If your weapon knocked out 90%-95% of the people and killed the rest, you've just killed 5,000 to 10,000 people... I'm not sure that's as "acceptable" as you put it. As it is, our lethal weapons like "smart bombs" have much smaller collateral damage effects, typically on the order of a dozen innocents if I remember correctly.
I wasn't really thinking of using it in cities. I was thinking of helicopters flying over "rebel held" country side with troops directly after them. Of course, it really all comes down to how fast can your guys inprison the other guys before they wake up. (Assumes that they do.) I agree I wouldn't want something dropped on a city of 5-10 million. It would only make your problems worse. Say it knocked out all of the cities people for 8-24 hours. Unless you have a heck of an army, you will not be able to inprison a good fraction of those millions. If it has a 5%-10% death rate on use, you may have just killed all the old people, some kids, and a genetic miniority that just happens to overreact to the stun. So after they 24 hours are over, you have a city of 5-10 million minus your 10 percent really angry at you. O.K. You could fly over protesting areas until everyone is imune or dead from lack of food, but I still think that is the wrong use long term. I'd agree that targeted strikes would work good with this. Instead of killing your victims, just hold them in prison...
But it's the only time most of us get to talk to chicks.
Don't worry. The chicks will just all work in stocking so you need to do your Walmart shopping between 11:30 pm and 1:30 am when they are stocking shelves.
Now, if they passed these benefits along to the public, either through paying their employees more or hiring more people, that would be a good thing. The greatest benefit for the most people. If they used it to eliminate workers and pay their shareholders and executives more, that would be a bad thing, since it benefits the fewest number of people.
Both, they just drop or keep prices at same while everyone else has to slightly raise their prices. More products sold, more customers happy, a slightly more profitable company so share holders are happy.
Sure we could just stick with the landmines, bio-weapons, and nuclear arms that are already developed, but I think we can do better. Don't you?
Bio-weapons and chemical weapons have never had postive long term effects for your side. The wind changes and your troops start to die by your nasties. We could go the over kill route on land mines... We could just litter a place with nuclear land mines. (Land mines designed to vaporize several blocks.) I wouldn't want to live near that area though or even think about disarming them.
Stunners are long over due. We need helicopter mounted stunners that will reliably knock out 90%-95% of people within several blocks. (Death of the remaining population would be acceptable terms.) This would change "warfare." While our guys would be concerned about "safely" picking up knocked out enemies, the "Bad Guys" would be shooting lethal weapons at us, which would make us fully justified when the time comes for using lethal force on them.
Warfare has gotten alot more civilized. Our troops don't rape, loot, and burn down their towns/cities now days. It will be a "new" different day when soldiers don't have to kill other soldiers.
I went to 13 years of public school, and all it taught me was how to interact with people born between October 15, 1974, and October 14, 1975. When I got out into the real world, I had no idea how to interact as an equal with people who were 20 years my senior.
I'll leave up to the other replies to discuss whether or not the socialization aspect of public school is otherwise a good thing.
I did. Be still, sit down quietly in my seat every work day doing my job. (That's 90% of it right there.) Don't say anything to any one older than you unless asked a direct question. You may say "hi" and wave good morning though.
Oh, don't vote because you aren't knowledge or responsible enough to. (Like turning 18 magically makes some one more knowledge or responsible.) Obey all rules and laws and never attempt to change them, or you will be punished by either the teachers, administrators, or your parents. Outside of school almost same thing, except it is supervisor, boss, police, judge, church and then your family/friends.
A parent that home schools their child simply for financial reasons, in order to save taxpayer money, may not be giving their child a decent education.
A parent that home schools is still paying for public schools just not using the resources.
I don't have any spare feelings for my local school district. My school district had this great idea about making every school a magnet school and changing every teacher and student up. We have 5 elementary schools. My 2 kids are elementary school kids and we've been told that basically they'll learn the same thing at each of the 5 schools. So why change? Because their will be the perception that their is an art focus at one, a math focus at another and an international studies at another. My kids were going to a school about 5 blocks from my home. Now its a good 5 min drive to their school. I'm told that now every one has the option of taking their student to the local school to be bussed around to other schools.
