Last year my brother took a friend of ours with ALS on the last deer hunt of his life. My brother did everything for this guy but pull the trigger. Took a lot of time to rig things up to make that possible. And someone who is unfortunate enough to be blind should be able to go hunting with some assistance. The only reason anyone would find this funny is if they are willing to completely ignore what the hunting entails and just laugh at another's misfortune. Maybe I'm wrong to be bothered by this - but I think it is sad that I'm seeing it in so many places being presented as a humorous story.
I have to admit not knowing what ALS was. Now that I've looked it up, this seems like a hazardous choice.
According to Wikipedia, one of the symptoms is fasciculation:
A fasciculation (or "muscle twitch") is a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction (twitching) visible under the skin arising from the spontaneous discharge of a bundle of skeletal muscle fibres.
Are his hands unaffected? I don't know, maybe this is a troll post.
At any rate, taking a disabled people with you on a trip into the woods is a great thing. I'd hope that most of the social aspects could be fulfilled without actually pulling the trigger if circumstances warranted that.
A b/w NTSC TV "reads" a color signal and renders it in black and white. Is this really that difficult to comprehend? The TV simply ignores the color information. Again, I get the feeling stuff is not quite connecting in your head. I'll gladly go pick up the old b/w Magnavox TV at my parent's place and happily feed it a color signal from my DVD player. The TV will render it in b/w. We can argue about the meaning of "read" and "render" while watching a movie in b/w, OK?
Failures of communication are seldom exclusively the fault of one person. And I apologize for my part of it.
You're referring to a TV broadcast with both its luma and chroma as a "color signal". That works if I'm the same page with you. I wasn't.
Wouldn't it also be fair to call just the chroma information the "color signal"? It's a useful distinction in a discussion concerning backwards compatibility, no? So, in this sense a TV doesn't have to create a b/w image out of the color signal.
Get some reading skills there Sparky. Your comments are a total non-sequitur of nonsense since the beginning.
I'm responding specifically to the part in bold. Note that the old "black-and-white" tv is not the same as the current type (which reads a color signal and renders it into greyscale)
The question is, in what current standard is that true? Please name one and I will read about it.
The original B/W systems used in Europe *before* color where totally incompatible with the later color systems. The fact that B/W *sets* that could display B/W PAL has nothing to do with the earlier systems. That was a cost thing.
Don't delude yourself into thinking playing a game is producing anything valuable. Yes, idiots do pay money for this stuff. Pulling off the scam of selling the items is the act that acquires the money.
What do you think of the idea of tracking the amount of driving and increasing the tax accordingly?
I think it's a bad idea. It's much, much more difficult to enforce than a gas tax. The gas tax encourages people to drive less, with smaller and more efficient vehicles. Taxing the miles has little basis in the costs to the roads or the environment.
How about not making the Hobbit at all? I loved the Lord Of The Rings movies, but for all the good in them, they ruined the books forever for me. When I read them now, I can't help but imagine Frodo being Elijah Wood and Gandalf being Ian McKellen. Every picture that had been formed in my mind by reading the books has been wiped over and replaced with Peter Jackson's vision, and that sucks.
Maybe you could just not watch the Hobbit if it's made?
I was terrified by the traffic signs and rules in California. I found the 4 way cross-roads with a stop sign on each entry particularly confusing. It seemed to work on the principle of "everyone knows when it's their turn to go".
The first person to arrive has right of way.
Here on the Gold Coast we have a lot of roundabouts, which are not a perfect solution, but are really very simple (1) traffic entering the roundabout gives way to all traffic on the roundabout, and (2) on a multi-lane roundabout, only exit from the first left if you entered in the left hand lane. Keep those 2 rules straight and it's near impossible for it to stuff up.
It's totally a matter of what you're used to. I can't even figure out what rule 2 means.
Axis & Allies. Or AAA the open source version being developed at sf.net. It's like risk but biger, longer, more complicated, and with way cooler looking pieces. Seriously, try it out if you like RISK.
Seconded. I always liked Risk before I played A&A, but I always thought it would be fun to have boats and such. Axis & Allies is just one notch more detailed. (It's still nothing like a simulation.)
Wow. What sort of parent is so over-protective that they won't let their kid watch all of Star Wars? Seriously, kids aren't that fragile unless you really isolate them from the world around them - in which case they do a ton of drugs and get 9 venereal diseases as soon as they turn 15.
I want you to think about Episode III a minute.
Obiwan leaves his pupil to burn to death slowly. I thought that might disturb him. Does that really seem kooky to you?
I recently watched all the Star Wars movies with my 7 year-old son. I wouldn't let him see Episode III in the theater, because I felt the violence was too intense and the intrigue too slow. It's a bit better at home, because we can skip parts or take a break as necessary. (My wife and I, being mature adults, went to see it at midnight when it opened. Irony intended.)
He'd seen some of the orginal trilogy before, but I don't think the story stuck with him. Anyway, we watched I-III, the Clone War Cartoons, and then IV-VI over about two weeks. When Anakin died in Return of the Jedi, he cried. It was a much different experience in chronological order.
Communication skills (The ability to understand and be understood, both written and verbal)
I'd really like to correct you here by saying you meant written and oral, but apparently there's a few hundred years of precedent on your side for using the word verbal to mean oral.
It seems like a waste of a perfectly good word to me.
You can say anything you want. If it can be substantially proven that you inflicted quantifiable harm on another, you can be held accountable for that.
For instance, if I published a full-page ad in your local paper calling you a pedophile, I would have the full legal right to do so. If you could demonstrate that I caused you financial losses from such a thing, and damages, then I could be sued for libel.
