Amendment: The Woman In The Wall is a fantastic book for either girls or boys, especially if they're going through puberty. I remember it quite fondly.
Yes, lovely idea. Let's teach a 10 year old the merits of rebelling against authority and then figure out how to deal with a room-cleaning/dish-washing labor strike. d:
Passwords and battery backups were great when they came along, but they had their flaws. An anecdote:
1) Lend friend Perfect Dark for the N64
2) Friend doesn't plug it in for 6 months
3) Onboard battery dies
4) Try to boot the game, basicallys gets a "no memory card" error, except the "memory card" is the built-in game save system
5) Cannot progress past this screen, so not only is my data gone but the game couldn't be saved to the cart if I could
If you have a console cartridge that you love to play, do make sure to plug it in every few months! (Although, I've found the N.E.S. and S.N.E.S. carts are a good lot hardier.)
Through a cavern through which the drone will not fit
Over basically any surface unstable, small, or unnavigable enough that a vehicle of any sort wouldn't be able to keep up with me
Until we have drones that can match or exceed what a human can do, we will have the advantage in places that they cannot go. Incidentally, some of those places (like the Tora Bora caves) are where a lot of forces hostile to us like to hang out.
Either way, a bot that can keep up with a human on anything other than relatively flat land is probably a decade or so away at least IMO.
Seconded for books. Don't forget legos as well! Don't just buy the theme sets, buy the sets with tons of blocks and random pieces so they can get creative. I probably spent more time with my legos than anything else.
As for books, some recommendations appropriate for the double-digit ages:
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Giver
Call of the Wild
Animorphs/Goosebumps series
Anything by Roald Dahl
Harry Potter series
Gemini Game (if they're techy sort of kids, really good story!)
Anything by Jerry Spinelli (Crash, Maniac McGee, There's A Girl In My Hammerlock
You could probably pick up a few months (or years, depending on how fast they read) worth of good children's books on Amazon for less than the price of a game console. Plus books aren't laden with any of that silly DRM nonsense!
How is this any different than getting all of your friends and family to hop on Ticketmaster the second tickets become available to increase your chances?
1) Your family isn't doing it for profit.
2) You're not reselling the tickets at a markup, which is illegal.
3) You and your family hasn't paid up with the right politicians to get favorable protectionist laws written up for them.
And IMO better a human being make the conscious choice to join the enemy side rather than a robot being programmed to flip sides in the middle of a battle. If our own soldiers are jumping ship to live in a cave and shoot RPGs at Humvees, we're doing something very, very wrong.
Well, at least you won't have to worry about being able to beat up the geeky sort of boyfriend she brings home one day...
Jokes aside, kudos on you. So long as kids don't play games all day it's great. Some of my best memories with my father were playing The Legend of Zelda (the original) together all Saturday afternoon and evening until we beat it in one go. We did it a few times, and we also went through many games in the N.E.S. catalog.
I think robots are nice and have loads of practical uses, but honestly I'm just waiting for something like LCARS to be practical. Integrated compute control of all the major systems in the house, etc.
The only thing that never really made sense to me were typing things out. In Enterprise they had a keyboard of sorts but there weren't nearly enough keys to cover most of the major symbols.
I suppose I'm just in love with the general concept of it.
I just hope robots don't become cheap soldiers that any rich guy can own his personal army.
I imagine eventually the UN is going to draw a line between remote-controlled drones (UAVs like the Predator) and AI bots and forbid AI bots from being used, at the very least, in direct combat. Besides, there are a lot of issues at hand with bots; EMPS, for one. Robots won't be nearly as agile and fast as a human running for his life can be, so I imagine they would be far more vulnerable to specialized weaponry designed to counteract them (or hell, even conventional "big bang" weaponry like grenade launchers, rockets, missiles, etc.) Robots can be hacked and reprogrammed, soldiers cannot so easily. It would be a P.R. disaster if an Army Combat bot is seized by an enemy combatant with off-the-shelf gear and turned on its own soldiers.