If this was middle school or high school, I could understand. But elementary school? We only have 1 highschool. When I went to school there were 2 junior high schools. They've since changed it so some grades go to one school and other grades go to another school. Why? Beause people were actually selling their homes and moving to be at one of those 2 junior highs. They were teaching the same exact material.
My wife and I wanted to homeschool. We changed our minds. Its a nice thought, but I don't make enough money for my wife to sit at home teaching the kids. We pay taxes for that. Even if we home schooled we still have to pay the taxes so we'd just be spending more money for something we've already paid for once.
If companies are hiring a significant number of people based on mainframe experience, then it's in some college's interest to teach that. I probably ought to compare this to perl/java programming ads on some of the job sites like Monster.
UCA generally had 5-10 CS grads a season. About half went into some sort of heavy duty backend database job that ran on a big blue box. That's where our classes were weakest. We only had one theory DB class! It mainly taught about the math behind SQL. We'd run examples on Oracle. At the time, I always thought that it would be faster for us to have used access. Half the class was installing oracle and getting the same example db to install and run properly.;) Of course back then the hot thing was web apps and e-commerce. Our Dillards recuiter said at the time Dillards was taking things slow. At that time, it was more important for them that every single credit card transaction took under 3 seconds to process and the store inventory software was doing everything needed of it.
Acxiom was the the only one that really stressed C/C++ mainly because they do demographics research for direct marketing for every major corporation out there. Back before 2000, Acxiom was collecting more information than the US Census for everyone in the world that they could get the data for. If you need a direct to mail list, they can get you a list of addresses to send out your highly targeted almost personalized ad list. At Walmart's computer center, they have a sat. reciever that recieves over 10 gigs a day in just raw inventory transactions. Alltel was known mainly for its phone coverage in mid sized cities. At that time, Alltel made most of its money by doing the backend processing for alot of international banks.
I never realized just how much major businesses where based in Arkansas. Makes me proud of my home state. That and the thought that Walmart is dangerous to CA and FL small and local business. I find that thought hilarious. Most Arkansas businesses are small local businesses and we don't have any problems competing with Walmart. That them CA and FL big league folks have a problem with an AR corporate grocery/department chain is priceless to me.;) Around in most AR towns, you aren't a town until you have a Walmart. In Arkansas, you really are a big league city if you have 2 Walmart Supercenters. You can mostly get the cheapest gas, food, and general homegoods from a single source. What else do most people need? A home depot or food chains?
I have also seen soap operas where the evil, conniving businessman manipulates the poor, naive, beautiful young woman repeatedly. Of course that was 20+ years ago.
It's been a good 4 years since I watched day time soaps. But they did have gay couples, multinational companies run by women, doctors and lawyers that were women. O.k. I think that had an equal about of evil connviving men and women.;) Some were aiming at relationship issues, some at power, some at politics, and some at money. They had alittle of everything. I haven't watched any in awhile, but I'd think that they'd still be aimed at being targeted towards the largest daytime tv watchers.
When I finally asked our IBM rep how one learned their systems, his answer to me was that I needed to sit next to another experienced programmer for several years to learn the trade. So much for documentation!
You are missing the point. Unless they physically moved the mainframe overseas, you'd have a secure job for life and retirement spent training an apprentice! Oh, to have that kind of job security. You don't understand how many people still love the guild system.
This is why my school is introducing a mainframe concentration into its CS program within the next two years, and people graduating with that degree are going to be looking at lots of money. Although, as some other posters have asked, why is this the university's job?
My profs came out and told us that people like State Farm and Caterpillar had sat down with our CS people and asked them to provide some sort of mainframe sequence.
I find this very funny. I graduated back in 2000 from www.uca.edu of the major employers of recent grads: Dillards, Acxiom, Walmart, and Alltel, ALL of them wanted some main frame knowledge and some COBOL classes.
Try naming some "realistic drama" type shows where the female characters are the smarter/in-charge/competent characters. That would be more convincing.
Oh, it's been awhile since I've watched any day time TV but here you go: General Hospital, Days of Our lives, One life to live, and Port Charles.
Ok. They are all soap operas so be warned. Actually, I've never thought about stats of personallitis in soap operas. I'd love to see those numbers.
