(Assuming the letter is from the stepmother of the kid and not a prank!)
No one knows what would have worked for that kid. Certainly what they tried did not work.
What the parent poster was saying is that the antagonistic punishments the parents tried pushed the kid into a corner from which he had to fight to get away. Even if you try to reward the kid, if the kid has a perception that he is being singled out for his actions, he will fight against it. That's what the "brother" part of the parent post was about. The "brother" did not get that much attention from the parents and was allowed to develop normally.
No gets a license to parent. No one has a certificate in parenting before they start phucking. We just make babies and then love them until about the age of two when they discover that they have their own desires. From that point we punish or reward them to get them to behave properly. Then they're good until the hormones click in. As a parent whose son in twenty-five I pity the fool living with a teenager. My sole advice is to nurture with love and to make damn sure they know the difference between right and wrong from the age of five on. Get them while they're young and they will make the right choices later.
We may not like the process but these open arguments are good. We all get to hear the various versions of what's good or bad about GPLv3, or what is great or sucks about Fedora.
We have no chair-throwing morons.
We get to see the process and watch the final outcome. This gives us a better understanding of why Gnu/Linux is the way it is and where it is going.
Good for ERS speaking up. Even better for Alan Cox to reply. I only hope ERS replies to that.:)
I consider it a victory though I don't have, nor plan to have, a High Definition player. I have an HD TV, and an XBox 360.
Why won't I buy the $200.00 HDDVD player from MicroSoft?
Well, I've said it before, and it bears repeatin'...
I'll buy new content when those ASS-WIPES in Hollyweird stop putting advertisements in front of the movies on DVDs! GODDAMN, I'm SICK of wading through bullshit ads for movies that stopped playing in theatres years ago when I watch an old DVD.
Pull out your Matrix DVD or your 2001: A Space Odyssey DVD and insert it into your DVD player or PS2. What happens? THE MOVIE starts to play, doesn't it?
Now try that with any DVD you bought in the last three or four years. Pisses you off, doesn't it? Yeah, me too.
They can KISS MY ASS! Even though I'm not buying their HD disks I'm still laughing my ass off at this and looking forward to more penetrations of their security. (Hey, this is Slashdot. We gotta' have pron! Just not HD Pron. Pimples and hairs where they shouldn't be. YEECH!)
Hmmmm, I dunno. Seat belts, air-bags, Anti-lock brakes, roll-bars on convertibles. I think people care a lot about things they can control. IF...they can control them.
Most CEOs are former SALESMEN. Check out their careers. You'll see that most, if not all, were in Sales or Marketing at one or more points in their careers.
Boards NEED someone at the top of the company who understands what Sales and Marketing NEED. After all, no matter how superior your product is *cough*betamax*cough* if it does not sell, your company goes down the tubes. Not the internet tubes, the other kind.
No big conspiracy here. Just boards doing what they have always done.
There iwas supposed to be not text here, but I could not post without puttin something in here. So, in order to comply, I am putting in this verbiage just to get this past the "lameness filter" or whatever is preventing my post from completing. What a waste of electrons.
Would you even make this point if the "rich man" wasn't Bill Gates?
You're missing the point. The reason I took this story from the Bible is because it's, what, a couple of thousand years old! People have been making this very same observation about those trying to buy "indulgences" for at least that long and probably longer.
NOTE: yes, I know the history of "indulgences". That's why I deliberately chose that word. The Catholic Church's sinful use of this concept doesn't stop it from being WRONG!
...who don't recognize the Reverand Andy quote, it's from
PLAYERS: THE AI WAR
A TALE OF THE CONTINUING TIME
This was to be the next "Trent" story. It was never published in book form. I grabbed it from DKM's web-site back in the ninties. I don't know if it's still available on the web or not. It's a pretty cool story. It opens with Trent getting shot in the chest at point-blank range by a bounty hunter.
No, I can't copy it here. It's too long and I don't have the right to do that anyway.
