It will start similar to "Student A has a rich family, pass. Ahh.. Student B is lower-middle class, offer Student B a scholarship attached to a term in the Reserves." and end with "Draft Student B."
If you join the Army Reserves and then are called to active duty that isn't a draft. It is part of the agreement that you make when you join the Reserves. I don't agree with how the Reserves are currently being used (at ALL), but that doesn't make it a draft.
Dead on. And the poorer people eat it up. They see it as an avenue, perhaps the only one, from poverty. The government doesn't give two shits about them. They aren't likely to contribute much in taxes in their lifetime and they aren't likey to start a business which can help the economy. In short: they are a nuisance. The governments tell them how great they are and what a good thing it is to fight for your country. It's just glorified welfare with a bloody cost.
What a bunch of crap. The military can be a great way out of poverty. That doesn't mean joining the military will make you rich, but it:
removes many from a lot of bad situations
teaches important basics not installed in many poor, inner-city families
personal finance
personal responsibility
respect for others and yourself
honor
provides excellent job skills for many
can provide security clearances which translate into govt jobs
oh yeah, there is also that little added benefit of a trained military force being the only thing between you being able to post self-righteous crap like this and you being forced to obey the whims of some dictator.
And if you think Bush is a dictator, it really shows how ignorant and coddled you are in this country, protected by the troops which you disdain.
First you have to consider that if you had several structured smaller breaks from school then you wouldn't peter out in late spring and be exhausted waiting for your summer break to "keep you sane".
Your parents most definitely should be helping you with your homework and going through it with you. That is one of the jobs of a parent. To teach and prepare their children for adulthood. They should be doing this from the start, taking the lessons you are learning and finding interesting ways to incorporate those lessons in your life.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but high school classes are most times taught at such an unbelievably slow pace. They are taught to the speed level of the slowest 1/3 of students in the class.
You most likely are mistaken. It is interesting how people always assume that some word started somehow in the first context in which they encountered it. I know I have seen it used in NannyMUD since 1992 or so. I always assumed that it started there and was some Swedish slang. That is of course because I first encountered it there in 1992:)
I wish this were true. I recently purchased a good quality digital camera for my wife, and she works on the side doing photography. Gimp doesn't have 16 bit support nor some other features which escape me right now. When editing digital pictures, I want to be able to use the highest quality possible. Now, we are not a "high-end shop" and Photoshop helps us produce higher quality images. As much as I *HATE* it. It does. It is the only reason I have Windows on my machine right now at all.
Before you say it, yes I have actually joined the dev-mailing list for both gimp and gegl. I would like it to be better and I am going to try and do what I can to make it better.
Not only do I still have my Osborne but I just pulled it out this last weekend when my brother asked what it was. We ended up talking with Eliza and playing Cranston Manor and Hunt the Wumpus for the rest of the night.
I have both the Osborne I and the Osborne Executive. Complete with the manuals and schematics that shipped with them.
I'd take that over a needle any day. I didn't have any problem with that. The only people that did were people who moved. Don't tense up, and don't move. Simple, fast, almost painless.
continue your classes in the summer. Do not take your summers off. Summers are a great time to take your useless classes, like gender or sensitivity training that colleges seem intent on stuffing into you nowadays. Do not do the minimum of math classes, take more. Take more physics. When not at school, go to the freaking gym and get some exercise.
Want to get/keep a good job? Learn about digital signal processing.
What's the correct word to use in place of "convicted" in that sentence? Saying "Microsoft has been found by a court of law to be an abusive monopolist" is a bit long in the tooth...
while we are at it...the phrase, "long in the tooth" is used to refer to someone who is old, or perhaps wise. Not to say that a phrase is a mouthful.
If Microsoft wants to make WinFS a fundamental part of their strategy, they must back port it. Forcing developers to upgrade before they can develop is foolhardy.
A hunting rifle can be used to kill people. Does that mean the trigger should only work after inserting a valid and current hunting license?
