Yeah, because it's much cheaper to risk getting your soldiers killed in a house assault then spend the $400,000.
It's only not worth it if you consider your soldiers lives to be valueless. If it were you, or one of your family/friends out there, you'd think it was $400,000 well spent.
Can you show me another sport where the vehicles have to go over 500kph? Also, under those guidelines, I'd struggle to call an F1 a car at all, since you'd still be stuck a parking spot (no reverse gear), while the dragster would make it out of the spot and down the street unless there were a really tight turn. They can't turn fast or tight, but they can turn.
But since we're talking about the engine here (as in, F1 engine used for fuel pump,) the Top Fuel dragster's is powerful enough that they cannot measure it. No dyno exists that can handle it's near-instantaneous power delivery. They have to estimate 8-10,000 HP.
LeMans engines kick F1's engine's ass for reliability.
F1 engines are technical masterpieces, and make tremendous power for their displacement. But they are far from being either the most powerful or most reliable.
It's not an accusation, and 5 seconds of asking the kids will stop it from ever being an accusation.
"Pedophile" is not a magic word. The fact it is uttered or that someone called someone else one does not make it an accusation. You need more than a word, you need a specific account. None of these scenarios presented have any chance whatsoever of ruining anyone's life, no chance at all of prompting community outrage, and absolutely no chance of being taken seriously. I can't walk into a police station, point as someone, call him a murderer and have him arrested without a hell of a lot more information.
No point in a tremendous engineering exercise developing the aerodynamics of keeping a supersonic car on the ground? No useful information from all the computer modeling of a sonic boom generated at ground level?
Advancing science and engineering is not exclusively a path to generate immediately profitable consumer products. Developing a theory of making a car go 1000mph is a lot different than developing a car to actually go 1000mph.
Comparing a several year long large engineering project attempting something never done before to a douchebag spending $1000 on an image of a jewel for their phone is ludicrous.
FTA: "questions remain whether such a move would give teachers too much power and infringe on student rights."
There's a question? Is there any way to argue that this doesn't give teachers too much power or infringe on student rights?
A teacher has absolutely no right or business reading private communication between a parent and child. I would raise hell at the school if that happened to my kid.
Some teachers are smart, some are trustworthy. But not all - and you don't get to pick each one of your kids teachers, you generally only get to pick a school. I know the science teacher is stupid, she routinely marks off completely correct answers that don't match the book's incomplete answers exactly. There's at least one teacher that most of the kids don't trust (tells them something, next day claims he never said it.) What if the kid's texting their parent about the teacher? You think they're not going to overreact?
Schools seem to be preparing kids in how to live in a fascist dictatorship - Obey without question, prepare to be searched, do not speak up against wrong, no part of your life is private, authority is to be completely trusted at all times, rules are absolute no matter what the situation is. It's nauseating.
To many responses used the exact same argument, so I'm responding here.
What would happen if this conversation went public?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. A 5 second conversation with the kids would settle it, there would be no police involvement, no community outrage, no accusations and no consequences for the teacher. How can I claim this? Because that's what actually happened.
Theorizing on what would happen if it became public that these kids called the teacher a pedophile is pointless, because it is now very public and none of that happened. All of those arguments are proven in this exact case to be false.
The conversation was restricted to friends only, which is why the teacher had to force the child to log on to see the comments. No amount of searching would pick this up if you're not on the friends list, this was for all intents and purposes, a private conversation. Perhaps you need to go to facebook.
I've been called a poopy head publicly by a 4 year old. A clear case of defamation of character. The child committed a crime. He should be punished as a minor.
See how stupid that is?
Claiming a 12 year old is criminally defaming an adult by calling him names to their friends is just plain idiotic. I guarantee that by your "punish everything" logic, you would have been locked up for life many times over from the things you said when you were growing up.
There's several, I'm only going to type up one though.
Copying music and photos to and from my phone. Open up the folder for photos on my hard drive & maximize, plug in the phone and the memory card pops up as a resizable window, drag photos off the memory card window and drop onto the maximized photo folder. Go to hard drive window, switch to themusic folder on hard drive, click maximize on that to return it to a smaller, resizable window, maximize the memory card window and drag/drop music from computer to phone.
