the F/A-18 is known for having one of the best fly-by-wire systems in the world, so that's not the best example. I'd be more worried about the Thunderbirds with their F-16s.
People today are fascinated with guns and the improper use of them because the majority of americans live in cities and so they've never gotten to use them in the proper way.
Guns have been put on a pedestal by their inaccessibility and the way the culture of the city looks down on the proper usage of them. Shooting that's not at people has been given the redneck/hick stigma and no city kid wants that.
If you took every kid from the inner city out to the country for a few days every year, and let them blast the shit out of some targets with a.22 or shoot some skeet, while teaching them proper safety and handling of guns, they wouldn't be talking about busting caps in your ass or any of that shit within a generation.
If you REALLY want to cure the problem, when they're old enough, you take them hunting so that they get to see some blood and guts. Sure, it's squirrel or rabbit or deer blood and guts, but it all looks the same after you shoot it with a 12 gauge. If a kid still wants to shoot people after he's seen a deer get gutted and field dressed, he's got problems that nobody can fix.
I was taught what guns can do from an early age and I've always had the proper respect for them and have never once thought that gun violence was a good thing.
Why are the Nobel Prizes always awarded so long after the prize-winning research has taken place? Is it part of the charter to make sure that the advance that's being rewarded is truly beneficial?
Well, probably not quite that overtly condescending, but still the same idea.
Certainly not to your face, anyway.
Trouble is, even if it's cruel for them to say so, they DO have the weight of how-things-really-are behind them. If you have kids, a full-time job, and a home, your reality trumps theirs. They can go live at mom and dad's when they can't find a job as soon as they graduate, and have nothing to take care of but their best wanking hand.
I'm not defending the traditions. I'm saying that they do still work for some people and they shouldn't just be blindly thrown out because they're "old". If people get conditioned to learn that way and can't learn any other way, they shouldn't be left out in the cold because some of us happen to learn better through independent work.
The problem with the old way of doing things is that with everything else that a college student, especially a non-traditional one, is expected to do the requirement that they read the material beforehand is impossible to fulfill. Eliminating lectures just makes this even more since you have NO chance to learn the material.
The 20 year old social darwinists that have always had straight A's and no lives will pipe up and say "waah, college is hard, do it or go be poor. And vote Bush" but when you have kids, a full-time job, and a home to take care of, there just isn't any time.
I have a Tascam 788 (I'm behind the curve, I know) and I have a Tascam Porta-07 for a while.. I got much better mixes out of the Porta-07 because I had to work for it and since my EQ was limited I had to have good sound to start with.
I hate PC-based recording. It's not musical to me like a portastudio type of interface. I haven't tried using a control surface, though.
Some people can only learn in a traditional (i.e. long boring lecture) setting. That's the way it's done in the US system in public schools and the majority of private schools so kids get trained to learn that way by default.
Personally, there are some subjects in which I need to be -taught-, not just given the info. I'm not naturally good with math, so I need extra attention and to go to every lecture. Humanities and social sciences come easily for me and I can learn those completely on my own. It also helps that I genuinely like humanities and social sciences. Since I don't care for math and hard science, I need extra structure in the process of learning it to make sure that I "get it."
Scientists don't like to say that the earth is in the center of the universe, however, since it sounds very Ptolemaic. As a scientist nowadays, the fashionable approach is to consider oneself and one's situation as meager and uninteresting as possible. In this vein you can conclude that, in an infinite universe, every point is the center. However, while we don't know whether spacetime itself is infinite, we sure as hell know that matter isn't - otherwise it would be light-as-day during the night (which it isn't)! So, scientists who fancy the universe-is-infinite approach to avoid placing the earth at the center is just fooling himself. In other news, another AC got stoned for the first time today.
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Just another reminder that, in the United States of America, no good deed goes unpunished.
And IN SOVIET RUSSIA, good deed !&*($&#*!*)*&NO CARRIER
the F/A-18 is known for having one of the best fly-by-wire systems in the world, so that's not the best example. I'd be more worried about the Thunderbirds with their F-16s.
So what kind of pure sport would you suggest we all play in order to become as thin and healthy as the standard to which the almighty Grub holds us?
Either we do that or we cover the planet in SPF 45 lotion.
Excellent idea! I'll start on the porn stars right now
oh yeah? The Millennium Falcon does Mach 6 so NYAH!
I've never understood the geek fascination with Business. It's the complete antithesis of stuff like the FSF and open-source.
Why the fuck is it so important to geeks that they have to have their stock portfolio on the goddamn desktop?
or are those just the people that stupid enough to get caught up in a 401k (i.e. the company wants its money back) scam?
forget smart, I'm wondering why you can play a bass but not tuna fish
Yup, the army's gotta protect you guys from that rogue moose state :D
Just kidding, I have nothing but respect for the Canadian military.
