Interestingly, there have been a couple cases this season where the quarterback kicked the ball in what would be the punter's usual role/style, as a surprise manuever
The New England QB (Matt Cassel?) against Buffalo/ The Pittsburgh QB (Ben R.) in one of the earlier playoff games.
The 13th Amendment specifically allows involuntary servitude as part of the punishment for a crime of which one has been duly convicted.
"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The logic is that the additional payment acts as part of an incentive to have more kids, if not a complete incentive in and of itself. Also, "if you can't afford to have kids, don't do stupid stuff like frequent unprotected sex with multiple partners". Furthermore, "in the real world, your salary doesn't automatically go up if you've got more kids."
I see your argument, damburger, just that I also see "the other side" (the argument I've just described)
Many of the targets of this argument are urban blacks, so yeah, the argument reeks of something. (Sure, there are crackers that have lots of kids, but I don't seem to hear too much about them.)
...A lot of invective here in the US is directed at small-potatoes welfare recipients.
Evidently "personal responsibility" is something you need to have if you're broke & with 4 kids, but not if you're a incompetent multimillionare executive
[though, a welfare system paying you more if you have multiple kids *is* an idea with built-in pitfalls]
The worst I've had to do is search for a computer where both of the plastic support stands on the keyboard are up...angled down keyboards suck.
I like my university's computer labs because the hardware & Internet connection is great (at least compared to my old consumer grade stuff), so even straightforward stuff zips along.
Also, the lab needs to be quite except for incidental necessary noise (like clacking keys, people collaborating on group work) Don't automute the sound...enforce a "use headphones" policy
My summer camp has low pay for the staff members; the camp's head honcho told me once that he saw this as a benefit above and beyond allowing the camp fees to be lower, that they only get people who really want to do it. (From 8 years, I notice that the staff are dedicated & enjoy what they doing, although the eight straight weeks would be a bit much for me)
Very different tasks, to be sure. (/., sorry that it wasn't a *car* analogy)
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I don't mind Office 2007 overall (although I didn't go out of my way to get it); I'm one of the people who *likes* the Ribbon.
I have it on my home computer (relatively cheap retail copy purchased by someone else in the house) and it's on my university's computers (probably off of an el-cheapo volume license). Thus, the vast majority of my computer use is done on computers that all have Office 2007.
Even so, I find myself using the old formats on purpose, and it's been long enough that I don't think that's just due to force of habit.
The file incompatibility thing is a pain, although the format-converter add-on has really caught on amongst those with older Office versions.
I notice that the 2007 formats carry a much smaller file size [for the same content] than the 2003 ones (or RTF for that matter); I wonder if this is an actual advantage of OOXML or malicious/shoddy coding on Microsoft's part in the handling of the other formats. Sure, disk space isn't much in this day and age, but that still irritates me.
The bibliography manager [Word], one of the few non-UI changes I've noticed, requires you to use.docx for the relevant documents for it to work properly.
When word-processing on my Linux box, I output to.RTF instead of.ABW or.ODT - their.rtf's are smaller file size, but their.doc's are bigger.
A lot of sports players (and the announcers for that matter) drop obviously tactical points like it's divinely inspired strategery; it's not just hockey.
Reminds me of a vacation I took to the Grand Canyon area back in April 2006.
I recall how one of our tour destinations was an Indian ruin (relatively well-preserved thanks to the desert climate), and one of the biggest features of that town was a *sports stadium*. [It is believed to be for some sort of ball game, though maybe not as brutal as the Aztec one].
You look forward 800 years, and the sports stadiums are major components of a city's architecture.
Very interesting to see that it isn't an isolated case of Ancient Rome's gladiators and such.
I think it may have something to do with a spirit for aggressive competition outside of war, as well as the tribal/team dynamics of the team sports.
"When Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the masses, he must not have been thinking of commercialized sports." (Granted, the rise of *that* was past Marx's time)
Think about it as a 'painkiller' taken in response to real issues that treats the symptoms and not the underlying problem.
Ali is affected by Parkinson's as well, as other commenters have stated. Though, the combination of the two can't be good. Yeah, it's sad to see these great stars past their prime...
"Yes, because there's a much higher earning potential for artists than football players... they're both disciplines where a few people make it big, and the rest scrounge or go into something else while talking about their lost dreams."
Reminds me of a big theme in Levitt's _Freakonomics_. He called it the "tournament", what you describe there where you have an attractive or seemingly attractive top position that few people reach...thanks to seeing this "top position", people put what should logically be considered an unrealistic amount of effort into reaching it.
His at-length examples involve business (well, at least the drug business) and the sports world (his case study being elite Japanese sumo)
HG Bissinger's _Friday Night Lights_ is another book that explores the effects of this phenomenon (Warning: the movie sucked; not sure about the TV show)
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Thank you, thank you.
So I'm not he only one who does this.
30-second-skip button also covers the play clock.
Interestingly, there have been a couple cases this season where the quarterback kicked the ball in what would be the punter's usual role/style, as a surprise manuever
The New England QB (Matt Cassel?) against Buffalo/ The Pittsburgh QB (Ben R.) in one of the earlier playoff games.
Yes...there is a lot of athleticism involved in running around the court area for several hours, making all those sharp turns, etc.
I don't run a network, but when setting up the home router, I decide to give the wireless portion the following SSID: "Inventive_Network_Name".
If you try to employ a whitelist, would you have the problem of inmates stealing guards' phones?
Interesting concept this article is, but a real boondoggle
The 13th Amendment specifically allows involuntary servitude as part of the punishment for a crime of which one has been duly convicted.
"Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Is conflict with Amendment 8 a problem here?
