Really amazing place, off the beaten path, near another amazing place, Aqua Azul. Ancient, lush, unique. Only pyramid in the Americas where they buried a king inside a pyramid. As for what happened to it, I believe that there was quite a lot of warring amongst the various Mayan city states-it had nothing to do with plumbing.
As I understand the issue the problem with screen time is twofold. You are sitting still and thus are not exercising and burning calories, building muscle, and hopefully playing well with others. Second, many kids (and adults) couple that still time with eating. Video games require you to use your hands so they are actually less likely to include overeating. Therefore if the camp included some physical activity and the gaming wasn't accompanied by copious amounts of snacks, there is no problem, precisely the opposite-the camp could be a godsend.
I temped for I believe it was Lockheed in 2002 in Washington DC. There was human oversight of the red light ticketing. In those days the cameras were film cameras and you'd go get a spool of film and load it into a device that would display two photos on a computer screen. The camera was triggered by motion and would go off if you were moving at the intersection as the light was yellow. So the first photo would be of a yellow light. This would clearly catch the license plate. The second photo would be of the car going through the intersection on a red, or of it stopping just in time. If the driver ran the red, you'd click on the first photo to read the license plate #. You also had to discern what state was on the plate, which could be quite difficult.
The atmosphere of the company was very parochial, the managers were aloof, condescending jerks who thought they were nice, and once I got within two weeks start date of my real job and I had finals looming, I basically told them off and got fired on purpose.
There was a cop that worked there that was supposed to be certifying the tickets but I don't remember ever seeing him. We processed thousands of tickets a day and I don't know how anyone could check all that work.
I remember the cameras catching one accident in the month or two I worked there, don't remember much else interesting there other than that some of the people that I worked with went to the club a lot.
I've enjoyed playing WoW for several years and during that time I've seen things like people typing the word Anal and then linking a character skill, such as the warrior ability Rampage. I've seen this go in in/2 trade chat, which is visible in all cities, for as long as it is 'funny', which can be about 30 minutes. No moderation is done and to get someone in trouble you have to open a ticket and complain. This went on across many different servers and lasted for months before I heard of anyone getting banned for it. Profanity is tossed around rather frequently as well.
In other words, it is basically just like the real world, which it is basically futile to try to protect kids from. My concern is simply for parents who are naive about what their kid is getting into. I personally don't see a huge problem with this. I was a latch key kid, found my dad's stash of Hustler mags at an early age, and I'm a normal adult with a young family etc. I rode my bicycle all over town, bought cigarettes from a machine, yada yada yada.
I remember in college I learned to prey upon girls who had been aggressively sheltered all their lives. Once they got to college they were just looking for a guy to go crazy with. I was determined to be that guy for as many beautiful young women as I could find. So really, as a parent, ask yourself, is it really the best thing to own a helicopter?
I took a sociology class 20 years ago where a guest speaker posited that criminals are educated by other criminals in prison on how to be better criminals. So none of this is really huge news but it is always good to get proof of such ideas.
Currently I'm trying to get the Midsummer Festival done on 2 characters. This requires me to fly all over the entire world of warcraft, three continents, and visit about 50 or so locations apiece. Some of the locations I have to use a ground mount to travel to. And the point of doing this? So I can get a 310% speed mount by completing all 8 or 9 of these seasonal events so I won't have to spend as much time flying around. See the irony?
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Really amazing place, off the beaten path, near another amazing place, Aqua Azul. Ancient, lush, unique. Only pyramid in the Americas where they buried a king inside a pyramid. As for what happened to it, I believe that there was quite a lot of warring amongst the various Mayan city states-it had nothing to do with plumbing.
As I understand the issue the problem with screen time is twofold. You are sitting still and thus are not exercising and burning calories, building muscle, and hopefully playing well with others. Second, many kids (and adults) couple that still time with eating. Video games require you to use your hands so they are actually less likely to include overeating. Therefore if the camp included some physical activity and the gaming wasn't accompanied by copious amounts of snacks, there is no problem, precisely the opposite-the camp could be a godsend.
Yet another science fiction becomes true life kind of story.
I temped for I believe it was Lockheed in 2002 in Washington DC. There was human oversight of the red light ticketing. In those days the cameras were film cameras and you'd go get a spool of film and load it into a device that would display two photos on a computer screen. The camera was triggered by motion and would go off if you were moving at the intersection as the light was yellow. So the first photo would be of a yellow light. This would clearly catch the license plate. The second photo would be of the car going through the intersection on a red, or of it stopping just in time. If the driver ran the red, you'd click on the first photo to read the license plate #. You also had to discern what state was on the plate, which could be quite difficult. The atmosphere of the company was very parochial, the managers were aloof, condescending jerks who thought they were nice, and once I got within two weeks start date of my real job and I had finals looming, I basically told them off and got fired on purpose. There was a cop that worked there that was supposed to be certifying the tickets but I don't remember ever seeing him. We processed thousands of tickets a day and I don't know how anyone could check all that work. I remember the cameras catching one accident in the month or two I worked there, don't remember much else interesting there other than that some of the people that I worked with went to the club a lot.
I've enjoyed playing WoW for several years and during that time I've seen things like people typing the word Anal and then linking a character skill, such as the warrior ability Rampage. I've seen this go in in /2 trade chat, which is visible in all cities, for as long as it is 'funny', which can be about 30 minutes. No moderation is done and to get someone in trouble you have to open a ticket and complain. This went on across many different servers and lasted for months before I heard of anyone getting banned for it. Profanity is tossed around rather frequently as well.
In other words, it is basically just like the real world, which it is basically futile to try to protect kids from. My concern is simply for parents who are naive about what their kid is getting into. I personally don't see a huge problem with this. I was a latch key kid, found my dad's stash of Hustler mags at an early age, and I'm a normal adult with a young family etc. I rode my bicycle all over town, bought cigarettes from a machine, yada yada yada.
I remember in college I learned to prey upon girls who had been aggressively sheltered all their lives. Once they got to college they were just looking for a guy to go crazy with. I was determined to be that guy for as many beautiful young women as I could find. So really, as a parent, ask yourself, is it really the best thing to own a helicopter?
I took a sociology class 20 years ago where a guest speaker posited that criminals are educated by other criminals in prison on how to be better criminals. So none of this is really huge news but it is always good to get proof of such ideas.
I managed to get a blue response in this thread regarding this topic: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18031369399&sid=1&pageNo=1
Currently I'm trying to get the Midsummer Festival done on 2 characters. This requires me to fly all over the entire world of warcraft, three continents, and visit about 50 or so locations apiece. Some of the locations I have to use a ground mount to travel to. And the point of doing this? So I can get a 310% speed mount by completing all 8 or 9 of these seasonal events so I won't have to spend as much time flying around. See the irony?