Got kids you can't afford medical care for? That shows you couldn't afford kids!!
You do realize that anyone in a situation where their kids need an expensive medical procedure that they can't afford and can't get elsewhere will resort to lying, cheating, stealing, and any other measure legal or illegal that they can to make sure it happens.
Part of public welfare is a degree of suppressing public unrest, keeping all of us much safer than we otherwise would be.
At this point, the credibility of traditional journalists is stretched pretty thin. I feel for the real journalists who have to crank out stories as fast as possible with no time to do much more than re-write a press release and merge in a commentary from the first person who answered the phone. But saying that modern journalists investigate all of their sources, verify their facts, and an probe for weeks is... ideallic at best, and out of step with public perception.
We're in a Gannett / Murdoch news world now. Wikipedia has a lot more credibility than USA Today, because at least *someone* looked it over at Wikipedia.
Not to sound too... anti-conspiratorial, but Larry Craig was arrested in that airport bathroom on June 11th and entered a guilty plea between August 1st and 8th. That then enters public records and databases, and can be freely searched. It wasn't until August 27th that Roll Call brought the then public information to the forefront.
Which is to say, anyone doing background searches on members of congress could have found this information and brought it to the public's eye. To say that it was some nefarious plot to take down a particular target seems ill-placed. It's just as likely (if not moreso) that some reporter was looking for dirt with automated searches. Pardon the pun, but if you're a public figure that is *arrested* and *convicted* of something these days, it's coming out. It's just a fact.
Try The Faery Tale Adventure on the Genesis / PC. It had such wonderful qualities as If-you-don't-sleep-you-walk-really-slowly and towns are real-sized to the world around them.
I remember *finally* getting through one particularly long and grueling dungeon maze with almost no health left, and with the character desperately needing to sleep. The thing was, when your character was tired it walked at exactly the same speed as all of the zombies in the level / that part of the world. So we spent a real-world hour (all-night game) trudging back from the dungeon to the town we had started, with a trail of nasties just a few steps behind. We finally got to the town, tried to get into our house, and immediately got killed by the zombie train behind us.
The real world kind of sucks. If you're not a zombie, you're zombie food.
As far as the customers are concerned, the iTunes App Store is a smashing success.
In case anyone missed parent poster's point, these monolithic stores are good for consumers, terrible for developers. Any consumer can walk in, search a ton of apps, pick the best one, and it's there smoothly and easily. Any developer can invest a year of their life and tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars creating an app, only to have it mysteriously be rejected without comment, rejected for obviously bunk reasons, or be made quickly obsolete by a 99c copycat app.
I'm going to take a wild guess that you get more out of reading a month's worth of books than you do out of playing a month's worth of WoW.
I'm not saying it isn't viable. Compared to cable it's downright cheap. But is WoW (after the first three months) really making you more interesting of a person? Is the world really rich enough to validate the time investment? Certainly it isn't helping you physically.
For me, it wasn't. YMMV, but comparing WoW to a rock climbing habit or a library addiction might miss the problem.
Part of the reason why WindowsME was such a huge failure, was because it was marketed for (quite literally) years before it launched. This locked Microsoft into a title and a launch date which they couldn't worm out of when the OS wasn't going to be ready. So instead of holding off the codebase we know as XP to be ready, they hacked together a version of Windows 98 in an attempt to create an upgrade to meet the consumer demand.
It was one of Microsoft's biggest mistakes, and it was entirely driven by their successful marketing building up demand for a product that was going to be late.
Not to sound too blase' about progress, but you still wake up at 6 in the morning and poop. You just don't have to go outside to do it now. You still have to wash your clothes, you just don't really have to iron them. Replacing Kerosine in the lamps has been switched to replacing the bulbs in the lights that hang in exactly the same spot.
Our both daily and macro lifecycle is still far more recognizably human than anything else. Again, I don't want to be too dismissive of the major improvements in medical technology or convenience. But we've more or less evolved our society in a way that closely resembles how humanity has behaved for millenia. Check out the Babylonian mortgage crisis for perspective. Sure, it's *nicer* now. But it definitely is an extension of the same system.
And I guarantee you that their teenagers will probably all still rebel, they'll still groggily and grumpily get up for work in the morning, and they'll still grow old wishing that they hadn't fritted their youth away.