It means that men are more likely to be geniuses, not that women can't be.
Well, I think it it makes sense that more men are geniuses. Most geniuses are portrayed as being alittle to alot off balance. (Well they are our original thinkers.) Well, I'd think that women would be more stable on average. Men don't have the emotional stablity of women so if a male gets extremely emotionally wounded they may through their whole life into some personal project. (I'm not saying that women don't get emotionally wounded but I'd believe that women have a better network for rebalancing themselves.) I'd be these are personal thoughts only. I'd love to see studies though showing if any common thoughts are valid by the numbers.
I just can't imagine what any healthy person would do with a whole terabyte of tv...but I guess some people really enjoy that much of what's on.
Well, all that plays on my TV is DVDs and video games. It would be neat to order several seasons of shows that I've never seen preloaded on a Terabyte HD. Who am I kidding? They'd want to charge you $30-$50 dollars per season per show for that price cable/sat. is cheaper. It would take a long time for me to catch up though. I don't think it would be worth it.
*sigh* Yes. We know. We know that for that price, many./'s could roll their own, but we don't have to hear that every darn time. Because every darn time that means some sucker like me has to point out that they're not marketing the product to you. They're marketing to money-rich, time-poor folks who don't want to build their own, they want to splash down the cash for something that just *works*.
Reminds me of my car problems. I had a hose, and some other things that needed to be replaced. I have a brother-in-law that usually does that. He says the price of each of the pieces is $15-$25. Then usually something like 50-60 in labor. He would save that 50-60 in labor. For me, I'd much rather pay the money to some one else to fix it.
Here is an interesting question how many/.ers build and maintain their own cars and homes from scratch? What about installing/repairing stoves, dish washers, washing machines, dryers, refrigators, and A/C? I know the basics of lots of stuff, but I'd much rather pay a slight premium for someone else to do most household and car repairs.
to basically earn your way through life by exploiting and berating underlings, some of which are inevitably of equal or even superior skill and/or intellect to you.
Wouldn't the test make sure you match that profile for a CEO? If you don't, then obviously you aren't CEO material.
by teasing nanotubes away from one side of a forest and attaching them to a strip of sticky tape
again proof that duct tape can make anything work! Soon we will have duct tape made out of this nanotubes, after that, who knows or even dares to dream!!!
Didn't you hear? They changed their minds are planning on building that space elevator out of *the new* duct tape. 3M is sponsoring the whole thing. It's going to be an ad for all the assorted uses of duct tape.
I don't know what sort of taxes are on that kind of income, but "giving" away to law enforcement most likely means that more of that $5 million is going to end up together at the same place. If MS keep it, most likely a good chunk would be taxed and a little bit of it would end up every where. Law Enforcement would end up with some money, but it'd more be like $500-$5,000 instead of $5,000,000. Donating money like this is great for MS. 1. The money is spent directly on objectives that MS wants to help. 2. The MS saves on taxes 3. The money could be considered direct targeted PR for those markets.
From all accounts, he was caught tapping away on his laptop, moved away when police watched, then came right back to the same point again. At which point he was investigated as he looked a little 'suspicious'.
So now, it is suspicious to be using a laptop outdoors with police watching. I guess all those officers with mobile data computers in their cars are highly suspicious as well.
Actually, it sounds like he could have just keep on doing exactly as he pleased, and they wouldn't have been able to do anything. It is that he was hiding from the police that they thought he was doing something wrong. Your really can't blame the police because that's standard for them if a citizen is activly hiding or running away from the police odds are they are doing something that is against the law.
The "state" Israel is proposing is more like a series of walled ghettos in to which they want to lock the Palestinians and forget about them, until the inevitable rocket or suicide bombing happens at which point Israel will roll in just like they do today.
I always thought that Israel was formed from US and British guilt over WW2. Reading your comment, I'd guess the real reason that Israel was allowed to be created was as a place to dump Jews from Europe, Russia, or even the US if the mood took them. No one really cared that the Jewish people survived and economically grew. That Isreal is a pain in the butt for the areas Muslims/Arabs is actually a long term pro of it. No one wants a unified middle east. Israel helps to prevent it.
