Yes! I just finished watching the entire series, in sequence with some relatives that had never seen them. Gads, this wasn't a tapestry of a story, it was a spiderweb at best.
What moronic civilization would elect a teenager as their supreme ruler? (Notice no reference to a parliment or other ruling body - she was making all the important decisions herself) Better yet, how dumb would you have to be to appoint Jar Jar to *any* position of responsibility?
That patch of grass has traditionally been the perfect place for kids to play, romp with the dog/friends and camp out on summer nights.
Even if you don't have kids, surrounding your house with grass has a measurable cooling effect on hot summer days (non-humid climates, of course).
It's also, on an hour per square foot basis, one of the lowest maintanence groundcovers. Yes it has to be mowed weekly and weed-and-fed a couple times a year but consider the alternatives: Decorative Rock or bark mulch: even if placed over landscape fabric it will fill up with blowing dirt and produce a continual crop of weeds. It doesn't matter that you don't water it - weeds don't need it. Hours of backbreaking work or the use of something like Roundup every couple of weeks. Mulch has to be replaced every couple years or it looks ratty. Planting beds: Rock issues X 10 since you can't use Roundup. Concrete/Asphalt: ok if you like the "institutional look" but...ugh...
Of course you could let your house 'go native' but many cities have ordinances prohibiting that and it drags down your and everyone else's property values.
Ah, but your primary distress was that it looks "ugly", there's no arguing with, or accounting for, taste. It is not, however, "worthless". Q.E.D.
One of the articles I was reading this morning mentioned that Litvack retired early from the board and was replaced by Perkins last week.
Methinks Carly's support on the board was thin and the new guy changed the balance of power. Either that or perhaps the quarterly financials, coming out next month aren't looking good and the board is preemptively killing the scapegoat.
Under Clinton the budget was balanced and the deficit was gone. This "spendocrats" myth is just that. Historically, Democratic Presidents have been much more fiscally responsible.
The 'balanced budget' of the Clinton era was only made possible by taxes levied on a modern version of tulipmania. All projections were based on a unsustainable reality. The budget only looked balanced, the 'surplus' was an illusion. The budget burst along with the bubble. Neither Republicans nor Democrats get the credit or blame - we simply lost our minds for awhile and government temporarily benefited by taxing the transfer of wealth.
It is both wrong an very dangerous to think our rights come to us as gifts from our governments.
This is only if you believe in the principle of limited government (which the US's Founders did). If you are "progressive" (of which socialism/communism is a type) you believe that rights are granted by the state.
I telecommute for a major tech company. I can work anywhere there's broadband so I decided to move the family to a small town along the Rocky Mountains. I can get anywhere in town within 15 minutes. The snow capped mountains seem so close it's like you could reach out and touch them. I love it. The people are friendly and relaxed. The streets are clean and houses well kept. Way more conservative than attitudes in a metro area, but that suits me fine.
Not all the amenities I'm used to but you can get pretty much anything over the internet - which keeps me from making those impulse purchases at Frys.:)
I'm surprised at how bigoted/.ers are, i.e. 'hicks'. Everyone I've talked to in this 'hick' town is reasonably intelligent and articulate. True, the article specifically mentioned the south, but prevailing/. attitude seems to be "rural=trailer trash".
(I take your reference to hicksville in the spirit intended, btw. I'd love to start up a 'recovery center' here in paradise for city-worn geeks.)
Yes, Spaceshipone carried 400 lbs of ballast. This latest trip is was mostly personal effects of the staff involved but I also heard there were some toys for kids.
...but that's nothing to be embarrassed about, ignorance is curable.
The "McCarthy witch hunts" were NOT witch hunts (read the end). McCarthy's basic argument was "should we have people who are communists (many self admitted) in sensitive positions within our government?"
He was not only right, but underestimated the extent of soviet infiltration, as the release of the Venona Project transcripts now reveal (summary here).
...remarked with bitter irony that every triumphant theory passes through three stages: first it is dismissed as untrue; then it is rejected as contrary to religion; finally, it is accepted as dogma and each scientist claims that he had long appreciated its truth. - as quoted by S.J. Gould
Unfortunately, while Hubbert was right about a peak, he was wrong in all the ways that matter.
