There, feel free to be envious, rant about how AT&T are screwing the US consumers, curse us Europeans, and possibly, just possibly start the whole broadband country ranking debate again.:-)
Don't necessarily blame the teachers. You have the school boards/PTAs to blame as well for several factors.
First, it's practically easier to impeach a senator than it is to fire a teacher. They are nigh-invincible.
Secondly, we have defined curricula where there is little to no leeway for teachers to get creative in their classroom.
Third and last, we have tons of standardized tests that are meant to measure progress, but all its doing is forcing schools to "teach to the test" and fuck up anything remotely interesting even further.
How many teachers do you think actually WANT to make their entire school day a $TEST prep course? SOMEONE is behind that bullshit.
I'm in the computer repair business (sole proprietor). I'm looking into starting a company along the same lines with three colleagues, one of which is a big fan of Linux and OpenOffice, and another of which is a fan of Vista and Microsoft Office.
We have had a massive bitch of a time convincing Vista dude why we'd prefer OO for in-house use (main selling point: it's compatible with office dox and its free). We literally had to sit down for a half hour and run him through it.
Ultimately, the end user likes things simple. Plug & Play gave them the idea of "Plug it in and it should work; if it doesn't then something's broke". You can't ask basic users to mess with tar.gz files or hunt down drivers that didn't come with the OS.
For Linux to succeed it has to be idiot proof for the end user, and it's not there yet.
Several thousand dollar missile against a flying bomb with a cheap GPS and sheet metal wings? That's not terribly cost effective. Couldn't they just, like, make us go for broke by swarming?
Keep in mind that we take in more immigrants than the rest of the world combined.
People most often leave their country because America is better. Even a shit wage of $200/week is ten times what they'd make back home in many countries all around the world.
We are hands down one of the most generous and welcoming countries in the world in terms of foreign aid, immigration, etc., but we also have to keep things practical. If we lock down our borders better we can spend the money that we currently use wrangling illegal immigrants towards other better uses.
As for the ones already here, the only practical solution is amnesty.
Regrettably, nothing like this would happen anytime soon on account of it makes sense and would do a lot of good.
"Even harder than figuring out which songs are which is explaining it all to the younger Brownies. "They think copyright means the 'mean people,'" says Debby Cwalina, a 14-year-old Elf Holly explains it to them this way: "The people who wrote it have a thing on it. A little V with circles around it. There's an alarm on it. And if you sing it, BOOM!"
My God, they have literally scared those poor scouts shitless. That's terrible.
Check out the King Size catalog. I'm 6'5" and it's a real bitch for me to find socks. (For me and my size 14 feet, every pair of socks is a pair of ankle socks!) They have a nice variety of clothing at decent prices.
Some stuff you're looking for may be a bit hard to find, but they do have some nice things in less-than-normal-for-dudes colors, like this shirt in apricot, or this shirt in "Orchid" (man code for "pink").
More importantly though, stuff will actually fit you.
Aye. When the Segway was debuted a few years back, all of the news stations (at least in the NYC area) were talking about the "transportation revolution". I was expecting flying cars or jetpacks, not something that looks like it was built by a Power Wheels engineer after an all-nighter.
Joey: Because if he doesn't like you, this is all a moo point.
Rachel: Huh. A moo point?
Joey: Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo.
Well WD-40 is basically oil, and plastic is a petroleum product... I think wrapping a plastic box in duct tape is the chemical equivalent of dividing by zero.
I trust you haven't looked through the code, then? The first letter of the first few lines spells out "I-A-M-A-T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T", and then BAM they have you!
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There, feel free to be envious, rant about how AT&T are screwing the US consumers, curse us Europeans, and possibly, just possibly start the whole broadband country ranking debate again. :-)
And in the Very next post down, less than a minute later...
In Australia they're getting 21Mbps from HSPA+: http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/australias-telstra-launches-hspa/2009-02-22
And they claim they'll double it by the end of the year (with multicarrier HSPA+?)
<keanu>Whoa.</keanu>
What the hell do you get paid, $500 an hour?
PCs are not hard to put together. Even if you got every little screw and piece not assembled, it wouldn't take more than 3-4 hours.
Plus with the horse drawn carriage, the exhaust is in front of the driver instead of behind.
Don't necessarily blame the teachers. You have the school boards/PTAs to blame as well for several factors.