The main reason that instant messaging (IM) is popular among young adults is that it provides the kind of instant gratification that e-mail cannot provide. IM gives you instant interaction with the other party: friend, girl friend, etc. E-mail responses are usually not instantaneous and depend on whether the recipient of the e-mail note has logged onto her computer and actually read the note.
Gosh, I have always avoided IM mainly just for that reason. I'd rather make sure I have a small chance of proof reading an e-mail rather than all the shortcuts and slang involved in IM. With IM the individual has to be there to interact with. I can handle waiting for a response. I don't think or type fast enough for IM either though. Of course, I avoided IRC and chat rooms for the same reasons.
This is about some opportunitstic, sleazebag lawyer and an 85-year-old incompetent parental figure trying to make a quick buck, or get their 15 minutes of attention.
The less we talk about this frivolous lawsuit and the losers involved, the better.
Oh, come on the jokes and stupidity remarks are just too easy on this one. Let them have their fun.
I can't wait for Rockstar to release a really newsbreaking game, the economics of hooking.;) Heck, they could throw in all this sex stuff and go for the AO rating just so the news folks and wanna be censors will go crazy. I've never played any verison of GTA, but I'm all for Rockstar on this. If I didn't have 2 kids, I'd have atleast rented it by now just to see what the fuss was about.
I let me kids play Zelda. What family values does that show my kids? It's o.k. to open any one's front door and open all their treasure chests and break their pots. (God forbid if they have poor chickens.) It's also o.k. to run around with a sword and hitting endangered monsters uh um animals for their rupees or heart containers.
Let's face video games isn't the place to our kids to learn common sense or moral values.;) (Well, atleast in Zelda you generally use a weapon and don't just jump on their heads.)
I agree but I'll take your post from a slightly different POV.
1. The US doesn't generally give a sh*t about math or science look at junior high and highschool. What are the 3 most popular groups? Football, cheerleaders and drillteam. I personally would like all sports banned from school except for intermural PE sports.
2. I'm sorry, but in this point I strongly disagree with you. Why? Because I think almost all schools are making far too much money as it is. Note: I said schools not teachers. I honestly think that almost all school admin staff across the country should be fired ASAP. Most teachers can tell you that this would radically increase the money that reaches teachers. I'd honestly like fully itemized bills sent home from school in addition to report cards. That would change the educational landscape.
3. I'm more neutral on this. I agree that any student that has a parent that forces the student to learn will generally outperform those don't. I don't think that teachers should expect any help though. I think teachers should expect any parental help as pure bonus. Honestly parents get pissed at alot of busy work that could be done in class that is assigned as homework that generally happens more in junior high and high school though.
4. At first, I was going to agree. But then I thought about it. For the most part, you are given a rather wide choice of subjects in junior high and high school. My grip is pre-reqs designed in a why that forces a student into a "career" track. If you didn't take geometery early on, there is no way for you to double up and take Cal later on.
5. You know. I hate the term gifted students. I was in gifted and talented for awhile. I decided shortly there after to avoid it like the plague. Why? Because most of the individuals that were admitted were trouble makers: those that would crack jokes, interrupt the teacher to gossip, and would talk or pass notes. I was happy that those students were there. They tested well. Testing is extremely easy to the talented. What is difficult is sitting down and listening. Heck, most school work could be done in 5-10 minutes unless designed to take longer. Gifted and talented folks pass through without a problem. Actually, in alot of respects, I think middle school through high school should be taught in the same manner with the same freedoms as college is now.
I'm not really worried about China. Why? Because they'll cut off contact with the rest of the world once they are 20-30 years ahead of everyone else. In that time frame, the US will re-evaluate alot of things and get its act together. The US only shines when we have a good partner to compete against. China will drive the US forward like no one else could.
I never actually bought any games when I was a minor. I had mom rent them and had a list that she'd buy 2-3 off of during a birthday or Christmas.
I don't think that would be that big off a deal for minors just to ask adults to buy the games for them. Heck, minors will really be playing these games when they illegalize it like cigs and alochol for minors to use.
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If your weapon knocked out 90%-95% of the people and killed the rest, you've just killed 5,000 to 10,000 people... I'm not sure that's as "acceptable" as you put it. As it is, our lethal weapons like "smart bombs" have much smaller collateral damage effects, typically on the order of a dozen innocents if I remember correctly.
