Or, to put it more simply: The world prefers extraverts. If you aren't one, learn to fake it. Oh, and don't be afraid of the ball.
I'd also like to add that sports are like schoolwork; they have to be worked on like everyone else. A little practice at home doing the basics like catching/hitting a baseball or doing a pull-up can prevent a hell of a lot of embarrassment later on when you have to do that stuff in front of your classmates. You don't have to be the best, but at least know the basics and you won't be picked last.
This matters because Steve, for better or for worse, is extremely nitpicky about presentation and image.
I can just imagine Steve looking at that picture of Glazer, with his Boss Hogg face and "Burberry" tie, shaking his head and saying "Is it any wonder that everything having to do with this player is second-rate?"
With the exception of Health care each of the items is a choice.
Agreed. However, it is to the benefit of society to encourage certain behaviors. For example:
* Children -- I don't have any and don't want any, but I realize that they are important for the future, even if it's just to have someone to wipe the drool off my face or keep the lights going when I get old. I'm willing to cut people slack (and a few hundred bucks a year in deductions), because I figure it all evens out in the end.
* Mortgage interest -- Nothing makes people care more about where they live more than actually owning a chunk of it. A mortgage deduction encourages people to invest in their communities.
* Education costs -- Education is necessary for better jobs and ultimately benefits everyone. Making this a deductible expense more than pays for itself in the long run.
Just like you make a value judgment about what constitutes a "sin" as opposed to a "medical" expense (cf. prostitution), deductions shape society.
The first problem is the difference between earned and unearned income. People who own things make their money/profits from unearned income. How do you deal with a rich person whose bonds pay 5%/year? Do you tax that stocks even if the paper profits aren't taken that year? What about a lower-middle-class family whose house increases in value by 6%/year?
The other problem problem is in deductions. How do you deal with things like: * Children * Mortgage interest * Health care costs * Education costs
I like the idea of a flat tax, but there's more to the idea of "money" than just a paycheck every week/fortnight/month.
That reminds me of a long-term night temp job I had after college, correcting bills for AT&T. You'd go through a printed out long-distance phone bill, figure out how much they would be saving if a certain phone plan were applied to it, and figure out how much they would have saved.
There were about sixty of us at first, and we all got paid to take a multiple-choice test asking under what circumstances one would add, subtract, multiply, or divide to get an answer. Not the answer itself, mind you, just how to get it. That knocked out two-thirds of the applicants.
I quickly found two other "college guys" to hang out with, and we discovered that after half a night's work, we'd memorized the billing rates. For the next month, the three of us would knock off more bills than the other 17 people, goof off for a while, correct some more bills, then wander around the AT&T offices rearranging people's cubicles.
It's only a matter of time before Andreesen's on a VH1 "where are they now" special where they reunite him with the pets.com sock puppet and the dancing baby. Until then, the only fun is watching him get fatter in each new publicity photo.
Look at Bush, only in the office in the first place because people felt picking the lesser of 2 evils (Gore would have been a nightmare)was prudent. Yet they had more than 2 choices.
Bush won because of people failing to pick the lesser of two evils. People who exercised other choices (Nader) cost Gore Florida and New Hampshire. It's all well and good to be idealistic, but not at the expense of reality.
I'm registered as an independent, but today I was a Democrat for ten minutes to vote for John Kerry. I prefer Howard Dean, but Kerry has a better chance of beating Bush. Right now getting Bush out of office is more important to me right now than worrying about sending a message.
Imagine a simple jeep outfitted with these inventions doing the rounds in poor areas. Put the tester on and voila few minutes later a pair of glasses. 1 day per village. Couple of jeeps. Shouldn't take long at all (after all it is not like glasses need to replaced that often, even in the west once a year is good enough even for still growing kids).
And then, when everyone is wearing these glasses, flip the mind control switch!
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Or, to put it more simply: The world prefers extraverts. If you aren't one, learn to fake it. Oh, and don't be afraid of the ball.
I'd also like to add that sports are like schoolwork; they have to be worked on like everyone else. A little practice at home doing the basics like catching/hitting a baseball or doing a pull-up can prevent a hell of a lot of embarrassment later on when you have to do that stuff in front of your classmates. You don't have to be the best, but at least know the basics and you won't be picked last.
I type 60 WPM while looking at the keys and using four fingers, and my hands are constantly changing position.
I could learn to touch type, but I'd rather avoid the RSI.
Even my PhD students largely accepted whatever was told to them.
I used to be a professor at a lousy university too. Only mine was in Texas.
