Finding the right way to emphasize academic success could eliminate the geek-hating problem, and that could produce a positive feedback loop as people look up to straight-A students and try to become as successful as them.
How about cutting the funding for things like sports in half and diverting those funds to debate, rhetoric, history, math, and chess clubs that can compete against other schools? Don't let the jocks be the only ones representing their school's honor and maybe the nerds will get some respect.
You jest, but any probe sent that far away is going on a one-way mission, anyway. So why not orbit it a bit and then smash into it and see what happens (presumably after jettisoning the sensor and communications package so we can send data back to earth)?
On the ride into work this morning, I drove over several pedestrians, flipped my car twice after hitting guardrails at the wrong angle, and took 5 minutes to get unstuck when I drove through the plate-glass window of a coffee shop. I'd say I've learned everything I need to know about driving from video games.
More accurately, if you poison my family I promise to only shoot you yourself. I won't blow up your house, rape your wife, and burn your children alive. Unless it looks like there's plutonium in the cupboard, then all bets are off.
What the hell is wrong with you and the mods? You can't get a simple quote right? It's "...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
What is the point of having the FCC if you don't let it do its job?
According to the Court of Appeals, regulating the Internet is not part of its job. Are you saying the justices were wrong? If so, what case law do you have to prove your assertion?
The french version of scrabble has a value of 10 for the W and Y letters, because they are in very few words. If only I was allowed tu use english words....
What if you resize your monitor, do your 'customizations' all go to hell?
How often does that happen, though? Personally, I've used laptops pretty much exclusively for the last six or seven years. Which means resizing the monitor means getting an entirely new system, something I only do once every two years or so. I'm more than happy to go through the steps to get this kind of thing working once every two years if it means I can customize software I have to use for work to make it easier for me to do my job.
Your friend should look into online courses at someplace like University of Phoenix or Strayer University. I'm finishing my bachelors at Strayer online now and it's great, very easy to work the classes into my schedule with work, family, and community commitments. Once he's done, he could start looking for accounting gigs through sites like Guru or eLance, jobs he can do through the internet (and not run the risk of coming in contact with verboten persons).
So yeah, it sucks that your friend got screwed like this, but there are workarounds available. You just have to think outside the box a little.
Strategically, letting the Soviets go first was a good move. Can you imagine how Nikita "We will bury you" Khrushchev would've responded if the US had been first to launch a satellite? He would've banged his shoe at the UN some more and whined and complained about us invading their territory. But with the Soviets going first and us not complaining about Sputnik flying over our territory, the precedent was set that satellites could go anywhere. It might not have been Ike's plan all along, but it definitely worked out better for everyone in the long run.
This is why, whenever I've turned in a company laptop (even if just exchanging it for a new one), I'll boot off a CD (or floppy, back in the day) and run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" or the equivalent. Gets rid of everything on there, incriminating or not.
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Finding the right way to emphasize academic success could eliminate the geek-hating problem, and that could produce a positive feedback loop as people look up to straight-A students and try to become as successful as them.
How about cutting the funding for things like sports in half and diverting those funds to debate, rhetoric, history, math, and chess clubs that can compete against other schools? Don't let the jocks be the only ones representing their school's honor and maybe the nerds will get some respect.
Or why some kids think they won't live past their 21st birthday.
I know one kid who won't live past his 13th birthday if he doesn't get his Math grade up!
You jest, but any probe sent that far away is going on a one-way mission, anyway. So why not orbit it a bit and then smash into it and see what happens (presumably after jettisoning the sensor and communications package so we can send data back to earth)?
Does that mean I didn't actually have to give Microsoft my first-born son?
Don't worry, corbettw jr, I'm coming to get you!
Google has now helped build upon our understanding of we came from, as a species. They are officially off my shit list.
Post a story when someone uses an iPod to prevent evil hackers from breaking into a bank, then I'll be impressed.
Go one step further and claim "someone" in Buckingham Palace has been stealing your music or whatever. Watch hilarity ensue.
if any of the voting members present asks for a quorum check
That seems to be the rub. If no one really cares to ask, doesn't really matter, does it?
So, why don't you take a leaf from the successful and lobby the Liberal Democrats?
Splitters!
the state should leave it to parents to talk about contraceptives and abstinence
That worked out real well for Bristol Palin, didn't it?
The joke might have been funny if you had not screwed up (misquoted) the actual quote.
Or maybe that was the point? Dur.
On the ride into work this morning, I drove over several pedestrians, flipped my car twice after hitting guardrails at the wrong angle, and took 5 minutes to get unstuck when I drove through the plate-glass window of a coffee shop. I'd say I've learned everything I need to know about driving from video games.
Dur, I wasn't going for the full quote. I think you need to go back to 5th grade English class and relearn what an ellipsis means.
(Have I done a good enough job of pretending to be a rabid fanboi yet? Or are people still not getting the joke?)
Why not? Hell, I know when I want to check out the goings on in programming the first and last place I turn is YouTube.
Sounds like we have a candidate for the name of the new element: halucinicium.
More accurately, if you poison my family I promise to only shoot you yourself. I won't blow up your house, rape your wife, and burn your children alive. Unless it looks like there's plutonium in the cupboard, then all bets are off.
What the hell is wrong with you and the mods? You can't get a simple quote right? It's "...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
And you call yourself a nerd. Turn in your card!
What is the point of having the FCC if you don't let it do its job?
According to the Court of Appeals, regulating the Internet is not part of its job. Are you saying the justices were wrong? If so, what case law do you have to prove your assertion?
You might want to stay off the Internet every April 1. It can be a little confusing (and annoying).
The french version of scrabble has a value of 10 for the W and Y letters, because they are in very few words. If only I was allowed tu use english words....
Why? How would any English words help you?
What if you resize your monitor, do your 'customizations' all go to hell?
How often does that happen, though? Personally, I've used laptops pretty much exclusively for the last six or seven years. Which means resizing the monitor means getting an entirely new system, something I only do once every two years or so. I'm more than happy to go through the steps to get this kind of thing working once every two years if it means I can customize software I have to use for work to make it easier for me to do my job.
Your friend should look into online courses at someplace like University of Phoenix or Strayer University. I'm finishing my bachelors at Strayer online now and it's great, very easy to work the classes into my schedule with work, family, and community commitments. Once he's done, he could start looking for accounting gigs through sites like Guru or eLance, jobs he can do through the internet (and not run the risk of coming in contact with verboten persons).
So yeah, it sucks that your friend got screwed like this, but there are workarounds available. You just have to think outside the box a little.
Strategically, letting the Soviets go first was a good move. Can you imagine how Nikita "We will bury you" Khrushchev would've responded if the US had been first to launch a satellite? He would've banged his shoe at the UN some more and whined and complained about us invading their territory. But with the Soviets going first and us not complaining about Sputnik flying over our territory, the precedent was set that satellites could go anywhere. It might not have been Ike's plan all along, but it definitely worked out better for everyone in the long run.
This is why, whenever I've turned in a company laptop (even if just exchanging it for a new one), I'll boot off a CD (or floppy, back in the day) and run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda" or the equivalent. Gets rid of everything on there, incriminating or not.
(Checks username of GP, ensures it's not BAG.) No, that's probably a good analogy.