For boys at least you could make a FPS style game. Where in order to reload you must accomplish an arithmetic question. In order to obtain more ammo with which you may reload you have to do more problems, possibly of any sort (reading comprehension, spelling, math, math word problems, the list could go on). You could make almost all interactions with objects in the world involve solving a problem, anything that you'd want done without breaking the pace of gameplay would probably be best left as a simple arithmetic question, the kind of problems that you usually encourage children to memorize.
Granted that's a very straight forward way of implementing the educational material into a game and it may garner resistance from children. That could be addressed though by tailoring the difficulty so that the game provides a simple enough challenge that the child doesn't mind the occasional halt in game play.
When I was deployed we had a U2 crash very near our base where it was scheduled to land. We weren't allowed to tell anyone about it, not even that it had happened. By the time I got off my shift that evening CNN had an article about who what when where and speculating on why.
I can't find the site now but a few months ago I read an article about this. They had a number of pictures from a sailboat that cut through part of the gyre to get home a little quicker or something. They had to use their motor for propulsion because the winds weren't enough, and they considered turning back because they were afraid of getting stuck or stranded if their prop got entangled. The pictures showed plastic floating on the surface for as far as the eye could see in all directions.
My wife and I do this same kind of thing. Our TV and it's components are on one wall of our den, and my computer and it's peripherals are on the opposite wall. Our couch and loveseat are in between facing the TV. I use open ear headphones while using the computer. This way we can both be in the same room, close to each other and carry on conversations while both doing our own thing. I even turn off my second monitor sometimes so I can watch whatever TV show she's watching in the reflection.
While I agree that the rule "Never go to bed angry" is a bad one I wouldn't bet on the problem(s) that caused the anger to evaporate over night.
Communication is the biggest problem. If there is something wrong or that the two partners disagree on then you need to discuss it. It doesn't have to be immediately but the partners do need to set a day and time to discuss it. And when you talk about the issue it's important to only say what you think and feel personally, do not under any circumstances put words in your partners mouth. Whenever one of you finishes a statement the other needs to ensure that you accurately understand what they said by restating it without adding judgement. Sometimes hearing what you've said restated will help you see where you aren't being clear about something.
And when your partner is upset about something do not ever try and laugh it off, laughing about something they consider serious is dismissive of the problem and their concerns. No one appreciates not being taken seriously by their partner. Personally I am too likely myself to laugh about something that upsets my wife. I tend to see humour in most everything and end up laughing about some aspect of the issue before I think about it.
And lastly do not hint at something unless you really really don't care if you get the desired result. Expecting someone else to understand if they really loved you is just plain idiotic. When you hint around at something you are setting your partner up for failure. It'll frustrate you and them when it doesn't work out so just politely ask for what you want and say what you feel and think when it's appropriate to do so, but do not hint.
Craftsman has made that tool for years and years, it's a pair of wire cutters. It's the advertising of them as the means to do such that would make it sketchy.
So in this case the kid was definitely promoting his business in a bad way, but telling people what they can do with their hardware once you've modded it for them shouldn't be illegal. How many times have you seen advertisments for high speed internet service that boasted enough bandwidth to download all the movies and music you want. Granted they don't specify whether that's something you paid for or shared on a P2P network, but ask anyone under 30 what they'd take it to mean.
By the strict letter of the law it might be illegal. but in common practice no one cares what your odometer reads unless you try and present it as accurate. I've owned multiple vehicles with odometers that were not accurate for various reasons. Whenever I interacted with a government official regarding the vehicles mileage my answer that the odometer was not accurate never even raised an eyebrow. They just mark it as having an unknown mileage and move along.
You can still use the modified things for legal purposes, just not necessarily the purpose for which it was originally designed.
My water bottle example was overly simple because it didn't demonstrate any modification for it to be useable. Modifying an existing device into a Bong is not illegal everywhere nor is it illegal to sell them everywhere in the US. The distinction there is that you can't advertise them for use with illegal drugs, though tobacco use is fine. That's a silly distinction in my opinion and is along the same lines as laws that ban the sale of "sex toys", but "adult novelties" that are marked as not for actual use are okay. The people that press for these laws should push for making spoons, open flames and syringes all illegal also.
You are perfectly free to remove the emmissions controls from your vehicles. Just don't get mad when you are no longer allowed to drive them on public property.
You are also allowed to do whatever you want with an Odometer in your own vehicle. Just don't go and claim that the reading is accurate.
You may also remove all the seatbelts from a vehicle. Operating it in that condition though on public property or with passengers will likely get you in trouble.
The only semi valid point is the odometer adjusting, and that's because it's not a safety issue but an honesty one. When I purchased my xbox there was no aggreement for me to sign or not that said I could not modify it or have another modify it.
