Parents that care, regardless of being rich, help in the education of their kids and don't just let them forget over the summer. Good parents are PARENTS, not BUDDIES. Nothing says summer vacation can't still be educational. A good summer can be a good real-world learning experience. People forget that there is more than just book knowledge to be learned, and that summer provides a chance to apply the things you learned all year.
but again, that requires -parents-, not buddies that happened to give birth to you.
You mean we can't just point the technology at the kids and make them learn? It takes actual teachers actually teaching, and not being rigidly restricted to rote scripts?
another "insightful" idiot. no, we are not "fucked already".
yes, global warming is real, or more accurately "climate change" is real, because anyone with a brain should be able to tell that if the climate can shift on a large scale in short term (ex, El Nino and La Nina and arctic oscillations), it can also shift in the long term. ice age, little ice agwe, azolla event, hothouse planet, etc etc. but the notion of being fookered is not set in stone. ya, warmer sucks, particularly for us in western civilization who are used to and prefer temps around 60-80 deg (myself I like it around 55). But look at how many people live without AC in far far warmer temps. We can get by, we'll adapt like we always have. The crops will thrive with the longer growing season, provided they have adequate water. Water being the key, necesity is the mother of invention. Expect large public works projects to support irrigation, and for the growing belt to expand northward. More drought tolerant cultivars, regardless of what the anti-gm nutjobs say. Etc etc.
The sky is not falling, unless you sit there screaming "woe is me". You can either sit by and let bad things happen to you, or you can get the hell up and learn how to harness it to your benefit. part of being an intelligent species is thinking of the solution, not the problem.
Dear Buzz Killington, I beg to disagree. She most definitely is a species all her own. Scientists still have not concluded what species that is though.
"Never worked" is rather broad and misleading. And many of the things developed for the aircraft are now standard on airliners, such as teh super critical airfoil.
addendum to myself: also keep in mind the B2 was designed for stealth, so everything, particularly the engines, are buried deep inside the wing, and shrouded/redirected to prevent radar energy from hitting the turbine blades (big potential source of radar reflection), and diffuse/cool the exhaust enough to reduce its signature without affecting the thrust too much.
northrop investigated this years ago with mockups of their xb35 and yb49 fitted out with a passenger cabin. they couldnt get any industry interest. the room is there potentially, as flying wings tend be quite thick. of course teh B2 isnt engineered to carry people. a bomb bay chamber is mounted low, at the skin boundary, whereas a passenger cabin wouldn't want to cross that boundary naturally. the potential is there though. likely you'd see a slightly fewer passengers for an aircraft of the same weight, but then the flying wing tends to be more efficient overall as well. tradeoff, but potentially profitable.
"Here's a pill that can save your life Jonny...but first you have to promise to be good! Otherwise you can go die like all the rest."
Seriously dude. WTF. Save the lives first. The rest comes naturally. The tighter you try to control it, the worse it will be. Just save the lives first. Then out of neccesity things start happening. So many of Africa's problems simply stem from lack of hope, lack of value of existence cause so many people simply expect to die by age 20. This is the first step to breaking that chain, and to place conditions upon it is unbelievably stupid, even evil.
Right. Incompetent. Amateur hour....Sure. It has nothing at all to do with the limits of the consoles when playing what is essentially a massive PC game crammed into a tiny unexpandable box.
And before the "fanboy" comments... of course I'm a bethesda fan, been playing their games for years...on a PC. Starting with Future Shock IIRC. I'll call bs when I see bs. and the BS i see is "ill never buy another game from thos eidiots"....idiots who apparently did something right enough to be laughing all the way to the bank for YEARS now, from multiple franchises.
so the AC parent is Insightful cause he's full of shit and hates america, but the guy who points out this stupidity, and lack of relevance to TFA, is flamebait?
Way to go mods. I wish I could say I was a surprised.
The AMD APU chips are pretty damn good. I used one for my HTPC, and it runs Diablo 3 and WoW, and most anything else I throw at it more than acceptably. Now, for me, acceptably, on an HTPC, doesnt mean everything maxxed. But its an HTPC, in the living room. a 2nd machine to complement my other rig. So I dont care about being maxxed.
I -love- AMD. I havent used Intel since my first system I built with a pentium3, and that system gave me nothing but grief. My current rig machine uses a black chip, forget which atm (at work) clocking around 3.3GHz.
Sadly though I've kept reading how these last few lines of chips have been having issues. First its a quality problem, causing them to not be able to make the 4cores they wanted (so they release some as 3 cores with the faulty 4th disabled). Then its just plain yeild is too small. Then its bugs in the chip design, or it underperformed. And Ive been planning a new game rig for sometime in the next year (say, March ish). The way AMD has been going though, it's looking like I might end up making an Intel machine, which I really dont want to do. Previously AMD has always met my needs in terms of quality, power and lower cost. Now? Well. we'll see.
