Nonsense. We have bred various breeds of dogs, horses, cats, swine, chickens, and other animals for our own purposes, within the span of recorded history. We have seen changes in non-domesticated animals, as well. If we can make evolutionary changes in those animals, then we can experience evolutionary changes ourselves within the span of recorded history.
If you go down to the sea, be prepared. Only a fool would go to sea aboard a vessel that isn't seaworthy. Only a fool - and the seas don't give a small rat's ass how much money you have, or how many "experts" agreed that it would be safe.
Polygamy has existed in the mideast since prehistory. Want to try again, with that time scale bullshit?
I don't really agree with GP's post, but it's something that should make a thinking person scratch his head and actually think, before dismissing it as nonsense.
I'm not real sure about the Maltese Falcon's seaworthiness - but I'd be willing to sail on it, to see what I think of it. Job's yacht? I might risk my ex-wife's life aboard that thing, but you wouldn't see me stepping aboard, for any reason.
It's all the windows, for me. That yacht is incapable of weathering a real storm. Twenty foot seas will cave those ridiculous windows in, flood, then capsize the stupid thing.
You sail on it - I don't even want to take a tour while tied to a pier.
Yeah - I looked at the photo. Forty foot long floor to ceiling windows? (in nautical terminology, that would be "forty foot long deck to overhead ports") I guess it's alright to build a boathouse with that kind of crap. A ship? Fek - unless they run the damned thing aground first, it WILL have to weather a storm someday.
Speaking as a squid who has seen green water (not foam or white water, but green water with fish visible in it) submerge the bridge on an Adams class destroyer, I most certainly don't want to weather a real storm on this all-aluminum-and-glass garbage scow.
I can't speak for AC, but a lot of things in life are different than a video portrayal. Automobile accidents, for instance. I don't watch television much at all, but the most catastrophic accident on television is - just a little messy. Being a first responder even at a relatively minor accident can be unsettling. I've tossed my lunch at major accidents, and had a hard time falling asleep that night. Few people can appreciate an injury as simple as a broken leg, until they put their hands on that broken leg, and can feel how the bone grinds away, cutting muscle and other tissue as it does so.
Naturally, I've never lived through what AC posted. No concentration camps for me, but I can sort of imagine the difference from what we've seen in movies and television. Very different, indeed.
That is pretty cool. But, I still can't recall seeing any instruction sheets like that. Very likely it is my memory at fault. There may have been instructions in every set that I ever owned, and I just didn't use them.;)
Artists are entitled to a fair wage for their services. If artists get off their butts, go out, and perform their arts, they can get paid. The problem with the current scheme of things is, beginning artists believe that if they sign with a record label, do a few songs, they should be on easy street for the rest of their lives.
Soon enough, they figure out that the game is rigged, and if they stop performing, easy street turns into a dead-end. But the LABEL continues to reap profits for nothing for another hundred years, plus eternity.
Almost nothing stands between the artist and the audience. Entertain, and you'll be rewarded. You may not become zillionaires going that route, but you'll be rewarded.
Look at it from the hydra's perspective. We're just doing our thing, and you rat bastard monsters start chopping off our heads! You need to die a slow painful death.
I saw nothing about any burn in tests in the GP post. The guy has a couple of scripts running to ensure that A) he is made aware of impending hard disk problems, and B) his data is backed up in the event of a hard disk problem.
Reading comprehension 101, available at a community college near you.
Unless, of course, you're just trolling a Linux user. In which case, feel free to continue making a fool of yourself.
Yes, but no matter how new and novel the ideas are, Apple will claim that they infringe on their patents. Unless - - - a phone that looks and feels like a jellyfish? I dunno - maybe Google can make the idea sound appealing. I'm somewhat averse to the idea of holding a jellyfish to my ear.
I may mis-remember - but I have browsed a few sets from 1949 to 1960. I failed to see any instructions pages for those items I clicked on. Note that I've not said that there are no instructions, only that I don't remember any instructions.
I don't remember instructions, really. Maybe there were some, and I just never looked at them. I mean - later, as a high schooler, I didn't read the instructions for my Sony Walkman, I never read the instructions for my TI-35 calculator, I certainly never read any instructions for my cars or motorcycles.
You figured half correctly, I suppose. Wave and tide action do erode land, in some places. They also tend to build up land in other places. The net result, I think, is a loss of land from sea water erosion. But, these researchers weren't interested in any of that, so it appears that they didn't include any of it.