The major problem with these dire predictions is that they can't take into account revolutionary changes in technology/lifestyles. They also don't take into account that known reservoirs may refill from yet-undiscovered sources.
Back in the late 1880 horses were the main form of transportation. If anyone extrapolated the growth of, say, New York City for the next 50 years they would conclude that horse feed and horse crap would be a huge problem by 1930!
Yes, oil is a finite resource. What is often overlooked is that there are billions of barrels in forms/reservoirs that are not economical to extract at current prices and with the current techniques. As the price rises it will become economical to develop these resources and the price will stablilize.
My personal prediction is that we will never run out. At some point renewable energy will become cost competitive with petroleum (getting close even now) and we will stop using it for energy. Thereafter petroleum will probably be used as feedstock for chemicals/lubricants but will eventually be replaced by bio-synthetic products.
Tin-foil hats are fashionable in certain circles - if you haven't already "married the idea" of catastrophic oil depletion check out the facts here.
consider the situation where a bright geek gets an idea for a new and wonderful gadget. He picks up $50 in parts from Radio Shack and assembles them in a few hours into an item that people will gladly pay $200 for.
Where did that extra $150 come from? His labor (ala Marx)? No, his creativity.
The above scenario is brought to you by - Capitalism - "making money out of nothing one idea at a time"
Re:Implications for Phonics vs. Whole-word Debate?
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As I understand it phonics takes advantage of the fact that most people's verbal vocabulary is much larger than their reading vocabulary.
Since phonics provides a toolbox for transforming most letter combinations into a recognizable "verbal" word, the learner doesn't have to have every word (initially) interpreted for them.
This scrambled effect does seem to indicate that the brain "indexes" the whole word as the reader gains proficiency (or maybe the proficiency is due to the indexing?).
Slashdot Mirror
Yes! I just finished watching the entire series, in sequence with some relatives that had never seen them. Gads, this wasn't a tapestry of a story, it was a spiderweb at best.
What moronic civilization would elect a teenager as their supreme ruler? (Notice no reference to a parliment or other ruling body - she was making all the important decisions herself)
Better yet, how dumb would you have to be to appoint Jar Jar to *any* position of responsibility?
I could go on and on...
of the sub-plot in Thrice Upon A Time
You've never had kids have you?
...ugh...
That patch of grass has traditionally been the perfect place for kids to play, romp with the dog/friends and camp out on summer nights.
Even if you don't have kids, surrounding your house with grass has a measurable cooling effect on hot summer days (non-humid climates, of course).
It's also, on an hour per square foot basis, one of the lowest maintanence groundcovers. Yes it has to be mowed weekly and weed-and-fed a couple times a year but consider the alternatives:
Decorative Rock or bark mulch: even if placed over landscape fabric it will fill up with blowing dirt and produce a continual crop of weeds. It doesn't matter that you don't water it - weeds don't need it. Hours of backbreaking work or the use of something like Roundup every couple of weeks. Mulch has to be replaced every couple years or it looks ratty.
Planting beds: Rock issues X 10 since you can't use Roundup.
Concrete/Asphalt: ok if you like the "institutional look" but
Of course you could let your house 'go native' but many cities have ordinances prohibiting that and it drags down your and everyone else's property values.
Ah, but your primary distress was that it looks "ugly", there's no arguing with, or accounting for, taste. It is not, however, "worthless". Q.E.D.
One of the articles I was reading this morning mentioned that Litvack retired early from the board and was replaced by Perkins last week.
Methinks Carly's support on the board was thin and the new guy changed the balance of power. Either that or perhaps the quarterly financials, coming out next month aren't looking good and the board is preemptively killing the scapegoat.
Under Clinton the budget was balanced and the deficit was gone. This "spendocrats" myth is just that. Historically, Democratic Presidents have been much more fiscally responsible.
The 'balanced budget' of the Clinton era was only made possible by taxes levied on a modern version of tulipmania.
All projections were based on a unsustainable reality. The budget only looked balanced, the 'surplus' was an illusion. The budget burst along with the bubble. Neither Republicans nor Democrats get the credit or blame - we simply lost our minds for awhile and government temporarily benefited by taxing the transfer of wealth.
Can it be aimed at an airliner?
Osama, is that you?
They have freeways too!
It is both wrong an very dangerous to think our rights come to us as gifts from our governments.
