I have found more and more often that a hell of a lot of women demand equality in benefits but not equality in responsibility.
Where's the movement to get women to be required to sign up for selective service? Why doesn't anyone really fight for women to have to live up to the same Physical Training Standards that men do? How come so few women seem to be chomping at the bit to get to front-line combat roles? These are just examples from the military, but salient ones nonetheless.
Besides, it's much easier to bypass airport security. Just be rich.
What, poor people can't get in through the rich lines? Well, a Fortune 500 CEO flying on a private jet surely has assistants, security, and other personnel, and he'll be damned if some "airport security" will hold up his tee time in Cabo!
I wonder how long it will take for someone to exploit this particular attack vector.
The French should remind themselves that their motto is Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and that all three bits are important.
Yeah, well America's is E Pluribus Unum (Latin: "From Many, One") and we're doing a pretty shit job of upholding that ourselves. It was especially horrendous when we slapped "In God We Trust" right next to E Pluribus Unum on our money as a response to the "godless Communists".
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to be free...*
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* unless they're Communists, or Atheists, or Muslims, or...
As much as I love Munchkin (proud owner of Fu and Bites), I think I like Catan way more. The game is really super modular. The easiest thing to do is to create new maps, and it's also pretty fun to create special rulesets and the like.
I really wish/. had swung by the Catan booth, too.
Too bad it had a short running time, Castellan might be worth a look for somewhat older kids.
The castle game looks really interesting. It seems like a simplified version of go with the addition of cards.
It's the same basic concept - take turns placing pieces in order to capture territory, and more territory captured is worth more points. I could see it being used as a gateway drug for getting someone into go.
I remember a Calvin & Hobbes strip where a robot doctor implants grey matter into Calvin's brain. "Well, there's grades 1-12. Now go have 12 years of fun."
The more complex our world becomes, the less opportunities kids have to be kids.
Hurm... perhaps one could make a device similar to a floppy shutter (but out of much sturdier material). It'd be like the computer geek's version of those little zen balls used for meditation.
I am surprisingly ignorant of the tax codes of the world. I thought things like the UK's VAT were way, way more common than filling out tax forms (albeit in a much easier manner than is the nightmare of the United States). Why don't more places use some sort of flat tax?
I'm glad you got my point. Mainly, it's not like these things should be taught as real science, but as humanity's clumsy attempts to do something close to what we know science to be today.
It's part of the history of science and in that respect it is important. Beyond that, it is not. These are theories that have no place in a scientific setting outside of historical context.
I disagree - but not for the reason that immediately pops into your head.
One of the things I learned about in grade school was alchemy. It was the (incredibly misguided) precursor to science. Your above examples are also precursors to their real sciences. I think it's important to note how we got here and just how wrong we were, such as with creationism and evolution. "We thought all of this stuff was put here by some kind of mystical being, but for the most part that's wrong and here's why."
To put in other terms, nobody can write a story about your life until after you are born, and lived some portion of that life.
Okay. But surely something divinely-inspired would make a hell of a lot more fucking sense, what with the contradictions and absurdities and all.
For the interested, check out The Skeptic's Annotated Bible. It points out all of the ridiculous and/or horrible shit that exists in the Bible. And they're fair, too - they also shit all over the Koran and other religious texts.
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I have found more and more often that a hell of a lot of women demand equality in benefits but not equality in responsibility.
Where's the movement to get women to be required to sign up for selective service? Why doesn't anyone really fight for women to have to live up to the same Physical Training Standards that men do? How come so few women seem to be chomping at the bit to get to front-line combat roles? These are just examples from the military, but salient ones nonetheless.
Would a woman be able to manage "Steve Jobs" style? Would a company like Apple be better off with more feminine leadership? I doubt it...
I don't know. It's difficult to imagine any of the iProducts looking more effeminate than they already do.
Besides, it's much easier to bypass airport security. Just be rich.
What, poor people can't get in through the rich lines? Well, a Fortune 500 CEO flying on a private jet surely has assistants, security, and other personnel, and he'll be damned if some "airport security" will hold up his tee time in Cabo!
I wonder how long it will take for someone to exploit this particular attack vector.
