Reformulating opioids into extended release forms that cannot easily be abused is actually quite difficult, because you can't use the usual tricks of slow-dissolving layers. Doesn't make all this right, but it shows the lengths the companies are going to to keep the government happy.
I got my first BB gun at six, my first rifle (still have it, a nice little straight-shooting.22) at ten, and my first shotgun at eleven. Hell, I'm still using the 20-gauge shotgun I got at thirteen - Winchester ran a pretty neat deal, you bought the gun with a short "youth" stock and you sent in a coupon for an adult-sized stock a couple of years later. It's an absolute pleasure to use on the sporting clays range.
Guns are lots of fun, you just have to respect that they're inherently dangerous objects. Kids who grew up with guns are, in my experience, a lot less likely to do stupid stuff with them, because their dad took them out when they were six and blew a watermelon into a fine mist with one and said "that's what it will do to your head". Those who meet guns for the first time at 19-20 are a lot more cavalier.
It is a member of the Presbyterian Church in American located in the deep South. Communion, of course, exists, but is given with grape juice rather than actual wine in nearly all Protestant denominations in the South (the Episcopal and Lutheran churches use wine). Children are taught that the "wine" of the Bible was much closer to grape juice than what might be called wine today (which is not completely insane - many Romans, for example, thought that drinking unwatered wine was the mark of a lush).
And, of course, it's frowned upon, not forbidden. It's a cultural norm much more than a religious prohibition. I could count on one hand the number of times I've ever had alcohol at lunch while here, and I'm pushing 40 and have no objection to alcohol consumption. Drinks and/or wine with a nice dinner, sure (though it's not a given). Some people are just more strict about it than others.
It was a private school, so they were well within their rights to inject whatever they chose into the curriculum. And they did. We used A Beka books, which have students learn to diagram sentences with such examples as "God does wonderful things for us every day". In their favor, though, they did actually teach diagramming and other parts of grammar, which most of the local public schools couldn't be bothered to do.
Well, it wasn't a Catholic church. It was the sort of place where consumption of alcohol - at all, ever, in any quantity - was frowned upon. My parents didn't subscribe to the their morality, but it provided an excellent primary education at a very low cost, and it was close - starting in third grade, I rode my bike to and from school unless the weather was bad.
You laugh, but I attended an elementary school that was run by a church. Being photographed with alcohol (or something that might be alcohol) in your hands would actually have constituted grounds for firing a teacher.
If you were on the ebook wagon before iBooks, and Apple's "agency" model, you routinely got $15-20 books for $9.99 on Kindle. It was a great compromise: we got new-release books for less than hardcover and more than paperback. Paperback books were usually $4.99 on Kindle. Then Apple screwed the system up.
Well, you can be detected, but it is vanishingly unlikely that anything will be done if you don't rape the system. I've tethered wirelessly to my Android phone on numerous occasions, and I've never triggered anything because I used it to do some light surfing, not to bittorrent the collected works of Alfred Hitchcock.
Those are service costs, and they charge the same whether you bring your own or take the contract and discount. I don't so much mind that American cellular service is more expensive than European - it covers a vastly larger area without roaming charges - but I object to the handset pricing.
My wife is still on her parents' AT&T account. Her Blackberry bit the dust the night after the iPhone 4S launch (talk about bad timing). We ordered a 4S and bought a phone with keyboard from their GoPhone line (a Pantech something-or-other) to tide her over the few weeks until the 4S arrived and to have a spare GSM phone. The Pantech Crapbox was $60: no contract, no subsidy, just a phone. It had good battery life, fairly good call quality, and awful software that seemed designed to make you wish you'd bought an AT&T phone under contract... but the keyboard is actually just as easy to use as a Blackberry's. Conclusion? The "phone" part of a smartphone isn't that hard, nor that expensive. They're just raping us because they can.
It's usually done that way in the US, but multiple-choice tests are a lot easier for teachers to grade, and they're essential for standardized tests.