Just to point out the obvious, I'll note that the speech also has to be false for the plaintiff to collect damages. Cosby/Zenger trial
I'm afraid not. Liberal and conservative are both terms used to describe distribution of something. Haven't you ever heard something like "apply liberally to affected region" or "caution: may burn; apply conservatively?" From the very meaning of the words you can hopefully see that these are both about economics in relation to government. Both asking, "how do we spend?" It has long been thought that you can derive all of a political view from this, but I think it's time to use more to talk about it. Mostly because you can spend in a way that supports either of the other two terms you were actually comparing.
The terms you're thinking of are "libertarian," (allowing people to do whatever they want/against government regulation) and it's counterpoint "authoritarian" (preventing people from doing what they want/for government regulation).
Initially, these had to be linked because everyone who wanted more regulation also wanted some way to pay for it. So liberal implied more taxes. Today we spend money we don't have, so you can be against taxes and still be for spending.
I don't think these terms actually apply very well anymore. Both of the main parties seem very authoritarian and very liberal (remember, this means "they spend a lot").
-1, wrong.
Liberal relates to freedom. Liberal governments as opposed to unlimited monarchies and such. It's only recently that people have decided that it's an insult.
"What happened to doing the Hobbit?" I wondered. And Wikipedia answered:
Much speculation has occurred as to whether Jackson might direct a film of The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. His comments to date seem to indicate that he is interested, if the studios can work out the rights. Late in 2004 it appeared unlikely, as MGM (the studio which holds the rights to The Hobbit) was sold to Sony in the race with Warner Bros. In December of 2004, Jackson said that production on The Hobbit could be as much as four years away,[8] which would place a likely release date in 2010. In September 2006, MGM indicated that they intended to approach Peter Jackson to direct the film in the next few years.[9]
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I was thinking race.
I'm not sure why L became language instead of location.
ALSR?
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I have to admit not knowing what ALS was. Now that I've looked it up, this seems like a hazardous choice.
According to Wikipedia, one of the symptoms is fasciculation:
Are his hands unaffected? I don't know, maybe this is a troll post.
At any rate, taking a disabled people with you on a trip into the woods is a great thing. I'd hope that most of the social aspects could be fulfilled without actually pulling the trigger if circumstances warranted that.
Failures of communication are seldom exclusively the fault of one person. And I apologize for my part of it.
You're referring to a TV broadcast with both its luma and chroma as a "color signal". That works if I'm the same page with you. I wasn't.
Wouldn't it also be fair to call just the chroma information the "color signal"? It's a useful distinction in a discussion concerning backwards compatibility, no? So, in this sense a TV doesn't have to create a b/w image out of the color signal.
I'm responding specifically to the part in bold.
Note that the old "black-and-white" tv is not the same as the current type (which reads a color signal and renders it into greyscale)
The question is, in what current standard is that true? Please name one and I will read about it.
No argument there.
Look, I'm game. Under what standard does the TV construct a gray scale image from the color one?
Um, what the hell are you talking about?
The black and white signal is separate from the color signal in NTSC and PAL.
I'm going to guess that you're over 18.
I don't think it's right to require a person to put his life on the line for a commander-in-chief he didn't even get a chance to vote against.
Doesn't an ipod beep to tell the user it received the button press?
I wouldn't expect to pay income tax on the appreciation of a comic book collection sitting in my closet or on my book shelf.
I don't see the IRS taking an interest.
Don't delude yourself into thinking playing a game is producing anything valuable. Yes, idiots do pay money for this stuff. Pulling off the scam of selling the items is the act that acquires the money.
I think it's a bad idea. It's much, much more difficult to enforce than a gas tax. The gas tax encourages people to drive less, with smaller and more efficient vehicles. Taxing the miles has little basis in the costs to the roads or the environment.
If the teacher made an appropriate response to the provocation, the video wouldn't show anything embarrassing.
The ribbon is some sort of widget, right? Why isn't it a part of windows?
Maybe you could just not watch the Hobbit if it's made?
The first person to arrive has right of way.
It's totally a matter of what you're used to. I can't even figure out what rule 2 means.
Seconded. I always liked Risk before I played A&A, but I always thought it would be fun to have boats and such. Axis & Allies is just one notch more detailed. (It's still nothing like a simulation.)
I want you to think about Episode III a minute.
Obiwan leaves his pupil to burn to death slowly. I thought that might disturb him. Does that really seem kooky to you?
I recently watched all the Star Wars movies with my 7 year-old son. I wouldn't let him see Episode III in the theater, because I felt the violence was too intense and the intrigue too slow. It's a bit better at home, because we can skip parts or take a break as necessary. (My wife and I, being mature adults, went to see it at midnight when it opened. Irony intended.)
He'd seen some of the orginal trilogy before, but I don't think the story stuck with him. Anyway, we watched I-III, the Clone War Cartoons, and then IV-VI over about two weeks. When Anakin died in Return of the Jedi, he cried. It was a much different experience in chronological order.
I'd really like to correct you here by saying you meant written and oral, but apparently there's a few hundred years of precedent on your side for using the word verbal to mean oral.
It seems like a waste of a perfectly good word to me.
I think it needs to go into the blood stream. Therefore, you (or a friend) should bite your arm.
Just to point out the obvious, I'll note that the speech also has to be false for the plaintiff to collect damages. Cosby/Zenger trial
The American hostages in Iran were relased the day Reagan took office. It was not merely coincidence.
This could be a coincidence. Frankly, I don't think Americans find the fate of Saddam the person to be all the relevent to them.
But these things can be and have been engineered for political reasons.
-1, wrong.
Liberal relates to freedom. Liberal governments as opposed to unlimited monarchies and such. It's only recently that people have decided that it's an insult.