Just because the vehicle has three people and a dog in it once a year means it's sensible to drive two tons of metal menace around the rest of the time.
A Hummer is simply a pointless abomination. At least the Hummer II. A Hummer I is just about acceptable, if your daily commute really covers 60 miles of unmade terrain - but even then you'd be better of with a Landrover, because you wouldn't look quite as much of a prat.
Using "environmentally friendly" technology in an SUV is a bit pointless - you know, like painting your coalburning firestation a pleasant shade of green.
Anyway, Ford actually do do some nice cars (Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin and (oops) LandRover). Now a hybrid V70 I would consider buying.
when you say you retired your BeBox - do you still have it? I've been looking around, trying to find one.... if you're willing to get rid of it I'd love to know!
?From everything I've heard about this book, there is no specific force attempting to subvert society. Rather, individuals go along with it because they *LIKE* it that way. That's a very disturbing idea to be putting in the minds of young adults.
Sounds like telling "young adult" the truth. There's no one big "evil guy", not even one "evil industry"; the wrongs in the world largely happen because most people like things the way they are.
>A phone is simply too small for displaying large quantities of text, no matter how high the resolution. While this obviously depends on personal preferences to some extent, I'd have to disagree. Whenever I go on holiday I make a point of copying two or three Baen (http://www.baen.com) Free Library books on to my P800 Smartphone - it's much lighter than carrying a bunch of paperbacks around with you, and I must have read at least a dozen novels on it now.
* Parent's don't want to subject their children to MMR because of a perceived risk * The government doesn't provide proper information * The government goes out of their way NOT to let parents have choice.
I would love to vaccinate my child against M, M, and R - I'm not sure that I want to use the MMR vaccine. The only good reason I've heard against individual, seperate vaccinations is better follow through (I care enough to take three days off work to take my baby to the doctor), and a small cost reduction (given the amount of money I pay in (*&!(*&"£ taxes, I couldn't care less if it costs the NHS £50 more to keep my baby safe and me happy).
Err.. I don't think the government has any legal powers to force me to subject my daughter to medical treatments - and I'll sue them all the way to Strasbourg if they think they do.
Now, I happen to believe that vaccinations are a Good Thing (TM), but the way MMR has been handled has just been too fishy.
"foreign relations projects"? That only applies to the US if you define "relations" as "piss of your allies and make sure that anyone who's not your enemy already is one when you're done".
My pet conspiracy theory is that Bush is controlled by Al-Quaida: You could not come up with a better recruitment strategy for them.:(
I'm in two minds about required reading in school: On the one hand, I can see how it's good to get people exposed to literature; on the other hand, I fear that the actual effect is that most people simply don't enjoy reading, and laboriously going through a book page by page just spoils it for the proper readers. E.g. I had to go through Macbeth in English class - I read it, and enjoyed it, in a few hours; then I spent two months discussing it page by page and hated it.
Reading is good value for money - a paperback novel costs the same as a movie ticket, and keeps you entertained for much longer.
If you're not getting enough "information" from the books you're reading, maybe you should read different books? Tom Clancy wouldn't be top of my reading list..... Then you might also find the memetic effect more pronounced, although I wouldn't judge the value of something by it's popularity.
And of course, you can blog about books. There's someone who's putting Pepy's Diary online, a page a day; someone else is doing a da Vinci codex. There's plenty of scope for more.
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According to the CIA world factbook, Nigerian GDP was $110.8 billion in 2003.
Don't underestimate Nigeria - it's a big place, and it has a lot of oil.
Well, according to the CIA English is the official language.
Regardless of that, even if you are the stereotypical monolingual anglo-saxon, do you not enjoy literature from other countries (Adams, Tolkien,... if you're American; Poe, Card,...), continents (Rushdie, Allende, Achebe,...), Languages (Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Balzac)? If you aren't yet, then you should.
Of course Gutenberg includes increasing numbers of non-english texts, even ignoring translations
Since they will know what they want on the laptop, whether they can source it locally, or even if they want a laptop.