The logic is that the additional payment acts as part of an incentive to have more kids, if not a complete incentive in and of itself.
Also, "if you can't afford to have kids, don't do stupid stuff like frequent unprotected sex with multiple partners".
Furthermore, "in the real world, your salary doesn't automatically go up if you've got more kids."
I see your argument, damburger, just that I also see "the other side" (the argument I've just described)
Many of the targets of this argument are urban blacks, so yeah, the argument reeks of something. (Sure, there are crackers that have lots of kids, but I don't seem to hear too much about them.)
Funny or insightful?
Oh well, I just posted in the thread. :P
hype for the Superbowl ads is a prime example of ads hyping up ads.
Well, through our DVR, we will extend a metaphorical finger at them. Any decent funny ads will be youtube'd anyway.
[nitpick]Smith & Wesson makes handguns, not rifles[/nitpick]
...A lot of invective here in the US is directed at small-potatoes welfare recipients.
Evidently "personal responsibility" is something you need to have if you're broke & with 4 kids, but not if you're a incompetent multimillionare executive
[though, a welfare system paying you more if you have multiple kids *is* an idea with built-in pitfalls]
"do a powerpoint"...couldn't you just use OO Impress to save as .ppt?
Does the teacher expect "Microsoft Office PowerPoint" to come up in the application's title bar when you are delivering the presentation or something?
The worst I've had to do is search for a computer where both of the plastic support stands on the keyboard are up...angled down keyboards suck.
I like my university's computer labs because the hardware & Internet connection is great (at least compared to my old consumer grade stuff), so even straightforward stuff zips along.
Also, the lab needs to be quite except for incidental necessary noise (like clacking keys, people collaborating on group work) Don't automute the sound...enforce a "use headphones" policy
It's still $150 more than is necessary
My summer camp has low pay for the staff members; the camp's head honcho told me once that he saw this as a benefit above and beyond allowing the camp fees to be lower, that they only get people who really want to do it. (From 8 years, I notice that the staff are dedicated & enjoy what they doing, although the eight straight weeks would be a bit much for me)
Very different tasks, to be sure. (/., sorry that it wasn't a *car* analogy)
And I thought my 8GB USB flash drive was high-density! (20mm x 54mm x 8mm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Accounting
The film industry made it famous, but they asren;t the only ones to do it.
So there's the term that applies to the method.
Mythbusters already did a lie detector segment.
They marked as "plausible" the proposition that one could beat the detector.
http://mythbustersresults.com/episode93
Some FUD from both sides about the reliability or lack thereof of Mythbusters' test.
http://www.google.com/search?q=mythbusters+lie+detector&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
I don't mind Office 2007 overall (although I didn't go out of my way to get it); I'm one of the people who *likes* the Ribbon.
I have it on my home computer (relatively cheap retail copy purchased by someone else in the house) and it's on my university's computers (probably off of an el-cheapo volume license). Thus, the vast majority of my computer use is done on computers that all have Office 2007.
Even so, I find myself using the old formats on purpose, and it's been long enough that I don't think that's just due to force of habit.
The file incompatibility thing is a pain, although the format-converter add-on has really caught on amongst those with older Office versions.
I notice that the 2007 formats carry a much smaller file size [for the same content] than the 2003 ones (or RTF for that matter); I wonder if this is an actual advantage of OOXML or malicious/shoddy coding on Microsoft's part in the handling of the other formats. Sure, disk space isn't much in this day and age, but that still irritates me.
The bibliography manager [Word], one of the few non-UI changes I've noticed, requires you to use .docx for the relevant documents for it to work properly.
When word-processing on my Linux box, I output to .RTF instead of .ABW or .ODT - their .rtf's are smaller file size, but their .doc's are bigger.
Maybe it's because "Jack" is a shortened form of the French "Jacques"...
A lot of sports players (and the announcers for that matter) drop obviously tactical points like it's divinely inspired strategery; it's not just hockey.
"Football players are really in the same business as prostitutes...abusing their bodies for the benefit of others' enetertainment"
Reminds me of a vacation I took to the Grand Canyon area back in April 2006.
I recall how one of our tour destinations was an Indian ruin (relatively well-preserved thanks to the desert climate), and one of the biggest features of that town was a *sports stadium*. [It is believed to be for some sort of ball game, though maybe not as brutal as the Aztec one].
You look forward 800 years, and the sports stadiums are major components of a city's architecture.
Very interesting to see that it isn't an isolated case of Ancient Rome's gladiators and such.
I think it may have something to do with a spirit for aggressive competition outside of war, as well as the tribal/team dynamics of the team sports.
"When Karl Marx called religion the opiate of the masses, he must not have been thinking of commercialized sports." (Granted, the rise of *that* was past Marx's time)
Think about it as a 'painkiller' taken in response to real issues that treats the symptoms and not the underlying problem.
Ali is affected by Parkinson's as well, as other commenters have stated. Though, the combination of the two can't be good.
Yeah, it's sad to see these great stars past their prime...
"Yes, because there's a much higher earning potential for artists than football players... they're both disciplines where a few people make it big, and the rest scrounge or go into something else while talking about their lost dreams."
Reminds me of a big theme in Levitt's _Freakonomics_. He called it the "tournament", what you describe there where you have an attractive or seemingly attractive top position that few people reach...thanks to seeing this "top position", people put what should logically be considered an unrealistic amount of effort into reaching it.
His at-length examples involve business (well, at least the drug business) and the sports world (his case study being elite Japanese sumo)
HG Bissinger's _Friday Night Lights_ is another book that explores the effects of this phenomenon (Warning: the movie sucked; not sure about the TV show)