I know nothing about the educational system in Germany, but here's how the US system works: schools are not operated by the federal government, nor (usually) by the state government. Rural areas are usually run by a county school board (in the US, counties are the next size of government below states, and are legally subordinate to the state in every way - whereas states are at least nominally independent of the federal government and cannot be taken over by the federal government for poor performance), while cities and towns have their own schools and school boards. Every single one of those districts chooses its curriculum and texts (in most states; Texas uses uniform books for the entire state, which is why you see articles where creationists try to get intelligent design into the books - if they succeed in the Texas school book selection committee, every public school in the state will have to use that book.). Obviously, there is a great deal of variation in quality among schools, and so standardized testing is very popular as a means to determine whether students are learning what they are supposed to learn.
We also have a problem with letting people leave school when they're incapable of learning more or just tired of it. I have always heard that Germany handled this with strong vocational education for those who were intelligent and capable but not academically inclined. The US makes life for such people quite difficult. They are mostly older and having trouble finding people to replace them - the push to send students to get a university education has taken people who would be excellent skilled workers (machinists, foremen) and low-to-mid-level office managers and saddled them with large amounts of debt and several wasted years instead of letting them do something they were interested in from the beginning.
One of my high-school math teachers gave mutiple choice tests. Every single one of them had five choices: four possible answers, and "E: None of the above". No partial credit. Kept you on your toes.
Er, the story attached to that picture you linked do about a dude crapping on a police car? The photographer confirms it's a dude who was in the OWS camp, and that he did in fact crap on a police car. The ACORN link has the California AG's office conclude
The video recordings evidence a serious and glaring deficit in management, governance and accountability within the ACORN organization. It is both disturbing and offensive that ACORN employees in different and far-flung offices were willing to engage in such conversations. ACORN’s conduct suggests an organizational ethos at odds with the norms of American society. Empowering and serving low-and moderate-income families cannot be squared with counseling and encouraging illegal activities. This is particularly so given that ACORN received government grant funds and the support of major charitable foundations and thousands of members.
The edited O’Keefe videos released on the BigGovernment.com website portrayed ACORN as an organization infested with employees committing crimes. However, the impression of rampant illegal conduct created by the recordings at the various ACORN offices around the country is not supported by the evidence related to the videos in California.
That's a pretty narrow finding.
So Andrew Breitbart practices yellow journalism and selective editing - which is to say, he does what all the TV networks do. I'm not a fan of the guy - I think "gotcha" journalism is crap - but it's not really different from the standard Michael Moore schtick, so I can't really get all that excited about it, either.
I didn't mention it in this comment, but I don't even live in his district. I never have, although I once lived in a ZIP code that he mostly represented and ported my telephone number when I moved. I suppose the only thing I really could do is go to a city council meeting and personally hound the guy, but... he and I disagree on almost every political topic that people can possibly disagree on (it's not just Team Red/Team Blue, I mean almost everything) and since it's not illegal for him to call me, I'm pretty sure that he would just take that as an invitation to put me on every one of his robocall lists.
Well, where do you think that $x box's money comes from? Government can only get money by taxing people to get it now, borrowing it now and paying for it out of later tax receipts, or printing it (which is effectively a tax on bank accounts).
They can have matching funds if they agree to campaign spending limits. Sen. Obama declined the matching funds; Sen. McCain took them. Sen. Obama made a calculated decision that paid off for him.
State laws vary. I've had trouble with a local politician whose district has never included me (but whose district did cover another part of the ZIP code my phone number was issued in) whose robocalls come in as early as 6 AM and as late as 10 PM. The Secretary of State's office for my state (since US states don't have foreign relations, the SOS office deals primarily with incorporating companies and conducting elections) said that it would not be illegal for them to robocall me at any hour of day or night.
Still their office. I want the bastard who put me on a robocall list that calls my house phone as early as 6 AM or as late as 10 PM (yes, it does, and no, the secretary of state's office says it's not actually illegal and they can't do anything about it) strung up by the balls.
I don't think most people are that good, but I also think that in general red lights (while annoying) are one of the things that people try to follow. After all, if you make a habit of blowing through them, one day you'll hit or be hit and be at fault.
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Reformulating opioids into extended release forms that cannot easily be abused is actually quite difficult, because you can't use the usual tricks of slow-dissolving layers. Doesn't make all this right, but it shows the lengths the companies are going to to keep the government happy.
