I hate to break it to you, but Mario Kart is NOT a "racing" game. Yes, it has cars, but nothing even remotely in the way of actual physics. I'd suggest getting a red turtle shell (read: red bowling ball) and tossing it through his windshield the next time he drives like a moron. Only kidding:-)....well, sorta....
You're confusing the different meanings of the word "better". You mean "better" as in "friendlier to other drivers", where this study means "better at actually driving the car" (judging angles for corners, slow-in-fast out with corners, learning how hard of a corner you can pull and the warning signs of when you're getting close to the limit, etc).
In regards to your comment about a driving course that teaches you how long it "actually" takes to stop - there are SO many different factors involved in braking that there is no "actual" time / distance it takes to stop from a given speed for cars in general - hell, even ONE car if you change the brake pads, rotors, tires, and suspension can have two dramatically different braking distances.
The real key to being a good driver is to know your car. That's one of the reasons I strongly advocate manual transmissions - not only does it cut out the whole "I've got a burger in one hand and a cell phone in the other" driving, but it also requires you to intimately know your car and pay more attention, which makes you a much better driver.
You've obviously never read an Alan Moore book if you deride it for having pictures. He does graphic novels because he wants to focus on the story and not have to write countless paragraphs describing what things look like - it's far easier for him to just show you (you know the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words).
He did not make a derogatory comments toward females. He made derogatory comments towards stupid females, who are a subset of females. This is no different than him making a comment about stupid people in general. It's quite worrying that you're not only unable to understand this (hence why he said "dumb bimbo bitch"), but that you were actually modded up for your asinine comment.
Clearly you've never seen The Boondock Saints - otherwise you'd know that the correct saying is "People in glass houses sink ships". And you'd also know that a penny saved is worth two in the bush.;-)
No, the reason Social Security is killing us is because it was originally intended to supplement those who couldn't save much for when they could no longer work. Then it morphed into being "don't bother saving for retirement, Social Security will pay for your retirement". THAT is what killed it. Also, it was originally set up as a scam with the minimum age to collect being higher than the average life expectancy at the time - they never intended for many people to ever collect from it. I'm not saying that politicians taking money isn't exacerbating the problem, but it's not the main cause.
That's why I propose phasing out Social Security. Say anyone over a certain age (30?35? You'd have to get Economists and Actuaries to analyze all the data and come up with a specific number) still gets SS and pays in, everyone below that level is out and pays a much lower SS tax to allow them to save money but also keep from putting the full brunt of SS on the deficit, with the level of taxes going down as those who collect SS die off. Sure, it would take a good 50 years to phase it out, but it would work. Also, since many countries have mandatory savings rates, they could simply make it mandatory that the money that WOULD have gone to SS from your paycheck (13%, 6.5% from you, 6.5% from your employer) is put into some sort of savings plan (IRA, 401k, stocks, whatever). Social Security isn't sustainable without massively raising taxes (which doesn't work either). Instead of fighting to find ways to save it, we need to be working on how to get rid of it without screwing over those too old to make enough to retire on.
I know I'll get flamed to hell for this and modded down, but fuck it, I've got more than enough karma and it needs to be said.
Obama was pushing the DREAM act: supporting the naturalization of *children* of parents who crossed the border illegally with them when they were little. These people grew up here and are generally fully Americanized, have family here, friends, work, etc, but don't have citizenship. I know one family who came to the US legally on a work Visa with their young children, but it eventually expired. The family they had everything up here (a house, a job, friends, etc) and nothing to go back to. They stayed, hoping for the day they'd get the chance to be naturalized. The kids grew up in the US and know nothing of their home country apart from what their parents told them.
So? They're still illegals and should be deported. It's laughable that in any other country you're looking at (minimum) a rather unpleasant stay in jail for being there illegally, yet the US is supposed to hug illegals and make them citizens. The parents knew full well what they were doing and the kids (if they're late teens or older) are well aware that they are illegal and could have either voluntarily gone back or turned themselves in and explained the circumstances. Claiming that they (the older ones) shouldn't be held responsible for willingly going along with a crime is absolutely not an excuse.
