He'd fit in quite well here... if he'd smoke a bowl, and play some video games or build his own computer. Hell, even Spielburg is putting his name on games now, so maybe they can't be all bad for Smacky-Whack.
Fair enough. That's what I get for posting and shooting from memory while my students are working on homework. My brain gets a bit fried by the end of the teaching day.
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I knew I was cocking part of it up... Couldn't find a good quote of it and had to shoot from memory. Thanks for the catch.
If I could mod you, I'd help wash that redundant mod away. I've got points, but such is the game.
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Cake or death?
Cake please.
Sorry, we're all out of cake. We didn't expect to have such a run on it.
Ok, I'll have the chicken then.
Well... Ok. Good thing we're the Church of England.
You do realize that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all receive a licensing fee or percentage from every game sold, yes? While they may make more money off 1st party games, 3rd party games still bring in a nice chunk of change as well.
You also might want to check the stories of each system when they first came out. There are plenty of indicators that both X-Boxes and at least the last two PlayStations were sold at a loss, and if not a loss, then a very minimal profit margin. Nintendo is the only system maker to consistently release systems at a healthy profit. Not a loss, nor anywhere near the break-even point, but a decent enough profit that they have some very fat stacks of cash on hand.
Fair enough. Not so much goodwill for AT&T, the once and future monopoly, but I do know that anytime I read an article or heard a story involving Bell Labs, I paid attention in case there was something truly revolutionary. Now it's just another profit whore.
...Larry Niven's Fallen Angels. Basic back story was that global warming was corrected, but it was the only thing holding back the next ice age. Not a bad supposition for a 17-year old novel. Pretty fun read with some decent science, as well.
For what it's worth, marijuana was banned due to pressure from the cotton industry. "Reefer Madness" was just a front. The effects of marijuana are arguably no different than smoking (health-wise) and alcohol (impairment-wise), if not less than either. in fact, I know someone that turns into a raging violent person when he drinks, but can smoke all day, enjoy it more, and not want to beat the shit out of everyone in a 5-mile radius.
When are we going to realize that prohibition really doesn't work and only serves to prop up criminal enterprises?
For some reason teaching plans seem to still take into account the possibility of a child leaving the scholar system at any point. That may have been the norm half a century ago, but isn't anymore. You haven't spent much time taking a look at the U.S. public school system lately, have you? Dropouts at age 16 with anywhere from a 3rd to 9th grade education are quite common throughout the inner cities, suburban, and rural areas, all for a variety of reasons. You also don't hear about dropout rates like you once used to. My district in a mid-to-upper class section of Orange County, California has a 1% or 2% dropout rate. The other 8% or so decrease in enrollment numbers that occurs in the high school years is reported as, "Moved, no new school known." That must be the trickle-down theory of creative bookkeeping... or something.
I'm doing my part to keep math as enjoyable as possible, and I know by the modifications that had to be made to the fire alarms in the chemistry teacher's room, as well as the resounding bangs every month or so, that at least one of the science teachers here is trying to inspire.
I have one mod point left and can't decide whether to give it to you or the GP. Funny for you, Underrated (or Funny or Insightful) for the GP. Excellent comments both. Admittedly, both could get Offtopic as well, but, for that matter, so is this.;-)
My cats love the red dot but aren't too interested in the green one. They do like jumping at the beam of the green laser as it scatters off dust motes in the air, though.
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He'd fit in quite well here... if he'd smoke a bowl, and play some video games or build his own computer. Hell, even Spielburg is putting his name on games now, so maybe they can't be all bad for Smacky-Whack.
Then again, does Twitter need the competition?
Thank you. I was going to say exactly that, but now I don't have to be redundant.
Maybe I should, just to actually earn the mod... Then again, that comment would probably get modded insightful.
Why am I thinking of G.I. Joe from the 80's?
Now we just need red and blue laser guns that look like M-16's.
And maybe a ROFLCOPTOR.
Tagged this one: YAY!
Yeah, I got the memo. I'll be putting the new covers on the TPS reports next time. I just forgot.
Missed it by three minutes and exactly 50 comments. Bummers.
Cake or death?
In Soviet Russia, the lie is a cake.
Fair enough. That's what I get for posting and shooting from memory while my students are working on homework. My brain gets a bit fried by the end of the teaching day.
I knew I was cocking part of it up... Couldn't find a good quote of it and had to shoot from memory. Thanks for the catch.
If I could mod you, I'd help wash that redundant mod away. I've got points, but such is the game.
Cake or death?
Cake please.
Sorry, we're all out of cake. We didn't expect to have such a run on it.
Ok, I'll have the chicken then.
Well... Ok. Good thing we're the Church of England.
Reminds me of this... http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=116
Xenu set us up the bomb?
What you say?
You do realize that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all receive a licensing fee or percentage from every game sold, yes? While they may make more money off 1st party games, 3rd party games still bring in a nice chunk of change as well.
You also might want to check the stories of each system when they first came out. There are plenty of indicators that both X-Boxes and at least the last two PlayStations were sold at a loss, and if not a loss, then a very minimal profit margin. Nintendo is the only system maker to consistently release systems at a healthy profit. Not a loss, nor anywhere near the break-even point, but a decent enough profit that they have some very fat stacks of cash on hand.
Fair enough. Not so much goodwill for AT&T, the once and future monopoly, but I do know that anytime I read an article or heard a story involving Bell Labs, I paid attention in case there was something truly revolutionary. Now it's just another profit whore.
I think I speak for many when I say...
Well FUCK!
So what if it's not immediately marketable. The goodwill alone is worth some investment.
If only there was some After-Mod market... Maybe "Mod My Mod"...
Or is that too meta?
...Larry Niven's Fallen Angels. Basic back story was that global warming was corrected, but it was the only thing holding back the next ice age. Not a bad supposition for a 17-year old novel. Pretty fun read with some decent science, as well.
For what it's worth, marijuana was banned due to pressure from the cotton industry. "Reefer Madness" was just a front. The effects of marijuana are arguably no different than smoking (health-wise) and alcohol (impairment-wise), if not less than either. in fact, I know someone that turns into a raging violent person when he drinks, but can smoke all day, enjoy it more, and not want to beat the shit out of everyone in a 5-mile radius.
When are we going to realize that prohibition really doesn't work and only serves to prop up criminal enterprises?
At first, I read that as "Ninety nine (99) years ago" and had a major "What the huh?" moment.
I need to lower the dosage of coffee... 10 days of students left... I can't wait for the little ankle biters to go home for the summer.
I'm doing my part to keep math as enjoyable as possible, and I know by the modifications that had to be made to the fire alarms in the chemistry teacher's room, as well as the resounding bangs every month or so, that at least one of the science teachers here is trying to inspire.
Ya think?
Perhaps that was part of my point. I can't mod both with one point, so why not post and cheer for both at the cost of no points?
Damn. I hate it when I feed trolls.
I have one mod point left and can't decide whether to give it to you or the GP. Funny for you, Underrated (or Funny or Insightful) for the GP. Excellent comments both. Admittedly, both could get Offtopic as well, but, for that matter, so is this. ;-)
Bravo to both of you.
My cats love the red dot but aren't too interested in the green one. They do like jumping at the beam of the green laser as it scatters off dust motes in the air, though.
Oh! Oh! I know! Spin off a site about ponies!
OMG PONIES!!!
(That was just me needing to vent off some of the stupid I acquired trying to teach set-builder notation to 13-year-olds)