Compared to a BB gun. A Ruger 10/22 is about $200 new, vs $20 for a Red Ryder.
I got my first BB gun at six, my first rifle (still have it, a nice little straight-shooting .22) at ten, and my first shotgun at eleven. Hell, I'm still using the 20-gauge shotgun I got at thirteen - Winchester ran a pretty neat deal, you bought the gun with a short "youth" stock and you sent in a coupon for an adult-sized stock a couple of years later. It's an absolute pleasure to use on the sporting clays range.
Guns are lots of fun, you just have to respect that they're inherently dangerous objects. Kids who grew up with guns are, in my experience, a lot less likely to do stupid stuff with them, because their dad took them out when they were six and blew a watermelon into a fine mist with one and said "that's what it will do to your head". Those who meet guns for the first time at 19-20 are a lot more cavalier.
FPS and pellet weight rules might be in order here. A .22 cal pellet gun that fires at 1100 fps also costs as much as a firearm.
It is a member of the Presbyterian Church in American located in the deep South. Communion, of course, exists, but is given with grape juice rather than actual wine in nearly all Protestant denominations in the South (the Episcopal and Lutheran churches use wine). Children are taught that the "wine" of the Bible was much closer to grape juice than what might be called wine today (which is not completely insane - many Romans, for example, thought that drinking unwatered wine was the mark of a lush).
And, of course, it's frowned upon, not forbidden. It's a cultural norm much more than a religious prohibition. I could count on one hand the number of times I've ever had alcohol at lunch while here, and I'm pushing 40 and have no objection to alcohol consumption. Drinks and/or wine with a nice dinner, sure (though it's not a given). Some people are just more strict about it than others.
It was a private school, so they were well within their rights to inject whatever they chose into the curriculum. And they did. We used A Beka books, which have students learn to diagram sentences with such examples as "God does wonderful things for us every day". In their favor, though, they did actually teach diagramming and other parts of grammar, which most of the local public schools couldn't be bothered to do.
Well, it wasn't a Catholic church. It was the sort of place where consumption of alcohol - at all, ever, in any quantity - was frowned upon. My parents didn't subscribe to the their morality, but it provided an excellent primary education at a very low cost, and it was close - starting in third grade, I rode my bike to and from school unless the weather was bad.
You laugh, but I attended an elementary school that was run by a church. Being photographed with alcohol (or something that might be alcohol) in your hands would actually have constituted grounds for firing a teacher.
If you were on the ebook wagon before iBooks, and Apple's "agency" model, you routinely got $15-20 books for $9.99 on Kindle. It was a great compromise: we got new-release books for less than hardcover and more than paperback. Paperback books were usually $4.99 on Kindle. Then Apple screwed the system up.
you will be detected
Well, you can be detected, but it is vanishingly unlikely that anything will be done if you don't rape the system. I've tethered wirelessly to my Android phone on numerous occasions, and I've never triggered anything because I used it to do some light surfing, not to bittorrent the collected works of Alfred Hitchcock.
Those are service costs, and they charge the same whether you bring your own or take the contract and discount. I don't so much mind that American cellular service is more expensive than European - it covers a vastly larger area without roaming charges - but I object to the handset pricing.
My wife is still on her parents' AT&T account. Her Blackberry bit the dust the night after the iPhone 4S launch (talk about bad timing). We ordered a 4S and bought a phone with keyboard from their GoPhone line (a Pantech something-or-other) to tide her over the few weeks until the 4S arrived and to have a spare GSM phone. The Pantech Crapbox was $60: no contract, no subsidy, just a phone. It had good battery life, fairly good call quality, and awful software that seemed designed to make you wish you'd bought an AT&T phone under contract... but the keyboard is actually just as easy to use as a Blackberry's. Conclusion? The "phone" part of a smartphone isn't that hard, nor that expensive. They're just raping us because they can.
It's usually done that way in the US, but multiple-choice tests are a lot easier for teachers to grade, and they're essential for standardized tests.
