It doesn't apply in this case. He was making specific threats against specific people. This is where he gets in trouble. If you speak out for revolution, they can't touch you. When you speak on murdering specific people in specific manners, then they have every right to come get you.
As a soldier having been on the field, the only difference between a "war" and an "insurgency" is the name you give it. A weapon in the hands of a man doesn't care whether he is wearing a uniform or a night gown.
No, they actually can't. Had they looked at how I drove over the years when I was younger, they would have substantially decreased my insurance rate. They didn't. They compared me to some ridiculous actuarial table and said this is what you pay.
all they really ask is do you drive your car for work or personal and how many miles do you drive in a year. Here's a quick hint: ANything over 8000 miles per year increases your rate. Tell them you work from home and you drive an average of 20 miles a week. Your rate will drop.
Progressive is already using a feature like this in the U.S. It's just not a smart phone app. It's actually a little box you put in your car. It's called Snapshot. Not my kind of thing. There is just no way for the insurance company to know what is or is not going on around you when you're driving.
And when they DO point them at your house and peer in? All it takes is 1 lonely SOB. But here's a realistic scenario for you. A guy drives from 1 side of town to the other to see a friend. While he's driving across town, a bodega, a starbucks and a bank get robbed. Now, when the police review camera footage from those areas, they see this car that has appeared in the areas these crimes occurred, at roughly the right times. So now, this perfectly innocent man is a person of interest. Circumstantial evidence is still enough to get him screwed over in a hurry if the wrong judge is sitting the day they seek your warrant. And, it's not like they can't won't manufacture evidence or just flat out lie to get the warrant for him.
In many states, your vehicle is considered an extension of your home. If you allow things like this, then the next logical leap is that you must be also giving them permission to watch your home day and night, after all, what do you have to hide?
You have thousands of bankers on wallstreet that have abused the ever loving shit out of a few billion Terrans. What they have done is far more heinous than a mugging, car jacking or break in. Yet, they are still sitting there, abusing us all, making obscene amounts of money using our incomes, then asking for help from Uncle Sam when things go tits up. Where the hell is my justice?
Excellent, but this would be because you studied these subject in school as opposed to not studying things like the advanced math as the author suggests.
I think there needs to be a national standard of education because I want to trust that if my job moves me from Maryland to Kentucky, my daughter would get the same level of education. I want to know that she is going to be prepared for real as well as for college. A great deal of that is my job and I accept that responsibility, but there is a finite amount of time that I can spend with her to educate her. I whole heartedly believe that there should be a national level of education because in the countries that DO have it, the students tend to be more educated and more prepared. People like to complain in this country that foreigners are coming in and taking all the good jobs. Well, to an extent it is true. India happens to be one of those countries that has a national level of education and so far, in my experience, it has worked damned well for them.
A person living in Kentucky SHOULD learn differently than a person living in California.
Why? Arithmetic is arithmetic, science is science, language is language, why should someone in Kentucky learn these things at a slower pace or not at all. Why would you willingly want to place people lower on the knowledge scale? I would posit that no one in Kentucky would tell you that they want their children to be less educated than those in California. Given, you will have some issues such as creationism vs evolution, but we're talking about the standards math, language, science (barring the evolution / creationism aspect). I do not live in Kentucky or California but I want those persons who do to have a guaranteed level of education that makes them competitive no matter where it is that they choose to live after their schooling is done, regardless of whether they attend a higher learning institution. Why should anyone ever have to hear: "Well, I'm sorry but we can't offer you this job or this loan or this scholarship because you went to school in state."
An educated population is a powerful population. It is capable of great things. Capable of learned decision making. Capable of imagining that next horizon and then figuring out how to get us there. I want to know that when I leave this world, the people that are coming behind are better than we were, are smarter than we were and can utilize it to the best benefit of all.
Take a look at that. Now keep in mind that the best you had at the time would have been a slide rule and paper. You say that we are more educated today than the previous generations, I would argue that the majority of kids these days most likely could not answer any of those questions. Hell, I took Algebra, Calc, Trig, Geometry, 6 years of Latin and speak or are familiar with 11 languages and I can barely answer many of those questions.
You say better educated, and I would disagree. I think more people are educated than previous generations and I think that current generational knowledge extends to more subjects, but definitely not better.
Granted, the rate of improvement has slowed down considerably, during the last few decades. However your great-grandmother's generation was definitely not better educated on average than the current one.
Between the article itself and personal experience with educating kids these days, I can guarantee you her generation would run circles around these kids in math, grammar, vocabulary and probably foreign languages. Hell my 71 year old (at the time) Great -Grandmother was able to help me with my Latin lessons 20 years ago and again, she was raised in the back woods of TN where they really only gave a damn about agricultural knowledge.