Yes, I could do that moving windows around or arranging them nicely, but this is much faster and easier. I need to drag and drop both ways, and I don't want to be limited to a half a screen when I'm picking out either the music from my drive or photos on my phone, so two equal sized windows filling the screen won't do it.
This was not an accusation. This was not public. This was a private conversation between friends outside of school. The teacher had to force a student to log on to his facebook to even see them. If you really think the kids need to be punished over this, you've got to seriously think of the crap you've said in private conversations even in your early twenties and decide if you should have been punished for everything you said. I'm pretty sure everyone I know would be in jail for life if that applied. And these kids are 10 years younger.
They're 12 years old. They call teachers names. The vast, vast majority called teachers names when you were 12. How the hell we've regressed so far as a society that we think every single thing we say or do should be punished and the perpetrator used as an example is mind-boggling.
Yes, they called him a pedophile. No, this wasn't an accusation, it was a facebook conversation amongst 12 year olds. In 2nd grade, it would have been poop eater. Their vocabulary has increased, but not the intent.
The correct response would be the following conversation between the kid and the parent: "Why did you call Mr. Johnson a pedophile?" "Because he's a jerk and he won't let me text during class!"
It takes 5 seconds of conversation to tell it's not an accusation. Why do we act like there's a magic force field around a statement that can never be clarified? The only reason the teacher and pedophile can be connected publicly is his insane overreaction. It was a private conversation. They weren't going to the police, there was no story.
The only lesson the kids will learn from this is that adults are assholes and no matter how hard you work to achieve in school, they do not care about you in the least bit and will use the rules to humiliate you any chance they get. No matter what lesson you think you're teaching them, the reality from their perspective is exactly that. This will not help the kids in any way, shape or form.
As a side "benefit," these kids have also learned that every conversation being monitored is normal and expected. Great job!
So they took a button on the screen you could click and turned into a keyboard shortcut, and one of the benefits listed in the article is that it is more touch-friendly.
It is nice that they took them out and used that space for nothing. I'm not sure how replacing useful buttons with more pixels that do nothing and convey no information helps.
Another argument given is that there's no dock or windows list to minimize to, but if you want to switch to a different window, you go to the overview, which is exactly like a windows list or dock, but less convenient.
Reading Owens explanation was painful. He starts with revealing that he never minimizes anything and then speculates randomly on why people would use it (missing nearly all of the reasons I use it), then bases everything on 2 peoples opinions who he had work without minimize buttons for a while.
The reasons for getting rid of the maximize button is they though it emphasized the title bar as a way to resize the window (WTF?) and that the new way is more enjoyable (WTFFF?)
I haven't found a single reason that wasn't based on incredibly minor aesthetics or really screwed up views of "emphasis" or "mental models."
The vast majority of NASCAR races are ovals, but they do have two road courses, Watkins Glen and Infineon Raceway (Sears Point) on the schedule, so they have to do more than turn gently left. Those two races are great, I wish they'd run more.
Formula 1 does have some street circuits, but their schedule is dominated by purpose built race tracks, not street circuits - there's 15 tracks and 5 street circuits on this years schedule, and 3 of the street circuits races were new to the schedule in the last 4 years.
Yes, they use a solid rear axle. They have also have spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing the best suspension to use that live axle on the tracks they race at.
You haters are missing the point here. Jar Jar in 3D will be awesome! It will give you the opportunity you've been waiting for since Episode 1 first came out. Just bring a knife with you to the theater, and when Jar Jar appears it 3D, you can finally stab him in the face!
Might want to make sure no one's sitting in front of you, because if they are, you'll have to explain. I mean, they'll completely understand and forgive you, but since it won't look the same from their perspective, they'll probably be mad until you tell them.
But with that short a wheelbase, it would be really unstable at NASCAR speeds. And even with 500+ HP and 4WD it would still be underpowered, the suspension would suck and it would be left far behind.