Jesus wasn't the point of my post. I was trying to compare the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the rich man. I am not a religious man, but I do read the bible and am familiar with the stories. This one always comes to my mind since Bill & Melinda made the cover of "Time" or "Newsweek" a few years back.
Yes, I am very suspicious of their motives.
By the way, whether you prefer Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or "the Prophet Harry" you still believe in something that you can't touch and I don't quite know what the difference is.
'Too true,' Reverend Andy agreed. 'It's the
problem of our times.'
I remember a small story in the Bible that goes something like this:
Jesus (pronounced HAY-ZEUS and means son of Zeus) was lounging around gathering contributions one day. There was a large crowd watching him. Some were donating money. Most were asking each other how a Hebrew could have such pale skin when the only people with pale skin in that region of the world were Romans and Greeks, and Jesus was neither. The long hair on his head was the cause of much speculation as well since, in that time and place, men wore their hair cut short. It was decided that the best way to find an explanation for these things was to ask Michelangelo and Pope Julius II della Rovere.
Right about the time everyone realized Michelangelo and Pope Julius II della Rovere would not be born for another 1500 years, a loud, proud, rich man pushed through the crowd and stepped up to Jesus. With a large grin beaming across his face the man reached into the pockets of his leather Jordache(TM) jeans and pulled out a thick wad of greenbacks. From this he peeled off ten Benjamins and spread them on the table before Jesus. Jesus accepted the money and said a simple, "Thank you". This startled the man. With a look of surprise on his face he stepped back a bit and watched for a while. It was clear to the crowd that he had expected more.
Within a few minutes some old, musty smelling broad came through the crowd. She quietly shuffled up to Jesus and gave him a single penny. Jesus smiled at the old woman, blessed her, and wished her well.
Now the rich bastard that donated the Benjamins became angry...irate...pissed-off you might say. He stormed up to Jesus and got LOUD in Jesus' face. "I gave you a thousand dollars, muthafucka'! How come you blessed that bitch for her penny and didn't say shit to me?"
The crowd drew back and sang a collective "Oooooh!" in fear of impending violence. A couple of instigators in the crowd shouted out things like, "You gonna' take that?", and "slap that hippy".
Jesus was quick to his feet.
He pimp-slapped the punk to the ground, put a foot on his neck and calmly explained to the fool, "You gave me a small portion of your wealth that you will not miss. That kind, gentle woman gave me everything she had in the world."
I wonder why I think about that story everytime someone talks about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Daylight Savings Time was originally sold as a method to allow children to travel to school in the safety of daylight. There is not much you can do about that during the Fall and Winter months when the day is so short, but you can adjust the clocks to help children during the Spring and Summer months.
It had nothing to do with energy until...well, that's another topic.
...a slightly different approach. Get Grob's Basic Electronics, an analog multi-meter, a digital multimeter, a couple of solderless breadboards, a few AA battery holders and fistfulls of random resistors, capacitors (some electrolytic but not all), a small variety of inductors, and a spool each of black, red, and whatever color you want wire.
You are now set to work your way through Grob. Once finished you will have the ability to design and build your OWN power supplies and you will have a thorough understanding of DC and AC circuits.
From that point you can begin to study discrete gates and Integrated Circuits such as Op-Amps, 555 timers and the like.
Oh, yeah, one other thing; when you have finished Grob you will really be ready for The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. And yes, buy the lab manual.
The aim is to connect the buyer of the laptop with the child in the developing world who receives the machine.
"The will get the e-mail address of the kid in the developing world that they have, in effect, sponsored."
The only thing I'm worried about is some jackass phucking this up for everyone by trying to...well, you know where I'm going with this.
Still, this is a cool idea. I can buy two sets of these knowing that two kids somewhere in the world are going to have laptops, keep one for myself and give the other to one of my nieces or nephews, or just leave the spare around the house for fun when they come to visit.
Despite the lack of or abundance of features in either format I have to ask an important question: Is there anything good to watch on either format?
