My grandfather attributes his 60 year long marriage to spending all evening when he got home from work (and in his retirement, all day) hiding behind a newspaper smoking a pipe.
Gramps neglected to tell you that wasn't tobacco in that pipe...
I can see homeschool working for parents who dedicate themselves to teaching as best they can, providing a reasonable structure, exposing the kids to a wide variety of subjects and experiences, as well as socializing them with other kids.
Too many parents use homeschool as a means to get their kids away from the "godless liberals and queers" in public school and teach them that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church and little else outside of religious dogma.
Many people cannot see beyond their own lives and own backyards to see the big picture. Unless privacy violations are going to directly affect their lives and those they know/care about, it won't make any waves with the general population. Surveillance these days is transparent enough to make this feasible. Those that oppose these policies are made out to be shrill wackos that will dogmatically adhere to a quaint old document that is out of touch with the "post 9/11" world.
''You did not see the game,'' Mr Thompson told the judge at Friday's hearing. "You don't even know what it was you saw."
Unless I missed something, Thompson hasn't seen the game since it's unreleased and is criticising the judge who did see it. Amazing.
I'm starting to think that this guy is a clever guerilla marketer who brings attention and boosted sales to his clients via the media and legal system. Just look how well 2 Live Crew sold records after a protracted legal battle waged by Jack Thompson.
It is free for current subscribers -- whose subscription rate is the same as this new rate.
Yes and no. Access to Sirius streaming is included with the normal subscription, but is a low bitrate stream of iffy quality. The streaming service the article talks about is a higher bitrate that satellite subscribers won't get unless they pay an additional $3 a month.
I think they should throw in the bitrate upgrade for purchasers of the new Stiletto, but thats just me.
Divorce can be a horribly emotional experience, we often soul search to find out "what went wrong, what could've I done differently". Sometimes, you just got to sit back.. take a deep breath, and just realize it didn't work out. Regardless of whether she cheated, you cheated, you were away working all the time, she wasn't a good wife, and the myriad of other reasons, nothing can change the present situation... so...
I don't presume to know you or your circumstances, but that part of your post struck a chord with me.
While I agree with you that beating yourself up and playing the what-if game to the point of madness does no good, it's still worthwhile to take a breather and figure things out. Discern what was and wasn't beyond your control and extract a lesson. Shrugging your shoulders and moving on with your life will not fix the underlying problem that may have brought about the situation in the first place.
You know, he'll probably make bail... I'd check your doors and window locks twice tonight if I were you.
Apologies to Nightmare on Elm Street...
One, two, Hans is coming for you. Three, four, compile your kernel source Five, six, let your hard disk fsck Seven, eight, let crontab wait Nine, ten, never save again!
So I'm not a parent yet, but having had parents who did a kick ass job raising my sister and myself, what if parents just, you know, talked to their kids once in a while? A parent that genuinely listens and cares about their children is going to be much better received - and far more trusted
Much like worker vs. management, the parent/child relationship is, by its very nature, adversarial. It is the job of the child to explore their world and get into mischief. It is the nature of the parent to keep the kids from doing this if they have any hope of surviving to maturity. Kids who feel comfortable telling their parents everything will usually become selective about what they say once they feel the heat of doing something that Mom or Dad disapprove of.
No kid in his/her right mind would tell their parents about the swell kegger that Jimmy from up the block is having while his folks are in Europe if they didn't mind their peers kicking their asses.
Why couldn't our nation have been started by someone cool instead of a bunch of lame Protestants.
The liberal media would have you believe that Christopher Columbus was the first to settle America, but that honor really belongs to The Fonz. He edged out Grover Washington to be our first president, but declined once he found out that he couldn't have all three Hooper Triplets as his first ladies.
Fun Fact: The indian greeting "how" is derived from The Fonz's "heyyyyyyy".
Probably not. It's easy for people not to care about things that don't directly affect themselves or of those they know. The average white christian republican voter isn't likely to be the wrong color/religion/political stripe that could be branded a terrorist and disappeared at a bureaucrats whim.
I'm far more embarassed that harmless words scrawled on a ziploc bag are grounds for detaining and harassing a citizen on the grounds of so-called security.
Threats to nuke Iran if they continue their nuclear programme seem very hypocritical.
I don't blame Iran for pursuing nukes if the information on the matter isn't lie.
A nuclear arsenal is the ticket to respect and an insurance policy against invasion ala Iraq. Look at North Korea; a wild-eyed dictator brags that he can hit Palo Alto with a nuclear missle. His country doesn't get invaded, he gets nuclear talks and diplomacy. Pakistan is a dictatorship set up after a military coup and said to be a hiding place for OBL. Since they have the bomb and play ball with the US, they're allies and can sit at the big kids table with the rest of the nuclear-armed nations.
Environmentalism used to be hip and aimed at youth in the early 90's. Earth day this, recycling that; kids tv channel Nickelodeon had many environmentally-themed bumpers and features. After the message reached its saturation and couldn't keep attention spans, this mass-marketed environmentalism faded away.
