If you get the same adrenaline rush from playing computer games as you do fighting, then either you're very easily excitable or you have problems distinguishing fantasy from reality.
They go to university, which means their parents are loaded, and probably bankrolled it all for them. I doubt they're paying for it all sweeping floors for minimum wage.
finding girls and someone to buy two 19-year-olds booze.
If you're 19 and have to get someone to buy booze for you then you really do have problems.
How many people actually try out the user interfaces of various competing mp3 players before buying one? Maybe one in a million.
Everyone else buys them because they're fashionable and popular. No-one actually looks at the features, they just think 'mp3 player = ipod' and so they buy an ipod. Nothing more to it.
Pretty much any place in the country has the same services you have where you live.
Some places have different costs of living to other places, and house prices.
Some places have vastly different levels of crime to other places. It wouldn't be worth moving from a peaceful area to the middle of a crime zone for the sake of saving a commute.
Some places have different amenities to other places and of vastly different quality and prices.
Some places have a wide variety of shops selling a wide variety of produce. Some places just have Walmart.
Some places have decent schools, some places have glorified crack houses and Intelligent Design.
Some places have decent laws, some places have the death sentence and anti-alcohol laws.
You're trying to make light of a really serious issue here.
Only years later will nerds and geeks realize that they really are the winners once they become doctors and lawyers. Jocks realize they really are the losers pretty fast considering the best job they can get after high school is at McDonalds.
Football players can get scholarships and therefore a free degree. They can also get good jobs through nepotism. On the other hand many nerds end up doing menial jobs.
You'd be surprised how many lawyers played football in high school, and how many burger flippers sat at the computer all day.
And to get their stock price back up again, they might cut some of the outrageously excessive benefits, therefore cutting out the other reason people work for Google.
I don't buy that crap about interesting problems, what exactly is interesting around rehashing web apps that never get out of beta, or working out how to make even more money from clickfraud?
If it wasn't for Windows, most people wouldn't have computers at all. Apple weren't, and still aren't, and never will be interested in anything below the niche yuppie market.
Linux would be nowhere if they didn't have Windows to copy, and it's not like Linux encourages you to learn about your computer, with it being so easy to destroy things as root, and so hard to configure anything without root.
What if that healthcare is used for frivolous, non-medical purposes like breast enlargements and tattoo removal? Would you appreciate being taxed then?
We're not talking about the civil liberties of you or me, we're talking about children. Children have the 'right' to do as they're told and nothing else. Is it any surprise that kids are so unruly and disobedient today now there are scores of hand-wringing liberals whining about their rights, to the extent that teachers aren't even allowed to give children a nasty look without being sued for infringing their precious civil liberties?
I say fuck free speech, the constitution etc. Teachers should have complete authority over their pupils, in or out of school. That's the only way that's proven to work. This modern PC crap HAS to end, it's been a complete disaster. Observe the local surroundings of any secondary school at finishing time for the proof.
$10 per month IS a huge expense. In ten years that's $1200, TREBLING the cost of the TV.
The fact that you're having flying lessons suggests you're easily in the top 1% of wealth so I don't think you really have much to contribute to this discussion on affordability.
This raises the question, should children have constitutional rights? I can't think of any advantage of schoolchildren having free speech, and plenty of disadvantages.
If you're going to allow private schools to discpline their children how they want, I don't see why public schools should be any different. The American system seems to be saying that only rich people are allowed to send their kids to schools with proper discplinary standards, whereas the poor have to send their kids to schools where the hallowed 'constitution' comes before raising well-behaved kids.
What advantage is there to not letting public schools have the same disciplinary standards as private schools? If you ask me, the kids from poor families who go to state-funded schools are the most disorderly and ill-behaved, and therefore need HARSHED discipline, not less.
Calling the school authorities 'pathetic fucks' and telling them to 'kiss his ass' might get a student expelled? What is the world coming to?
I think a more suitable punishment would be to just give him the cane and let him stay at the school, but apparently that's unacceptable in this PC age where disorderly louts are given free reign to do whatever they want with no consequences.
$500 is a lot for a TV, especially considering how little programming there is for it. Even then you need to spend yet more money on a special box to actually receive the signal, not to mention all the funny cables and acronyms you need to connect the thing up, and then a satellite/cable subscription to get the content.
In Europe HD doesn't even exist. In the UK if you wanted to get HD now, you'd have to spend at least a grand, and wouldn't be able to even get it installed in time for the world cup, which as far as I can see is the only thing worth watching in HD.
Listen up, guys, WoW has 5.5 million+ subscribers because what it's doing is good, not bad.
McDonalds sells millions of burgers because the food their making is good, not bad. Anyone who wants something that takes longer than 3 seconds to cook in a microwave is obviously some sad nerd...
Sooner or later they will work out that streaming each live concert and charging for that as well will make them even more money. Sure the point of a live concert is in part the atmosphere, but if you're honest a view from the back of a tiny dot on stage isn't that great.
And the view is better in a tiny, grainy window on your computer that constantly stutters and freezes?
Surely the best solution is to go back to how it used to be, and just charge on the gate? No touts, no profiteering middle-men, and only the most dedicated get in.
Also bring back standing areas at football games so more people can get in.
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Those are too organised/expensive/regulated, defeating the whole point of these fight clubs.
If you get the same adrenaline rush from playing computer games as you do fighting, then either you're very easily excitable or you have problems distinguishing fantasy from reality.
They go to university, which means their parents are loaded, and probably bankrolled it all for them. I doubt they're paying for it all sweeping floors for minimum wage.
finding girls and someone to buy two 19-year-olds booze.