Television shows are OK to watch in Hi-Def. I watch Smallville and (god, I hate to admit it) Enterprise on HD-Net every Monday night but I wouldn't buy either series in DVD format. That means you can forget about me spending extra money for it in either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or Total Movie.
As for movies; movies STINK lately. This is where they could grab me, but they have failed miserably!
I have a Hi-Def, surround sound set up at home and I like nothing better than to sit on my comfortable couch with a two-liter Dr. Pepper and a bag of microwave popcorn and watch a good movie. I can pause the show when my wife and I want to argue about some plot point, or even return to a previous point in the show to show her just how wrong she is.:)
Just give me SOMETHING to watch!
Last year I wanted to see Mission: Impossible and Superman Returns, but having been burned in years past I procrastinated and missed them in the theaters. I rented then on DVD. Boy was I happy I had not wasted time and money trying to see these shows in an expensive theatre setting. And I'll clue you in on something that came to mind while I have been watching movies lately: Hi-Definition does NOT make the shows any better.
In summary, it doesn't matter which format "wins" if there is nothing to watch.
There was a good article in the December 10, 2006 New York Times by Richard Siklos entitled "The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen" in which it suggests that interest in Hi-Definition formats is actually declining among the population.
I have a 360. Last weekend I was playing with my nephew's Wii...awright, cut the laughing...and I was blown away by the fun we had with bowling and some racing game he had. I'm ready to go to Game Stop, EB Games, or wherever to trade in my relatively unused (I'm still playing the PS2) 360 for a Wii, a spare controller, two nunchucks, and a copy of the new Zelda game.
I will not buy any of the next gen media formats. You are encouraged to buy whatever your heart desires.
I was trying to convey the feeling I have that these new formats are going to fail in a collosal way.
For instance, on December 10, 2006 Richard Siklos wrote in a New York Times article titled The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen
According to a recent survey by Frank N. Magid Associates, the number of people buying these sets who are looking forward to watching television shows in hi-def format has actually declined, to 47 percent from 63 percent two years ago. And while nearly half of current owners of HDTV sets said that their main reason for buying one was to watch programs in HD, only 25 percent of those shopping for the sets feel that way.
Moreover, it requires yet another cas outlay to gain access to premium HD fare like Dan Rather's new crystal-clear newscasts on Mark Cuban's HDNet.
Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Total Movie all have a tough row to hoe. I don't think the general public is going to want to pay an even higher price for something DVD already does so well.
The next gen DRM has been reported as broken. It doesn't really count until you can get your hands on a next gen version of DVD Decrypter or write one of your own.:)
I don't think it will be long in coming, but for the time being, I still consider the next gen DRM to be unbroken.
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PFFAAGH!
I laugh at you!
Is this the Capt. America that fought the Red Skull, or the Capt. America that fought the Red Skull?
I can tell by the perplexed looks upon your pale faces that you don't realize that there was another Capt. America, in the 1950s!
Drag yourselves back to your mother's basement to dig out your old comic books and you will disgust yourselves almost as much as you disgust me.
I laugh at you again. No, better yet, I spit on you.
SIGNED Red Skrull
TSOP? The Sound Of Philadelphia? Gamble & Huff, is that you?
No one knows what would have worked for that kid. Certainly what they tried did not work.
What the parent poster was saying is that the antagonistic punishments the parents tried pushed the kid into a corner from which he had to fight to get away. Even if you try to reward the kid, if the kid has a perception that he is being singled out for his actions, he will fight against it. That's what the "brother" part of the parent post was about. The "brother" did not get that much attention from the parents and was allowed to develop normally.
No gets a license to parent. No one has a certificate in parenting before they start phucking. We just make babies and then love them until about the age of two when they discover that they have their own desires. From that point we punish or reward them to get them to behave properly. Then they're good until the hormones click in. As a parent whose son in twenty-five I pity the fool living with a teenager. My sole advice is to nurture with love and to make damn sure they know the difference between right and wrong from the age of five on. Get them while they're young and they will make the right choices later.