I like your post, as well as some others here. Not so much for the content that YOU think you posted, but for the almost hidden little extra.
When I was a kid, girls just didn't play with Legos. All these years later, I can't say why my sisters never messed with my Legos. Did the adults discourage them? Did I threaten to beat them up if they touched my Legos? Was sexist marketing responsible? Was it peer pressure? Heck, I don't know. I only know that the girls played with "girl things" like dolls and doll houses, while the Legos were all mine.
It's good to see that girls are doing things today that I can understand. I never saw the point in toting around a rag wrapped bit of plastic, pretending to feed it, burp it, and change it's dry, clean diaper.
I'm 56. I don't really remember any specialized kits when I was a kid. Basically, they were all bricks. A box of bricks claimed to have enough parts to build the item pictured on the box, but I paid that little mind. I can't say how old I was when I got my first Legos - maybe seven? Maybe earlier, but it was so long ago, it's kind of blurry. But, I just opened them up, hardly looked at the box, and started putting things together however I felt. When it was time to clean up, the bricks went into my bucket with the Lincoln Logs and other little stuff. Whatever I had built was placed on top of the pile of stuff in the bucket, until I felt like adding to it, or destroying it to start over.
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Read the directions? Huh? You're kidding, right?
I'm a guy. I never need directions, behind the wheel, or playing with Legos. It would be unmanly to start now!
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Legos were primarily meant for children. When Mom and Dad bought legos for these guys, they didn't wonder, or ask, how expensive the toys were. It was just, "Thanks Mom!" and dump the bricks to start building.
Even those guys who found out what Mom paid for those bricks ten, twenty, or even forty years ago, had little understanding of the value of a dollar. Three bucks? No big deal - Dad gets a hundred and twenty dollars EVERY WEEK. Add inflation, today toy stores are selling sets for fifteen dollars and up, these guys think they're getting ripped off. They forget that even part time high school kids can make the hundred and twenty that Dad raised a family on all those years ago.
Funny - we know this to be true, yet American continues to export jobs and technology to China. Idiots in CEO suits, idiots in Board of Director suits, idiots in Consultant suits - the whole lot of them have read time and time again about the Chinese stealing IP. But, they decide amongst themselves that it's best to take advantage of all that slave labor in China. All that IP given away, in the quest for free or almost free labor.
Disclaimer: I'm not in favor of existing IP laws, and I don't see the Chinese as entirely bad, but it makes no sense at all for us to give away all our shit. Hell, my neighbor might be a good guy, but I'm not giving him all my shit. A helping hand now and then, but just GIVE HIM all my stuff? Do I look retarded?
"Armed guards" are authority figures. Children are already indoctrinated to see uniformed armed men as authority figures. This is not a good thing. Children SHOULD be conditioned to see teachers and principals as authority figures. They should not be conditioned to accept any damned fool in a uniform and carrying a weapon as an authority.
I invite you to meet some security people, and get to know them. Get acquainted with the people at a security service company.
I've met many over the years. Security personnel are very underpaid. Very, very, very underpaid. Sanitation workers are better paid. Your auto mechanic is better paid (unless you go to a shade tree mechanic with no real training at all). In this underpaid line of work, you find uneducated people, lazy people, dumb people, even stupid people. You can find, with little effort, people with delusions of grandeur, people who are borderline psychotic.
While there ARE a percentage of security guards who are bright, hard working, and stable, there is no guarantee that those are the people who will be working in a school. It's far more likely that those stable guards will be sitting in their home office, filling out rosters, taking phone calls, making field trips to assess new assignments, and things like that.
Have you looked at the TSA? There are a lot of examples of idiots put into positions of authority, who never should have been.
Teachers, on the other hand, are far more likely to be dedicated, hard working, intelligent, and caring. Note that I don't make that claim for all teachers. I merely point out that they are far more likely to be so.
Arm the teachers. I trust most teachers more than I trust most security guards.
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Nonsense. We have bred various breeds of dogs, horses, cats, swine, chickens, and other animals for our own purposes, within the span of recorded history. We have seen changes in non-domesticated animals, as well. If we can make evolutionary changes in those animals, then we can experience evolutionary changes ourselves within the span of recorded history.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-ship-hms-bounty-sinks-mutiny-pirates-caribbean-384716
If you go down to the sea, be prepared. Only a fool would go to sea aboard a vessel that isn't seaworthy. Only a fool - and the seas don't give a small rat's ass how much money you have, or how many "experts" agreed that it would be safe.