Your updates might be throw away, but not everyone's. Some of mine are funny, and others tell me what I was doing in the past (I don't post trivial events), both are worth saving.
I didn't take all of the pictures I'm in, and I didn't upload them all from my computer.
With the way storage has been increasing in costs over the last few decades, you can see why deleting less notable objects is necessary. Wikipedia has reached the maximum amount of desired knowledge for an encyclopedia, any new information needs to be balanced out by deleting the same amount of old articles. It would be so confusing to have this article there in the database-even if it wasn't displayed until someone searched for it or a related subject, you'd know it was there, trying to befuddle you. Thank Jebus they got to it before anyone got hurt.
A great indication that they don't even understand basic sales is that some movies on a DVD sell for $5, but in the same store the CD with the same music but without the video they price at $15. And if you buy the digital tracks individually, which is even cheaper for them, it'll cost you $20. (My in-depth investigative report* revealed there's an average of 20 songs per soundtrack)
* - I am using this term in exactly the same way most news channels do, meaning I looked at one CD and assumed it applied to everything.
The entire problem was in management and a complete lack of leadership. The employees do not get to pick what to work on, in-fighting is completely absurd in this context. Decide on a platform and a language, use your employee input to make that decision, get it all out in the open. Then make the decision and tell the developers to get to work. The ones who supported the losing side may grumble, that's expected, but if they try to undermine the decision after it's been made, get rid of them. The complete lack of decision making ability ended up with them developing 3 different platforms knowing they only would use one and then finally deciding to use a fourth developed completely outside the company.
The CEO is bitching about a problem that begins and ends with himself. He did not run the company, he stood by and did nothing while it destroyed itself due to his waffling, then latched on to the first thing that could shift the OS mess blame from him.
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Yeah, because it's much cheaper to risk getting your soldiers killed in a house assault then spend the $400,000.
It's only not worth it if you consider your soldiers lives to be valueless. If it were you, or one of your family/friends out there, you'd think it was $400,000 well spent.
Can you show me another sport where the vehicles have to go over 500kph? Also, under those guidelines, I'd struggle to call an F1 a car at all, since you'd still be stuck a parking spot (no reverse gear), while the dragster would make it out of the spot and down the street unless there were a really tight turn. They can't turn fast or tight, but they can turn.
But since we're talking about the engine here (as in, F1 engine used for fuel pump,) the Top Fuel dragster's is powerful enough that they cannot measure it. No dyno exists that can handle it's near-instantaneous power delivery. They have to estimate 8-10,000 HP.
LeMans engines kick F1's engine's ass for reliability.
F1 engines are technical masterpieces, and make tremendous power for their displacement. But they are far from being either the most powerful or most reliable.
Because an ejector seat firing downward in an upside down plane at 10,000 feet is no big deal.
If this thing flips or rolls, the ejector seat only would be useful if the bottom of it contained the tombstone.
It's not an accusation, and 5 seconds of asking the kids will stop it from ever being an accusation.
"Pedophile" is not a magic word. The fact it is uttered or that someone called someone else one does not make it an accusation. You need more than a word, you need a specific account. None of these scenarios presented have any chance whatsoever of ruining anyone's life, no chance at all of prompting community outrage, and absolutely no chance of being taken seriously. I can't walk into a police station, point as someone, call him a murderer and have him arrested without a hell of a lot more information.
No point in a tremendous engineering exercise developing the aerodynamics of keeping a supersonic car on the ground? No useful information from all the computer modeling of a sonic boom generated at ground level?
Advancing science and engineering is not exclusively a path to generate immediately profitable consumer products. Developing a theory of making a car go 1000mph is a lot different than developing a car to actually go 1000mph.
Comparing a several year long large engineering project attempting something never done before to a douchebag spending $1000 on an image of a jewel for their phone is ludicrous.
FTA: "questions remain whether such a move would give teachers too much power and infringe on student rights."
There's a question? Is there any way to argue that this doesn't give teachers too much power or infringe on student rights?
A teacher has absolutely no right or business reading private communication between a parent and child. I would raise hell at the school if that happened to my kid.