We have no chair-throwing morons.
We get to see the process and watch the final outcome. This gives us a better understanding of why Gnu/Linux is the way it is and where it is going.
Good for ERS speaking up. Even better for Alan Cox to reply. I only hope ERS replies to that. :)
Why won't I buy the $200.00 HDDVD player from MicroSoft?
Well, I've said it before, and it bears repeatin'...
I'll buy new content when those ASS-WIPES in Hollyweird stop putting advertisements in front of the movies on DVDs! GODDAMN, I'm SICK of wading through bullshit ads for movies that stopped playing in theatres years ago when I watch an old DVD.
Pull out your Matrix DVD or your 2001: A Space Odyssey DVD and insert it into your DVD player or PS2. What happens? THE MOVIE starts to play, doesn't it?
Now try that with any DVD you bought in the last three or four years. Pisses you off, doesn't it? Yeah, me too.
They can KISS MY ASS! Even though I'm not buying their HD disks I'm still laughing my ass off at this and looking forward to more penetrations of their security. (Hey, this is Slashdot. We gotta' have pron! Just not HD Pron. Pimples and hairs where they shouldn't be. YEECH!)
HA! HA!
Ralph Nader to the RESCUE!
Even though this subject is a dupe, this comment is FUNNY!
Yes, it did eventually die, but look at how long it took and at how much money was stolen/taken/earned.
Most CEOs are former SALESMEN. Check out their careers. You'll see that most, if not all, were in Sales or Marketing at one or more points in their careers.
Boards NEED someone at the top of the company who understands what Sales and Marketing NEED. After all, no matter how superior your product is *cough*betamax*cough* if it does not sell, your company goes down the tubes. Not the internet tubes, the other kind.
No big conspiracy here. Just boards doing what they have always done.
There iwas supposed to be not text here, but I could not post without puttin something in here. So, in order to comply, I am putting in this verbiage just to get this past the "lameness filter" or whatever is preventing my post from completing. What a waste of electrons.
You're missing the point. The reason I took this story from the Bible is because it's, what, a couple of thousand years old! People have been making this very same observation about those trying to buy "indulgences" for at least that long and probably longer.
NOTE: yes, I know the history of "indulgences". That's why I deliberately chose that word. The Catholic Church's sinful use of this concept doesn't stop it from being WRONG!
I couldn't have said that better, though I thought I did. :)
This was to be the next "Trent" story. It was never published in book form. I grabbed it from DKM's web-site back in the ninties. I don't know if it's still available on the web or not. It's a pretty cool story. It opens with Trent getting shot in the chest at point-blank range by a bounty hunter.
No, I can't copy it here. It's too long and I don't have the right to do that anyway.
If you manage to find a legitimate copy look for
I highly recommend it.
Yes, I am very suspicious of their motives.
By the way, whether you prefer Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or "the Prophet Harry" you still believe in something that you can't touch and I don't quite know what the difference is.
Thank you.
I remember a small story in the Bible that goes something like this:
Jesus (pronounced HAY-ZEUS and means son of Zeus) was lounging around gathering contributions one day. There was a large crowd watching him. Some were donating money. Most were asking each other how a Hebrew could have such pale skin when the only people with pale skin in that region of the world were Romans and Greeks, and Jesus was neither. The long hair on his head was the cause of much speculation as well since, in that time and place, men wore their hair cut short. It was decided that the best way to find an explanation for these things was to ask Michelangelo and Pope Julius II della Rovere.
Right about the time everyone realized Michelangelo and Pope Julius II della Rovere would not be born for another 1500 years, a loud, proud, rich man pushed through the crowd and stepped up to Jesus. With a large grin beaming across his face the man reached into the pockets of his leather Jordache(TM) jeans and pulled out a thick wad of greenbacks. From this he peeled off ten Benjamins and spread them on the table before Jesus. Jesus accepted the money and said a simple, "Thank you". This startled the man. With a look of surprise on his face he stepped back a bit and watched for a while. It was clear to the crowd that he had expected more.
