Kucinich also led a city into default almost 30 years ago over an impasse. I was there.
I'll apply the same rule I applied to GWB when he was the Republican nominee (If he can't run the Texas Rangers, why would I put him in office?): If he couldn't handle Cleveland Ohio, why would I vote to put him in office? I don't care what he's done in the House (and admittedly maybe he has matured, and some of those things have been good things he's done in the House) because his track record with actually having been handed the wheel on something larger than a Congressional District is horrible.
This is interesting if only because of what you said: How you've heard it explained. I learned a long time ago in a university mass media course how that happens. I don't think you can expect any American (and forgive my assumption that you are a U.S. citizen) to fully understand the dynamics of civil strife in every hot spot on the globe. The problem is is that we permit it to be SUMMARIZED to the degree that it is intend to provoke only a "that's good/that's bad/it's none of our business" response on the nightly news or a 30 second spot on CNN/MSNBC/FOX et. al. Somehow it gets registered as something that's going on "over there", until someone from over there smacks us in the mouth and we're then ready to roll into combat. The real world is COMPLEX and requires us to take some time to get to the bottom of what's going on, and we don't want to face that. It's much easier to shout down and marginalize those who don't agree with you.
To further explode this particular point most of us don't pay much attention to local civil decisions let alone state and federal policies until they are too late/have gathered momentum. Civics and how our government operates pretty much goes in one ear and out the other in 8th grade, and then again in 10th or so. That's about it for most people. At that point, they show up and vote once in awhile and call it a life. It's not taught and stressed that beyond functional literacy in math, comprehension/reading and science that participation in the operation of the varying governing bodies is pretty much the price of being born here. It's the only absolute thing we owe to having the right to one voice, one vote. Until (if ever) we make those kind of efforts... it's more of the same.
You, are the exception to the rule (as was I). I saw this fella on CNN a few days ago, and his argument was that he was bothered by seeing kids come into his store who did not have basic reading skills, yet could tell you anything you wanted to know about the games. His policy was that he would not sell to a kid that was not passing in school, and if any kid got a slate of A's he would pay for a game out of his own pocket.
While he did overstep he did so out of a legitimate concern. Normally we see something like this in a "moral" light, for instance a pharmacist who refuses to sell the morning after pill, which is completely wrong.
This man's stance was a desire to see parents involved in what their children were doing, more so than any punishment.
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According to this article on the http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/04/06/AR2007040601088.html Post's website, Verizon seems to think Vonage's customers are "rightly theirs". Funny, I don't recall signing up for Verizon. I can't argue that this is wrong, however. Verizon is a corporate entity. If it can legally kill a competitor, it will do it, in the name of competition no less.
I don't have an issue with them defending a trademark or patent, and Vonage put itself in the position when all it probably had to do was reverse engineer/partner with/absorb another solution in order to head this off. I'm sure though that I'll find a VoIP carrier that will satisfy my needs
Don't get me wrong, Verizon just guaranteed they won't get my money, and my memory is quite long when I commit to not purchasing someone's product.
Essentially, we're looking for someone "out there" that thinks/acts/interacts with their world the way we did with ours. It's almost identical to looking for carbon based life forms like us, on other worlds (Mars as an example). I understand that it's easier to start looking for what you already know, but with the variance of life and how we interact/communicate just on this planet, maybe we can think a bit more outside the box?
From what I understand, large scale volcanic eruptions mask the effects of global warming, due to the amount of (including sulfuric) debris into the atmosphere through global dimming. Mt. Pinatubo, the same thing in 1989. So the volcanoes going off might actually aid.
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The problem with this (and my, I suspect I'm going to get lit up for suggesting this) is that the onus is placed on the institution/teacher. Education is a partnership between the student, the educational institution, and the guardian/parent. In failing districts, the problems are mainly economic (districts with funding shortcomings) and the parent/guardian leg of that partnership. You can't legislate parenting and in a fair number of cases. You can't hold momma and (maybe) dad's feet to the fire. My post is going to be short, and I know there's a myriad of reasons for this, but this isn't talked about as much as getting accountability out of the teachers.
It's easier to keep pointing at the institution. I'm not suggesting that there is a degree of mismanagement and that the institutional leg isn't weakening, but the other one is crumbling fast or gone in troubled districts.
That's somewhat the point I was making with a my previous..simplistic post below. It would be different if the artical was written with no apparent predisposed position. Simply a... as someone else said layperson's attempt to understand and explain the debate over String Theory.
Note the possibilities, note the present reality of even putting much of M-Theory's proposed experiments through the wringer, and state time will tell. Critically analyze it, versus....this.
That's not what we got here, and knowing my luck I'll get rated Flamebait again, but hey.
This isn't some reasonably objective piece on string theory; the author appears to be skeptical from the start, and BARELY lets up. I'd hoped I'd be reading a critically analytical article but I guess not. Wake me when the "story" is such.
Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time; System Shock 1 and 2; The Total War Series (Rome, Medieval); Jane's Fleet Command (and Harpoon); Call of Duty; Marathon; Planescape Torment; Baldur's Gate; Politika (althought it didn't work half the time); most Tom Clancy shooters; Majestic; Bad Mojo (very stylin'); Falcon 4.0; those old Infocom text based adventures; Nocturne; Phantasmagoria; Kings' Quest Series... there's quite a few more.
Games I'm looking forward to play?
BioShock; Medieval: Total War2.
There are always games that require a good amount of thought; they're always outnumbered by the "common denominator" games. You just have to be discriminating with your entertainment dollar...
It's Monday on the fateful day of price cuts, and I have yet to see a place online that's presenting the chips at the post cut price. I know it's super early but we all knew it was coming, even the retailers.
Not completely true. There were limited uses of nerve/chemical agents in WWII, and not just in concentration camps. The real reason wasn't treaty based; it was based on the German military philosophy of rapid advancement. You can't have a flexible, fast moving armored force rolling up mass amounts of territory and using chemical weapons; it would be pointless. Using chemical weapons, even those that disperse fairly quickly would havedelayed ground forces for unacceptable periods of time.
Actually I just found it interesting as to where the finding was; there have been very noted public struggles between entities in the Holy Land regarding antiquities and archaeological findings/interpretations. Evidently someone who doesn't agree considers that Trolling, but that's life, no? *shrug*.
I do indeed wonder what the local spin is going to be on it.
Since the Palestineans and Isrealis have been fighting over how discoveries in the Holy Land validate this or that belief, maybe the scientists can get in on it. Kind of fitting this was found there, aye? Maybe God *has* spoken....
Sorry, The Big S was invented here,In the neighborhood I grew up in.:P
I will say that the women in the GTA are hotter than anyplace else in North America... But that's about all you have going for you guys. And we're not giving back Shatner:P
It can be done, has been done, but hasn't been sold here in the U.S. due to Diesel fuel regulations. I'm sure if VW were creative enough, they'd at least market a 75mpg version here in the states...
It is hard to do when the Chinese are buying your debt and financing your war in Iraq. It's really hard when they have said president by the balls you don't think he has.
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Kucinich also led a city into default almost 30 years ago over an impasse. I was there.
I'll apply the same rule I applied to GWB when he was the Republican nominee (If he can't run the Texas Rangers, why would I put him in office?): If he couldn't handle Cleveland Ohio, why would I vote to put him in office? I don't care what he's done in the House (and admittedly maybe he has matured, and some of those things have been good things he's done in the House) because his track record with actually having been handed the wheel on something larger than a Congressional District is horrible.
This is interesting if only because of what you said: How you've heard it explained. I learned a long time ago in a university mass media course how that happens. I don't think you can expect any American (and forgive my assumption that you are a U.S. citizen) to fully understand the dynamics of civil strife in every hot spot on the globe. The problem is is that we permit it to be SUMMARIZED to the degree that it is intend to provoke only a "that's good/that's bad/it's none of our business" response on the nightly news or a 30 second spot on CNN/MSNBC/FOX et. al. Somehow it gets registered as something that's going on "over there", until someone from over there smacks us in the mouth and we're then ready to roll into combat. The real world is COMPLEX and requires us to take some time to get to the bottom of what's going on, and we don't want to face that. It's much easier to shout down and marginalize those who don't agree with you.
To further explode this particular point most of us don't pay much attention to local civil decisions let alone state and federal policies until they are too late/have gathered momentum. Civics and how our government operates pretty much goes in one ear and out the other in 8th grade, and then again in 10th or so. That's about it for most people. At that point, they show up and vote once in awhile and call it a life. It's not taught and stressed that beyond functional literacy in math, comprehension/reading and science that participation in the operation of the varying governing bodies is pretty much the price of being born here. It's the only absolute thing we owe to having the right to one voice, one vote. Until (if ever) we make those kind of efforts... it's more of the same.
Er what he said (Bandman). Also note that the parent poster stated that wifi is CHEAPER, not cost free.
Well as the BSK might say...
"If you can't play a sport... BE ONE!"
Maybe aliens tipped in that field goal on Sunday as well...:)
Crabs and lobsters may be relatives of spiders and scorpions, but I'm quite sure the latter two don't go as well with lemon juice and butter. :)
You, are the exception to the rule (as was I). I saw this fella on CNN a few days ago, and his argument was that he was bothered by seeing kids come into his store who did not have basic reading skills, yet could tell you anything you wanted to know about the games. His policy was that he would not sell to a kid that was not passing in school, and if any kid got a slate of A's he would pay for a game out of his own pocket.
While he did overstep he did so out of a legitimate concern. Normally we see something like this in a "moral" light, for instance a pharmacist who refuses to sell the morning after pill, which is completely wrong.
This man's stance was a desire to see parents involved in what their children were doing, more so than any punishment.