If the beverage companies got a law passed so that no one could re-use their bottles would you find that law valid? What if Nalogen started selling their bottles prefilled with water and stated selling "refills" for their bottles and tried to restrict you from refilling your bottle on your own through acts of congress?
Unless it breaks someone elses basic human rights we should be allowed to use and modify any product legally purchased as we see fit.
I knew a guy out in Holister CA a few years ago that was having a devil of a time finding a finishing carpenter to work with him. He did lots of complicated ornamental stuff like carved fire place mantles. Anyways he was willing to pay $30 an hour and just couldn't find anyone qualified for the position for months. Ten years later and seven years in my career field and I am still not earning that much, I'm close but still a little more than a dollar off.
Except that they did not ever prove that he had uploaded so much as a single byte of any of the songs in his shared folder to any other users of Kazaa except Media Sentry. That includes the 30 songs they sued him over and the rest that they decided not to pursue. This is like prosecuting a wannabe hitman for dozens of murders, for which there is no evidence of them happening, because he posted on a bulletin board somewhere that he's a hitman with some spare time.
Additionally the damages they sought were meant for cases where someone is profitting financially (actual pirating) from the copyright infringement.
I saw a clip on TV lastnight where Jay Leno was out on the street talking to people. He asked a reasonably cute woman, who appeared to be in her twenties, if she could tell him who lived at 1600 Penn Ave in DC. She responded that she was sorry but couldn't think of who that might be. He then asked if she knew who lived in a pineapple under the sea, too which she excitedly replied Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Not that I'm deriding SBSP but honestly that's a little sad.
The bit that annoys me is that this is something that could be addressed with the Segway. Remove the speed limiter or at least raise the limit to say 25mph. That way it could be used on a street just as safely as a bicycle. Unless you are on a road bike and pushing it you aren't likely to break 25mph on a flat. There doesn't seem to be any good reason to not be able to go that speed on a Segway.
Actually I am rather certain that Amazon did or is refunding everyone for their purchases of 1984 that they were not authorized to sell. The issue here is that they destroyed content that was already sold and refunded the buyer without advanced notification much less a by your leave. Doing so cost the student in this case more than just his copy of the book, because he had made notes that are useless without the original ebook file. Purchasing another version of the same title is unlikely to remedy the situation.
I believe that applies to the service of providing ebooks and such as well as the wireless connection. The content already on the device might be a hard sell to a judge as a service that may be modified.
Just because it's possible for thousands of other people to copy the files you are sharing doesn't mean it's likely to happen. Even if you are sharing a file that is very popular. Have you ever used a P2P service and kept track of your download and upload ratio? Getting to even a 1:1 ratio is difficult. The likely hood that any random individual that the **AA drags into court has actually uploaded as much content as they have downloaded or have shared is pretty low.
Bland in comparison??? I don't think I've seen GarageBand played before but I have a hard time imagining that it'd have worse graphics. Is it done in a top down perspective like say the original Zelda?
This is of course assuming that we don't have such aircraft in or near service readiness. And of course the danger of having a purely remote control weapons platform is that an opponent, who doesn't use simple doctrine like guerilla warfare, can possibly jam the necessary communications or hijack control of the vehicle somehow.
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The push for producing less F-22's comes from the DoD not the congress critters. In fact it had a hard time getting through because the opposition to reducing the production run was bipartisan. The opposition primarily came from representatives that have a vested interest in the continuation of the F-22 production, as in parts are made or assembled by their constituents.
From my crappy research, reading on wikipedia etc yesterday, the F-35 is not a replacement for the F-22. It's meant to be the workhorse for the military. Sort of like most every infantry man gets an assault rifle but you still want a couple carrying sniper rifles and some small rockets/missles.
Whether or not the 187 F-22's will be enough to fullfil our needs in the future we won't know until it's already too late. Restarting production for them will just make them even more expensive, it's a judgement call and congress had to be talked into it by the DoD.
Actually most of the cost is what they call a "sunk cost" which is what the rest of us call R&D and building the facilities to produce the plane. I've seen estimates where the cost of actually producing one now is around 70 million per additional plane.
That said the F-22 is way more plane supposedly than any of our potential competitors can field. And even a few F-22's can dominate a force of 5 times their size. The 180 something of them that we are already planning to produce should be enough to keep our forces superior. The new F-35 isn't actually as good as the F-22 in many respects but it is cheaper and good enough to fill the roles it's designed for.
My wife occasionally watches this show when she can and it's sounded horrible from my spot at the computer. I've got some of the books so hopefully I can get her to read them some time and recant her positive outlook of the show. First she insists on finishing all the Shanara books.
While I liked the Silent Hill movie and the first Resident Evil one aswell. I thought there wasn't any connection between Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and any of the Final Fantasy Games. I liked the movie but I thought it was completely disconnected from the games.