My great-grandmother could do trig and calculus with a slide rule because that's what they taught her in primary school in the back woods of Tennessee. I think we are by far, less educated than our previous generations and it would be extremely detrimental to us to reduce the learning that students have to do today. When I moved to Georgia from Tennessee, the Georgia schools were 2 years behind in subject matter in the ADVANCED classes. There needs to be a national level of education in this country. I want to know that my daughter would learn the same subjects at the same level regardless of whether we lived in NY, TN, CA, OR or anywhere else.
The ancient games were about bringing the best warriors from the martial fields into competition with one another. The modern games are about bringing the best athletes (also referred to as "warriors" on a field of battle) together in competition. At the heart, the tradition is the same. We even continue with games designed 3000 years ago and have added even more warlike games into the mix. Does it really matter that they were only open to Greek free men? No. Does it matter if there was a hiatus? No.
And you would use mathematics, including algebra, in virtually any programming you could do. So you would have to know how to do it in order to use it. Mathematics, especially higher math, are foundations of not only critical and logical thinking, but corner stones for everything we do.
Thus you eliminate the cost from both sides of the equation lol. However, in the instance of JUST internet, you are usually paying more than you would pay for it with a package.
Untrue, in Tennessee, my uncle drove by his mother's house to check to see that the property was being taken care of. He stopped at the stop sign as he was supposed to. A woman approached his car and asked him if he was looking for a date. His statement was "Get a real job" and he drove off. A few blocks later, several police vehicles pulled him over. He was arrested and charged with Soliciting Prostitution and his picture was published in the paper. He lost his job with the county and had to fight a 2 year court battle to have the charges dropped due to the Sheriff's department "misplacing" the A/V evidence. The judge dismissed his counter suit for damages.
I do speak Icelandic and all you need to take away from the entire article is the statement by Thorkelsson that they have no opinion "special view" one way or another about wikileaks. "en við höfum enga sérstaka skoðun á Wikileaks,"
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It doesn't apply in this case. He was making specific threats against specific people. This is where he gets in trouble. If you speak out for revolution, they can't touch you. When you speak on murdering specific people in specific manners, then they have every right to come get you.
As a soldier having been on the field, the only difference between a "war" and an "insurgency" is the name you give it. A weapon in the hands of a man doesn't care whether he is wearing a uniform or a night gown.
No, they actually can't. Had they looked at how I drove over the years when I was younger, they would have substantially decreased my insurance rate. They didn't. They compared me to some ridiculous actuarial table and said this is what you pay.
Cept, I don't live in the UK mate.
all they really ask is do you drive your car for work or personal and how many miles do you drive in a year. Here's a quick hint: ANything over 8000 miles per year increases your rate. Tell them you work from home and you drive an average of 20 miles a week. Your rate will drop.
Progressive is already using a feature like this in the U.S. It's just not a smart phone app. It's actually a little box you put in your car. It's called Snapshot. Not my kind of thing. There is just no way for the insurance company to know what is or is not going on around you when you're driving.
But they somehow lost the tape, or it was never recorded or the data is corrupt or it would take too long to produce the footage.... You know better.
And when they DO point them at your house and peer in? All it takes is 1 lonely SOB. But here's a realistic scenario for you. A guy drives from 1 side of town to the other to see a friend. While he's driving across town, a bodega, a starbucks and a bank get robbed. Now, when the police review camera footage from those areas, they see this car that has appeared in the areas these crimes occurred, at roughly the right times. So now, this perfectly innocent man is a person of interest. Circumstantial evidence is still enough to get him screwed over in a hurry if the wrong judge is sitting the day they seek your warrant. And, it's not like they can't won't manufacture evidence or just flat out lie to get the warrant for him.
In many states, your vehicle is considered an extension of your home. If you allow things like this, then the next logical leap is that you must be also giving them permission to watch your home day and night, after all, what do you have to hide?
You have thousands of bankers on wallstreet that have abused the ever loving shit out of a few billion Terrans. What they have done is far more heinous than a mugging, car jacking or break in. Yet, they are still sitting there, abusing us all, making obscene amounts of money using our incomes, then asking for help from Uncle Sam when things go tits up. Where the hell is my justice?
Excellent, but this would be because you studied these subject in school as opposed to not studying things like the advanced math as the author suggests.
I think there needs to be a national standard of education because I want to trust that if my job moves me from Maryland to Kentucky, my daughter would get the same level of education. I want to know that she is going to be prepared for real as well as for college. A great deal of that is my job and I accept that responsibility, but there is a finite amount of time that I can spend with her to educate her. I whole heartedly believe that there should be a national level of education because in the countries that DO have it, the students tend to be more educated and more prepared. People like to complain in this country that foreigners are coming in and taking all the good jobs. Well, to an extent it is true. India happens to be one of those countries that has a national level of education and so far, in my experience, it has worked damned well for them.