I wasn't really thinking of using it in cities. I was thinking of helicopters flying over "rebel held" country side with troops directly after them. Of course, it really all comes down to how fast can your guys inprison the other guys before they wake up. (Assumes that they do.) I agree I wouldn't want something dropped on a city of 5-10 million. It would only make your problems worse. Say it knocked out all of the cities people for 8-24 hours. Unless you have a heck of an army, you will not be able to inprison a good fraction of those millions. If it has a 5%-10% death rate on use, you may have just killed all the old people, some kids, and a genetic miniority that just happens to overreact to the stun. So after they 24 hours are over, you have a city of 5-10 million minus your 10 percent really angry at you. O.K. You could fly over protesting areas until everyone is imune or dead from lack of food, but I still think that is the wrong use long term. I'd agree that targeted strikes would work good with this. Instead of killing your victims, just hold them in prison...
But it's the only time most of us get to talk to chicks.
Don't worry. The chicks will just all work in stocking so you need to do your Walmart shopping between 11:30 pm and 1:30 am when they are stocking shelves.
Now, if they passed these benefits along to the public, either through paying their employees more or hiring more people, that would be a good thing. The greatest benefit for the most people. If they used it to eliminate workers and pay their shareholders and executives more, that would be a bad thing, since it benefits the fewest number of people.
Both, they just drop or keep prices at same while everyone else has to slightly raise their prices. More products sold, more customers happy, a slightly more profitable company so share holders are happy.
Sure we could just stick with the landmines, bio-weapons, and nuclear arms that are already developed, but I think we can do better. Don't you?
Bio-weapons and chemical weapons have never had postive long term effects for your side. The wind changes and your troops start to die by your nasties. We could go the over kill route on land mines... We could just litter a place with nuclear land mines. (Land mines designed to vaporize several blocks.) I wouldn't want to live near that area though or even think about disarming them.
Stunners are long over due. We need helicopter mounted stunners that will reliably knock out 90%-95% of people within several blocks. (Death of the remaining population would be acceptable terms.) This would change "warfare." While our guys would be concerned about "safely" picking up knocked out enemies, the "Bad Guys" would be shooting lethal weapons at us, which would make us fully justified when the time comes for using lethal force on them.
Warfare has gotten alot more civilized. Our troops don't rape, loot, and burn down their towns/cities now days. It will be a "new" different day when soldiers don't have to kill other soldiers.
I went to 13 years of public school, and all it taught me was how to interact with people born between October 15, 1974, and October 14, 1975. When I got out into the real world, I had no idea how to interact as an equal with people who were 20 years my senior.
I'll leave up to the other replies to discuss whether or not the socialization aspect of public school is otherwise a good thing.
I did. Be still, sit down quietly in my seat every work day doing my job. (That's 90% of it right there.) Don't say anything to any one older than you unless asked a direct question. You may say "hi" and wave good morning though.
Oh, don't vote because you aren't knowledge or responsible enough to. (Like turning 18 magically makes some one more knowledge or responsible.) Obey all rules and laws and never attempt to change them, or you will be punished by either the teachers, administrators, or your parents. Outside of school almost same thing, except it is supervisor, boss, police, judge, church and then your family/friends.
A parent that home schools their child simply for financial reasons, in order to save taxpayer money, may not be giving their child a decent education.
A parent that home schools is still paying for public schools just not using the resources.
I don't have any spare feelings for my local school district. My school district had this great idea about making every school a magnet school and changing every teacher and student up. We have 5 elementary schools. My 2 kids are elementary school kids and we've been told that basically they'll learn the same thing at each of the 5 schools. So why change? Because their will be the perception that their is an art focus at one, a math focus at another and an international studies at another. My kids were going to a school about 5 blocks from my home. Now its a good 5 min drive to their school. I'm told that now every one has the option of taking their student to the local school to be bussed around to other schools.
If this was middle school or high school, I could understand. But elementary school? We only have 1 highschool. When I went to school there were 2 junior high schools. They've since changed it so some grades go to one school and other grades go to another school. Why? Beause people were actually selling their homes and moving to be at one of those 2 junior highs. They were teaching the same exact material.
