We're not at liberty to discuss the details of this amazing new forensic technique at this time. But rest assured that the $5 million grant you gave us last year to develop it did not go to waste--and most certainly was *not* just spent on booze, cool new squad cars, and trips to Hawaii.
People are always more open to believe what they *want* to believe than anything that contradicts, or even tempers, what they want to believe. And "Possible life detected on Mars" gets a lot more PR and grant money than "Inconclusive results allow for possible model in which life may possibly exist on Mars, but critics point to flaws."
I should also mention that there are a bunch of books available that will help with it too.
I would also urge you to ignore all the "If he can't start out with the hardest stuff, he doesn't belong in our fraternity" snobs here who are recommending you try to get your kid to learn stuff like C, and Python hand-coding right out of the gate. If you subject him to that, not only are you setting yourself up for child abuse charges, but you're probably going to turn him off to programming for good. He should learn the principles first (which Alice teaches in a fun way), and save the hard stuff for when (and if) he's ready to pursue it further..
I would like to put in a plug for Alice as a great introductory language and IDE too. Unlike a lot of introductory languages, it teaches actual object-oriented programming, and it's fun to boot.
Yeah, it's great that this is somehow your big issue now. But would it pain you all too much to get together and maybe concentrate on making the U.S. a country capable of putting a man into space again? I mean, debate is great and all, but I'm getting a little creeped-out by the way the Chinese are laughing at us.
You know things are getting pretty bad when you start longing for the days when a former Nazi was giving NASA moral leadership.
Also Women is Saudi Arabia can vote and run for office, historically they could not (like everywhere 100 year ago).
No, they can't. They MAY be allowed to in 2015, if the King keeps his promise.
Also there is nothing in the law about leaving the house.
Arguing the technically on de jure vs. de facto practices went out here in the U.S. back when segregationists used to argue that TECHNICALLY in the LAW there was nothing stopping blacks from voting in the South. The reality is that women walking around without a male escort in Saudi Arabia are banned from all businesses and are subject to beating by the religious police there. But don't take my, or the evil western media's, word for it. Read the United Nations Report on the subject (part III, section D).
No, kidding. It looks like it was written by some Saudi prince who thinks that imprisoning his wife in his house is liberating, as long as he lets her run a mail order business and only beats her once a month instead of once a week.
Women is Saudi Arabia can't vote, drive, leave their houses without male escort, show their faces uncovered in public, or participate in pretty much any civic or legal function without approval of their male guardian.
So, which of those statements is the western media lying about?
It really doesn't matter at this point whether he's innocent or guilty, or even if he's found innocent or guilty by a jury. Regardless, he's already been tried in the court of media and public opinion, found guilty, and sentenced to a life sentence (or the death penalty if a lynch mob gets to him). All the rest is just for show, really.
The stereotype has it that women in the Middle East are subjugated, oppressed and barely let out of their houses.
In Saudi Arabia, that's *not* just a stereotype. Not to say that Saudi Arabia is representative of the entire region. But let's not pretend that more pitches from women at some conference makes it okay for one of the largest countries of the region to still tell women they can't drive, vote, show their faces in public, or even leave their house without male escort.
"Matt Groening Reveals that 'Springfield' Name Came From 'Father Knows Best'"
The Springfield of the show is, of course, fiction. It can't exist. It's everywhere in the U.S. all at once. It's in the desert, near the ocean, it was founded by colonial settlers, it's close to both Mexico and Canada, it's home to every type of U.S. wildlife (except for bears, of course--the Bear Patrol keeps those out).
About the only things you won't find there these days are decent writing or a sense of pride.
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We're not at liberty to discuss the details of this amazing new forensic technique at this time. But rest assured that the $5 million grant you gave us last year to develop it did not go to waste--and most certainly was *not* just spent on booze, cool new squad cars, and trips to Hawaii.
Bobo tempted. But Bobo still no support SOPA.
As long as no one teaches them the term "Corporate Whore," I think we'd be better off than with what we've got.
Bobo no accept campaign contribution from Exxon. Bobo represent people.
we won't be hearing that "complexity" is meaningless and undefinable
It's that thing just above "incomplexity" of course.
NASA is too busy these days arguing about climate change and Muslim outreach to bother with anything as mundane as a space program.
