuffed into a locker.
fine arts is only an important skill if you were born rich. For the rest of us, it's all about communication skills and being emotionally healthy.
I never had a computer class where I felt even remotely challenged because the teachers weren't up to it. That was ok because I was independently motivated to learn.
If you're reading
Point is, the single thing schools can do to improve education is getting teachers and counselors who care about the kids. Everything else will fall into place once that happens.
for those of us not in the know, furthur was the name of the bus ken kesey rode on with the merry pranksters and in the electric kool-aid acid test.
it's also the name of the tour the surviving grateful dead members organized after Jerry Garcia died.
The Grateful Dead was really the first jam band to encourage bootlegging and tape-trading as a grass roots way to get their music heard without caving in to Payola for air time.
And don't forget their contribution to the fight against Ticketmaster. I only wish they had more luck.
They will always be slaves to the Ticket Master.
thats nothing a good q-tip can't solve.
One thing I didn't see on the list was nanotechnology, which is going to hugely impact the future.
no but if you look at the results for the poll on that page you'll see that 45% of the people thought nanotech would have the most significant impact on our future.
Last week I was at the dentist and I commented on how there haven't been any improvements in dentistry in my lifetime, people still brush and floss the same way as when I was a kid (ok there's sonicare)
I want to see microscopic robots living in my teeth and tidying up for me.
hmm... better get down to that patent office...