Within a few minutes some old, musty smelling broad came through the crowd. She quietly shuffled up to Jesus and gave him a single penny. Jesus smiled at the old woman, blessed her, and wished her well.
Now the rich bastard that donated the Benjamins became angry...irate...pissed-off you might say. He stormed up to Jesus and got LOUD in Jesus' face. "I gave you a thousand dollars, muthafucka'! How come you blessed that bitch for her penny and didn't say shit to me?"
The crowd drew back and sang a collective "Oooooh!" in fear of impending violence. A couple of instigators in the crowd shouted out things like, "You gonna' take that?", and "slap that hippy".
Jesus was quick to his feet.
He pimp-slapped the punk to the ground, put a foot on his neck and calmly explained to the fool, "You gave me a small portion of your wealth that you will not miss. That kind, gentle woman gave me everything she had in the world."
I wonder why I think about that story everytime someone talks about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
It had nothing to do with energy until...well, that's another topic.
You are now set to work your way through Grob. Once finished you will have the ability to design and build your OWN power supplies and you will have a thorough understanding of DC and AC circuits.
From that point you can begin to study discrete gates and Integrated Circuits such as Op-Amps, 555 timers and the like.
Oh, yeah, one other thing; when you have finished Grob you will really be ready for The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill. And yes, buy the lab manual.
The only thing I'm worried about is some jackass phucking this up for everyone by trying to...well, you know where I'm going with this.
Still, this is a cool idea. I can buy two sets of these knowing that two kids somewhere in the world are going to have laptops, keep one for myself and give the other to one of my nieces or nephews, or just leave the spare around the house for fun when they come to visit.
Television shows are OK to watch in Hi-Def. I watch Smallville and (god, I hate to admit it) Enterprise on HD-Net every Monday night but I wouldn't buy either series in DVD format. That means you can forget about me spending extra money for it in either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, or Total Movie.
As for movies; movies STINK lately. This is where they could grab me, but they have failed miserably!
I have a Hi-Def, surround sound set up at home and I like nothing better than to sit on my comfortable couch with a two-liter Dr. Pepper and a bag of microwave popcorn and watch a good movie. I can pause the show when my wife and I want to argue about some plot point, or even return to a previous point in the show to show her just how wrong she is. :)
Just give me SOMETHING to watch!
Last year I wanted to see Mission: Impossible and Superman Returns, but having been burned in years past I procrastinated and missed them in the theaters. I rented then on DVD. Boy was I happy I had not wasted time and money trying to see these shows in an expensive theatre setting. And I'll clue you in on something that came to mind while I have been watching movies lately: Hi-Definition does NOT make the shows any better.
In summary, it doesn't matter which format "wins" if there is nothing to watch.
There was a good article in the December 10, 2006 New York Times by Richard Siklos entitled "The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen" in which it suggests that interest in Hi-Definition formats is actually declining among the population.
I have a 360. Last weekend I was playing with my nephew's Wii...awright, cut the laughing...and I was blown away by the fun we had with bowling and some racing game he had. I'm ready to go to Game Stop, EB Games, or wherever to trade in my relatively unused (I'm still playing the PS2) 360 for a Wii, a spare controller, two nunchucks, and a copy of the new Zelda game.
I think that applies to consumers more than the companies. If consumers don't play in large enough numbers to make a difference, we win!
I was trying to convey the feeling I have that these new formats are going to fail in a collosal way.
For instance, on December 10, 2006 Richard Siklos wrote in a New York Times article titled The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen
Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Total Movie all have a tough row to hoe. I don't think the general public is going to want to pay an even higher price for something DVD already does so well.
I don't think it will be long in coming, but for the time being, I still consider the next gen DRM to be unbroken.