This is only if you believe in the principle of limited government (which the US's Founders did).
If you are "progressive" (of which socialism/communism is a type) you believe that rights are granted by the state.
~20k population town here. 3Mbps down/756 Kbps up. $45/month.
Rural isn't as primitive as it used to be.
I telecommute for a major tech company. I can work anywhere there's broadband so I decided to move the family to a small town along the Rocky Mountains. I can get anywhere in town within 15 minutes. The snow capped mountains seem so close it's like you could reach out and touch them. I love it. The people are friendly and relaxed. The streets are clean and houses well kept. Way more conservative than attitudes in a metro area, but that suits me fine.
:)
/.ers are, i.e. 'hicks'. Everyone I've talked to in this 'hick' town is reasonably intelligent and articulate. True, the article specifically mentioned the south, but prevailing /. attitude seems to be "rural=trailer trash".
Not all the amenities I'm used to but you can get pretty much anything over the internet - which keeps me from making those impulse purchases at Frys.
I'm surprised at how bigoted
(I take your reference to hicksville in the spirit intended, btw. I'd love to start up a 'recovery center' here in paradise for city-worn geeks.)
Ah, denial, it's not just a river in Egypt...
Yes, Spaceshipone carried 400 lbs of ballast. This latest trip is was mostly personal effects of the staff involved but I also heard there were some toys for kids.
...but that's nothing to be embarrassed about, ignorance is curable.
The "McCarthy witch hunts" were NOT witch hunts (read the end). McCarthy's basic argument was "should we have people who are communists (many self admitted) in sensitive positions within our government?"
He was not only right, but underestimated the extent of soviet infiltration, as the release of the Venona Project transcripts now reveal (summary here).
Now go and read a book.
...remarked with bitter irony that every triumphant theory passes through three stages: first it is dismissed as untrue; then it is rejected as contrary to religion; finally, it is accepted as dogma and each scientist claims that he had long appreciated its truth.
- as quoted by S.J. Gould
A press release from last year outlines a technique to create a dramatically improved catalyst to convert CO + H20 = H2 + CO2
the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Slashdot effect.
your head explodes and splatters everyone's data promiscuously about the room...
:)
Unfortunately, while Hubbert was right about a peak, he was wrong in all the ways that matter.
The major problem with these dire predictions is that they can't take into account revolutionary changes in technology/lifestyles. They also don't take into account that known reservoirs may refill from yet-undiscovered sources.
Back in the late 1880 horses were the main form of transportation. If anyone extrapolated the growth of, say, New York City for the next 50 years they would conclude that horse feed and horse crap would be a huge problem by 1930!
Yes, oil is a finite resource. What is often overlooked is that there are billions of barrels in forms/reservoirs that are not economical to extract at current prices and with the current techniques. As the price rises it will become economical to develop these resources and the price will stablilize.
My personal prediction is that we will never run out. At some point renewable energy will become cost competitive with petroleum (getting close even now) and we will stop using it for energy. Thereafter petroleum will probably be used as feedstock for chemicals/lubricants but will eventually be replaced by bio-synthetic products.
Tin-foil hats are fashionable in certain circles - if you haven't already "married the idea" of catastrophic oil depletion check out the facts here.
article here
consider the situation where a bright geek gets an idea for a new and wonderful gadget. He picks up $50 in parts from Radio Shack and assembles them in a few hours into an item that people will gladly pay $200 for.
Where did that extra $150 come from? His labor (ala Marx)? No, his creativity.
The above scenario is brought to you by - Capitalism - "making money out of nothing one idea at a time"
called a "joy stick" I would think...
or "homeless"
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The *love* of money is the root of all evil.
As I understand it phonics takes advantage of the fact that most people's verbal vocabulary is much larger than their reading vocabulary.
Since phonics provides a toolbox for transforming most letter combinations into a recognizable "verbal" word, the learner doesn't have to have every word (initially) interpreted for them.
This scrambled effect does seem to indicate that the brain "indexes" the whole word as the reader gains proficiency (or maybe the proficiency is due to the indexing?).
Now if the geniuses in congress would just learn the same lesson as it applies to taxes we'd be *really* getting somewhere! :)
I'm expecting something that could better be described as "a rupture in a submarine's hull at crush depth".
:)
"leak" indeed