I don't pirate. I consider it wrong. Region codes are annoying as hell. I travel extensively and don't have a huge media PC with three DVD drives in it. I have one thinkpad and one internal DVD player. I don't have the space or the convenience of bringing five external DVD drives with me everywhere I go (I don't have a Blue-Ray drive) to swap out when region codes change. Again, I don't pirate movies but to act like region codes are a small problem is just being ignorant, obtuse or both.
And it's still there.
Look under "Top Free" and then "Brain and Puzzle" catagory.
I don't know if Google already restored it or it never came down but it's definitely available.
Thanks, I was wondering why kevinNCSU couldn't make the connection there. I also don't get why the people who modded him insightful didn't get that either. I thought terrorism was completely on topic because, as you said, that's the whole reason for the law.
This is already being done in India and South Africa (where prepaid phones are everywhere and contract phones are nearly non-existent) and it's retarded. I am American and I travel into and out of South Africa all the time and no-one wants to sell me a SIM card. You have to be able to prove residence in South Africa to get one and I live in Mozambique (and Botswana beforehand). Theft is RAMPANT in SA and people think having a name on file of who the phone's number is will stop anything? I have to find a South African who will buy me a SIM card any time I need to call from within SA.
India implemented this law before they had their terrorist attacks last year and it sure did a lot to prevent those eh?
You're NOT automatically opted-in. Holy hell people... it's an OBVIOUS option in the settings menu that you must turn ON. I own a Kindle and I am not opted-into this. People here keep acting like there's no way you can keep your kindle from updating/phoning home/changing your settings. Now hear this: YOU CAN TURN OFF THE WIRELESS AND NOTHING CHANGES! Just turn it on when you want to download a book and turn it back off when you're done. Geez people...
Actually it happened in South Africa. Living in Southern Africa (Mozambique right now) I know that this is not that surprising. Most people in the village don't really understand cell technology and there tend to be "traditional doctors" who will blame white people for things. It's sad because these men take so much advantage of ignorance.
The funny thing is that, in South Africa, there are FAR more cell phones that landlines because they are basically leapfrogging the infrastructure of landline telephones. People are getting away from them in the States and they never really used them here. Cell towers are not uncommon here.
On topic, the iPhone is not really that great here. Nokia DEFINITELY dominates the phone market here, even the smartphone market. There is no expectation of getting a phone with a plan here (in fact most plans are prepaid) so people buy their phones outright. The iPhone is expensive and really not that durable.
My definition of a "crazy lookin thing" is, quite clearly, not important. You could try to ask the VP of this school as his judgment is the one in question but I doubt he is responding to questions at this time. As I said in my post above, this is DEFINITELY an overreaction. All I was pointing out is that the GP erroneously assumed that this was some sort of school science project and it clearly was not. Slashdot's summary is mostly trolling us into believing that the school asked this kid to bring it and then got him in trouble for it. This kid made this motion detector ON HIS OWN and the school had nothing to do with it. There is probably a school policy that says something to the effect of "you must have teacher/administration approval to bring any electronic device into school".
Wires sticking out of something, in my opinion, are not a reason for alarm. In the VP of this middle schools opinion, they are.
Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.
TFA says the student had been making this thing in his garage and was just showing it to his friends when the VP saw it and said it looks dangerous. This is DEFINITELY an overreaction but it was not a school sanctioned project that the VP saw and flipped out about. This kid brought a crazy lookin thing into school without warning any administrators they flipped. The policy he violated was probably against bringing electronic things like that into school without approval.
Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.
I am thinking that TFA kinda duped Slashdot into thinking this was a school sanctioned project. TFA says the student had been making this thing in his garage and was just showing it to his friends when the VP saw it and said it looks dangerous. This is DEFINITELY an overreaction but it was not a school sanctioned project that the VP saw and flipped out about. This kid brought a crazy lookin thing into school without warning any administrators they flipped. The policy he violated was probably against bringing electronic things like that into school without approval. As another poster noted below it looks like TFA is saying the kid needs counseling because he was so shaken up by the event NOT because he did something wrong.