We're more or less still living like we lived 5,000 years ago, from a macro perspective. Somehow I don't see that changing any time soon (unless, of course, we all die).
Well, I had a GBA, which was quite literally given away to a sick neighbor's kid. My DS original was given away to a friend's kid, who wasn't actually sick at the time but was broke.
The DSi seemed like a good time to jump in. I didn't realize, however, how many good games from the GBA I'd miss.
I'm not saying it's a dealbreaking feature loss to me. But an emulation option is nice.
Generally speaking, in the US drivers do not want to get into collisions with pedestrians because of legal repercussions. Pedestrians do not want to get into collisions with drivers because of physical repercussions. That's a bit of a simplification, but for the most part the system works.
DS is not an exciting target for GBA emulation, since the DS can play GBA games and GBA flash karts natively. You might be saving 15 or 20 dollars on a GBA flash kart, but that's about it.
The DSi, on the other hand, is interesting to those of us who actually still have GBA games that we enjoy, but foolishly picked up DSi's anyway.
Print isn't necessarily slower than cursive. Cursive is to a large degree the same thing as print, except that A. you don't bother to pick your hand up. B. the bits you don't bother to pick up are actually important to form well. Whichever system you learn best is the one you're most likely to be fastest at, though we're all getting excessively well trained at reading print.
In the US cursive is a rare thing to see anymore. Most people just print. I deal with a lot of written out feedback forms on a daily basis, and I can't remember the last time I received one in cursive.
If you had read the article, you'd notice that his point was
A: We recognize writing mostly by the tops of the letter, rather than the bottoms. B: Hand printing tends to have more recognizable tops than hand cursive, due to a lack of loops. Not to mention the B's, F's, S's, Z's and other letters that bare only a passing resemblance to their everyday counterparts.
Also cursive != all handwriting. You can still hand-print a note to a colleague, a loved one, or a doctor. You could also write in cursive. You could write in Insular Minuscule for all I care. The question is, is it as important to teach students cursive at the 2nd grade level as we have been doing? Or would it make more sense to teach it later, like an optional class in High School? Personally, I'd rather that time be devoted by my student to learning another language, especially while the language centers of the brain remain pliable.
And if, as you say, the grandparent poster has never seen beautiful handwriting... perhaps that is just further evidence of the futility of attempting to teach it to everyone?
And court stenographers learn a really awesome form of writing that is much faster and easier than normal. But unless you happen to be a stenographer, it's kind of useless.
If you need to write something down, use print. If you want to write faster, invest the additional time in learning cursive. If you just need a hard copy, print the thing. It's a travesty of education that we're turning out college students who have studied cursive for years and will never use it again, yet who have to hunt-and-peck on the keyboard.
You need a material that has certain properties, you key it into the computer and out pops all the candidates, the good, the bad, and the ridiculous, all rated on any number of scales you wish.
This assumes that whoever created your materials database actually put in items like human hair, cow faeces, mice skin, leftover plastic wrap, degraded computer parts, etc, and not just commercially purchasable plastics and metals that their company provides.
It may very well just be a scam to get a little attention, or to get some investors. But it's not outside the realm of the possibility. And melanin / hair has been debated as a potential solar panel material in the past. I guess it comes down to believing that inventions can still come from a combination of ingenuity, intelligence, and luck, rather than just crunching computer models. That you'd think nothing new could be invented without a computer is disheartening.
To be fair, the cops did everything right here. They had a report of someone walking down the street with an assault weapon. They went to investigate. They found that it was a fake replica. They asked the people to transport it more discretely in the future, so that they don't have to get called out again.
This sounds like the right way to handle it to me.
Wii Fit Plus Wii Sports Resort Muramasa: The Demon Blade Red Steel 2 New Super Mario Brothers Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles + a bunch of 360 ports that probably won't be as good. + a bunch of sports games that are better on the Wii thanks to the Wii Motion Plus.
Post Christmas there is: Mario Galaxy 2 Metroid: Other M No More Heroes 2 + a bunch of 360 ports that probably won't be as good.
Hey it's my web browser. What I filter with it is my own business. For that matter, my choice of user-agent string is my business as well.
Stick to spamming IE users and illiterates. It's more profitable and less annoying to those who might threaten your existence.