I don't believe that robots will be practical enough (cost-wise) to be used as soldiers for at least 20-30 years (if we and/or the international community would even allow such a thing to happen).
Hi. I'm going into education myself - primary (elementary) school, but aiming for 4th-6th grades.
I'm interested in reading about this particular subject. Do you have any test placement layouts, discussions of the practice, etc. that I could read up on? It would be very helpful and interesting to both myself and others who are going into an education career. Thanks.
How do you get the word out for a candidate on the national - or even state level - when the media and political parties often conspire to exclude third party candidates (SEE: the Presidential Debates of the last 40 or so years)?
I *did* buy Global Agenda, which never got to the $x/month part of the game. They eventually converted to free-to-play.
Competitive multiplayer in every respect was broken, and a single group of about 30 people dominated the entire game - literally. They didn't even have the sense to introduce tiers in what was essentially a ladder system.
I went back for an update for a bit, but it lagged my medium-range computer to hell, and I put the game on the shelf (so to speak) until I upgraded. The general gameplay was fun, but there were a lot of unforgiving flaws. Unfortunately, despite all the beta-testing they did, these flaws did not become readily apparent until many months after the game had launched.
Timothy McVeigh cited the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents as motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995.
It inspired one person to strike back at the government (however unjust his actions may have been). However, for every Timothy Mcveigh, there were surely hundreds more level-headed activists - especially the families of those who died - who were motivated by what happened at Ruby Ridge and will have a different outlook on the government for the rest of their lives.
The surviving members of the Weaver family filed a wrongful death suit. To avoid trial and a possibly higher settlement, the federal government awarded Randy Weaver a $100,000 settlement and his three daughters $1 million each in August 1995. In the out-of-court settlement the government did not admit to any wrong-doing in the deaths of Sammy and Vicki Weaver.
The attorney for Kevin Harris pressed Harris' civil suit for damages, although federal officials vowed they would never pay someone who had killed a U.S. Marshal. In September 2000 after persistent appeals, Harris was awarded a $380,000 settlement from the government.
The government had to pay financial compensation to the families of the dead. Not only is this a matter of public record, but they were financially compensated for what happened. Not the best outcome, but certainly not the worst (i.e. nothing).
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi was indicted for manslaughter in 1997 by the Boundary County, Idaho prosecutor just prior to expiration of the statute of limitations for the crime of manslaughter, but the trial was removed to federal court and was quickly dismissed on grounds of sovereign immunity.[59] Kevin Harris was also indicted for the first-degree murder of DUSM Bill Degan; the charge was dismissed on grounds of double jeopardy because he had been acquitted in the federal criminal trial on the same charge in 1993.
Lastly, federal agents were indicted for manslaughter and first-degree murder, respectively. Yes, they were acquitted, but this is something that is going to follow them for the remainder of their careers. They were not allowed to simply continue on without being investigated in their actions.
So yes, sir, I would disagree with you wholeheartedly that the Second Amendment doesn't work.
Now if we're talking something big, something like the government is severely cracking down on a large enough segment of the population, it is sure as shit gonna be a hell of a lot harder to oppress people when a large portion of them are armed - some of them rather heavily, I might add. Add to that the fact that American solders, federal agents, and peace officers are heavily indoctrinated in the whole "fighting for our freedom and peace" thing. There is a line that our men in uniform would not as easily cross as a bunch of South American soldiers secretly on a drug lord's payroll.
It's not inconceivable that the government would be able to put down a significant resistance movement in this country, but the United States is probably one of the hardest places in the world to try it if they had to.
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For someone in the 2nd or 3rd grade they're acceptable reading. Which, hey, just happens to be the age range of his kids!
Amendment: The Woman In The Wall is a fantastic book for either girls or boys, especially if they're going through puberty. I remember it quite fondly.
Yes, lovely idea. Let's teach a 10 year old the merits of rebelling against authority and then figure out how to deal with a room-cleaning/dish-washing labor strike. d:
Yes, let's call them Official Lego (TM) Interlocking Brick Entertainment Devices as we are required by law to do so.
