Things are improving. Broad & Market look much nicer, and Ferry Street in the Ironbound has developed into a very nice shopping area. It's definitely stepped up a fair bit.
Your best bet when shopping for schools is to find out what the average property tax paid in the area was last year. That's really the only way to find out if the school is worth it or not -- how well it's funded.
hahahahahahaha. My home city of Newark, NJ is closing 7 schools for underperforming. Severely.
Our schools are falling apart across the board, too. Wilson Avenue school, for instance, had to be closed because it was flooded with water laced with benzene.
We spend just shy of $17,000 per student. So no, funding alone is not a good indicator at all.
I wonder how hard it would be to get a drone to land on a drone... you can already build them pretty cheaply. What's to stop someone from ramming a homemade UAV into one of these thnigs and causing it to go down?
-science geek aims his direct TV dish at the drone -pushes switches and turns knobs on a mysterious black box -suddenly, the drone loses signal and crashes
Well, when you "people" say every single piece is abused by "the man", you're bound to be right someday.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy of us. It's not like our government is abusing the National Emergencies Act. to keep us in a perpetual National State of Emergency. It's not like the government abused its power to wiretap phone and data lines. It's not like the government twisted the constitution to try to disarm and disenfranchise us at every goddamned opportunity.
"The man" will always take the opportunity to grow their own power at the expense of that of the citizenry. Always.
And to be fair, thanks to the expanded universe there are 7 different forms of Lightsaber combat based on real-world sword-based martial arts. One form of Lightsaber combat is as different from another as European fencing is as different from Kendo.
The most readily apparent example is Obi-Wan (who uses a style similar to Chinese straight sword arts) versus Dooku (who uses a European fencing sort of style, cape and all).
The military could make their own proprietary stuff and the chips would still end up being made in China. Even if they ordered the contractor not to do it, there would eventually be a subcontractor somewhere down the line who would.
To pick one of my favorite bits of modern culture, do you think you can bring Harry Potter onto the big screen without the resources of big budget movie studio?
Yes. Just take a look at what freddiewmanagestodo. And yes, that is Spartacus himself in that last video.
Yeah, well, Switzerland is neutral too, but watch what happens if you put their country in any sort of danger...
Wikipedia and Google both knew from jump that SOPA/PIPA would eviscerate fair use. Wikipedia needs fair use to survive and Google needs fair use to remain as profitable as it is. It was literally about their survival as companies.
What does it say about us who begrudge people who spend $1000 on Superpoke Pets and yet think nothing of people who spend just as much on some other, more "geeky" hobby such as Warhammer 40K miniatures or building robots?
All I see in this article is two things:
1) Microtransactions work, especially if you pay attention to the "micro" part. (*cough* *cough* $10 for a gun in TRIBES: Ascend, Hi-Rez? Really?)
2) People will spend a load of money on something if they enjoy it. See: every hobby ever.
I wonder, couldn't we create something similar to a particle accelerator (at least in shape)?
Imagine a coilgun in the shape of a number 9. It can spin something up to top speed in the "circle" portion, and then flip a switch to fire it out the "straight" portion (like changing train tracks) when it's up to speed. It'd certainly solve the problem of having to have a 15 mile long railgun or something like that.
I honestly wish we had mandatory military conscription for a year or so like a lot of European countries. We used to be a frontier nation where not knowing how to use a gun was unthinkable unless you were a pacifist.
We're in pretty deep shit (the cities, at least) if anything majorly bad ever happens.
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That's a lot of o's. Do you find this that funny?
Nooooooooooooooooooo.
I guess he didn't WTFV. (And thus, a new term is born.)
Alan Moore doesn't feel happiness. He just gets so pissed that his feeling loop back around to the other end of the emotional spectrum.
Things are improving. Broad & Market look much nicer, and Ferry Street in the Ironbound has developed into a very nice shopping area. It's definitely stepped up a fair bit.
70s? Oh man, I musta time traveled during my vacation to Amsterdam!
Hey now! The only one allowed to talk shit about Jersey is New Jerseyans, dammit! Don't say bad things about my cesspool of a state! ;)
Your best bet when shopping for schools is to find out what the average property tax paid in the area was last year. That's really the only way to find out if the school is worth it or not -- how well it's funded.
hahahahahahaha. My home city of Newark, NJ is closing 7 schools for underperforming. Severely.