My wife and I wanted to homeschool. We changed our minds. Its a nice thought, but I don't make enough money for my wife to sit at home teaching the kids. We pay taxes for that. Even if we home schooled we still have to pay the taxes so we'd just be spending more money for something we've already paid for once.
If companies are hiring a significant number of people based on mainframe experience, then it's in some college's interest to teach that. I probably ought to compare this to perl/java programming ads on some of the job sites like Monster.
;) Of course back then the hot thing was web apps and e-commerce. Our Dillards recuiter said at the time Dillards was taking things slow. At that time, it was more important for them that every single credit card transaction took under 3 seconds to process and the store inventory software was doing everything needed of it.
;) Around in most AR towns, you aren't a town until you have a Walmart. In Arkansas, you really are a big league city if you have 2 Walmart Supercenters. You can mostly get the cheapest gas, food, and general homegoods from a single source. What else do most people need? A home depot or food chains?
UCA generally had 5-10 CS grads a season. About half went into some sort of heavy duty backend database job that ran on a big blue box. That's where our classes were weakest. We only had one theory DB class! It mainly taught about the math behind SQL. We'd run examples on Oracle. At the time, I always thought that it would be faster for us to have used access. Half the class was installing oracle and getting the same example db to install and run properly.
Acxiom was the the only one that really stressed C/C++ mainly because they do demographics research for direct marketing for every major corporation out there. Back before 2000, Acxiom was collecting more information than the US Census for everyone in the world that they could get the data for. If you need a direct to mail list, they can get you a list of addresses to send out your highly targeted almost personalized ad list. At Walmart's computer center, they have a sat. reciever that recieves over 10 gigs a day in just raw inventory transactions. Alltel was known mainly for its phone coverage in mid sized cities. At that time, Alltel made most of its money by doing the backend processing for alot of international banks.
I never realized just how much major businesses where based in Arkansas. Makes me proud of my home state. That and the thought that Walmart is dangerous to CA and FL small and local business. I find that thought hilarious. Most Arkansas businesses are small local businesses and we don't have any problems competing with Walmart. That them CA and FL big league folks have a problem with an AR corporate grocery/department chain is priceless to me.
I have also seen soap operas where the evil, conniving businessman manipulates the poor, naive, beautiful young woman repeatedly. Of course that was 20+ years ago.
;) Some were aiming at relationship issues, some at power, some at politics, and some at money. They had alittle of everything. I haven't watched any in awhile, but I'd think that they'd still be aimed at being targeted towards the largest daytime tv watchers.
It's been a good 4 years since I watched day time soaps. But they did have gay couples, multinational companies run by women, doctors and lawyers that were women. O.k. I think that had an equal about of evil connviving men and women.
When I finally asked our IBM rep how one learned their systems, his answer to me was that I needed to sit next to another experienced programmer for several years to learn the trade. So much for documentation!
You are missing the point. Unless they physically moved the mainframe overseas, you'd have a secure job for life and retirement spent training an apprentice! Oh, to have that kind of job security. You don't understand how many people still love the guild system.
This is why my school is introducing a mainframe concentration into its CS program within the next two years, and people graduating with that degree are going to be looking at lots of money. Although, as some other posters have asked, why is this the university's job?
My profs came out and told us that people like State Farm and Caterpillar had sat down with our CS people and asked them to provide some sort of mainframe sequence.
I find this very funny. I graduated back in 2000 from www.uca.edu of the major employers of recent grads: Dillards, Acxiom, Walmart, and Alltel, ALL of them wanted some main frame knowledge and some COBOL classes.
Try naming some "realistic drama" type shows where the female characters are the smarter/in-charge/competent characters. That would be more convincing.
Oh, it's been awhile since I've watched any day time TV but here you go: General Hospital, Days of Our lives, One life to live, and Port Charles.
Ok. They are all soap operas so be warned. Actually, I've never thought about stats of personallitis in soap operas. I'd love to see those numbers.
It means that men are more likely to be geniuses, not that women can't be.