Actually Bush DID utter a phrase over and over and over when he ran for prez that was pretty much shown to be a lie when he realized he didn't need the Dems.
"I'm a uniter not a divider"
This transcript And this one
are two of the many many examples of Bush running on a platform that gave us all the impression he would work with both sides of the isle.
Yes that was the link I wanted, thank you. I don't know how I didn't notice the misinformation in my first link. Google linked to the one I posted from my search "Average Teachers Salary USA" and I should have read it more carefully.
Administration is definitely in need of restructure in American public schools. Though I think MOST professions can say that. There will always be ways to shuffle around the money that goes into the school system but those ways are MUCH more complicated and mistake-prone than simply raising taxes and pouring more funding into teacher salary.
Oh, and in an attempt to prove myself accidentally right about the sub-50k mark for teacher salary, that link DOES say that charter school teachers average about 41,000/year and that probably brings the TOTAL (public and private) teacher salary below 50k.
Though I am not often right, I am so sometimes by chance.
This is just a retarded question. Teachers make piss for money and now someone is complaining that they are actually doing something to compliment that? Teachers on average make less than $50,000/year doing one of the most publicly scrutinized, emotionally demanding jobs in the USA. They got a 2.6% increase last year but their buying power went DOWN according to the AFT Public Employees .
We should be applauding these teachers for finding good ways to pass around good teaching material, not bitching that "the taxpayers pay you to teach so we own all of your creative works and you can't ever make money off of them".
For the record, NO I am not a teacher. I just happen to think that we should be doing everything we can to make sure our teachers succeed. Obama talks a big game and I hope he comes through for them but at this point it's been talk.
And yet you have absolutely NO idea what I actually believe. Why do you assume that I think gays shouldn't marry? Black/white? Catholic/Protestant? Irish/Italian? Because I said I was "conservative" or because I said I was "Christian"? Do you seriously think that everyone who calls themselves "conservative" or "Christian" believe the exact same things? Why or why not? Do you seriously believe that the loudest and biggest attention-whores in the "conservative/Christian" group speak for all of them?
You've heard absolutely NONE of my core beliefs and your already saying I believe in hoodoo voodoo.
Here's a good way to start:
Do you agree with the people who call themselves Christian conservatives that gays shouldn't marry? Do you believe in a Skywizard (you'd need to actually say what that is because I don't really know what you mean there)? If you do can you tell me why you believe it? If you don't would you still call yourself a Christian conservative? If so, would you call the people that DO have those beliefs Christian conservatives? How do you feel about having the same label as these people?
Not all liberals agree that gays should be able to marry. Not all liberals agree with the "liberal party" in America. Do you assume that all conservatives do?
What I feel is important to note is that in American progressive society MY ethnicity/religion/political views/gender quickly get thrown into a category that I really don't thing I've earned. I try not to complain of racism/sexism/whateverelseism but it gets old some times.
If you're a conservative Christian you haven't been doing much learning, or paying attention, lately.
Skywizard? Really? You buy that?
Gays can't marry? How about black and white shouldn't marry. Protestant and Catholic shouldn't. Irish and Italian shouldn't. All conservative. All wrong.
Based on no research and absolutely no scientific data I have come to measure a person's intelligence by how creative they are and how open to new ideas (especially ideas in conflict with their own belief system) they are.
I am a conservative, white, heterosexual, Christian male (source of all the world's problems according to many) and yet I understand that there are things I am probably wrong about and there are people who have radically different beliefs than I do and I can definitely learn from them. I consider myself pretty intelligent and yet understanding that I can learn from others is very key to my intelligence growing.
People who have closed their minds to new thoughts/ideas and who do not exercise their creative potential get stupid fast. I have met a LOT of them (in my white, hetero, Christian, male society) and I am the first to admit that my peers tend to be pretty dumb. TFL starts off bashing on George Bush and how his IQ is pretty high yet the author has obviously decided Bush is an idiot (an earned reputation) and he fits right into my category of society.