You're reading content whose creation was funded by the advertisers that you block. You're also using non-negligible bandwidth resources without providing any financial support to the sites, because you refuse to load those ads.
Essentially, you're showing up to an art gallery which has an entry fee, sneaking in a side door, then laughing at the suckers who are paying. Oh sure, you may not want to see those ads, and I can't blame you. But those stupid little banners are *the entirety* of what feeds the developers who run those sites. It might be "your business" if you block the ads and their revenue stream, but it is also "their choice" if they want you to either start behaving like a responsible denizen of the Internet or get off their site.
Secondly, theres really no law against "interfering with other people's income". All the other ad blocker software would get sued then.
Any site that survived on ad revenue would simply sniff for Opera's client strings and ban them all. Blocking advertisements in Opera, or going too close to there for the comfort of content providers, would be the end of Opera.
Who is most likely to steal from you: The worker who owes 20k dollars in credit card debt and is barely keeping his head above water, or the worker who has a million dollar home and a penchant for finding profit everywhere?
I've found that a lot of people who are in poor financial condition are so because they're weirdly principled about it. They don't feel like they could go for higher salaries, because that would be wrong. They don't feel right about charging for the things that they do. They have specific hangups about money in weird ways, one of which frequently is "money is bad, and getting money is bad. I should just put my nose to the grindstone and everything will be OK."
Whereas a lot of the people I know who do have a lot of money, do so because they're unscrupulous bastards. They know how to cut corners, squeeze full advantage out of situations, and pull the wallet right out of your pants while smiling and making you feel like one of the family. I like the ones that I know, but I also know better than to sign anything around them.
I think it's fair to say that in this case, a Credit Score is not a good indicator of which type of employee will take advantage of "edge opportunities" in your organization. And in that light, it merely discriminates against the kind of suckers, err, "hardworking employees" that you probably do want in your company.
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Dove's amazing evolution commercial yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
Got kids you can't afford medical care for? That shows you couldn't afford kids!!
You do realize that anyone in a situation where their kids need an expensive medical procedure that they can't afford and can't get elsewhere will resort to lying, cheating, stealing, and any other measure legal or illegal that they can to make sure it happens.
Part of public welfare is a degree of suppressing public unrest, keeping all of us much safer than we otherwise would be.
At this point, the credibility of traditional journalists is stretched pretty thin. I feel for the real journalists who have to crank out stories as fast as possible with no time to do much more than re-write a press release and merge in a commentary from the first person who answered the phone. But saying that modern journalists investigate all of their sources, verify their facts, and an probe for weeks is... ideallic at best, and out of step with public perception.
We're in a Gannett / Murdoch news world now. Wikipedia has a lot more credibility than USA Today, because at least *someone* looked it over at Wikipedia.
Not to sound too... anti-conspiratorial, but Larry Craig was arrested in that airport bathroom on June 11th and entered a guilty plea between August 1st and 8th. That then enters public records and databases, and can be freely searched. It wasn't until August 27th that Roll Call brought the then public information to the forefront.
Which is to say, anyone doing background searches on members of congress could have found this information and brought it to the public's eye. To say that it was some nefarious plot to take down a particular target seems ill-placed. It's just as likely (if not moreso) that some reporter was looking for dirt with automated searches. Pardon the pun, but if you're a public figure that is *arrested* and *convicted* of something these days, it's coming out. It's just a fact.
Quite frankly, being accountable to the political system and / or legal authorities is exactly why important information never sees the light of day.
Corruption is not just a river in Egypt.
Try The Faery Tale Adventure on the Genesis / PC. It had such wonderful qualities as If-you-don't-sleep-you-walk-really-slowly and towns are real-sized to the world around them.
I remember *finally* getting through one particularly long and grueling dungeon maze with almost no health left, and with the character desperately needing to sleep. The thing was, when your character was tired it walked at exactly the same speed as all of the zombies in the level / that part of the world. So we spent a real-world hour (all-night game) trudging back from the dungeon to the town we had started, with a trail of nasties just a few steps behind. We finally got to the town, tried to get into our house, and immediately got killed by the zombie train behind us.
The real world kind of sucks. If you're not a zombie, you're zombie food.
As far as the customers are concerned, the iTunes App Store is a smashing success.
