I thought they had given up hopes of listening to that mofo. Obviously, NASA is making every attempt to recover every bit of whatever they send out there. But hey, when everything costs $150 mil, then I would be trying everything I could, too.
This whole Mars thing is great, because out of 10 projects sent there, only 1.5 have been unsuccessful. The 0.5 left would be classified as a "successful failure" but I wonder what the Polar Lander can do now.
Still hoping our tax dollars don't go into Martian scrap metal...
Even though you didn't experience Y2K fully, you are one of those who made the Y2K bloat mean nothing. All those Y2K response teams were bored as hell around the world thanks to you.
Okay guys. I took a survey of college students at University of Florida. I got 112 people to answer me in my questions. They were, after asking if they download music from the Internet:
1. About what percentage of songs that you liked were enough cause to buy the CD?
2. Have you started to buy more CD's as a result of hearing it on your computer?
3. If you have a CD-burner, what percentage of songs do you burn rather than buy?
Here were my results:
Question #1:
1 percent: 96 people
between 1% and 10%: 16 people
over 10%: 0 people
Question #2:
yes: 31 people
no: 81 people
Question #3:
100%: 93 people
(the other 19 people didn't have a burner)
So there you have it. All facts have been laid out for you in plain sight. Don't tell me that I'm generalizing or using anecdotal information or calling college people chronic liars. Look at the numbers with your very own eyes.
This survey was of college students! If you survey them, how many of these students would really say "oh, of course, I bought the music after I downloaded it"? Slim to none. None if they have a CD-writer. There simply is no way that this survey was accurate. Go to American Demographics to find out yourself.
And oh, yeah. Don't believe what you read about yourself.
*feeling pretty stupid*
Isn't this reserved for April Fool's?
This quantum mechanics thing is pretty crazy. I mean, we're all used to 0's and 1's for computers, but how would quantum computers work? I read somewhere that it's like a sorta-on and sorta-off, like fuzzy logic. But I'm no expert on physics. I'm only a soph in HS taking chemistry. And I hate it.
I'm a 15-year-old sophomore, and I play Quake II, Half-Life, etc. This article completely and fully states EXACTLY what I would have wanted to tell the world if I had the chance. Anyways, I like to play these "violent" games, but when I play Half-Life Team Fortress over the Internet, which also includes the bonuses for head shots, I absolutely, positively, have NO intention of carrying out ANY of the things I do on the computer. These games are more of a comical representation of violence. In fact, I laugh hysterically often, for example, when someone throws grenades everywhere and ends up blowing themself up.
Everybody wants what they can't get, and everybody wants to do what they can't do. So naturally, it's fun to kill imaginary people within a digital realm. But there aren't any truly harmful effects from killing imaginary beings. The question here is what prevents people from going out and killing people? Or raping people? Or taking out baseball bats and beating people? I believe that it's the intuition within. Everybody knows that getting shot hurts. So if someone would want to kill someone, just the fact that it hurts would cause that person to think more deeply. And another point that Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman missed was the fact that practically all of these teenage killers had some sort of mental illness. I can't stress enough that most of our population does not have a mental illness, and the thing that makes these kids kill are violent childhoods, and other sorts of things. Also, a lot of these killings related to religion in some way or another, but I can't really connect them.
Finally, with all due respect to him, Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman is an idiot. He is completely out of touch with the teenage population, and however old he is, he needs to be a teenager now in order to understand how teenagers these days work. The world is changing so fast that teenagers 10 years ago would probably feel somewhat awkward in high school now.
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What happened to the colors on this page? I'm getting brown and yellow and funkywunky stuff. I mean, it's not a holiday or anything, so....
I thought they had given up hopes of listening to that mofo. Obviously, NASA is making every attempt to recover every bit of whatever they send out there. But hey, when everything costs $150 mil, then I would be trying everything I could, too.
This whole Mars thing is great, because out of 10 projects sent there, only 1.5 have been unsuccessful. The 0.5 left would be classified as a "successful failure" but I wonder what the Polar Lander can do now.
Still hoping our tax dollars don't go into Martian scrap metal...
Even though you didn't experience Y2K fully, you are one of those who made the Y2K bloat mean nothing. All those Y2K response teams were bored as hell around the world thanks to you.
1. About what percentage of songs that you liked were enough cause to buy the CD?
2. Have you started to buy more CD's as a result of hearing it on your computer?
3. If you have a CD-burner, what percentage of songs do you burn rather than buy?
Here were my results:
Question #1:
1 percent: 96 people
between 1% and 10%: 16 people
over 10%: 0 people
Question #2:
yes: 31 people
no: 81 people
Question #3:
100%: 93 people
(the other 19 people didn't have a burner)
So there you have it. All facts have been laid out for you in plain sight. Don't tell me that I'm generalizing or using anecdotal information or calling college people chronic liars. Look at the numbers with your very own eyes.
And oh, yeah. Don't believe what you read about yourself.
*feeling pretty stupid*
Isn't this reserved for April Fool's?
I had to study that mofo in my history class. I tell you - all he really did was add a page to my history book.
Why say "OH, AND FIRST POST" if it isn't? Check your facts, smart guy.
I know - at first, that's what I was thinking.
This quantum mechanics thing is pretty crazy. I mean, we're all used to 0's and 1's for computers, but how would quantum computers work? I read somewhere that it's like a sorta-on and sorta-off, like fuzzy logic. But I'm no expert on physics. I'm only a soph in HS taking chemistry. And I hate it.
Everybody wants what they can't get, and everybody wants to do what they can't do. So naturally, it's fun to kill imaginary people within a digital realm. But there aren't any truly harmful effects from killing imaginary beings. The question here is what prevents people from going out and killing people? Or raping people? Or taking out baseball bats and beating people? I believe that it's the intuition within. Everybody knows that getting shot hurts. So if someone would want to kill someone, just the fact that it hurts would cause that person to think more deeply. And another point that Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman missed was the fact that practically all of these teenage killers had some sort of mental illness. I can't stress enough that most of our population does not have a mental illness, and the thing that makes these kids kill are violent childhoods, and other sorts of things. Also, a lot of these killings related to religion in some way or another, but I can't really connect them.
Finally, with all due respect to him, Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman is an idiot. He is completely out of touch with the teenage population, and however old he is, he needs to be a teenager now in order to understand how teenagers these days work. The world is changing so fast that teenagers 10 years ago would probably feel somewhat awkward in high school now.
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