I'm not saying they won't want computers, but you shouldn't assume that they might not be better off with the money you get selling it on ebay. Even a 100 bucks / euros / whatever could buy a lot of other teaching materials that may be more needed.
Farmers in the U.S. and Europe also get stupendous amounts of government subsidy, thus screwing both farmers in developing nations, and the taxpayer at home.
Abolishing farm subsidies would do more for world development than most other proposals, and save first world taxpayers money too boot.
Point of fact: Trading was never considered usury. Usury is (in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition) charging interest on loans, at least to your co-religionists.
The fact that the aristocrats considered it beneath them to engage in manufacturing or trade is one of the factors that led to their eventual demise as the ruling class in Europe.
I stand corrected. But where did you get the idea that Europe is "socialist" to any meaningful degree?
Or the idea that there's no diversity of views? For example, compare The Times, the Financial Times, The Independent with the Guardian; or compare Der Spiegel with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Le Monde and Figaro.
Have fun in Italy, and don't bother trying the Guiness there;)
I can tell you've never been to Europe, nor read any European news outlets. You should try it - most of them have at least some English language output.
But then again, why would you? Clearly you are happy with your "fair and balanced" Fox News.
Until I consider them to be the right age, yes, I will stop them from watching the news.
I sincerely doubt that my daughter will get anything at all from the news except nightmares until she's at least 8, or maybe older. And then I'd rather she started with CBBC news, rather than the adult version. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/default.st m
There's plenty of time to get depressed about the state of the world later on
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Just because the vehicle has three people and a dog in it once a year means it's sensible to drive two tons of metal menace around the rest of the time.
;)
Granted, that is likely
A Hummer is simply a pointless abomination. At least the Hummer II. A Hummer I is just about acceptable, if your daily commute really covers 60 miles of unmade terrain - but even then you'd be better of with a Landrover, because you wouldn't look quite as much of a prat.
Using "environmentally friendly" technology in an SUV is a bit pointless - you know, like painting your coalburning firestation a pleasant shade of green.
Anyway, Ford actually do do some nice cars (Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin and (oops) LandRover). Now a hybrid V70 I would consider buying.
when you say you retired your BeBox - do you still have it? I've been looking around, trying to find one.... if you're willing to get rid of it I'd love to know!
?From everything I've heard about this book, there is no specific force attempting to subvert society. Rather, individuals go along with it because they *LIKE* it that way. That's a very disturbing idea to be putting in the minds of young adults.
Sounds like telling "young adult" the truth. There's no one big "evil guy", not even one "evil industry"; the wrongs in the world largely happen because most people like things the way they are.
>A phone is simply too small for displaying large quantities of text, no matter how high the resolution.
While this obviously depends on personal preferences to some extent, I'd have to disagree. Whenever I go on holiday I make a point of copying two or three Baen (http://www.baen.com) Free Library books on to my P800 Smartphone - it's much lighter than carrying a bunch of paperbacks around with you, and I must have read at least a dozen novels on it now.
I NEED some drugs to protect me against bad spelling... it's PRIN-CI-PLE, not principal ;)
Apart from that, I'd agree with the idea of taking as few painkillers as possible; if you can cope with a small dose, why take more?
No, the measles "epidemics" happen because
* Parent's don't want to subject their children to MMR because of a perceived risk
* The government doesn't provide proper information
* The government goes out of their way NOT to let parents have choice.
I would love to vaccinate my child against M, M, and R - I'm not sure that I want to use the MMR vaccine. The only good reason I've heard against individual, seperate vaccinations is better follow through (I care enough to take three days off work to take my baby to the doctor), and a small cost reduction (given the amount of money I pay in (*&!(*&"£ taxes, I couldn't care less if it costs the NHS £50 more to keep my baby safe and me happy).
Now nicotine vaccinations I might sign up for...
or actually the fact that they drug, for once, has been cut less than usual - so it is an overdose.
But I agree, the only solution in the long run is to legalise and control distribution of drugs.