I quoteth: "Dope: Illegal drug trade, commonly heroin, however, it may refer to cannabis, cocaine, opium, methamphetamine or other illegal drugs depending on exact region and time-period"
Don't be so ignorant as to think your region's slang is the same as mine. Nor so ignorant as to mistake a joke for anything else but a joke.
That's why I support copyright (and patents), but only in a reasonable (ie, not eternal) form. Depending on material (or format I should say), 5-25 years is more than sufficient. If you can't make money off your creation in that time frame, too fing bad, it's time to let someone else try by creating a derivitive work.
Really? You think? Most people have known about this phenomon, if not the mechanic, for years. That why they tell people "dont use a computer right before you plan to sleep". or recommend reading a book for 10-20 minutes afterward if you do, to re-relax you.
to expound on myself some: i figure if you bought it, you get to copy as see fit. Fair use and all, I believe in. i also figure that if you didnt buy it, but say, just downloaded it, or copied a friend's copy of it, you did do....well, call it whatever you want, but you got the benefit of someone else's work without paying for it. Not saying I'm innocent, by no means, just realistic about which is which.
Just to play Devil's Advocate: Do you now have something you never had before? That someone else made? And didn't get paid for? It's easy to prove theft in the case of limited supply. It's difficult in the case of unlimited supply. small children probably dont know the difference between finite and infinite supply.
To earn: to be paid in return for services rendered.
The market sets the price. If they hadn't paid him that much he would likely work elsewhere, and they'd hire someone else. They pay him that much cause he and they got together and agreed that he, with his background and knowledge and experience, was worth that much as a CEO.
You may not like how he "earns" his pay or think he does, but that's ok, it's (99.999% likely) not up to you. If the board of directors ever thinks he hasn't earned his pay, then he'd be gone.
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Parents that care, regardless of being rich, help in the education of their kids and don't just let them forget over the summer. Good parents are PARENTS, not BUDDIES. Nothing says summer vacation can't still be educational. A good summer can be a good real-world learning experience. People forget that there is more than just book knowledge to be learned, and that summer provides a chance to apply the things you learned all year.
but again, that requires -parents-, not buddies that happened to give birth to you.
You mean we can't just point the technology at the kids and make them learn? It takes actual teachers actually teaching, and not being rigidly restricted to rote scripts?
Whoa....who'd a thunk it?
another "insightful" idiot.
no, we are not "fucked already".
yes, global warming is real, or more accurately "climate change" is real, because anyone with a brain should be able to tell that if the climate can shift on a large scale in short term (ex, El Nino and La Nina and arctic oscillations), it can also shift in the long term. ice age, little ice agwe, azolla event, hothouse planet, etc etc. but the notion of being fookered is not set in stone. ya, warmer sucks, particularly for us in western civilization who are used to and prefer temps around 60-80 deg (myself I like it around 55). But look at how many people live without AC in far far warmer temps. We can get by, we'll adapt like we always have. The crops will thrive with the longer growing season, provided they have adequate water. Water being the key, necesity is the mother of invention. Expect large public works projects to support irrigation, and for the growing belt to expand northward. More drought tolerant cultivars, regardless of what the anti-gm nutjobs say. Etc etc.
The sky is not falling, unless you sit there screaming "woe is me". You can either sit by and let bad things happen to you, or you can get the hell up and learn how to harness it to your benefit. part of being an intelligent species is thinking of the solution, not the problem.
the dude running wunderground qualifies.
Dear Buzz Killington,
I beg to disagree. She most definitely is a species all her own. Scientists still have not concluded what species that is though.
"Never worked" is rather broad and misleading. And many of the things developed for the aircraft are now standard on airliners, such as teh super critical airfoil.
I see design complexity. I dislike design complexity, particularly in aircraft. it causes headaches.
addendum to myself: also keep in mind the B2 was designed for stealth, so everything, particularly the engines, are buried deep inside the wing, and shrouded/redirected to prevent radar energy from hitting the turbine blades (big potential source of radar reflection), and diffuse/cool the exhaust enough to reduce its signature without affecting the thrust too much.
northrop investigated this years ago with mockups of their xb35 and yb49 fitted out with a passenger cabin. they couldnt get any industry interest. the room is there potentially, as flying wings tend be quite thick. of course teh B2 isnt engineered to carry people. a bomb bay chamber is mounted low, at the skin boundary, whereas a passenger cabin wouldn't want to cross that boundary naturally. the potential is there though. likely you'd see a slightly fewer passengers for an aircraft of the same weight, but then the flying wing tends to be more efficient overall as well. tradeoff, but potentially profitable.
