Correcting a mistake the teacher made ? Unacceptable for some teachers, since teachers are never wrong and students are always wrong. (Experienced this one myself, basically, the teacher threw a tantrum when the _whole friggin' class_ pointed out to him politely that what he just said was wrong, since we all knew the right answer from a class we've just had earlier the very same day.
Student showing mild signs of boredom (such as looking out the window, or reading ahead in the textbook) since he could hold the class himself ? Unacceptable ?
My son goes through this all the time. Some teachers are such controlling jerks. They have their nice little personal dictatorship and damn anyone who say different. Granted, I know not all teachers are like this, having met and worked with some great teachers, but I have also run into lots of teachers who are just evil, even if they don't realize it.
I agree with that, but why not the industry police itself as does the film and music. And on top of that, I's REALLY like it if the damn Government would stay out of peoples lives. Let the parents do their job.
Probably because none of those are true. You might want to listen to something other than Air America radio.
Like NPR and BBC, will those do? Or will only Faux News suit your needs? Some very damning photos and videos that were to be released by the Gov were stopped from doing so by the Pentagon saying that doing so would violate the Geneva Convention by further embarrassing the victims of the criminal acts. Yes criminal... rape and murder still count as criminal acts.
It is also a fact that Bush knew his most important charge against Iraq, the "yellow cake" line was false. That is why, someone in his administration outed Plame. And it is also a fact that millions of dollars have been "misplaced" in Iraq. If Haliburton got them, who knows, but there have been many contractors in Iraq who have been caught over charging.
See, you are correct, it never pays to listen to one news source. I listen to many, read many on the web, and not just from one ideological viewpoint, nor from one country.
You dared to give Bush a compliment. While I am no fan of GWB, I do think we should start building new nukes based on the latest technology. Of course, there is all coal we have which nukes would replace.
I agree this this point of view. It is not the sex scene that is bad, (cause it's not), it is the cover up and dishonesty. This is a lesson, it seems, that our politicians have yet to learn as well.
To use the bully analogy, there are options besides caving and fighting. After the bully punches you. You stand back up, stick out you chest, and look at him, waiting for him to hit you again (they seldom do). Bullies don't know how to deal with this responce. They actually prefer you swing at them...
No, you kick the bullies arse.... Otherwise you are leaving him to bully some other unfortunate kid who might not have the resources or gumption to stand up to it.
You won't see this Catholic worshiping a piece of bread anytime soon. But that doesn't mean I'll take the Eucharist and throw it on the ground. Just because I don't agree with, or follow all the rules, doesn't make be any less a Catholic. Its like saying that unless I follow all the traffic laws I am not a Citizen of my country.
And lastly, I really don't care what your interpretaion of a Christian is, I know I am one as I am a member of a Chruch that dates back 2000 years.
So let me ask you, what makes a Christian a Christian.
And for completeness sake, here is Dictionary.com's definition:
Christian adj.
1. Professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. 2. Relating to or derived from Jesus or Jesus's teachings. 3. Manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus; Christlike. 4. Relating to or characteristic of Christianity or its adherents. 5. Showing a loving concern for others; humane.
n.
1. One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus. 2. One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus.
Hmmm, looks like Catholics follow all those to me....
wow you are misinformed.... After doing 12 years in Catholic school, I can tell you that the Catholic Jesus Christ is the same as other Christians. And yes..... Catholics are Christians.
I was listening on the radio and they were dicussing this topic. One guy called in saying he was on the list because when he was 18 and still in high school, he had sex with his 17 girlfriend. He did like 4 years or something like that. Now if that is not BS, then I don't know what is. If they sent all the high school kids to jail who were boinking, then there'd be no one left in school... except the/. posters....:)
Western style governments have always used taxation as taking from one person and giving to others. But property, you know, land, has had special protection in English, and hence, American law. Sure, if you want to generalize and say land and money is all property in some form, then you could have a point. But the fact of the matter is, legally, (and that is what we are discussing), property and cash are different.
