The problem is that they do join school boards and force the teaching of their ideas in public schools. Just as non-mechanics have no authority in an auto shop (and can, in fact, put real mechanics in danger) and non-programmers have no authority when coding (and can, in fact, undo weeks worth of work with their incompetence), flat earthers and other related idiots simply have no business being anywhere near a school where they can and will taint the atmosphere with their willful ignorance. It's one thing to teach children to question; it's something else to abuse children by filling their minds with total rubbish to the point where they have no solid grasp of reality to recognize nonsense when they hear it.
From NPR: $100 million A low estimate for the cost of the opening ceremony. That's about $476,000 per minute and almost $8,000 per second and more than twice the cost of the 2004 Athens opening ceremony.
There are many places in the world thirsting for precipitation of any sort and the Chinese are firing rockets to stop rain just so that the opening ceremony of their PR stunt can be free of dampness. I guess that they wanted to guarantee their hundreds of millions in pyrotechnics weren't ruined. Of course, the firing of rockets does nothing to help with global climate issues.
As a high school English teacher I only have one (sad thing) to contribute here. We're strongly discouraged from teaching grammar... since the administration "knows" it is boring and cannot hold student interest. If a subject or lesson cannot (or does not) keep every child in the classroom entertained, no matter how diverse the population, then the teacher is faulted.
On the other hand, be glad they've got laptops to keep them entertained. Yay!
Dolly Parton went to her doctor. She complained that her breasts were too large and she wanted breast reduction surgery. The doctor measured her chest. "69 inches!" (enter 69) "that's too too too big!" (enter 222) "Five times a day take one of these pills" (enter 51) and after eight days (multiply by 8) you will be (result 55378008)... and turn the calculator over.
remains perhaps the most painful to watch movie that I have ever seen. Sure, other movies are worse, but Sky Captain was just so much of a letdown and mishmash of weird acting, awkward script, and uncomfortable direction that I couldn't watch it without thinking "Who likes this sort of strangeness?" Further complicating this, I couldn't conceive of what sort of demographic this movie could appeal to... older/younger, male/female, geek/mainstream, etc.
Interestingly enough, Arnett's daughter Elsa chose to study journalism, went to Harvard, and is now currently married to John Yoo, Bush's legal counsel who pretty much sanctioned torture by the executive branch.
If you're familiar with the Carlyle Group, depending on your political affiliation and attitude toward the Carlyle Group's past behaviors, you might not want to be voluntarily supporting them with your hard-earned money. I've chosen not to.
until I realized how much it was costing me a month... and perhaps more importantly, I did a little bit of research and found out which company owns Dunkin Donuts. The latter was pretty much the nail in the coffin, and even though I live one block away from a Dunkin Donuts, I have not been there in quite some time.
Flop could be an understatement. Nobody I know is interested in 4th Edition despite all the Gleemax and related hype. The canceling of Dungeon magazine and Dragon magazines to pursue this online bastard child of Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft has left a fair number of people with a bad taste in their mouths.
Perhaps it's more a combination of multitasking and immediate gratification. When you get everything you want quickly, there's no need to ever learn patience or persistence.
If only it were the liberation from the handful of oppressive, hamhanded, hopelessly-biased, or otherwise dictatorial editors, it might be a reason to celebrate. Still, I suppose it's good enough news, but I won't be out celebrating it.
So, I guess that since we're pulling back from exploring space, we've decided to do the equivalent of taking our ball and leaving. Since we apparently can't afford to send more ships up, we'll leave it so polluted with obnoxious small pieces of debris that no other nation will be able to safely navigate our man-made minefield.
Absolutely. If I had mod points today, I'd throw one your way.
I have recommended OO to many of the students (especially the lower-income ones who cannot afford the Microsoft procetag) in the high school I teach in, and there have been a few adoptees. Most, however, complain of the lack of working features... sadly, perhaps the most trivial of which is the default save as.odt, which is unreadable by the school's myriad Word instances. Tables, fonts, and formatting also sometimes come out looking wrong. There are a whole host of minor, annoying bugs that plague Writer, which should be dealt with before going after Outlook... which few of today's teenagers (or for that matter, the teachers I work with) care about anyway since almost all use Yahoo or Hotmail or GMail anyway.