To be fair, the sculptor made it too easy to find himself when he listed his address in the phone book as "94o8sror3q9nso23n4430q0898s78q00".
Passwords and battery backups were great when they came along, but they had their flaws. An anecdote:
1) Lend friend Perfect Dark for the N64
2) Friend doesn't plug it in for 6 months
3) Onboard battery dies
4) Try to boot the game, basicallys gets a "no memory card" error, except the "memory card" is the built-in game save system
5) Cannot progress past this screen, so not only is my data gone but the game couldn't be saved to the cart if I could
If you have a console cartridge that you love to play, do make sure to plug it in every few months! (Although, I've found the N.E.S. and S.N.E.S. carts are a good lot hardier.)
Yes, in many situations:
Until we have drones that can match or exceed what a human can do, we will have the advantage in places that they cannot go. Incidentally, some of those places (like the Tora Bora caves) are where a lot of forces hostile to us like to hang out.
Either way, a bot that can keep up with a human on anything other than relatively flat land is probably a decade or so away at least IMO.
Seconded for books. Don't forget legos as well! Don't just buy the theme sets, buy the sets with tons of blocks and random pieces so they can get creative. I probably spent more time with my legos than anything else.
As for books, some recommendations appropriate for the double-digit ages:
You could probably pick up a few months (or years, depending on how fast they read) worth of good children's books on Amazon for less than the price of a game console. Plus books aren't laden with any of that silly DRM nonsense!
How is this any different than getting all of your friends and family to hop on Ticketmaster the second tickets become available to increase your chances?
1) Your family isn't doing it for profit.
2) You're not reselling the tickets at a markup, which is illegal.
3) You and your family hasn't paid up with the right politicians to get favorable protectionist laws written up for them.
Three. One to read the code, one to write the code, and one to lube up the giraffe for the post-launch party.
Get tuh tha E-7 Squhare! NAO!
Well, we already know she looks lovely in long, black robes. A sequined cocktail dress and heels is not that far away!
Honestly, if writing new laws were even a tenth as difficult and arduous as amending the constitution I imagine the world would be a better place.
Things just move too goddamned fast IMO.
Citation on troops going turncoat?
And IMO better a human being make the conscious choice to join the enemy side rather than a robot being programmed to flip sides in the middle of a battle. If our own soldiers are jumping ship to live in a cave and shoot RPGs at Humvees, we're doing something very, very wrong.
Well, at least you won't have to worry about being able to beat up the geeky sort of boyfriend she brings home one day...
Jokes aside, kudos on you. So long as kids don't play games all day it's great. Some of my best memories with my father were playing The Legend of Zelda (the original) together all Saturday afternoon and evening until we beat it in one go. We did it a few times, and we also went through many games in the N.E.S. catalog.
When he's smart enough to jailbreak it.
I sincerely apologize for the lawyers of our country and the foul people who would wield them.
We've been trying to thin the lawyer's numbers for some years now, but silver prices are astronomical and there's a shortage on ammunition lately.
I think robots are nice and have loads of practical uses, but honestly I'm just waiting for something like LCARS to be practical. Integrated compute control of all the major systems in the house, etc.
The only thing that never really made sense to me were typing things out. In Enterprise they had a keyboard of sorts but there weren't nearly enough keys to cover most of the major symbols.
I suppose I'm just in love with the general concept of it.
I just hope robots don't become cheap soldiers that any rich guy can own his personal army.
I imagine eventually the UN is going to draw a line between remote-controlled drones (UAVs like the Predator) and AI bots and forbid AI bots from being used, at the very least, in direct combat. Besides, there are a lot of issues at hand with bots; EMPS, for one. Robots won't be nearly as agile and fast as a human running for his life can be, so I imagine they would be far more vulnerable to specialized weaponry designed to counteract them (or hell, even conventional "big bang" weaponry like grenade launchers, rockets, missiles, etc.) Robots can be hacked and reprogrammed, soldiers cannot so easily. It would be a P.R. disaster if an Army Combat bot is seized by an enemy combatant with off-the-shelf gear and turned on its own soldiers.
