A spokesperson said, "There's room for improvement."
Someone should tell that to NY officials. According the the AP, a face-scanning system has been installed at the the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island ferry.
Or perhaps two messages in one, since some letters go one way and others another. Or maybe it is one message, split in the middle and looped back on itself.
Someone should split it in two and run frequency counts on each section.
there are some freeways which should be at 85-115 because it's safe and it would help reduce the traffic congestion which is the real danger
Actually, one of the best ways to reduce congestion is to reduce the speed limit. For safe driving, every car needs a minimum amount of space between it and the car in front. This space is measured in units of time, the standard minimum being ~2sec (I think). The size (in ft) of this two second gap will vary based on what speed you are traveling. A two second gap at 40 mph is much shorter (in ft) than a two second gap at 80mph. Thus, a given amount of highway can safely hold less vehicles at a high speed.
As a 5th-year architecture student , I hereby offer my design services free of charge. Of course, you'd need to pay my way from VA to MI, and I can't actually get licensed for another 3 1/2 years, but that's beside the point.;)
Seriously though, I'm sorry to hear about your house. Good luck getting things sorted out.
Besides this article, Salon also has excerpts from Eric Harris' "diary." Among his writings: "You know what I hate? Star Wars fans: get a friggin life, you boring geeks." I thought this was interesting, given some of the the comments and speculation on Slashdot. While many of us (myself included) felt that we could identify w/ Eric and Dylan, they may have not been able to identify w/ us. Just food for thought.
Instead of having ICANN try to find and shut down the 'if you want to buy this domain' sites (which, in my opinion, would never work), why not just place limits on domain name selling. If you register a domain name, you are forbidden to sell it for the period of one year, or something like that.
I attended a public high school about half the size of Columbine (graduated in '95). 900 kids. We had your standard cliques -- jocks, preps, band geeks, computer nerds, rednecks, etc etc. We had problems to be sure, but unlike Columbine and many other schools, we interacted with each other a fair amount. Maybe it was because the school was a good size, maybe it was because it was a college town, but our cliques were not exclusive. I was picked on; being shy, skinny and a little socially inept didn't help. For me, though, middle school was much worse. By high school most people had grown up, and those who continued to torment others did it not because they were jocks or preps, but because they were jerks.
I think this is important, because people rant on and on about cliques and how bad they are, but the fact is, cliques can be healthy. We want friends who are similar to us. People who have similar values as us, dress like us, listen to the same music. There is nothing wrong with it - its perfectly natural. The problems arise when your whole life is spent in your own little clique, isolated from everything else. We need interaction with those different from us. We need the intellectual stimulation from a spirited debate, we need to question our beliefs, we need to appreciate others for who they are before we can truly know who we are. When we start stereotyping people, labeling them as Jocks, Preps, Rednecks, or Geeks, we start seeing them as labels and not as people. We close doors. We end up no better than our oppressors -- shunning people because they are different than us.
One of the most eye-opening experiences for me was the summer after I graduated. I was employed by the grounds crew of the university, and wound up working along side another guy from my school. He was a football player (with a cheerleader girlfriend), I was a Band Geek. In our four years of high school I don't think we'd said twenty words to each other, but we talked quite a bit during those three months, and at the end we respected each other all the more, even though he was still a popular football player and I was still a skinny band geek.
On a slightly different note...
These reports of overreactions by teachers and school officials are very disturbing, and they need to be publicized. I am setting up a web site to post student accounts of these actions. If you wish to contribute, please email me. However, a few conditions:
1. You must currently be in high school. I realize that this is going on in middle schools, etc as well, but I am going to focus on high schools. I think the media will take them more seriously.
2. The actions must have taken place as a result of the Columbine shooting. Nothing before last monday.
Email me at schoolsucks@vt.edu. Include your name (if you wish), the name of your school, and your city and state. Let me know if you want to be kept anonymous. If you have written something for a school publication criticizing the actions, and have been censored, you can send in that piece as well. However, being opinion pieces I won't publish them anonymously, so you must include your name.
If you have any other suggestions please let me know. I'll post again when it goes live.