Heck, it's a question that MUST be answered before we create legions of blind men.
Shhh. Don't you want to become king?
Goatse in the Sky with Diamonds!
And AA batteries are for shooting down planes.
This matters because Steve, for better or for worse, is extremely nitpicky about presentation and image.
I can just imagine Steve looking at that picture of Glazer, with his Boss Hogg face and "Burberry" tie, shaking his head and saying "Is it any wonder that everything having to do with this player is second-rate?"
Nice editing there, timothy.
Who wants to watch desecated corpses float for 10 more episodes while Vangelis plays in the background?
That would suck as a TV show, but it would rock as a screen saver.
Black electrical tape also fixes that flashing 12:00...12:00...12:00 on the VCR.
With the exception of Health care each of the items is a choice.
Agreed. However, it is to the benefit of society to encourage certain behaviors. For example:
* Children -- I don't have any and don't want any, but I realize that they are important for the future, even if it's just to have someone to wipe the drool off my face or keep the lights going when I get old. I'm willing to cut people slack (and a few hundred bucks a year in deductions), because I figure it all evens out in the end.
* Mortgage interest -- Nothing makes people care more about where they live more than actually owning a chunk of it. A mortgage deduction encourages people to invest in their communities.
* Education costs -- Education is necessary for better jobs and ultimately benefits everyone. Making this a deductible expense more than pays for itself in the long run.
Just like you make a value judgment about what constitutes a "sin" as opposed to a "medical" expense (cf. prostitution), deductions shape society.
The first problem is the difference between earned and unearned income. People who own things make their money/profits from unearned income. How do you deal with a rich person whose bonds pay 5%/year? Do you tax that stocks even if the paper profits aren't taken that year? What about a lower-middle-class family whose house increases in value by 6%/year?
The other problem problem is in deductions. How do you deal with things like:
* Children
* Mortgage interest
* Health care costs
* Education costs
I like the idea of a flat tax, but there's more to the idea of "money" than just a paycheck every week/fortnight/month.
That reminds me of a long-term night temp job I had after college, correcting bills for AT&T. You'd go through a printed out long-distance phone bill, figure out how much they would be saving if a certain phone plan were applied to it, and figure out how much they would have saved.
There were about sixty of us at first, and we all got paid to take a multiple-choice test asking under what circumstances one would add, subtract, multiply, or divide to get an answer. Not the answer itself, mind you, just how to get it. That knocked out two-thirds of the applicants.
I quickly found two other "college guys" to hang out with, and we discovered that after half a night's work, we'd memorized the billing rates. For the next month, the three of us would knock off more bills than the other 17 people, goof off for a while, correct some more bills, then wander around the AT&T offices rearranging people's cubicles.
Uh, no. Women fart. Ladies fan the air and declare how stuffy it is.
Fire insurance premiums decrease?
Man, and I thought a Discover Card was ghetto.
It's only a matter of time before Andreesen's on a VH1 "where are they now" special where they reunite him with the pets.com sock puppet and the dancing baby. Until then, the only fun is watching him get fatter in each new publicity photo.
In another decade she won't be able to see anything that isn't fuzzy.
I'll start working on a 12-point caterpillar font.
Knobshiner Bock is from Texas.
No one because who wants a machine that does a crappy job at two things instead of a good job at one.
They will if we add a clock.
No one can be told what the bone matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself.
why they would pick a goddess of the sea
Because a chicken of the sea would just be silly.
Look at Bush, only in the office in the first place because people felt picking the lesser of 2 evils (Gore would have been a nightmare)was prudent. Yet they had more than 2 choices.
Bush won because of people failing to pick the lesser of two evils. People who exercised other choices (Nader) cost Gore Florida and New Hampshire. It's all well and good to be idealistic, but not at the expense of reality.
I'm registered as an independent, but today I was a Democrat for ten minutes to vote for John Kerry. I prefer Howard Dean, but Kerry has a better chance of beating Bush. Right now getting Bush out of office is more important to me right now than worrying about sending a message.
Imagine a simple jeep outfitted with these inventions doing the rounds in poor areas. Put the tester on and voila few minutes later a pair of glasses. 1 day per village. Couple of jeeps. Shouldn't take long at all (after all it is not like glasses need to replaced that often, even in the west once a year is good enough even for still growing kids).
And then, when everyone is wearing these glasses, flip the mind control switch!
As a side note, i don't watch TV either or drink "sickly sodas", they are both detrimental to the human condition
Television is a mode of communication. Claiming that all television programming is detrimental to the human condition just makes you looks stupid.