So, my point is, give me one great program I can use to get the younger generation hooked on. Don't waste time building up a suite of so-so programs that nobody will want to use because they're all just so-so. Sure the anti-Microsoft fanatics will use it, but it will not appeal to anyone else. Don't just give me an alternative, give me better than what's out there, and I'll gladly use it. I'll gladly advocate. In the span of a few years, many people switched to Google as their default search engine because it was better, not because it tried to do everything well. As of right now, though, I am not going to continue damaging my reputation as one of the few teachers in my school who knows anything about computers by continuing to recommend a sub-par Open Office.
From my admittedly small sample size of three, people familiar with the trademark are not pleased with this. All three are following the details, but none has said anything positive about this new movie. They are set in their minds that Shatner is Kirk, and will not pay to see someone else play Kirk differently (or even... worse... copy/lampoon... Shatner's... acting).
As far as they are concerned, this is not appealing.
As I think I said in my original post, I'm more annoyed that there is so much good fiction out there, and that there is no need to trot out the old, dead horse and beat it a few more times.
Is the science fiction genre so fscking bankrupt for ideas that it needs to rehash ToS? ToS was a good enough series in its time, but who is this abomination of a movie designed to appeal to? What demographic wants to see this? Who wants to see Kirk played by anyone but Shatner? The man has all but ruined the role for anyone else. Why not take these actors and cast them in roles they can make their own instead of hamstringing them with the legacies of Nimoy and Shatner?
It's just like the abysmally stupid "Bionic Woman" nonsense; some bonehead executive decided to trot an old standard (for which some people have nostalgia) of carbonite and to "reimagine" it for a new generation... whatever the hell that means... Or the moronic Underdog movie. Or one of any other cinematic turds splattered across the big screen in the past few years. Damn.
There have been worlds of awesome science fiction written in the past few years that could easily be adopted to the big screen. For example, "The Golden Compass" is being released this winter and looks promising. However, what do we usually get? More of the same unimaginative crap that's driven people away from the major networks and theatres.
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The problem is that they do join school boards and force the teaching of their ideas in public schools. Just as non-mechanics have no authority in an auto shop (and can, in fact, put real mechanics in danger) and non-programmers have no authority when coding (and can, in fact, undo weeks worth of work with their incompetence), flat earthers and other related idiots simply have no business being anywhere near a school where they can and will taint the atmosphere with their willful ignorance. It's one thing to teach children to question; it's something else to abuse children by filling their minds with total rubbish to the point where they have no solid grasp of reality to recognize nonsense when they hear it.
From NPR: $100 million A low estimate for the cost of the opening ceremony. That's about $476,000 per minute and almost $8,000 per second and more than twice the cost of the 2004 Athens opening ceremony.
There are many places in the world thirsting for precipitation of any sort and the Chinese are firing rockets to stop rain just so that the opening ceremony of their PR stunt can be free of dampness. I guess that they wanted to guarantee their hundreds of millions in pyrotechnics weren't ruined. Of course, the firing of rockets does nothing to help with global climate issues.
Meanwhile droughts and floods ravage other areas of China. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED7113BF93BA15753C1A96E948260
How about some e-mail enhancement?
Grrr.... make that.... I only have one (sad) thing to contribute here. And now it's two. I can't win!
As a high school English teacher I only have one (sad thing) to contribute here. We're strongly discouraged from teaching grammar... since the administration "knows" it is boring and cannot hold student interest. If a subject or lesson cannot (or does not) keep every child in the classroom entertained, no matter how diverse the population, then the teacher is faulted.
On the other hand, be glad they've got laptops to keep them entertained. Yay!
Meh.
It's the only one I know.
Dolly Parton went to her doctor. She complained that her breasts were too large and she wanted breast reduction surgery. The doctor measured her chest. "69 inches!" (enter 69) "that's too too too big!" (enter 222) "Five times a day take one of these pills" (enter 51) and after eight days (multiply by 8) you will be (result 55378008)... and turn the calculator over.
Great fun when you're 9 years old...
GÃdel, Escher, Bach has enough science in it (particularly cognition and neurology) to qualify as a "science book" (whatever that's supposed to mean).
Definitely a must-read for anyone interested in metacognition.
We do not all have ADD. Yes, we all do get distracted from time to time. However, this is not ADD, and diagnosing it as ADD is not helpful.
this is advocating a form of fascism, right?
remains perhaps the most painful to watch movie that I have ever seen. Sure, other movies are worse, but Sky Captain was just so much of a letdown and mishmash of weird acting, awkward script, and uncomfortable direction that I couldn't watch it without thinking "Who likes this sort of strangeness?" Further complicating this, I couldn't conceive of what sort of demographic this movie could appeal to... older/younger, male/female, geek/mainstream, etc.
