In South Africa fuel costs around CAD$3.3/US$2.3 per gallon; but contrast that against the average person having an income before tax of CAD$6000/US$4300 per ANNUM. Even I as a highly paid software developer earn around CAD$2000/US$2800 per month. The cheapest car you can buy today - the tiny Daihatsu Charade - costs CAD$16000/US$11500. Something like a Toyota Corolla 1600 costs at least twice that. The bank prime rate sit at around 13.5% and they typically charge about 20% on a credit card. Essentially all this means is that I can barely afford a home big enough for a family, plus a car, and most people can't afford even that.
Jesus was speaking against revenge, the notion of an eye for an eye, not against defending yourself.
However blowing up a building, an attack that would be called terrorist if carried out by say Al-Quaida against George Bush, cannot by any stretch be called self-defense and is certainly cowardly.
On the Mac at the same time may popular printers were almost plug and play
Of course when the Mac refused to detect the printer or it detected, but all printing came out as blank pages you were just screwed; and when it did work the OS would periodically decide the printer wasn't really connected and it was back to trying to get it detected. I remember spending hours trying to get the Mac to work correctly with various printers. The Mac had some things going for it, but it could easily be as much of a pain to use as a PC.
It is almost an exercise in futility to try to find any actual facts on this government propaganda site. Useful for educating my children in recognising lies though.
In fact we can do entirely without NIDA and their lies.
> Do you ever forget things you did while using > alcohol or drugs?
More people assume they can get away with doing less and taking more without their neighbors retalliating
Before you know it it is just like working for a large corporation. I still can't believe how far you can get on so little at places like banks and insurance companies; you can literally carry on at secondary outside work without anyone ever realising (if you work 30% of the time you're working twice as much as anyone else so you'll get promoted and earn two incomes).
the reason people wear suits and ties was to manipulate others
This is correct. If they had nothing to hide they could dress casually, but in reality they have nothing to offer other than their dress.
It is quite a loathsome experience to have to deal with slick, suited business and sales people.
If someone feels disrespected because of something you're wearing, then that is THEIR problem, not yours.
I want to see professionalism in someone's work, not something superficial like their clothing. The logical result of using clothing to judge this is expanding it to include the person's natural attractiveness.
Dress is manipulation. It is one-upmanship. A suit just implies you have more money to waste or you're simply stupid.
There is a difference between being dirty, looking like you've just been dragged out of a dumpster, and dressing casually.
The real question is why do we continue to cling to ugly Victorian outfits? You can dress neatly without ever coming near a suit.
I do like to wear a suit from time to time, it makes me look like a hitman for a South American drug cartel. Very cool.
It really depends on your goals. If you're trying to climb the corporate ladder then you had better dress to match the shallow world you inhabit.
I'm a coder and an engineer, the quality of my work and experience speak for themselves. If someone doesn't hire me because I dress casually, then I know that is a place I'd rather not work (experience has shown that such places are rife with the various evils of the stupid and shallow - best to just stay away and avoid the stress). I simply dress neatly for an interview. Clients like the fact that I dress in jeans and t-shirt because it tells them the quality of what I produce is more important than superficial nonsense like clothing.
If a woman is only going to show interest because I happen to be dressed in a corporate monkey suit then she is not someone on whom I wish to waste my time. There's an endless supply of intelligent women out there, no need to suck up to the shallow ones.
Good graffiti art brightens the urban landscape. Thankfully the morons in the cities that used to remove it from trains finally acquired a clue and made the trains available for painting by artists of demonstrable ability. No more ugly urban trains.
These guys who do graffiti are exactly what art is about, not some commercialised nonsense.
Quite right, but not with fighting per se. I was constantly harassed and bullied until one day I'd had enough and someone went a little too far. I helped the central perpetrator have a nasty accident - injuries sufficient to pull him out of an important sporting event for which he had been training for months. As far as I'm concerned the b*stard got away lightly.
After that there were still the occasional threats and weak attempts at intimidation, but I'd taught them that I was willing to be vicious and ruthless - there was no way for them to know how far I'd really go so no-one ever tried anything again.
