You sir, are full of shit. I almost didn't graduate from high school, simply because one teacher wanted me to kiss his ass a little more. (I did, my best friend did not.) Neither of us were below average in grades or intelligence. A college classmate of mine never graduated from highschool because it was a waste of her time and she knew it. (She was an excellent student of Chinese, and is now majoring in that.) The most brilliant guy I know quit going to high school his senior year because it was a waste of his time, and he graduated only because he had enough teachers who ignored his bad attendance and gave him a passing grade anyways. My fiance's brother dropped out of high school after taking every shop class that was available. He's now a mechanic/welder, and the richest of the twelve siblings. He has patents on construction equipment that Caterpillar is licensing from him.
When I say that school was a waste of time, I mean that they were more productive members of society outside of school than in, and there were no benefits that they would have gained that were worth that wasted time. School is designed for everyone to fit into a certain mold, and some people just can't or won't.
I won't pretend that the plural of anecdote is data, but you pretending that all people who have not finished high school all have lazy and anti-social traits is fucking ridiculous. Critical thinking is apparently not one of the things you learned in school.
Gibson is quickly becoming the Harley-Davidson of guitars- decent quality (not great), overpriced products that sell more on the image than anything else. This might sell well to the weekend rockstars who have more money than they know what to do with, but Joe Sixpack won't be able to afford it for himself, and definitely not for his kid.
meh. I've been fairly apathetic towards Gibson ever since they decided lefties are available only through the custom shop. If I'm going to spend that kind of money, there are large numbers of better guitars available. J.
God hates Linux users. It's right there in the Book of Bill, Chapter 98, Verse 12, (Millenium Edition) "Thus the LORD spake, "Followers of Linus are an abomination upon the earth. They are forever condemned to the command-line interface. Should anyone attempt to create a user-friendly interface, they will argue and become fragmented, so that none shall ever know the true interface." To which the Prophet replied, "I'll fucking bury Linux users!"
This is being done- the Milwaukee School of Engineering has a pretty amazing Rapid Prototyping Lab that is sponsored by a consortium of (non-competing) companies in the area such as Kohler, Harley-Davidson, Johnson&Johnson, MasterLock, Snap-On, and others totalling about 50 in all. The machines are paid for by the consortium, the students get to learn about the machines, and the companies get to use the machines and hire the students who know how to use them.
There is (was) also a Harley-Davidson computer lab, outfitted with high-end computers and some expensive drafting program that Harley uses. The lab was restricted to upper-level mechanical engineering students, but it was a good deal for them.
The flip side of this is that this is a rather expensive private college. 8-9 years ago the tuition was nearly $20k/year; I'm sure it's more than that now. J.
Think what you want, but my fiance also gets headaches from aspartame. Even chewing the wrong kind of gum can trigger one. It isn't pleasant. I don't get them, but we don't keep aspartame in the house anymore. While I agree with you regarding the "empty calories", a soda occasionally will cause extra calories that need to be worked off. A diet soda can easily give her a headache that will force her to call in sick to work. The large cup or two of coffee she drinks every morning does not cause this problem.
She also has developed (about four years ago) skin allergies to many preservatives used in soap and shampoo. This seems to have been triggered by the anthrax shots she received from the Army in 2003. I have no proof to offer you, though Thimerosal (containing Mercury) has been and is being removed from vaccines due to people's reactions. This link was not accepted until fairly recently.
I haven't made up my mind about sodium benzoate, but I will at least add it to the list of things to be aware of when I consume them.
I would just like to add that many soldiers take the oath of enlistment very seriously. That line "against all enemies, foreign and domestic" has been getting a little tricky lately for some of them. I would be surprised if the revolution came and there were not soldiers tearing off their patches. There are better predictors of which side a person might choose than the fact of being a soldier.
In my state there are less than 10,000 National Guardsmen. Reservists are a bit harder to count because they are funded federally, so the state lines are mostly irrelevant. I'll pull a number from a really dark place and say 50,000, even though that is probably far too high.
Last November there were over 600,000 licenses issued to residents for the 9-day regular deer season. That ends up being at least a 10:1 ratio of armed citizens to soldiers in the state.
Granted, this is Wisconsin, and those numbers all probably shift noticeably for different areas of the country, but I sure as hell don't want to be issued live rounds for use around here. J.
If you are teaching a new song to a friend, do you teach him all the notes all at once, with all the rests and skipped strings and sharps and flats and strum patterns, or do you give him the chord chart and tell him to listen and follow along? That is what tab does for people.
Full musical notation allows for someone who has never heard the song before to play it. Text-only tablature is meant as a guide. Tab can be written out to include all of that information, but that isn't usually what it is designed for. J.
My M16 is named Irene. All four that have been issued to me by various units since Basic Training have had that name. If you watch "Full Metal Jacket" you can see the Drill Instructor give a command that everyone *will* give their rifle a girl's name. They sleep with their rifles. It becomes a part of you. Like you would use a hand or foot to strike an enemy close to you, you use a rifle to strike an enemy that is farther away.
We don't sleep with our rifles as much anymore, but the concept is still there. The saying about the weakest link being the one to break is true, but it can be narrowed down even further: You are only as good as your worst training. The rifle needs to be a part of you, so that its use is instinctive. There are times for soldiers to think, but not when it comes down to the question of how to use their equipment.