The family you're talking about knew perfectly well that they wouldn't magically be made citizens by overstaying their visa and were well aware it was a crime. Now you think they should be rewarded for it? Imagine if this was any other crime - say theft. Would you think it's OK for them to keep stealing and hoping for the day the statue of limitations runs out or for the President to pardon all thieves? I doubt so.
The kids are as American as anyone else here. Except on paper.
And also except for the fact that they don't pay taxes (and never will), have to steal someone else's Social Security number to get a job / go to college, etc. I'm all for allowing educated immigrants to follow a vetting process (to make sure that they're not a criminal and such) then after they're here a naturalization process to educate them on our laws and language, all of which has minimal paperwork and short queues. However, telling people who intentionally violated the US Constitution and often committed several other severe crimes as well that they're forgiven and everything is good because "it's mean" to send them back where they came from is ridiculous.
Exactly. People always want to talk about how "evil" businesses or politicians outsourced manufacturing jobs, but it was really the workers themselves demanding too high of wages. Sure, 60 years ago manufacturing was a decent paying job compared to other options. Now though, it's not because high paying jobs require skilled labor, not unskilled labor. Expecting a job on an assembly line to pay as much as a job that required several years of extensive education in math and other sciences is ludicrous, but that's what the people demanded - so they took the jobs to people who were more reasonable about their pay. Long term, as poor countries grow and see increased wages, we'll eventually see a balance where wages are pretty much the same all over the world - and yes, that does mean that wages in the US will likely come down (by how much is too early to say).
It actually parallels the American auto industry very well - decades ago they have virtually no competition so pay was high because they could afford to inflate prices due to consumers lack of options. Once there was competition though, wages couldn't stay at that high of a level because other companies would undercut them on price and take their business. Two of the three US car companies couldn't adapt to the new market and went bankrupt. The same is going on with manufacturing in general - you either have to adapt to the new competition or lose out.
I propose we put a warning before every comment on the news (print, online, or televised)by a politician that says "Warning: Being a politician has been linked to severe defects in reasoning ability and to rampant paranoia of all things invented after 1950. All statements should be assumed false until verified by independent sources".
My main reason for disliking 2 & 3 (mostly 3) is that the CGI was just plain BAD. You had other movies coming out at the same time with much better CGI and to have such blatantly fake CGI just killed it for me.
What I'm saying is that it might be nice if America did something to help black students get better education, after having been denied equal opportunities in the United States for generations.
You keep wanting to blame things that ended generations ago for why groups of black today chose to be idiots. Yet back when they DIDN'T have rights or access to education, they were able to speak English just like everyone else. Weird, isn't it? My brother in law is black and grew up in a welfare family - funny thing is, he can speak English as well as anyone else can. But that ruins your "evil white man" theory for why there are groups of blacks who chose to talk that way. If your whole "evil white man" theory was true, then explain all the millions of blacks who CAN speak English? Very, very few of them were born into rich families, yet they're able to speak English just fine.
Please, try coming up with facts to support your arguments other than your childish insults of "if you don't support blacks not learning how to speak English, you're racist" crap.
The idea is this: Students whose native language is Spanish come to American schools with many of the same handicaps as people who have grown up only speaking African-American dialect.
Please for the love of god, learn WTF you're talking about. There is no such thing as an "african-american" dialect. As I said, it's people too stupid to learn the language of their own country. You don't see this in any other country where people can't speak their native language and you certainly don't see it in people coming from Africa. It's got nothing to do with race and everything to do with a sub-culture in American of being too goddamn lazy to learn anything.
But there are assholes like you who want to claim it's racial (which makes YOU the racist asshole for thinking that they're incapable of learning English as any other native born American would simply because they're black) instead of realizing that it's about the choices of specific people.