These things are easy to ignore as long as the alternative (fossil fuels) are cheap enough and available. Look how gas guzzling turned into a fine art just as soon as the lessons of the oil shortages of the 70's were out of sight and out of mind.
However peculiar the question, the answer is obviously more of the order of the possibly blunt 'go shopping' type than this crass and insensitive response.
Giving the submitter a shopping list and ignoring the ramifications of what he is attempting to do does him no favors. If the submitter is sincere, he has been widowed and has 100% of the extremely demanding burden of caring for a very disabled child. I feel for him and do not envy his position in the least. As heartbreaking as it is, he may need to make a difficult choice for the better of his child rather than rely on gadgetry to save his daughter's life.
if you think the availability of an outside agency to help is all that is needed to solve his problem, you have no idea what his problem is.
Unless the submitter's daughter suffers from a condition that nobody knows anything about but the submitter, then you'd have a point that submitter, and only submitter, can care for his child.
Realistically speaking, a trained professional (or a team of them, in the case of round-the-clock care or residential facilty) can better handle the situation.
Think about it: if the situation is so dire and delicate that even an hour missed can kill the child, then single-parent caregiver scenario is either going to end in one of two ways: the inadvertent death of the child at worst or the burnout and breakdown of submitter, at best.
You do not strike me as qualifying to care for some with the needs you imply in your question. Please take this as honest advice, not a flame.
As hard as this might be for submitter to admit, I have to agree. Around the clock care, be it in the home from a nursing service or in a residential facility can be expensive, but there may be a sliding scale available via some organizations according to need. Chances are that there is an organization that caters to the submitters daughter's specific condition or circumstance.
This is too important to trust to a Rube Goldberg contraption that one of us dingbats on Slashdot recommended.
Look at the title of the article; thats why it's getting a makeover.
The upcoming Queer Eye for the Red Planet Probe is going to use an eyebrow plucking robot and deploy an "chic hat" so it can be the hip, modern face of Mars.
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QuadFather takes on a different meaning altogether.
My grandfather attributes his 60 year long marriage to spending all evening when he got home from work (and in his retirement, all day) hiding behind a newspaper smoking a pipe.
Gramps neglected to tell you that wasn't tobacco in that pipe...
Ronald Reagan? The actor?
So tell me, future boy, who is president in 1985?
Probably explains why Kraft's Hobo Helper is a big seller over there.
I can see homeschool working for parents who dedicate themselves to teaching as best they can, providing a reasonable structure, exposing the kids to a wide variety of subjects and experiences, as well as socializing them with other kids.
Too many parents use homeschool as a means to get their kids away from the "godless liberals and queers" in public school and teach them that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church and little else outside of religious dogma.
Getting hurt is a valuable experience to children.
I couldn't agree more.
Steps into PSA mode
Hello, this is Slashdot's dr_dank. Take an active interest in the future of our nation and beat the shit out of a child today!
Many people cannot see beyond their own lives and own backyards to see the big picture. Unless privacy violations are going to directly affect their lives and those they know/care about, it won't make any waves with the general population. Surveillance these days is transparent enough to make this feasible. Those that oppose these policies are made out to be shrill wackos that will dogmatically adhere to a quaint old document that is out of touch with the "post 9/11" world.
''You did not see the game,'' Mr Thompson told the judge at Friday's hearing. "You don't even know what it was you saw."
Unless I missed something, Thompson hasn't seen the game since it's unreleased and is criticising the judge who did see it. Amazing.
I'm starting to think that this guy is a clever guerilla marketer who brings attention and boosted sales to his clients via the media and legal system. Just look how well 2 Live Crew sold records after a protracted legal battle waged by Jack Thompson.
It is free for current subscribers -- whose subscription rate is the same as this new rate.
Yes and no. Access to Sirius streaming is included with the normal subscription, but is a low bitrate stream of iffy quality. The streaming service the article talks about is a higher bitrate that satellite subscribers won't get unless they pay an additional $3 a month.
I think they should throw in the bitrate upgrade for purchasers of the new Stiletto, but thats just me.
Divorce can be a horribly emotional experience, we often soul search to find out "what went wrong, what could've I done differently". Sometimes, you just got to sit back.. take a deep breath, and just realize it didn't work out. Regardless of whether she cheated, you cheated, you were away working all the time, she wasn't a good wife, and the myriad of other reasons, nothing can change the present situation... so...
I don't presume to know you or your circumstances, but that part of your post struck a chord with me.
While I agree with you that beating yourself up and playing the what-if game to the point of madness does no good, it's still worthwhile to take a breather and figure things out. Discern what was and wasn't beyond your control and extract a lesson. Shrugging your shoulders and moving on with your life will not fix the underlying problem that may have brought about the situation in the first place.
You know, he'll probably make bail... I'd check your doors and window locks twice tonight if I were you.