Actually, yes. I think so.
Oh that is a GREAT idea. Practice before hunting season would be a terrible idea. Since you don't like guns nobody else should enjoy shooting them. We should also ban archery as well. I mean, that is just for killing people. Slingshots...gotta get rid of those. Darts, toss those in the trash. Knives, worthless pieces of human killing steel! People could get along just fine without knives.
What a jackass, you think that since you dont like something it has no purpose or use? What a freaking waste of oxygen.
That is just crazy talk. Now if he cut the lines and then offered the car to someone that is one thing, but if he cut the lines and someone stole it? How could any car accident be the line cutters fault?
Naw, you just move the virtual machines over to secondary systems that have the spare capacity, bring down the box, upgrade it, move the virtual machines back onto it, all without shutting anything down. See VMWare ESX, Vmotion and VirtualCenter for details on their site. Course, to take advantage of moving the machines without shutting them down you need a SAN on the backend. It's mainframes all over again.
Quite true, the guy I was responding to said to replace the multitude of machines with just one. You are completely right though.
"I predict another five years for the Internet in its present form. The reason for this will be that proper users' dissatisfaction will have reached such heights by then that some other system will be needed, unless the Internet is improved and made reliable," Kari said.
So if everything stays static, except the bad stuff, the bad will outweigh the good and it will become unusable. Wow. That is a revelation.
I actually disagree here (for school projects anyway). I have some of my best coding when hammered on wine my father made. I simply woke up with the laptop laying next to me and all the homework done, correctly, and COMMENTED.
That is a good point, but remember that when you install that RAM in the 1 physical machine, you have to take all of the virtual machines + the physical machine offline. Single point of failure.
Or a few packs of cigarettes a day. My sister in law is one of those people. She can't afford anything decent for her daughter but always has enough money to support 2 packs a day. How much is a pack? 3-4 bucks? ~7 bucks a day? ~200 bucks a month?
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It will start similar to "Student A has a rich family, pass. Ahh.. Student B is lower-middle class, offer Student B a scholarship attached to a term in the Reserves." and end with "Draft Student B."
If you join the Army Reserves and then are called to active duty that isn't a draft. It is part of the agreement that you make when you join the Reserves. I don't agree with how the Reserves are currently being used (at ALL), but that doesn't make it a draft.
What a bunch of crap. The military can be a great way out of poverty. That doesn't mean joining the military will make you rich, but it:
oh yeah, there is also that little added benefit of a trained military force being the only thing between you being able to post self-righteous crap like this and you being forced to obey the whims of some dictator.
And if you think Bush is a dictator, it really shows how ignorant and coddled you are in this country, protected by the troops which you disdain.
I'm going to start wearing nanotech all the time if it draws protesters like these.
Apparently you didn't see the pictures...
Actually according to the /. faq, this is the coolest story ever.
He is exactly correct.
First you have to consider that if you had several structured smaller breaks from school then you wouldn't peter out in late spring and be exhausted waiting for your summer break to "keep you sane".
Your parents most definitely should be helping you with your homework and going through it with you. That is one of the jobs of a parent. To teach and prepare their children for adulthood. They should be doing this from the start, taking the lessons you are learning and finding interesting ways to incorporate those lessons in your life.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but high school classes are most times taught at such an unbelievably slow pace. They are taught to the speed level of the slowest 1/3 of students in the class.
You most likely are mistaken. :)
It is interesting how people always assume that some word started somehow in the first context in which they encountered it.
I know I have seen it used in NannyMUD since 1992 or so. I always assumed that it started there and was some Swedish slang. That is of course because I first encountered it there in 1992
This under the hardware category... am I missing something?
/. if you noticed/care about that.