Err.. I don't think the government has any legal powers to force me to subject my daughter to medical treatments - and I'll sue them all the way to Strasbourg if they think they do.
Now, I happen to believe that vaccinations are a Good Thing (TM), but the way MMR has been handled has just been too fishy.
Munich is in Bavaria, which isn't really part of Germany. Just ask any proper Bavarian....
A principle scientist would be someone inve
stigating principles - in other words, a philosopher. Or maybe a physicist.
A principal scientist, on the other hand, is the chief scientist.
Sorry, but sometimes bad spelling just distorts the meaning...
"foreign relations projects"? That only applies to the US if you define "relations" as "piss of your allies and make sure that anyone who's not your enemy already is one when you're done".
:(
My pet conspiracy theory is that Bush is controlled by Al-Quaida: You could not come up with a better recruitment strategy for them.
I'm in two minds about required reading in school: On the one hand, I can see how it's good to get people exposed to literature; on the other hand, I fear that the actual effect is that most people simply don't enjoy reading, and laboriously going through a book page by page just spoils it for the proper readers. E.g. I had to go through Macbeth in English class - I read it, and enjoyed it, in a few hours; then I spent two months discussing it page by page and hated it.
Reading is good value for money - a paperback novel costs the same as a movie ticket, and keeps you entertained for much longer.
If you're not getting enough "information" from the books you're reading, maybe you should read different books? Tom Clancy wouldn't be top of my reading list..... Then you might also find the memetic effect more pronounced, although I wouldn't judge the value of something by it's popularity.
And of course, you can blog about books. There's someone who's putting Pepy's Diary online, a page a day; someone else is doing a da Vinci codex. There's plenty of scope for more.
According to the CIA world factbook, Nigerian GDP was $110.8 billion in 2003.
Don't underestimate Nigeria - it's a big place, and it has a lot of oil.
Well, according to the CIA English is the official language.
... if you're American; Poe, Card, ...), continents (Rushdie, Allende, Achebe, ...), Languages (Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Balzac)? If you aren't yet, then you should.
Regardless of that, even if you are the stereotypical monolingual anglo-saxon, do you not enjoy literature from other countries (Adams, Tolkien,
Of course Gutenberg includes increasing numbers of non-english texts, even ignoring translations
Since they will know what they want on the laptop, whether they can source it locally, or even if they want a laptop.
I'm not saying they won't want computers, but you shouldn't assume that they might not be better off with the money you get selling it on ebay. Even a 100 bucks / euros / whatever could buy a lot of other teaching materials that may be more needed.
Farmers in the U.S. and Europe also get stupendous amounts of government subsidy, thus screwing both farmers in developing nations, and the taxpayer at home.
Abolishing farm subsidies would do more for world development than most other proposals, and save first world taxpayers money too boot.
Can you honestly think of anyone commenting on Columbine in the media that didn't have an agenda?
Point of fact: Trading was never considered usury. Usury is (in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition) charging interest on loans, at least to your co-religionists.
The fact that the aristocrats considered it beneath them to engage in manufacturing or trade is one of the factors that led to their eventual demise as the ruling class in Europe.
Well, aren't there maintenance, services, integration and training costs for non-open-source software as well?
I stand corrected. But where did you get the idea that Europe is "socialist" to any meaningful degree?
;)
Or the idea that there's no diversity of views? For example, compare The Times, the Financial Times, The Independent with the Guardian; or compare Der Spiegel with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Le Monde and Figaro.
Have fun in Italy, and don't bother trying the Guiness there
Over here we also have factual.
I can tell you've never been to Europe, nor read any European news outlets. You should try it - most of them have at least some English language output.
But then again, why would you? Clearly you are happy with your "fair and balanced" Fox News.
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Until I consider them to be the right age, yes, I will stop them from watching the news.
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I sincerely doubt that my daughter will get anything at all from the news except nightmares until she's at least 8, or maybe older. And then I'd rather she started with CBBC news, rather than the adult version. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/default.s
There's plenty of time to get depressed about the state of the world later on