No, because "reading is boring". Last Christmas my aunt and uncle gave me a gift card to Borders and my 16 year old cousin goes "What are you going to do with that?" I told him "Buy some books." His response? "Reading is boring". Unsurprisingly, he's on the football team and also failed English and had to retake it in summer school.
Exactly. The people saying that spelling doesn't matter are the same ones who get turned down for jobs due to their inability to spell when writing a resume and then blame the employer for it. I know a very qualified person who sent out dozens of resumes after getting laid off but wrote "collage" instead of "college" on their resume. Guess how many interviews he had....
Latin was a language that existed before punctuation did. Ebonics is people too stupid to learn their native language, so they just mumble some shit and then when they're told to learn english if they want a job, they cry and claim it's a "language" and that it's "racist" to not support it.
Or (though most spell checkers will flag it) "should've". I find it amusing that spell check is OK with "could've" for abbreviating "could have" but flags "should've" in place of "should have".
The highest sales tax in the US is I believe 10%. Most states have it around 5%-6% and some have no sales tax at all. In Ohio (where I live) tax on this would only be $16.25.
Yea, not only is Motorola one of the worst about updating phones, but they also use the horrendous Motoblur skin and now they want to tell people "Screw you, we control your hardware, not you"? I see Motorola losing sales in the near future.
I was set to get a job in the field - then changed majors because I didn't want to deal with exactly this (constantly have to learn the latest 'it' skill or get fired / have a hard time finding a job after getting laid off). I'm all for improving my skills and spend plenty of time outside of work learning new things - but it's infinitely more brutal in IT. People who choose that career these days have no justification for NOT being aware of what it's like, so I feel no sympathy for them.
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I hate to break it to you, but Mario Kart is NOT a "racing" game. Yes, it has cars, but nothing even remotely in the way of actual physics. I'd suggest getting a red turtle shell (read: red bowling ball) and tossing it through his windshield the next time he drives like a moron. Only kidding :-)....well, sorta....
You're confusing the different meanings of the word "better". You mean "better" as in "friendlier to other drivers", where this study means "better at actually driving the car" (judging angles for corners, slow-in-fast out with corners, learning how hard of a corner you can pull and the warning signs of when you're getting close to the limit, etc).
In regards to your comment about a driving course that teaches you how long it "actually" takes to stop - there are SO many different factors involved in braking that there is no "actual" time / distance it takes to stop from a given speed for cars in general - hell, even ONE car if you change the brake pads, rotors, tires, and suspension can have two dramatically different braking distances.
The real key to being a good driver is to know your car. That's one of the reasons I strongly advocate manual transmissions - not only does it cut out the whole "I've got a burger in one hand and a cell phone in the other" driving, but it also requires you to intimately know your car and pay more attention, which makes you a much better driver.
You've obviously never read an Alan Moore book if you deride it for having pictures. He does graphic novels because he wants to focus on the story and not have to write countless paragraphs describing what things look like - it's far easier for him to just show you (you know the old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words).
He did not make a derogatory comments toward females. He made derogatory comments towards stupid females, who are a subset of females. This is no different than him making a comment about stupid people in general. It's quite worrying that you're not only unable to understand this (hence why he said "dumb bimbo bitch"), but that you were actually modded up for your asinine comment.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Clearly you've never seen The Boondock Saints - otherwise you'd know that the correct saying is "People in glass houses sink ships". And you'd also know that a penny saved is worth two in the bush. ;-)
No, the reason Social Security is killing us is because it was originally intended to supplement those who couldn't save much for when they could no longer work. Then it morphed into being "don't bother saving for retirement, Social Security will pay for your retirement". THAT is what killed it. Also, it was originally set up as a scam with the minimum age to collect being higher than the average life expectancy at the time - they never intended for many people to ever collect from it. I'm not saying that politicians taking money isn't exacerbating the problem, but it's not the main cause.