What I feel is important to note is that in American progressive society MY ethnicity/religion/political views/gender quickly get thrown into a category that I really don't thing I've earned. I try not to complain of racism/sexism/whateverelseism but it gets old some times.
Alex, with its unique Duet Navigator, provides the capability for interaction and navigation techniques of the two screens and furthermore utilizes the capabilities of Android to enhance the reader's experience by supporting interactive access to the Internet for references and links. As the first in the market to offer an e-book with full Internet browsing while reading and with easy navigational control via its touch screen, Alex is well-positioned to offer the most dynamic and powerful reading device in the market.
This thing looks awesome. Good for Spring Design in protecting it's IP. One of my biggest complaints with the Kindle is Amazon's insistence that it be locked down and only do what Amazon wants it to do. The Alex uses Android and sounds like it's a sweet device that might be hackable and could be turned into a really really useful tool.
Here's hoping that Spring Design really are the good guys in this.
One problem I see with the 2 year prediction is that it just doesn't give people enough time to transition from gas powered cars to half-gas-half-electric cars (Prius) to electric cars. People will still drive their gas powered cars well into the next 20-30 years and so to say "I predict a mass exodus" is to predict that in two years the global economy will not only have turned around but created enough wealth that banks can lend out 40-50,000 per person to guy buy their new shiny Toyota Batterius.
People will drive their cars and people will eventually switch but 2 years is MUCH too soon to think that we can start tearing down gas stations.
We're talking the average homeschooler. I was about the 94th percentile in most everything and consider myself pretty lazy. There are many former homeschoolers that I know (who were social retards at the time) who blew into the 99th percentile as if it were nothing.
I appreciate your humility and would like to offer a bit of my own. I had just received about 10 negative replies to my previous post and lumped yours into the rest. I apologize for the hostility and sarcasm, it was not needed and frivolous for the sake of the argument.
To give you my thoughts on the state regulation stats, I would imagine they are there because state regulation is important to homeschooling parents. My parents started homeschooling me in Colorado yet found the state regulations to be oppressive and insulting. One big reason they moved my family (5 children, all homeschooled, all with full scholarships to any AZ state school, one in med school, the rest gainfully employed) to AZ was because the state had such lax regulations. I was a bit surprised to see that the regulations had so little impact on the outcome myself. Though it may not affect the outcome, I would assume that it certainly affects the ease of the job of the parent.
... you probably prepped for more than 90% of students
Try not to make assumptions just because you don't like the point being made. I didn't pick up a single SAT prep book before I took it. I didn't even know that people did that. My parents had me take the SATs when I was 16 and to me, it was what I had learned all along. It wasn't because I was gifted (I don't consider myself the be a genius), I had just learned that stuff. I was taught well, and I learned it. That was a direct result of my homeschooling.
And yes... firefox failed me on that one for some reason. Though the SATs didn't have a "spelling" section I actually used to be decent at spelling things. Advent "little red lines that underline your stoopidiee" and my spelling went down the crapper.
Read this study. I'll even put part of it here for you.
You ready for this?
$34,999 or less - 85th percentile
$35,000-$49,999 - 86th percentile
$50,000-$69,999 - 86th percentile
$70,000 or more - 89th percentile
Ok, ok, ok... you got me. The rich ones score a whopping 4 percent better.
Read this study. It shows that, even in the lowest socioeconomic groups (sub annual income of $35,000) homeschoolers perform in the top 85th percentile.
"Kids with recklessly negligent parents" are not homeschooled. It is the parents decision to homeschool it requires a non-negligent parent. Sorry, you aren't going to find those studies. Aren't we talking from a parents point of view? The parent is the one making education decisions for the child and the numbers back me up. Homeschooling is a better decision for your child. It's not hard to see.
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I don't pirate. I consider it wrong.
Region codes are annoying as hell. I travel extensively and don't have a huge media PC with three DVD drives in it. I have one thinkpad and one internal DVD player. I don't have the space or the convenience of bringing five external DVD drives with me everywhere I go (I don't have a Blue-Ray drive) to swap out when region codes change.