Open fighting is usually out, although one of my friends did eventually smash a bully's face (crushed his nose completely), but fortunately in this case the head of the school knew the injured party was a bully and merely reprimanded my friend. You have to be a little careful in the school system though since its primary purpose is to break and brainwash children - it is its own little police state. My own children have been taught to stand up to bullies, but also not to fight on school grounds, rather take them on elsewhere (ideally find somewhere that you have the advantage) - you ignore them if at all possible, only striking if they attack you, then you take them down quickly and walk away.
The situation for girls is usually different as there is seldom much physical fighting, it is all vicious verbal attacks - in my opinion verbal abuse is not given its due in the ranks of abuse. My female friends tell me though that finding out the source of the rumours can be done, then you go to that person and explain to them that you are going to hurt them if it happens again - from there you take the same approach as boys.
Real artists do what they do because they love to, have an uncontrollable need to create. Earning a living from it happens to be a bonus.
As a musician I wouldn't want to have to make money off live performances. There is nothing worse than having to run from place to place playing live. We can make money from selling our music, if we can cut out the current criminal syndicates that control music distribution.
Oh yeah, the keeping everyone and everything perfectly safe psychosis. We parents are an easy target because we are concerned about our children, but sensible people know that we don't need to track every movement.
Besides the tags can't really track a child unless they are somehow specifically linked to the child. Just give yours to someone and have them swipe it for you.
$1 is far too much for an audio track in a lossy format, not to mention including annoying restrictions on playback. I'd pay at most 25c for lossy audio. I'd pay $1, including dowload costs (at the very least 25c per track).
I was ripped off myself. Then the guy fell down some stairs. It was most unfortunate. Thankfully he was seriously hurt.
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Some people only use their PDA for appointments, contacts, some notes and maybe a handful of family photos, plus they typically carry their devices in their hands or maybe a pocket. These people want a PDA/Phone unit, perhaps a bit bigger than their current phone, but smaller than their current PDA.
I on the other hand travel with a backpack and what I want is a basically dumb phone - phone numbers and SMS - but I want a smart PDA since to me a digital assistant is far more than a diary/calendar/phone book replacement - I carry around databases, screenshots, price lists among other things. A laptop however goes too far, will often take up too much space and is more easily damaged - for me, and in most circumstances. I also like a basic, separate phone because there are times when all I need with me is a small, fairly robust device from which I can make a call if I really need to - I like my Nokia 6210 and 6310 (admittedly these have far more features than I have ever used, but I like the size and shape).
I'd consider a phone device that could send/receive SMS messages and store a very limited number of phone numbers, but could pair with a full-featured PDA - perhaps turning simply into a dumb headset when linked.
Isn't it always going to be the case that something the size of a typical PDA can contain more than something the size of a phone? I think all we're seeing is some more overlaps and a broader range of possible devices that will allow people to find something closer to what they require.
That's your rosy view of the past. Fifty to eighty years ago we would not even have heard about the incident. Perhaps you'll present us with the data showing the per capita level of violence among children over time? How does this relate to urbanisation? What about growing up in a country that glorifies the murder of foreigners, i.e. not us, hidden, distant? Can you factor these out and show that the supposed increase in violence in movies and on TV has had a real influence? What about games given that they are far more unrealistic than even TV violence?
It remains the parents' responsibility since they have clearly armed their children and failed to teach them correctly.
My parents spent far more time around us than is typical today and when it came to guns they never ever stopped emphasising that we should never point them at another person (yeah and we were smart enough to know that meant no cars too).
In this case the children should certainly receive a punishment appropriate to their age. The parents also have to take their share of the responsibility.
TV, games and movies can add influence. The news can do so to a slightly greater extent. But the biggest contributor is the environment in which the children are raised - are the parents violent? Is the neighbourhood violent? What the children learn directly from their parents outweighs all else whatever the unscientific scaremongers may claim.
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There were and probably still are Al-Qaida agents in the US. Seems the US is linked to this terrorist organisation.
Hussein and Bin Laden hate each other, they may both despise the US, but they not likely to collude.
Compared to typical incomes?
In South Africa fuel costs around CAD$3.3/US$2.3 per gallon; but contrast that against the average person having an income before tax of CAD$6000/US$4300 per ANNUM. Even I as a highly paid software developer earn around CAD$2000/US$2800 per month. The cheapest car you can buy today - the tiny Daihatsu Charade - costs CAD$16000/US$11500. Something like a Toyota Corolla 1600 costs at least twice that. The bank prime rate sit at around 13.5% and they typically charge about 20% on a credit card. Essentially all this means is that I can barely afford a home big enough for a family, plus a car, and most people can't afford even that.
