Hell, I can't count how many times I have boldly run into the Gold Room in RtCW:ET and blown myself to bits with a panzer, all in an attempt at furthering the Allied cause.:-)
My experience precisely. My mother, acting as "teacher" and "head mistress" all rolled into one, felt that reading the bible eight hours a day was more than sufficient to give me and my siblings a firm grounding in reality.
All I have to say is thank $DEITY for the public library. It was there that I educated myself, and eventually threw off the mental shackles of the Dead Man On A Stick religion. I had to read the books I got from the library on the sly, since my parents would have beaten me had they found them.
You heard right; not grounded me, not reprimanded me; beaten me. Bet you didn't realize that home schoolers make up the largest contingent of the we-spank-our-children-for-their-own-good crowd?
These people actually believe that The Crusades were good for all the people involved; that the Salem Witch Trials helped hold back the forces of darkness and save the innocent people of Salem; and that our founding fathers -- all of them -- were devote christians who prayed to jesus on a daily, if not hourly, basis. That's what I was taught, and that's what I had to painstakingly unlearn through countless hours of reading at the library.
If I had to credit one author with doing the most through his or her words to open my eyes, I'd point to Ayn Rand.
Before you run your mouth again, I'd suggest you not be so quick to jump on people and accuse them of being ignorant. I was homeschooled, from first grade through high school. I've been to plenty of your local homeschooling groups, and I can state that virtually all of them are damaged goods.
Screw social skills; these kids aren't taught anything of the real world, less their wee lil' minds be corrupted by the evil sinners that don't believe in jesus! Bah. The result is that the children grow up lacking the skills to survive in the real world.
So sit down and STFU. You home schooling types make me sick. I'm certainly not going to subject my children to what I had to go through. Unlike you, I want my children to have a better life than I do: and this means raising them as normal people who are equipped to function in the real world.
...each one of those 92 million victims should be allowed to kick him in the nuts.
And then I should be allowed to kick the 92 million AOL users in the nuts. Stupid lusers!
The only problem with this plan is that I doubt I can kick nuts 92 million times without my legs becoming very, very tired.
Perhaps I should draw upon the vast resources of Slashdot and ask all the decent netizens of Slashdot to come forth and help me kick all the AOL users' nuts. Anyone interested?;-)
For an entertaining discussion of escape velocities and an illustration of why you can't just keep piling the fuel into a rocket and expect it to ever take off (the law of diminishing returns) see Robert Heinlein's classic work The Man Who Sold the Moon.
Modern computers have their quirks. In 30 years my kids are going to be asking me why I keep referring to "disk space" and "RAM."
Are you kidding? I get that _now_. People just don't get the distinction.
Amen. I can't begin to remember how many times I've asked a simple question like "how much memory does your PC have?" only to be told something like "um, forty gigs?"
Don't forget the blacksmith who used an unexploded bomb for an anvil. The fuze had been removed, leaving him to believe it was safe to hammer away on the bomb.
For example, the Russians widely employed explosive matryoshka (nesting) dolls as IEDs, costing countless Afghanistan children their hands, arms, and even lives.
While I was reading through the comments, I actually received a call on my cell phone from Verizon. I work at a small startup, and I'm the only employee with a company phone, and thereby the only employee with a Verizon phone.
Nonetheless, despite being obviously a small-fry customer, the Verizon rep called to let me know that in the past month I had received in excess of 800 text messages. My phone is at the receiving-end of a pretty large Big Brother monitoring system, so I'm not surprised.
He was calling me to offer to upgrade me to a $9.99/month plan for 1,000 text messages, and to do so at once to avoid overage charges on my account.
That's what I consider to be impressive customer service. I've been with other cellular providers in the past, and Verizon is the first one that actually seems to care about keeping me as a customer.
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YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Yup, it's all fun and games until the AE-35 unit fails.
See http://dict.lindstromconsulting.com/?q=atheist.
Quick! Someone post an ASCII art picture of Bob!
Nah. The backup AE-35 unit fell off a long time ago.
OH MY GOD, GOOGLE IS DOWN! Run!
Does that count as a suicide bombing?
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
All I have to say is thank $DEITY for the public library. It was there that I educated myself, and eventually threw off the mental shackles of the Dead Man On A Stick religion. I had to read the books I got from the library on the sly, since my parents would have beaten me had they found them.
You heard right; not grounded me, not reprimanded me; beaten me. Bet you didn't realize that home schoolers make up the largest contingent of the we-spank-our-children-for-their-own-good crowd?
These people actually believe that The Crusades were good for all the people involved; that the Salem Witch Trials helped hold back the forces of darkness and save the innocent people of Salem; and that our founding fathers -- all of them -- were devote christians who prayed to jesus on a daily, if not hourly, basis. That's what I was taught, and that's what I had to painstakingly unlearn through countless hours of reading at the library.
If I had to credit one author with doing the most through his or her words to open my eyes, I'd point to Ayn Rand.
Screw social skills; these kids aren't taught anything of the real world, less their wee lil' minds be corrupted by the evil sinners that don't believe in jesus! Bah. The result is that the children grow up lacking the skills to survive in the real world.
So sit down and STFU. You home schooling types make me sick. I'm certainly not going to subject my children to what I had to go through. Unlike you, I want my children to have a better life than I do: and this means raising them as normal people who are equipped to function in the real world.
The only problem with this plan is that I doubt I can kick nuts 92 million times without my legs becoming very, very tired.
Perhaps I should draw upon the vast resources of Slashdot and ask all the decent netizens of Slashdot to come forth and help me kick all the AOL users' nuts. Anyone interested? ;-)
But wait! How (long|wide|high) is an asshat?
Bah! Parsecs are a measurement of time, not distance. Haven't you been watching your Star Wars?
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
For an entertaining discussion of escape velocities and an illustration of why you can't just keep piling the fuel into a rocket and expect it to ever take off (the law of diminishing returns) see Robert Heinlein's classic work The Man Who Sold the Moon .
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For example, the Russians widely employed explosive matryoshka (nesting) dolls as IEDs, costing countless Afghanistan children their hands, arms, and even lives.
That's nothing. Why, back in my day, we did our computin' using a slide ruler, and we liked it!
Nonetheless, despite being obviously a small-fry customer, the Verizon rep called to let me know that in the past month I had received in excess of 800 text messages. My phone is at the receiving-end of a pretty large Big Brother monitoring system, so I'm not surprised.
He was calling me to offer to upgrade me to a $9.99/month plan for 1,000 text messages, and to do so at once to avoid overage charges on my account.
That's what I consider to be impressive customer service. I've been with other cellular providers in the past, and Verizon is the first one that actually seems to care about keeping me as a customer.
Consider me a satisfied Verizon customer.