If you're 19 and have to get someone to buy booze for you then you really do have problems.
Women generally don't fuck in coffee shops.
How many people actually try out the user interfaces of various competing mp3 players before buying one? Maybe one in a million.
Everyone else buys them because they're fashionable and popular. No-one actually looks at the features, they just think 'mp3 player = ipod' and so they buy an ipod. Nothing more to it.
Pretty much any place in the country has the same services you have where you live.
Some places have different costs of living to other places, and house prices.
Some places have vastly different levels of crime to other places. It wouldn't be worth moving from a peaceful area to the middle of a crime zone for the sake of saving a commute.
Some places have different amenities to other places and of vastly different quality and prices.
Some places have a wide variety of shops selling a wide variety of produce. Some places just have Walmart.
Some places have decent schools, some places have glorified crack houses and Intelligent Design.
Some places have decent laws, some places have the death sentence and anti-alcohol laws.
You're trying to make light of a really serious issue here.
"'I can understand my son's suffering,' she said. ' He could never satisfy his father
Maybe he could try not using his teeth?
I'd be happy with a toaster that didn't leave the top of the slice completely untoasted.
Only years later will nerds and geeks realize that they really are the winners once they become doctors and lawyers. Jocks realize they really are the losers pretty fast considering the best job they can get after high school is at McDonalds.
Football players can get scholarships and therefore a free degree. They can also get good jobs through nepotism. On the other hand many nerds end up doing menial jobs.
You'd be surprised how many lawyers played football in high school, and how many burger flippers sat at the computer all day.
And to get their stock price back up again, they might cut some of the outrageously excessive benefits, therefore cutting out the other reason people work for Google.
I don't buy that crap about interesting problems, what exactly is interesting around rehashing web apps that never get out of beta, or working out how to make even more money from clickfraud?
If it wasn't for Windows, most people wouldn't have computers at all. Apple weren't, and still aren't, and never will be interested in anything below the niche yuppie market.
Linux would be nowhere if they didn't have Windows to copy, and it's not like Linux encourages you to learn about your computer, with it being so easy to destroy things as root, and so hard to configure anything without root.
What if that healthcare is used for frivolous, non-medical purposes like breast enlargements and tattoo removal? Would you appreciate being taxed then?
Google's stock pirce could bottom out tomorow and I doubt that it would have much affect on their day-to-day buisness.
It would affect their day-to-day business when half their employees walk out because their options are now worthless.
We're not talking about the civil liberties of you or me, we're talking about children. Children have the 'right' to do as they're told and nothing else. Is it any surprise that kids are so unruly and disobedient today now there are scores of hand-wringing liberals whining about their rights, to the extent that teachers aren't even allowed to give children a nasty look without being sued for infringing their precious civil liberties?
I say fuck free speech, the constitution etc. Teachers should have complete authority over their pupils, in or out of school. That's the only way that's proven to work. This modern PC crap HAS to end, it's been a complete disaster. Observe the local surroundings of any secondary school at finishing time for the proof.
$10 per month IS a huge expense. In ten years that's $1200, TREBLING the cost of the TV.
The fact that you're having flying lessons suggests you're easily in the top 1% of wealth so I don't think you really have much to contribute to this discussion on affordability.
This raises the question, should children have constitutional rights? I can't think of any advantage of schoolchildren having free speech, and plenty of disadvantages.
If you're going to allow private schools to discpline their children how they want, I don't see why public schools should be any different. The American system seems to be saying that only rich people are allowed to send their kids to schools with proper discplinary standards, whereas the poor have to send their kids to schools where the hallowed 'constitution' comes before raising well-behaved kids.
What advantage is there to not letting public schools have the same disciplinary standards as private schools? If you ask me, the kids from poor families who go to state-funded schools are the most disorderly and ill-behaved, and therefore need HARSHED discipline, not less.
The world's gone mad.
Calling the school authorities 'pathetic fucks' and telling them to 'kiss his ass' might get a student expelled? What is the world coming to?
I think a more suitable punishment would be to just give him the cane and let him stay at the school, but apparently that's unacceptable in this PC age where disorderly louts are given free reign to do whatever they want with no consequences.
$500 is a lot for a TV, especially considering how little programming there is for it. Even then you need to spend yet more money on a special box to actually receive the signal, not to mention all the funny cables and acronyms you need to connect the thing up, and then a satellite/cable subscription to get the content.
In Europe HD doesn't even exist. In the UK if you wanted to get HD now, you'd have to spend at least a grand, and wouldn't be able to even get it installed in time for the world cup, which as far as I can see is the only thing worth watching in HD.
Listen up, guys, WoW has 5.5 million+ subscribers because what it's doing is good, not bad.
McDonalds sells millions of burgers because the food their making is good, not bad. Anyone who wants something that takes longer than 3 seconds to cook in a microwave is obviously some sad nerd...
What about people who can only afford a $100 laptop?
Sooner or later they will work out that streaming each live concert and charging for that as well will make them even more money. Sure the point of a live concert is in part the atmosphere, but if you're honest a view from the back of a tiny dot on stage isn't that great.
And the view is better in a tiny, grainy window on your computer that constantly stutters and freezes?
Surely the best solution is to go back to how it used to be, and just charge on the gate? No touts, no profiteering middle-men, and only the most dedicated get in.
Also bring back standing areas at football games so more people can get in.
Obviously, you can add in random accents, but accents don't exactly change your tone / pitch that much.
Ever heard a scouser?
Why are you assuming that monitors will not increase in resolution/DPI?