There is much to value in "decent, God-fearing people" and traditional American ways of life.
OK, then use the original Pledge, which didn't have the "under God" phrase, even though it was written by a minister. Oh, and it sounds better anyway.
But it is being used to suppress all religion, in the name of atheism.
Oh bullshit. You are free to worship any god(s) [or no gods] you so choose... on your own time and with your own money. I don't see the 9th Circuit Court saying that all churches had to be closed. What the "Establishment Clause" is is being used for is to prevent 'official' governmental proclamations/releases/statements/whatever from endorsing a particular religious belief.
this is a largely Christian society, and its rules are largely based on the good-ol' Judeo-Christian worldview.
Well, this is probably a troll, but, what the hell, I'll bite...
The people are being held on the charge that they are enemy combatants. Their citizenship doesn't even matter.
This is what is frightening. All the government has to do is slap the label of "enemy combatant" on someone and they can keep them locked up forever? No one has seen the evidence except the Justice Dept. If the evidence is so damning, there shouldn't be any problem getting an indictment and a conviction. So why trample the Constitution?
Now what my real question is: If you are so concerned about the rights of an enemy of the United States, maybe you should be under investigation.
No, jackass. I am concered about the rights of a citizen of the United States. You know, that bastion of freedom and justice that Bush is always going on about?
Personally, I don't know enough about geology to support or refute the theories, so I tend to believe the mainstream scientific theory.
You should have asked them to explain the Canyon layers that are basically fossilized wind-blown sand dunes. Or the layers with [land] animal tracks. Kinda hard for those to occur under several miles of water.:)
There's also no evidence to disprove that there's a flying purple elephant reading over your shoulder right now. DON'T LOOK! If you look he disappears.
I travel all over the world and the U.S. is the only place where I have to really think about what I'm doing, it's insanely easy to make mistakes.
In other words, you admit that you can't think?:) Seriously though, given that you are handing over your money, shouldn't you be paying attention to what you're doing?
United States coins come in denominations of 25, 10, 5, 1 cents... 25 being the largest coin, followed by 5, 1, then 10. If that's not confusing enough,
Well, in England, it goes (I think) 50p, 2p, 10p, pound, 20p, 1p, 5p. Not to mention that the 50p and 20p coins are seven-sided mutants.:)
One shouldn't have to check twice that one isn't handing over a twenty instead of a dollar bill;
I dunno, I think if you are handing over you hard-earned cash to some mope at the gas station, you ought to be take a DAMN good look at what you are handing over, and an even better look at whatever you get back.
Here in the UK, you can pretty much tell if a note is genuine by running your fingers across the embossed writing, checking the foil strip, and then the watermarks.
You ARE aware that US money has a strip embedded in the paper, has watermarks, and is printed on special paper that has a certain, well, money-like texture? Right?
You could pull out the bill look at the number and know the value. OR you could look at the colours of the currency in your wallet and immediately know how much you got. not looking at numbers
You don't have to yank it all the way out of your wallet, just thumb the corner. Jeez. And I've been in England where the money is in different colors. Except I still can't tell a purple-and-orange 5 from an orange-and-purple 10. Or was it the other way around? Or was it the 20?
American money looks fake anyway so don't worry about ruining its integrity.
English money looks MORE fake, and that plastic Australian money looks like it was manufactured by Parker Brothers.:)
Well, no, actually. But it's probably because we know what the money looks like. I've been in England a couple times, where the paper money is a different size and has a different color scheme for each denomination; and I have a MUCH harder time differentiating between a 5 and 10 pound note versus a 5 and 10 dollar bill. I always end up pulling it out of my wallet and peering closely at it before handing it over, like some kind of bloody foreigner.:)
At my work, this summer we will require all High School students to buy a Thinkpad, iBook or Powerbook G4.
Christ on a pony. Where do you live, Beverly Hills? This may be a shock to you, but there are still lots of people out there who CAN'T AFFORD to buy a computer. At least, not if they want to have food on the table.
Yeah, right! The author has no idea how carefully STScI checks the HST pointing to make sure you don't look anywhere near the Sun...
Er. You're missing the point. You can't search for asteroids in the daytime sky using ground-based telescopes because, you see, the sky is bright. You can search for them from orbit because, you see, the sky isn't bright.:)
but the main one was that one teacher thinks that code on paper is just as good and efficiant and everything as acctually putting it into the computer
Well, it's like this. If you can't explain yourself clearly in plain text then you don't understand the problem. No one exists in a vacuum. If you get a job in the industry, some day you will have to write a report on why your company should buy certain piece of software over another, or stand up in a meeting and explain to your manager why the proposed timetable is ludicrous. And you will have to do it without writing code.