Some teachers are smart, some are trustworthy. But not all - and you don't get to pick each one of your kids teachers, you generally only get to pick a school. I know the science teacher is stupid, she routinely marks off completely correct answers that don't match the book's incomplete answers exactly. There's at least one teacher that most of the kids don't trust (tells them something, next day claims he never said it.) What if the kid's texting their parent about the teacher? You think they're not going to overreact?
Schools seem to be preparing kids in how to live in a fascist dictatorship - Obey without question, prepare to be searched, do not speak up against wrong, no part of your life is private, authority is to be completely trusted at all times, rules are absolute no matter what the situation is. It's nauseating.
Ack! I meant the first word to be "Too."
To many responses used the exact same argument, so I'm responding here.
What would happen if this conversation went public?
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. A 5 second conversation with the kids would settle it, there would be no police involvement, no community outrage, no accusations and no consequences for the teacher. How can I claim this? Because that's what actually happened.
Theorizing on what would happen if it became public that these kids called the teacher a pedophile is pointless, because it is now very public and none of that happened. All of those arguments are proven in this exact case to be false.
The conversation was restricted to friends only, which is why the teacher had to force the child to log on to see the comments. No amount of searching would pick this up if you're not on the friends list, this was for all intents and purposes, a private conversation. Perhaps you need to go to facebook.
I've been called a poopy head publicly by a 4 year old. A clear case of defamation of character. The child committed a crime. He should be punished as a minor.
See how stupid that is?
Claiming a 12 year old is criminally defaming an adult by calling him names to their friends is just plain idiotic. I guarantee that by your "punish everything" logic, you would have been locked up for life many times over from the things you said when you were growing up.
There's several, I'm only going to type up one though.
Copying music and photos to and from my phone. Open up the folder for photos on my hard drive & maximize, plug in the phone and the memory card pops up as a resizable window, drag photos off the memory card window and drop onto the maximized photo folder. Go to hard drive window, switch to themusic folder on hard drive, click maximize on that to return it to a smaller, resizable window, maximize the memory card window and drag/drop music from computer to phone.
Yes, I could do that moving windows around or arranging them nicely, but this is much faster and easier. I need to drag and drop both ways, and I don't want to be limited to a half a screen when I'm picking out either the music from my drive or photos on my phone, so two equal sized windows filling the screen won't do it.
This was not an accusation. This was not public. This was a private conversation between friends outside of school. The teacher had to force a student to log on to his facebook to even see them. If you really think the kids need to be punished over this, you've got to seriously think of the crap you've said in private conversations even in your early twenties and decide if you should have been punished for everything you said. I'm pretty sure everyone I know would be in jail for life if that applied. And these kids are 10 years younger.
They're 12 years old. They call teachers names. The vast, vast majority called teachers names when you were 12. How the hell we've regressed so far as a society that we think every single thing we say or do should be punished and the perpetrator used as an example is mind-boggling.
Yes, they called him a pedophile. No, this wasn't an accusation, it was a facebook conversation amongst 12 year olds. In 2nd grade, it would have been poop eater. Their vocabulary has increased, but not the intent.
The correct response would be the following conversation between the kid and the parent:
"Why did you call Mr. Johnson a pedophile?"
"Because he's a jerk and he won't let me text during class!"
It takes 5 seconds of conversation to tell it's not an accusation. Why do we act like there's a magic force field around a statement that can never be clarified? The only reason the teacher and pedophile can be connected publicly is his insane overreaction. It was a private conversation. They weren't going to the police, there was no story.
The only lesson the kids will learn from this is that adults are assholes and no matter how hard you work to achieve in school, they do not care about you in the least bit and will use the rules to humiliate you any chance they get. No matter what lesson you think you're teaching them, the reality from their perspective is exactly that. This will not help the kids in any way, shape or form.
As a side "benefit," these kids have also learned that every conversation being monitored is normal and expected. Great job!
Dear New Hampshire,
You can now shorten your slogan to just "Die."
Love,
The police (not the band)
So they took a button on the screen you could click and turned into a keyboard shortcut, and one of the benefits listed in the article is that it is more touch-friendly.