That's why I propose phasing out Social Security. Say anyone over a certain age (30?35? You'd have to get Economists and Actuaries to analyze all the data and come up with a specific number) still gets SS and pays in, everyone below that level is out and pays a much lower SS tax to allow them to save money but also keep from putting the full brunt of SS on the deficit, with the level of taxes going down as those who collect SS die off. Sure, it would take a good 50 years to phase it out, but it would work. Also, since many countries have mandatory savings rates, they could simply make it mandatory that the money that WOULD have gone to SS from your paycheck (13%, 6.5% from you, 6.5% from your employer) is put into some sort of savings plan (IRA, 401k, stocks, whatever). Social Security isn't sustainable without massively raising taxes (which doesn't work either). Instead of fighting to find ways to save it, we need to be working on how to get rid of it without screwing over those too old to make enough to retire on.
Obama was pushing the DREAM act: supporting the naturalization of *children* of parents who crossed the border illegally with them when they were little. These people grew up here and are generally fully Americanized, have family here, friends, work, etc, but don't have citizenship. I know one family who came to the US legally on a work Visa with their young children, but it eventually expired. The family they had everything up here (a house, a job, friends, etc) and nothing to go back to. They stayed, hoping for the day they'd get the chance to be naturalized. The kids grew up in the US and know nothing of their home country apart from what their parents told them.
So? They're still illegals and should be deported. It's laughable that in any other country you're looking at (minimum) a rather unpleasant stay in jail for being there illegally, yet the US is supposed to hug illegals and make them citizens. The parents knew full well what they were doing and the kids (if they're late teens or older) are well aware that they are illegal and could have either voluntarily gone back or turned themselves in and explained the circumstances. Claiming that they (the older ones) shouldn't be held responsible for willingly going along with a crime is absolutely not an excuse.
The family you're talking about knew perfectly well that they wouldn't magically be made citizens by overstaying their visa and were well aware it was a crime. Now you think they should be rewarded for it? Imagine if this was any other crime - say theft. Would you think it's OK for them to keep stealing and hoping for the day the statue of limitations runs out or for the President to pardon all thieves? I doubt so.
The kids are as American as anyone else here. Except on paper.
And also except for the fact that they don't pay taxes (and never will), have to steal someone else's Social Security number to get a job / go to college, etc. I'm all for allowing educated immigrants to follow a vetting process (to make sure that they're not a criminal and such) then after they're here a naturalization process to educate them on our laws and language, all of which has minimal paperwork and short queues. However, telling people who intentionally violated the US Constitution and often committed several other severe crimes as well that they're forgiven and everything is good because "it's mean" to send them back where they came from is ridiculous.
Exactly. People always want to talk about how "evil" businesses or politicians outsourced manufacturing jobs, but it was really the workers themselves demanding too high of wages. Sure, 60 years ago manufacturing was a decent paying job compared to other options. Now though, it's not because high paying jobs require skilled labor, not unskilled labor. Expecting a job on an assembly line to pay as much as a job that required several years of extensive education in math and other sciences is ludicrous, but that's what the people demanded - so they took the jobs to people who were more reasonable about their pay. Long term, as poor countries grow and see increased wages, we'll eventually see a balance where wages are pretty much the same all over the world - and yes, that does mean that wages in the US will likely come down (by how much is too early to say).
It actually parallels the American auto industry very well - decades ago they have virtually no competition so pay was high because they could afford to inflate prices due to consumers lack of options. Once there was competition though, wages couldn't stay at that high of a level because other companies would undercut them on price and take their business. Two of the three US car companies couldn't adapt to the new market and went bankrupt. The same is going on with manufacturing in general - you either have to adapt to the new competition or lose out.
I propose we put a warning before every comment on the news (print, online, or televised)by a politician that says "Warning: Being a politician has been linked to severe defects in reasoning ability and to rampant paranoia of all things invented after 1950. All statements should be assumed false until verified by independent sources".