Yes, a life. Hmm, that sounds much harsher than I intended it, but you may be paying a little too much attention to
90.5 is out of East Lansing
91.1 is out of Flint
91.7 is out of Ann Arbor
I wish this were true. I recently purchased a good quality digital camera for my wife, and she works on the side doing photography. Gimp doesn't have 16 bit support nor some other features which escape me right now. When editing digital pictures, I want to be able to use the highest quality possible. Now, we are not a "high-end shop" and Photoshop helps us produce higher quality images. As much as I *HATE* it. It does. It is the only reason I have Windows on my machine right now at all.
Before you say it, yes I have actually joined the dev-mailing list for both gimp and gegl. I would like it to be better and I am going to try and do what I can to make it better.
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Not only do I still have my Osborne but I just pulled it out this last weekend when my brother asked what it was. We ended up talking with Eliza and playing Cranston Manor and Hunt the Wumpus for the rest of the night.
I have both the Osborne I and the Osborne Executive. Complete with the manuals and schematics that shipped with them.
I'd take that over a needle any day. I didn't have any problem with that. The only people that did were people who moved. Don't tense up, and don't move. Simple, fast, almost painless.
Gray interviews Bray, should have done it in May. Over by the bay.
Is the my karma burning? Oh what the hay.
continue your classes in the summer. Do not take your summers off. Summers are a great time to take your useless classes, like gender or sensitivity training that colleges seem intent on stuffing into you nowadays. Do not do the minimum of math classes, take more. Take more physics. When not at school, go to the freaking gym and get some exercise.
Want to get/keep a good job? Learn about digital signal processing.
while we are at it...the phrase, "long in the tooth" is used to refer to someone who is old, or perhaps wise. Not to say that a phrase is a mouthful.
I think you misspelled "monopoly"
A hunting rifle can be used to kill people. Does that mean the trigger should only work after inserting a valid and current hunting license?
Actually, yes. I think so.
Oh that is a GREAT idea. Practice before hunting season would be a terrible idea. Since you don't like guns nobody else should enjoy shooting them. We should also ban archery as well. I mean, that is just for killing people. Slingshots...gotta get rid of those. Darts, toss those in the trash. Knives, worthless pieces of human killing steel! People could get along just fine without knives.
What a jackass, you think that since you dont like something it has no purpose or use? What a freaking waste of oxygen.
FTA:
Several sound samples, taken at different times during the descent, are here combined together
Just guessing, but maybe those are the splice points.
That is just crazy talk. Now if he cut the lines and then offered the car to someone that is one thing, but if he cut the lines and someone stole it? How could any car accident be the line cutters fault?
Naw, you just move the virtual machines over to secondary systems that have the spare capacity, bring down the box, upgrade it, move the virtual machines back onto it, all without shutting anything down. See VMWare ESX, Vmotion and VirtualCenter for details on their site. Course, to take advantage of moving the machines without shutting them down you need a SAN on the backend. It's mainframes all over again.
Quite true, the guy I was responding to said to replace the multitude of machines with just one. You are completely right though.
"I predict another five years for the Internet in its present form. The reason for this will be that proper users' dissatisfaction will have reached such heights by then that some other system will be needed, unless the Internet is improved and made reliable," Kari said.
So if everything stays static, except the bad stuff, the bad will outweigh the good and it will become unusable. Wow. That is a revelation.
I actually disagree here (for school projects anyway). I have some of my best coding when hammered on wine my father made. I simply woke up with the laptop laying next to me and all the homework done, correctly, and COMMENTED.
His wine tends to sneak up on you.
That is a good point, but remember that when you install that RAM in the 1 physical machine, you have to take all of the virtual machines + the physical machine offline. Single point of failure.
Maybe that is because you are basing your views on stereotypes instead of real life?
Or a few packs of cigarettes a day. My sister in law is one of those people. She can't afford anything decent for her daughter but always has enough money to support 2 packs a day. How much is a pack? 3-4 bucks? ~7 bucks a day? ~200 bucks a month?
huh...and here I thought nothing good was going to come out of this story.