Of course the remote is $18. Do you have any idea the kind of R&D involved in getting a rootkit into a remote control?
The French should remind themselves that their motto is Liberté, égalité, fraternité, and that all three bits are important.
Yeah, well America's is E Pluribus Unum (Latin: "From Many, One") and we're doing a pretty shit job of upholding that ourselves. It was especially horrendous when we slapped "In God We Trust" right next to E Pluribus Unum on our money as a response to the "godless Communists".
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddle masses yearning to be free...*
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* unless they're Communists, or Atheists, or Muslims, or...
The Catan folks were on hand
Doh, forgot to address this bit.
As much as I love Munchkin (proud owner of Fu and Bites), I think I like Catan way more. The game is really super modular. The easiest thing to do is to create new maps, and it's also pretty fun to create special rulesets and the like.
I really wish /. had swung by the Catan booth, too.
Too bad it had a short running time, Castellan might be worth a look for somewhat older kids.
The castle game looks really interesting. It seems like a simplified version of go with the addition of cards.
It's the same basic concept - take turns placing pieces in order to capture territory, and more territory captured is worth more points. I could see it being used as a gateway drug for getting someone into go.
Not offsite though. Not so awesome.
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... I need a female USB plug, a knife, and a clean room. NOW!
This doesn't make any sense and I don't think it would stand up in court.
Since when has an English pub ever had to bolster business?
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I remember a Calvin & Hobbes strip where a robot doctor implants grey matter into Calvin's brain. "Well, there's grades 1-12. Now go have 12 years of fun."
The more complex our world becomes, the less opportunities kids have to be kids.
Wait, so the human body does nightly backups? That is awesome.
We shouldn't support criminals just because they target people we don't like.
Exactly. That's why Robin Hood is unpopular and almost no one knows about him now and why he was universally hated in his own time.
Hurm... perhaps one could make a device similar to a floppy shutter (but out of much sturdier material). It'd be like the computer geek's version of those little zen balls used for meditation.
"Ohm~... ohm~... watts~... direct current~..."
You're all confusing. @_@
I was on food stamps for a time (and might end up back on them...). If you had more than $2,000 in the bank you were ineligible (NJ). =|
I'd have a hard time getting my Cheetara poster to stay on a cave wall.
Perhaps an entire series of tubes!
But couldn't that regression be fixed by a simple "If you make less than X, you don't pay" kind of thing?
I still think it'd be massively easier to have it all collected automatically.
I am surprisingly ignorant of the tax codes of the world. I thought things like the UK's VAT were way, way more common than filling out tax forms (albeit in a much easier manner than is the nightmare of the United States). Why don't more places use some sort of flat tax?
I'm glad you got my point. Mainly, it's not like these things should be taught as real science, but as humanity's clumsy attempts to do something close to what we know science to be today.
It's part of the history of science and in that respect it is important. Beyond that, it is not. These are theories that have no place in a scientific setting outside of historical context.
(especially as somebody who is at high risk for melanoma).
Have you considered eating less melons? I hear that helps.
Evolution qualifies, creationism doesn't.
Astronomy qualifies, astrology doesn't.
I disagree - but not for the reason that immediately pops into your head.
One of the things I learned about in grade school was alchemy. It was the (incredibly misguided) precursor to science. Your above examples are also precursors to their real sciences. I think it's important to note how we got here and just how wrong we were, such as with creationism and evolution. "We thought all of this stuff was put here by some kind of mystical being, but for the most part that's wrong and here's why."
To put in other terms, nobody can write a story about your life until after you are born, and lived some portion of that life.
Okay. But surely something divinely-inspired would make a hell of a lot more fucking sense, what with the contradictions and absurdities and all.
For the interested, check out The Skeptic's Annotated Bible. It points out all of the ridiculous and/or horrible shit that exists in the Bible. And they're fair, too - they also shit all over the Koran and other religious texts.
"earth is round"
Actually, it's oblong.
God must have hit the pedal on the pottery wheel just a little too fast.
you could almost say that the arguments evolve.
Well, we can at least say for sure that they weren't intelligently designed.