I don't believe that robots will be practical enough (cost-wise) to be used as soldiers for at least 20-30 years (if we and/or the international community would even allow such a thing to happen).
Hi. I'm going into education myself - primary (elementary) school, but aiming for 4th-6th grades.
I'm interested in reading about this particular subject. Do you have any test placement layouts, discussions of the practice, etc. that I could read up on? It would be very helpful and interesting to both myself and others who are going into an education career. Thanks.
How do you get the word out for a candidate on the national - or even state level - when the media and political parties often conspire to exclude third party candidates (SEE: the Presidential Debates of the last 40 or so years)?
What would one be charged with if they were HIV positive and infected someone without making them aware in the first place?
What about if they were unaware of their infection (negligence)?
Is there even a way to prove Person A was the one who invfected Person B and not the other way around? Or that it was really Person C's fault?
And if that doesn't work, try Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Stop, Play, and Enter.
I *almost* bought APB and I'm glad I didn't.
I *did* buy Global Agenda, which never got to the $x/month part of the game. They eventually converted to free-to-play.
Competitive multiplayer in every respect was broken, and a single group of about 30 people dominated the entire game - literally. They didn't even have the sense to introduce tiers in what was essentially a ladder system.
I went back for an update for a bit, but it lagged my medium-range computer to hell, and I put the game on the shelf (so to speak) until I upgraded. The general gameplay was fun, but there were a lot of unforgiving flaws. Unfortunately, despite all the beta-testing they did, these flaws did not become readily apparent until many months after the game had launched.
Thanks for the compliment! Now I know I've got a pretty good handle on writing horror fiction.
(see Ruby Ridge)
To be fair, Ruby Ridge did produce some results:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge#Aftermath
Timothy McVeigh cited the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents as motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995.
It inspired one person to strike back at the government (however unjust his actions may have been). However, for every Timothy Mcveigh, there were surely hundreds more level-headed activists - especially the families of those who died - who were motivated by what happened at Ruby Ridge and will have a different outlook on the government for the rest of their lives.
The surviving members of the Weaver family filed a wrongful death suit. To avoid trial and a possibly higher settlement, the federal government awarded Randy Weaver a $100,000 settlement and his three daughters $1 million each in August 1995. In the out-of-court settlement the government did not admit to any wrong-doing in the deaths of Sammy and Vicki Weaver.
The attorney for Kevin Harris pressed Harris' civil suit for damages, although federal officials vowed they would never pay someone who had killed a U.S. Marshal. In September 2000 after persistent appeals, Harris was awarded a $380,000 settlement from the government.
The government had to pay financial compensation to the families of the dead. Not only is this a matter of public record, but they were financially compensated for what happened. Not the best outcome, but certainly not the worst (i.e. nothing).
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi was indicted for manslaughter in 1997 by the Boundary County, Idaho prosecutor just prior to expiration of the statute of limitations for the crime of manslaughter, but the trial was removed to federal court and was quickly dismissed on grounds of sovereign immunity.[59] Kevin Harris was also indicted for the first-degree murder of DUSM Bill Degan; the charge was dismissed on grounds of double jeopardy because he had been acquitted in the federal criminal trial on the same charge in 1993.
Lastly, federal agents were indicted for manslaughter and first-degree murder, respectively. Yes, they were acquitted, but this is something that is going to follow them for the remainder of their careers. They were not allowed to simply continue on without being investigated in their actions.
So yes, sir, I would disagree with you wholeheartedly that the Second Amendment doesn't work.
Now if we're talking something big, something like the government is severely cracking down on a large enough segment of the population, it is sure as shit gonna be a hell of a lot harder to oppress people when a large portion of them are armed - some of them rather heavily, I might add. Add to that the fact that American solders, federal agents, and peace officers are heavily indoctrinated in the whole "fighting for our freedom and peace" thing. There is a line that our men in uniform would not as easily cross as a bunch of South American soldiers secretly on a drug lord's payroll.
It's not inconceivable that the government would be able to put down a significant resistance movement in this country, but the United States is probably one of the hardest places in the world to try it if they had to.