Actually, I think it's probably "the government" acting in its interests too- preventing any erosion of eminent domain. What's next, people arguing how much of the "public interest" that new bypass is? Can't have that!
This case is not about a new bypass. This case is about a taking land from one person and giving it to another person or corp.
Here is a quote from one of the dissenting views.
Justice O'Connor, with whom The Chief Justice, Justice Scalia, and Justice Thomas join, dissenting.
Over two centuries ago, just after the Bill of Rights was ratified, Justice Chase wrote:
"An act of the Legislature (for I cannot call it a law) contrary to the great first principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority... . A few instances will suffice to explain what I mean... . [A] law that takes property from A. and gives it to B: It is against all reason and justice, for a people to entrust a Legislature with such powers; and, therefore, it cannot be presumed that they have done it." Calder v. Bull, 3 Dall. 386, 388 (1798) (emphasis deleted).
Today the Court abandons this long-held, basic limitation on government power. Under the banner of economic development, all private property is now vulnerable to being taken and transferred to another private owner, so long as it might be upgraded--i.e., given to an owner who will use it in a way that the legislature deems more beneficial to the public--in the process. To reason, as the Court does, that the incidental public benefits resulting from the subsequent ordinary use of private property render economic development takings "for public use" is to wash out any distinction between private and public use of property--and thereby effectively to delete the words "for public use" from the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Accordingly I respectfully dissent.
So how does Sun compare to these two? While numbers, 32, does not compare, what about the scope of some of the projects. Open Office and Open Solaris just to name a couple.
According to the report I heard on NPR, this bill does not allow a company to release edits of movies, but rather allows the use of filters to skip violence/sex/drug scenes. I don't have a problem with that.
It is ironic that many folks here at/. feel the need to protect the integrity of a movie, when so many also think they can trade movies or songs at will. Also, how does filtering of movie content compare to song sampling?
Excerpt from the bill...
Title II: Exemption from Infringement for Skipping Audio and Video Content In Motion Pictures - Family Movie Act of 2005 - (Sec. 202) Creates an exemption from copyright infringement for:
(1) the making imperceptible, by or at the direction of a private household, of limited portions of audio or video content of a motion picture during a performance in or transmitted to that household for private home viewing from an authorized copy of the motion picture; or
(2) the creation or provision of technology that enables such editing, is designed and marketed for such use, creates no fixed copy of the altered version, and makes no changes, deletions or additions to commercial advertisements or promotional announcements that would otherwise be performed or displayed.
So tell me, what is so much worse out here than in your neck of the woods? The USA's largest port is in southern California. Lots of good schools out here, Cal Tech, Stanford, Berkley, USC and USC's ISI which is home for the IETF. JPL is out here, a couple of super computer centers, Areospace, heck, California is the world's 5th largest economy.
And lets not forget Napa Valley for wine and the Central Valley which is the nation's largest producer of food. I hear Yosemite, Sequoia, Red Woods, etc are nice places to visit.
Yep, the rest of the country just might miss the west coast.
p.s. Notice I did not even mention Oregon or Washington.
Back in my day, you had to have silver hair, build Stainless Steal cars, and a penchant for nose candy if you were going to be entrapped, and we hated it that way.
- No to capital punishment - No to war (except in self defense(*) ) - No to abortion - No to euthanasia
I agree with all except for euthanasia. I think if a person is able to make a decision that their life is not worth living, why should we stop them. Should we force people to not smoke, not drink, not eat red meat? Make them exercise? We let people kill themselves a little at a time everyday. How is it so different to let them do it all at once. My wife died from cancer in a most horrible way. I would not wish that upon anyone. If I knew I was going down that path, I would pick my own time so I could say goodbye and go with some sense of dignity. What purpose does the extra pain serve? Would God reject me because of this? Would this pain make me accepted into Heaven?
Now as for that woman in Florida... that is a truely horrible situation. I don't think I would want my son to continue in that state, so I question the parents motives and understanding of the situation. But I also would not want to make the decision for the parties involved.
One more point, I also agree with the right to own guns. And I can not stand GWB.