In case anyone missed parent poster's point, these monolithic stores are good for consumers, terrible for developers. Any consumer can walk in, search a ton of apps, pick the best one, and it's there smoothly and easily. Any developer can invest a year of their life and tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars creating an app, only to have it mysteriously be rejected without comment, rejected for obviously bunk reasons, or be made quickly obsolete by a 99c copycat app.
I'm going to take a wild guess that you get more out of reading a month's worth of books than you do out of playing a month's worth of WoW.
I'm not saying it isn't viable. Compared to cable it's downright cheap. But is WoW (after the first three months) really making you more interesting of a person? Is the world really rich enough to validate the time investment? Certainly it isn't helping you physically.
For me, it wasn't. YMMV, but comparing WoW to a rock climbing habit or a library addiction might miss the problem.
But my problem with the name of this device is that it doesn't bedazzle at all. It causes motion sickness.
They should call it BENAUSEATOR or BEPUKINGTHEIRGUTSOUT or something along those lines, more accurate.
Are you talking about the military device, or the $19.99 infotainment device?
Part of the reason why WindowsME was such a huge failure, was because it was marketed for (quite literally) years before it launched. This locked Microsoft into a title and a launch date which they couldn't worm out of when the OS wasn't going to be ready. So instead of holding off the codebase we know as XP to be ready, they hacked together a version of Windows 98 in an attempt to create an upgrade to meet the consumer demand.
It was one of Microsoft's biggest mistakes, and it was entirely driven by their successful marketing building up demand for a product that was going to be late.
Not to sound too blase' about progress, but you still wake up at 6 in the morning and poop. You just don't have to go outside to do it now. You still have to wash your clothes, you just don't really have to iron them. Replacing Kerosine in the lamps has been switched to replacing the bulbs in the lights that hang in exactly the same spot.
Our both daily and macro lifecycle is still far more recognizably human than anything else. Again, I don't want to be too dismissive of the major improvements in medical technology or convenience. But we've more or less evolved our society in a way that closely resembles how humanity has behaved for millenia. Check out the Babylonian mortgage crisis for perspective. Sure, it's *nicer* now. But it definitely is an extension of the same system.
And I guarantee you that their teenagers will probably all still rebel, they'll still groggily and grumpily get up for work in the morning, and they'll still grow old wishing that they hadn't fritted their youth away.
We're more or less still living like we lived 5,000 years ago, from a macro perspective. Somehow I don't see that changing any time soon (unless, of course, we all die).
Well, I had a GBA, which was quite literally given away to a sick neighbor's kid. My DS original was given away to a friend's kid, who wasn't actually sick at the time but was broke.
The DSi seemed like a good time to jump in. I didn't realize, however, how many good games from the GBA I'd miss.
I'm not saying it's a dealbreaking feature loss to me. But an emulation option is nice.
Generally speaking, in the US drivers do not want to get into collisions with pedestrians because of legal repercussions. Pedestrians do not want to get into collisions with drivers because of physical repercussions. That's a bit of a simplification, but for the most part the system works.
DS is not an exciting target for GBA emulation, since the DS can play GBA games and GBA flash karts natively. You might be saving 15 or 20 dollars on a GBA flash kart, but that's about it.
The DSi, on the other hand, is interesting to those of us who actually still have GBA games that we enjoy, but foolishly picked up DSi's anyway.
Print isn't necessarily slower than cursive. Cursive is to a large degree the same thing as print, except that A. you don't bother to pick your hand up. B. the bits you don't bother to pick up are actually important to form well. Whichever system you learn best is the one you're most likely to be fastest at, though we're all getting excessively well trained at reading print.
In the US cursive is a rare thing to see anymore. Most people just print. I deal with a lot of written out feedback forms on a daily basis, and I can't remember the last time I received one in cursive.
If you had read the article, you'd notice that his point was
A: We recognize writing mostly by the tops of the letter, rather than the bottoms.
B: Hand printing tends to have more recognizable tops than hand cursive, due to a lack of loops. Not to mention the B's, F's, S's, Z's and other letters that bare only a passing resemblance to their everyday counterparts.