The true test of whether you fully grasp a concept is if you can explain it to someone who has no knowledge of the subject. Your teacher's test is an interesting idea.
Ob spelling flame: Your post was filled with spelling errors. Are you sure you're ready for college?
All the math classes I've taken have used a number of graphs that probably would have taken the class half the alloted time to graph any one of, but are rendered in a few seconds on the calculator. Similarly, professors tend to assign dozens or, in some cases, well over a hundred problems per class session.
I dunno, maybe you just have stupid teachers. When I had calc in high school, and we had to draw graphs, the teacher stressed that the point was NOT to draw it to multi-digit precision; the goal was to be able to sketch the shape of the graph. Any teacher who assigns hundred of problems is going to end up with a bunch of students who know how to operate their calculators very well, but don't know jack about what they're actually doing.
The tests would ask for intercepts at points with 5 and 6 digits of precision, and while I could do it by hand it was hardly speedy enough to find all the answers in the allotted time.
Er, what the heck do you need a graphing calculator to find intercepts for? IMO, this just confirms the fact that the students have no idea what they're doing, they're just copying down the number from the calculator window.
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There is much to value in "decent, God-fearing people" and traditional American ways of life.
OK, then use the original Pledge, which didn't have the "under God" phrase, even though it was written by a minister. Oh, and it sounds better anyway.
But it is being used to suppress all religion, in the name of atheism.
Oh bullshit. You are free to worship any god(s) [or no gods] you so choose... on your own time and with your own money. I don't see the 9th Circuit Court saying that all churches had to be closed. What the "Establishment Clause" is is being used for is to prevent 'official' governmental proclamations/releases/statements/whatever from endorsing a particular religious belief.
this is a largely Christian society, and its rules are largely based on the good-ol' Judeo-Christian worldview.
Ha ha. Wrong.
we should celebrate the Pledge of Allegiance.
So, as I said, go recite the old version.
If that doesn't sound like a God, then I don't know what does.
That's not what the original poster said. He said they didn't have Christian beliefs.
A = C
:)
A = B
B = C
The class was baffled that alogrithm worked, so was the teacher.
So am I, since it's wrong.
C/C++/Java uses pass by reference for structures and pass by value for scalars.
No. In C at least, structures are passed by value. The only things passed by reference are arrays.
Well, this is probably a troll, but, what the hell, I'll bite...
The people are being held on the charge that they are enemy combatants. Their citizenship doesn't even matter.
This is what is frightening. All the government has to do is slap the label of "enemy combatant" on someone and they can keep them locked up forever? No one has seen the evidence except the Justice Dept. If the evidence is so damning, there shouldn't be any problem getting an indictment and a conviction. So why trample the Constitution?
Now what my real question is: If you are so concerned about the rights of an enemy of the United States, maybe you should be under investigation.
No, jackass. I am concered about the rights of a citizen of the United States. You know, that bastion of freedom and justice that Bush is always going on about?
Personally, I don't know enough about geology to support or refute the theories, so I tend to believe the mainstream scientific theory.
:)
You should have asked them to explain the Canyon layers that are basically fossilized wind-blown sand dunes. Or the layers with [land] animal tracks. Kinda hard for those to occur under several miles of water.
There is no evidence to disprove of a flood.
There's also no evidence to disprove that there's a flying purple elephant reading over your shoulder right now. DON'T LOOK! If you look he disappears.
I travel all over the world and the U.S. is the only place where I have to really think about what I'm doing, it's insanely easy to make mistakes.
:) Seriously though, given that you are handing over your money, shouldn't you be paying attention to what you're doing?
In other words, you admit that you can't think?
United States coins come in denominations of 25, 10, 5, 1 cents... 25 being the largest coin, followed by 5, 1, then 10. If that's not confusing enough,
:)
Well, in England, it goes (I think) 50p, 2p, 10p, pound, 20p, 1p, 5p. Not to mention that the 50p and 20p coins are seven-sided mutants.
One shouldn't have to check twice that one isn't handing over a twenty instead of a dollar bill;
I dunno, I think if you are handing over you hard-earned cash to some mope at the gas station, you ought to be take a DAMN good look at what you are handing over, and an even better look at whatever you get back.
Here in the UK, you can pretty much tell if a note is genuine by running your fingers across the embossed writing, checking the foil strip, and then the watermarks.
You ARE aware that US money has a strip embedded in the paper, has watermarks, and is printed on special paper that has a certain, well, money-like texture? Right?