Again, I don't pirate movies but to act like region codes are a small problem is just being ignorant, obtuse or both.
And it's still there.
Look under "Top Free" and then "Brain and Puzzle" catagory.
I don't know if Google already restored it or it never came down but it's definitely available.
Thanks, I was wondering why kevinNCSU couldn't make the connection there. I also don't get why the people who modded him insightful didn't get that either. I thought terrorism was completely on topic because, as you said, that's the whole reason for the law.
This is already being done in India and South Africa (where prepaid phones are everywhere and contract phones are nearly non-existent) and it's retarded. I am American and I travel into and out of South Africa all the time and no-one wants to sell me a SIM card. You have to be able to prove residence in South Africa to get one and I live in Mozambique (and Botswana beforehand). Theft is RAMPANT in SA and people think having a name on file of who the phone's number is will stop anything? I have to find a South African who will buy me a SIM card any time I need to call from within SA.
India implemented this law before they had their terrorist attacks last year and it sure did a lot to prevent those eh?
You're NOT automatically opted-in. Holy hell people... it's an OBVIOUS option in the settings menu that you must turn ON. I own a Kindle and I am not opted-into this. People here keep acting like there's no way you can keep your kindle from updating/phoning home/changing your settings. Now hear this: YOU CAN TURN OFF THE WIRELESS AND NOTHING CHANGES! Just turn it on when you want to download a book and turn it back off when you're done. Geez people...
Actually it happened in South Africa. Living in Southern Africa (Mozambique right now) I know that this is not that surprising. Most people in the village don't really understand cell technology and there tend to be "traditional doctors" who will blame white people for things. It's sad because these men take so much advantage of ignorance.
The funny thing is that, in South Africa, there are FAR more cell phones that landlines because they are basically leapfrogging the infrastructure of landline telephones. People are getting away from them in the States and they never really used them here. Cell towers are not uncommon here.
On topic, the iPhone is not really that great here. Nokia DEFINITELY dominates the phone market here, even the smartphone market. There is no expectation of getting a phone with a plan here (in fact most plans are prepaid) so people buy their phones outright. The iPhone is expensive and really not that durable.
My definition of a "crazy lookin thing" is, quite clearly, not important. You could try to ask the VP of this school as his judgment is the one in question but I doubt he is responding to questions at this time. As I said in my post above, this is DEFINITELY an overreaction. All I was pointing out is that the GP erroneously assumed that this was some sort of school science project and it clearly was not. Slashdot's summary is mostly trolling us into believing that the school asked this kid to bring it and then got him in trouble for it. This kid made this motion detector ON HIS OWN and the school had nothing to do with it. There is probably a school policy that says something to the effect of "you must have teacher/administration approval to bring any electronic device into school".
Wires sticking out of something, in my opinion, are not a reason for alarm. In the VP of this middle schools opinion, they are.
Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.
TFA says the student had been making this thing in his garage and was just showing it to his friends when the VP saw it and said it looks dangerous. This is DEFINITELY an overreaction but it was not a school sanctioned project that the VP saw and flipped out about. This kid brought a crazy lookin thing into school without warning any administrators they flipped. The policy he violated was probably against bringing electronic things like that into school without approval.
Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.
I am thinking that TFA kinda duped Slashdot into thinking this was a school sanctioned project. TFA says the student had been making this thing in his garage and was just showing it to his friends when the VP saw it and said it looks dangerous. This is DEFINITELY an overreaction but it was not a school sanctioned project that the VP saw and flipped out about. This kid brought a crazy lookin thing into school without warning any administrators they flipped. The policy he violated was probably against bringing electronic things like that into school without approval. As another poster noted below it looks like TFA is saying the kid needs counseling because he was so shaken up by the event NOT because he did something wrong.
Actually Bush DID utter a phrase over and over and over when he ran for prez that was pretty much shown to be a lie when he realized he didn't need the Dems.