Even seaworthy vessels can go down, if not crewed by extremely competent AND lucky crewmembers:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/titanic.htm
http://www.boatnerd.com/fitz/
Did I mention luck? Even the best of ships and the best of crews can be swallowed whole, and vanish without trace when their luck has run out.
Funny - but, do you realize how frigging BIG a tooling facility would have to be, to machine a block of aluminum that size?
Here is one of the biggest presses in the world, and it's not big enough by a long shot:
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/02/alcoas_50000-ton_ready_to_go_b.html
*cough*
Polygamy has existed in the mideast since prehistory. Want to try again, with that time scale bullshit?
I don't really agree with GP's post, but it's something that should make a thinking person scratch his head and actually think, before dismissing it as nonsense.
I'm not real sure about the Maltese Falcon's seaworthiness - but I'd be willing to sail on it, to see what I think of it. Job's yacht? I might risk my ex-wife's life aboard that thing, but you wouldn't see me stepping aboard, for any reason.
It's all the windows, for me. That yacht is incapable of weathering a real storm. Twenty foot seas will cave those ridiculous windows in, flood, then capsize the stupid thing.
You sail on it - I don't even want to take a tour while tied to a pier.
Yeah - I looked at the photo. Forty foot long floor to ceiling windows? (in nautical terminology, that would be "forty foot long deck to overhead ports") I guess it's alright to build a boathouse with that kind of crap. A ship? Fek - unless they run the damned thing aground first, it WILL have to weather a storm someday.
Speaking as a squid who has seen green water (not foam or white water, but green water with fish visible in it) submerge the bridge on an Adams class destroyer, I most certainly don't want to weather a real storm on this all-aluminum-and-glass garbage scow.
I can't speak for AC, but a lot of things in life are different than a video portrayal. Automobile accidents, for instance. I don't watch television much at all, but the most catastrophic accident on television is - just a little messy. Being a first responder even at a relatively minor accident can be unsettling. I've tossed my lunch at major accidents, and had a hard time falling asleep that night. Few people can appreciate an injury as simple as a broken leg, until they put their hands on that broken leg, and can feel how the bone grinds away, cutting muscle and other tissue as it does so.
Naturally, I've never lived through what AC posted. No concentration camps for me, but I can sort of imagine the difference from what we've seen in movies and television. Very different, indeed.
That is pretty cool. But, I still can't recall seeing any instruction sheets like that. Very likely it is my memory at fault. There may have been instructions in every set that I ever owned, and I just didn't use them. ;)
That's so asinine - no, sorry, it's just stupid.
Artists are entitled to a fair wage for their services. If artists get off their butts, go out, and perform their arts, they can get paid. The problem with the current scheme of things is, beginning artists believe that if they sign with a record label, do a few songs, they should be on easy street for the rest of their lives.
Soon enough, they figure out that the game is rigged, and if they stop performing, easy street turns into a dead-end. But the LABEL continues to reap profits for nothing for another hundred years, plus eternity.
Almost nothing stands between the artist and the audience. Entertain, and you'll be rewarded. You may not become zillionaires going that route, but you'll be rewarded.
Look at it from the hydra's perspective. We're just doing our thing, and you rat bastard monsters start chopping off our heads! You need to die a slow painful death.
"You can't stop the signal, Mal!" - the funny looking guy on the movie, Serenity.
I saw nothing about any burn in tests in the GP post. The guy has a couple of scripts running to ensure that A) he is made aware of impending hard disk problems, and B) his data is backed up in the event of a hard disk problem.
Reading comprehension 101, available at a community college near you.
Unless, of course, you're just trolling a Linux user. In which case, feel free to continue making a fool of yourself.
Yes, but no matter how new and novel the ideas are, Apple will claim that they infringe on their patents. Unless - - - a phone that looks and feels like a jellyfish? I dunno - maybe Google can make the idea sound appealing. I'm somewhat averse to the idea of holding a jellyfish to my ear.
G-string? No, don't picture your grandma in a G-string, please.
I may mis-remember - but I have browsed a few sets from 1949 to 1960. I failed to see any instructions pages for those items I clicked on. Note that I've not said that there are no instructions, only that I don't remember any instructions.