People are always more open to believe what they *want* to believe than anything that contradicts, or even tempers, what they want to believe. And "Possible life detected on Mars" gets a lot more PR and grant money than "Inconclusive results allow for possible model in which life may possibly exist on Mars, but critics point to flaws."
I should also mention that there are a bunch of books available that will help with it too.
I would also urge you to ignore all the "If he can't start out with the hardest stuff, he doesn't belong in our fraternity" snobs here who are recommending you try to get your kid to learn stuff like C, and Python hand-coding right out of the gate. If you subject him to that, not only are you setting yourself up for child abuse charges, but you're probably going to turn him off to programming for good. He should learn the principles first (which Alice teaches in a fun way), and save the hard stuff for when (and if) he's ready to pursue it further..
I would like to put in a plug for Alice as a great introductory language and IDE too. Unlike a lot of introductory languages, it teaches actual object-oriented programming, and it's fun to boot.
Couldn't we at least have the CAPABILITY? Nothing fancy really, just an American equivalent of a Soyuz would do fine.
I mean, we do still have that ISS space station up there and all.
Saudi-Arabia, which is maybe the worst offender, although it is the friend of USA
Saudi Arabia isn't the U.S.'s friend. Their relationship is more analogous to a crackhead and his dealer.
Yeah, it's great that this is somehow your big issue now. But would it pain you all too much to get together and maybe concentrate on making the U.S. a country capable of putting a man into space again? I mean, debate is great and all, but I'm getting a little creeped-out by the way the Chinese are laughing at us.
You know things are getting pretty bad when you start longing for the days when a former Nazi was giving NASA moral leadership.
Also Women is Saudi Arabia can vote and run for office, historically they could not (like everywhere 100 year ago).
No, they can't. They MAY be allowed to in 2015, if the King keeps his promise.
Also there is nothing in the law about leaving the house.
Arguing the technically on de jure vs. de facto practices went out here in the U.S. back when segregationists used to argue that TECHNICALLY in the LAW there was nothing stopping blacks from voting in the South. The reality is that women walking around without a male escort in Saudi Arabia are banned from all businesses and are subject to beating by the religious police there. But don't take my, or the evil western media's, word for it. Read the United Nations Report on the subject (part III, section D).
They better hope that oil lasts forever. Because that's about the only thing that makes anyone want to do business there now.
No, kidding. It looks like it was written by some Saudi prince who thinks that imprisoning his wife in his house is liberating, as long as he lets her run a mail order business and only beats her once a month instead of once a week.
Women is Saudi Arabia can't vote, drive, leave their houses without male escort, show their faces uncovered in public, or participate in pretty much any civic or legal function without approval of their male guardian.
So, which of those statements is the western media lying about?
Just don't move in a car, or without male escort, or without wearing a head-to-toe burqua.
IT people don't sleep.
51% of elementary school teachers and nurses should be men.
But we all know they're not.
You mean like the stereotype that all whites are rich and privileged?
It really doesn't matter at this point whether he's innocent or guilty, or even if he's found innocent or guilty by a jury. Regardless, he's already been tried in the court of media and public opinion, found guilty, and sentenced to a life sentence (or the death penalty if a lynch mob gets to him). All the rest is just for show, really.
The stereotype has it that women in the Middle East are subjugated, oppressed and barely let out of their houses.
In Saudi Arabia, that's *not* just a stereotype. Not to say that Saudi Arabia is representative of the entire region. But let's not pretend that more pitches from women at some conference makes it okay for one of the largest countries of the region to still tell women they can't drive, vote, show their faces in public, or even leave their house without male escort.
Oregon was founded by colonial-era settlers, was it?
"Matt Groening Reveals that 'Springfield' Name Came From 'Father Knows Best'"
The Springfield of the show is, of course, fiction. It can't exist. It's everywhere in the U.S. all at once. It's in the desert, near the ocean, it was founded by colonial settlers, it's close to both Mexico and Canada, it's home to every type of U.S. wildlife (except for bears, of course--the Bear Patrol keeps those out).
About the only things you won't find there these days are decent writing or a sense of pride.
Sony will go bankrupt before they learn that lesson. To call them "control freaks" would be an epic understatement.
Today we'll be discussing the controversy over whether or not Jesus was gay, kids.