According to this article on the http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/04/06/AR2007040601088.html Post's website, Verizon seems to think Vonage's customers are "rightly theirs". Funny, I don't recall signing up for Verizon. I can't argue that this is wrong, however. Verizon is a corporate entity. If it can legally kill a competitor, it will do it, in the name of competition no less.
I don't have an issue with them defending a trademark or patent, and Vonage put itself in the position when all it probably had to do was reverse engineer/partner with/absorb another solution in order to head this off. I'm sure though that I'll find a VoIP carrier that will satisfy my needs
Don't get me wrong, Verizon just guaranteed they won't get my money, and my memory is quite long when I commit to not purchasing someone's product.
Not to fret. I'm quite sure most slashdotters would have a problem navigating a non-mutilated nipple. Consider yourself a step ahead! ;)
Essentially, we're looking for someone "out there" that thinks/acts/interacts with their world the way we did with ours. It's almost identical to looking for carbon based life forms like us, on other worlds (Mars as an example). I understand that it's easier to start looking for what you already know, but with the variance of life and how we interact/communicate just on this planet, maybe we can think a bit more outside the box?
From what I understand, large scale volcanic eruptions mask the effects of global warming, due to the amount of (including sulfuric) debris into the atmosphere through global dimming. Mt. Pinatubo, the same thing in 1989. So the volcanoes going off might actually aid.
The problem with this (and my, I suspect I'm going to get lit up for suggesting this) is that the onus is placed on the institution/teacher. Education is a partnership between the student, the educational institution, and the guardian/parent. In failing districts, the problems are mainly economic (districts with funding shortcomings) and the parent/guardian leg of that partnership. You can't legislate parenting and in a fair number of cases. You can't hold momma and (maybe) dad's feet to the fire. My post is going to be short, and I know there's a myriad of reasons for this, but this isn't talked about as much as getting accountability out of the teachers.
It's easier to keep pointing at the institution. I'm not suggesting that there is a degree of mismanagement and that the institutional leg isn't weakening, but the other one is crumbling fast or gone in troubled districts.
Kim would have to get the "innanet" first... See a few stories ago...
Good post.
That's somewhat the point I was making with a my previous..simplistic post below. It would be different if the artical was written with no apparent predisposed position. Simply a... as someone else said layperson's attempt to understand and explain the debate over String Theory.
Note the possibilities, note the present reality of even putting much of M-Theory's proposed experiments through the wringer, and state time will tell. Critically analyze it, versus....this.
That's not what we got here, and knowing my luck I'll get rated Flamebait again, but hey.
This isn't some reasonably objective piece on string theory; the author appears to be skeptical from the start, and BARELY lets up. I'd hoped I'd be reading a critically analytical article but I guess not. Wake me when the "story" is such.
A 20 Mule Team?
Thank you, thank you.. I'll be here all night
Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time; System Shock 1 and 2; The Total War Series (Rome, Medieval); Jane's Fleet Command (and Harpoon); Call of Duty; Marathon; Planescape Torment; Baldur's Gate; Politika (althought it didn't work half the time); most Tom Clancy shooters; Majestic; Bad Mojo (very stylin'); Falcon 4.0; those old Infocom text based adventures; Nocturne; Phantasmagoria; Kings' Quest Series... there's quite a few more.
Games I'm looking forward to play?
BioShock; Medieval: Total War2.
There are always games that require a good amount of thought; they're always outnumbered by the "common denominator" games. You just have to be discriminating with your entertainment dollar...
It's Monday on the fateful day of price cuts, and I have yet to see a place online that's presenting the chips at the post cut price. I know it's super early but we all knew it was coming, even the retailers.
Not completely true. There were limited uses of nerve/chemical agents in WWII, and not just in concentration camps. The real reason wasn't treaty based; it was based on the German military philosophy of rapid advancement. You can't have a flexible, fast moving armored force rolling up mass amounts of territory and using chemical weapons; it would be pointless. Using chemical weapons, even those that disperse fairly quickly would havedelayed ground forces for unacceptable periods of time.
Actually I just found it interesting as to where the finding was; there have been very noted public struggles between entities in the Holy Land regarding antiquities and archaeological findings/interpretations. Evidently someone who doesn't agree considers that Trolling, but that's life, no? *shrug*.
I do indeed wonder what the local spin is going to be on it.
Since the Palestineans and Isrealis have been fighting over how discoveries in the Holy Land validate this or that belief, maybe the scientists can get in on it. Kind of fitting this was found there, aye? Maybe God *has* spoken....
Sorry, The Big S was invented here,In the neighborhood I grew up in. :P
:P
I will say that the women in the GTA are hotter than anyplace else in North America... But that's about all you have going for you guys. And we're not giving back Shatner
It can be done, has been done, but hasn't been sold here in the U.S. due to Diesel fuel regulations. I'm sure if VW were creative enough, they'd at least market a 75mpg version here in the states...
It is hard to do when the Chinese are buying your debt and financing your war in Iraq. It's really hard when they have said president by the balls you don't think he has.
Although I could use one of those 2800's...:)