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You sir, are full of shit. I almost didn't graduate from high school, simply because one teacher wanted me to kiss his ass a little more. (I did, my best friend did not.) Neither of us were below average in grades or intelligence. A college classmate of mine never graduated from highschool because it was a waste of her time and she knew it. (She was an excellent student of Chinese, and is now majoring in that.) The most brilliant guy I know quit going to high school his senior year because it was a waste of his time, and he graduated only because he had enough teachers who ignored his bad attendance and gave him a passing grade anyways. My fiance's brother dropped out of high school after taking every shop class that was available. He's now a mechanic/welder, and the richest of the twelve siblings. He has patents on construction equipment that Caterpillar is licensing from him.
When I say that school was a waste of time, I mean that they were more productive members of society outside of school than in, and there were no benefits that they would have gained that were worth that wasted time. School is designed for everyone to fit into a certain mold, and some people just can't or won't.
I won't pretend that the plural of anecdote is data, but you pretending that all people who have not finished high school all have lazy and anti-social traits is fucking ridiculous. Critical thinking is apparently not one of the things you learned in school.
J.
Gibson is quickly becoming the Harley-Davidson of guitars- decent quality (not great), overpriced products that sell more on the image than anything else. This might sell well to the weekend rockstars who have more money than they know what to do with, but Joe Sixpack won't be able to afford it for himself, and definitely not for his kid.
meh. I've been fairly apathetic towards Gibson ever since they decided lefties are available only through the custom shop. If I'm going to spend that kind of money, there are large numbers of better guitars available.
J.
Captcha is "creaming". I'm not.
God hates Linux users. It's right there in the Book of Bill, Chapter 98, Verse 12, (Millenium Edition) "Thus the LORD spake, "Followers of Linus are an abomination upon the earth. They are forever condemned to the command-line interface. Should anyone attempt to create a user-friendly interface, they will argue and become fragmented, so that none shall ever know the true interface." To which the Prophet replied, "I'll fucking bury Linux users!"
hehe... captcha is "sabbath".
This is being done- the Milwaukee School of Engineering has a pretty amazing Rapid Prototyping Lab that is sponsored by a consortium of (non-competing) companies in the area such as Kohler, Harley-Davidson, Johnson&Johnson, MasterLock, Snap-On, and others totalling about 50 in all. The machines are paid for by the consortium, the students get to learn about the machines, and the companies get to use the machines and hire the students who know how to use them.
There is (was) also a Harley-Davidson computer lab, outfitted with high-end computers and some expensive drafting program that Harley uses. The lab was restricted to upper-level mechanical engineering students, but it was a good deal for them.
The flip side of this is that this is a rather expensive private college. 8-9 years ago the tuition was nearly $20k/year; I'm sure it's more than that now.
J.
Think what you want, but my fiance also gets headaches from aspartame. Even chewing the wrong kind of gum can trigger one. It isn't pleasant. I don't get them, but we don't keep aspartame in the house anymore. While I agree with you regarding the "empty calories", a soda occasionally will cause extra calories that need to be worked off. A diet soda can easily give her a headache that will force her to call in sick to work. The large cup or two of coffee she drinks every morning does not cause this problem.
She also has developed (about four years ago) skin allergies to many preservatives used in soap and shampoo. This seems to have been triggered by the anthrax shots she received from the Army in 2003. I have no proof to offer you, though Thimerosal (containing Mercury) has been and is being removed from vaccines due to people's reactions. This link was not accepted until fairly recently.
I haven't made up my mind about sodium benzoate, but I will at least add it to the list of things to be aware of when I consume them.
J.
Check YouTube, or Google Video.
J.
Well said.
I would just like to add that many soldiers take the oath of enlistment very seriously. That line "against all enemies, foreign and domestic" has been getting a little tricky lately for some of them. I would be surprised if the revolution came and there were not soldiers tearing off their patches. There are better predictors of which side a person might choose than the fact of being a soldier.
In my state there are less than 10,000 National Guardsmen. Reservists are a bit harder to count because they are funded federally, so the state lines are mostly irrelevant. I'll pull a number from a really dark place and say 50,000, even though that is probably far too high.
Last November there were over 600,000 licenses issued to residents for the 9-day regular deer season. That ends up being at least a 10:1 ratio of armed citizens to soldiers in the state.
Granted, this is Wisconsin, and those numbers all probably shift noticeably for different areas of the country, but I sure as hell don't want to be issued live rounds for use around here.
J.
If you are teaching a new song to a friend, do you teach him all the notes all at once, with all the rests and skipped strings and sharps and flats and strum patterns, or do you give him the chord chart and tell him to listen and follow along? That is what tab does for people.
Full musical notation allows for someone who has never heard the song before to play it. Text-only tablature is meant as a guide. Tab can be written out to include all of that information, but that isn't usually what it is designed for.
J.
Thanks for this. I've always wanted to read this stuff, just to understand it.
However, it's pretty intolerable writing. At least King James had Shakespeare help with the Bible. This is just crap.
J.
My M16 is named Irene. All four that have been issued to me by various units since Basic Training have had that name. If you watch "Full Metal Jacket" you can see the Drill Instructor give a command that everyone *will* give their rifle a girl's name. They sleep with their rifles. It becomes a part of you. Like you would use a hand or foot to strike an enemy close to you, you use a rifle to strike an enemy that is farther away.
We don't sleep with our rifles as much anymore, but the concept is still there. The saying about the weakest link being the one to break is true, but it can be narrowed down even further: You are only as good as your worst training. The rifle needs to be a part of you, so that its use is instinctive. There are times for soldiers to think, but not when it comes down to the question of how to use their equipment.
J.