Taking a quick peek in your wallet to see roughly how much cash you have is not so quick when:
;)
a) all notes are the same size
b) all notes are the same colour
Myself: $14
Total time: ~1 sec.
Get a pair of glasses.
US money is often referred to as monopoly money because of its uniformity - only, even monopoly money recognizes the value of colour coding.
No, it didn't start looking like Monopoly money until they put those stupid huge portraits on.
if i hand you a stack of bills can you tell me how much it's worth? not a chance.
with other countries you have an idea by the number of each colour. its a convience thing.
Er, if it's in a stack, how do you check the color? Or yeah, by looking at each one. I can do that just as easily with money that's all the same.
personally I hate american money, it does look all the same to me.
Personally, I think you're blind.
The U.S. and Boliva (IIRC) are the only two countries that *don't* use the metric system
:) The car industry, for example, switched ages ago.
Er, we DO use the metric system. Just not in public.
You could pull out the bill look at the number and know the value. OR you could look at the colours of the currency in your wallet and immediately know how much you got. not looking at numbers
:)
You don't have to yank it all the way out of your wallet, just thumb the corner. Jeez. And I've been in England where the money is in different colors. Except I still can't tell a purple-and-orange 5 from an orange-and-purple 10. Or was it the other way around? Or was it the 20?
American money looks fake anyway so don't worry about ruining its integrity.
English money looks MORE fake, and that plastic Australian money looks like it was manufactured by Parker Brothers.
And, U.S. residents DON'T have difficulty?
:)
Well, no, actually. But it's probably because we know what the money looks like. I've been in England a couple times, where the paper money is a different size and has a different color scheme for each denomination; and I have a MUCH harder time differentiating between a 5 and 10 pound note versus a 5 and 10 dollar bill. I always end up pulling it out of my wallet and peering closely at it before handing it over, like some kind of bloody foreigner.
At my work, this summer we will require all High School students to buy a Thinkpad, iBook or Powerbook G4.
Christ on a pony. Where do you live, Beverly Hills? This may be a shock to you, but there are still lots of people out there who CAN'T AFFORD to buy a computer. At least, not if they want to have food on the table.
Yeah, right! The author has no idea how carefully STScI checks the HST pointing to make sure you don't look anywhere near the Sun...
:)
Er. You're missing the point. You can't search for asteroids in the daytime sky using ground-based telescopes because, you see, the sky is bright. You can search for them from orbit because, you see, the sky isn't bright.
I'm not into the click click clickity click dungeon crawl.
Fair enough. I'm not into the twitch twitch twitchity twitch yet-another-first-person-shooter.
but the main one was that one teacher thinks that code on paper is just as good and efficiant and everything as acctually putting it into the computer
Well, it's like this. If you can't explain yourself clearly in plain text then you don't understand the problem. No one exists in a vacuum. If you get a job in the industry, some day you will have to write a report on why your company should buy certain piece of software over another, or stand up in a meeting and explain to your manager why the proposed timetable is ludicrous. And you will have to do it without writing code.
The true test of whether you fully grasp a concept is if you can explain it to someone who has no knowledge of the subject. Your teacher's test is an interesting idea.
Ob spelling flame:
Your post was filled with spelling errors. Are you sure you're ready for college?
Speed of light, runcible. Runcible, speed of light.
:)
I'll leave you two to get acquainted.
But 109/18? I'm pretty sure it's between 5 and 6.
:)
No, it's 6 1/18. In my head in 5 sec. Sheesh, math majors.
5280 for a statute mile.
:)
About 6076.115486 or so for a nautical mile.
All the math classes I've taken have used a number of graphs that probably would have taken the class half the alloted time to graph any one of, but are rendered in a few seconds on the calculator. Similarly, professors tend to assign dozens or, in some cases, well over a hundred problems per class session.
I dunno, maybe you just have stupid teachers. When I had calc in high school, and we had to draw graphs, the teacher stressed that the point was NOT to draw it to multi-digit precision; the goal was to be able to sketch the shape of the graph. Any teacher who assigns hundred of problems is going to end up with a bunch of students who know how to operate their calculators very well, but don't know jack about what they're actually doing.
The tests would ask for intercepts at points with 5 and 6 digits of precision, and while I could do it by hand it was hardly speedy enough to find all the answers in the allotted time.
Er, what the heck do you need a graphing calculator to find intercepts for? IMO, this just confirms the fact that the students have no idea what they're doing, they're just copying down the number from the calculator window.
No kidding. I went my entire education (BA Chem) without once using a single graphing calculator.
Preach on, brother. I got my BA in CompEng without a graphing calculator. Who needs it?