"Here's a pill that can save your life Jonny...but first you have to promise to be good! Otherwise you can go die like all the rest."
Seriously dude. WTF. Save the lives first. The rest comes naturally. The tighter you try to control it, the worse it will be. Just save the lives first. Then out of neccesity things start happening. So many of Africa's problems simply stem from lack of hope, lack of value of existence cause so many people simply expect to die by age 20. This is the first step to breaking that chain, and to place conditions upon it is unbelievably stupid, even evil.
Right. Incompetent. Amateur hour....Sure.
It has nothing at all to do with the limits of the consoles when playing what is essentially a massive PC game crammed into a tiny unexpandable box.
And before the "fanboy" comments... of course I'm a bethesda fan, been playing their games for years...on a PC. Starting with Future Shock IIRC. I'll call bs when I see bs. and the BS i see is "ill never buy another game from thos eidiots"....idiots who apparently did something right enough to be laughing all the way to the bank for YEARS now, from multiple franchises.
I've played their games too. But on a PC. They make PC games, and then cram them into consoles. You think you can do better? Prove it.
F em. the mod team put more time and effort into their free project than WB has put into....well pretty much anything since the 70s.
so the AC parent is Insightful cause he's full of shit and hates america, but the guy who points out this stupidity, and lack of relevance to TFA, is flamebait?
Way to go mods. I wish I could say I was a surprised.
what's hard to understand about not yet verified?
The AMD APU chips are pretty damn good. I used one for my HTPC, and it runs Diablo 3 and WoW, and most anything else I throw at it more than acceptably. Now, for me, acceptably, on an HTPC, doesnt mean everything maxxed. But its an HTPC, in the living room. a 2nd machine to complement my other rig. So I dont care about being maxxed.
I -love- AMD. I havent used Intel since my first system I built with a pentium3, and that system gave me nothing but grief. My current rig machine uses a black chip, forget which atm (at work) clocking around 3.3GHz.
Sadly though I've kept reading how these last few lines of chips have been having issues. First its a quality problem, causing them to not be able to make the 4cores they wanted (so they release some as 3 cores with the faulty 4th disabled). Then its just plain yeild is too small. Then its bugs in the chip design, or it underperformed. And Ive been planning a new game rig for sometime in the next year (say, March ish). The way AMD has been going though, it's looking like I might end up making an Intel machine, which I really dont want to do. Previously AMD has always met my needs in terms of quality, power and lower cost. Now? Well. we'll see.
I quoteth: "Dope: Illegal drug trade, commonly heroin, however, it may refer to cannabis, cocaine, opium, methamphetamine or other illegal drugs depending on exact region and time-period"
Don't be so ignorant as to think your region's slang is the same as mine.
Nor so ignorant as to mistake a joke for anything else but a joke.
Relax Barry, there's no elephants in Texas. Now get his walle....
*rumble rumble rumble*
SHI--, RUN FOR IT!
That's why I support copyright (and patents), but only in a reasonable (ie, not eternal) form. Depending on material (or format I should say), 5-25 years is more than sufficient. If you can't make money off your creation in that time frame, too fing bad, it's time to let someone else try by creating a derivitive work.
Really? You think? Most people have known about this phenomon, if not the mechanic, for years. That why they tell people "dont use a computer right before you plan to sleep". or recommend reading a book for 10-20 minutes afterward if you do, to re-relax you.
!News.
"Dope".
to expound on myself some:
i figure if you bought it, you get to copy as see fit. Fair use and all, I believe in.
i also figure that if you didnt buy it, but say, just downloaded it, or copied a friend's copy of it, you did do....well, call it whatever you want, but you got the benefit of someone else's work without paying for it.
Not saying I'm innocent, by no means, just realistic about which is which.
Just to play Devil's Advocate:
Do you now have something you never had before?
That someone else made?
And didn't get paid for?
It's easy to prove theft in the case of limited supply.
It's difficult in the case of unlimited supply.
small children probably dont know the difference between finite and infinite supply.
To earn: to be paid in return for services rendered.
The market sets the price. If they hadn't paid him that much he would likely work elsewhere, and they'd hire someone else. They pay him that much cause he and they got together and agreed that he, with his background and knowledge and experience, was worth that much as a CEO.
You may not like how he "earns" his pay or think he does, but that's ok, it's (99.999% likely) not up to you. If the board of directors ever thinks he hasn't earned his pay, then he'd be gone.
dear god please never get into a position of power. you would doom us all.