Jesus was speaking against revenge, the notion of an eye for an eye, not against defending yourself.
However blowing up a building, an attack that would be called terrorist if carried out by say Al-Quaida against George Bush, cannot by any stretch be called self-defense and is certainly cowardly.
On the Mac at the same time may popular printers were almost plug and play
Of course when the Mac refused to detect the printer or it detected, but all printing came out as blank pages you were just screwed; and when it did work the OS would periodically decide the printer wasn't really connected and it was back to trying to get it detected. I remember spending hours trying to get the Mac to work correctly with various printers. The Mac had some things going for it, but it could easily be as much of a pain to use as a PC.
Real feminists don't have a problem with porn.
Sexist nuts like Andrea Dworkin do.
It is almost an exercise in futility to try to find any actual facts on this government propaganda site. Useful for educating my children in recognising lies though.
In fact we can do entirely without NIDA and their lies.
> Do you ever forget things you did while using
> alcohol or drugs?
Do you ever forget things when you're sober?
More people assume they can get away with doing less and taking more without their neighbors retalliating
Before you know it it is just like working for a large corporation. I still can't believe how far you can get on so little at places like banks and insurance companies; you can literally carry on at secondary outside work without anyone ever realising (if you work 30% of the time you're working twice as much as anyone else so you'll get promoted and earn two incomes).
the reason people wear suits and ties was to manipulate others
This is correct. If they had nothing to hide they could dress casually, but in reality they have nothing to offer other than their dress.
It is quite a loathsome experience to have to deal with slick, suited business and sales people.
If someone feels disrespected because of something you're wearing, then that is THEIR problem, not yours.
I want to see professionalism in someone's work, not something superficial like their clothing. The logical result of using clothing to judge this is expanding it to include the person's natural attractiveness.
Dress is manipulation. It is one-upmanship. A suit just implies you have more money to waste or you're simply stupid.
There is a difference between being dirty, looking like you've just been dragged out of a dumpster, and dressing casually.
The real question is why do we continue to cling to ugly Victorian outfits? You can dress neatly without ever coming near a suit.
I do like to wear a suit from time to time, it makes me look like a hitman for a South American drug cartel. Very cool.
It really depends on your goals. If you're trying to climb the corporate ladder then you had better dress to match the shallow world you inhabit.
I'm a coder and an engineer, the quality of my work and experience speak for themselves. If someone doesn't hire me because I dress casually, then I know that is a place I'd rather not work (experience has shown that such places are rife with the various evils of the stupid and shallow - best to just stay away and avoid the stress). I simply dress neatly for an interview. Clients like the fact that I dress in jeans and t-shirt because it tells them the quality of what I produce is more important than superficial nonsense like clothing.
If a woman is only going to show interest because I happen to be dressed in a corporate monkey suit then she is not someone on whom I wish to waste my time. There's an endless supply of intelligent women out there, no need to suck up to the shallow ones.
Been noticing the same thing. Also have trouble with movies that use sequences of rapid cuts. Guess our brains just can't track as fast they used to.
Quite right encapsulation is a restriction; that is the benefit. It is not popular with code cowboys.
There is no parallel between OOP data hiding and closed source proprietary data formats.
You've misunderstood re-useability.
I like the easy to read C syntax, with semicolons.
A carefully considered object structure saves a lot of time later and does make code easier to maintain. It is not popular with code cowboys either.
That's your own narrow little opinion.
Good graffiti art brightens the urban landscape. Thankfully the morons in the cities that used to remove it from trains finally acquired a clue and made the trains available for painting by artists of demonstrable ability. No more ugly urban trains.
These guys who do graffiti are exactly what art is about, not some commercialised nonsense.
Or wasting money on expensive weaponry instead of education.
How much of its budget does the US waste on the military?
Err yeah, but it was going for something insane like 300 Euros.
Quite right, but not with fighting per se. I was constantly harassed and bullied until one day I'd had enough and someone went a little too far. I helped the central perpetrator have a nasty accident - injuries sufficient to pull him out of an important sporting event for which he had been training for months. As far as I'm concerned the b*stard got away lightly.
After that there were still the occasional threats and weak attempts at intimidation, but I'd taught them that I was willing to be vicious and ruthless - there was no way for them to know how far I'd really go so no-one ever tried anything again.