I know nothing about the educational system in Germany, but here's how the US system works: schools are not operated by the federal government, nor (usually) by the state government. Rural areas are usually run by a county school board (in the US, counties are the next size of government below states, and are legally subordinate to the state in every way - whereas states are at least nominally independent of the federal government and cannot be taken over by the federal government for poor performance), while cities and towns have their own schools and school boards. Every single one of those districts chooses its curriculum and texts (in most states; Texas uses uniform books for the entire state, which is why you see articles where creationists try to get intelligent design into the books - if they succeed in the Texas school book selection committee, every public school in the state will have to use that book.). Obviously, there is a great deal of variation in quality among schools, and so standardized testing is very popular as a means to determine whether students are learning what they are supposed to learn.
We also have a problem with letting people leave school when they're incapable of learning more or just tired of it. I have always heard that Germany handled this with strong vocational education for those who were intelligent and capable but not academically inclined. The US makes life for such people quite difficult. They are mostly older and having trouble finding people to replace them - the push to send students to get a university education has taken people who would be excellent skilled workers (machinists, foremen) and low-to-mid-level office managers and saddled them with large amounts of debt and several wasted years instead of letting them do something they were interested in from the beginning.
If you RTFA, you would have noted that he took the 10th-grade test, none of whose questions appeared in the article.
One of my high-school math teachers gave mutiple choice tests. Every single one of them had five choices: four possible answers, and "E: None of the above". No partial credit. Kept you on your toes.
Maybe this is how the US is getting the next generation of Stuxnet into Iran...
The video recordings evidence a serious and glaring deficit in management, governance and accountability within the ACORN organization. It is both disturbing and offensive that ACORN employees in different and far-flung offices were willing to engage in such conversations. ACORN’s conduct suggests an organizational ethos at odds with the norms of American society. Empowering and serving low-and moderate-income families cannot be squared with counseling and encouraging illegal activities. This is particularly so given that ACORN received government grant funds and the support of major charitable foundations and thousands of members.
The edited O’Keefe videos released on the BigGovernment.com website portrayed ACORN as an organization infested with employees committing crimes. However, the impression of rampant illegal conduct created by the recordings at the various ACORN offices around the country is not supported by the evidence related to the videos in California.
That's a pretty narrow finding.
So Andrew Breitbart practices yellow journalism and selective editing - which is to say, he does what all the TV networks do. I'm not a fan of the guy - I think "gotcha" journalism is crap - but it's not really different from the standard Michael Moore schtick, so I can't really get all that excited about it, either.
I suspect that a greater problem is trying to convince the lost and found jobsworth that that one is yours.
I didn't mention it in this comment, but I don't even live in his district. I never have, although I once lived in a ZIP code that he mostly represented and ported my telephone number when I moved. I suppose the only thing I really could do is go to a city council meeting and personally hound the guy, but... he and I disagree on almost every political topic that people can possibly disagree on (it's not just Team Red/Team Blue, I mean almost everything) and since it's not illegal for him to call me, I'm pretty sure that he would just take that as an invitation to put me on every one of his robocall lists.
Well, where do you think that $x box's money comes from? Government can only get money by taxing people to get it now, borrowing it now and paying for it out of later tax receipts, or printing it (which is effectively a tax on bank accounts).
I don't know who you're replying to, but it wasn't me.
They can have matching funds if they agree to campaign spending limits. Sen. Obama declined the matching funds; Sen. McCain took them. Sen. Obama made a calculated decision that paid off for him.
State laws vary. I've had trouble with a local politician whose district has never included me (but whose district did cover another part of the ZIP code my phone number was issued in) whose robocalls come in as early as 6 AM and as late as 10 PM. The Secretary of State's office for my state (since US states don't have foreign relations, the SOS office deals primarily with incorporating companies and conducting elections) said that it would not be illegal for them to robocall me at any hour of day or night.
Still their office. I want the bastard who put me on a robocall list that calls my house phone as early as 6 AM or as late as 10 PM (yes, it does, and no, the secretary of state's office says it's not actually illegal and they can't do anything about it) strung up by the balls.
And nothing you can say is a valid argument that it isn't.
I believe this is the point at which any further discussion is pointless. Have a nice weekend.
I don't think most people are that good, but I also think that in general red lights (while annoying) are one of the things that people try to follow. After all, if you make a habit of blowing through them, one day you'll hit or be hit and be at fault.