It is nice that they took them out and used that space for nothing. I'm not sure how replacing useful buttons with more pixels that do nothing and convey no information helps.
Another argument given is that there's no dock or windows list to minimize to, but if you want to switch to a different window, you go to the overview, which is exactly like a windows list or dock, but less convenient.
Reading Owens explanation was painful. He starts with revealing that he never minimizes anything and then speculates randomly on why people would use it (missing nearly all of the reasons I use it), then bases everything on 2 peoples opinions who he had work without minimize buttons for a while.
The reasons for getting rid of the maximize button is they though it emphasized the title bar as a way to resize the window (WTF?) and that the new way is more enjoyable (WTFFF?)
I haven't found a single reason that wasn't based on incredibly minor aesthetics or really screwed up views of "emphasis" or "mental models."
Can anyone give an actual reason for doing this?
The vast majority of NASCAR races are ovals, but they do have two road courses, Watkins Glen and Infineon Raceway (Sears Point) on the schedule, so they have to do more than turn gently left. Those two races are great, I wish they'd run more.
Formula 1 does have some street circuits, but their schedule is dominated by purpose built race tracks, not street circuits - there's 15 tracks and 5 street circuits on this years schedule, and 3 of the street circuits races were new to the schedule in the last 4 years.
Yes, they use a solid rear axle. They have also have spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing the best suspension to use that live axle on the tracks they race at.
Aftermarket VW parts don't quite cut it.
Of course there's a citation. He said it's against the law.
You haters are missing the point here. Jar Jar in 3D will be awesome! It will give you the opportunity you've been waiting for since Episode 1 first came out. Just bring a knife with you to the theater, and when Jar Jar appears it 3D, you can finally stab him in the face!
Might want to make sure no one's sitting in front of you, because if they are, you'll have to explain. I mean, they'll completely understand and forgive you, but since it won't look the same from their perspective, they'll probably be mad until you tell them.
But with that short a wheelbase, it would be really unstable at NASCAR speeds. And even with 500+ HP and 4WD it would still be underpowered, the suspension would suck and it would be left far behind.
Your updates might be throw away, but not everyone's. Some of mine are funny, and others tell me what I was doing in the past (I don't post trivial events), both are worth saving.
I didn't take all of the pictures I'm in, and I didn't upload them all from my computer.
Litter has nothing to do with it.
That phrase was created for a litter control advertisement in the 70s/80s. It doesn't mean what people think it does.
That might be the saddest misconception of friend I've ever seen. I feel sorry for you, and even sorrier for them.
With the way storage has been increasing in costs over the last few decades, you can see why deleting less notable objects is necessary. Wikipedia has reached the maximum amount of desired knowledge for an encyclopedia, any new information needs to be balanced out by deleting the same amount of old articles. It would be so confusing to have this article there in the database-even if it wasn't displayed until someone searched for it or a related subject, you'd know it was there, trying to befuddle you. Thank Jebus they got to it before anyone got hurt.
A great indication that they don't even understand basic sales is that some movies on a DVD sell for $5, but in the same store the CD with the same music but without the video they price at $15. And if you buy the digital tracks individually, which is even cheaper for them, it'll cost you $20. (My in-depth investigative report* revealed there's an average of 20 songs per soundtrack)
* - I am using this term in exactly the same way most news channels do, meaning I looked at one CD and assumed it applied to everything.
The entire problem was in management and a complete lack of leadership. The employees do not get to pick what to work on, in-fighting is completely absurd in this context. Decide on a platform and a language, use your employee input to make that decision, get it all out in the open. Then make the decision and tell the developers to get to work. The ones who supported the losing side may grumble, that's expected, but if they try to undermine the decision after it's been made, get rid of them. The complete lack of decision making ability ended up with them developing 3 different platforms knowing they only would use one and then finally deciding to use a fourth developed completely outside the company.
The CEO is bitching about a problem that begins and ends with himself. He did not run the company, he stood by and did nothing while it destroyed itself due to his waffling, then latched on to the first thing that could shift the OS mess blame from him.