My main reason for disliking 2 & 3 (mostly 3) is that the CGI was just plain BAD. You had other movies coming out at the same time with much better CGI and to have such blatantly fake CGI just killed it for me.
What I'm saying is that it might be nice if America did something to help black students get better education, after having been denied equal opportunities in the United States for generations.
You keep wanting to blame things that ended generations ago for why groups of black today chose to be idiots. Yet back when they DIDN'T have rights or access to education, they were able to speak English just like everyone else. Weird, isn't it? My brother in law is black and grew up in a welfare family - funny thing is, he can speak English as well as anyone else can. But that ruins your "evil white man" theory for why there are groups of blacks who chose to talk that way. If your whole "evil white man" theory was true, then explain all the millions of blacks who CAN speak English? Very, very few of them were born into rich families, yet they're able to speak English just fine.
Please, try coming up with facts to support your arguments other than your childish insults of "if you don't support blacks not learning how to speak English, you're racist" crap.
The idea is this: Students whose native language is Spanish come to American schools with many of the same handicaps as people who have grown up only speaking African-American dialect.
Please for the love of god, learn WTF you're talking about. There is no such thing as an "african-american" dialect. As I said, it's people too stupid to learn the language of their own country. You don't see this in any other country where people can't speak their native language and you certainly don't see it in people coming from Africa. It's got nothing to do with race and everything to do with a sub-culture in American of being too goddamn lazy to learn anything.
But there are assholes like you who want to claim it's racial (which makes YOU the racist asshole for thinking that they're incapable of learning English as any other native born American would simply because they're black) instead of realizing that it's about the choices of specific people.
That or arrest them for tax evasion! ;)
No, it tells the user that their ISP is using Mafia tactics and saying "Pay us for speed protection or something unfortunate might happen".
No, because "reading is boring". Last Christmas my aunt and uncle gave me a gift card to Borders and my 16 year old cousin goes "What are you going to do with that?" I told him "Buy some books." His response? "Reading is boring". Unsurprisingly, he's on the football team and also failed English and had to retake it in summer school.
Sadly, his response if far too common.
Exactly. The people saying that spelling doesn't matter are the same ones who get turned down for jobs due to their inability to spell when writing a resume and then blame the employer for it. I know a very qualified person who sent out dozens of resumes after getting laid off but wrote "collage" instead of "college" on their resume. Guess how many interviews he had....
Latin was a language that existed before punctuation did. Ebonics is people too stupid to learn their native language, so they just mumble some shit and then when they're told to learn english if they want a job, they cry and claim it's a "language" and that it's "racist" to not support it.
Or (though most spell checkers will flag it) "should've". I find it amusing that spell check is OK with "could've" for abbreviating "could have" but flags "should've" in place of "should have".
The highest sales tax in the US is I believe 10%. Most states have it around 5%-6% and some have no sales tax at all. In Ohio (where I live) tax on this would only be $16.25.
So I don't particularly care what they say and do, there will be no more Motorola devices in this household anyway.
The folks have since switched to Blackberries
So they're punishing themselves as well as Motorola? =D
Yea, not only is Motorola one of the worst about updating phones, but they also use the horrendous Motoblur skin and now they want to tell people "Screw you, we control your hardware, not you"? I see Motorola losing sales in the near future.
Because like all tyrants, Lord Jobs is a hypocrite. He's only opposed to porn apps unless he's being paid a lot of money to have them on there.
Did the sharks have frickin lasers on their heads?
If not, why didn't the Australian government put lasers on their heads? Everyone deserves a warm meal!
I was set to get a job in the field - then changed majors because I didn't want to deal with exactly this (constantly have to learn the latest 'it' skill or get fired / have a hard time finding a job after getting laid off). I'm all for improving my skills and spend plenty of time outside of work learning new things - but it's infinitely more brutal in IT. People who choose that career these days have no justification for NOT being aware of what it's like, so I feel no sympathy for them.