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2) My heart bleeds, the media is still so left wing it is amazing. I KNOW there are paid shills (anyone at CNN) for the liberals. Tit for tat..no foul.
Actually there is a foul. Even the GAO thinks so.
The GAO said that federal agencies may not produce prepackaged news reports "that conceal or do not clearly identify for the television viewing audience that the agency was the source of those materials."
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Latin America and Caribean nations are big on baseball too.
This reminds me of a favorite scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail....
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
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Correcting a mistake the teacher made ? Unacceptable for some teachers, since teachers are never wrong and students are always wrong. (Experienced this one myself, basically, the teacher threw a tantrum when the _whole friggin' class_ pointed out to him politely that what he just said was wrong, since we all knew the right answer from a class we've just had earlier the very same day.
Student showing mild signs of boredom (such as looking out the window, or reading ahead in the textbook) since he could hold the class himself ? Unacceptable ?
My son goes through this all the time. Some teachers are such controlling jerks. They have their nice little personal dictatorship and damn anyone who say different. Granted, I know not all teachers are like this, having met and worked with some great teachers, but I have also run into lots of teachers who are just evil, even if they don't realize it.
I agree with that, but why not the industry police itself as does the film and music. And on top of that, I's REALLY like it if the damn Government would stay out of peoples lives. Let the parents do their job.
(I know it is not 9/19, but aaarrrrgggg)
Oh yeah, and how mature is it to flame someone behind the mask of anonymity?
Great! Now all my keys are sticky and have fingerprints on them and my fingers are covered with gunk...Got any other bright ideas?
aaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww... poor babies....
According to this information, your points might need adjusting.
Probably because none of those are true. You might want to listen to something other than Air America radio.
Like NPR and BBC, will those do? Or will only Faux News suit your needs? Some very damning photos and videos that were to be released by the Gov were stopped from doing so by the Pentagon saying that doing so would violate the Geneva Convention by further embarrassing the victims of the criminal acts. Yes criminal... rape and murder still count as criminal acts.
It is also a fact that Bush knew his most important charge against Iraq, the "yellow cake" line was false. That is why, someone in his administration outed Plame. And it is also a fact that millions of dollars have been "misplaced" in Iraq. If Haliburton got them, who knows, but there have been many contractors in Iraq who have been caught over charging.
See, you are correct, it never pays to listen to one news source. I listen to many, read many on the web, and not just from one ideological viewpoint, nor from one country.
You dared to give Bush a compliment. While I am no fan of GWB, I do think we should start building new nukes based on the latest technology. Of course, there is all coal we have which nukes would replace.
I agree this this point of view. It is not the sex scene that is bad, (cause it's not), it is the cover up and dishonesty. This is a lesson, it seems, that our politicians have yet to learn as well.
To use the bully analogy, there are options besides caving and fighting. After the bully punches you. You stand back up, stick out you chest, and look at him, waiting for him to hit you again (they seldom do). Bullies don't know how to deal with this responce. They actually prefer you swing at them...
No, you kick the bullies arse.... Otherwise you are leaving him to bully some other unfortunate kid who might not have the resources or gumption to stand up to it.
You won't see this Catholic worshiping a piece of bread anytime soon. But that doesn't mean I'll take the Eucharist and throw it on the ground. Just because I don't agree with, or follow all the rules, doesn't make be any less a Catholic. Its like saying that unless I follow all the traffic laws I am not a Citizen of my country.
And lastly, I really don't care what your interpretaion of a Christian is, I know I am one as I am a member of a Chruch that dates back 2000 years.
So let me ask you, what makes a Christian a Christian.
And for completeness sake, here is Dictionary.com's definition:
Hmmm, looks like Catholics follow all those to me....
wow you are misinformed.... After doing 12 years in Catholic school, I can tell you that the Catholic Jesus Christ is the same as other Christians. And yes..... Catholics are Christians.