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For boys at least you could make a FPS style game. Where in order to reload you must accomplish an arithmetic question. In order to obtain more ammo with which you may reload you have to do more problems, possibly of any sort (reading comprehension, spelling, math, math word problems, the list could go on). You could make almost all interactions with objects in the world involve solving a problem, anything that you'd want done without breaking the pace of gameplay would probably be best left as a simple arithmetic question, the kind of problems that you usually encourage children to memorize.
Granted that's a very straight forward way of implementing the educational material into a game and it may garner resistance from children. That could be addressed though by tailoring the difficulty so that the game provides a simple enough challenge that the child doesn't mind the occasional halt in game play.
When I was deployed we had a U2 crash very near our base where it was scheduled to land. We weren't allowed to tell anyone about it, not even that it had happened. By the time I got off my shift that evening CNN had an article about who what when where and speculating on why.
I can't find the site now but a few months ago I read an article about this. They had a number of pictures from a sailboat that cut through part of the gyre to get home a little quicker or something. They had to use their motor for propulsion because the winds weren't enough, and they considered turning back because they were afraid of getting stuck or stranded if their prop got entangled. The pictures showed plastic floating on the surface for as far as the eye could see in all directions.
My wife and I do this same kind of thing. Our TV and it's components are on one wall of our den, and my computer and it's peripherals are on the opposite wall. Our couch and loveseat are in between facing the TV. I use open ear headphones while using the computer. This way we can both be in the same room, close to each other and carry on conversations while both doing our own thing. I even turn off my second monitor sometimes so I can watch whatever TV show she's watching in the reflection.
While I agree that the rule "Never go to bed angry" is a bad one I wouldn't bet on the problem(s) that caused the anger to evaporate over night.
Communication is the biggest problem. If there is something wrong or that the two partners disagree on then you need to discuss it. It doesn't have to be immediately but the partners do need to set a day and time to discuss it. And when you talk about the issue it's important to only say what you think and feel personally, do not under any circumstances put words in your partners mouth. Whenever one of you finishes a statement the other needs to ensure that you accurately understand what they said by restating it without adding judgement. Sometimes hearing what you've said restated will help you see where you aren't being clear about something.
And when your partner is upset about something do not ever try and laugh it off, laughing about something they consider serious is dismissive of the problem and their concerns. No one appreciates not being taken seriously by their partner. Personally I am too likely myself to laugh about something that upsets my wife. I tend to see humour in most everything and end up laughing about some aspect of the issue before I think about it.
And lastly do not hint at something unless you really really don't care if you get the desired result. Expecting someone else to understand if they really loved you is just plain idiotic. When you hint around at something you are setting your partner up for failure. It'll frustrate you and them when it doesn't work out so just politely ask for what you want and say what you feel and think when it's appropriate to do so, but do not hint.
Craftsman has made that tool for years and years, it's a pair of wire cutters. It's the advertising of them as the means to do such that would make it sketchy.
So in this case the kid was definitely promoting his business in a bad way, but telling people what they can do with their hardware once you've modded it for them shouldn't be illegal. How many times have you seen advertisments for high speed internet service that boasted enough bandwidth to download all the movies and music you want. Granted they don't specify whether that's something you paid for or shared on a P2P network, but ask anyone under 30 what they'd take it to mean.
By the strict letter of the law it might be illegal. but in common practice no one cares what your odometer reads unless you try and present it as accurate. I've owned multiple vehicles with odometers that were not accurate for various reasons. Whenever I interacted with a government official regarding the vehicles mileage my answer that the odometer was not accurate never even raised an eyebrow. They just mark it as having an unknown mileage and move along.
I'm sorry I used all my mod points yesterday. Your comments on the Pro-Life and Pro-Choice issue in particular is very insightful.
You can still use the modified things for legal purposes, just not necessarily the purpose for which it was originally designed.
My water bottle example was overly simple because it didn't demonstrate any modification for it to be useable. Modifying an existing device into a Bong is not illegal everywhere nor is it illegal to sell them everywhere in the US. The distinction there is that you can't advertise them for use with illegal drugs, though tobacco use is fine. That's a silly distinction in my opinion and is along the same lines as laws that ban the sale of "sex toys", but "adult novelties" that are marked as not for actual use are okay. The people that press for these laws should push for making spoons, open flames and syringes all illegal also.
You are perfectly free to remove the emmissions controls from your vehicles. Just don't get mad when you are no longer allowed to drive them on public property.
You are also allowed to do whatever you want with an Odometer in your own vehicle. Just don't go and claim that the reading is accurate.
You may also remove all the seatbelts from a vehicle. Operating it in that condition though on public property or with passengers will likely get you in trouble.
The only semi valid point is the odometer adjusting, and that's because it's not a safety issue but an honesty one. When I purchased my xbox there was no aggreement for me to sign or not that said I could not modify it or have another modify it.