Also cursive != all handwriting. You can still hand-print a note to a colleague, a loved one, or a doctor. You could also write in cursive. You could write in Insular Minuscule for all I care. The question is, is it as important to teach students cursive at the 2nd grade level as we have been doing? Or would it make more sense to teach it later, like an optional class in High School? Personally, I'd rather that time be devoted by my student to learning another language, especially while the language centers of the brain remain pliable.
And if, as you say, the grandparent poster has never seen beautiful handwriting... perhaps that is just further evidence of the futility of attempting to teach it to everyone?
And court stenographers learn a really awesome form of writing that is much faster and easier than normal. But unless you happen to be a stenographer, it's kind of useless.
If you need to write something down, use print. If you want to write faster, invest the additional time in learning cursive. If you just need a hard copy, print the thing. It's a travesty of education that we're turning out college students who have studied cursive for years and will never use it again, yet who have to hunt-and-peck on the keyboard.
You need a material that has certain properties, you key it into the computer and out pops all the candidates, the good, the bad, and the ridiculous, all rated on any number of scales you wish.
This assumes that whoever created your materials database actually put in items like human hair, cow faeces, mice skin, leftover plastic wrap, degraded computer parts, etc, and not just commercially purchasable plastics and metals that their company provides.
It may very well just be a scam to get a little attention, or to get some investors. But it's not outside the realm of the possibility. And melanin / hair has been debated as a potential solar panel material in the past. I guess it comes down to believing that inventions can still come from a combination of ingenuity, intelligence, and luck, rather than just crunching computer models. That you'd think nothing new could be invented without a computer is disheartening.
To be fair, the cops did everything right here. They had a report of someone walking down the street with an assault weapon. They went to investigate. They found that it was a fake replica. They asked the people to transport it more discretely in the future, so that they don't have to get called out again.
This sounds like the right way to handle it to me.
Wii Fit Plus
Wii Sports Resort
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Red Steel 2
New Super Mario Brothers
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
+ a bunch of 360 ports that probably won't be as good.
+ a bunch of sports games that are better on the Wii thanks to the Wii Motion Plus.
Post Christmas there is:
Mario Galaxy 2
Metroid: Other M
No More Heroes 2
+ a bunch of 360 ports that probably won't be as good.
Hey it's my web browser. What I filter with it is my own business. For that matter, my choice of user-agent string is my business as well.
Stick to spamming IE users and illiterates. It's more profitable and less annoying to those who might threaten your existence.
You're reading content whose creation was funded by the advertisers that you block. You're also using non-negligible bandwidth resources without providing any financial support to the sites, because you refuse to load those ads.
Essentially, you're showing up to an art gallery which has an entry fee, sneaking in a side door, then laughing at the suckers who are paying. Oh sure, you may not want to see those ads, and I can't blame you. But those stupid little banners are *the entirety* of what feeds the developers who run those sites. It might be "your business" if you block the ads and their revenue stream, but it is also "their choice" if they want you to either start behaving like a responsible denizen of the Internet or get off their site.
Secondly, theres really no law against "interfering with other people's income". All the other ad blocker software would get sued then.
Any site that survived on ad revenue would simply sniff for Opera's client strings and ban them all. Blocking advertisements in Opera, or going too close to there for the comfort of content providers, would be the end of Opera.
4. You could have an obvious, non-passworded login which does not allow the theif to have root access, but which does run your desired scripts.
Who is most likely to steal from you: The worker who owes 20k dollars in credit card debt and is barely keeping his head above water, or the worker who has a million dollar home and a penchant for finding profit everywhere?
I've found that a lot of people who are in poor financial condition are so because they're weirdly principled about it. They don't feel like they could go for higher salaries, because that would be wrong. They don't feel right about charging for the things that they do. They have specific hangups about money in weird ways, one of which frequently is "money is bad, and getting money is bad. I should just put my nose to the grindstone and everything will be OK."
Whereas a lot of the people I know who do have a lot of money, do so because they're unscrupulous bastards. They know how to cut corners, squeeze full advantage out of situations, and pull the wallet right out of your pants while smiling and making you feel like one of the family. I like the ones that I know, but I also know better than to sign anything around them.
I think it's fair to say that in this case, a Credit Score is not a good indicator of which type of employee will take advantage of "edge opportunities" in your organization. And in that light, it merely discriminates against the kind of suckers, err, "hardworking employees" that you probably do want in your company.