Rape and slaughter may get Serbia on the evening news, but, from the point of view of becoming major players upon the international stage, Serbs would be better off selling Yugos.
Too late for that, we bombed the Yugo factory. Hmm, maybe it's a government conspiracy to subdue them and then sell them crappy American cars.
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Duh - to make money!!
Furby Autopsies by CmdrTaco on Fri December 11, 05:38 PM EST 28 Other furby-related stories here.
Or perhaps two messages in one, since some letters go one way and others another. Or maybe it is one message, split in the middle and looped back on itself.
Someone should split it in two and run frequency counts on each section.
You sound like a candidate for the Mr. Punyverse contest!
See here (scroll down for pictures of past contestants).
Apparently they were Scuds launched into Chechnya as part of the Russian offensive.
See this BBC article.
As a 5th-year architecture student , I hereby offer my design services free of charge. Of course, you'd need to pay my way from VA to MI, and I can't actually get licensed for another 3 1/2 years, but that's beside the point. ;)
Seriously though, I'm sorry to hear about your house. Good luck getting things sorted out.
Besides this article, Salon also has excerpts from Eric Harris' "diary." Among his writings: "You know what I hate? Star Wars fans: get a friggin life, you boring geeks." I thought this was interesting, given some of the the comments and speculation on Slashdot. While many of us (myself included) felt that we could identify w/ Eric and Dylan, they may have not been able to identify w/ us. Just food for thought.
Instead of having ICANN try to find and shut down the 'if you want to buy this domain' sites (which, in my opinion, would never work), why not just place limits on domain name selling. If you register a domain name, you are forbidden to sell it for the period of one year, or something like that.
I attended a public high school about half the size of Columbine (graduated in '95). 900 kids. We had your standard cliques -- jocks, preps, band geeks, computer nerds, rednecks, etc etc. We had problems to be sure, but unlike Columbine and many other schools, we interacted with each other a fair amount. Maybe it was because the school was a good size, maybe it was because it was a college town, but our cliques were not exclusive. I was picked on; being shy, skinny and a little socially inept didn't help. For me, though, middle school was much worse. By high school most people had grown up, and those who continued to torment others did it not because they were jocks or preps, but because they were jerks.
I think this is important, because people rant on and on about cliques and how bad they are, but the fact is, cliques can be healthy. We want friends who are similar to us. People who have similar values as us, dress like us, listen to the same music. There is nothing wrong with it - its perfectly natural. The problems arise when your whole life is spent in your own little clique, isolated from everything else. We need interaction with those different from us. We need the intellectual stimulation from a spirited debate, we need to question our beliefs, we need to appreciate others for who they are before we can truly know who we are. When we start stereotyping people, labeling them as Jocks, Preps, Rednecks, or Geeks, we start seeing them as labels and not as people. We close doors. We end up no better than our oppressors -- shunning people because they are different than us.
One of the most eye-opening experiences for me was the summer after I graduated. I was employed by the grounds crew of the university, and wound up working along side another guy from my school. He was a football player (with a cheerleader girlfriend), I was a Band Geek. In our four years of high school I don't think we'd said twenty words to each other, but we talked quite a bit during those three months, and at the end we respected each other all the more, even though he was still a popular football player and I was still a skinny band geek.
On a slightly different note...
These reports of overreactions by teachers and school officials are very disturbing, and they need to be publicized. I am setting up a web site to post student accounts of these actions. If you wish to contribute, please email me. However, a few conditions:
1. You must currently be in high school. I realize that this is going on in middle schools, etc as well, but I am going to focus on high schools. I think the media will take them more seriously.
2. The actions must have taken place as a result of the Columbine shooting. Nothing before last monday.
Email me at schoolsucks@vt.edu. Include your name (if you wish), the name of your school, and your city and state. Let me know if you want to be kept anonymous. If you have written something for a school publication criticizing the actions, and have been censored, you can send in that piece as well. However, being opinion pieces I won't publish them anonymously, so you must include your name.
If you have any other suggestions please let me know. I'll post again when it goes live.
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