I can't handle spanking kids. I took some physical abuse (beyond just corporal punishment) as a kid and I don't have the heart to dish it out.
However, I know some kids won't respond to anything else, so it has to be done.
My solution is to not have kids at all. I don't have the capacity to discipline and thus care for them like I should.
People today are fascinated with guns and the improper use of them because the majority of americans live in cities and so they've never gotten to use them in the proper way.
.22 or shoot some skeet, while teaching them proper safety and handling of guns, they wouldn't be talking about busting caps in your ass or any of that shit within a generation.
Guns have been put on a pedestal by their inaccessibility and the way the culture of the city looks down on the proper usage of them. Shooting that's not at people has been given the redneck/hick stigma and no city kid wants that.
If you took every kid from the inner city out to the country for a few days every year, and let them blast the shit out of some targets with a
If you REALLY want to cure the problem, when they're old enough, you take them hunting so that they get to see some blood and guts. Sure, it's squirrel or rabbit or deer blood and guts, but it all looks the same after you shoot it with a 12 gauge. If a kid still wants to shoot people after he's seen a deer get gutted and field dressed, he's got problems that nobody can fix.
I was taught what guns can do from an early age and I've always had the proper respect for them and have never once thought that gun violence was a good thing.
ha! just once
I thought it was all of these:
do {
printf("DARL SUCKS\n");
} while (1);
Why are the Nobel Prizes always awarded so long after the prize-winning research has taken place? Is it part of the charter to make sure that the advance that's being rewarded is truly beneficial?
only on slashdot would an orgy scene be described as a waste.
Well, probably not quite that overtly condescending, but still the same idea.
Certainly not to your face, anyway.
Trouble is, even if it's cruel for them to say so, they DO have the weight of how-things-really-are behind them.
If you have kids, a full-time job, and a home, your reality trumps theirs. They can go live at mom and dad's when they can't find a job as soon as they graduate, and have nothing to take care of but their best wanking hand.
I'm not defending the traditions. I'm saying that they do still work for some people and they shouldn't just be blindly thrown out because they're "old". If people get conditioned to learn that way and can't learn any other way, they shouldn't be left out in the cold because some of us happen to learn better through independent work.
+1 Insightful to you.
The problem with the old way of doing things is that with everything else that a college student, especially a non-traditional one, is expected to do the requirement that they read the material beforehand is impossible to fulfill. Eliminating lectures just makes this even more since you have NO chance to learn the material.
The 20 year old social darwinists that have always had straight A's and no lives will pipe up and say "waah, college is hard, do it or go be poor. And vote Bush" but when you have kids, a full-time job, and a home to take care of, there just isn't any time.
I have a Tascam 788 (I'm behind the curve, I know) and I have a Tascam Porta-07 for a while.. I got much better mixes out of the Porta-07 because I had to work for it and since my EQ was limited I had to have good sound to start with.
I hate PC-based recording. It's not musical to me like a portastudio type of interface. I haven't tried using a control surface, though.
Some people can only learn in a traditional (i.e. long boring lecture) setting. That's the way it's done in the US system in public schools and the majority of private schools so kids get trained to learn that way by default.
Personally, there are some subjects in which I need to be -taught-, not just given the info. I'm not naturally good with math, so I need extra attention and to go to every lecture. Humanities and social sciences come easily for me and I can learn those completely on my own. It also helps that I genuinely like humanities and social sciences. Since I don't care for math and hard science, I need extra structure in the process of learning it to make sure that I "get it."
strippers and lapdances are punishment, not benefits, so let em have them
Agathis is also used to make cheap electric guitars. Many of the very low-end Ibanez models are made of Agathis, as well as most Squiers.
Scientists don't like to say that the earth is in the center of the universe, however, since it sounds very Ptolemaic. As a scientist nowadays, the fashionable approach is to consider oneself and one's situation as meager and uninteresting as possible. In this vein you can conclude that, in an infinite universe, every point is the center. However, while we don't know whether spacetime itself is infinite, we sure as hell know that matter isn't - otherwise it would be light-as-day during the night (which it isn't)! So, scientists who fancy the universe-is-infinite approach to avoid placing the earth at the center is just fooling himself.
In other news, another AC got stoned for the first time today.
likewise. I can't work at home because I get too distracted. Home is for good times, not someone's bullshit taskmastering.
Microsoft: We're upping our standards, so up yours!
(Sorry Mr. Paulsen)
Hi, I am the RIAA. Mr. Coward, your suggestion has been duly noted and we wil work on implementing it immediately. Thank you for your feedback.