Graduation rate rising does not mean more minority students with diplomas. If you cut the number of minority students in half, but increase the graduation rate by 50%, then you have 75% as many minority graduates. Though this does mean a more efficient use of university resources.
However, having that $8/hour job available does not guarantee it will "save" anybody by giving them job skills. Not every employee who gets that $8/hour job can use it to move up to a higher paying job. Having that $8/hour job be a $11/hour job that somebody can actually sustain themselves on is more useful for pulling people out of poverty. Otherwise you just have a lot more people starving on the $8/hour job.
So what your saying is, that since the Schulze method has no chance of becoming the next big voting system, and that since you dislike the winner take all system, you're strategically voting for the Approval Voting? Oh the irony.
1. Either an event has a cause (determined), or doesn't have a cause (spontaneous)
2. A decision (like joining a religious group) is an event
3. Therefore all decisions are either determined by something else (a gene, a loss in the family), or are spontaneous (there was no choice, it just happened)
Or:
1. The past determines the present
2. You cannot change the past
3. You cannot change the present
I might have butchered the argument a little, but the basic premise stands. I'm a compatiblest though, so there is some free will, its just not some god given right.
I kinda agree with the 3rd one. Palin is going to take the biggest political hit for all this, thanks to her casual use of gun references when dealing with opposition.
But really, this is simply a tragedy caused by one mentally unstable person, who was pointed at a congresswomen as the source of all problems.
I was about to call this the "Free Market Solution" but really its just applying the common sense of the second amendment to solve a seemingly unrelated problem.
If your argument for the flat tax rate is that it will help close loop holes for the rich, fine, at least that has some logic behind it. But please don't tell me you want someone below the poverty line to pay $2,500 in taxes.
and they are falling all over themselves (actually not very hard to do at 80) trying to buy one.
There we go, if Apple did funny commercials this would be perfect. 80 year old women with walkers or hoverounds buzzing forward to be the first one to get the iPad. It would be priceless.
The introductory programming class at my HS last year was taught in VB6. When I took the class my teacher would spend class time reading "VB6 for Dummies". Some of our projects were 3 pages of just copying down code straight off a worksheet (and praying to $DEITY you don't get a typo). Overall I enjoyed the class, because VB6 is decent fun if you just want to make spasmatic games. Having to go back through the basics again in Java was a pain though.
Except when a Traffic trailer needs to take one. I don't think anyone could navigate a round-a-bout in a tractor trailer.
Although, I would love to see most of the intersections in DC tore up and replaced with Round-a-Bouts. I hate the fact that you can get intersections which are practically 20 feet from each other.
Yeah, you can escape to another planet to escape the law, until everybody on the central planet unites to put you under their thumb. Then what? Move out to the outer planets and form a lawless band on some old spaceship.
Yes, at this point with our huge budgets and the whole "surrounded by ocean thing" a world coalition would have a difficult time landing large amounts of hostile troops without resorting to Nuclear weapons.
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There is some irony in Boys from Brazil speaking with a Jewish accent.
Graduation rate rising does not mean more minority students with diplomas. If you cut the number of minority students in half, but increase the graduation rate by 50%, then you have 75% as many minority graduates. Though this does mean a more efficient use of university resources.
However, having that $8/hour job available does not guarantee it will "save" anybody by giving them job skills. Not every employee who gets that $8/hour job can use it to move up to a higher paying job. Having that $8/hour job be a $11/hour job that somebody can actually sustain themselves on is more useful for pulling people out of poverty. Otherwise you just have a lot more people starving on the $8/hour job.
So what your saying is, that since the Schulze method has no chance of becoming the next big voting system, and that since you dislike the winner take all system, you're strategically voting for the Approval Voting? Oh the irony.
Or:
I might have butchered the argument a little, but the basic premise stands. I'm a compatiblest though, so there is some free will, its just not some god given right.
But really, this is simply a tragedy caused by one mentally unstable person, who was pointed at a congresswomen as the source of all problems.
Was that Nimoy? That must mean Courthouses just unlocked, woot to less City maintenance!
I was about to call this the "Free Market Solution" but really its just applying the common sense of the second amendment to solve a seemingly unrelated problem.
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If your argument for the flat tax rate is that it will help close loop holes for the rich, fine, at least that has some logic behind it. But please don't tell me you want someone below the poverty line to pay $2,500 in taxes.
and they are falling all over themselves (actually not very hard to do at 80) trying to buy one.
There we go, if Apple did funny commercials this would be perfect. 80 year old women with walkers or hoverounds buzzing forward to be the first one to get the iPad. It would be priceless.
Any Sci-Fi that discusses the topic?
The introductory programming class at my HS last year was taught in VB6. When I took the class my teacher would spend class time reading "VB6 for Dummies". Some of our projects were 3 pages of just copying down code straight off a worksheet (and praying to $DEITY you don't get a typo). Overall I enjoyed the class, because VB6 is decent fun if you just want to make spasmatic games. Having to go back through the basics again in Java was a pain though.
Although, I would love to see most of the intersections in DC tore up and replaced with Round-a-Bouts. I hate the fact that you can get intersections which are practically 20 feet from each other.
And I was thinking something a little more classy:
neverGiveThisUp(You);
neverLetThisDown(You);
Yeah, you can escape to another planet to escape the law, until everybody on the central planet unites to put you under their thumb. Then what? Move out to the outer planets and form a lawless band on some old spaceship.
Reminds me of a show I watched...
The article is talking about the UK, and last time I looked that is not one of the US states.
When did this happen? I thought Oceania was still united and at war with East Asia.
Why is Beck hated so much?
The Crying.
Yes, at this point with our huge budgets and the whole "surrounded by ocean thing" a world coalition would have a difficult time landing large amounts of hostile troops without resorting to Nuclear weapons.
Yeah to draw a more proper parallel to Apple's method of App store lock-in:
All Apps must be made in .NET
Cue scenes of random vehicles jumping off things and a couple of one-liners from Uma Thurman and Daniel Craig.
You mean Google can't delist eBay?
Shouldn't it be the FTC here? The one that's supposed to deal with Monopolies, not the one that's supposed to keep the airwaves clean?
$10 would have been cheap in my opinion. $50 if they throw in the DVD for free, $100 if they provide premium Blu-Ray stuff
Firefly Season 2
How dare you speak the Lord's name in vain!
It hurts me to think of how much potential that show had, and all we get is a 2 hr movie to try to sum it all up.