That is a pretty uninformed rant. Ever heard of early admissions or legacy? We've had 2 recent Presidents who lucked up into Ivy enrollments and gentleman-C'd their ways to big fat Golden Ticket that is an Ivy league degree. The Ivy League schools are still powered by privilege. I'm also assuming that never had to worry about paying for college if you think that people without the money for tuition magically get a free ride.
College aid for poor students is so that kids with parents either unblessed with wealth or too financially incompetent to assure college education for their children still have a chance in life. And, unlike the odd impression you've got about paying for college, it's not easy by any means for the financially limited. Ask around, you'd be surprised at the people who've come up thanks to our government's investment in people at all social levels.
I'll share an anecdote about a roommate from college. She was overall pretty cool, attractive, worked really hard, and unlike the average dingbat keg-standing through college, she had her head together. If you asked her, she'd tell you she paid her own way through college. Now keep in mind:
She didn't pay her own rent
She didnt pay her own utilities
She didn't buy her own books
She didn't pay for her own car
Who knows where her tuition money came from considering she only worked about 10 hours a week in the sorority. Now, in her mind she probably did make "sacrifices" by not being able to go on that Cancun Spring Break trip with the rest of the sorority sisters. These are all the little things that some of us who had more opportunities seem to forget.
Call it "socialism" if you want, but it's worked for the past 50 years.
Many of these trade algorithms are based on minuscule changes to stock prices during small windows of time. We have a client who uses our basic software to pull this off. There's no advantage if you have to wait 1 hour and a post-President's-Middle-East-dip window only lasts 5 minutes.
I do agree that disparities in access are a problem, too, but that won't stop the sophisticated outfits from still using these algorithms.
One looks like a deep dry river bed around Archimedes. WTF is that? It's not shallow like the others (I guess lava flows?). Second, I see a short crater rows. I guess this is from a stream of some disintegrated meteor?
There was a story a few months ago about a preacher warning his congregation about Facebook infidelity. While the his comments were of course hyperbolic, there's some truth at the core. It's not blaming Facebook, but it facilitates people looking up old relationships which could lead to problems.
It's damned Orwellian to visit a site and do a search for something (last time it was tents), then have ads for camping gear following me around every site I visit.
I've lost all trust in cloud computing; for reasons of privacy, political (not that I have reason to be a target, more about the principle), and information safety. Unfortunately, my Android phone currently has me hopelessly bound to the Google cloud with no obvious ways to extricate myself. Any leads would be much appreciated.
I like the idea of a recoverable deletion bucket. But, it should be less intrusive. Deletions should occur without prompts and if users want to recover files, they know where to go. Additionally, the system should treat the deletion bucket like a stack where deleted files are permanently removed as more disk space is needed.
By that, I mean there are still places they don't cheaply fill in for incadescents. Like dimming or being able to come to full brightness quickly (for closets, bathrooms, etc). At least, those're the problems I've had with the bulbs I put in about 4 years ago when I bought my house.
I'd have modded you up, but you're already at 5. I love seeing that someone has quantified something I've seen happen in a lot of forms of media. The same has happened to news networks BTW. I'm a big news junkie and I've noticed that in order to pull in the disinterested, many news channels have devoted a lot of coverage to infotainment and tabloid news. So, they drive off much of their core audience and trickle in new views (who would mostly be watching E! or MTV anyway).
The fact is, PC and console games are worlds better than what you see in arcades. I was in one last summer (first time in a long time) and I was thoroughly unimpressed with arcade technology. Even being able to race side-by-side w/ my girlfriend was kind of lame because of the weakness of the software. Maybe that's necessary when users have to learn on the fly, but it wasn't a very satisfying experience for me.
Yes, there are other non-arcade games there, and we actually played those *more*, but I'd rather sit at home and play on a good system.
I see a lot of similar responses I'd like to address. My point isn't that Americans NEVER use city names for children. It's that people often use words and names from other cultures based on phonetic (maybe even a literal translation) appeal. Sometimes, those names might not make much sense to use for children for native speakers or might just sound awkward.
They *were* the good guys. It started when they went public. I predicted they'd start acting like every other amoral corporation as soon as they had their IPO. Took a year or so to see the effects, but it's here now.
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That is a pretty uninformed rant. Ever heard of early admissions or legacy? We've had 2 recent Presidents who lucked up into Ivy enrollments and gentleman-C'd their ways to big fat Golden Ticket that is an Ivy league degree. The Ivy League schools are still powered by privilege. I'm also assuming that never had to worry about paying for college if you think that people without the money for tuition magically get a free ride.