Interestingly enough, Arnett's daughter Elsa chose to study journalism, went to Harvard, and is now currently married to John Yoo, Bush's legal counsel who pretty much sanctioned torture by the executive branch.
It's a small world...
If you're familiar with the Carlyle Group, depending on your political affiliation and attitude toward the Carlyle Group's past behaviors, you might not want to be voluntarily supporting them with your hard-earned money. I've chosen not to.
until I realized how much it was costing me a month... and perhaps more importantly, I did a little bit of research and found out which company owns Dunkin Donuts. The latter was pretty much the nail in the coffin, and even though I live one block away from a Dunkin Donuts, I have not been there in quite some time.
Flop could be an understatement. Nobody I know is interested in 4th Edition despite all the Gleemax and related hype. The canceling of Dungeon magazine and Dragon magazines to pursue this online bastard child of Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft has left a fair number of people with a bad taste in their mouths.
If there were any justice it could at least have been a storm to bring the Internet down rather than competing naval technology.
Downloading music and movies is your business, hmm?
Perhaps it's more a combination of multitasking and immediate gratification. When you get everything you want quickly, there's no need to ever learn patience or persistence.
If only it were the liberation from the handful of oppressive, hamhanded, hopelessly-biased, or otherwise dictatorial editors, it might be a reason to celebrate. Still, I suppose it's good enough news, but I won't be out celebrating it.
Sounds like a prime supplier of vaporware to me.
Nobody can!
So, I guess that since we're pulling back from exploring space, we've decided to do the equivalent of taking our ball and leaving. Since we apparently can't afford to send more ships up, we'll leave it so polluted with obnoxious small pieces of debris that no other nation will be able to safely navigate our man-made minefield.
Plutowned?
Absolutely. If I had mod points today, I'd throw one your way.
.odt, which is unreadable by the school's myriad Word instances. Tables, fonts, and formatting also sometimes come out looking wrong. There are a whole host of minor, annoying bugs that plague Writer, which should be dealt with before going after Outlook... which few of today's teenagers (or for that matter, the teachers I work with) care about anyway since almost all use Yahoo or Hotmail or GMail anyway.
I have recommended OO to many of the students (especially the lower-income ones who cannot afford the Microsoft procetag) in the high school I teach in, and there have been a few adoptees. Most, however, complain of the lack of working features... sadly, perhaps the most trivial of which is the default save as
So, my point is, give me one great program I can use to get the younger generation hooked on. Don't waste time building up a suite of so-so programs that nobody will want to use because they're all just so-so. Sure the anti-Microsoft fanatics will use it, but it will not appeal to anyone else. Don't just give me an alternative, give me better than what's out there, and I'll gladly use it. I'll gladly advocate. In the span of a few years, many people switched to Google as their default search engine because it was better, not because it tried to do everything well. As of right now, though, I am not going to continue damaging my reputation as one of the few teachers in my school who knows anything about computers by continuing to recommend a sub-par Open Office.
From my admittedly small sample size of three, people familiar with the trademark are not pleased with this. All three are following the details, but none has said anything positive about this new movie. They are set in their minds that Shatner is Kirk, and will not pay to see someone else play Kirk differently (or even... worse... copy/lampoon... Shatner's... acting).
As far as they are concerned, this is not appealing.
As I think I said in my original post, I'm more annoyed that there is so much good fiction out there, and that there is no need to trot out the old, dead horse and beat it a few more times.
Is the science fiction genre so fscking bankrupt for ideas that it needs to rehash ToS? ToS was a good enough series in its time, but who is this abomination of a movie designed to appeal to? What demographic wants to see this? Who wants to see Kirk played by anyone but Shatner? The man has all but ruined the role for anyone else. Why not take these actors and cast them in roles they can make their own instead of hamstringing them with the legacies of Nimoy and Shatner?
It's just like the abysmally stupid "Bionic Woman" nonsense; some bonehead executive decided to trot an old standard (for which some people have nostalgia) of carbonite and to "reimagine" it for a new generation... whatever the hell that means... Or the moronic Underdog movie. Or one of any other cinematic turds splattered across the big screen in the past few years. Damn.
There have been worlds of awesome science fiction written in the past few years that could easily be adopted to the big screen. For example, "The Golden Compass" is being released this winter and looks promising. However, what do we usually get? More of the same unimaginative crap that's driven people away from the major networks and theatres.
Does it really matter?