"I'm a uniter not a divider"
This transcript
And this one
are two of the many many examples of Bush running on a platform that gave us all the impression he would work with both sides of the isle.
Michael Scott stands justified! Real business is done on paper!
There are four kinds of business: tourism, food service, railroads and sales... and hospitals slash manufacturingand air travel
Yes that was the link I wanted, thank you. I don't know how I didn't notice the misinformation in my first link. Google linked to the one I posted from my search "Average Teachers Salary USA" and I should have read it more carefully.
Administration is definitely in need of restructure in American public schools. Though I think MOST professions can say that. There will always be ways to shuffle around the money that goes into the school system but those ways are MUCH more complicated and mistake-prone than simply raising taxes and pouring more funding into teacher salary.
Oh, and in an attempt to prove myself accidentally right about the sub-50k mark for teacher salary, that link DOES say that charter school teachers average about 41,000/year and that probably brings the TOTAL (public and private) teacher salary below 50k.
Though I am not often right, I am so sometimes by chance.
This is just a retarded question. Teachers make piss for money and now someone is complaining that they are actually doing something to compliment that? Teachers on average make less than $50,000/year doing one of the most publicly scrutinized, emotionally demanding jobs in the USA. They got a 2.6% increase last year but their buying power went DOWN according to the AFT Public Employees
.
We should be applauding these teachers for finding good ways to pass around good teaching material, not bitching that "the taxpayers pay you to teach so we own all of your creative works and you can't ever make money off of them".
For the record, NO I am not a teacher. I just happen to think that we should be doing everything we can to make sure our teachers succeed. Obama talks a big game and I hope he comes through for them but at this point it's been talk.
Piss off theodp and rtb61.
And yet you have absolutely NO idea what I actually believe. Why do you assume that I think gays shouldn't marry? Black/white? Catholic/Protestant? Irish/Italian? Because I said I was "conservative" or because I said I was "Christian"? Do you seriously think that everyone who calls themselves "conservative" or "Christian" believe the exact same things? Why or why not? Do you seriously believe that the loudest and biggest attention-whores in the "conservative/Christian" group speak for all of them?
You've heard absolutely NONE of my core beliefs and your already saying I believe in hoodoo voodoo.
Here's a good way to start:
Do you agree with the people who call themselves Christian conservatives that gays shouldn't marry? Do you believe in a Skywizard (you'd need to actually say what that is because I don't really know what you mean there)? If you do can you tell me why you believe it? If you don't would you still call yourself a Christian conservative? If so, would you call the people that DO have those beliefs Christian conservatives? How do you feel about having the same label as these people?
Not all liberals agree that gays should be able to marry. Not all liberals agree with the "liberal party" in America. Do you assume that all conservatives do?
Are you starting to see why you made my point?
What I feel is important to note is that in American progressive society MY ethnicity/religion/political views/gender quickly get thrown into a category that I really don't thing I've earned. I try not to complain of racism/sexism/whateverelseism but it gets old some times.
If you're a conservative Christian you haven't been doing much learning, or paying attention, lately.
Skywizard? Really? You buy that?
Gays can't marry? How about black and white shouldn't marry. Protestant and Catholic shouldn't. Irish and Italian shouldn't. All conservative. All wrong.
There. You learned something today.
Thank you for making my point for me.
Based on no research and absolutely no scientific data I have come to measure a person's intelligence by how creative they are and how open to new ideas (especially ideas in conflict with their own belief system) they are.
I am a conservative, white, heterosexual, Christian male (source of all the world's problems according to many) and yet I understand that there are things I am probably wrong about and there are people who have radically different beliefs than I do and I can definitely learn from them. I consider myself pretty intelligent and yet understanding that I can learn from others is very key to my intelligence growing.
People who have closed their minds to new thoughts/ideas and who do not exercise their creative potential get stupid fast. I have met a LOT of them (in my white, hetero, Christian, male society) and I am the first to admit that my peers tend to be pretty dumb. TFL starts off bashing on George Bush and how his IQ is pretty high yet the author has obviously decided Bush is an idiot (an earned reputation) and he fits right into my category of society.