College aid for poor students is so that kids with parents either unblessed with wealth or too financially incompetent to assure college education for their children still have a chance in life. And, unlike the odd impression you've got about paying for college, it's not easy by any means for the financially limited. Ask around, you'd be surprised at the people who've come up thanks to our government's investment in people at all social levels.
I'll share an anecdote about a roommate from college. She was overall pretty cool, attractive, worked really hard, and unlike the average dingbat keg-standing through college, she had her head together. If you asked her, she'd tell you she paid her own way through college. Now keep in mind:
Who knows where her tuition money came from considering she only worked about 10 hours a week in the sorority. Now, in her mind she probably did make "sacrifices" by not being able to go on that Cancun Spring Break trip with the rest of the sorority sisters. These are all the little things that some of us who had more opportunities seem to forget.
Call it "socialism" if you want, but it's worked for the past 50 years.
I thought Attack of the Clones was by far the weakest:
ESB
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RotJ
SW
TPM
RotS
Care Bears the Movie
Sex and the City
AotC
lol that's awesome. I got trumped by an even *older* sci-fi reference!
Many of these trade algorithms are based on minuscule changes to stock prices during small windows of time. We have a client who uses our basic software to pull this off. There's no advantage if you have to wait 1 hour and a post-President's-Middle-East-dip window only lasts 5 minutes.
I do agree that disparities in access are a problem, too, but that won't stop the sophisticated outfits from still using these algorithms.
There should be a massive delay on the order of an hour a trade to prevent all this bullshit exploitation of market prices.
Please mod this comment up! Parent just made an epic Elite reference that many a' you youngun's with your high fallutin' ATI cards probably don't get.
Fruity, with a dash of buck-toothed pretentious asshole. Yes, yes, a wonderful vintage indeed.
Classic game of floating an idea and seeing how the target audience will respond.
One looks like a deep dry river bed around Archimedes. WTF is that? It's not shallow like the others (I guess lava flows?). Second, I see a short crater rows. I guess this is from a stream of some disintegrated meteor?
Just call them "bandwidth hogs," oversell your capacity, and blame your connectivity problems on the people using most of the flow they paid for.
NASA, you guys have it pointed backwards.
There was a story a few months ago about a preacher warning his congregation about Facebook infidelity. While the his comments were of course hyperbolic, there's some truth at the core. It's not blaming Facebook, but it facilitates people looking up old relationships which could lead to problems.
This only confirms my opinion that Facebook is GAY!
It's damned Orwellian to visit a site and do a search for something (last time it was tents), then have ads for camping gear following me around every site I visit.
I've lost all trust in cloud computing; for reasons of privacy, political (not that I have reason to be a target, more about the principle), and information safety. Unfortunately, my Android phone currently has me hopelessly bound to the Google cloud with no obvious ways to extricate myself. Any leads would be much appreciated.
I always assumed that Dantooine and Tatooine were twin planets like this. Or did that mean something else?
Yeah my bad
I like the idea of a recoverable deletion bucket. But, it should be less intrusive. Deletions should occur without prompts and if users want to recover files, they know where to go. Additionally, the system should treat the deletion bucket like a stack where deleted files are permanently removed as more disk space is needed.
By that, I mean there are still places they don't cheaply fill in for incadescents. Like dimming or being able to come to full brightness quickly (for closets, bathrooms, etc). At least, those're the problems I've had with the bulbs I put in about 4 years ago when I bought my house.
I'd have modded you up, but you're already at 5. I love seeing that someone has quantified something I've seen happen in a lot of forms of media. The same has happened to news networks BTW. I'm a big news junkie and I've noticed that in order to pull in the disinterested, many news channels have devoted a lot of coverage to infotainment and tabloid news. So, they drive off much of their core audience and trickle in new views (who would mostly be watching E! or MTV anyway).
You had me up until your kookie comment about the IRS.
The fact is, PC and console games are worlds better than what you see in arcades. I was in one last summer (first time in a long time) and I was thoroughly unimpressed with arcade technology. Even being able to race side-by-side w/ my girlfriend was kind of lame because of the weakness of the software. Maybe that's necessary when users have to learn on the fly, but it wasn't a very satisfying experience for me.
Yes, there are other non-arcade games there, and we actually played those *more*, but I'd rather sit at home and play on a good system.
I see a lot of similar responses I'd like to address. My point isn't that Americans NEVER use city names for children. It's that people often use words and names from other cultures based on phonetic (maybe even a literal translation) appeal. Sometimes, those names might not make much sense to use for children for native speakers or might just sound awkward.
They *were* the good guys. It started when they went public. I predicted they'd start acting like every other amoral corporation as soon as they had their IPO. Took a year or so to see the effects, but it's here now.
lol smartass YES