Open fighting is usually out, although one of my friends did eventually smash a bully's face (crushed his nose completely), but fortunately in this case the head of the school knew the injured party was a bully and merely reprimanded my friend. You have to be a little careful in the school system though since its primary purpose is to break and brainwash children - it is its own little police state. My own children have been taught to stand up to bullies, but also not to fight on school grounds, rather take them on elsewhere (ideally find somewhere that you have the advantage) - you ignore them if at all possible, only striking if they attack you, then you take them down quickly and walk away.
The situation for girls is usually different as there is seldom much physical fighting, it is all vicious verbal attacks - in my opinion verbal abuse is not given its due in the ranks of abuse. My female friends tell me though that finding out the source of the rumours can be done, then you go to that person and explain to them that you are going to hurt them if it happens again - from there you take the same approach as boys.
It is a great way to check out music.
Real artists do what they do because they love to, have an uncontrollable need to create. Earning a living from it happens to be a bonus.
As a musician I wouldn't want to have to make money off live performances. There is nothing worse than having to run from place to place playing live. We can make money from selling our music, if we can cut out the current criminal syndicates that control music distribution.
Oh yeah, the keeping everyone and everything perfectly safe psychosis. We parents are an easy target because we are concerned about our children, but sensible people know that we don't need to track every movement.
Besides the tags can't really track a child unless they are somehow specifically linked to the child. Just give yours to someone and have them swipe it for you.
$1 is far too much for an audio track in a lossy format, not to mention including annoying restrictions on playback. I'd pay at most 25c for lossy audio. I'd pay $1, including dowload costs (at the very least 25c per track).
I was ripped off myself. Then the guy fell down some stairs. It was most unfortunate. Thankfully he was seriously hurt.
Some people only use their PDA for appointments, contacts, some notes and maybe a handful of family photos, plus they typically carry their devices in their hands or maybe a pocket. These people want a PDA/Phone unit, perhaps a bit bigger than their current phone, but smaller than their current PDA.
I on the other hand travel with a backpack and what I want is a basically dumb phone - phone numbers and SMS - but I want a smart PDA since to me a digital assistant is far more than a diary/calendar/phone book replacement - I carry around databases, screenshots, price lists among other things. A laptop however goes too far, will often take up too much space and is more easily damaged - for me, and in most circumstances. I also like a basic, separate phone because there are times when all I need with me is a small, fairly robust device from which I can make a call if I really need to - I like my Nokia 6210 and 6310 (admittedly these have far more features than I have ever used, but I like the size and shape).
I'd consider a phone device that could send/receive SMS messages and store a very limited number of phone numbers, but could pair with a full-featured PDA - perhaps turning simply into a dumb headset when linked.
Isn't it always going to be the case that something the size of a typical PDA can contain more than something the size of a phone? I think all we're seeing is some more overlaps and a broader range of possible devices that will allow people to find something closer to what they require.
Well done to Palm for not going the Sony route and saddling us with a keyboard.
The PocketPC is no more a pocket computer than the Palm.
You'll need the Graffiti from an OS 5 device. Can be found on the net with a little hunting.
More guns does not equal less crime, that is just stupid nonsense. More guns does equal more deadly criminals though.
Me I'd rather the criminals were armed with hand to hand weapons.
That's your rosy view of the past. Fifty to eighty years ago we would not even have heard about the incident. Perhaps you'll present us with the data showing the per capita level of violence among children over time? How does this relate to urbanisation? What about growing up in a country that glorifies the murder of foreigners, i.e. not us, hidden, distant? Can you factor these out and show that the supposed increase in violence in movies and on TV has had a real influence? What about games given that they are far more unrealistic than even TV violence?
It remains the parents' responsibility since they have clearly armed their children and failed to teach them correctly.
My parents spent far more time around us than is typical today and when it came to guns they never ever stopped emphasising that we should never point them at another person (yeah and we were smart enough to know that meant no cars too).
In this case the children should certainly receive a punishment appropriate to their age. The parents also have to take their share of the responsibility.
TV, games and movies can add influence. The news can do so to a slightly greater extent. But the biggest contributor is the environment in which the children are raised - are the parents violent? Is the neighbourhood violent? What the children learn directly from their parents outweighs all else whatever the unscientific scaremongers may claim.