I was listening on the radio and they were dicussing this topic. One guy called in saying he was on the list because when he was 18 and still in high school, he had sex with his 17 girlfriend. He did like 4 years or something like that. Now if that is not BS, then I don't know what is. If they sent all the high school kids to jail who were boinking, then there'd be no one left in school... except the /. posters.... :)
Western style governments have always used taxation as taking from one person and giving to others. But property, you know, land, has had special protection in English, and hence, American law. Sure, if you want to generalize and say land and money is all property in some form, then you could have a point. But the fact of the matter is, legally, (and that is what we are discussing), property and cash are different.
Actually, I think it's probably "the government" acting in its interests too- preventing any erosion of eminent domain. What's next, people arguing how much of the "public interest" that new bypass is? Can't have that!
This case is not about a new bypass. This case is about a taking land from one person and giving it to another person or corp.
Here is a quote from one of the dissenting views.
So how does Sun compare to these two? While numbers, 32, does not compare, what about the scope of some of the projects. Open Office and Open Solaris just to name a couple.
According to the report I heard on NPR, this bill does not allow a company to release edits of movies, but rather allows the use of filters to skip violence/sex/drug scenes. I don't have a problem with that.
/. feel the need to protect the integrity of a movie, when so many also think they can trade movies or songs at will. Also, how does filtering of movie content compare to song sampling?
It is ironic that many folks here at
Excerpt from the bill...
Title II: Exemption from Infringement for Skipping Audio and Video Content In Motion Pictures - Family Movie Act of 2005 - (Sec. 202) Creates an exemption from copyright infringement for:
(1) the making imperceptible, by or at the direction of a private household, of limited portions of audio or video content of a motion picture during a performance in or transmitted to that household for private home viewing from an authorized copy of the motion picture; or
(2) the creation or provision of technology that enables such editing, is designed and marketed for such use, creates no fixed copy of the altered version, and makes no changes, deletions or additions to commercial advertisements or promotional announcements that would otherwise be performed or displayed.
This seems much ado about nothing.
Google... heh, why back in my day, I was happy to use Archie. It sure beat doing ls -lR on every ftp server I knew.
So tell me, what is so much worse out here than in your neck of the woods? The USA's largest port is in southern California. Lots of good schools out here, Cal Tech, Stanford, Berkley, USC and USC's ISI which is home for the IETF. JPL is out here, a couple of super computer centers, Areospace, heck, California is the world's 5th largest economy.
And lets not forget Napa Valley for wine and the Central Valley which is the nation's largest producer of food. I hear Yosemite, Sequoia, Red Woods, etc are nice places to visit.
Yep, the rest of the country just might miss the west coast.
p.s. Notice I did not even mention Oregon or Washington.
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Back in my day, you had to have silver hair, build Stainless Steal cars, and a penchant for nose candy if you were going to be entrapped, and we hated it that way.
- No to capital punishment
- No to war (except in self defense(*) )
- No to abortion
- No to euthanasia
I agree with all except for euthanasia. I think if a person is able to make a decision that their life is not worth living, why should we stop them. Should we force people to not smoke, not drink, not eat red meat? Make them exercise? We let people kill themselves a little at a time everyday. How is it so different to let them do it all at once. My wife died from cancer in a most horrible way. I would not wish that upon anyone. If I knew I was going down that path, I would pick my own time so I could say goodbye and go with some sense of dignity. What purpose does the extra pain serve? Would God reject me because of this? Would this pain make me accepted into Heaven?
Now as for that woman in Florida... that is a truely horrible situation. I don't think I would want my son to continue in that state, so I question the parents motives and understanding of the situation. But I also would not want to make the decision for the parties involved.
One more point, I also agree with the right to own guns. And I can not stand GWB.
2) My heart bleeds, the media is still so left wing it is amazing. I KNOW there are paid shills (anyone at CNN) for the liberals. Tit for tat..no foul.
Actually there is a foul. Even the GAO thinks so.
The GAO said that federal agencies may not produce prepackaged news reports "that conceal or do not clearly identify for the television viewing audience that the agency was the source of those materials."
Latin America and Caribean nations are big on baseball too.
This reminds me of a favorite scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail....
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the
week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?