Well, I think it it makes sense that more men are geniuses. Most geniuses are portrayed as being alittle to alot off balance. (Well they are our original thinkers.) Well, I'd think that women would be more stable on average. Men don't have the emotional stablity of women so if a male gets extremely emotionally wounded they may through their whole life into some personal project. (I'm not saying that women don't get emotionally wounded but I'd believe that women have a better network for rebalancing themselves.) I'd be these are personal thoughts only. I'd love to see studies though showing if any common thoughts are valid by the numbers.
I just can't imagine what any healthy person would do with a whole terabyte of tv...but I guess some people really enjoy that much of what's on.
Well, all that plays on my TV is DVDs and video games. It would be neat to order several seasons of shows that I've never seen preloaded on a Terabyte HD. Who am I kidding? They'd want to charge you $30-$50 dollars per season per show for that price cable/sat. is cheaper. It would take a long time for me to catch up though. I don't think it would be worth it.
*sigh* Yes. We know. We know that for that price, many ./'s could roll their own, but we don't have to hear that every darn time. Because every darn time that means some sucker like me has to point out that they're not marketing the product to you. They're marketing to money-rich, time-poor folks who don't want to build their own, they want to splash down the cash for something that just *works*.
/.ers build and maintain their own cars and homes from scratch? What about installing/repairing stoves, dish washers, washing machines, dryers, refrigators, and A/C? I know the basics of lots of stuff, but I'd much rather pay a slight premium for someone else to do most household and car repairs.
Reminds me of my car problems. I had a hose, and some other things that needed to be replaced. I have a brother-in-law that usually does that. He says the price of each of the pieces is $15-$25. Then usually something like 50-60 in labor. He would save that 50-60 in labor. For me, I'd much rather pay the money to some one else to fix it.
Here is an interesting question how many
After it becomes too expensive to extract oil from the ground, how are airlines going to keep their birds in the air?
Nuclear! We'll be seeing fission powered planes. Oh, I forgot about 9/11 and the nuclear panic people generally have. All well it was a nice dream.
to basically earn your way through life by exploiting and berating underlings, some of which are inevitably of equal or even superior skill and/or intellect to you.
Wouldn't the test make sure you match that profile for a CEO? If you don't, then obviously you aren't CEO material.
by teasing nanotubes away from one side of a forest and attaching them to a strip of sticky tape
again proof that duct tape can make anything work!
Soon we will have duct tape made out of this nanotubes, after that, who knows or even dares to dream!!!
Didn't you hear? They changed their minds are planning on building that space elevator out of *the new* duct tape. 3M is sponsoring the whole thing. It's going to be an ad for all the assorted uses of duct tape.
http://www.ducttapefashion.com/
I don't know what sort of taxes are on that kind of income, but "giving" away to law enforcement most likely means that more of that $5 million is going to end up together at the same place. If MS keep it, most likely a good chunk would be taxed and a little bit of it would end up every where. Law Enforcement would end up with some money, but it'd more be like $500-$5,000 instead of $5,000,000. Donating money like this is great for MS.
1. The money is spent directly on objectives that MS wants to help.
2. The MS saves on taxes
3. The money could be considered direct targeted PR for those markets.
From all accounts, he was caught tapping away on his laptop, moved away when police watched, then came right back to the same point again. At which point he was investigated as he looked a little 'suspicious'.
So now, it is suspicious to be using a laptop outdoors with police watching. I guess all those officers with mobile data computers in their cars are highly suspicious as well.
Actually, it sounds like he could have just keep on doing exactly as he pleased, and they wouldn't have been able to do anything. It is that he was hiding from the police that they thought he was doing something wrong. Your really can't blame the police because that's standard for them if a citizen is activly hiding or running away from the police odds are they are doing something that is against the law.
The "state" Israel is proposing is more like a series of walled ghettos in to which they want to lock the Palestinians and forget about them, until the inevitable rocket or suicide bombing happens at which point Israel will roll in just like they do today.
I always thought that Israel was formed from US and British guilt over WW2. Reading your comment, I'd guess the real reason that Israel was allowed to be created was as a place to dump Jews from Europe, Russia, or even the US if the mood took them. No one really cared that the Jewish people survived and economically grew. That Isreal is a pain in the butt for the areas Muslims/Arabs is actually a long term pro of it. No one wants a unified middle east. Israel helps to prevent it.