Example: http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/1237-2?showpic=6063
I don't remember instructions, really. Maybe there were some, and I just never looked at them. I mean - later, as a high schooler, I didn't read the instructions for my Sony Walkman, I never read the instructions for my TI-35 calculator, I certainly never read any instructions for my cars or motorcycles.
You figured half correctly, I suppose. Wave and tide action do erode land, in some places. They also tend to build up land in other places. The net result, I think, is a loss of land from sea water erosion. But, these researchers weren't interested in any of that, so it appears that they didn't include any of it.
I like your post, as well as some others here. Not so much for the content that YOU think you posted, but for the almost hidden little extra.
When I was a kid, girls just didn't play with Legos. All these years later, I can't say why my sisters never messed with my Legos. Did the adults discourage them? Did I threaten to beat them up if they touched my Legos? Was sexist marketing responsible? Was it peer pressure? Heck, I don't know. I only know that the girls played with "girl things" like dolls and doll houses, while the Legos were all mine.
It's good to see that girls are doing things today that I can understand. I never saw the point in toting around a rag wrapped bit of plastic, pretending to feed it, burp it, and change it's dry, clean diaper.
I'm 56. I don't really remember any specialized kits when I was a kid. Basically, they were all bricks. A box of bricks claimed to have enough parts to build the item pictured on the box, but I paid that little mind. I can't say how old I was when I got my first Legos - maybe seven? Maybe earlier, but it was so long ago, it's kind of blurry.
But, I just opened them up, hardly looked at the box, and started putting things together however I felt. When it was time to clean up, the bricks went into my bucket with the Lincoln Logs and other little stuff. Whatever I had built was placed on top of the pile of stuff in the bucket, until I felt like adding to it, or destroying it to start over.
Read the directions? Huh? You're kidding, right?
I'm a guy. I never need directions, behind the wheel, or playing with Legos. It would be unmanly to start now!
Legos were primarily meant for children. When Mom and Dad bought legos for these guys, they didn't wonder, or ask, how expensive the toys were. It was just, "Thanks Mom!" and dump the bricks to start building.
Even those guys who found out what Mom paid for those bricks ten, twenty, or even forty years ago, had little understanding of the value of a dollar. Three bucks? No big deal - Dad gets a hundred and twenty dollars EVERY WEEK. Add inflation, today toy stores are selling sets for fifteen dollars and up, these guys think they're getting ripped off. They forget that even part time high school kids can make the hundred and twenty that Dad raised a family on all those years ago.
Funny - we know this to be true, yet American continues to export jobs and technology to China. Idiots in CEO suits, idiots in Board of Director suits, idiots in Consultant suits - the whole lot of them have read time and time again about the Chinese stealing IP. But, they decide amongst themselves that it's best to take advantage of all that slave labor in China. All that IP given away, in the quest for free or almost free labor.
Disclaimer: I'm not in favor of existing IP laws, and I don't see the Chinese as entirely bad, but it makes no sense at all for us to give away all our shit. Hell, my neighbor might be a good guy, but I'm not giving him all my shit. A helping hand now and then, but just GIVE HIM all my stuff? Do I look retarded?
Management controls HR's paycheck. Of course HR will stab you in the back. Management covers management's ass, no matter what.
"Armed guards" are authority figures. Children are already indoctrinated to see uniformed armed men as authority figures. This is not a good thing. Children SHOULD be conditioned to see teachers and principals as authority figures. They should not be conditioned to accept any damned fool in a uniform and carrying a weapon as an authority.
I invite you to meet some security people, and get to know them. Get acquainted with the people at a security service company.
I've met many over the years. Security personnel are very underpaid. Very, very, very underpaid. Sanitation workers are better paid. Your auto mechanic is better paid (unless you go to a shade tree mechanic with no real training at all). In this underpaid line of work, you find uneducated people, lazy people, dumb people, even stupid people. You can find, with little effort, people with delusions of grandeur, people who are borderline psychotic.
While there ARE a percentage of security guards who are bright, hard working, and stable, there is no guarantee that those are the people who will be working in a school. It's far more likely that those stable guards will be sitting in their home office, filling out rosters, taking phone calls, making field trips to assess new assignments, and things like that.
Have you looked at the TSA? There are a lot of examples of idiots put into positions of authority, who never should have been.
Teachers, on the other hand, are far more likely to be dedicated, hard working, intelligent, and caring. Note that I don't make that claim for all teachers. I merely point out that they are far more likely to be so.
Arm the teachers. I trust most teachers more than I trust most security guards.