Our schools are falling apart across the board, too. Wilson Avenue school, for instance, had to be closed because it was flooded with water laced with benzene.
We spend just shy of $17,000 per student. So no, funding alone is not a good indicator at all.
I wonder how hard it would be to get a drone to land on a drone... you can already build them pretty cheaply. What's to stop someone from ramming a homemade UAV into one of these thnigs and causing it to go down?
-science geek aims his direct TV dish at the drone
-pushes switches and turns knobs on a mysterious black box
-suddenly, the drone loses signal and crashes
because they are unreliable (in our cultures).
Well, they're unreliable in our culture, too. Now if only our government took care of its citizens as well as yours does.
Agreed. After all, if we eat all the whales we'll have nothing left to nuke.
It will become very hard to avoid.
Unless you move to a state that doesn't treat its citizens like toddlers, such as New Hampshire where you are not required to have insurance of any kind, much less wear seatbelts, motorcycle helmets, or bicycle helmets.
Well, when you "people" say every single piece is abused by "the man", you're bound to be right someday.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy of us. It's not like our government is abusing the National Emergencies Act. to keep us in a perpetual National State of Emergency. It's not like the government abused its power to wiretap phone and data lines. It's not like the government twisted the constitution to try to disarm and disenfranchise us at every goddamned opportunity.
"The man" will always take the opportunity to grow their own power at the expense of that of the citizenry. Always.
How do you know that Mr. Rotenberg didn't advise Mr. Leahy that PIPA is a really bad idea and why it wouldn't work?
Hurm... I have a crazy idea...
Anyone have a VW Golf and a ball peen hammer they're willing to part with?
And to be fair, thanks to the expanded universe there are 7 different forms of Lightsaber combat based on real-world sword-based martial arts. One form of Lightsaber combat is as different from another as European fencing is as different from Kendo.
The most readily apparent example is Obi-Wan (who uses a style similar to Chinese straight sword arts) versus Dooku (who uses a European fencing sort of style, cape and all).
The military could make their own proprietary stuff and the chips would still end up being made in China. Even if they ordered the contractor not to do it, there would eventually be a subcontractor somewhere down the line who would.
To pick one of my favorite bits of modern culture, do you think you can bring Harry Potter onto the big screen without the resources of big budget movie studio?
Yes. Just take a look at what freddiew manages to do. And yes, that is Spartacus himself in that last video.
Never forget the potential for trolling one has with file sharing.
comes across as very unprofessional in my opinion.
Yeah, well, we'll add it to the list of all the other unprofessional shit Slashdot does.
"purport to be neutral sources of information"
Yeah, well, Switzerland is neutral too, but watch what happens if you put their country in any sort of danger...
Wikipedia and Google both knew from jump that SOPA/PIPA would eviscerate fair use. Wikipedia needs fair use to survive and Google needs fair use to remain as profitable as it is. It was literally about their survival as companies.
What does it say about us who begrudge people who spend $1000 on Superpoke Pets and yet think nothing of people who spend just as much on some other, more "geeky" hobby such as Warhammer 40K miniatures or building robots?
All I see in this article is two things:
1) Microtransactions work, especially if you pay attention to the "micro" part. (*cough* *cough* $10 for a gun in TRIBES: Ascend, Hi-Rez? Really?)
2) People will spend a load of money on something if they enjoy it. See: every hobby ever.
I wonder, couldn't we create something similar to a particle accelerator (at least in shape)?
Imagine a coilgun in the shape of a number 9. It can spin something up to top speed in the "circle" portion, and then flip a switch to fire it out the "straight" portion (like changing train tracks) when it's up to speed. It'd certainly solve the problem of having to have a 15 mile long railgun or something like that.
I honestly wish we had mandatory military conscription for a year or so like a lot of European countries. We used to be a frontier nation where not knowing how to use a gun was unthinkable unless you were a pacifist.
We're in pretty deep shit (the cities, at least) if anything majorly bad ever happens.
Hi, I love 80 km away from the facility in question. Please repair the hole you punched in my roof.