I'm just cynical.
The main reason that instant messaging (IM) is popular among young adults is that it provides the kind of instant gratification that e-mail cannot provide. IM gives you instant interaction with the other party: friend, girl friend, etc. E-mail responses are usually not instantaneous and depend on whether the recipient of the e-mail note has logged onto her computer and actually read the note.
Gosh, I have always avoided IM mainly just for that reason. I'd rather make sure I have a small chance of proof reading an e-mail rather than all the shortcuts and slang involved in IM. With IM the individual has to be there to interact with. I can handle waiting for a response. I don't think or type fast enough for IM either though. Of course, I avoided IRC and chat rooms for the same reasons.
This is about some opportunitstic, sleazebag lawyer and an 85-year-old incompetent parental figure trying to make a quick buck, or get their 15 minutes of attention.
;) Heck, they could throw in all this sex stuff and go for the AO rating just so the news folks and wanna be censors will go crazy. I've never played any verison of GTA, but I'm all for Rockstar on this. If I didn't have 2 kids, I'd have atleast rented it by now just to see what the fuss was about.
;) (Well, atleast in Zelda you generally use a weapon and don't just jump on their heads.)
The less we talk about this frivolous lawsuit and the losers involved, the better.
Oh, come on the jokes and stupidity remarks are just too easy on this one. Let them have their fun.
I can't wait for Rockstar to release a really newsbreaking game, the economics of hooking.
I let me kids play Zelda. What family values does that show my kids? It's o.k. to open any one's front door and open all their treasure chests and break their pots. (God forbid if they have poor chickens.) It's also o.k. to run around with a sword and hitting endangered monsters uh um animals for their rupees or heart containers.
Let's face video games isn't the place to our kids to learn common sense or moral values.
I agree but I'll take your post from a slightly different POV.
1. The US doesn't generally give a sh*t about math or science look at junior high and highschool. What are the 3 most popular groups? Football, cheerleaders and drillteam. I personally would like all sports banned from school except for intermural PE sports.
2. I'm sorry, but in this point I strongly disagree with you. Why? Because I think almost all schools are making far too much money as it is. Note: I said schools not teachers. I honestly think that almost all school admin staff across the country should be fired ASAP. Most teachers can tell you that this would radically increase the money that reaches teachers. I'd honestly like fully itemized bills sent home from school in addition to report cards. That would change the educational landscape.
3. I'm more neutral on this. I agree that any student that has a parent that forces the student to learn will generally outperform those don't. I don't think that teachers should expect any help though. I think teachers should expect any parental help as pure bonus. Honestly parents get pissed at alot of busy work that could be done in class that is assigned as homework that generally happens more in junior high and high school though.
4. At first, I was going to agree. But then I thought about it. For the most part, you are given a rather wide choice of subjects in junior high and high school. My grip is pre-reqs designed in a why that forces a student into a "career" track. If you didn't take geometery early on, there is no way for you to double up and take Cal later on.
5. You know. I hate the term gifted students. I was in gifted and talented for awhile. I decided shortly there after to avoid it like the plague. Why? Because most of the individuals that were admitted were trouble makers: those that would crack jokes, interrupt the teacher to gossip, and would talk or pass notes. I was happy that those students were there. They tested well. Testing is extremely easy to the talented. What is difficult is sitting down and listening. Heck, most school work could be done in 5-10 minutes unless designed to take longer. Gifted and talented folks pass through without a problem. Actually, in alot of respects, I think middle school through high school should be taught in the same manner with the same freedoms as college is now.
I'm not really worried about China. Why? Because they'll cut off contact with the rest of the world once they are 20-30 years ahead of everyone else. In that time frame, the US will re-evaluate alot of things and get its act together. The US only shines when we have a good partner to compete against. China will drive the US forward like no one else could.
I never actually bought any games when I was a minor. I had mom rent them and had a list that she'd buy 2-3 off of during a birthday or Christmas.
I don't think that would be that big off a deal for minors just to ask adults to buy the games for them.
Heck, minors will really be playing these games when they illegalize it like cigs and alochol for minors to use.