If the beverage companies got a law passed so that no one could re-use their bottles would you find that law valid? What if Nalogen started selling their bottles prefilled with water and stated selling "refills" for their bottles and tried to restrict you from refilling your bottle on your own through acts of congress?
Unless it breaks someone elses basic human rights we should be allowed to use and modify any product legally purchased as we see fit.
I knew a guy out in Holister CA a few years ago that was having a devil of a time finding a finishing carpenter to work with him. He did lots of complicated ornamental stuff like carved fire place mantles. Anyways he was willing to pay $30 an hour and just couldn't find anyone qualified for the position for months. Ten years later and seven years in my career field and I am still not earning that much, I'm close but still a little more than a dollar off.
Except that they did not ever prove that he had uploaded so much as a single byte of any of the songs in his shared folder to any other users of Kazaa except Media Sentry. That includes the 30 songs they sued him over and the rest that they decided not to pursue. This is like prosecuting a wannabe hitman for dozens of murders, for which there is no evidence of them happening, because he posted on a bulletin board somewhere that he's a hitman with some spare time.
Additionally the damages they sought were meant for cases where someone is profitting financially (actual pirating) from the copyright infringement.
I saw a clip on TV lastnight where Jay Leno was out on the street talking to people. He asked a reasonably cute woman, who appeared to be in her twenties, if she could tell him who lived at 1600 Penn Ave in DC. She responded that she was sorry but couldn't think of who that might be. He then asked if she knew who lived in a pineapple under the sea, too which she excitedly replied Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Not that I'm deriding SBSP but honestly that's a little sad.
The bit that annoys me is that this is something that could be addressed with the Segway. Remove the speed limiter or at least raise the limit to say 25mph. That way it could be used on a street just as safely as a bicycle. Unless you are on a road bike and pushing it you aren't likely to break 25mph on a flat. There doesn't seem to be any good reason to not be able to go that speed on a Segway.
Actually I am rather certain that Amazon did or is refunding everyone for their purchases of 1984 that they were not authorized to sell. The issue here is that they destroyed content that was already sold and refunded the buyer without advanced notification much less a by your leave. Doing so cost the student in this case more than just his copy of the book, because he had made notes that are useless without the original ebook file. Purchasing another version of the same title is unlikely to remedy the situation.
I believe that applies to the service of providing ebooks and such as well as the wireless connection. The content already on the device might be a hard sell to a judge as a service that may be modified.
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Just because it's possible for thousands of other people to copy the files you are sharing doesn't mean it's likely to happen. Even if you are sharing a file that is very popular. Have you ever used a P2P service and kept track of your download and upload ratio? Getting to even a 1:1 ratio is difficult. The likely hood that any random individual that the **AA drags into court has actually uploaded as much content as they have downloaded or have shared is pretty low.
Bland in comparison??? I don't think I've seen GarageBand played before but I have a hard time imagining that it'd have worse graphics. Is it done in a top down perspective like say the original Zelda?
This is of course assuming that we don't have such aircraft in or near service readiness. And of course the danger of having a purely remote control weapons platform is that an opponent, who doesn't use simple doctrine like guerilla warfare, can possibly jam the necessary communications or hijack control of the vehicle somehow.
The push for producing less F-22's comes from the DoD not the congress critters. In fact it had a hard time getting through because the opposition to reducing the production run was bipartisan. The opposition primarily came from representatives that have a vested interest in the continuation of the F-22 production, as in parts are made or assembled by their constituents.
From my crappy research, reading on wikipedia etc yesterday, the F-35 is not a replacement for the F-22. It's meant to be the workhorse for the military. Sort of like most every infantry man gets an assault rifle but you still want a couple carrying sniper rifles and some small rockets/missles.
Whether or not the 187 F-22's will be enough to fullfil our needs in the future we won't know until it's already too late. Restarting production for them will just make them even more expensive, it's a judgement call and congress had to be talked into it by the DoD.
Actually most of the cost is what they call a "sunk cost" which is what the rest of us call R&D and building the facilities to produce the plane. I've seen estimates where the cost of actually producing one now is around 70 million per additional plane.
That said the F-22 is way more plane supposedly than any of our potential competitors can field. And even a few F-22's can dominate a force of 5 times their size. The 180 something of them that we are already planning to produce should be enough to keep our forces superior. The new F-35 isn't actually as good as the F-22 in many respects but it is cheaper and good enough to fill the roles it's designed for.
My wife occasionally watches this show when she can and it's sounded horrible from my spot at the computer. I've got some of the books so hopefully I can get her to read them some time and recant her positive outlook of the show. First she insists on finishing all the Shanara books.
While I liked the Silent Hill movie and the first Resident Evil one aswell. I thought there wasn't any connection between Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and any of the Final Fantasy Games. I liked the movie but I thought it was completely disconnected from the games.