A person living in Kentucky SHOULD learn differently than a person living in California.
Why? Arithmetic is arithmetic, science is science, language is language, why should someone in Kentucky learn these things at a slower pace or not at all. Why would you willingly want to place people lower on the knowledge scale? I would posit that no one in Kentucky would tell you that they want their children to be less educated than those in California. Given, you will have some issues such as creationism vs evolution, but we're talking about the standards math, language, science (barring the evolution / creationism aspect). I do not live in Kentucky or California but I want those persons who do to have a guaranteed level of education that makes them competitive no matter where it is that they choose to live after their schooling is done, regardless of whether they attend a higher learning institution. Why should anyone ever have to hear: "Well, I'm sorry but we can't offer you this job or this loan or this scholarship because you went to school in state."
An educated population is a powerful population. It is capable of great things. Capable of learned decision making. Capable of imagining that next horizon and then figuring out how to get us there. I want to know that when I leave this world, the people that are coming behind are better than we were, are smarter than we were and can utilize it to the best benefit of all.
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Take a look at that. Now keep in mind that the best you had at the time would have been a slide rule and paper. You say that we are more educated today than the previous generations, I would argue that the majority of kids these days most likely could not answer any of those questions. Hell, I took Algebra, Calc, Trig, Geometry, 6 years of Latin and speak or are familiar with 11 languages and I can barely answer many of those questions.
You say better educated, and I would disagree. I think more people are educated than previous generations and I think that current generational knowledge extends to more subjects, but definitely not better.
Granted, the rate of improvement has slowed down considerably, during the last few decades. However your great-grandmother's generation was definitely not better educated on average than the current one.
Between the article itself and personal experience with educating kids these days, I can guarantee you her generation would run circles around these kids in math, grammar, vocabulary and probably foreign languages. Hell my 71 year old (at the time) Great -Grandmother was able to help me with my Latin lessons 20 years ago and again, she was raised in the back woods of TN where they really only gave a damn about agricultural knowledge.
My great-grandmother could do trig and calculus with a slide rule because that's what they taught her in primary school in the back woods of Tennessee. I think we are by far, less educated than our previous generations and it would be extremely detrimental to us to reduce the learning that students have to do today. When I moved to Georgia from Tennessee, the Georgia schools were 2 years behind in subject matter in the ADVANCED classes. There needs to be a national level of education in this country. I want to know that my daughter would learn the same subjects at the same level regardless of whether we lived in NY, TN, CA, OR or anywhere else.
The ancient games were about bringing the best warriors from the martial fields into competition with one another. The modern games are about bringing the best athletes (also referred to as "warriors" on a field of battle) together in competition. At the heart, the tradition is the same. We even continue with games designed 3000 years ago and have added even more warlike games into the mix. Does it really matter that they were only open to Greek free men? No. Does it matter if there was a hiatus? No.
And you would use mathematics, including algebra, in virtually any programming you could do. So you would have to know how to do it in order to use it. Mathematics, especially higher math, are foundations of not only critical and logical thinking, but corner stones for everything we do.
"as we know them" yeah, but they were still began nearly 3000 years ago in a form that we took and modeled the current olympics on.
The olympics have been around since the 8th century B.C. Exactly how many wars do you really think they have stopped? Probably none at all.
Thus you eliminate the cost from both sides of the equation lol. However, in the instance of JUST internet, you are usually paying more than you would pay for it with a package.
BFE?
Bum Fuck Egypt... a.k.a the back of beyond or the middle of no where.
I mean, I like Google and all, but I can't say I trust them or Facebook to "make" internet policy...
Untrue, in Tennessee, my uncle drove by his mother's house to check to see that the property was being taken care of. He stopped at the stop sign as he was supposed to. A woman approached his car and asked him if he was looking for a date. His statement was "Get a real job" and he drove off. A few blocks later, several police vehicles pulled him over. He was arrested and charged with Soliciting Prostitution and his picture was published in the paper. He lost his job with the county and had to fight a 2 year court battle to have the charges dropped due to the Sheriff's department "misplacing" the A/V evidence. The judge dismissed his counter suit for damages.
I do speak Icelandic and all you need to take away from the entire article is the statement by Thorkelsson that they have no opinion "special view" one way or another about wikileaks. "en við höfum enga sérstaka skoðun á Wikileaks,"
+5 sir. +5
Yep. This is undoubtedly in response to the EAS failure.
That's fine, Bradley Manning has room in his cell for a buddy.