Apologies to Nightmare on Elm Street...
One, two, Hans is coming for you.
Three, four, compile your kernel source
Five, six, let your hard disk fsck
Seven, eight, let crontab wait
Nine, ten, never save again!
It could have been worse, they could have given him the old "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" game
After succumbing to severe brain damage, his body would be dumped in the New Mexico desert, flattened by a steamroller, and covered in concrete.
So I'm not a parent yet, but having had parents who did a kick ass job raising my sister and myself, what if parents just, you know, talked to their kids once in a while? A parent that genuinely listens and cares about their children is going to be much better received - and far more trusted
Much like worker vs. management, the parent/child relationship is, by its very nature, adversarial. It is the job of the child to explore their world and get into mischief. It is the nature of the parent to keep the kids from doing this if they have any hope of surviving to maturity. Kids who feel comfortable telling their parents everything will usually become selective about what they say once they feel the heat of doing something that Mom or Dad disapprove of.
No kid in his/her right mind would tell their parents about the swell kegger that Jimmy from up the block is having while his folks are in Europe if they didn't mind their peers kicking their asses.
Why couldn't our nation have been started by someone cool instead of a bunch of lame Protestants.
The liberal media would have you believe that Christopher Columbus was the first to settle America, but that honor really belongs to The Fonz. He edged out Grover Washington to be our first president, but declined once he found out that he couldn't have all three Hooper Triplets as his first ladies.
Fun Fact: The indian greeting "how" is derived from The Fonz's "heyyyyyyy".
Just like our founding fathers George and Washington.
Can't people see where this is leading??
Probably not. It's easy for people not to care about things that don't directly affect themselves or of those they know. The average white christian republican voter isn't likely to be the wrong color/religion/political stripe that could be branded a terrorist and disappeared at a bureaucrats whim.
Freedom isn't free and it sure as hell isn't safe.
You got religious freaks on the right and you got frothy eggheads on the left.
::strums guitar::
here I am, stuck in the middle with you...
I am embarrassed for all of us.
I'm far more embarassed that harmless words scrawled on a ziploc bag are grounds for detaining and harassing a citizen on the grounds of so-called security.
Threats to nuke Iran if they continue their nuclear programme seem very hypocritical.
I don't blame Iran for pursuing nukes if the information on the matter isn't lie.
A nuclear arsenal is the ticket to respect and an insurance policy against invasion ala Iraq. Look at North Korea; a wild-eyed dictator brags that he can hit Palo Alto with a nuclear missle. His country doesn't get invaded, he gets nuclear talks and diplomacy. Pakistan is a dictatorship set up after a military coup and said to be a hiding place for OBL. Since they have the bomb and play ball with the US, they're allies and can sit at the big kids table with the rest of the nuclear-armed nations.
Environmentalism used to be hip and aimed at youth in the early 90's. Earth day this, recycling that; kids tv channel Nickelodeon had many environmentally-themed bumpers and features. After the message reached its saturation and couldn't keep attention spans, this mass-marketed environmentalism faded away.
These things are easy to ignore as long as the alternative (fossil fuels) are cheap enough and available. Look how gas guzzling turned into a fine art just as soon as the lessons of the oil shortages of the 70's were out of sight and out of mind.
However peculiar the question, the answer is obviously more of the order of the possibly blunt 'go shopping' type than this crass and insensitive response.
Giving the submitter a shopping list and ignoring the ramifications of what he is attempting to do does him no favors. If the submitter is sincere, he has been widowed and has 100% of the extremely demanding burden of caring for a very disabled child. I feel for him and do not envy his position in the least. As heartbreaking as it is, he may need to make a difficult choice for the better of his child rather than rely on gadgetry to save his daughter's life.
if you think the availability of an outside agency to help is all that is needed to solve his problem, you have no idea what his problem is.
Unless the submitter's daughter suffers from a condition that nobody knows anything about but the submitter, then you'd have a point that submitter, and only submitter, can care for his child.
Realistically speaking, a trained professional (or a team of them, in the case of round-the-clock care or residential facilty) can better handle the situation.
Think about it: if the situation is so dire and delicate that even an hour missed can kill the child, then single-parent caregiver scenario is either going to end in one of two ways: the inadvertent death of the child at worst or the burnout and breakdown of submitter, at best.
You do not strike me as qualifying to care for some with the needs you imply in your question. Please take this as honest advice, not a flame.
As hard as this might be for submitter to admit, I have to agree. Around the clock care, be it in the home from a nursing service or in a residential facility can be expensive, but there may be a sliding scale available via some organizations according to need. Chances are that there is an organization that caters to the submitters daughter's specific condition or circumstance.
This is too important to trust to a Rube Goldberg contraption that one of us dingbats on Slashdot recommended.
Look at the title of the article; thats why it's getting a makeover.
The upcoming Queer Eye for the Red Planet Probe is going to use an eyebrow plucking robot and deploy an "chic hat" so it can be the hip, modern face of Mars.