What I feel is important to note is that in American progressive society MY ethnicity/religion/political views/gender quickly get thrown into a category that I really don't thing I've earned. I try not to complain of racism/sexism/whateverelseism but it gets old some times.
Alex, with its unique Duet Navigator, provides the capability for interaction and navigation techniques of the two screens and furthermore utilizes the capabilities of Android to enhance the reader's experience by supporting interactive access to the Internet for references and links. As the first in the market to offer an e-book with full Internet browsing while reading and with easy navigational control via its touch screen, Alex is well-positioned to offer the most dynamic and powerful reading device in the market.
This thing looks awesome. Good for Spring Design in protecting it's IP. One of my biggest complaints with the Kindle is Amazon's insistence that it be locked down and only do what Amazon wants it to do. The Alex uses Android and sounds like it's a sweet device that might be hackable and could be turned into a really really useful tool.
Here's hoping that Spring Design really are the good guys in this.
FUCK IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!
One problem I see with the 2 year prediction is that it just doesn't give people enough time to transition from gas powered cars to half-gas-half-electric cars (Prius) to electric cars. People will still drive their gas powered cars well into the next 20-30 years and so to say "I predict a mass exodus" is to predict that in two years the global economy will not only have turned around but created enough wealth that banks can lend out 40-50,000 per person to guy buy their new shiny Toyota Batterius.
People will drive their cars and people will eventually switch but 2 years is MUCH too soon to think that we can start tearing down gas stations.
Ok... I know I should be more attentive but when I first read that headline I thought;
Scientists Levitate Miss USA
That would be something... Maybe they can just levitate that dress...
We're talking the average homeschooler. I was about the 94th percentile in most everything and consider myself pretty lazy. There are many former homeschoolers that I know (who were social retards at the time) who blew into the 99th percentile as if it were nothing.
I appreciate your humility and would like to offer a bit of my own. I had just received about 10 negative replies to my previous post and lumped yours into the rest. I apologize for the hostility and sarcasm, it was not needed and frivolous for the sake of the argument.
To give you my thoughts on the state regulation stats, I would imagine they are there because state regulation is important to homeschooling parents. My parents started homeschooling me in Colorado yet found the state regulations to be oppressive and insulting. One big reason they moved my family (5 children, all homeschooled, all with full scholarships to any AZ state school, one in med school, the rest gainfully employed) to AZ was because the state had such lax regulations. I was a bit surprised to see that the regulations had so little impact on the outcome myself. Though it may not affect the outcome, I would assume that it certainly affects the ease of the job of the parent.
... you probably prepped for more than 90% of students
Try not to make assumptions just because you don't like the point being made. I didn't pick up a single SAT prep book before I took it. I didn't even know that people did that. My parents had me take the SATs when I was 16 and to me, it was what I had learned all along. It wasn't because I was gifted (I don't consider myself the be a genius), I had just learned that stuff. I was taught well, and I learned it. That was a direct result of my homeschooling.
And yes... firefox failed me on that one for some reason. Though the SATs didn't have a "spelling" section I actually used to be decent at spelling things. Advent "little red lines that underline your stoopidiee" and my spelling went down the crapper.
Read this study. I'll even put part of it here for you.
You ready for this?
$34,999 or less - 85th percentile
$35,000-$49,999 - 86th percentile
$50,000-$69,999 - 86th percentile
$70,000 or more - 89th percentile
Ok, ok, ok... you got me. The rich ones score a whopping 4 percent better.
Read this study. It shows that, even in the lowest socioeconomic groups (sub annual income of $35,000) homeschoolers perform in the top 85th percentile.
"Kids with recklessly negligent parents" are not homeschooled. It is the parents decision to homeschool it requires a non-negligent parent. Sorry, you aren't going to find those studies. Aren't we talking from a parents point of view? The parent is the one making education decisions for the child and the numbers back me up. Homeschooling is a better decision for your child. It's not hard to see.