First, it's practically easier to impeach a senator than it is to fire a teacher. They are nigh-invincible.
Secondly, we have defined curricula where there is little to no leeway for teachers to get creative in their classroom.
Third and last, we have tons of standardized tests that are meant to measure progress, but all its doing is forcing schools to "teach to the test" and fuck up anything remotely interesting even further.
How many teachers do you think actually WANT to make their entire school day a $TEST prep course? SOMEONE is behind that bullshit.
I'm in the computer repair business (sole proprietor). I'm looking into starting a company along the same lines with three colleagues, one of which is a big fan of Linux and OpenOffice, and another of which is a fan of Vista and Microsoft Office.
We have had a massive bitch of a time convincing Vista dude why we'd prefer OO for in-house use (main selling point: it's compatible with office dox and its free). We literally had to sit down for a half hour and run him through it.
Ultimately, the end user likes things simple. Plug & Play gave them the idea of "Plug it in and it should work; if it doesn't then something's broke". You can't ask basic users to mess with tar.gz files or hunt down drivers that didn't come with the OS.
For Linux to succeed it has to be idiot proof for the end user, and it's not there yet.
Several thousand dollar missile against a flying bomb with a cheap GPS and sheet metal wings? That's not terribly cost effective. Couldn't they just, like, make us go for broke by swarming?
Damn, Gina!
+1 TNG quote
Keep in mind that we take in more immigrants than the rest of the world combined.
People most often leave their country because America is better. Even a shit wage of $200/week is ten times what they'd make back home in many countries all around the world.
We are hands down one of the most generous and welcoming countries in the world in terms of foreign aid, immigration, etc., but we also have to keep things practical. If we lock down our borders better we can spend the money that we currently use wrangling illegal immigrants towards other better uses.
As for the ones already here, the only practical solution is amnesty.
Regrettably, nothing like this would happen anytime soon on account of it makes sense and would do a lot of good.
Hrm. Usually when people talk about having trouble finding clothes in their size, it's because they are too friggin' huge (like I am).
Markets nowadays are all about playing averages, i.e. "What are the sizes of most people?"
Perhaps there is a Prince Size catalog out there for you? d:
He's saying the guy is pulling stuff outta his ass, mods.
Geez, one Wikipedia mooning and the downmodding begins in full force.
Holy shit.
"Even harder than figuring out which songs are which is explaining it all to the younger Brownies. "They think copyright means the 'mean people,'" says Debby Cwalina, a 14-year-old Elf Holly explains it to them this way: "The people who wrote it have a thing on it. A little V with circles around it. There's an alarm on it. And if you sing it, BOOM!"
My God, they have literally scared those poor scouts shitless. That's terrible.
Check out the King Size catalog. I'm 6'5" and it's a real bitch for me to find socks. (For me and my size 14 feet, every pair of socks is a pair of ankle socks!) They have a nice variety of clothing at decent prices.
Some stuff you're looking for may be a bit hard to find, but they do have some nice things in less-than-normal-for-dudes colors, like this shirt in apricot, or this shirt in "Orchid" (man code for "pink").
More importantly though, stuff will actually fit you.
The artist doesn't really get much in the way of money anyway.
Pirates, a summary.
Spawn more overlords!
Aye. When the Segway was debuted a few years back, all of the news stations (at least in the NYC area) were talking about the "transportation revolution". I was expecting flying cars or jetpacks, not something that looks like it was built by a Power Wheels engineer after an all-nighter.
I'm sure something like this would be the weapon of choice for agent provacateurs.
Joey: Because if he doesn't like you, this is all a moo point.
Rachel: Huh. A moo point?
Joey: Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo.
Because ultimately, politics is about money. Money will eventually win out over "morals".
Since we're really fucked for money as a country (and will be for the foreseeable future), many are hopeful that such asinine laws will be repealed.
Well WD-40 is basically oil, and plastic is a petroleum product... I think wrapping a plastic box in duct tape is the chemical equivalent of dividing by zero.
I trust you haven't looked through the code, then? The first letter of the first few lines spells out "I-A-M-A-T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-T", and then BAM they have you!
They should edit the title of the article, then.
NY Court Says Police Can't Track Suspect With GPSAA
In a situation like that, I'd imagine the media subsidiary would sue the cable subsidiary.
No, they'll wonder what the hell a steering wheel is as they hook up their 2029 Prius to their brain interface.